The Alaska prospector., 1907-05-16

edEtu! certainty DeIOIe tue CuIistidu
 era, probabl long before the laws were thundered from Mount Sinai, possibly | if we could oDly be enlightened
 as to his early geneaoloi.y We
 might learn that he was an early
 ancestor of the specimen preserved in
 the Ark. and yet this animal once
 lived and trod the domain of Alaska;
 while fat and hearty, with his stomach we'll filed with the best elephant tood
 the land produced He was frozen stif
 and covered up with snow and ice. ne
 was here when he could bask in the
 shade of a palm. He was here when the calamity came. He was herh wEen snow piled mountains high over his former hauLts. He was here when the glaciers were built He saw their actlv ity and their decadence. If it were not for the fact of the earths gravitatlng In such g manner as to bring Alaska cut 1 from the edge of the ice and lay things
 bare that have previously been hidden.
 this very animal would have remained in the same perfect state Of preserya- tion until Gabriel sounds his warning trump announcing the end of time.
 That everything was treZen solid to
 a great depth at the time the ancient rivers were dried, aud that the rivers of
 
 would seem to be indicated by the fact that the last named streams flow
 over frozen ground, ground frozen so deep that the action of the water has
 not drawn out the frost during tine
 ages IL is noteworthy fact that un- like any other land the Alaskan streams | freeze from the bottom upwards to the
 surface, furnishing conclusive evidence that the bottoms of the streams are the home of perpetual frost. Whether man played any part in this great tragedy or not is uncertain, however, in the Klondyke country there was found at the bottom Of 6 shaft that had been thawed down through soil, muck and gravel q distance of ninety feet. glass plaque pressed into a design mani festiy the product of mans hendi~ork, but It IS not sufficiently well estab
 lished that these same diggings may
 not have been worked at some prior time by the sane method aud the dish thus placed ia the locality were found
 though It ls said there was no indica- :.
 tions that the soil had ever been dis
 turbed. Many have observed and
 many more have speculated upon the facts hereinbefoIe set forth, but, nc one go far as l am able GO ascertain
 has ever offered a satisfactory solution theretOl8 nor &dduced a fairly rea5ou- able theory regarding the came.
 Notwithstanding the abundance of evideIce at hand tending to show tDe
 climatic and physical changes III Alas ka II Is with some nllsglvings and hCt a little heSitancy that the author of this article offers to those interested the results and conclusions drawn from facts, both admitted and assumed and
 anaiogles both convincing and satisfy ing, but does so craving their Inuui- gent perusai hereof and their Charlta ble judgment with reference thereto, hoping that therein they may iud a reaaouable reason for the why thereof. 1t was favored saying of the An clentS that Nature aDhOra vaCuuia, and yet the vacuum has always played
 an Important part III the economy of
 nature as Weil as ii the ordinary affairs
 or lie. The creation of a vacuum pro
 duces reduction III temperature. The
 more rapidly d vacuum Is created, the
 more marked will be the change Ill
 temperature. The omng of caunous,
 with resulting vacuums, reduces the
 tempe rature to Q slow d point as 10
 frequently prooQce local showers.
 Thunder will cause a naiistorm iii the
 hottest day of summer A cup or
 water placed under al air pump and
 the air quickly exhausted will be found
 to be frozen solid in the hottest JisS oi summer. Any rapidly moving object
 creates something of q vacuum ln it's
 wake. Who has not stool by the track