Excerpt from Alaskan Coal Problems The accompanying address, in slightly different form, was delivered by the Secretary of the Interior before the American Mining Congress at Chicago, Ill., on October 27, 1911. It embodies, in addition to the results of the Secretary's personal examinations in Alaska, results of investigations conducted by the director and certain engineers of the Bureau of Mines during the summer of 1911, and of more extensive investigations, covering several years, made by geologists of the Alaska division of the United States Geological Survey. The facts brought out in the address relate to the mining conditions and the possible mining operations in the two more important Alaskan coal fields, namely, the Bering River field and the Matanuska field. Many of the problems involved in the efficient mining and utiliza tion of the coal in the two fields mentioned and in other Alaskan coal fields come within the province of the Bureau of Mines, since this bureau is not only authorized to carry on investigations relating to methods of mining and to the utilization of fuels, but is also charged with the inspection of mines in Alaska. Among those who are most interested in these mining problems and who should be most helpful in their proper solution are the engineers and the coal operators of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.