Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-05-16 | Page 10 | The Paper Shortage

TILe The Paper Shortage liE HE alarming increase in prices for pulpwood other T THE with inevitable raw materials and mill supplies together table increases in transportation charges arc are ate combining to force a higher selling price of print paper The Senate committee investigating the paper shortage shortage short- short age ago is flooded with protests against government control of the tho paper industry in any form on the ground that in effect it would be government go control of tho tim press Rigid economy by publishers in their use usa of newsprint is su suggested suggested sug sug- as the only remedy for present trouble until the proper solution may be realized in the law of supply and demand How soon the tho supply of pulpwood may be augmented is not known but there thero arc are many ninny who believe that the forests of Alaska offer a way out of the paper shortage that should be seized upon at once Secretary of Agriculture Meredith is one who believes believes be be- lie es development of the forest foiest and hydroelectric hydroelectric hydro hydro- electric resources of Alaska is a practicable means of in increasing increasing increasing in- in creasing the supply of newsprint nt available for the United States Recognizing in ill the paper situation an nn for tho the economic of the territory he is offering operation co-operation in the establishment of paper mills by making available national forest pulpwood on terms that will provide pro a satisfactory operating operating- basis The fhe forests of Alaska arc sai said to contain approximately approximately approximately cords of timber suitable for the manufacture of newsprint and other grades of 01 paper P Under careful management it is' is estimated that these forests can n produce annually lly cords of pulpwood for all time or enough to manufacture third one of the pulp products now consumed in ill th the United Unite I States According to Secretary ry Meredith these forests contain contain con eon tain fain the second chief essential of a paper manufacturing industry water industry water power When the time huU come tI that nt capital will be brave bra enough to come ome out of or its hiding places and seek investment in enterprises that will till develop de- de c- c the tho country and at the thc same time afford a t SUbstantial substantial sub sub- and enduring profit Alaska will no doubt beCOme become be be- come one of the principal paper sources of nf the nation And when coupled with this new supply there shall come an intelligent reforestation of pulp lan lands s in the theol ol older er regions the question of paper shortage should bo be settled forever fore in the United States V