Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-12-16 | Page 6 | Alaskan High-Grade Coals

ALASKAN HIGH-GRADE COALS. Though somothing has been known of Alaska coal for more than sixty years, the amount of actual mining, according to tho United States Geological Geo-logical Survey, has boen inaignlflcant. Tho total production sinco the territory terri-tory was acquired, from Russia is less than 50,000 tons. This Is all tho more significant because during this time more than 1,500,000 tons of coal has heon shipped Into Alaska, and all but 20 per cent of it was from foreign fields. Tho Boring river and Matan-uska Matan-uska coal fields of Alaska are stated by Alfred H. Brooks of the Geological Survey, in a recent report, to constitute consti-tute the only known sources of hlgh-grado hlgh-grado coal near either the eastern or the western shoro of the Pacific ocean, unless such fuels may be had from the Inland coal fields of China. Thoy aro thereeforo of great importance to the Industries of the Paolflc coast From them must come tho high-grade steaming and cooking coals and anthracite anth-racite needed by tiio growing population popula-tion in the seaboard states. Unless thoy aro utlllzod tho manufacturing and smelting industries of that region and tho Bhips of tho American navy In tho Pacific muBt dopend largely on foreign Holds, oxcept as coal may be brought around Capo Horn and through the Panama canal. Alaska's own need for highgrade coal con bo supplied only from thoso two fields, unless it is furnished by cuch foreign fuel as Is transported for a thousand miles or more. ... GOOD wnpian faffgeneral housework Albert ficowfiott, 2546 Fowler, jLjr" y 12-16-tf &- oq y- f HOUSE, threo rooms, yn$,1$r closet water in housar awle"Ballantyno Ave. Phone G022$r 12-lG-2t oo- HALVERSON &. RATT, lawyora, 1st Nat'l Bflinc Bid., Fifth Floor. V io .Road, the Classified Ada,