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SEEN US 'REMARKABLE'
The total mineral wealth pro
duced in Alaska is estimated at
$615,501,000, and the value of the
output is considered “remarkable”
since the large operations are
confined principally to the coast
because of transportation facili
ties, while “vast mineral wealth
of the interior” remains almost
untouched, the E(epartment of
the Interior points out in a vol
ume of information on the Ter
ritory just published, according
to the U. S. Daily
Gold output of all placer mines,
has a value of about $254,125,000, j
the publication points out. In j
1929 the placer mine output was!
estimated about $4,100,000.
MINERAL RESOURCES
That part of the publication
dealing with Alaskan mineral re
sources follows in full text:
The developed mineral resources,
of Alaska include gold lodes and I
placer, copper, coal, tin, petrol- ■
eum, and marble. In addition to
these silver, lead, antimony, tung
sten, palladium, platinum, zinc,
quicksilver, iron, peat, graphite,
asbestos, mica, molydenite, sul
phur and barite have been found
and some of them have been pro
duced either in temporary mining
operations or as a by-product of
other commodities.
Gold-lode mining has been car
ried on in Southeastern Alaska
since 1880 and is a large and well
developed industry. The value of
the total lode production is about
$126,716}000 of which $3,644,000
should be credited to 1929.
Copper mining began in 1900
and has made rapid strides dur
ing the last few years. The total
copper production is about 1,189,
989,000 pounds, valued at $208,- j
008,000. Of this 40,510,000 pounds
valued at about $7,130,000 repre
sents the output of 1929.
PLACER RESOURCES
Placer mining, begun at Juneau
in 183.1 was extended to the Yu
kon Basin in 1886. No very ini- j
pomnt discoveries of placer gold\
were however, made in Alaska un- I
til after the Klondike rush in!
1898. This brought a large num-'
ber of people into the Territory
and led some to the finding of
gold at Nome in 1898, at Fair
banks in 1902 and in the Innoko
Iditarod region in 1908.
Meanwhile the other smaller j
districts were developed, notably
those of the Yukon, the Copper
and the Susitna Basins. The total
gold output of all the placer
mines has a value of about $254,
1125,000 and the placer mine out
put of 1929 has an estimated val
ue of $4,117,000
Silver has been recovered, most
of it in mining gold and copper,
to a total value of about $11,738,
000. The value of the output of
all other mineral products, in
cluding tin, marble, gypsum, coal,
petroleum, lead, etc., to the close
of 1929 is about $14,914,000.
COAL DEPOSITS
The first attempt at any form
of mining in the Territory was
the exploitation of coal deposits
on Cook Inlet by the Russians in
1854- Though public attention
had for several years been focus
ed on the coal deposits of Alaska,
practically no coal mining was
done, except that of exploiting
lignitic deposits for local use, un
til 1917. Prior to the withdrawal
of all work in the Bering River
and Matanuska fields.
No shipments were made, how
ever, and the total output of coal
in the Territory up to the close
of 1916 is insignificant, being
about 84,000 tons. In 1917, how
ever, coal mining was begun on a
larger scale, and an average of
about 85,000 tons a year has been
mined between that year and 1929
mostly from the Matanuska field.
The largest production for any
one year was 126,000 tons in 1928.
The total coal output to the end
of 1929 was about 1,213,154 tons
During this period more than 2,
887,000 tons of coal have been im
ported into the Territory.
NEW POLICE COURSE
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14. (/P)—An
evening course in “Physical Evi
dence” at the University of South
ern California will include use of
blood tests, chemical analysis, pho
tography, the lie-detector, X-ray,
the microscope and violet ray.
These factors in the application of
chemistry to police problems will
supplement the study of ballistics,
documents and handwriting.
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Publisher
Plymouth, California.
Evan Jones Coal Company
—PRODUCERS OF—
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MORE HEAT UNITS PER DOLLAR
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NEW YORK
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