The Alaska prospector., 1907-05-16

Ce'''h. SSiCdlbly DeIOTo the Christian cru, probably long before the laws were thundered from Mount Sinai. possibly Ii we could only be enlightened as to his early geneaology 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 well filled with the best elephant food the land produced. He was frozen stiff and covered up with snow and ice Alu was here when he could bask in the shade of palm. He was here when the calamity came. He was here when snow piled mountains high over his former hauhts. He was here when the glacIers were built. He saw their activ. lty and their decadence. If it were not TOT the fact of the earths gravtating in such manner as to bring Alaska cut from the edge of the ice. and lay things bare that have previously been hidden. thls very animal would have remained Tn the same perfect state of preaerva- ton until Gabriel sounds his warning trump announcing the end of time
 That everything was frozen solid to great depth at the time the ancient rivers were dried, and that the rivers of the present are of a later develOUrent.
 
 fact that the last named streams flow over frozen ground, ground frozen so deep that the action of the water has Rpt drawn out the frost durinr the ages. 1t IS q note worthy fact that un- likO 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 iii this great tragedy or not IS uncertain, however, iu the hion4S he country tne,e Q WGS tOund at inc bottom of shaft that had been thaWed down through soil. muck and graEcl q distance of ninety feet, q glass plaque pressed into d design mani ieatiy he product of mans handiwOrk. DUl !l ia Dot sufficiently. WeiL estaD llshcd that these same digg{ugs nav not have been worked at some pglor time bT the same method and the dish thus placed lu the locality were found though II IS said there was no indlca- tlons that the soil had ever ooen dis turOed. Many have observed and many more have speCuated upon the facts hereinbeGore set forth. out. no one 90 far as ! am able to ascertain has ever offered a satisiactovg solution therefore nor aIduced iaNit roaSoI- able theory regarding the same.
 Notwithstanding the abUu&anco of evidence at hand tending to show tAe Climatic aud phy ySical changes III 4 as- ha, ll ls with some misEvingS and .gut little hosltauCy that the author of this article offers to those interested the results and conclusions drawn from facts, both admitted and assumed and anaIOgIoS both convincing and sa1aty Ing, but does SO craving their Iuaui- gent perusal hereof and thc.r charIla. bic Judgment with reference thereto. h"pIa4 that therein they may Ird a reasonable reason for the why tbereof.
 It Was favored saying of the An cleui5 that Nature aUhOrs d vacuum. and yet the yaCGum has always played an important part lm the economy Ot nature as we'll as in the ordinary affairs Ot life. The creation OI d ,acuum ,rJ- duces reduction IT te eupgrdturc. IHe more rapidly d vacuum ls created, the more marked vii be the change Iu temperature. Tue 1 omiug Q. uauuuu4. with resulting yaCuUms, reduces tie tempe Cature tO SO slow point as iD frequently produce local showers. Thunder will cause q haiistorm .u the hottest day of summer. cuu of water placed under a' air pnmp and the air quickly exhausted will be found to be frozen solid ju tine hOtiest d.. of summer. Amy rapidly moving object creates something of a vacuum in it, wake. Who has not stOo by the track and seen the limited express thunder oy drawing ln its tram stray bits of