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LUST FOR
880 YEARS
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The Importance of development of
Alaskan coal fields, not so much to
provide fuel for the rest of the world
as for Alaska itself, to permit of the
erection of smelters for reducing ores
and for facilitating cheaper transpor
tation, was strongly emphazled recent
ly In an address before Sealtler bank
era by George Watkln Evans, consult
ing mining engineer and head of the
government expedition which mined
t the coal for a naval teBt in the Mata
niiBka fields in 1913.
Mr. Evans, speaking before the Se
attle Chapter of the American Insti
tute of Banking, asserted that the
amount of coal in the entire territory
of Alaska was fifteen billion tons, of
which four billions were on or tribu
tary to the Pacific Const. The four
billions alone, he declared, could sup
ply the entire Pacific.Coast for 200
years.
This amount of coal in the territory,
together with the twenty billions
which were estimated for the state of
Washington, clearly showed the folly
of ultra-conservation, he claimed. One
, th® features of his address was the
> presentation for the first time in pub
! lie of figures covering geologic estl
l mates of coal fields in both King and
> Pierce counties in the State of Wash
> ington.
Alaska’s Coal Resources.
It is estimated by the geologic sur
vey," he said, “that there is more than
four billion tons of bituminous coal
in Alaska tributary to the Pacific
Coast. The consumption of fuel on the
entire Coast at present Is equivalent
to 20,000,000 tons, of which about
5,000,000 is coal and the remainder
California fuel oil.
“If the Alaska coal fields tributary
to the Pacific Coast were called on to
supply the entire Pacific Coast it
would last 200 years. If Alaska had a
population of 1,000,000 persons, each
using anually five tons of coal on an
average, there Is sufficient to last for
more than 800 years.
“There is enough known coal in
Pierce and King counties to last more
than 200 years. There is no need for
this great plead of tight ‘conservation.’
There should be a little leeway in the
development of Alaska’s coal lands
and there will be. No doubt the lands
will be opened up under lease, with
comparatively few patents issued, the
leasing being done along practical
lines.”
Describes Alaska Fields.
Mr. Evans, in describing the coal
fields of Alaska, mentioned first that
at Cape Lisbourne, on the Arctic
coast, the largest compact area in all
Alaska, consisting probably of 1,200
square miles, of which 200 is known to
be underlain with coal. From this he
took a general survey of all the fields,
speaking briefly of small mines on
Seward Peninsula and the lower Yu
kon and passing on to the Nenana coal
field.
This field, he declared, is on the line
which the government railroad in
Alaska will probably take from the
head of Cook Inlet through Broad
Pass, and is therefore of value for
that reason. An extensive field ex
ists, he said, containing beds forty to
Bixty feet deep. An area of seventy
square miles is known to be underlain
with coal and there are probably 600
square miles altogther In the field.
! opening, he said, would be an lm
| portant event from the standpoint of
j placer mining.
; After referring to three small areas
| on Alaska Peninsula, Including Chig
I nlk’ Herendeen and Unga Islands, he
mentioned the Whorf mine, one of the
there to which the government has
given patents in Alaska. This mine,
he Raid, was Arts opened in 1864 under
charter from the Russian government,
and is now mined when the tide goes
out. because of its proximity to the
beach. In Southeastern Alaska, on
Admiralty Island, la another of the
three claims patented, he said.
In concluding his description he took
up the Matanuska and Bering River
fields, which have attracted more at
tention than other fields in the North.
The former field was Investigated by
the government, he said, In 1908. Prior
to 1906 a number of claims were
staked, which have since been can
celled. In 1913 the United States navy
sent an expedition to examine and
mine samples in this field.
Mr. Evans was In full charge of the
expedition. The Matanuska Valley,
he said. Is broad, with much fertile
soil. The coal beds outcrop from
Moose Creek to the head of the valley,
a distance of thirty to forty miles.
The climate is delightful, with very
little rain. In winter snow falls to a
depth of about three feet, and while it
Is cold, at the same time It is com
fortable.
The Bering River field lies fifteen
miles east of the mouth of Copper
river, he said, and is sometimes known
as the Controller Bay field. The cli
mate is not as desirable as that of
Matanuska because of the excessive
rain and snow. The soil, however, is
good and crops of vegetable can be
grown.
This field has high grade bituminous
and anthracite coal, he said, with
about twenty-eight square miles of the
former and twenty-two of the latter.
While analysts has shown the bitu
minous equally as good as that of
Matanuska, the navy tests have not
shown It up to the Matanuska quality.
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AMERICAN WOMEN
HELPING OUT SOLDIERS
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
NICE, Feb. 23—The American Red
Cross hospital here occupies a villa
about a hundred yards from the sea,
with 34 beds all endowed for the du
ration of the war. It Is In charge of
i French military surgeon, but the
operator’s room is In the care of an
American doctor, and the nurses are
all American women. American wo
men have also organized a work-room
where they spend the greater part of
each day knitting warm clothing and
patching worn garments for conval
escent soldiers, about to return to
the front.
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BOUNTY IS PI
FOB RUSSIAN PBISONtfiS
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
RERUN, Feb. 23—An officer at Aus
trian headquarters In Galicia writes
of how a Bohemian corporal who
spoke Russian carried on a lucrative
business enticing Russians over to
the Austrian lines by painting to them
In rosy colors the easy time Russian
prisoners were having in Austria.
"For every unarmed prisoner this
thrifty corporal is able to entice to
our lines," he writes, "he gets twen
ty cents, while for an armed one he
gets forty cents. Hence he usually
RendB an armed deserter back to get
his gun and, if possible, to bring
some of his comrades with him.
There continued to be many desert
ers as long as the 230th Russian di
vision was In front of our lines; but
this has been replaced with a more
trustworthy division, owing to the fact
that It mutinied on the Russian New
Year.”
The Austrian undertakes to explain
the mutiiy by saying:
"The malcontents appeared before
their commander and complained that
the promise to finish the war by
New Year had not been kept. He
put them off with the soothing news
that he was expecting every moment
a telegram from the Czar announcing
the end of the war; but when the
telegram failed to materialize fifty
men deserted to the Austrians."
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SCRIPTURE QUOTATION
CANNOT BE EOCATED
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
LONDON, Feb. 23—Theological
scholars have been searching in vain
through the works of John Knox to
find the Kaiser’s quotation attribut
ed to him that “A man who walks
with God is always in the majority."
The Edinburg Scotsman has called up
on the leading Presbyterian pastors,
who confess themselves unable to find
the words.
Did not the Kaiser quote from Steph
en A. Douglas or Wendell Phillips,
asks the Scotsman. Douglas said,
“God and one are a majority." Phil
lips' exphession took this form, "One
on God's side is a majority.”
Some scholars attributed the lines
to an old Spanish proverb. At any
rate, it is pointed out, that being "in
a majority” was not a sixteenth cen
tury phrase.
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
COPENHAGEN. Feb. 17—1. Sibbera
sen. a native of Denmark who is now
n wealthy resident of Omaha, Neb.,
has made the National Museum the
gift of an ancient building at New
berg, known as the “Lord High Con
stable Pcder Heasel’s House." The
house is a brick structure with nog
ging dating from about 1(500, a fine
specimen of a Danish merchant's
house of that period. The building,
by the terms of the gift, is to he
used to house the public library and
museum society of Newberg.
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BELGIAN SYMPATHIZER
WITH THE GERMANS
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
PARIS, Feb., 27—The Third Court
Martial of Paris sentenced a Belgian
named Stynen to two years imprison
ment for making the following dec
laration:
“Germany asks nothing better than
to make peace if she is allowed to an
nex Belgium and Calais. I don't
give a fig whether I become a Prus
sian or not. The Germans massa
cred in Belgium because they were
fired upon."
The judgment has been reversed
on account of an error of form and
the case will be tried over again.
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FRANCE TB HONOR
PERMANENTLY SOLDIERS
(By Associathd Press Correspondence)
PARIS, Feb. 23—A permanent rec
ognition of soldiers cited in the or
ders of the day is proposed in the
form of a “croix de Guerre" (war
cross) consisting of a bronze cross
bearing the words •citation" and the
date ‘‘1914-1915." For each addi
tional citation a bar bearing the
word “citation” will be added.
On the uniform the cross will hang
from (he green ribbon of the medal
of 1870 but with the black bars, sym
bol of mourning for Alsace-Lorraine,
suppressed. On the civilian dress, to
distinguish the cross from other med
als, it will be worn without a ribbon
in the botton hole.
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FIJI VOLUNTEERS
ARE NIFTr SOLDIERS
(By Associated Press Correspondence)
LONDON, Feb. 23—The Fiji Island
volunteers proved a sad disappoint
ment that lined the way to the war
office to see the contingent march by.
It was expected that they would ri
val the Indian Sikhs and Ohurkas,
The Algerian Turc^s or the Senegal
ese for picturesqueness. But instead
of giant, coffe-colored islanders with
skirts of tapa cloth and necklaces of
beads, with perhaps modern rifles sub
stituted for war clubs *and spears,
the crowd saw a band of tall, well
tanned British colonialb, uniformed in
khaki-colored shirts, riding breeches
with puttees and gray slouch felt
hats turned up on one side. They
were sixty in number, of whom a quar
ter were born in the Fijis and the oth
ers in Australia. They have paid
their own way to England, sailing
from the islands to Vancouver and
crossing Canada to embark for the
mother country.
So advanced is the military train
ing of the Fiji volunteers that they
will be sent to France next month.
They must first be outfitted for the
cold weather, however, to which they
are now quite sensative.
NEUTRAL ZONE NEAR
THE SWISS BORDER
BASEL, Feb. 32—The latest Cier
man military instructions for the evac
uation of all neutrals from Alsace
affects 5,000 Swiss subjects. A neu
tral zone hus been created on the Ger
man side near the Swiss border, the
inhabitants of which are still allowed
to communicate with Switzerland, un
der certain restrictions, but all wllages
beyond this district are isolated by
barbed wire fences and the sentries
have orders to Bhoot any person at
tempting to cross the border line.
The market gardeners of Neudorf.
who supply Basel with a large por
tion of its vegetables are thus cut off.
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