The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-28
WE MUST HAVE COAL
Fairbanks Times.)

(Fairbanks Times)
 In about two months from the Congress Of the United States win in solemn session to make or unmake laws Che public veal In the great sundry civil bin will appear an item to appropriate money Go enable the Alaskan Engineering Commission to carry its work of constructing railroad line from Seward or Fairbanks The Secretary of the Interior has eN pressed himself in favor of appropriation Of rom eight Go ten millions of dollars for this purpose un- doubedy this is the result of estimates submitted by the Engineering Commission and with authorized ex- pendure of SS5O0Oo0O he secretary should have little trouble in getting the asked for appropriation
 Now Is the time for Fairbanks Go wake up and for every we'll wisher of the city to get his or her shoulder to tine wheel and shove We are assured of railroad but want that railroad QUICK and the only way to get that railroad quick Is Go have big construction opera tions carried at this end
 Wood in Che Fairbanks mining district is getting to be classed iewelry. Twenty dollars cord seems co be about the highest price far, but t is stll going up and up In the Nenana coal fields. only about 100 miles from Fairbanks lie vast beds of high grade lig nite waiting only for method of transportation to be made immediately available Given railroad to the coal fields before the trunk line is completed and Fairbanks win come back to its pristine glory
 There has been an increase in this years gold pro- duction over last but this has been largely due to la vorabe climatic conditions Give us coal and great areas of the lower grade aurerous graves which can- be worked with fuel ranging from SlO to $2O cord will become productive and output will be doubled Quartz mining and milling is an established infant in- dustry. but only the high grades can be worked at profit with the tremendous fuel charges.
 You househoders of Fairbanks consider what it means to you personally to have coal in your homes Let say that the average householder uses 10 corhs of wood during the year By the time it is cut up ready for Che stove you paying $1O cord for it total outlay of S15O What win coal cost you? Five or six dollars a ton delivered in your coal bin and you will use about Six multiplied by eight is iS S4S0O or saving of over S1OO for each home in Fairbanks One hundred dollars is not much money as we esti- 1t in the North. but it practically all the groceries one man will use during ihe winkeH If there are thousand homes in Fairbanks then the sav ing is slO0OOO.
 The working of quartz mines and of the low grade pacers means mining big scale. It means machin- cry and machine shops, warehouses; stores It means an increased demand for agricultural product long pay rolls and permanent development It means that Fair banks will have population which intends to stay and grow up with the country instead of having ambi- ton to lay enough aside to buy that chicken ranch outside of Seattle and Ford automobile
 Let people work for prosperity. Let every let ter to the Outside carry some reason why we should get that coal road. We will get 1t without working for N perhaps right away but want to do so soon that state with to our operators pres ent and prospective that they bank coal in Fair banks by the end of 1917.