The Cordova daily times., 1920-08-17

due to the war depreciated 1 in value Conservation may be 0. K. | for a developed country, but it should not be applied to Alaska where liber ality must be extended to the settler and the investor There must also be a unification of departmental func- tions," he said.
 Alaska, with the New England states crying for coal as shown by the report of governors of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and Vermont, can supply enough fuel if the government will allow the development of the coal beds to supply enough for all Pacific coast demands, and thereby assure the cost of the full output of the eastern, southern and middle west fields, states letter sent out to the govern ors of the six states by the Alaska bureau of the Seattle chamber of con1- merce.
 The plea urging the prompt devel- opment of Alaska coal fields to halt the drain upon eastern supplies which are brought to the Pacific coast, to fuel the Pacific fleet among other things was made to Secretary of the Interior John Barton Payne and Sec retary of the Navy Josephus Daniels when they were here recently on their trip to and from Alaska.
 The territory of Alaska has an al most unlimited supply of coal. It is undeveloped largely on account of con- seryation regulations and other restric- tions.
 New England states can we'll study the Alaskan situation as the opening of that territory would mean that not only could it's coal mines supply the whole Pacific coast with a quality of coal equal to that from the Atlantic coast, thereby cutting off the steady and expensive shipments from Nor folk to the Pacific coast. Every ton saved thus would be saved for the At lantic states.
 The dreadful situation in Alaska has never been understood in the east. Today, as a result of unwise laws, re- strictions and handicaps, Alaska is tied up and it's resources are not avail able Alaska is importing coal from British Columbia when she should be exporting coal Yet Alaska, with the New England states crying for coal, could supply enough fuel for all of the Pacific coast points and thereby as sure to the Atlantic coast the full output of it's mines.
 MT. J. J. Underwood, assistant to Secretary of the Interior Payne, leaves this week for an extended visit in the Orient. He will join the congressional committee now there. MT. Underwood, who is an authority on Alaskan devel- opment, having published several books on the territory, will study con- ditions in the Orient in relation to legislation to come up at the next ses- sion of congress. He will also report to the secretary such conditions as may have relation to the development of Alaskan and the northwest relation to the Oriental trade. A new trans Pacific cable line will be one of the matters considered by congress. Leg isla ation having to do with Japanese immigration will also come up.
 Among other matters coming up for consideration are statehood for the Hawaiian islands, independence for the Philippines, such legislation as is necessary to carry out the Chinese consortium, under which $250,O00,000 is to be loaned to the Chinese gov ernment by American and information al financiers for the development of railroads in China, and which loan, it is understood, is to be the first of many that will ultimately total about s3,OOO,OOO, O,OOO
 With the arrival of the steamship Santa Ana, Capt. H. Lundstrom of the Alaska Steamship Company, in Seattle Friday morning from Skagway and way ports with a consignment of 246,00O feet of Alaska spruce and 100,- 900 lath, shipping men learned that more than 100 cars of the product of the forests of Alaska had been re- ceived in Seattle aboard vessels of the