Show COAL FIELDS OF ALASKA INVOLVED There seems sec to be hi no limits to toilie the ilie charges being made against Fall Fail and aud Denb Donby Denby Last Lust Friday In the tho LaFollette so to have an Investigation made of the charge Iha that t Secretary Fall and Secretary Denby la itt July 1921 attempted to exploit tho the Alaska coal John E D Alaska railroad builder In a letter to President Coolidge claims a scheme was do- do de developed eloped to have naval coal coat lands transferred to the interior depart depart- department department ment meat and then for fifty sears ears to private operators In n his communication Mr says The nel negotiations and the terms agreed upon between the two ho BeC- BeC Bee In this coal reserve ran along lines exactly parallel with ith the negotiations and tho the terms of the lease of the Teapot Dome on oil There were hidden Latin Influences Paces and wide ramifications be behind hind each No lease of e oal was l a as executed but the thenet thenet thenet net result was 1 88 that tbt naval mining la in the were ero I b Secretary Denby Donby to the Intel lor department and ab abruptly closed in U May 1922 1822 at a alime aLime lime when hen the nav navy as 08 official reports re reports ports porta show how had a mine developed and ond equipped In No 8 cad ead to 10 PI 50 tons a da day V 1 Ith 2 0 OO tons of coal blocked out nut in that mine and with Ith 2 OO Iton toni ton of the tho same quality In sight by diamond drilling In the thO Coal creek district During those negotiations over OTer the coal resen reserve e and for two years continuously up to the present time misleading an nn contrary to the tho official facts about the quality ity of s coal coil ba have base e been gh gien en wide publicity by the bureau of engineers of the navy of which Admiral Robison Is bead and by bythe bythe the bureau of ot mines of o the Inte tote Interior Interior nor of o which Dr Gain Is the head bead The Bame same coal fields figured In Inthe Inthe inthe the Ballinger affair during Tafts Taft's administration |