162 ALASKAN MINERAL RESOURCES IN 1904. [bull. 259. 
Ft. in. 
Coal 3 
Clay 0£ 
Coal 1\ 
Clay 3 
Coal 10 
Bony coal '. 7 
Total 5 1 
A short distance farther down the beach a bed of carbonaceous 
material about 8 feet thick is exposed for 25 feet between faults. It 
is composed largely of bony coal, with a few 2-inch or 3-inch Layers of' 
hard, glistening coal. Although the thickness of these seams is sev-i 
eral feet, it will be seen readily that because of their small extent and 
bony character they have no value. 
KATMAI. 
Katmai Bay is a few miles west of Amalik Harbor, on the south 
shore of Alaska Peninsula, in latitude 58°. It is reported a that coal 
has been found on one or more of the trails which lead out from Kat- 
mai, but this has not yet been confirmed. 
COLD BAY. 
Rumors of coal at Cold Bay, 30 miles west of Katmai, seem to have 
little foundation. A careful investigation of the entire shore of the 
bay showed nothing in the way of coal excepting occasional streaks 
of bright, glistening carbon contained in Jurassic rocks on the shore. 
These bands of coal were several feet long and up to 2 inches thick. 
UGASHIK LAKE. 
Coal is reported on the southeastern side of the southern one of the 
Ugashik lakes by Mr. Mittendorf, a trader at Nushagak.* This lake 
is -10 miles southwest of Cold Bay and back of Kialagvik Bay. The 
coal outcrops all over the side of the bluff on the lake. It is poor, 
resembling cannel coal in appearance, but has a rather high tempera- 
ture of ignition. A. G. Maddren, collector for the National Museum, 
believes the deposit here is not lignite, but a mass of peat which has 
been baked or coked by a lava flow. 
KODIAK ISLAND. 
Reports from various sources confirm the presence of coal-bearing 
series in a number of places on this island. It was impossible for the 
writer to investigate them personalty, and the following statements 
are based on the observations of others. 
"Tenth Census, Report on Alaska. \>. 87. 
*>Spurr, J. E., A reconnaissance in southwestern Alaska: Twentieth Ann. Kept. U. S. Geol. Survey, 
pt. 7, p. 262. 
