Wrangell Sentinel -

In the Sentinel 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago.

December 18: 1913: Some people imagine there is nothing in the lumber industry in Alaska but they are badly mistaken, next to mining and fishing our timber is a matter of great importance. The Bertha brought a consignment of 180,000 feet of spruce lumber to Seattle from Hadley to be used in the construction of buildings for the Panama Pacific Exposition at San Francisco. The commercial possibilities of the Alaska spruce, since this lumber has proved the finest of northwest soft woods, have been given serious consideration by Puget Sound interest...