Show WHERE FUEL IS I A RARITY Arid Parts oft of Earth Have Trouble in Supplying Peoples Needs We Ve who have our coal brought to our doors with a 8 consciousness of unlimited supply in our m nes can hardly conceive the emergencies that arise in loss lose favored regions and the Ingenuity and adaptation to circumstances and environments called out by the search for tor and need of something to ourn Durn says Mines and Minerals Driftwood peat brush cacti fungi seaweed and even droppings of or animals animal s have been in h different regions utilized i ifor for fuel Along the seacoast of ot Alaska in the treeless area driftwood brought brough t dow from the forests of the Interior by b y streams borne along the coast by ocean currents is stranded on the shores and an d thrown wn up on the beach The water soaked logs are gathered in by tho the peo pee people people pie of the tIle coast cORSt dried and burned but t the supply is rapidly diminishing an nd d td wood will have to be drawn from the th e forests of the interior or attention n en turned to the development of the large larg e fields lignite coal recently discovered d in various parts of Alaska In the treeless arid region of southern souther n California and Arizona through which h a portion of the Colorado river passes mining timber and fuel is supplied by b y logs brought down by the stream from the high timbered plateaus of Utah hundreds of miles to the north The Th e Indians it i Eldorado canyon canyo n tributary to the Colorado make a busi business busIness ness floss of collecting these d logs and supplying the Eldorado Searchlight and other mines In the treeless region of the north be besides besides besides sides driftwood there is another and as asyet asyet a s yet undeveloped source of fuel in the th e thick beds of peat formed by the Arctic c mosses moses on on the tundra The adaptation adaptation adaptation tion of this to fuel luel purposes by b manu manufacturing manufacturing and it is a matter matte r worthy of serious consideration |