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ALASKA’S COAL
“Alaska, with the New England
states crying for coal as shown by
the report of governors of Massachu
setts, Connecticut, Maine, Rohde Isl
and, New Hampshire and Vermont,
can supply enough fuel if the govern
ment will allow the development of
the coal beds to supply enough for
all Pacific coast demands, and there
by assure the east the full output of
the eastern, southern and middle
west fields,” states a letter sent out
to the governors of the six states by
the Alaska bureau of the Seattle
chamber of commerce.
DEVELOPMENT URGED
The plea urging the prompt devel
opment of Alaska coal first to halt
the drain upon eastern supplies
brought to the Pacific coast to fuel
the Pacific coast fleet among other
things, was made to Secretary of the
Interior John Barton Payne and Sec
retary of the Navy Josephus Daiels
when they were in Seattle wrhile on
their trip to and from Alaska. The
letter to the governor states:
“We have read with very great in
terest the pamphlet recently sent us,
being report to governors of six New
Erurlanrl Stntos
DESIRE TO HELP
“Actuated by a desire to be help
ful to you in properly bringing this
matter to the attention of those in
authority, we take the liberty of giv
ing the following data which may be
of great value to you and your co
workers in the effort to solve this
great fuel problem. Briefly stated
these facts are:
“1. The report to the governors
is dated July 10. At the time it was
being published coal shipped through
the Panama canal to the Pacific
coast for the week, ending July 3
was 13,745 tons.
COMMERCIAL COAL
“In addition to the above, during
the same week, commercial coal from
Norfolk to the Pacific coast of South
America amounted to 7,834 tons.
This makes a grand total of 21.579
tons sent through the canal in one
week to Pacific ports.
“2. Developed coal mines are in
operation in Washington (40 miles
from Puget sound navy yard) in
British Columbia (at tide water), in
Montana, Utah and Colorado. Coal
is found in Arizona and New Mexico
and all of these sections could supply
the demand in the west coast in an
emergency.
ALMOST UNLIMITED
“3. The territory of Alaska has
an almost unlimited supply of coal.
It is undeveloped largely on account
of conservation regulations and other
restrictions.
“4. New England states can well
study the Alaska situation as the
opening of that territory would mean
that not only could its coal mines
supply the whole Pacific coast with
a quality of coal equal to that from
the Atlantic coast, thereby cutting
off the steady and expensive ship
ments from Norfolk to the Pacific
coast. Every ton saved thus would
be saved for the Atlantic states.”
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COTTER GOES
USTRAUA AS
FILM MANAGFR
Universal will have a forceful rep
resentative in Australia in the person
of Frank J. Cotter, when he takes
over the leadership of that branch of
the Universal organization. For the
past few months Mr. Cotter has been
Mr. Bryson’s assistant, but Mr. Bry
son, having started the Sydney Ex
change, and having seen it on the
high road to success, is now on his
way back to the United States pre
paratory to investigating another for
eign field.
Cotter is better known in the news
paper world as Pat O’Cotter, which
is the name he has used for the last
twenty years in his writing. For
Frank J. Cotter has alread made a
name for himself in newspaper and in
magazine circles. His journalistic
career has been romantic and varied.
He broke into the newspaper game
with the well-known Dave King on
the Morning Olympian at Olympia,
Wash. Later he worked on the Ta
coma Ledger. Then the wanderlust
gripped him and took him to China,
where he wrote for some time on the
China Mail at Shanghaii, and later at
Hong Kong. When he came back to
America he got the gold fever and
joined in the rush to Alaska where
he made and lost several good stacks
in the placer mining game before he
returned to his first love, the news
paper game, and hung his hat up in
the office of the Fairbank’s News, in
Fairbanks, Alaska. He worked in
Alaska as a newspaper man for al
most a dozen years. During his stay
in Alaska he wrote many stories and
poems. The most noted of these are
“Tales of the Tanana,” a book of
short stories, and the “Rhymes of a
Roughneck,” a volume of Alaskan
verse.
He left Alaska early this year with
the idea of beating it to the South
Seas and finally to South Africa. It
was on this trip aboard the S. S.
Sonoma that Mr. James Bryson, who
was on his way to Australia to pro
ject a series of agencies for Univer
sal, convinced Mr. Cotter that he
should join forces with the outfit, and
so it was that Mr. Cotter came to take
over the leadership of Universal’s
Australian branch. His varied and rich
experiences make him the proper man
for the job, for they have given him
a broad and progressive outlook and
assuredly this is a necessity in build
ing up a big and romantic industry
in new territory that is equally big
and romantic.—Motion Picture Week
ly.
CALIFORNIA BUSINESS
MAN EXPECTS ALASKA
TO BE RIVAL ALPS
After touring Alaska this summer,
Ralph Hamlin, one of Southern Cali
fornia’s leading business men, on his
return to the states decided that
there is no country in the whole
world to compare with the north for
beautiful scenery. Alaska, he says, is
bound to outshine the Swiss Alps, the
battlefields of Europe and every other
tourist attraction.
“As I traveled with my family
through those frozen wonderlands.”
over glaciers and into the great in
terior of the great country, I could
not help but think that there was
a secret which the world would want
to know,” said Mr. Mamlin. “I could
visualize some day in the future when
a road, would wind its way into the
northland, passing through wonder
that have been held from the world.
And I could visualize thousands ' of
motor cars, carrying the world’s tour
ist trade, traversing that road.
‘-K)f course I appreciate the diffi
culties of constructing and maintain
in gsuch a road through Alaska. But
man will find a way and when he does
—that road will do as much to open
up Alaska as any other influence.
“Probably every person in America
would like to visit Alaska because of
the wonderful stories that have
been told about it. The only draw
back at present is the adsence of
transportation. When these things
are eliminated and a man can ship
his own car to Alaska and then drive
inland or—looking even further ahead
—when he can drive the entire dis
tance, Alaska is bound to outshine
the Swiss Alps, the battlefields of
France and every other tourist attrac
tino.”
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PERFUMES
AND TOILET DAINTIES
Just received a shipment of Solon Pal
mer’s goods which we will sell at out
side prices.
Gardenglo Perfume, Orig. bottle 3.75
Gardenglo Perfume, Bulk, ounce $2.75
Gardenglo Perfume, orig. bottle 3.75
Gardenglo Perfume, orig. bottle 6.00
Gardenglo Toilet Water, large bot. 2.50
Gardenglo Toilet Water, small bot. 1.25
Gardenglo Sachet, bulk per ounce 1.10
Gardenglo Sachet, orig. bottle-1.60
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Ketchikan, Juneau. Cordova, Valdez,
Ellamar, Liscum, Latouche, Seward.
FROM SEATTLE— 8AIL8 SOUTHS
SEPT- 16. ALASKA ........_ SEPT. 25 *
®EP"^"- 23. ALAMEDA OCT. 3
SEPT. 30. NORTHWESTERN OCT. 12
Frequent sailings of freighters carrying explosives.
' his schedule subject to change without notice.
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