Cement Plant To
►* Be Established
Near Seldovia
(By Vern Haugland)
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Four op
erators of an Alaskan coal mine
have informed the interior depart
ment they contemplate construc
tion of a cement plant on Tidewa
ter a mile north of Seldovia.
The plant would tap a 500.000
ton limestone bed, known as grey
cliff, discovered by Parker Amlyle
w and Charles B. Abbott of Anchor
age, two years ago.
Lyle, Abbott, Basil Sinclair of
Anchorage and Dean Peterson,
Portland, Ore., partners in the Ho
mer, Ala-xa, Coal Corporation, in
formed the department, officials
said that they wish to establish the
Alaska Cement company with a
Plant capacity of 600 barrels of ce
ment a day.
p. They#said military construction
now planned in Alaska would de
mand the entire output of a plant
of that si/.e for the next five or 10
years.
A civilian pre-mixed concrete
plant in Anchorage now uses
18,000 barrels a year, 10 per cent
of the proposed plant’s capacity.
Still in the organization stage,
the project could stimulate Alas
kan cool pr iciuc. on, mining ex
po.. said.
i uring the war, the U. S. bureau
of mines at Arum.mnge and the
army'.: c procurement section
■ m \ s > i induce 1 opera
'■ . ... . inns i -al nines in
At i jure Tase linked sup
!• . ..>n.! . uc.. dost from
. .at ' ■ e steep price of S4t»
t u In .en ;o prevent.
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! a possible shutdown, due U> the i -
: ni.ion of coal dust, d i ring the nu*
oi enegency. it was the first
'use • i rack-dusting precautions in
Alaskan coal mnes, but was so ex
‘ pensive ‘hat since the war Ala.* -
kan mlnc-owne s have been un
able to continue rock-dusting u
ficiently to meet bureau of :nhvj
standards.
The grey cliff limestone deposit
is estimated to be 1,040 feet long,
H5 feet deep. 25 feet wide at h
top and 50 feet wide at :ha In'. mi
Surface coverage ranges i n
few inches to a foot. The All mm
estimate that at the p o t .ct o <
r;uc of 000 barrels of conn •
the deposit would last from ;.
100 years.
The operators propose t> sh. >
gyp-'orn from Seattle, mo t e-kimaie
they would need f:()0 u>n a y
They also conternp’a <■ u • (a
velopment of a bed of hig :•/r.dc
gy p ur.i on Chlchag >i Is v as
of Juneau.
They vi. lam to hcv v .y. : ;
00 » i » la.is cit '• >:xl i a \ • *
kiln an \ to produce eh "c p ■.
This, they .say, ‘ho Home- <'■>■
Corporation, acros< the by. <■
Kenai peninsula, could dcliv.- by
barge.
The Alaskans have be. i <
tinting for mo o than mv i years to
‘he pure iase of fac Ooiino, Toa
Wants To Settle
AH Of Alaska
WASHINGTON, (>P) — A plea
vi‘ all public land in Alaska be
omned ta homesteading by war
veterans was made yesterday to n
H u-o public lands subcommittee
• w. i'.. Floyd.
The wine s, a resident of Ala -
. raid that many veteran; who
...... ... Alaska are •eturn’ng t»
1 To- r tory looking for hancr.
“T w > ceuId 1 ft all restrictnons
t n homesteading 20,000 veterans
' r”1 settle there in the next th*ee
ho, cement piant of me Wash.-Ida
ho Lime Products company ol S >■ -
.•* ‘-/ash. Tire plant's (idO-burre.
a day capacity cou.d be dou olec
. iho add tion of another kiln
•r • eoe-rr.Ui. They said mo-t of
o lruling employees ol the Or
n > p’.ant have signified their
.lih’gncss to transfer to A;.,s at
should the plant be sold.
oince Seldovia public utilities arc
insu! fieient to provide the requ r
v.\ elect’ ic power, the Ala kans
,>• npo.se to acquire a surplus ves
sel from the war shipping adrr.l -
ist ration and tie it up at the Su
dor la dock *o house employees a»i 1
];rovide power.
years,” he .-aid.
T,T' yd asked the committee to
rgc i • interior department to lift
. estrictions on Kodiak Island,
make a refuge for brown bears in
1941. He said Kodiak has excell
ed graz n-t land and many veter
ans could settle on its approxim
ately 2 009,000 acres. Other sim
ile- tes'imony was presented.
“All a veteran needs to settle
n Alaska,” Floyd aid, “is two
•its and plenty of courage. He can
find work in any of the towns.”
The c mmittee is considering
bills by Rep. T-emke <R.-N. D.
n i Pcdem »R.-Okla.) to author
•*.e ’he settlement of veterans in
‘he Territory.
•John R. Pratt, a marine machip
i! Kctcdkan tend a resided of
he Te: rllory for 2b years, told
‘h? eoinmiltee thev s opportunicty
! '• veterans in Alaska but they
tu t be “men and women who
work and work hard.”
Pratt said that a veteran who in
tea led to settle on a farm should
ave at least S000 or ,5800 “if
he is a hard worker.”
The committee adjourned the
headings until next Monday.
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was heard in 1924
Find Missing Life
Boat; Men Gone
HONOLULU. f/P)—The mLsing
lifeboat from the broken tanker
Fort Dearborn was found last night,
by the steamship China Victory
but there was no sign of the 12
men who disappeared with on
the stormy night of March 12.
The China Victory, en route
from the Philippines to San Fran
cisco, radioed the Hawaiian -ea
frontier that Fort Dearborn motor
lifeboat No. 3 was found drifting
bottom-up B65 miles norther- of
Midway Island.
“Boat badly damaged. Pro’vllor
tone from shaft. No sign of ' ft*,’
he China Victory raaioed.
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