(Continued from Pago Fire.)
wealth in all the domains of the United States or the
world, due to the epochal discoveries of Dr. Burgius and
other coal tar chemists.
The Bergius process is no longer a laboratory exper
iment but has passed definitely to the stage of commercial
production in Germany, where this marvelous new indus
try now employs 15,000 men with investments of many!
millions of dollars. German officials and coal tar oper
ators announce confidently that Germany will produce’
all of her own gasoline and other by-products from her
-own beds of lignite and sub bituminous coals.
These German coals are substantially like the Alaska
lignite and sub bituminous in all points of chemical com
position.
In the authoritive public announcement made by Dr.;
Bergius before the world convention of coal tar chemists j
at Pittsburg, 18 months ago, he gave his formula and the
quantities of different products under it from German
lignites and sub bituminous coals. The lignite yields 16
percent of gasoline, 15 percent of Diesel engine distillate,1
15.5 percent of fuel and lubricating oils, and 22 percent of
solid organic matter, otherwise pure carbon residue equal
to anthracite. In round figures that is slightly more than!
one barrel of gasoline, one barrel of Diesel engine distil- ;
late, one barrel of fuel and lubricating oils, and 440
pounds of anthracite coal, from each ton of lignite of (
2,200 pounds, besides other valuable by-products, like am-j
tnonia. He has lately announced that the proportion of
gasoline will be increased by improved processes.
But on the basis of his first orginal output, this
means that one small area of Nenana district alone, 10
by 24 miles, the mountains of lignite and sub bituminous
coals there under distillation can yield 10.000.000,000 bar
rels of gasoline, 10,000.000,000 barrels of Diesel engine
distillate, 10,000,000,000 barrels of fuel and lubricating
oils, 2,000 000,000 tons of residue anthracite, and numer
ous by-products of great and varied value in the indus
trial world.
Multiply those staggering amounts by many times
to get the total of all the lignite and sub bituminous
fields in central Alaska tributary to the Alaska Railroad,
and you get but a vague conception of the colossal wealth :
they contain.
To those who say that these tremendous fields of;'
coal can not compete with the natural oils in economical ;
cost of distillation, let Dr. Bergius reply with his recent ;
statement that he expects to reduce the cost of extracting !
gasoline under his process in large scale production to 10
cents per gallon. Let them remember that all of the nat
ural oil known in the United States hold a certain supply '
Jtor only five years at the present rate of consumption. ‘
Is it possible that General Richardson never heard
about the Nenana and Susitna fields of lignite and sub
bituminous coals, incomparably the largest in the world
in extent and quantity? Did he never hear about the rev
olutionary discoveries and inventions of thes coal tarj
chemists, which possibly and conceivably make those ;
coal fields the most valuable in the world? And yet he i
seriously discusses the resources and possibilities of Alas-! «■
ka without a word of mention or barest reference about; i
either of them. !5
In another 50 years the Unted States will contan 240,:
000,000 populaton, and the world probably 3,600,000,000,
or double their populations today. The Census Bureau
announces that our increase between 1920 and 1930 will
be 18,500,000- even under the restrictive immigration law,! ’
the largest of any 10 years in the history of the United ’
States. The problem of food supply will then be indeed a;]
pressing one, as it is already in many countries of the,
world. i,
Long before that time arrives, AiasKa will oe canea
upon by all the other States of the Union for contribu
tions of her soil to help feed their teeming consumers and
for the by-products of her coals to help furnish power
for the vast industries of their many scores of cities that
are todav but villages, added to the other cities of today
that will be grown into the giants of that time, and to
make homes on its farms for the surplus millions of our
crowding National population.
What Alaska can do to meet these demands is an
swered by casting up the sum total of the corresponding
areas of northwestern Europe, in the same latitudes, un-|
der identical conditions of climate, where 27,500,000 of
the world's hardiest leaders in all the arts of civilization
dwell in comfort and happiness under strong and stable
governments.
The doubters of this age about the resources and
possibilities of Alaska and the wisdom of the govern
ment's policy in building the Alaska Railroad, will take;
their place in the meantime in the ranks of their kindred
who derided and opposed the aid and encouragement the
government extended to the building of our trans-contin
ental railroads through the then supposed deserts of wild-:
emess. now onr populous and prosperous states of the
flourishing West.
INDUSTRY IT Sill
IS AT i STANDSTILL
Mr. Nielspn of Sanak was a guest
at yesterday’s meeting of the Seward
Chamber of Commerce and took oc*
assion to enlighten the members of
the needs of the far-westward com
munity. He made known many items
which little had been heard of pre
!
viously. Especially interesting, were
the facts related regarding the cod
fishing industry in his district which
is now at a standstill.
Sanak and vicinity, is slowly being
depopulated, he said, owing to the
fact little work or industries is to be
found there, he said, owing to the
the large vessels, complete plants in
themselves, which now are coming
to the westward, with crews from the
States. Little opportunity is given
the residents of Sanak to work as a
consequence of these vessels. And
when they do -work it is for a brief
period onlv.
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Carl A. Sutter, head of the Fidelgo
Tshmd Fishing and Packing Company,
s a passenger on the Admiral Wat
son enroute to his plant at Port Gra
ham.
GENIUS WHO NEVER H
WALKED IS DEAD
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ May 2. (£>)—C.
L»ee Cook, 67, the genius who never
valked, is dead after a short illness;
iltliough an invalid since he was one
ear old, Cook was known internation
illy for his achievements as a scholar,
m inventor and an artist. He was an
mthority on law, languages, history
ind art.
.. -
H. O. Roberts, president of the Ko
liak Island Fishing & Packing Co.,
trrived from Seattle on the Admiral
Vatson, nroute to the plant to begin
he season's activities.
“NIP AN£> TUCK”
BERLIN, May 2. (JP)—A few hours
Lfter his competitor, Toichiro Araki
eft London for Berlin, Tyukidhi Mat
ui, Westbound Japanese ‘around the
vrorld’ racer, hopped off for London at
1 a. m. in a Lufthansa plane.
TO HOLD POST MORTEM
PARIS, May 2. (/P)—Post mortem
will be held on the body of General
Vrangel, to determine whether or not
le died of poison.
See our ad. Seward Trad
njr Co.
it
LEGIL
U. S. Land Office, Anchorage, Alas-;
ka, March 6, 1928.
Notice is hereby given that U. S.
Ritchie, entryman, together with his
witnesses, Rufus H. Bowen, and Reu
ben R. Barnes, all of Seldovia, Alaska,
has submitted final proof on his home
stead entry, serial 06034, for lands sit
uated on Yukon Island, embraced in
U. S. Survey No. 1507, and it is now
in the files of the U. S. Land Office,
Anchorage, Alaska, and if no protest'
is made in the local land office at
Anchorage, Alaska, within the period
of publication or thirty days there
after, said final proof will be accepted
and final certificate issued.
J. LINDLEY GREEN,
Register.
Date First Publication April 2, 1928.
Date Last Publication June 9, 1928.
POLE VAULTING NOW
The young lads about town have
taken to the air. This Is plainly seen
by walking down toward the Quarter
maters Dep’t., U. S. Signal Corps,
near where Dr. A. E. Roberts, a for
mer college star at pole vaulting, has
rigged up a set of standards, poles
etc., and Is Instructing the boys ini
form in soaring ocar the bamboo. The
boys seem to be taking to the sport
like ducks to water.
Sink your teeth into a piece of
Baby Beef and gasp with joy.
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