martin.] CONTROLLER BAY REGION. 11 
In 1001 Mr. F. C. ScLrader and Dr. Arthur C. Spencer published 
an analysis of a sample of coal furnished them from Bering River, 
and a description of two samples of petroleum from the Controller 
Bay region. The facts in regard to the coal were summarized in 1902 
by Mr. Alfred H. Brooks,'' and he also made reference to the reported 
existence of petroleum between Yakutat and Controller bays, and on 
the west side of Cook Inlet. A statement of the operations in the 
Controller Bay and Cook Inlet petroleum fields ' was made by Mr. 
F. H. Oliphant in 1902. 
An account of the occurrence of petroleum d at Cold Bay, with notes 
on the geology of the region, was published anonymously in 11)03, and 
Mr. F. H. Oliphant also described in considerable detail the progress 
of operations in the Controller Bay oil fields, 6 with references to the 
Cook Inlet fields. An abstract f of the following report was pub- 
lished in April, 1904, and the information therein contained was used 
by Mr. F. H. Oliphant *> as the basis for his statement of the progress 
of operations in 1903. 
CONTIlOMyER BAY REGION. 
GEOGRAPHY. 
Controller Bay, an indentation of the coast about 100 miles west 
of Mount St. Elias, is sheltered on the southeast by Cape Suckling 
and on the southwest by a group of islands of which the largest is 
Kayak (PL II). The area here to be discussed includes the shores 
of Controller Bay and the adjacent region, with an irregular group 
of low peaks having no uniform elevation or trend, which form the 
foothills of the Chugach Mountains to the north. These foothills 
are highest near the mountains and fall away irregularly toward the 
sea, where few points are more than 2,000 feet high. The eastern 
shore of Controller Bay and of Bering River is low and almost flat. 
Bering River, with its tributaries, drains the central part of this 
region and flows through a lake of the same name, which is about 
10 miles from the sea. Above the lake it receives Canyon Creek and 
Stillwater Creek, the latter draining Lake Kushtaka. Shepherd 
a Geology and Mineral Resources of a Portion of the Copper River District ; a special 
publication of the U. S. Geol. Survey, 1901, pp. 91-92. 
h Brooks, A. H., Coal resources of Alaska : Twenty-second Ann. Rept. U. S. Geol. Sur- 
vey, pt. 3, pp. 542, 549, 551, and 571. 
c The production of petroleum in 1901 : " Extract from " Mineral Resources U. S. for 
1901, U. S. Geol. Survey, 1902, p. 208. (Not in bound volume.) 
d The Cold Bay oil field : Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 70, pp. 618-619. 
e The production of petroleum in 1902: Mineral Resources U. S. for 1002, U. S. Geol. 
Survey, 1903, pp. 582-584 (pp. 207-201) of separate). 
f Petroleum fields of Alaska and the Bering River coal fields : Bull. U. S. Geo!. Survey 
No. 225, 1904, pp. 365-382. 
"The production of petroleum in 1903: Mineral Resources U. S. for 1903, U. S. Geol. 
Survey, 1904, pp. 690-602 (pp. 179-181 of separate). 
