The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-20
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SHOWS NECESSITY OF OPENING UP
 BER|NG RIVER GOAL FIELDS
Continued From Yesterday.)

 and kinds of coal The doctor happened to pick sample the peculiar needs of the The chemical ana sis shows the coal of the two fields to be of the same general character The coal mining engineer who selected the good sample Matanuska does not hesitate to that there lis equally good naval coal in the Boring field and probably as much O of it.
 '. Local Use Principal Value of Boring Coal.
 But even if pound of Boring coal used for the navy does justify srangulation of the district
 The principal value of the coal is for local For upon depends the other development of the tributary dlS rcts The great copper belt extending hundred miles length along the Chtna and Copper river valleys must stay practically ndcveloped until the coal is available
 There great copper mine opened there for which the Cooper River railroad built How many others there might if the coal available not be tod But there 800 other copper claims located in the district The of these claims have spent hundreds Of thousands o dollars in their development and have been waiting for years for the opening of the coal The of the highest grade and the coal lme silica and all elements for smeng easy assemble fine harbor dewater that the favorable locality in the entire world for develop great copper industry The essential lacking IS Ia railroad to the coal.
 The Kennecott mines are producing about 3OOOOO of year. large part of this is 72 per cent oreneary pure copper But there much low grade running from 5 per per cent which must be crushed and ated the mine until it is at least 90 per cent copper before be shipped at all for must be carried through Cor past the coal field and taken to Tacoma 400 miles away be smeltcd Nothing but the richest stand this transportation How many thousands millions Of tons of would be produced permitted say But Montana Utah and in Arizona where the conditions are not favorable for cheap production the ores mined into the millions of tons year Fine cities and prosperOs communities built and supported on the copper industry alone Butte thriving city of 75000 population, Ian example of what might be built at Cordova were only lit e reasonable and justice used about it. As 1t stands the will neither develop the held itself nor permit anybody else to do it.
 Hon Walter Fisher former secretary of the interior refer ring to this situation, says:
 personally visited the Boring field and examined some Iof it's coal veins and coal mines. The erection of smelters on Prince William Sound will cause immediate demand for coal the first smeers will probably be erected near Cordova which is the tewater terminal of the Copper River Northwestern railway which taps the principal copper field of the territory.
 cone of the pressing needs territory the construc on of such smeers at which the copper especially be without the labor and expense of transporting the distance necessary for this purpose The main purpose and practically the only present of the pensve railroad from Cordova up the Copper river the transporting of the from the socaed Bonanza copper field lin which the Guggenhem Syndicate which this railroad already has extensive interests No smeer however has yet been constructed and would be profitable until
 coal copper be brought together Once the Berng coal fields the transportation becomes in ths as ID other respects the most important problem upon the solution of which future development will depend The enormous pense railroad construction through mountainous and gla cer covered territory it practically certain that the Copper River railroad will remain the natural distributor for any coal for which there be demand in the interior the particular district in which it located think 1t may assumed only from the statements made to me by its officials but also from the nature o the case that the people interested in this road will construct smeng works at Cordoya as as Alaskan coal is available for its use meers Corova would be able to take of the copper ores of which there are indications throughout the tire district tributary Prince William Sound The expoa ton and commercial development of these ores would prompt lv follow construction and operation of such smelters
 ''The harbor at Cordova is clearly superior in all re specs any other harbor available for the Beg coal fields that the slightly longer transportation necessary by this route appears entirely mimporan especially the grade is pract cally a water grade to the coal fieds.''
 Cruel Injustice to the People.
 The people of the towns of Cordova Chitina Mccarthy and Kenneco other places only obliged to the about them remain undeveop the their district hauled to be smeted and to build up communities in distant instead of their but they must bring the coal they for domestic purposes from