Show = IERS A ROYALTY 0 t W 11 I SEATTLE MAN WOULD PAY FIFTY 1 frCCENTS A TON TO MINE m ALASKA COAL iJ1 Offer Coming on Eve of Balllnger i kRInchott Investigation Which 1I j Vould Net the Government i ur Millions In Royalties SI I j SfII r f < i1r Washington A new and sensational factor prepared Tuesday to add Intensity Inten-sity to the already sufficiently excited situation over the Alaska coal lands ontheeve of the beginning of the Bal llngerPlnchott Investigation John E Ballalno of Seattle said tc betgttie largest Individual property owner ln Alaska made a propjslton In writing to the senate committee out ou-t rrltO 1es of which Senator Hover idgefbf Indiana Is chairman offering t2i the government a royalty of 50a a tonfoh coal mined for the lease of SlOOOJacres of some of the choicest coal lands in Alaska in the Kalalla and Matauuslm districts Such u ton nagc royalty would net to the govern meritJfMr Ballalne claims as high as < T000 000 per hundred acres |