The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-05-01
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NJ. Floresco has communicated to the
Academy Of Sciences at Paris proofs
that there Is n liked relation between
the quantity of iron in the liver of ami
mails and the color OF their skin ana
/ hair. Animals Of dark hair contain
nearly twice the amount Of iron and
pigments in the liver and skin as those
Of white hair.
+ Prof. ". ". Campbell. the Director
Of the Lick Observatory. in summing
up the results Of the observations ana
photographs made by the party sent
from that observatory TO study the to-
tai eclipse Of the sun in Sumatra last
Mar, says that the general conclusion
10 be drawn is that the coronal strue-
fure surrounding the sun is made up OF
matter. probably very finely divided
elected from the surface Of the sun
with great velocities. just as We nave
matter elected, now and then, from
terrestrial volcanoes, with eompara-
lively small yelocities.
Few persons have any conception OF
the tremendous degree of heat repre-
scented In the sun, just as they are ig-
nroant, as a rule, that II Is hydrogen
gas that, blazing In the sun, keeps the
universe of life existent An astron-
omer has just given some interesting
details respecting the temperature OF
the sun. He asserts that the mean tenn
perature is about 600 degrees cent?
grade-approximately 1920 degrees
Fahrenheit. OF such degree OF heat
one can form no adequate conception
OF the total heat the earth receives. OF
course, only very small proportion.
The rest belongs to space and Is shared
by other worlds than this.
Men sometimes dream of enormous
wealth stored in the earth, below the
reach of miners, but according to the
statements of Prof. G. r. Van Hise at
the Denver meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement Of
Science, there is little or no ground to
believe that valuable metallic deposits
lie very deep In the earth's crust Such
deposits, he said, are made by under
ground waters, and owing to the pres
sure on the rocks at great depths, the
waters are confined to shell near the
surface. With few exceptions, ore de-
posts become too lean to repay work.
ing below 5000 feet. Nine mines in
ten, taking the world, as a whole, are
poorer In the second thousand feet
than In the fierst thousand, and poorer |
yet in the third thousand than In the |
second.
In September the hunters and trap
pers Of the Yukon start out for their
long winter sojourn in the midst of
the snowy and painless woods and
along the banks Of frozen rivers and
streams. Bears, beavers, offers, minks,
foxes, wolves and wolever
enc all fall before their rifles or are
caught in their traps, and the man who
can accumulate a good store of the
furs Of any of these animals Is well re-
warded for his hard winters work.
But the greatest prize, which all seek
and comparatively few get, is the rare
black fox, of which only about halt. a
dozen are killed In season, whose soft
robe is worth from $500 to $500 to the
trapper who takes it. From twenty
five to forty silver-gray foxes are /
caught in season; their pelts bring
from 500 to $500 apiece. The prices
of bear pelts vary from $40 to $50; Of
beaver, from $3.50 to 81; of mink, from
$3.50 to So; Of marten from $3.50 to
S12, and of otter from 81 to So.