Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1919 — COAL COMING FROM ALASKA [ARTICLE]

COAL COMING FROM ALASKA

e -■ ■ ..i ■ - - Railroads Planned for Development of Big Fields in the Far North. Seattle, Wash. —Development of the coal Resources in Alaska which have been locked up through federal laws has been greater in 1918 than in all previous years combined, according to advices received by the Seattle chamber of commerce, due to the construction of the government railway. , The first shipment of Alaska-anthra-cite coal to reach tidewater was delivered at Cordova October 24. Another shipment of 100 tons is now en route to Seattle. The Alaska anthracite railway has been completed from tidewater on Bering river to the coal mines of the Alaska Petroleum and Coal, company, 22 miles. - It is planned to extend this railroad eight miles frond its. present tidewater terminus to deep water on t Okalee channel. Controller .bay, where coal can be discharged direct from the cars to ocean carriers.