rRoxEr CATIFORNTA REDWOOD

FOR BEITER REDWOOD-KIIN DRIED or AIR DRIED-ROUGH or FINISHED-COIvII|IONS or UPPERS-IN ANY QUANTITY iusr cqll

UNDERHILL 0-1944 or UNION l-6376

..DURABIE REDWOOD FOR EVETY PURPOSE'' ting for want of use, but are iapable of providing a billion board feet of lumber annually-now and forever."

Establishment of the pulp and paper industry in the Tongass National Forest is immediately possible, according to the report.

To meet this mounting demand, other ests have been cut far more rapidlv than

I United States fbrthey can be reproduced.

Further', Canadian forest conservation policies are operating to lirnit both the production of present pulp mills and the establishment of new ones in the country.

Against this fast-dwindling supply, the report de,clares, Alaska offers its huge coastal forests "which now are rot-

Prelinrinary investigations, it asserts. indicate there is sufficient timber and rvaterpower now available to supply 5 or 6 pulp and paper mills of 500-ton daily capacity.

Estimates show this forest could furnish enough timber and waterpower to manufacture 1,000,000 tons of newsprint every year in perpetuity-on a sustained forest yield basis.

"The total annual production of Tongass National Forest would supply almost 25 per cent of the annual newsprint requirement of the United States press," the report declares.