Show PLOT pi ii TO LOOT ALASKAN COAL IS CHARGED Cool Coolidge i d g e Gets Telling Of Fall Fall-Denby FaU Efforts LIKE TEAPOT DOME Engineer Says Files Show Attempt to Lease Reserves W WASHINGTON reb Fob H 11 li mr mer rail and ond Secretary Denby were ere ft ere declared d In a letter laId before betor President Coolidge to- to diy o-diy b bi John E 1 Dals Dal's Ine an Alps AlIs- Alas kan lean han railroad to hate e entered Into negotiations In July Jill 1921 for r and of the rich s coil md res re er es of oC Alaska along the lane lines os s v re later ater follo followed cd in the teapot dome doe oil lease 10 i I The Th AI coal leise was as not executed but the letter said SD the thenay y naty largely lamely through the efforts of Rear Hear J 3 K J had assiduously as r ever ver since to permit use uso us of Alas Alas- Alaskan Alaskan Alas kan kan coal b by the navy Mr 1 who ho the Alasko Central Centra d ra the forerunner of the tho present govern overn government ment meat line lino presented hI his letter to the president as a a to pre charges charees that po powerful In- In In Interests are ar at work to hinter hinler the de of Alasko lie II also hll hae charges charlles to al sev senators senator Including Chairman Len Len- Lenroot Lenroot root Ln root of th the senate oil Ing committee WHAT T rILEs SHOW The The official tile files show how thit th Sec Secretary retry rAil roll of the th Interior and ald Sec Secretary Denby Donby of the th navy began bellan negotiations negotiation as early a as July 1921 fo tom the th transfer of ot the th na a naval natal roil roal In the th field from the navy to tho Interior de- de department de department and for the th leasing of oC that resene for n a period of fIfty years said the th letter The Tho Th Tie Tie- n and the terms agreed upon between the two secret rles ecret In this thie coal reserve ran along alone lines exactly parallel with Ith the th negotiations lion and the tho th terms of the lease ea e of th teapot capot dome reserves No o lease leas of tho the coal reserves was executed But Dut the thenet thenet net result wa was that naval natal raining mining operations In the th 1 were ere transferred by Secretary Denby to the Interior department and nd ab- ab abruptly abruptly ab abruptly closed In May 1922 1 at a 0 time when the th nivy as official re- re reports reports r port ports show how had a mine developed d and equipped ready to produce tons a day with tons of c coal al blocked out In that mine and with Ith 2600 d tons of oC the th same Quality in sight liht by diamond drill drill- drill lag in the th Coal Con Creek Crek district During the th negotiations over the tho coal cOlli resen reserves es and for two lear leans ears continuously up to the present time timo tim ml misleading ico contrary to the tho th t official facts about the quality of coal hav been given wide J publicity by the th bureau of engIneers of the na navy nav-i of which Admiral Robison Is head hc d and by bythe bythe the bureau of mines mIne of the th Inte- Inte Interior late Inte Interior nor of which Dr Bain Is th the heads head's head 00 |