Show nR Il APPEAL w Warning arnin Is Issued That Coal fields of Ala ka kaAre Are in Danger Now New York No Nov Charles W V Eliot president of the National Con Comi Conservation commission today todar author authorIzed a on the tho danger or of orthe the monopolistic control or of the sources of power powei In hits country which is do de declared dared to be ur urgent ent The is made mallo In the of au an appeal to the American and deals particularly with the lUnch of the tho coal fields of Alaska It 11 sa says s Time The Conservation A soci allon rut ion Is of the need of immediate measures to prevent the tho control of the lie great sources of hent and mechanical power In the Unite States from being seized b by monopolistic listic and to secure the tho best development of these sources in inthe Inthe the Interest or of the whole people These sources source time are waterfalls amI coal The following statement describes the thie situation wll h respect to coal lands U If The coal lands In the I of the United States are tte ra raim I 11 h tinder lie tho t in I IL I Iad ad adequate Time fields field or of Alaska I estimated to contain billion tons should remain In the heritage of the people But Bitt ba bad as is lie tho general coa coal land law of If time the United Unile States that of Alaska is worse for thero Ii ore the Is absolutely limited to a of 10 an acre which Is Isles less les than th of the tho real value or of these coal conI lands There ue are already nine hun entries in the Alaska coal fields fillds It li ig trite truo t the he Held wn was recently with from entry but the legality or of orthe the tue withdrawal has been ulen flue questioned Even ii If the nine nino hundred now cOming coining to trial should bf be declared new claimants ilia file filo on the lands hands under tho ob of oC that tho existing I laws against timo mo j and waste and without other necessary We Vc ha urged the lie present nil ado tat lou to postpone for fot he I corn com common mon lion good time the trial of these and auth Wf we have haC no doubt In view of he I I facts and or of th polky of I the ho as declared by J r Taft In his speech at a Spokane Sop Sep I ember 28 S lint out request will ix If Is a limit however he beyond I which such delay doIny cannot go o Should fall fail to act at the coming sos I Islon sinn slon It Is opportunity to I obtain adequate legislation for fol the coal v hands still In possession or of tho thio Unit United ed cd States Slates will he h host 1051 Tl situation with respect to water power lower development both bolh in the public domain HUll on navigable I Is substantially similar to that lint with ith respect to coal The rho water powers cannot ho hi effectively ed In the lie Interest tinder the existing law J 4 Ve therefore appeal to tho Am people to bring the urgel L I hocus of lie tho situation to the attention of theIr In congress In order that comprehensIve legislation on Ito matter he be enacted To this encl every individual citizen I It to todo todo do nis duty duly |