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Show COAL DEPOSITS IN ALASKA VERY LARGE HI( AGO, March 27. The defease in the trial of Albert I.'. ost gad (our others charger with defrauding the government gov-ernment out of Alaska coal lands valued val-ued at SIO.000,000 was resumed before Federal Judge Laadis. William Griffith, a eoal mining ex ert. was rrooa examined by counsel for the government in regard to the acu-rary acu-rary of statistics in his testimony oo direct examination. The wit Boas testified that the coal lands in Alaska extended over H0 snuare miles and that there was available availa-ble I.CiKi.'rOO.OOO tons of coal in this soe. tian. t'ounsei for the government read a bulletin issued by the United Gtate geological geo-logical bureau stating that the eoal lands in Alaska won limited to seventy, four square miles. The witneM said thai the bulletin only referred to the Matanuaka alley, where the largest eoal drpoait were located. |