Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1888 — Alaska. [ARTICLE]

Alaska.

Besides her gold and silver interests, Alaska is beginning to be recognized as possessing great coal fields, and the production of coal promises, at no distant day, to rank as an industry of no slight importance. Large veins’ of excellent coal is said to have been struck in many different places along the coast, and a good grade of anthracite has been discovered at Lituya Bay. It will evidently not be long ere Alaska’s own resources will make the importation of British coal one of the necessities of the past on the Pacific Coast.