The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-18

rwagons hauling water and supplies
SO there was no chance OF danger
from the desert Then he built
raft that the choppy waters might
LOT safe transit to the island. Then
I1ae marshaled Sorce Of armed men
loe such strength that he was sure
| it would not be attacked for the
ISeri had learned of the deadly bark
Io9 a rife against which he had no
counter weapon. The law Of the party
was that II was to stick together
Thus did 1t avoid adventure.
EugenIc Tests Required.
Two expeditions were made and
months were spent in the region.
Finally friendships were established
with certain of these Indians. they
were studied, photographed, classified.
One OF the most fascinating reports
OF the peculiarities of a new-found
people ever published by the Smith
Isonian Institution resulted people
over six feet tall that was SO fleet
lof foot as to capture with its bare
or the wild cattle of the nearby
ranges; so primitive that they tore
1.-THE raw flesh with their teeth yet
Iso raciaI1y wise that each young mal
was forced to the most drastic Su-
genie tests before he was allowed to
marry and driven into the desert to
Idfe If he failed
These scientific explorers have gone
into the great Colorado desert and
surveyed it and mapped ii. They laid
out the boundaries of Glacier Ma
|tional park in that riot Of mountains
just this side Of Canada. In the
Great Bend Of the Rio Grande they
have contested every step with the
|rattlesnakes. One of them was wind
ing around trail on a ledge of Cop
per mountain, In Ala3ka, one day
when he met mountain sheep which
disputed with him the right of way
He killed the sheep with a hatchet
and carried 1t to camp and ate it up
but had he been bungling adven-
|turer he would have been butted over
the cliff.
There is unitarian side to all this
work 1t was because OF 1T that Uncle
Sam learned5of the value of his hold
tings in Alaska I'm time to keep them
from slipping away. 1t was the knowl-
edge of the geologist explorer that
led to the location of mountain
range of phosphates when, a few
years ago, there was a scare because
|of an apparent exhaustion of this
material that serves as a basis for
fertilizer.
Told Of Needed Water.
Sucn SeQloSiSL explorer one uhy
stopped to change trains at plains
town in western South Dakota. He
talked with the station agent who
lamented the difhculty that the town
was experiencing in getting water for
the ordinary uses. The geologist told
the railroad man that 400 feet down
there. was strata or not artesian
water TheNrailroad drilled for it.
found it, and today there Is an abund-
|ance of water. for. the town which
uses it for ordinary purposes and to
heat It's houses as well. The geo1og1st
had seen the strata of stone that I'M
|derlines this region come to the sur
face on the rim of the Rockies hun
|dreds Of miles away. He knew that
the water beneath it was seeking an
outlet.
The theory that there is no danger II
care is taken to understand the tasks
confronted by the explorer is borne
out by one convincing fact These
scientific men always return from
their expeditions There Is no record
|of one OF them having met death. Yet
the men of the street who would under
take the same trips would have little
chance of surviving them.