The Nome daily nugget., 1911-02-03
BROOKS ON THE COAL Tls.uP

BROOKS ON THE COAL TlE-uP.
 There Is one man closely associated with Alaska whose reputation for tho most painstaking honesty and the most exact knowledg,. of facts k pre- eminent and absolutely unqu.stiourd This is Alfred II Brooks who. as h,.n .of the Alaska division of the geologi ca' survey. has seen in person and V tn understanding more of thr :"rii- tory than any other man
 Mir Brooks vigorous statement of the ( al situs ion made ;n S-ward th, o,hcr day Is us as authoritative as anything can he On geolgicaI mat ters in Alaska he is the highest exist ing tribunal When he says for exam rle. that with Alaska's coal made available millions of acres of low grade placer ground and thousands of quartz deposits now unable to nperat,. on account of the high cost of British Columbia coal could be worked at a profit" he means his figures literally and his word k the last
 Summing up he says frankly.
 There Is something wrong with thu, system that forces Alaska mines to iray duty on forei"n coal in order to
 woih their claims when they have the { largest coal deposits in the world right at their door. For there IS enough coal in Alaska to last the whole world
 hundreds of years
 Alr Brooks very nearly puts the blame where il belongs. Certainly he| makes il clear that present conditions are due L" Inc old proprietary attitude of the East toward th, West. Hr says
 In th" Eastern states ther. are moro than 7oooo.ooo people the West has approximately 3oooo.ooo With its vast manufacturing industries and its ship
 ping. tn" Fast consumes mnr, fuel Der capita than the West Under th.s,. conditions why should the East operat. it's mines [" the limit and cry for con servati"n of th" Western fucIso It i-. in the East where conservation is need
 'd. and the mines of the West. .spe 'Iaily th" vast deposits of hard coal in Alaska. should hc opened on a busi n"ss-liko basis"
 The good results Of such action he reviews briefly bm effectively "Thc Tinted states could thus save one half the present cost of coaIlup bat. tI"~hir- "u th" Pacidc ocean. Besides this the cost "f reduction of iron would b" reduced tu a minimum and Pacific ~m"ltors could comrct, with Eastern furnaces Millions of dol Eu~ would b" saved that ar. aunual\ paid Tor trausp"rtine steel. coke. and "re across the continent. and vast iron beds now lying iII. would become hives of industry"
 Al of which. as Western men know N"iN we'll and probably d few Eastern m"n "f considerable influence also k most true and gives ample reason fnr Mr Brooks daring contention that
 th" present system of conserving th.. 'oal fields If Alaska--withdravin from entry the worlds most valuable. deposits of fueI--.s not tru~ consorya t"n. II l. sheer waste.
 Truly Alaska has a friend at r.,,r, who l. no' afraid of the truth Ala. Yukon Magazine
 In getting the "lc,s glance from ih"s" whom hv had oampaigned for during election times, Porter l.. ro,,,op | "as just received what numerous others have been handed hy the sam. parties
 the juicy lime The only difference between Cost"u and the others is Una, he knows that hr has been given ,b.. hook. "hil" the others hay,. mol taken .a tumble to that fact Then, are aI- Nays a bong string of office seekers Nh' boost candidate far public ,air. ih order q" further their own end and | u Is lno' thes" chatas wh" Gnya. h. ''f sIar" and the rragt. hook
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