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ALASKAN MINERAL RESOURCES IN 1904. 
Analyses of coals from soutJnvest Alaska. 
[BULL. 259. 
Locality. 
Matanuska River 
Kachemak Bay, mine camp 
Kachemak Bay, mine camp 
Kachemak Bay, mine camp 
Kachemak Bay, Curtis seam 
Kachemak Bay, McNeil Can- 
yon. 
Kachemak Bay, Eastland 
Canyon. 
Port Graham 
Amalik Harbor 
Kodiak Id., Red River 
Chignik River 
Herendeen Bay 
Unga, upper seam 
Unga, lower seam 
Mois- 
ture. 
Vol. 
comb, 
matter. 
Fixed 
carbon. 
Ash. 
Sul- 
phur. 
Per ct. 
Per ct. 
I', ret. 
Per ct. 
Perct. 
1.15 
22. 50 
69.34 
6. 42 
0.89 
20.87 
40.71 
33.29 
5.13 
.36 
19.26 
43. 95 
28.74 
8.05 
.32 
19. 22 
41.22 
31.96 
7.60 
.38 
18. 92 
37.62 
28. 59 
14.87 
.46 
21.54 
39.10 
30.26 
9.10 
.34 
19.29 
40.31 
33.11 
7.29 
.27 
16.87 
37.48 
39. 12 
6. 53 
.39 
1 . 62 
36.56 
52. 92 
8.90 
.75 
12. 31 
51. 48 
33.80 
2.41 
.17 
2.72 
39. 92 
43.76 
13.60 
2.15 
3.43. 
39. 00 
47.40 
10. 17 
.44 
11. 26 
40. 51 
41.24 
6.99 
2.17 
10. 58 
66. 21 
15.26 
7.95 
.56 
Sic 1 . Anal y gt - 
Per ct. 
3.08 
.81 
.63 
.77 
.76 
.82 
1.04 
1.45 
.66 
1.12 
1.21 
1.02 
.23 
C. C. Bogardus. 
W. T. Schaller. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do. 
Geo. Steiger. 
Do. 
W.T. Schaller. 
Geo. Steiger. 
Do. 
Do. 
Sample 3 in the above table was taken from the outcrop of the 2-foot 
9-inch seam near the west end of the Cook Inlet Coal Fields Company 
Railroad, Kachemak Bay; sample 4 came from 50 feet inside tunnel 
No. 3 at the mine camp; sample 7 represents 30 inches of a 4^-foot 
bed occurring below tide about 500 feet off shore near Coal Creek; 
sample 8 was cut from the outcrop of the Curtis seam 400 yards west 
of McNeil Canyon; sample 9 is from a 4-foot seam found 300 yards 
from the beach up McNeil Canyon; sample 10 is from the lower 
30-inch bench of a 5£-foot coal seam, on which a tunnel was driven 
in Eastland Canyon, and sample 1 was taken from the outcrop below 
tide at Port Graham. 
These analyses show that the Matanuska coal is by far the best 
obtained at any of the localities described, but the writer does not 
know how representative it is of the seam or field. The field is 50 
miles from tide water and several hundred miles from any present 
source of demand, and, seemingly, can hardly compete as a steam coal 
in outside markets with the semianthracite and bituminous coal which 
has been found at Controller Ba} T , but may find special markets if it 
proves adaptable for smelter use. 
In the next table are given averages of analyses of Kachemak Bay 
and Unga coals in comparison with competing coals from Vancouver 
Island and Puget Sound: 
