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STEAM HEAT ELECTRIC LIGHTS

Hotel Wisconsin 
and Railroad Hotel
R.L. Hall, Propr.

Rates $2.00 per Day
Elroy, Wis. 19

The minerals thus far found in Spitzbergen are Coal, Iron and Gold.
The Coal miners have here worked at interval periods for hundreds of years.
However as the season is so short, about 2+1/2 months last year, it is difficult to procure miners to operate them at much proffit.
During the past year, prospectors claimed to have found small quanities of Iron [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Gold and oil in Spitzbergen