THE ROMANCE OF COAL
Across the continent koines the
news that a Colorado gold mine
has produced $23,000,000 in fif
teen years. The newspapers de
vote considerable space toting
how South Dakota this year
yielded $7,000,000 of the yellow
metal.
Romance clings around the
glories of Cripple Creek and the
Black Hills, but when it comes to
hard cash Pennsylvania’s coal
has been worth more than all the
Dakota and Colorado gold half
a dozen times.
There is no other mineral ro
mance in this country that
matches the romance of Pennsyl
ania coal. Keystone state coal
has been worth more than all the
American states combined.
All the gold dug from the earth
this year would scarcely pay for
half the anthracite mined in one
small district of Pennsylvania.
The man who would trade our
soft coal for the silver output of
all the states would instantly sub’
ject himself to an investigation in
lunacy.
If everybody in the United
States dropped $3 in a hat it
•w<ouldl jufct about pay for our
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ALASKA
NOTES
John C. Byard was instantly
killed and Martin Rassmussen
and Patrick McGinity injured by
a rock slide which occurred in the
Alaska mine at Juneau recently.
The rock was loosened by ar ound
of shots which has been fired a
few hours earlier.
Dr. G. C. Cairnes, for many
years Dominion government geo
logist in Yukon territorp, has
accepted the chair in the univer
sity of British Columbia- He is
regarded by the Canadian Mining
Journal as a very efficient mem
ber of the university staff.
Postmaster T. H Deal, of Fair
banks has been notified that he
will be placed on the advisory
board of postmasters. Postmas
ter General Burleson will make
appointment in the near future.
Mr. Deal is the first postmaster
in Alaska to be so honored.
Master Signal Electrican John
C. Flitch, formerly located at
Fairbanks, is now at Fort Leav
enworth, Kan. During the busi
ness men’s encampments of the
past summer he was engaged in
drilling the rcruits in Chicago,
and had several millionaires in his
company.
John Reck, mayor of Juneau,
has been elected to the presi
dency of the First National bank
of Juneau, and will assume office
January io- He succeeds Thos.
F.F Kennedy, who will remove
to San Francisco. At the present
time Mayor Reck is vice-presi
dent of the bank.
The Seldovia Salmon Canning
Co. which recently filed bank
ruptcy proceedings in Seattle
show that its liabilities amount
of $206,000 and assets of only
$67,000. The National bank of
Seattle is the largest creditor of
the defunct concern, it having al
lowed overdrafts to the extent of
$62,000.
In an effort to remedy a one
sided condition that works to the
disadvantage of American halibut
boats and to the advantage of
the Canadian boats, the Fishing
Vessel Owners Association of Se
attle has mailed to the United
States bureau of fisheries a com
Alaska Merchants Exchange
of Seattle, will take your order for
any of the following merchants:
E. W. Williams, boots and
shoes.
H. J. Miller Co., flour producta
Morris & Co., packers and pro
visions.
And different lines of goods
such as eggs and cheese; smoked
meats and packing-house pro
ducts.
Alaska Merchants Exchange
316 Maritime bldg- Seattle, Wash
coal at tliv mines during 1914.
To. buy all..the gold and silver of
the country, each individual
’ieed to put in the hat dnly $1.50.
Clothe a million dollars in the
guise of a gold mine and it fires
the imagination of a continent.
Lay $10,000,000 at vour doorstep
in the shape of coal and you kick
it out of the way
Poetry and story still wreathe
the California forty niners, but
who recalls the birth of anthra
cite. which has been twenty time*
more valuable than all Sierra'/
gold ?
When forty years ago Fne na
tion went wild over the wealth
of Pennsylvania petroleum, men
wouldn’t even take the trouble
to inset the one word coal in
their leases of land. They were
cut for oil.
But alas! For every dollar
soine Coal Oil Johnnie Steele ro
mantically made in petroleum
some Berwind has coined ter. out
of the much despised bituminous
They were talking about this
romance of Pennsylvania black
diamonds. Thomas Fisher, who
knows coal as any mother knows
her own baby, told how Ins fatlr
er and others like hint ccJufH have
leased thousands of acres of bi
tuminous lands during the oil
craze and got it for nothing. But
#>.i)ey were swept away by the
lure of oil, while the far more vaT
uable coal was neglected.
Wellington Chri3t, of Pine
grove. recounted how his grand
father had sold 800 acres of an
thracite in Schuykill country for
$340 for the entire tract. Out of
that patch have since been taken
millions.
Only a few years ago, whe“
natural gas began its flaming ca
reer, soft coal lands were again
treated as a, despised doormat.
But gas soon finished its meteoric
journey, while bituminous still
plods steadily on its way as the
world’s foremost fuel for steam
ing purposes.
And to prove that the tortoise
has won more than one race, 1
can point to the fact that men arc
now paying $1,200 an acre for
western Pennsylvania coal, which
they refused to purchase in the
late nineties for $50.—Philadel
phia Ledger.
aUBSCRIM FOR THU NUOOUT
munication showing that Ameri
can schooners should have the
right to purchase bait and sup
plies in the British Columbia
ports. The Candian boats are al
lowed to purchase bait and sup
plies in Washington and Alaskan
ports, but American boats are
barred by Canada from the same
privilege on the other side of the
line unless they sell their fish in
a British Columbia port.
Reports received from lower
Yukon river points state that the
winter trail up the Yukon river
this year is unusually bad. The
early freezeup was not sufficient
in length to keep the river from
breaking through after the first
heavy snow and the mail carriers
are reported as having a fierce
time of it in negotiating the route.
The supreme court of the Uni
ted States recently handed down
a decision in which two hundred
thousand shares of the Lost Riv
er Tin Mining Company of Alas
■ka, was involved says an ex
change. The case was that of the
estate of Leslie L. Crim, agamst
W. K. Miner, involving the con
firmation of a contract with an
executor of the will, which was
later declared void for lack of
testementary capacity and be
cause of alleged undue capacity
because of undue influence prac
tised on the deceased. The stock
has a value of several thousand
dollars, and had been disposed of
by a miner for a fraction of it«
actual value.
Train schedules to Mile 34
from Seward, on the government
froad are subject to change on
the return trip to accommodate
parties reported near that point
on the way out from Anchorage
or the Iditarod, and also in case
the mail sleds are late. Mush
ers are enabled to notify the dis
patcher bv telephone when they
•will reach mile 34 and if possible
the trains are held for them.
The Faintly Paper ia (tie .turn
Baily -ViBRet
THE GttGIN OF GOLD
AND SILVER
Steamboat Springs, New. has
has figured prominetly in discus
sions of the origin of ore deposits
The waters of these springs con
tain the precious metals in min
ute quantities, and the sinter de
posited by them contains'several
minerals that are common con
uents of ores, as well as small
quantities of many of the rarer
metallic constituents of ore de
posits, including gold and silver.
Such springs, therefore, suggest
that many and perhaps most ore
hearing veins have been formed
by hot waters rising from great j
depths, which have brought their j
metal contents up in solution and,
deposited them in open spaces or!
fissures in the rocks through
which the waters passed, the de-;
position of some ores being influ
enced by chemical reaction with:
the surounding rock. Many ore
deposits are undoubtedly formed
in other ways, for some arc un-j
questionably of sedimentary ori-j
j£in /tnd the metal content of,
some others lias been carried
down, redeposited, and concen
strated by rain water that de
scended into the earth’s crust, but
the “hydrothermal" origin—that
is, their deposition from ascend
ing hot water—of many of the
more valuable ore deposits is in
cated by the close relation ob-jj
served at many places between'
mineral veins and eruptive rocks.
Thermal waters are believed to
be, in part at least, given off by
slowly cooling and solidifying
masses of ignoeous rock (magma);
deep within the earth.—U. S
Geological survey.
INFORMATION WANTED
Information wanted concerning
the present whereabouts of John
Creighton Harrington. fie is
wanted in the settlement of the
estate of his deceased mother. In
formation concerning his where-1
abouts will be gratefully appre
ciated by T H Harrington, Rairis
boro, O.
Mrs. M. B. Bond of _’oi Bore
man avenue, Bozeman Mont.,;
writes to the postmaster seeking
the whereabouts of Frank Nelson!
Davies, supposed to be in Nome '
Information will lie gratefully re
ceived.
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