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Show i FREE DISCUSSION I OF COAL STRIKE W91 LONDON, March S. After extend- &M od talks with committeos veprcsent- iJWk jng coal mine owners and their strik- kk3M ing employes today Premier Asqttlth fl invited representatives of both sides fl to hold a Joint conference "with a, 1M vjoW to ft free discussion of the whole 9 situation." What the government's JB proposals are has not been divulged. V The miners reply that they had un- M dertakon to reassemblo (he national SI coaforence of miners, but with the Wj reservatIon that they would not rec- W oinmend acceptance of the govern- S meat's invitation except on the under - " standing that -the prlnclplo of a mln- :,s lmum wage be excluded from dlscus- "i slon. The national conference of vnln- $ ers cannot be assembled before Mon- tlt was announced tonight' thai tho joint conference will take place at tho '"cl foreign office, but no date has boon f fixed.' 4 MATANUSKA COAL FIELD Alaska High-Gradc Coal Reported on by, United States Geological Survey. Accompanylnq Map Show? Best Approach Ap-proach of Proposed Government Railroad. The high-grade coals of the Mata-nuscka Mata-nuscka Valley. Alaska, are the subject sub-ject of a tlmoly report just Issued issued by tho United States Geloglcal Survey. The iMatanuska coal field Is the area to which Secretary Fisher Fish-er recommended that a Government railway be built, and the Geological Survoy report, with accompanying detailed de-tailed maps, Bhowlng tho areas underlain un-derlain by coal strata, the most feasible feas-ible routes for railway approach, and other specific and authoritativo Information, constitutes a valuablo contribution to the present Alaska fuel problem. The federal Geloglcal Survey has been engaged in surveying and investigating inves-tigating coal fields of Alaska during the past twelve years. The Mata-nuska Mata-nuska field was first explored in 1S98, and some years later was covered by reconnai9sanco surveys followed by preliminary reports. As it Is one of the most important mineral areas In Alaska its detailed examination was begun In 1908, in a base map was prepared, and in 1909 tho coal-benrlng rocks were mapped and studied, .the result being the present report, which is Issued aB Bulletin 500 "Geology and Coal Fields of the Lower Mata- nuska Valley, Alaska," hy G. C. Martin Mar-tin and F. j. Katz. Tho accompanying accompany-ing maps show tho geology, structure, and position of the coal hods and tho report gives detallod measurements of the individual coal seams and analyses an-alyses of the different grndeg of coal. The maps, which aro on the scale of a mile to the Inch, will also enable tho constructing engineer to lay out the ui03t feasible railroad route and will also provide the coal miner and operator with an adequate has for planning tho work of prospecting tho individual coal beds through drilling, dril-ling, shaft sinking, or tunnol-drlvlng. The publication of tho Matanuska report marks the close of tho first epoch In the Investigation of tho Alaskan coal fields, to which tho geologists geol-ogists and topographic engineers of tho Survey have devoted so many years. Tho coals of Bering River "field, the report on which was Issued in 1908, share preeminence with tho MatanuBka coals among Alaska fuels and aro in fact comparable with tho highest-grade coals of West Virginia or Pennsylvania. Other reports already al-ready Issued by the Geological Survey accessible coal fields of Alaska, and covor practically all the additional possible market and railway routes. |