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Show 4 OFFERS JJOy'LHf SEATTLE MAN WOULD PAY FIFTY CENTS A TON TO MINE-ALASKA MINE-ALASKA COAL. Offer Coming on Eve of Balllnger Plnchott Investigation Which Would Net the Government Millions In Royalties. W Washington. A new and sensational factor prepared Tuesday to add intensity inten-sity to tho already sufficiently excited J situation over tho Alaska coal lands, ji on the eve of the beginning of the Bal- Wjlt Hnger-Plnchott Investigation. v Bn John E. Ballalno of Seattle, said to flTp bo the largest Individual propert Ti owner In Alaska, mado a proposlton in writing to tho senate committee on territories, of which Senator Bever- , ldgo of Indiana is chairman, offering to tho government a royalty of 50c a ton on coal mined for tho lease of 5,000 acres of somo of tho choicest coal lands In Alaska, In tho Katalla and Matanuska districts. Such a tonnage ton-nage royalty would net to tho government, govern-ment, Mr. Ballalne clalmB, as high as $2,000,000 per hundred acres. |