Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior . ly De Groff, of Sitka, and Lieutenant Emmons were at one time inter-ested in this claim, and the former told me that the exact situation ofthe principal shaft was the same as Camp No. 2 of Professor RussellsSt. Elias The aggregate thickness of the coal seams atthis locality is stated to be as much as 5 feet. Owing to the impossi-bility of obtaining transportation to either Lituya Bay or the eastshore of Yakutat, neither place was visited during the summer of 1895,and I was unable to
Annual report of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior . ly De Groff, of Sitka, and Lieutenant Emmons were at one time inter-ested in this claim, and the former told me that the exact situation ofthe principal shaft was the same as Camp No. 2 of Professor RussellsSt. Elias The aggregate thickness of the coal seams atthis locality is stated to be as much as 5 feet. Owing to the impossi-bility of obtaining transportation to either Lituya Bay or the eastshore of Yakutat, neither place was visited during the summer of 1895,and I was unable to get hold of any specimens of the coal. LOCALITIES IN COOK INLET. This fine sheet of water extends iuland more than 200 miles, and hasa width near its eutrauce of over 50 miles. The western shores areformed by Alaska Peninsula and the eastern by Kenai Peninsula,which separates the waters of the inlet from those of Prince William 1 Geology of Alaska: Bull. V. S. Geol. Survey No. 84. 1892. pp. 235-236. An expedition to Mount St. Elias, Alaska: Nat. (Jeog. Vol. Ill, 1891, p. 85. 7.
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