The herald., 1897-08-01
ALASKAN GOLD
Prof. Wallis PredriCtiOn 20
Years Ago
HIS ANNULAR THEORY
AND ITS RELATION TO THE GOLD
DISCOVERIES
Some New and Startling Questions
for Scientists-The "Deluge
and Glacial" Epochs

To the Editor Of the Los Angeles Her
aid: You ask me to give, as geologist
of the new school," my reasons for pre-
dieting more than twenty years ago that
Alaska would prove to be one of the
richest gold regions of the earth.
In the summer of 1874 1 published
little book on the "Deluge and Glacial
Epochs" In that volume ventured to
outline the annular theory, which is in
brief, that a world constituted as the
earth is cannot pass from the igneous
condition to habitable state without
having, during some time of it's career,
an annular or ring system, just as the
planet Saturn has now. Certainly this
world of ours was once in a molten
state, and starting with this known con-
dition, there is no avoiding the conclu-
sion that all its vast ocean Of steam
ing waters was expelled as far from it as
the fiery mass could drive them. With
hisvaporized ocean everything else that
fire could vaporize and expel was asso-
ciated
The igneous earth was simply fur
mace of implaca BILE fire ,and in that fire
all the gold and other earth metals were
involved. This is the rock of the an
nular theory, and is admitted to be a
true hypothesis by all thinking men.
We all know how readily such metals
as gold, silver, copper, lead, ETC., are
vaporized by heat. In all our mints the
greatest precautions are used to pre-
vent the waste and loss of gold, etc., by
vaporization when being reduced.
Thousands Of dollars are saved every
year by sweeping down the furnace
chimneys and flues, and thus collect
ing such gold exhalatione as have
lodged there. Now, If gold vapors are
thus continually escaping from these
puny artificial fires, what measureless
quantities must have been sent aloft by
the inveterate fires of the molten earth!
There can be no question of doubt
here. If the earth was ever in fiery
liquid state, then all around it floated an
infinite ocean of fire-born vapors. 1
cannot take space in your paper to prove
that all these fiery Installations formed
into an annular system and formed for
millions of years about the earth have
done this in my various publications,
and I must refer you to my "Annular
World" for the proofs. 1t stands un-
challenged as fact that an annular
system is made up of all the waters, all
the metals and all the minerals that
an igneous world could send to the skies,
and hence we know that there were vast
quantities of gold, silver, etc., in the
earth's primeval envelope, whether that
envelope formed into rings or not, and
we know, too, that those metals fell
back to the earth, and that they must be
now in it and on it.
The old school biologists will tell you
that these vaporized metals cooled, con-
densed and fell back to the earth as
soon as it grew cold or solid. The new
school will tell you these vapors cooled,
condensed and formed into a system of
great earth rings in the equa torial skies,
and that they stayed there and contin-
ued to revolve about our planet for mill
lions of years after it grew cold.
A critical study of this process of an
nular evolution develops the fact that
all such rings. laden with the precious
metals of world, must fall to it's sur
face, and in doing so must float, one
at time, from the equatorial to the
polar skies, and fall more largely in the
polar region than elsewhere.
AS this northward and southwark de-
law, must determine for all time where
the original home of the nugget is, let us
look further into the problem. In the
first place we see at least two great
giant worlds, with their original vapors
still floating around them, and moving
with exceedingly slow polarward motion
to their fall So far as the planet Jupiter
testifies, it is plain that it's vast canopy
or is Ed
and here we simply read the history of
all canopies. 1t is mechanically and
mathematically certain that ring, in
its decline, becomes belt at first, and
then a canopy, or great world-roof Of
vapors. From this world-canopy the
mineral and metal-1aden vapors fail
with a movement as regular as the tread
of time. So that the annular student
looks back into the ages and beholds
the earth, not only surrounded by COM
plex ring system, but in the flight of un-
counted ages he sees canopy after cam
opy form about it and fall about its
poles
AS long as planet rotates its CEN
trifugal motion tends to throw the can
opy upward in the equatorial regions,
and hence it seeks to fall where there
~ llO IeSISldlC mere luGTe is no CELL
trifugal force-and, as all know that is
at the poles. Knowing, then, that all
the rings and canopies that the earth
ever had were laden with mineral and
metallic dust originally when the hot
and raging vapors cooled grains and
nuggets, formed as a pure result of the
distillation, and hence we feel that we
know that in the fall of rings and can
opies we have the fall Of the gold, sill
ver, copper, lead, iron, etc., that the
molten earth sent to the skies. How
could it be otherwise?
The reason of this polarwise motion IS
very plain. A rotary sphere sends its
vapors to the poles by it's motion and
the process of annular evolution is simply
this Vapors and sublimations of what
ever kind that molten world can expel
are sent to the skies, and because the
planet rotates those vapors must fall
back at the poles. Thus 1t Is seen that
whether the metals which the earth
furnace expelled, formed into rings or
not, they had to return via the higher
latitudes. This much 1t seems cannot be
doubted, and with this certainty the
Annular theory has to deal. Any one
can see that so sure as the earth was
ever in a molten condition there was FOR