Show r I 7 v.- v. I r T I Extensive Coal Mines in Alaska Colonel S. S Lucas and E. E W. W Worster returned from Irom tho the NIga Is Islands Is- Is I- I iho ho hate havo ju Just t lands adds Alaska report that on the tha north north- west iVest es portion df Island landl the tho principal l ll tf In 1100 Men West of af toe l lid tho group p about 00 WO est itka valuable go coal mines aro are located four owners and turing During the tho the past past our years parties aMes interested havo have been doing somo some tood rood work prospecting and developing and ork Have a good ire no now satisfied that tho they that thing hing Besides supplying tho the local de do demand do doland mend mand land measures are on foot to place this coal 1001 in a large largo way on the San Francisco Fancisco lark market t next year Tho The coal veins Ho lie le ono one above tho the other about thirty feet apar apart numbering from tour four to six workable veins of five or six feet reet Ceet from the tho roof to tho the floor foor Those These veins vein can bo be traced for a distance of ot two mias A tramway has been boon built bui con con- the tho tunnel tunnel with a I Oton ton coal unk t at t T wd and dwelling es have been erected and there is considerable t tOlling rolling stock on the tho ground around By Dy tunneling and ard back stopping back stopping the coal is easily and cheaply mined It ItIs Itis I is i virtually inexhaustible in extent and end Iti it itIs itis Is i asserted that that car cargo o lots lot can be delivered In San Francisco Francsco at 1 per ton An analysis anal anal- ysis shows It to bo ho somewhat superior to Seattle coal being of formation as are all al Pacific coast coals it carried a large targe percentage percentage of ot moisture |