COALRESERVES
BLOCKED OUT
ATESKACREEK
ANCHORAGE, April 5 (Special to
the Daily Times).—Sufficient reserve
coal deposits have been blocked out
at the mine operated by the Alaskan
Engineering Commission at Eska,
fifty-eight miles northeast of Anchor
age, to insure to the commission an
adequate fuel supply for several years,
reports Sumner G. Smith, who has
charge of the commission’s coal-min
ing department. Further prospecting,
he declares, continues in order to de
termine the regular area of the coal
deposits at Eska, and to discover, if
possible, beds of better quality. The
output at present has been raised to
a point high enough to afford not
only an ample supply of fuel for the
construction and operation of the gov
ernment railroad, but also a surplus
sufficiently large to protect against
interrupted traffic and accidents at
the mine.
With respect to the geology o'f the
Eska mine, Mr. Smith says:
“The general structure at Eska is
synclinal, although there are faults
parallel to and at various angles to the
axis of the syncline which obscure
much of the structural detail. The
surface of the area under considera
tion slopes gently toward the south,
the waters of Eska creek, which drop
approximmately 400 feet in three
miles, cutting a valley from 20 to 200
feet below the general level of the
ground. As the coal measures were
folded and broken long before the
formation of the present topography,
the beds are not parallel to the sur
face. They appear i4 the bluffs which
form the sides of the creek as a series
of rather distorted semicircles, one
above another, the lower portion of
the areas being concealed by the de
bris on the bank and in the creek
bottom.
“There is no doubt that the drain
age of this field has followed in many
instances the lines of least resistance
created by fault zones, and it there
fore follows that the pioneer mining
which has naturally started upon the
outcrops exposed by stream valleys
will, in general, be in the most dis
turbed portions of the district.
“The prospecting has consisted of
churn drilling, open-cutting, driving a
few crosscuts and sinking some shal
low test pits.
“Inasmuch as there are six different
beds, all of different thickness, under
exploration at Eska, and as the dip
varies from 10 degrees to 60 degrees,
no one method of extraction can be
applied to the entire series,” says Mr.
Smith. “However, all the coal so far
produced has been recovered by the
room and pillar method, the room
width in general being twenty feet,
with thirty-foot pillars between. There
have been slight variations to this rule
occasionally, due to faulted or broken
condition of the ground. All the
rooms are run on sights, and where
the beds are parallel the pillars of the
upper beds are kept vertically over
those of the lower.
“The room and pillar method, with
the rooms driven straight up the pitch,
was adopted because the demand for
coal was acute, and this offered the
greatest immediate supply. At some
future date it will be possible to ex
periment with other methods, al
though the recovery so far has been
excellent, and it is doubtful if any
other method would give as satisfac
tory results, as the system is flexible
and lends itself readily to the vary
ing conditions met underground.
“There were eight slight, five seri
ous and no fatal accidents. There
were approximately 67,000 man-shifts
worked, both surface and under
ground. The time lost due to acci
dents amounted to 30% shifts for the
slight accidents and 148 shifts for the
serious.
“At the time of the influenza epi
demic last winter one of the bunk
louses was converted into a tempo
rary hospital. There were fifty-five
rases, three of which developed into
pneumonia and resulted in the deaths
pf those afflicted.”
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APPETITES OF AMERICANS
PUZZLE FRENCH COOKS
PARIS, March 1 (Correspondence of
the Associated Press).—Cooks at the
hotel where the hundreds of Ameri
cans connected with the peace confer
ence are staying are amazed at the
appetites of the Americans. The
American breakfast upset all calcula
tions in the French hotel accustomed
to supplying guests with rolls and cof
fee as an early morning meal. Wild
calls for ham and eggs, beefsteaks,
chops, oatmeal and hot cakes sur
prised the French cooks, who after
weeks of catering to the hungry Ameri
cans have not become reconciled tc
the American breakfast menu.
The American fondness for hors
d’oeuvres also caused consternation
Great dishes of beet pickles, potato
salad, sardines, cold slaw and other
relishes served as a preliminary to
the conventional French dinner, dis
appear so rapidly that It has been nec
essary to employ many additional
cooks to prepare delicacies of this sort,
Americans help themselves so freely
to this initial course that they fre
quently have little appetite for the
soup, fish and other dishes which fol
low.
As the hotel kitchen can draw on
army supplies for its food, the Ameri
cans have many delicacies not avail
able generally in Paris cafes. Ices,
ice cream and pastry made with real
sugar are offered to the peace delega
tion. In most Paris hotels and cafes
saccharine is used for such purposes,
and even for sweetening coffee. The
hotel where the Americans stay also
has an abundance of white flour and
genuine white bread. Elsewhere in
Paris the bread is dark, and even
pastry, when available, is made from
U1 UWU 1IUU1 .
MIGHT SHIP SOME OF
THEM TO THIS TERRITORY
LONDON, April 4.—There are one
and a half million women in this coun
try who will never have the chance of
getting married, is the statement of
Miss Norah March, editor of National
Health, in 1917 there was a surplus
of 1,337,000 marriageable women over
marriageable men, and since then
there have been the war casualties
of 1918.
Miss March says the emigration
will remove a few of these sit-plus
women, while economic independence
will prevent women from marrying
men for the sake of a home.
“Many men and women in this age
af modern advancement,” says Miss
March, “are getting different views
Erom those held in the past, and re
gard women's right to motherhood as
a. supreme individual prerogative.
Having such a wide choice of wives,
the question remains as to whether
men will choose the best and strong
sst women, as upon the women will
lepend largely the future human race,
iince the best of manhood has been
;ut off. The choice really rests with
:he woman, for with her is the right
>f refusing an offer of marriage.”
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POILU GIVES PREMIER
HIS OWN WAR CROSS
PARIS, March 13 (Correspondence
of the Associated Dress).—Premier
Clemenceau was opening his mail this
morning, hurriedly, as is his custom,
merely glancing at some letters, mak
ing short annotations on others, in a
fair way to dispose of his courier in
the usual few minutes. Suddenly,
upon opening a somewhat soiled and
cheap envelope, the contents fell to
the floor with a metallic sound.
The Premier picked them up, read
the letter slowly, then read it again,
and then sat there staring at the
paper with tears Ailing his eyes in
spite of his efforts to suppress them.
The letter read:
“They have not given you the war
cross; here is mine. It has only two
stars, while you deserve two palms,
but it is the best I can offer; here it
is.”
It was signed: "An old poilu.”
And the “grand old man” of France,
who with dry eyes has looked upon
the horrors of two wars, picked up
the little rusty piece of metal, the
ribbon of which is soiled by the rain
of the trenches or besmattered with
the blood of its former owner, and
wept.
“It might have been given to me by
the President of the republic, or by a
marshal of France, with great pomp
at the Invalides. Coming from this
humble ‘poilu,’ I shall treasure it for
ever,” he said.
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