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ALBANIA 



ningham claimants before entering the Cabinet. 

 A special committee of Congress exonerated 

 Secretary Ballinger from knowledge of at- 

 tempted fraud, but he resigned because he felt 

 that his usefulness to the administration was 

 at an end. Between 1911 and 1913 nearly 

 three-fourths of the land claims were cancelled 

 by the government. 



In 1914 a new policy was inaugurated. By 

 authority of Congress all coal lands are to be 

 surveyed, and parts of them are reserved for 

 the United States. This reserved area must 

 not exceed 5,120 acres in the Bering River 

 field, 7,680 in the Matanuska field, or one-half 

 of the area of other fields. All lands not re- 

 served may be leased to individual citizens or 

 American corporations for periods of fifty 

 years. The minimum area allowed under leases 

 is forty acres, the maximum is 2,560 acres. The 

 royalties derived from the leases are to be 

 used by the government for the development 

 of Alaska. For local or domestic use blocks of 

 ten acres may be leased without payment of 

 royalties. W.F.Z. 



Consult the publications of the United States 

 Bureau of Education, Washington ; also, Gree- 

 ley's Handbook of Alaska; Batch's The Alaskan 

 Frontier. 



K. luted Topic*. A more detailed knowledge 

 of the geography of Alaska may be gained from 

 the articles on the followings topics : 



Fairbanks 

 Juneau 



Arctic Ocean 

 Bering Sea 

 Bering Strait 



Admiralty 



Aleutian 



Bering 



Coal 



Copper 



Gold 



Aleuts 

 Athapascan 



Yukon 

 Seal 



CITIES AND TOWNS 



Nome 

 Sitka 



COAST WATERS 



Cook Inlet 

 Pacific Ocean 



ISLANDS 



Kodiak 

 Pribilof 

 Unalaska 



LEADING PRODUCTS 



Salmon 



Seal 



Whale 



NATIVE TRIBES 



Eskimo 

 Tlingits 



RIVER 

 ANIMALS 



Reindeer 



ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION, 



held in Seattle, Wash., from June 1 to October 

 16, 1909. Though organized primarily to 

 advertise the resources of Alaska, exhibits \\eiv 

 sent from Canada, from many states of the 

 Union, and even from European countries. 

 The exposition grounds, which wtre on a nar- 

 row peninsula between Lake Washington and 

 Lake Union, included 250 acres. The main 

 buildings, which were in the French Renais- 

 sance style of architecture, were grouped on 

 both sides of a beautiful terraced court, at the 

 head of which stood the United States Govern- 

 ment building. The lower end of the court, 

 which was left open, afforded a magnificent 

 view of snow-capped Mount Rainier. Seven 

 of the buildings became the property of the 

 University of Washington after the close of the 

 exposition. The total attendance was 3,740,561, 

 and the total expenses exceeded $10,000,000. 

 The exposition closed with every debt paid. 



ALBA'NIA, the youngest country of 

 Europe, situated in the western extremity of 

 the Balkan Peninsula, and stretching along the 

 southeastern shore of the Adriatic Sea, where 

 that sea is at its narrowest. Before the Balkan 



SURFACE FEATURES 



McKinley, Mount Rocky Mountains 



Malaspina Glacier 

 Muir Glacier 



Saint Elias Mountains 



LOCATION OP ALBANIA 



Black area (a) is Albania. Surrounding coun- 

 tries are (b) Italy; (c) Germany; (d) Austria- 

 Hungary; (e) Montenegro; (/) Serbia; (g) Bul- 

 garia; (h) Rumania; (i) Russia; (j) Greece; 

 (fc) Turkey. 



Wars (which see) this region was part of 

 Turkey. It is bounded by Montenegro, Serbia 

 and Greece. 



Founding of the New State. Albania was 

 created by a conference of ambassadors of the 

 Great Powers which was held in London in 

 1912 and 1913 in order to settle the problems 

 arising out of the war between the Balkan 

 allies and Turkey. At the insistent requests 

 both of Austria and Italy, and in order to avoid 

 great European complications, the ambassa- 



