Show COAL MELDS fiELDS oi Of ALASKA Washington April 9 More roro testimony mony mon concerning the tho value and ex cx extent tent of the coal in the fields of Alas Alaska ka and a further L of oi Andrew Christensen regarding tho the letters which are aro alleged to have havo been lIcen concealed by Glavis fol following following lowing his dismissal from front the service confronted the In Investigating investigating committee when It met this morning Alfred Brooks mineral mineraI expert ot or orthe the tue geological survey was on the stand eland wh when n adjournment was taken takes yesterday afternoon Mr Ir Brooke Brook strongly s ronI favors the opening of tho the Alaskan coal fields and anti declares the territory is retrogressing as a result of the governments policy of or withhold withholding ing lug tho the coal lands Before going into In to public session the committee opened the famous Glavis box from Crom Seattle In which Andrew Christensen Cli explained epla med he lie found the missing letters Mr Mi It Brooks rooks continued his testimony mony mon Ho lie related that hat tho the United controlled from rout sixty to lo seven seventy tj ty t per por cent of the worlds visible RIll HUll ply II of oC coal and that at the tho present rate of consumption it would require years ears to exhaust tho supply in inthe Inthe Inthe the United States These figures were w re arbitrary the tho witness said Figured on a basis of or the tho Increased use else of o coal In the future at nt the same rate of Increase of the last two or three years Mr tr Brooks said it had been cen estimated that the tho supply In the thc United States would be exhausted in iii I from Crom to l O years rears Somewhere the estimates of 1 O and anti years Cars ho declared the truth was to bo be found lound If the tIme supply will last years yearn We wo dont need to bother about con conservation for fot two or 01 three thousand yc cus rS remarked Representative Madi Madison l nil I son soil hut but If It will only last years year AVO wo are arc up against it Mr Ir Brooks said he thought there thero hud hail been too much alarm as to tho tIme ex cx exhaustion of the tho coal supply Other factors of oC power lower are arc coming into gen general general eral oral use and this In time lime will df 4 d crease the thi use of coal Improved methods of consumption aiso so are resulting re reo suiting In the tIme decreased use of coal As a n general proposition the wit witness witness ness nedS said ho he favored tho the leasing of oC coal lands hands but ho thought the Alaskan fields were too far ar away awn for the tIme leas lens leasIng lensing Ing Jc system to bo employed to advantage admit tage tige He thought such auch a price should bo be put on tho lands In Alaska how however over ever as to prevent speculative hold nold holding log ing of the thc property and require its bo boo boIng belog log Ing worked I |