Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-09-21
MAMM0THS IN ALASKA.
VALUABLE DISCOVERY MADE BY Tlii
 ALASKA FUR COMPANY.

ns1ister CrcStures twenty reet hlRn anc
 Thirty Feet in Length-Tushs Weighing
 s10 Pounds-Garden "Ssa.s" and C1s
 siers Side by Side.
 ''Alaska is a country of paradoxesp
 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 ths most northern station occupied by agent of our company. We have our head quarters in San Francisco. and trading stations all over Secretary Stewards pur chase. As yet Alaska is almost a terrs lncognita- The country immediately sur rounding some of the principal rivers like the Yukon, Snake and Stickeer has been explored, and a 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 wa' the foundation of my answer to yor question
 Alaska is certainly country of par adoxez. You who live here in the state. look lpon it as land of perpetual ice and snow, and yet you would be aston
 shed if l told you that grew in my garden at Kodiac abundant crops of rad ishes, lettuce, carrots. onions, caulifiow- CTS, cabbage, peas, turpips, potatoes, beets, pIrnips 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 mounts;n of perpetual ice and snow.
 During yous twelve years residenc, in Alaska what was the most wonderful thing you ever saw or heard there?'
 MT. Fowler smiled at this question and. after a moments hesitation, said "Two years ago last summer left Ko diac for trip to the headwaters of the Snake river, where our travelling agents had established trading station at ar Indian village. Tho chief of this family of Innuits was named To-lee-ti-ma, and to him was we'll recommended. H. received me hospitabiy, and I at once began negotiations for the purchase of ( big lot of fossil ivory which his triht 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 animah are to be found in the beds of interior Alaskan water courses. subjected the ivory to rigid inspection, and upon two of the largest tusks 1 discovered fresl blood traces and the remains of partlJ decomposed flesh.
 "I questioned To-lee-ti-ma, and he es sured me that less than three month, before party of his young men had en eountered a drove of monsters about fifty miles above where he was then en camped, and had succeeded in killing two, an old bull and Q COW. At my re quest he sent for the leader of the hunt ing party, young and intelligent In. dian, and questioned him closely about bis adventure among a race of animaL that the scientific people claim are ex inct. He told straightforward story end have no reason to doubt its truth
 KILLING A MONSTER.
 "He and his band were searching along c dry water course for ivory, and hac found considerable quantity. One oi the bucks, who was in advance, rushed in upon the main body one mornine with the startling intelligence that at spring of water about a mile above where they then were he had discovered the sign of several of the big teeth They had come down to the spring to drinl from lofty plateau farther inland, anc had evidently fed in the vicinity of th water for some time The chief imme diately called about him his warriors and the party, under the leadership oi the scout, approached the stream
 'Tbey had nearly reached it when theii ears were suddenly saluted by chorm of loud. shrill, trumpet like calls, and ar enormous creature came crashing toward them through the thicket, the ground fairly trembling beneath it's ponderou footballs With wild cries of terror anc dismay the Indians fled, all but thechiel and the scout who had first discovered the trail of the monsters They were armed with large caliber muskets anG stood their ground, opening fire on ths mammoth. A bullet must have pene trated the creatures 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 re 6 picture of the male animal In the soft clay. According to his de scription 1t was at least twenty feet ip height and thirty feet in length. In 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 tn number. Four oi these tusks were placed like those of boar, one on either side ia each jaw; they were about four feet long and came to a sharp point. The other two tuski he brought away.
 'I measured them and they were over 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 reddish dun color. 1 took a copy of the rude 1 sketch made by the Indian.
 By the way, our late governor, the | Hon. Alfred F. Swineford, has pretty | carefully investigated the matter, and he Is certain from e thorough sitting of na live testimony that large herds of these monsters are to be found on the higt | plateaus in interior Alaska about the headwaters of the Snake river. aslphis PrssA