Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Report on Coal in Alaska for Use in United States Navy: A Letter From the Secretary of the Navy, Transmitting Report of Survey and Investigation by Experimental Tests of Coal in Alaska for Use on Board Ships United States Navy, and Upon Coal Fields Available for Said Purpose
After a conference between the Director of the Bureau of Mines and the Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, it was decided that the investigations to be carried on durin the late summer and autumn of 1912 should be concentrated in the ering River coal field, and that later, if circumstances permitted, plans would be inaugurated for a similar investigation in the Matanuska coal field.
In Organizing the personnel of the expedition to carry out the pur pose of the above act, the following selections were made.
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