Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1919 — Coal in the Ice Regions. [ARTICLE]

Coal in the Ice Regions.

Geologists have discovered immense deposits of coal in Spitsbergen, and; It is now apparent that in spite of ice, cold and fog, Spitsbergen Is a land fraught with many commercial possibilities The coal is practically all on| the surface, and deep mining is n»‘ necessary. 4