DEVELOPMENT OF PULPWOOD RESOURCES. 3 



Well-known examples of regional localization of industry are steel 

 production at Pittsburgh and Gary, the making of automobiles at 

 Detroit, textile and other manufacturing in New England, and so on. 

 The possibilities of regional development can scarcely be overem- 

 phasized. 



Pioneer conditions of the region have been met and overcome by 

 the successful establishment of mills in near-by British Columbia. 

 After much expenditure of time and money, and in spite of some re- 

 verses, a number of going concerns are manufacturing pulp and 

 paper in British Columbia along the coast between Seattle and 

 Prince Rupert. 



Some of the earlier projects on the Pacific coast were started be- 

 fore the time was ripe for their success. The prices for products 

 were too low to offset the costs involved in establishing a new in- 

 dustry far removed from consuming centers and with consequent 

 high transportation charges. The paper shortage has radically 

 changed the situation. Market requirements necessitate an expansion 

 of the industry and seem to preclude a return to the old-time price 

 levels. 



IMPORTANCE OF ALASKA AS A SOURCE OF PAPER SUPPLY. 



Secretary of Agriculture Meredith recently said : 



Alaska is destined to become a second Norway. With her enormous forests 

 of rapidly growing species suitable for pulp, her water power, and her tide- 

 water shipment of manufactured products, Alaska will undoubtedly become 

 one of the principal paper sources of the United States. A substantial develop- 

 ment of the paper industry in this wonderful region, combined with the intelli- 

 gent reforestation of pulp lands in the older regions, should settle forever the 

 question of a paper shortage in the United States. 



Within the last 10 years, he points out, "the Forest Service has 

 brought about the sale of 420,000,000 feet of saw timber in the 

 National Forests of Alaska." 



The Department of Agriculture believes that the development of 

 the forest and water-power resources of Alaska is a practicable 

 means of increasing the supplies of newsprint available for the 

 United States, and therefore of eventually lessening the paper 

 shortage now so acute. The National Forests of Alaska probably 

 contain 100,000,000 cords of timber suitable for the manufacture of 

 newsprint and other grades of paper. Under careful management 

 these Forests can produce 2,000,000 cords of pulpwood annually for 

 all time, or enough to manufacture one-third of the pulp products 

 now consumed in the United States. 



The Alaskan forests also contain the second chief essential of the 

 paper-manufacturing industry — water power. While no accurate 

 survey of water power has been made, known projects have a pos- 



