It will aid the farming operations by making a home market for their products.

It will improve transportation and develop all kinds of business.
Altogether 420,000,000 feet of lumber have been cut and sold from the national forests of Alaska in the past ten years.

This material has been made into such products as piling, saw logs and shingle bolts.

All this lumber has been used in Alaska and none of it has been exported.

Much of the timber was cut so that it would fall almost into tide-water.