Show ISSUE PATENT fOR LAND CONTAINING COAL Revives Hope of Developing Develop Develop- in ing Coal Industry in Northwest SEATTLE Wash Sept 21 The The genera general general gen gen- era eral land office has Just i issued sued a patent patent patent pat pat- ent covering acres acre's of or coal land at Whatcom county This patent said Receiver Frank Twitchell of the Seattle land office opens anthracite coal that Is equal to any in Pennsylvania and superior to Isome some of ot it it The United States received 20 an acre for the land The patent gives the land landin landin in fee simple subject to vested water rights and right of way for United States Irrigation ditches The Whatcom anthracite lands with witha a large number of other coal areas in inthis inthis inthis this state were withdrawn from entry October 11 ii 11 1906 On the toe of the same month the Whatcom lands were restored There are about fifty other claims In Whatcom county which have been proved and It is expected that patents upon them will follow State Senator Alexander P. P Olson a wealthy Republican politician Is backing the anthracite Industry in Whatcom county I |