Seward daily gateway., 1928-05-02
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wealth III all the domains of the United States the world due to the epocha discoveries of Dr. Burgus and other coal tar chemists.
 The Bergius process is longer laboratory exper nent but has passed definitely to the stage of commercial production in Germany, where this marvellous indus try now employs 15 900 men with investments of many millions of dollars. German officials and coal tar oper ators announce confidently that Germany will produce all of her gasoline and other byproducts from her own beds of Ignite and sub bituminous coals.
 These German coals substantially like the Alaska ignite and sub bumnous Tn all points of chemical position
 In the authortive public announcement made by Dr. Begus before the world convention of coal tar chemists at Ptsburg, IS months ago. he gave his formula and the quantities of different products under it from German ignites and sub biuminous coas The Ignite yields 16 percent of gasoline 15 percent of Diesel engine state l5 percent of fuel and ubrcatng os and g percent of solid organic matter otherwise pure carbon residue equal to anthracite In round figures that slightly more than one barrel of gasoline barrel of Diesel engine distl late one barrel of fuel and lubrcating os and 44O pounds of anthracite coal from each ton of Ignite of zOO pounds, besides other valuable byprOducts like monia He has lately announced that the proportion of gasoline will be increased by improved processes.
 But on the basis of his first original output this means that one small of Nenana district alone 10 by "A miles, the mountains of Ignite and sub bumnous coas there under distlaton can yield OOOOO0OO0O bar rels of gasoline 100O0000O00 barrels of Diesel engine dstllae 1O00000O0O0 barrels of fuel and lubrcatng oils 2OOO0O0OOO tons of residue anthracite and numer byproducts of great and varied value in the indus trial world
 Multiply those staggering amounts by many times to get the total of all the Ignite and sub bituminous fields Tn central Alaska tributary to the Alaska Railroad and you get but vague conception of the colossal wealth they contain.
 To those who say that these tremendous fields of coal not compete with the natural oils in economical cost of dstiation let Dr. Bergus reply with his recent statement that he expects reduce the cost of extracting gasoline under his process large scale production to 10 cents per gallon Let them remember that all of the nat ara oil known in the United States hold certain supply for only five years at the present rate of consumption
 Is it possible that General Richardson never heard about the Nenana and Susna fields of Ignite and sub btumnous coals, ncomparaby the largest in the world in extent and quantity? Did he hear about the outionary discoveries and inventions of thes coal tar chemists which possibly and conceivaby make those coal fields the most valuable in the Word And yet he seriously discusses the resources and possibilities of Alas a without word of mention barest reference about either of them
 Tn another 50 years the Unted States will contan 24O 100000 popuaton and the world probably 3600O0O00O or double their populations today. The Census Bureau announces that our increase between 1920 and 1880 will m OOO even under the restrictive immigration law the largest of any 10 years in the history of the United States The problem of food supply will then be indeed pressing one is already i'll many countries of the world
 Long before that time arrives, Alaska will be called pon by all the other States of the Union for contrib ons of her soil to help feed their eemng and for the byproducts of her coas to help furnish power for the vast industries of their many of cities that are today but villages added to the other cities of today that will be grown into the giants of that time, and to make homes on its farms for the surplus millions of our crowding National population
 What Alaska can do to meet these demands is an- swered by casting up the total of the corresponding