Show ALASKAN FUEL FIELDS GREATER THAN GOLD While gold reserves are large they are arc In no was a unique for refined refine gold Is time the same wh whatever the tho source In the tho matter of coal re rc sources Alaska has not competitor Its sto stoie e of high grade fuel can not be equaled In iii quality west of time the lii In fact to lo find anthracite and ald bitu bituminous minous coal whIch compares In fuel value with that or of Alaska one must II come east to These I coats coals are therefore time the kc key to time tho commercial situation on Clue west const For a high grade steaming coal used for industries 0 or ora a merchant marino marine or a coke for smelters In the western states one ouo must turn to Alaska Hence the grow row nig population of time the west wesl has a vital Ital In the tho development or of these coal holds These coals are or of national for of all our Pa Pacific Pacific possessIons Alaska alone can sup supply pl ply our battleships with fuel fitch Time The quantity of this anthracite and coal Is not as yet cl deter deler mined but bitt It Is 15 not miot eul ed and hence should not be wasted To use It however wili nut not lie to waste It unless it l bo be improperly mined A surveyed area of about aboul square miles mile Is known to bo be underlain by these coals and It Is probable further Investigation may show an extension of time the field A rough estl esti mato of withIn this area ga gave 0 tone ton or more than one and times the tho entire production of Pennsylvania since coal minIng hogan It Is fair to assume that this coal Is worth one one dol dollar mr lar a toll tOil would matte Its total value about forty times as great CUI as the entire gold output of Alaska to lo the tho present time It Il II is probable there therefore therefore fore the value of tIme coal fields exceeds that of the gold These coals are however practically untouched for tIme the only onh coal mining In Alaska 18 that of some for Cor local IIse A few years ears ago showed that cut Ire of coal for n a year aJ was omit tons otis while It produced tons tom or of gold American Review of Re |