Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-09-07
MAMMOTHS IN ALASKA.
VALUABLE DISCOVERY MADE BY rHs
 ALASKA FUR COMPANY.

Monster Creatures Twenty Feet High and
 Thirty Feet in Length-rusks weighins
 e5O Pounds-Garden "sass" and 0aa,
 -cfers Side by Side.
 ''Alaska is country of paradoxes!'
 That is what Mir. Cola F. Fowler, of the Alaska Fur and Commercial com pany, said in answer to the question of a reporter respecting his late field of operations
 During all that time. up to two months ago, when resigned and started for home." said Mr. Fowler, 'I have had my headquarters at Kodiac, which is the most northern station occupied by agentA of our company. We have our head quarters i'll San Francisco. and trading stations all over Secretary Stewards pur. chase. As yet Alaska is almost terra fncognita- The country immediately sur rounding some of the principal rivers like the Yukon, Snake and Stickeer has been explored, and few miles inland from the coast line, but the great in- terior is almost unknown What we have learned of it is a surprise, and was the foundation of my answer to your question.
 Alaska is certainly country of par adoxeS. You who live here in the states look 1pon it as land of perpetual ice and snow, and yet you would be aston .shed if 1 told you that grew in my garden at Kodiac abundant crops of rad ishes, lettuce, carrots, onions. caulifow- e-s. cabbage, peas, turpips, potatoes. bests, parnips and celery. Within five miles of this garden was one of the larg- est glaciers in Alaska, ard between the fertile coast slip and the interior is reared along the entire sea boundary a contin- uous mounta;n of perpetual ice and snow.
 During yous twelve years residence tn Alaska what was the most wonderful thing you ever saw or heard there?'
 Mr. Fowler smiled at this question, and. after a moments hesitation, said: Two years ago last summer left Ko- diac for a trip to the headwaters of the Snake river, where our travelling agents had established trading station at an Indian village. The chief of this family of Innuits was named TO-lee-ti-m ma, and 10 him was well recommended Re received me hospitably, and I at once began negotiations for the purchase of big lot of fossil ivory which his tribe had cached near the village. The lot weighed several thousand pounds, and was composed of the principal and infs- rior tusks of the mammoth, the remains of thousands of which gigantic animals are to be found in the beds of interior Alaskan water courses. I Isubjected the ivory to rigid inspection, and upon tive of the largest tusks discovered fresh blood traces and the remains of partly decomposed flesh.
 ''I questioned To-lee-ti-ma. and he as sured me that less than three months before party of his young men had en- countered a drove of monsters about fifty miles above where he was then en camped, and had succeeded in killina two, an old bull and COW. At nay re quest he sent for the leader of the hunt ing party, a young and intelligent h. dian, and questioned him closely about bis adventure among a race of animah that the scientific people claim are ex. inct. He told straightforward story, hnd I have no reason to doubt its truth
 KILLING A MONSTER.
 "Re and his band were searching alona . dry water course for ivory, and hsd found considerable quantity. One oi the bucks, who was in advance, rushed ln upon the main body one morning with the startling intelligence that at . spring of water about amile above where they then were he had discovered the sign of several of the big teeth.' They had come down to the spring to drinh from lofty plateau farther inland, and had evidently fed in the vicinity of the water for some time. The chief imme diately called about him his warriors, and the party, under the leadership os the scout, approached the stream
 "Tbey had nearly reached it when theis ears were suddenly saluted by a chorus of loud, shrill. trumpet like calls, and au enormous creature came crashing toward them through the thicket, the ground fairly trembling beneath it's ponderous footballs. With wild cries of terror and dismay the Indians fled, all but thechief and the scout who had first discovered the trail of the monsters. They were armed with large caliber muskets and stood their ground, opening fire on the mammoth. A bullet must have pene trated the creature's brain, for it stag gered forward and fell dead, and subse quently, on their way back to their camp ground, they overhauled and killed COW big teeth, which was evidently the mate of the first one killed.
 'I asked the hunter to describe the monster, and. taking sharp stick, he drew me picture of the male animal in the soft clay. According to his de- scription it was at least twenty feet in height and thirty feet in length. In general shape it was not unlike an ele- phant, but it's ears were smaller, its eyes bigger and its trunk longer and more slender. Its tusks were yellowish white in color and six in number. Four of these tusks were placed like those of boar, one on either side in each jaw; they were about four feet long and came to sharp point. The other two tusks he brought away.
 "I measured them and they were over fifteen feet in length and weighed up wards of 250 pounds each They gradu- lily tapered to sharp point and curved inward The monsters body was cov- ,red with long, coarse hair of a reddish lun color. took a copy of the rude sketch made by the Indian
 By the way, our late governor, the Hon. Alfred P. Swineford, has pretty carefully investigated the matter, and hs $ certain from a thorough sitting of na- i've testimony that large herds of these monsters are to be found on the high ,iateaus in interior Alaska about the nf fha Snake rivere-Phila-