Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-06-27
HAD A GOOD TIME
Biologists Roam About Pitts
burg Vigorously.
DIR. White is Prominent in the Party
His Theories Generally Accepted by
the Experts Small Stone Found by
One of Them Named After Him.

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the Experts-SmaIl Stone Found by
One of Them Named After Him.
PrPrsBURG, June 27-Strenuous
times those must have been, $1,000
years ago, when a powerful glacier
crept down over the whole Northern
world. pushing mountains from their
foundations, filing immense valleys
and turning great streams back up
on their sources as though they
were trickling breoklets.
The lower edge of this glacier,
known as the terminal moran, was in
this seetionbeing in. theneighborhood
of Ellwood City, and it was that
which the geological party under di-
rection Of DrLC. w hite visited They
were under man who has for 30
years made exhaustive researches
through the terminal moran and
who is the best authority that can
be found upon it. He was ably as
sisted in the direction by E. r. Hice
the Beaver attorney, who has made
several Government reports upon the
district.
tits recognized BY all authorities
that all Of the streams about here
flowed toward the North in pre- gla
ciai times. But the idea was for
years that the glacier damned up
the Ohio near Cincinnati, forming
an immense pool in this neighbor-
hood until it forced its way through
to the St. Lawrence system. The
true theory and the one recognized
as correct, was first advanced sever
al years ago by Dir. White himself.
II is best explained in his own words
t the party,
Il have found by study of the to
Biography that the pre-glaciai bed
follows the Monongahela, North on
the trend Of the present Ohio to the
North OF Pittsburg, then follows the
Beaver as it flows today. 1t con
tinues along this above its source
and can easily be traced on into the
ST. Lawrence system. That was dis
covered years ago.
But when the glacier flowed down
from the North, it damned up this
stream not at Cincinnati, but near
the spot where the Beaver joins the
|'Ohio. Thus an immense pool, or
lake, was swelled up in the Pitts
burg section and filed in until it
became deep enough to find an open.
ing to the South, at the place where
the Ohio now turns to the South
east. This is proved from the fact
that present bed of the Ohio is much
more shallow than tue ancient he'd
and must be Of newer origin. 1t
also explains the sudden turn in the
course of the river to the South,
which must have been caused by
some ali powerful force
1T was the formation OF this pool
that made the building of cities pos
sibe. It filed in the valleys and
made them more on the level OF the
old bed, of which Bluff street Pitts
burg. is the bottom, forming all OF
the level places upon which the CT
ties of this district are now erected
with debris,
The party inspected the valleys OF
the Ohio and Beaver, taking in Ell
wood City, Beaver Falls and Beaver
and the surrounding country. The
earlier biologists placed the termi-
nal MORAN in that section, two miles
farther to the North than Dr.. White
locates it. Dr. Grahau of Columbia
University doubted the accuracy OF
DR.. Whites inv estigations until he
was on the field for himself Then ht
had nothing to say, the evidence Of
1 glacial matter where DR. White had
placed it being so pronounced thai
there was no doubt left.
The biologists were not so heavily
laden Yesterday as on the day he
fore. DR. Crook of Northwestern
University explained the absence O
some of the paraphafnalia by say
ing the 'bag OF the ceologjst is nc
mirage The further you carry il
the heavier it gets Some quarry
men saw several of the members o.
the party hammering off specimen:
and keeping them. One Of the mer
wonderingly commented:
well, look at EN-. Breakin' OF
rocks and carrYin' en- or Wonder
Eil they can't find any rocks whes'
they come from that they come wa,
here after en-
One of the party picked up small
white. fliuty rock near Ellwoo(
4aattioa that stumped all Of them
Nonne could locate it in this section
aud IL must have been a foreigner
They finally gave up all effort t.
name it, when Dr. Graham suggest
ed:
Well, let's just call it an l. c
Whitesite and let it go at that
And that specimen now bears tn
name of the man in charge of TIN
party.