Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior . rancisco. Theexpenditure of this company to October, 1895, aggregated $42,000, and Most of the above information is derived from the companys prospectus, 24 pp. 8°, with map andtwo lithographic plates, issued at San Francisco in 1891. 794 REPORT ON COAL AND LIGNITE OF ALASKA. I was verbally informed that (550 tons of coal in all had been taken ontfrom the works at Eastland I received the impression that these two corporations, if not composedof the same members throughout, were at least not competi
Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior . rancisco. Theexpenditure of this company to October, 1895, aggregated $42,000, and Most of the above information is derived from the companys prospectus, 24 pp. 8°, with map andtwo lithographic plates, issued at San Francisco in 1891. 794 REPORT ON COAL AND LIGNITE OF ALASKA. I was verbally informed that (550 tons of coal in all had been taken ontfrom the works at Eastland I received the impression that these two corporations, if not composedof the same members throughout, were at least not competitors, andwere sustained chiefly by capital from a common source. A test made by the Southern Pacific Company was of the nature ofan investigation into the utility of the coal for railway purposes. Itwas. I am informed, determined that the liability of the coal, whileburning under a forced draft, to throw off large ignited cinders, madeit, if used for railway purposes, dangerous to crops and buildings in sodry a country as California in summer, and this disqualification Fig. 23.—Sketch map showing claims of Alaska Coal Company, from their prospectus of 1891. The two coal companies above described claim at present tbe longspit and the whole northern shore of Kachemak Bay inside the spit,under various laws or usages. If the bay should become the site ofmining operations, a light-house would be needed on the extremity ofthe spit, and it would therefore be advisable to reserve from entry acertain portion, at least, for Government uses. So far as buildingsare concerned, those at present standing are: (1) A house, store, andseveral outbuildings at the end of the spit, which I was informed were 1 Information furnished verbally by John A. Bradley, esq., of San Francisco. DALL.] KENAI PENINSULA. 795 the property of Mr. Bradley, or the Alaska Coal Company, of whichhe is a member, and which were unoccupied at the time of our visit; (2)a number of buildings at the foot of t
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