. Factory and industrial management. point begins the military road over the pass to the Copper River. The tarpaulins covfer sacks of coal, brought from Tacoma, 1,800 miles southeast. order to acquire seaboard rights in the Persian Gulf, and we knowof present trouble in Eastern waters where thus far Russia has mostprofited, taking Port Arthur from Japan and Manchuria from Britain on the Atlantic—but the United States on the Pacific;the latter destined to become the greater trade ocean of the two. Notonly do the most dense and industrious populations of the world linethe western sho
. Factory and industrial management. point begins the military road over the pass to the Copper River. The tarpaulins covfer sacks of coal, brought from Tacoma, 1,800 miles southeast. order to acquire seaboard rights in the Persian Gulf, and we knowof present trouble in Eastern waters where thus far Russia has mostprofited, taking Port Arthur from Japan and Manchuria from Britain on the Atlantic—but the United States on the Pacific;the latter destined to become the greater trade ocean of the two. Notonly do the most dense and industrious populations of the world linethe western shores of the great ocean, but the western coast of NorthAmerica in natural wealth far surpasses the eastern coast, with theexception of coal; yet if the Crows Nest coal mines of British Colum-bia, lying on the west slope of the Rocky Mountains and but 500 milesfrom the Pacific be included in Pacific Coast resources, then in coalalso the west surpasses the east: for these measures, many hundred THE COAL RESOURCES OF THE PACIFIC. 163. NUTCHEK BAY, PKIXCE WILLIAM SOUND, ALASKA A United States mail steamer makes the round of the Southern Alaskan coast each part of Alaska is heavily timbered. miles, in area, contain, in fifteen veins, 150 feet of solid coal, some ofit gas coal, some anthracite, and the soft varieties superexcellent cokingcoal. In gold the Pacific slope has produced more than all the balance ofthe United States and last year produced more than all the balance ofNorth America. In fisheries the Pacific coal is easily first, and alsoin exports of lumber and fruit, if not of cereals. The general expansion of American interests in the Pacificis exemplified bv the fight over the isthmian canals at the extremeeast, the judicial scandals at Xome in the extreme north, andthe perennial Philippine trouble in the extreme west, not to speak of 164 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. the Alaskan boundary, undetermined for 1,200 miles, every foot indispute, and the payment of the
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