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The southeastern and southwestern 

 Alaska coal fields are on tide water 

 along a coast affording good harbors 

 open to navigation the entire year. They 

 can be mined cheaply and can find a 

 ready market for local steamboat and 

 domestic use. No developments have 

 been made of the higher-grade coals of 

 southern Alaska. These higher-grade 

 coals are worthy of the attention of 

 prospector and capitalist, for, if found 

 to occur in sufficient quantities, they 

 could compete with all other coals in 

 the Pacific Coast market. 



The Yukon coals as developed depend 

 entirely on their local market. Their 

 grade is loo low for exportation ; but 

 the Yukon coals seem to vary greatly in 

 character, and careful preliminary work 

 should be done before a mine is devel- 



oped. The Yukon coals are said to 

 bring about $15 a ton at the mines. 

 Nome has offered a splendid market for 

 coal during the last two years. Coal 

 sold there at from $25 to $100 per ton, 

 with an average price of about $40 to 

 $50 per ton during the summer of 1900. 

 It was this that led to the development 

 of the Cape Lisburne field, where the 

 coals are of a semi-bituminous charac- 

 ter, which is only 200 miles distant. 



In 1900 about 13,000 tons of coal 

 were shipped as cargo to Alaska from 

 Washington ports, and probably still 

 more was imported from British Colum- 

 bia. No accurate data as to the coal 

 produced by Alaskan mines are obtain- 

 able, but the total is probably between 

 4,000 and 5,000 tons, of which about a 

 third is from mines on the Yukon River. 



THE HUBBARD MEMORIAL BUILDING 



THE cornerstone was laid on April 

 26 of the Hubbard Memorial 

 Building, which will be the 

 home of the National Geographic So- 

 ciety. The building occupies a large 

 and handsome site on the southwest 

 •corner of Sixteenth and M Streets, 

 Washington, D. C. , and when com- 

 pleted will be a notable monument to 

 the honored first President of the So- 

 ciety. 



The contents of the box deposited in 

 the cornerstone were as follows: 



1.. An engrossed document relating 

 to the Hubbard Memorial Building, and 

 also to the Hubbard Memorial Window 

 in the Church of the Covenant, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. , both dedicated to the 

 memory of the late Hon. Gardiner 

 Greene Hubbard. This document is 

 signed by Mrs. Hubbard and by all the 

 surviving descendants. The following 

 is a copy of it : 



HUBBARD MEMORIAL BUILDING 



This building is erected in memory 

 of Gardiner Greene Hubbard by 

 his children, Gertrude, Mabel, Roberta, 

 and Grace. Gertrude, being no longer 

 living, is represented by her only child, 

 Gertrude, daughter of the late Maurice 

 Neville Grossmann, and Roberta, being 

 no longer living, is represented by her 

 surviving children, Helen and Grace, 

 daughters of Charles James Bell. 



The library is the gift of Mrs. Gardi- 

 ner Greene Hubbard, who joins her 

 children in establishing this memorial 

 to her husband. 



The building is designed to be the 

 home and headquarters of the National 

 Geographic Society, of which Mr. Hub- 

 bard was President from the date of its 

 organization, January 20, 1888, to the 

 day of his death, December n, 1897. 



Another monument^ to Mr. Hubbard 

 exists in the Church of the Covenant, 



