Arizona weekly citizen., 1889-08-10

25O POunds--Garden "Sass" and Gla-
 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 Mir. 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. in San Francisco, and trading stations all over Secretary Stewards pur- chase. As yet Alaska is almost terra :ncognita. 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 was the foundation of my answer to your question.
 ''Alaska is certainly country of par adoxes. You who live here in the states look upon it as land of perpetual ice and snow, and yet you would be aston ished if I told you that l grew in my garden at Kodiac abundant crops of rad ishes, lettuce, carrots, onions, caulifiow CTS, cabbage, peas, turpips, potatoes, beets, 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 contin- uous mountain of perpetual ice and snow
 During yout twelve years residence in Alaska what Mas 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 left Ko- aiac for trip to the headwaters of the Snake river. where our travelling agents had established trading station at an Indian village. Tie chief of this family 3f innuits was named To-lee-ti-na, and 70 him I was well recommended. He 'eceived me kospitably, and l at once began negotiations for the purchase of a big lot of fossil ivory Nhich his tribe had cached near {he village. The lot ~eighed several thousand pounds, and was composed of the principal and infe- rior tusks of the mammoth. the remains of thousands of which gigantic animals are to he found in the beds of interior klaskcn water courses. l subjected the ivory to rigid inspection, and upon two ,f the largest tusks discovered fresh blood traces and the remains of partly jecomposed flesh.
 'I questioned To-iee-ti-ma, and he as sured me that less than three months before q party of his young men had en, countereJ 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. ing party, young and intelligent In dian, and questioned him closely about his adventure among a race of animals that the scientific people claim are ex. tinct 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 q considerable quantity. One of the bucks. who was in advance, rushed ia upon the main body one morning with the startling intelligence that at g spring of water about 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 drink 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 of the scout, approached the stream.
 "They had nearly reached it when theiI ears were suddenly saluted by a chorus of loud. shrill, trumpet like calls, and an 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 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 a COW 'big teeth. which was evidently the mate of the first one killed.
 ''I asked the hunter to describe the monster, and, taking a sharp stick, he irew ne picture of the male animal in the soft clay. According to his de- scription it was at least twenty feet in height ard thirty feet in length. In general shape it was not unlike an ele- plant. bat its ears were smaller, its eyes bigger and its trunk longer and more slender its tisks were yellowish white in color and six in number. Four of these tusks were placed like those Of d boar, one on either side ip each iav. they were about four feet long and came to sharp point. The other two tlsl;' he brought away.
 ''I measured them and they were ovcI fifteen feet in length and weighed IF. wards of 250 pounds each. They gratu- 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 copy of the r1,,, sketch made hy the Indian.
 By the way, GUT late governor, ;hc Hon. Alfred r. Swineford. has pretty carefully investigated the matter, and he is certain from thorough sitting of na- tive testimony that large herds of these monsters are to be found on the higt piateaus i'll interior Alaska about the headwaters of the Snake river. ."~-Phila leiphis Press
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