Show GOAL IN ALASKA alaska elska will ill make a dol demand liand when congress meets for legislation 0 which will ill lit permit linit of tile the open opening ing ortho of tho rich coa fields i ir th that at territory the entire pacific coast will benefit by having tile alaska coal made available tho the government which is paying about one million dollars a y in fi eight to got pennsylvania and west st virginia coal carried can led around to the pacific coast vast for the use ol of tile the fleet in order that tho the alaska coal may bo be conserved will also abo ben benefit crit on this point senator chairman of the llie commit teo tec oi on i naval affairs said isaid recently if that coal is as good as they t I 1 namely tho the geological 0 survey say it is in and we can call got it at reasonable tea rates it would be of valy great ben benefit crit to tile the navy answell as to commercial tho com interests admiral dowdy dewy president of tho the Genil general ral boand of the navy in a depoi re port poi to secretary mayor isado a 14 rient the report of the Ce geological ve fQy to quote senator perkins furt er waa lin an ag agreeable surprise tOSo auy of aa 48 we ought to bo adv ab to io out it down a ald O water ff ur or per ton and wo voal r ortia I 1 ld thit ret get it to san 8 an cwi iwi adl cuciuc V act coast allt fol albut sl I 1 a ton duty uty free fee As chair rilan of the naval affria aff tia 1 I cittee I 1 Uiko very vei y much 4 see the mines opened private P ital would do d it with a chance to 0 got get tit leto t l ift lands I 1 think we might 99 I 1 1 t 0 chairge iha irge 4 a small royalty based homed on commercial usage we nuat give hid nt alo 1 quash in acma i 0 business basis congress lias has bungled oct aho situation in ill alaska in 0 there may bo be an all tins this subject winch which has been t insistently bedfor tile the public for n months let us its soo what tile the 9 mant geologist alfred it II 11 says in bulletin A of tha tin j logical survey ithe the ing industry in 1010 1910 and aw 1 coal and its U utilization diliz ai ja brooks remarks that eliat two ja fac 1 have held back the development w the boring bering iriv river cr and matani fields one being tile adv advancer inc 6 4 tj 1 in the california oil fields and ant other tile the unfortunate f e existing in regard to the laws U un n which alaska coal lanes lands cn aej taken up tip he explains explain s tho I 1 situation very succinctly as f though 11 inas int elide d 1 W able the individual to aidy 11 1 1 I to coal 0 o a lands have been yil K tain ie books for the last dol e riot not a single aure aero of land hs h july 1 1010 1110 gone to paten t therefore not surprising ising th thai gross lias has been checked in in th the fields and that many who undertake their heir develop development men become C the fi rat act passe t d 1 ju 1900 simply extended to the provisions of tile the coa coalla coal I 1 an lV 4 in the united states ahn ji ineffective for it provided Q alf subdivided lands could bo be t and there were ta then to n no la lan voys veya in alaska the rile mat matter C rectified by the alio act of 1001 1004 which permitted 11 un A lands I 1 rids to bo be entered and th x to be made lit at tile the ex 0 arka 1 tr tillit on acres could bo be taken up and olo recognition was given to the flet fact that it was wa impracticable to d f 1 op an isolated chai field requiring ig 1 the expenditure of a large alint amount of money by such small units remedial legislation was sou lit and enacted in the statute of may ay 28 11 this law permitted the lie consolidation of clai claims inis staked pio lire to Nove november niber 12 1906 in tracts of 2500 acres one clause of this law invalidated the title if any individual or corporation at any time in tho future ownes arty any interest whatsoever civer directly or indirectly in more than alian one trat tile purpose of this clause was waa to prevent the monopolization aaion of coal fields its ir immediate fillio diate effect was to discourage capital it wits was felt by many that this clause ri might light in lead d to forfeiture of titles through tile acci accidents do its of inherit inheritance anc 0 or might even bo be used by tile the unscrupulous in ill blackmailing it would appear that land taken ill up under this law might at any time be forfeited forfeit eft to tile the government through the action of any individual who inada condly or otherwise obtained inter 4 est cst in more than one coal such a n title was feltro felt to be too insecure to warrant the large investments needed for mining devi lop doty inen indents ts tile the difference barcen mining ing of coal and tile the li mining lining of placer gold liaa has riot not always hoon I 1 icon recognized A placer claim caim may yield a profit to the prospect ur who has but bul a supply of provisions and a few simple tools but as a necessary I 1 preliminary a ry to cost coal mining at least several thousand nd dollars nut mast bo expended m eacle claira catt iro kven even after the arione money to pat I 1 ent has been bean spent no profit from I 1 can accrue until sufficient espital has been invested to provide equipment and transportation facilities these explanations obvious to every cool coal miner are j raade made here because the iden idaa kee Ms prevalent that arty any individual arne after staking a coal claim 1 etc awl to to develop it at a poi at aado in 04 8 v |