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Show PAPER MILLS III ALASKA URGED Large Forests, Waterpower and Ocean Ports Make It oecond INorway WASHINGTON, May $. Esiablisu-of Esiablisu-of paper mills in Alaska was recommended recom-mended as a means of relieving tho paper shortage tonight by Secretary Meredith of the department of agriculture. agricul-ture. "Alaska is destined' to become a second sec-ond Norway," Secretary Mededlth said. With her enormous forests of rapidly growing species sultabel for pulp, her water power, and her tidewater tide-water shipment of manufactured products, pro-ducts, Alaska, will undoubtedly become be-come one of the principal paper sources of the United States. A substantial sub-stantial development of the paper industry in-dustry in tills .wonderful region, combined com-bined with tho intelligent reforestation reforesta-tion of pulp lands in tho older regions, should settle forever the question of a paper shortage in the United States." Thirty Year Supply. Secretary Meredith announced that, to encourage a paper industry in Alaska, national forest timber would be offered for large installations under un-der mutually favorable terms. Tho agriculture department, he said, is pro-pared pro-pared to contract sufficient Btumpage to supdIv naner mills for fhfrtv vmm The timber will be paid for "from month to month as it is cut, obviating obviat-ing the necessity for large investments in raw material The initial prices, based upon our-rent our-rent timber values in Alaska, the secretary sec-retary said, are sufficiently low to make the cost of pulp wood stumpage a relative negligible factor to the manufacturer. On sevedal areas which have been appraised, the spruce timber tim-ber is priced at fifty cents a cord and tho hemlock limbor at twenty-five cents. These rates will apply during the first five years following the installation in-stallation of the plant Thereafter prices will be readjusted at five-year intervals if current timber values in Alaska warrant, but with equit ablo provisions regarding maximum rates which, in no ovent, will be exceeded during the earlier portion of the contract. con-tract. Duty to Alaska. "The government owes It to Alaska to develop its resources and foster its economic growth," tho secretary added, add-ed, "and, at the presont junctufo, the opening up of the forests of Alaska for the development of the paper Industry will supply one of the most critical economic needs of the United States to the profit and service of both Service Ser-vice of both Alaska and the pooplo of the several stales without In any way sacrificing or Interfering with the purposes pur-poses of which the forests wore oslab-ished." oslab-ished." 1 nn |