The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-29
COAL AND0IL. FIELDS ARE
 DESCRIBED

During her recent stay in Katalla, from which she returned last Thurs day, Miss Margaret Kolbenson made several side trips to the coal mines and oil fields. Of her excursions to the Berring River Coal Camp she says:
 Leaving Katalla in a gasboat, we made our way southeast across the bar which stretches from Wigham Island to the mainland, passed the Hoonah cannery at Chilcat, up the Boring River to Shepherd Creek, up Shepherd Creek to Canoe Landing 25 miles in all. From the landing we hiked four miles across flats built up by the tide and dotted with cotton woods.
 About noon we reached the coal camp, where we ate a hearty meal cooked by George Ito, who used to be chef at the CordOva hos pital He is a wonderful cook
 I've put on miners caps with cleo tric safety lamps on them-the bat teries we fastened around our belts and explored two of the well-ventil- ated tunnels. The coal veins were bright black, and many of them very wide The time the camp has been in existence speaks we'll for the men who have had charge of it, and for the future of the district affected by this industry.
 "A sawmill is running to turn out timber for the road to Canoe Land ing. This coal will be loaded into buckets holding a ton each hauled by auto truck to Canoe Landing, load ed on scows and conveyed out by lighters to the steamships. It looks as if the road would be finished by August The big truck arrived on the last boat.
 ''The coal is excellent for steam ship use, coking easily and giving an intense heat with almost no smoke.
 Although the four women of our party were the first to visit the camp, it had that neatness and 'homey' look that is supposed to mark the influ- ence of woman. Altogether it was a most interesting day. At 11:30 we had chocolate and cake, then slept until siX-that tyrant of the deep, the tide having decreed that hour the latest at which we could arise with any hope of making our way back to bar.
 Another trip we made by gasboat to Goose City, 15 miles down the coast from Katalla Goose City has one house and a population of two. The country here is glacial moraine and sand banks built up by the tide. A queer looking wood-burning engine, nicknamed "Ole," stood there at the end of the wide guage railroad. We got on a gasoline speeder and away we went, twenty-one miles to the Davis Coal mine. Here we explored two tunnels, went up into side = vein, where I picked out some coal, and road out in tram car. We great enjoyed a dinner cooked by Q paragon of a Chinese cook named Max. On the way back to Goose City next day we stopped the speeder at the Boring river and walked over the mcraine towards the Boring Glacier. If you dig down in the moraine about two feet you will strike eternal ice. Well, the glacier was farther away than it looked, so we cOntented our selves with a tWO-hour ramble over the heaps of rock-on which we found ptarmigan's nest with nine eggs in it, and saw tracks of bears and wolverines and then made OUT way back to our waiting speeder.
 Across the bay from Katalla, about two miles, and up a winding slough, are the oilfields and the re- finery Oil could be seen in the black pools in the low ground. I saw sev- eral seepages. The ground is brown l1ack and spongy looking. One of the wells had been drilled to depth of 1400 feet--far below the sea level, of course-distallate fuel oil etc.