1(56 ALASKAN MINERAL RESOURCES IN 1904. [bull. 259. 
60 feet below it is a seam showing" 1 feet of clean coal, and again 40 feet 
lower is another seam about 3i feet thick. Thompson Creek coal has 
the same appearance as that of Chignik River, being a fair grade of 
lignite. 
HOOK BAY. 
A curved recess on the north shore of Chignik Bay, about 12 miles 
northeast from Chignik, is known as Hook Ba} T . Coal is reported 
about 1 miles from the beach, on the right-hand fork of a stream 
which enters the bay. According to C. J. Brun, who is familial 
with the locality, there are two seams of coal 5 and 6 feet thick separated 
by 2 feet of bony shale. He claims that this coal is superior to the 
others at Chignik Bay. It is free burning and makes yellow ash. 
The beds strike north and dip east at an angle of about 15°. The 
writer had no opportunity to visit the locality. 
OTHER LOCALITIES. 
Coal was seen at two other localities on Chignik Bay. Near the 
native village that stands 1 mile east of the Alaska Packers' Association 
cannery, a tunnel was driven several years ago about 20 feet on what 
appeared to be a 1-foot seam of coal. It proved to be alternate 1-inch 
layers of coal and dirt, and the work of mining being unprofitable it 
was abandoned. 
At the head of the creek which enters Anchorage Ba} T near the old 
Hume cannery, there are carbonaceous shales in abundance, and one 
block of clear, bright coal, 6 inches thick was found. The bed from 
which it came appeared to pinch out into carbonaceous shale within 
a few yards. 
HERENDEEN BAY. 
Circumstances made it impossible to investigate the Herendeen Bay 
coal field during the summer of 1904, and the following statements 
were obtained by personal interviews with people who are familiar 
with the region. 
Herendeen Bay is a branch of Port Moller, which is situated on the 
north side of Alaska Peninsula (opposite Shumagin Islands). It is 
reached from Portage Bay, on the southern side of the peninsula, by 
a trail about 9 miles long. An area 20 square miles in extent on the 
cape between Port Moller and Herendeen Bay is supposed to be 
underlain by coal, but the real extent may be much less. 
Several companies a have tried to develop the coal in this held, but 
without success, because the coal seam is cut off by faults, and its 
continuation could not be found. The latest attempt was in the sum- 
mer of 1903. The drift previously begun on a seam 4: feet thick was 
driven 200 feet farther by a new company, making the face 250 feet 
a Dull, op. cit., i». mi:). 
