The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-04-26
ALASKA LANDS ARE
SCR|PPEO BY RYAN
Every Route to Bering River Coal
Lands Tied up by Morgan
Guggenheim Syndicate

SEATTLE, Wash, April 25-Sen-
ator LaFollette's resolution adopted
by the United States senate last
Thursday calling on the secretary OF
the interior for information relative
to President Tafts executive order
of October ~, 1910, withdrawing
form the Chugach forest reserve H.
500 acres Of tide land on Controller
bay, Alaska, has revived the whole
Alaska coal controversy. Controller
bay is the nearest ocean port to the
great Berina river coal fields, IN
which are situated all but one OF
the groups of claims which have been
under investigation. The bay shore
lis shallow, but ships could locate
at trestles built across the mud flats
to deep water.
1t is alleged that lats summer the
steamer M. G. Lindsay landed on the
shore of Controller bay more than
five miles of barbed wire fence cor
signed to Richard 8. Ryan. 1t is ale
legged also that early on the morning
after President Taft's order was is.
sued Richard Stanley Ryan, a for.
mer delegate to congress from Alas
ka staked all the land opened. post
| ing notice of location under soldiers
scrip. Ryan's operations are said to
be financed by Probst Wetzler & Co.,
Lords Coutr building. New York.
Ryan, according to land office Off
Gals, was engaged all last summer
in surveying the lands subsequently
opened, and Lis engineers are known
! as Guggenheim employees AT the
Seattle office of the Alaska or Gug-
genheim- Morgan syndicate To-Day 1t
was said that nothing was known Of
Ryan's movements
On March 3, the closing day II
congress, bills were passed granting
Ryan the right to build two bridEea
across Bering river. He might have
built the bridges without gettins
congress consent, Alaskans gay
Ryan has filed on rlght-of- for
railroad to connect Controller bay
and the coast fields. Ryans sur.
| vey parallels that of the Controllet
Bay & Bering Coal Railway com.
pany.
The land withdrawn from the
Chugach forest land is alleged to
have been so promptly scrippad
stretches for four miles along ConA
troller bay and includes all tn
most desirable waterfront, exceN
1920 feet that were filed upon before
the bay was included in the national
| forest. The claimant to the 1881
| feet is the Controller Bay & BerinS
Coal Railway company, which was
ogranized to develop the DavIs-Lip.
by coal field II the Bering river dis
trlct. Henry r. Hartman, attorney
for the Davis-Lippy interests. sai(
today: THE Controller Bay q
Bering Coal Railway company has
no connection with the Guggenheim.
Morgan syndicate or the railroad
projected by Harry White and hin
California associates We have prof.
tied by no executive odrer and no
congressional act has been passed IN
our interest"
Land officials report that soldiers
scrip has been filed during the ras;
year in the canyons that lead into
the Rering river coal fields, and al
the land adjoining the Davis-Lipp,
claims has been staked with sol.
diers' scrip is worthless at present
but If the land were to De With.
drawn from the national forest and
locators OF the soldiers sep would
claim a prior right of location.