Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1919 — TO BOOM ALASKA COAL FIELD [ARTICLE]

TO BOOM ALASKA COAL FIELD

Mission to Be Sent to Plan for Development of the Matanuska Region. Washington.—A commission consisting of three naval officers, a mining engineer and a geologist will he sent to Alaska to plan the development of the Matanuska coal field, the navy department announced, preliminary investigation having led the department to center its efforts upon this field In seeking a supply of navy fuel. The commission will sail from the Bremerton navy yard. The naval members of the commission have not been selected, but Sumner Smith, superintendent of mining in Alaska, and Theodore Chapin, a geologist attached to the Alaskan engineering commission, are to be the civilian commissioners.