The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1940, Page 35

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SUNDAY, MARCH 31, WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES ENCOURAGED Forest Service Lays Plans| for Small Factories of Future Day By CHAS. H. FORWARD U. S. Forest Service During the greater part of the past two years a man has been as- by the Forest Service to the and promotion of minor wood- id other forest industries a. The principal purpose is to encourage enterprises that will help to eliminate the pres- seasonal unemployment Southeast Alaska minary phases of ed The pre the . were conducted by Junior For- r R. R. Robinson in 1938. He athered the comprehens trial information which w. before active promotion of forest s for Alaska could be be- his information included of enterprises that might be built up on Alaska products, meth- ods of manufacture, production marke! transportation cost. Mills. E quantity and quality of raw materisls availbils in the T »attery separators and Venetian Pos, Slitogles, Noveltles blind stock were investigated, but Among e Lo o wdied were | ¢ precent these appear to offer lit- e devENDIRNE 68 S "‘l‘” le promise for substantial develop- CoRosily PR L e ment in Southeastern Alaska uction, which now sup- plies only a small percentage of the roofing used in Alaska; establish- ment of small plants to produce nov- shingle | Wyckoff Assigned J. M. Wyckoff was assigned in 1939 to the second pl of this job— elty items such as yellow cedar |encouraging Alaska wood-using in- blocks for toys; development of dustries. He uses the information market for yellow cedar for furni-|that has been gathered on Alaska \ure. cabinet making, motor ana|possibilities to carry on negotiations cail boat planking, and other spec- |With manufacturers who are study- fality uses: increased use of spruce|ing this mew field. Much of the and hemlock from Alaska sawmills|work consists of conferences with in loca] building construction. | preducers and users of wood pro- in the Pacific Coast cities. The economics of wood preserva- |ducts tion wa$ studied with the hope of roducing one such plant into Southeast Alaska and thereby cut ting down on the amount of pre- Navy and to the Southeast Alaska |sawmills in makng for the use of Alaska lumber in the sorved piling and lumber now|new military establishments in the shipped from Continental United | Terntory. —among other projects States each year. The feasibility (0 which time has been contributed of exporting cedar telephone poles are the installation of a shingle mill to the Eastern States via the Ca-|at Ketchikan by a former Puget nadian Northern Railway at Prince Sound operator and the possible Rupert was also considered. The |construction by Wrangell interests present production of spruce oars O @ lumber and shingle mill en- by the one small plant at Ketchikan | terprise in that town was found to be insignificant as| The extraction ot peat Is an in- compared to the potential market. dustry that is being strenuously en- Other small items such as handles couraged and several Pacific Coast for fish gaffs were shown to offer importers of European peat are in- a ready market in Alaska | vestigating extensive Southeastern Industries that would pro(lucc Alaska peat deposits. in: MENDENHALL TOUR SEE the hug; ice caverns of Mendenhall Glacier . . . THE SHRINE TOUR Call for these Cabs:— Broadway Cab - 717 -Capitol Cab - - 121 Royal Blue Cab - 14 Yellow Cab - - - 22 e llllllllllllllmmllllllflllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIl|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIII|||IIIIIIII||II|IIIIIIII||IIIIlIlIIIIIIIIIIIm|IIlIIIl||||llllllmIllllllllllIllllllllmIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIHIHIIMMHMM Piled in the shadow of Mount Juneau, this lumber nce is given to the Army and | arrangements | asked that the Club cable him i | mediately the name of a veterin Indmmom | o When in Juneau; Dont Miss the “CAPITAL CITY GLACIER TOURS” WHERE TO GO— SEE Mendenhall River, and Miles of Prodigious Mountains! THE CATHOLIC SHRINE OF ST. TERESE! Lumbering Is an Alaska Industry point to the establishment of plant in the Petersburg locality t year. More inquiries for information on | the forest resources and oppor = ties in Alaska are now being ed than for nine years past War Brings Us Finland's Gland Market A world-famed clinic at Geneva Switzerland, which had been ob ing reindeer glands from for medical purposes, has appealed to Alaska to replace the supply cut off suddenly by the Finnish war Recently a letter was received b the Juneau Rotary Club from Dr H. Koechlin, whose address is Acien- Chesde Clinque, ABJ., A I'Hopits Contonal de Geneva. Dr a Rotarian, wrote that he neede a supply of reindeer glands receiv- jan in the reindeer country. The letter was referred to Office of Indian Affairs, which plans to take care of Dr. Koechlins re- the | quest through the Reindeer Service hesdquarters at Nome was cut at the Juneau Lumber Koechlin, ¢ By B. FRANK HFIVT7I4'MAN U Forest Service The resident of Juneau, though he lives in a country of outstanding natural phenomena, must necessarily look upon the great ice fields and glaciers back of his home city as something of excep- tional interest. Blanketing the high summit of the coast mountains and straddling the International Boun- dary from the gorge of the Taku River north to White Pass at Skag- way, is a thick ice cap hundreds of square miles in extent through \ which only the highest peaks pro- trude. Here also are long glaciers which serve to drain off ice from this cap down through the deep, winding valleys to the flat lowlands, or in some instances directly into the tidewaters of the fiords. The Juneau locality lies between two of these glaciers, the Menden- b that descends for 10 miles from the ice cap to the low lying flats 14 miles north of Juneau, and the Taku that drops into tidewater 20 miles southeast of Juneau, Curb Service said that the first is one of the few glaciers, if not the only glacier in the world, that can be reached directly by motor car. Thou- sands of tourists yearly view with admiration and awe this winding, two-mile-wide ribbon of glistening ice and the huge ever-changing blue It is Lu Liston pho faces and tunnels along the glac- < fan-shaped terminus. It is a receding glacier, that is its rate of downward flow from the ice field is insufficient to offset the melting that takes place in the ult that its face or frontal marg! TOTAL HA“DLED is slowly retreating up the valley. Between 150 and 200 years ago the Mendenhall Glacier reached to salt water on Gastineau Channel. To- day the face is five miles inland Markers have been placed by the Forest Service showing the position of the ice front in 1906 and at sub- sequent days, and from this the av- erage rate of retreat has been found Alaskans Recewe Four Let-| ters from States for Each One Sent Four times as much mail comes | to be 58 feet a year into a as leaves, accord o Strange Forest the annual report of the Post Of- The receding glacier is also un- fice Department covering an “inter-glacier” forest. Last year, of the total volume car- [a striking illustration to Menden- ried, 8041 percent entered A hall’'s many visitors of the fact that some of the Alaska glaciers have, at and 19.59 left Alaska. Postage pa in the Territory |times, interrupted their retreat up amounted to $2 37 which indi- | the valleys and proceeded for a period of years to advance. This appears to be an at{empt, in a small way, to revive the distant Ice Age. when great sections of North Amer- ica and Northern Europe were cov- $1,387,000. | ered by the gradual advance of the All of the disbursements of the | ice sheet downward from the Polar Department in 1939 in the Alaska |region. This latter day advance of service amounted to $971,097 Mendenhall was finally checked by > unknown causes and recession again Erapire Want Ads ®rng Results. | set in, but the temporary advance ates that the amount of mail leav- ing and entering Alaska and being wsported from one Alaska point anot! into the Post 2 sum in excess r brings Office Department cf even. o In Jumeaun:— [ ———— 1940. PROGRESS AND DEVELOPMENT EDITION ~ GLACIERS NEVER-ENDING SOURCE OF WONDER IN JUNEAU had overwhelmed a forest of Sitka | spruce and western hemlock, the| same species of trees that grow in. this part of Alaska today. The retreating ice discloses the standing | snags of the sheared-off trees and frequently even the moss ground | cover, all still in place as they were | before the glacier attempted a come- | back. No one knows how long ago this resurgence took place and for | how many years the forests were | hidden under the ice, but the cvl-‘ dence indicates that it all hap-| pened in recent times—that is, in a period that would be spanned by hundreds of years and certainly nm,‘ by thousands. | Tceberg Factory | The Taku Glacier is vastly dif- ferent from Mendenhall but of special interest in its contrasting features. It i§ a tidewater glacier with its front immersed in the sea | of a long fiord and its discharged ice disposed of, not by melting on lh(“ frontal margin, but by breaking off | as bergs. These bergs float back and forth for weeks on the tides of | the inter-connected narrow water- | ways of this section of Alaska before | they have finally wasted away. Taku | is about 15 miles in length from | ice cap to Sea front and around one | and one-fourth miles in width. Its | sheer vertical front extends an av- erage of 250 feet above the surface | of the sea and the sight and sound >f the bergs falling at frequent in- | tervals is a thrilling experience to | the visitors on the steamers and | smaller vessels which approach the face of the glaciers within almost a stone’s throw. | The Taku is the only large glacier | in Southeastern Alaska that is ad- | vancing at this time. Observers | first marked the position of the| face in 1890. A second survey in | 1909 disclosed that the ice had ma- terially crowded forward into the sea since the original mapping, showing definitely that the glacier was on the march. How far it had traveled before the surveys started no one knows. All surv subse- quent to 1909 have shown the for- ward movement to be still in pro- gress. The last observance was made by the Forest Service in 1939. The accompanying map gives the position of the ice front at various | times since 1890, and shows that the thrust ahead in the past 50 year: | has reached a total of 3% miles. | The average advance has thust | amounted to 343 feet per year, al-| | most one foot each day. | Field For Study | This huge Juneau ice sheet and | | its many tributary upland and lec-, water glaciers, all within easy reach | of a modern town by trail, hlghwav or launch, is a most unusual na- tural feature and one that offers| Unus ual “Ice Age” March Glacier, which empties into been advancing steadily in a face ahead more than three miles in the pas is shown on this map by Sal Service. a highly fascinating whether as a hobby or as part of scientific training. Attention is call- i ed especially to the great beauty of in color of the local glaciers; the fa\-‘ cination of studying geology “in the making,” served at work carving new land forms; the impressiveness of the fact that they move; and the curiosity which carries one back again and again to see how quickly great changes are made on mighty features such as lakes, rivers, and towering gravel moraines, as the result of the incalculable power that comes from their combined size, weight and movement. - SALMON AND CHEESE DELIGHT pound canned salmon tablespoon minced onion tablespoons butter tablespoons flour teaspoon salt ‘2 teaspoon dry mustard Dash of pepper 1 1 1 2 2 % cup tomatoes (strained) 4 cup hot milk 1 egg 1 cup American cheese (grated). Simmer onion gently in the but- | ter. Add flour, salt, mustard, pep- per and strained tomatoes. Cook | until smooth. Add beaten egg and milk. Add flaked salmon. Finally Contrary to the general rule of glacial rec: study, as the glaciers are ob-‘ the | huge proportions of the glaciers; | the awe with which one considers | tidewater near Juneau, has thrust which has carried it 50 year: ly Shafer of the U. S. F \GROCERS VIE IN - CANNED SALMON DISPLAY CONTEST | Marking the start of the fifth year of cooperative industry adver- tising for canned salmon, the sal- mon industry during the past sev- | eral weeks has been carrying sn a nation-wide 'store display con- test for grocers. Several thousand photographs have been received from grocers located in all sections of the Unit- | ed States showing their Lenten dis- | plays of canned salmon. This was the second year industry has conducted this test. A total of $7,505 is to { awarded winning grocers. In 1,050 grocers will win the ‘prizes for their ingenuity in | ing salmon. Last year, the major award, $750 for the best display entered, was |won by W. A. Long, an Indepen- the con- be all, cash sell- Kenai Peninsula is about the size of the State of Maryland and rich 1m natural resources. { e 1 Alaska’s most perrcfl volcanic peak, comparable to Japan's Fujiya- the local residents and visitors an|add cheese. Serve hot on toast.|ma, is beautiful Mt. Edgecumbe, vis- unexcelled opportunity to engage Garnish with pickles, | ible from Sitka. "See Everything of Interest fo the Tourist!’ ALL OUR CARS ARE INSURED AND ARE OPERATED BY UNION DRIVERS. As Near As Your Telephone, Are, -20 MODERN TAXIS At Your Service! WIRE FOR RESERVATIONS TO CAPITAL CITY GLACIER TOURS, INC. e S ——— II|I|||IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIll||!||||l|||||||llIIIlIIIIII|IllllIIIIIII|||IIIIIIIII|III|IIII||II"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIlII"IIIIIIlIHI|I|IIIHHllllllllllIlIIIIIIlll|||III||||||IIII|IIIIIIIIlllIIIlllIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIIIIIIIIIlIIlIIlI|IIIIIIIII"" (3 S RO . ( dence, Kansas, grocer. Brown and Hawkins Corporation of Seward j | carried off a fourth prize. » S e