Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-10-05
MAMN0THS IN ALASKA.
VALUABLE DISCOVERY MADE BY II,s
 ALASKA FUR COMPANY.

Thirty Feet tn Length-Tush, Weighing
 $50 Pounds-Garden "ssass" and Cla.
 O,er. Side by Side.
 Alaska is country of paradoxesy'
 That Is what Mir. Cola F. Fowler, of she Alaska Fur and Commercial com pany, said in answer to the question of reporter respecting his late field of operations.
 During all that time, up to two nionths ago, when resigned and started for home" said Dir. Fowler, 'I have had my headquarters at Kodiac, which is the most northern station occupied by agena of our company. We have our head quarters ill San Francisco, and trading stations all over Secretary Stewards pur- chase. As yet Alaska is almost terra hcognita. 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 yom question.
 Alaska is certainly a country of par adoxez. You who live here in the statef loOk npon it as land of perpetual ice and snow, and yet you would be aston lshed if told you that 1 grew in my garden at Kodiec abundant crops of rad ishes, lettuce, carrots, onions, cauliflow- ers. cabbage, peas. turnips, potatoes, beets, pArnips and celery. Within five miles of this garden was one of the larg est glaciers in Alaska, aud between the fertile coast slip and the interior is reared along the entire sea boundary a contin- uous mountain of perpetual ice and snow.
 During youa twelve years residence tn Alaska what was the most wonderful thing you ever saw or heard there?'
 Mir. Fowler smiled at this question, and. after a moments hesitation, said Two years ago last summer I left Ko- tiac for trip to the headwaters of the Snake river, where our travelling agents had established a trading station at ap Indian village. The chief of this family of Innuits was named To-lee-ti-ma, and 70 him was we'll recommended. He 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 infe- rior tusks of the mammoth, the remains of thousands of which gigantic animals ire to be found in the beds of interior Alaskan water courses. subjected the Ivory to a rigid inspection, and upon two of the largest tusks discovered fresh blood traces and the remains of partly decomposed flesh.
 II questioned To-lee-ti-ma, and he as sured me that less than three month, 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 killing two, an old bull and COW. At my re quest he sent for the leader of the hunt lng party, young and intelligent In. dian, and questioned him closely about bis adventure among race of animals that tho scientific people claim are ex inct. He told a straightforward story, and have no reason to doubt its truth
 KILLING A MONSTER.
 "He and his band were searching along . dry water course for ivory, and had found a considerable quantity. One of the bucks, who wts in advance, rushed in 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 como down to the spring to drink from lofty plateau farther inland, and had evidently fed in the vicinity of the water for some time. The chief imme iiately called about him his warriors, and the party, under the leadership oi the scout, approached the stream.
 ''Tbey had nearly reached it when thei, ears were suddenly saluted by a choru. of loud. shrill. trumpet like calls, and ar enormous creature came crashing toward them through the tlicket, the ground fairly trembling la'acIth it's ponderoui footballs Wiih wiid cries of terror and dismay the Indians fled. all but thechiei and the scout who had first discovered .hc trail of the monsters. They wers armed with large calibcr r,uskets and aood their ground, opening fire on the mammoth. A bullet must have pere tr..lssd tho creatures brain, for it stag. gcrcd forward and fell dead. and Gubse qucEtly. on their way back to their camr ground. they overhauled and killed COW big teeth, which was evidently the mate sf the first one killed.
 Il asked the hunter to describe the monster, and. taking a sharp stick, he irew ;Ire picture of the male animal h the soft clay. According to his de scription it was ut least twenty feet in height and thirty feet in length. ID general shape it was not unlike an ele phant, but its 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 a boar, one on either side in each jaw, they were about four feet long and came to sharp point The other two tuskf he brought away.
 ''I measured them and they were owe, fifteen feet in length and weighed up wards of 250 pounds each. They gradu. ally tapered to a sharp point and curved inward. The monsters body was GOV cred with long, coarse hair of a reddish dun color. took a copy of tho rude sketch made by the Indian.
 By the way, our late governor, the Hon. Alfred P. Swineford, has pretty investigated the matter, and he is certain from thorough sitting of na- tive testimony that large herds of these are to be found on the high | plateaus in interior Alaska about the | seadwaters of the Snake river."-Phila ielphis Presa