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Show ALASKA TRADE j GROWS LARGER Former Forest Service Official Of-ficial of Ogden Makes Survey j WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Conidcr-jable Conidcr-jable improvement in business In Alaska Alas-ka is foreseen by Associate Forester I E. A. Sherman of the department of agriculture, who recently visited tha , territory Exports of Msb, for the last 10 or 12 years Hie great source of leash returns, will be surpnslngh heavy this year, he reports, while a mining revival is in e ldencc and ox-ports ox-ports of high-grade lumber, cut from tho Tongass nalitonal forest, show a promising beginning. MINES WILL BENEFIT "The people uf southern Alaska are particularly pleased with the effort of the forest service to establish a (pulp and paper Industry there, and i with tbe roads built by tho service and by the bureau of public roids," (Mr. Sliorhman says. "The road prob-jleni prob-jleni in Alaska is unlike that encountered encoun-tered elsewhere In tho states, travel and traffic exist before the govern-;ment govern-;ment begins building roada: in Alaska I we have had to anticipate the demand." de-mand." The completion, probably next January, Jan-uary, Of the government railroad from Seward to Fairbanks a distance almost al-most as great as from Washington to Bos'on will greatly benefit th-' mining min-ing industry ln tho interior. In the opinion of Mr. Sherman, who predicts cheaper fuel for the mines. "The output of canned salmon from Alaska this year will be about the average of the past 10 or 12 years something over 4,000,000 cases," he States. "It looked lust year as though tho salmon Industry was facing early destruction, but the run this year wa.s in some cases greater than ever before." be-fore." NEW FISH INDUSTRY. The relatively new herring curing industry' also has seen Increased activity. activ-ity. Alaska last year shipped about 170,000 barrels of mild-cured horrlng, which was more than ln any previous year. A shipment of aUnoet twice as much is expected to be this year's total. to-tal. Mr. Sherman says that at one seaport sea-port he saw a vessel loading a corgo of 1.800,000 feet of Alaska lumber for Australia. It was only part of a 5,-000, 5,-000, 000 feet order to that country-Other country-Other lumber shipments the past summer sum-mer were to London, to Chicago and to the Atlantic seaboard. (Note Mr. Sherman a lew years ago was in charge of District 4 of lhe forest service with headquarters ln Ogden). |