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SEWARD COUPLE MARRIED
Married, Decembr 10, 1924, at 10
o’clock p. m. at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. H. V. Peirce, William Goodpas
ture of Anchorage, to Mrs. Julia M.
Watson, of Seward, Alaska. United
States Commissioner C. E. Morford
performed the ceremony. Those pre
sent at the ceremony were Anna L.
and V. H. Peirce, and Mrs. Joe Burns,
and Judge Morford. Mr. and Mrs.
Goodpasture left on today’s train for
their future home in Anchorage.
CHURCH DANCING RESUMED
IN DEFIANCE OF BISHOP
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—In defiance
^ of Bishop Manning of the Protestant
church of New York dancing has been
resumed at St. Mark’s in the Bowery.
A ritual service was held yesterday
with American Indians in war path
regalia, dancing, singing, and praying,
while the organ played like a tom-tom.
Last March after services by bare
footed girls and aboriginal rites, the
church was deprived of Episcopal
ministration and St. Marks discontin
ued its unique services.
After yesterday’s services the Rev.
Dr. Williapi Norman Guthrie, rector,
said there had been no intimation the
Bishop had disapproved of the Indian
program. He stated however, that if
the Bishop did object to the program
it would go on as scheduled, just the
same.
WILL £RESS CASE
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 11.—Liti
gation over state funds Governor Len
Small is alleged to have withheld,
while state treasurer of Illinois today
proceeded another step when Circuit
Judge Frank Burton in receiving the
report of the master in chancery that
the governor must account for one
million dollars, declared his intention
of pushing the case.
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LOCAL NEWS
Dave Andrews, general manager of
the Alaska Hills Mines company left
on today's train for his home in An
chorage.
Frank Short, the well known engi
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home town.
H. Horn, acting general manager on
the Alaska railroad, registered as a
Seward visitor last night.
G. B. Nelson of Skilak lake arrived
in town last night and registered at
the Hotel Sexton.
The mercury registered ten above
this morning, the coldest day of the
winter.
Mrs. Charles Stanford, a pioneer of
Alaska, who has been in most of the
camps in the Territory, left today for
Fairbanks where she will spend some
time visiting the Interior. Upon ar
riving at Fairbanks Mrs. Stanford
will take a dog team and drive thru
to Circle. She states that after be
ing off the trail for the past two
years she is very anxious to ge be
hind a last dog team, and try rough
ing it. again.
Frances Horton celebrated her 7th
birthday yesterday afternoon by a
party given for her girl friends. Lit
tle Miss Frances received many nice
presents from her guests. Ice cream,
cake and chocolate were served late
in the afternoon. Those present
were Virginia Harper, Mickey McIn
tosh, June Weckworth, Billie Shell
horn, 'Edith Lucchini, Katherine Hor
ton, Anne Horton, and Frances Hor
ton.
H. V. Henrikson, mill man for the
Alaska Hills properties, who returned
yesterday front Nuka Bay, is greatly
pleased over the showing made by
the recent tests. And Messrs. Bar
nett' and Andrews are as enthusiastic
over the work performed by Mr. Hen
rikson, whom they declare is the
best millman ever on their property.
GOVERNMENT RY.
OPENS COAL LAND
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lower part of the Matanuska coal
field has already been surveyed. A
report showing the result of the work
done in 1924, is now in preparation.
Little Mining Done
No mines are now regularly operat
ed in the upper Matanuska Valley.
Mines opened from 1920 to 1922 by
the Alaska Coal Commission at Chick
loon and on Coal creek produced coal
of high grade, but the beds were
so much broken up or altered by
faults and bodies of Intrusive rock as
to make the cost of mining very high
so that work was stopped. Develop
ment work at a mine on the west
bank of Coal Creek, however, is be
ing continued by a private company.
The field work of 1924 indicates
that the coal bearing area east of
Chickaloon is somewhat smaller than
had been supposed. The dominant
structure of the basis is synclinal,
and considerable areas of it that lie
south of the a.\is of the syncline are
now thought to be sfratigraphically
below the coal-bearing horizons at
Chickaloon and to contain no work
able coal. The coal beds at Coal
creek and at O’Brien creek are be
lieved to lie in faulted synclinal flods,
most of the coal having been remov
ed from the corresponding anticlinal
folds by erosion. The reserves of
minable coal at , each of these places
are believed to be limited, to a few
hundred thousand tons.
Beds of Anthracite Thick but Much
Broken
The coal-bearing area on the smith
flank of Anthracite Ridge contains
beds carrying anthracite coal of ex
cellent grade, which is exposed at
many places. At a place on the
head of West Fork of Purington
Creek a bed of anthracite nearly 40
feet thick, crops out. In this area,
however, the coal-bearing formation
is highly disturbed by folding, crumb
ling and faulting, as well as bodies
of intrusive rock, such as dikes and
sills. The coal beds appear to lie
in synclinal basins, most of the up
per part of the folds having been
removed by erosion. These beds no
doubt contain considerable excellent
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anthracite coal, but whether it oc
curs in beds sufficiently large and
continuous to justify the expense of
mining, is uncertain in view' of the
cost of building a railroad to it. Very
little prospecting has been done on
the anthracite beds, and whether I
they include workable bodies of coal
can be proved only by extensive ex
ploration, both on the surface and
underground.
Prospects of Marketing the Coal
The beds of bituminous coal near
Chickaloon are so complex in struc
ture that the coal* cannot be mined
for general use in steam raising in
competition with the more cheaply
mined coals of the lower Matanuska
Valley, where, though the coals are
of lower grade, the structure is simp
ler. The utilization of the coals of
the upper Matanuska Valley depends
on the development of the market
for a Superior coal that cannot be
supplied from the other beds in this
region, on a price sufficient to yield
a profit notwithstanding the compara
tively high cost of mining them, and
on their ability to compete with coals
of similar grade mined in other dis
tricts. The high-grade blacksmith
coal of the Chickaloon area and the
anthracite must compete with coal
mined in the eastern part of the
United States but the cheapness of
transportation of the high-grade Mat
anuska coals to market on the west
coast of the United States should
favor their development. It is also
possible that the market for the some
what lower grade bituminous coals
now being mined in the Moose Creek
and Eska Creek districts could be
extended to supply a demand now
met by similar coal mined on Van
couver Island.
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