MARKETS FOR ALASKA COAL. 
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pineries and cannery boats I ong tons. 
I Southeastern Alaska a5 i OOO 
I Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound, Kodiak, and southern coast of Alaska Peninsula 15,000 
I Bristol Bay u 5, 000 
learners : 
I Local coastwise and river steamers (excluding cannery boats) a 10, 000 
i Puget Sound to southeastern Alaska b 15 000 
j Puget Sound to Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet b 23, 000 
j Puget Sound to Nome 6 32, 000 
I San Francisco to Alaska e 7 000 
j British Columbia to southeastern Alaska c 25, 000 
Foreign ports to Nome c5, 000 
257,000 
jThe bulk of the crude petroleum was used in Seward Peninsula and on the Yukon, while 
[e larger part of the naphtha went to the same regions, the remainder being used on the 
kcific coast. Almost all of the crude petroleum and naphtha were used for generating heat 
id power, the petroleum under boilers and the naphtha in engines. 
PROBABLE INCREASE IN CONSUMPTION. 
The increase in shipments of coal to Alaska during the last three years is shown in the 
illowing table: d 
Shipments of coal to Alaska, July 1, 1902, to June 30, 1905. 
omestic anthracite 
omestic bituminous 
domestic coke 
Canadian bituminous 
Australian bituminous 
foreign bituminous, shipped via United 
States 
12 months ending 
June 30, 1903. 
Long 
tons. 
20 
56, 120 
65 
54, 072 
110,317 
Value.o 
$276 
255, 841 
288 
216,089 
350 
472, 844 
12 months ending 
June 30, 1904. 
Long 
tons. 
41,704 
392 
63, 652 
1,609 
3,321 
110,681 
Value.a 
$193, 740 
2,251 
261,987 
4,303 
23, 904 
486, 185 
12 months ending 
June 30, 1905. 
tons? Value.. 
42, 245 
478 
b 69, 500 
5, 550 
117,778 
$85 
187,352 
4,281 
* 286, 000 
29,673 
507, 391 
a At port of shipment. b Estimated. 
j The increase in consumption so far as it is influenced by existing factors should continue 
'or some years in about the same ratio as shown in the foregoing tables. A further increase 
Is to be expected with the initiation of new enterprises, such as the building of railroads and 
smelters. These factors of increase will act directly in the fuel actually consumed by such 
Enterprises, and indirectly in the stimulus to trade and the increase in population which will 
result. Neither of these direct factors will be large at first. A few small mines along the 
railroads will supply all the fuel which they will consume, while all the copper ore produced 
in Alaska during the last year can be smelted with less than 5,000 tons of coke. These items 
will, however, probably both increase very rapidly and must be considered very important 
factors in the development of local industries. Mines situated on the coast or having tide- 
water connections will probably be able to supply a large part of the bunker coal consumed 
an both local steamers and those from the United States and foreign ports. This now 
amounts to 147,000 tons, divided as is shown in the table at top of this page. 
a Rough estimate. The individual items may not be exact, but the total of these items (120,000 tons), 
s given in the preceding table, is fairly accurate. 
b From data furnished chiefly by the steamship companies, 
c Computed from tonnage and horsepower of boats. 
d Commerce of the noncontiguous Territory of the United States, Bureau of Statistics, 1903, 1904, 1905. 
