The Alaska daily empire., 1915-07-30
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 DAWSON PROSPECTOR

DAWSON. Y. IT, July 25-"Waltah. bring me mammoth steak"
 Such may bo the cry in Dawson within a few days if R. A. Fox has just what he thinks he has. Fox blew into town today from up the Yukon with a gunnysack filled with what he declares is the steak of @ prehistoric mammoth.
 Have ! got it? We'll l should say have, delared Fox today
 Just wait few minutes con tinued Fox. "and will bring you some of the mammoth with the fat clinging to the sides of the meat
 Fox was gone a short while, and returned with several slabs wrapped in a gunnysacl Unwrapping it in the presence Of several who had not been informed what the material was supposed to be. Fox said
 Now. see here. what is itf'
 A sourdough minor stopper up and looked through his glasses carefully as he turned over the strange sub stance.
 "Why," exclaimed the sourdough, that's asbestos. Sure thing. I've seen 1t in the raw state, and I've seen the finished product"
 A veteran print" who had called on the News dropped in and asked what it was
 Telling the material carefully. he declared. "why. asbestos, of course, Wish had plenty Of that for future use"
 In ambled third man, who was shown a piece and asked his verdict. Well. it looks like wood fibre de- clared he cautiously.
 A cheechaco from Tacoma walked in and was shown the samples.
 What does she look like, Mir. Cheechaco?" said the discoverer.
 You don't get me on that" said the cheechaco. I've visited Seattle in my day. and l have nothing to say"
 Well. now just let me tell all you fellows what it is you are looking at" said Fox That long. white stringy. shabby stun is nothing more or less than the flesh of a prehistoric mammoth reduced to fibre. That whiter portion. which is less marked by strings. is the residue of the fat The real grease eyaporated"
 Where did you shoot that nam moth?" piped a fellow in the crowd.
 Well, maybe you boys think you have 1t on me-" reioined Fox, but let me tell you I did shoot him. and ] shot him on the Yukon river bank above Dawson, and the carcass is now there"
 All the fellows opened their mouths with astonishment. Everyone was from Missouri
 But it's this way" said Fox. I shot him while he was lying com pressed under a million tons of rock, and where he had been resting for two hundred million years.
 "As l was coming down the Yukon river in my canoe the other day. put over to the right limit of the riv- CT below the mouth of the Sixty-mile river.
 "In a secluded bend in the river where it was almost a cove ! ob. served In a clin about thirty feet high singularly whitish object pro jecting a foot or so from the regular face or the rock. got closer to it, and on inspection found 1t was the end of mammoth tusk. took shot at it with my rifle. and brought down a part of the ivory. That con firmed my first suspicious. had done ivory carving in Dawson for years. and ] know mammoth ivory from mastodon ivory quite we'll The mastaGon ivory is checked Ike a crocodile hide. and yellowish, while that of the mammoth is whitish and has long grain.
 After securing the sample of the tusk. got several sticks of dyna- mite. and placed them in the face of the blum just beneath the point where the tusk protruded There is where shot the mammoth. Those several shots of dynamite disturbed enough of his prehistoric majesty to afford me these samples. The dyna- mite explosions freed cap of rock along the face of the blum so that the mammoth remains were exposed. The strata is two feet thick and 20 feet along the exposed edge did not have time to drift in on the prop osition. but feel assured the bones are there unless absorbed or done away by teaching of the water and the chemical action in the rocks
 Now. 1t is only a matter of re- covery of the rest of the fibre be- lieve that the mammoth was caught under the heavy rock from above which crushed him against the other rock beneath and. being encased hem etically, the fibre was preserved. l threw some of the white fibre to my cats. and they gnawed on it. Since 1t did not hurt them. have eaten some. and think mammoth steak is all right. Of course it is a little drier than ierked beef, and lacks the salt. but we can get plenty of salt.
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