The herald., 1897-08-01
settle down to work according to this

boundless field for thought and work
here. He finds that this downfall of
metals. ETC., is not essentially at the
polar points of a planet, but that the
natural dumping place for them is In
fact vast region, and he has to modify
by saying the polar regions are the
original home of the metals. From these
regions ages Of transportation have car-
ried them to other lands. 1t must be
valid claim, however, that the virgin
lodes remain where they were planted.
He also finds that this theory demands
| that as almost all classes of mineral SUBJ
| limatiens must have fallen with the met
ais, then almost all kinds of rock in the
polar regions may contain gold and that
| gold-bearing quartz Is not an essential
feature in these regions. He also finds
| that as annular vapors fell all through
| the geologic ages then gold continued to
| fall from the polar skies even down to
the most recent geologic times and for
! this cause alone gold must be found in
glacial beds. Let me explain:
| The gold vapors that arose from the
| world furnace were mingled with the
steaming watery vapors as they arose
from the same furnace, and as pure
result the metal distillitions fell with
them. Now watery vapors falling from
the lofty polar skies must have fallen a s
vast reaches Of snow, and piling noun
tain high became the true cause Of all
the glacial periods. For the reason that
these SHOWS fell on lands of luxuriant
vegetation 1t is plain that a canopy be-
fore 1t falls must make a greenhouse
world. Hence the conclusion is plain
that again and again mighty glaciers
have formed In our north world posses
sions and again and again have under
recurring canopies melted and dropped
the metals they contained. How often this
falling of gold-laden SHOWS occurred in
the ages we know not, but we do know
the simple fact that over a great part of
Alaskan territory the mighty glacier
has poured repeatedly and locked down
| its gold.
| AS another ring descended another
canopy formed and thus another warm
era ensued, the glaciers melted and the
gold was thus deposited through all the
| ages and locked up either In the forming
rocks of the north world or it remain as
placer gold.
| All this argues the amazing richness
i Of northern gold fields. Now, Alaska
| Is an extensive upheaval, and for this
reason the old gold rock Is brought to
the surface and from the remotest times
the glaciers march has worn it to soil
and loosened the gold of the earliest ca
J nopy falls. and thus added II to the pac-
er gold that the more modern falls have
located in the thousands of valleys of
Alaska. I have no doubt upheavals in
any other part OF the north world would
| bo a iah hyyt
one Alaska, and there we see the old
gold and the more recent brought to-
| gether, which, as I see 1t, no other land
can boast of.
The Alaskan miner, then, has some
very important lessons to learn He
should learn that he need not spend time
and money in seacaing for "lodes" and
leads in the north world, for pre-
sumo the claim is a sound. one, that in
the abundant gold-bearing rock of those
regions the metal Is disseminated
through the mass. Though quartz veins
may b found, yet ahnular law demands
| that they be scarce about the original
| dumping ground. Of canopies. He should
also learn to distinguish between glacial
or morainic formations and those form
| ed in quiet waters, and be able to follow
| the track Of the ancient glaciers, which
must have been more Or less laden with
gold. would follow such glacial chan
| nels from the interior to the sea, and ex-
pect as a general thing to find gold. He
will learn that the best and purest gold
will be found in the interior, unless in its
purity 1t becomes less heavy. Those
miners who care not to endure the hard
ships of the interior can have ample
prospecting ground on the coast, on the
shores of the sea, where the old glaciers
ended their march. 1t will be found that
almost all valleys in this grand upheaval
| have gold.
| Above all things the miner should IA
milarize his mind with the annular the
ory Of world making. To follow the ola
| school is ony to perpetuate error. Every
| Intelligent miner. knows that he. is con-
| tinually butting against obstacles that
| the old school boy cannot>explain. The
Pixies Peak gold utterly confounded him
| That region Is directly in the track Of
currents that millions Of years ago
| bore the gold-laden icebergs from the
northworld, and IL he can follow this
| track back to its genesis he can find
rich gold fields scattered along it's course.
| so, too, the African gold fields, south
| of the equator. Biologists said. this f1eld
was "altogether confusing and inexpli-
cable" for it was an old sea bed. This
| is just what the new school can explain.
| This African gold never came from ledes
or beds of quartz, as everyone must ad
init. When that region was the sea -bot-
tom the icebergs from the south world
foated thither, melted, and dropped
their golden boards, and that is the only
way gold can become stored up in sea
| deposits in the middle of a continent
| 1t would not take the annular student
long to prove that in ancient times such
an iceberg track lay along the eastern
side of the Andes from the south polar
| lands, and that for innumerable ages
bergs bore their load along it's course.
Whenever these icy vehicles stopped ana
melted the gold was dropped Now, Peru
seems to have been one of these favored
spots think the western part of Brit
| ish Columbia will yet reveal another an
lcient iceberg track from the far north,
and some favored spots will be found
along that ancient course clear into Mex
leo.
We see such track still occupied to-
day. All know that Davis strait and
Baffin's bay are such one Millions
Of icebergs float from the pole along