New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1915, Page 10

ASAN FORESTS STROYED BY FIRES 00,000 Acres Burned in Past Fifteen Years [ashington, Oct. 6.—Bringing news & destruction of timber in the in- ir of Alaska by forest fires on a so vast that nothing ever ex- nced in the United States can Ipare with it H. S. Graves, chief ter of the United States, has re- ed from a several weeks tour of northern territo The visit is first Mr. Graves ever made to ka, and it was taken for the pur- of getting first hand information he national forests in the mnorth try and also to familiarize him- with the great acreages under public domain not as yet taken by homsteaders or included in the st reserves. r. Graves estimated that the area JincAlaska in the last fifteen 5 commprises approximately 15,- 000 acres, the timber in this hed region having been destroyed. estimates of the area burned the summer is 2,000,000 or 8,000, acres. e declared he passed through 'e than 100 miles of forest either ing or recently burned on the ez trail. Besides the fires in the al part of Alaska great areas he forests of the Copper River, Susitna and the Matanuska dis- s have been burned over, and e are reports of extensive fires lhe upper Yukon region. Forest of Interior. iThe purpose of my visit to Alas- ' he said, “was to inspect the na- a]l forests which are under my isdiction and also to study the problems on the public domain ide of the national forests. Ac- bingly. I not only examined the onal forests but went into the in- or, down the Yukon to Fairbanks out over the Valdez trall, in or- to study the forest conditions of tral Alaska. e national forests are confined he forests of the southern coast include but a small portion of the ensive forests of the interior. A jat many persons have an idea t with the exception of the south- tern coast there are no forests in ska. This is due to the preval- conception of the country as be- cold, barren end uninhabitable. Tt ue that there are lofty mountain ges (any they furnish the most lime scenery in the world,) and re are tundras, barren of forest; i there are in the far north areas h soil so cold that no trees can 1,000,000 Acres a Year Burned, ‘But the great interior river sys- s were origina]ly largely wooded, only along the water courses, but 'k on the low lying hills that char- erize the country. I say originally loded because forest fires ‘have jought fearful havoc with the for- s. In fact, I would estimate that the last fifteen years there have en burned not less than 1,000,000 es a year, and this summer, which s an unusually dry one, the total is ce or three times the average. “The great interior forest is com- ged of white spruce, white birch d cotton wood. The trees are not ge and the yield measured by ndards of the coast is small, but pse forests are one of the most im- rant factors in the development Alaska. They are absolutely nec- Lary in the establishment and tlding ub of .he chief industries, ning and agriculture. They are gential in the construction and hintenance of the pioneer roads, for idges, culverts, corduroy, cribbing, s, Their presence is often an in- Bpensable factor in making the juntry habitable at all No Steps Of Protection. “Yet the Government is not taking Misingle step to protect these forests. August I passed through more an 100 miles of forest either burn- g or recently burned on the Valdez 1. Many culverts, bridges, cor- hroy and telephone poles had been pstroyed, and still worse, the trees d been destroyed along the trail hd these trees will be needed for re- irs in the future. The actual mage to the Valdez trail itself is much as it would have cost to event the fires entirely. 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Magee Ranges are equipped with gas ovens and gas broilers, as well as open burners on top of the range. 132 MAIN STREET came to me of extensive fires on many of the tributaries of the up- per Yukon, “The forests on the public domain outside the national forests are being destroyed and no effort has been made to save them. One of the first things I shall do is to urge that au- | the | thority and funds be given to forest service to handle this situation to save the forests on the public do- main in Alaska from being wiped out. . “We had some fires in the national forests this year, but we had our trained force at hand to fight them and they were kept out of the more valuable timber, doing relatively lit- tle damage. Two Natlonal Forests. “There are two national forests in Alaska, the Tongass, which covers the Alexander Archipelago and a strip of neighboring mainland in southeastern Alaska, and the Chu- gach, which comprises the coast forests west of Mount St. Elias to Cook Inlet. 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There is also a splendid yield of timber, not as great as on Puget Sound, but still very heavy. The spruce runs up to 8 feet in diameter and 225 feet in height. have been cut having 75,000 feet an acre and many small stands yield 100,000 feet an acre. Has Big Yield “The Tongass forest has a total vield of about 70,000,000,000 feet of useful products. With its great quantity of timber, its ease of log- ging, its accessibility to water trans- portation and with the splendid op- portunities for water power for grinding I believe that some day the Tongass national forest will be one | of the greatest centers for the manu- facture of wood pulp in the country. “The Chugach forest, centering about Prince William Sound, is an ex- tension as the Tongass. Being | further north the trees are not quite as large nor the yvield so heavy. But I was very much astonished to find s0 much excellent timber, for there has been a sustained attack on the Chugach from certain quarters for several years and an effort to abolish i it on the ground that the timber was | worthless. “Prof. Georgeson is doing a great work for Alaska at the Government agriculture experiment stations. 3 had the pleasure of visiting the sta- tions at Sitka and Fairbanks. ‘When I was at Fairbanks crops of wheat and oats were being harvested. There is no question but that a very large acreage in Alaska is suited to the more hardy grain crops. Unques- tionably much of the country is bet- ter suited to farming than a great part of the intensively cultivated re- gion of Scandinavia. I do not be- lieve that Alaska offers the agricul- turist either wealth or a life of ease, but I do believe that it offers a life of plenty and indepemdence. The real development of the Territory has hardly yet begun. At the end of the century it should have a popula- tion of many million citizens of a most desirable type.” DN CAN'T ATTEND. Oct. 6.—Joseph of the Boston ieague club last night received a tele- gram from President Wilson express- ing his regret that Wi Boston, Lannin, president American he would be un- | able to come here to see the games to which he had been invited. Many stands ! of the same type of forest | somewhat | NATIONAL HOUSING ASSN. 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