NAVY COALING
STATION SURE
FOR SEWA D
While the report of the navy Alaska
coal commission has not been officially
made public, anyone with good cre
dentials who wants to know its con
tents can get access to it, says an
article in the Seattle Post-Intelligen
cer from its Washington correspon
dent.
The commission was made up of
three naval officers, headed by Capt.
S. E. W. Kittelle, as senior officer,
the other members being Captain L.
E. Gregory of the Bremerton navy yard
and Lieutenant Roy Aikman of the
marine corps. It went to Alaska last
April under orders of Secretary Dan
iels, to investigate the navy coal sup
ply in the harbor of Anchorage and
Seward for a coaling station.
The report is very complete, and
contains numerous maps, photographs
and drawings, altogether making a
volume eighteen inches square and a
foot think.
Some Faults at Surface
The report' states that from the
■workings done to date in the navy
coal part of the Matanuska district,
on Chickaloon river, there is 250,000
tons of coal of navy quality in sight,
but that on the surface it is badly
faulted. With depth, however, the re
port says, the tendency can reason
ably be expected to be more favor
able. The Kings river and the Coal
creek sections of the same field are
more even, and offer better working
conditions. The veins in these two
sections are reported to be in some
places wholly undisturbed.
Altogether the report finds that the
areas containing navy coal in the Mat
anuska district is estimated to be
good for a yield of 37,000,000 tons, of
which 18,000,000 is in the Eska district
and 19,000,000 in the Kings-Chicka
loon districts.
The report recommends that the
navy department send up a force of
geologists and mining engineers to
make a thorough and scientific test
of the whole Matanuska field, includ
ing diamond drilling to a depth of
4,000 feet, in order to determine the
best location and the most practicable
methods for the mining operations.
Costs $5.50 at Mine
The commission finds that so far
as known at present the coal will have
to be washed for naval use, but it
gives figures showing that the cost of
mining and washing, based on a mini
mum production of 150,000 tons a year,
should not exceed $5.50 a ton at the
mine.
in iin manor or a sue lor a coaling
station, the commission states that it
made careful examinations of both the
harbors of Knik arm, at Anchorage,
and of Resurrection bay, at Seward.
It eliminates Knik arm, because of
ice jams in the months from October
to April, saying:
"Block ice shifts back and forth
with the tidal currents and becomes
thicker and thicker as winter ad
vances. This floating ice is caught
in a jam at the Forelands, Cook in
let, both at ebb and flood, and piles
up there in a way to make the pas
sage of vessels very difficult. This,
coupled with winter gales, fog, and
what is worse than fog in Cook inlet
-—snow—and the swift currents, make
the pilotage of Cook inlet in the win
ter very distasteful to the most ex
perienced and hardy navigators. One
drawback to these waters from the
standpoint of a marine engineer is
that the waters of Cook inlet, and es
pecially of Knik arm, are heavily
•charged with glacial silt, held in sus
pension, and the water is thus made
much thicker than the Mississippi
river at its muddiest in freshet time.
Consultation with several officers of
steamers plying in Alaska waters
brought to light the fact that this cir
culation water had a strong tendency
to choke the condensers and would
actually choke small gauge piping at
turns, if allowed to stand. This de
posit of silt is said to be cement-like
in character.”
At Rail Terminus
In its comments on Resurrection
bay, the ocean terminus of the govern
ment railroad, the commission says:
"The commission made a reconnais
sance of the naval reservation, situ
ated on the western side of Resurrec
tion bay, two miles south of Seward.
The extension of the railroad from
Seward to the naval reservation v-ould
be an easy problem in railroad con
struction. The soundings off the res
ervation are such as to lend facility
to the construction of a pier on the
north and south line, and the flat land
of the reservation is ample for all na
val purposes. Tonsina creek, which
bounds the naval reservation on the
south, is considered fully capable of
furnishing water to the reservation,
and it may be capable of furnishing
some power. The water has been an
alyzed, and is good for boiler use.
“The present facilities at Seward
will be sufficient for the coal traffic,
when and if a spur of the road is
built around the shore of the naval
reservation on Lowell point, where a
pier should be constructed in a north
erly and southern direction and fitted
with suitable coal-handling plant.
Ample Dock Room
“Along the eastern shore of the
town of Seward the shore line tends
north and south, and between the
eastern end of the present commercial
wharf and the wharf of the San Juan
cannery there is over 2,000 feet of
space available for the construction
of a suitable dock and coal-handling
plant, with deep-water front and am
ple maneuvering space for vessels ap
proaching and leaving the dock.
“The water front is now the prop
erty of the United States, and should
a wharf be constructed at this point
the extension of the railroad to the
site of the naval reservation would be
unnecessary.”
Secretary Daniels has announced
that he will promptly begin the or
ganization of a party of naval coal op
erators and experts, who will go to
the Matanuska district in the spring
and begin operations.
The naval commission submits a
blue print of coal bunkers and equip
ment for the Resurrection bay site at
a cost of $450,000. There is $1,000,
000 available under the new naval ap
propriation bill for the building of the
coal dock and the operations in the
coal fields.
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