Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-20

clpltOus ice wall which ran back and gradually
rose to the sky line, where it seemed to fill the
whole space between the hills and was lost in
the clouds
The face of the Mendenhall glacier is mile
or more wide. 1t is huge corrugated wall of
blue and white ice sloping upward into a great
field of ice-mountains, which in the distance
seem to be of marble carved out by sculptor.
Coming closer we rode almost to the foot Of
the glacier and there left the car. We then
climbed over the rocks Of the moraine to the
edge of the glacial stream which flows along
the foot Of the wall. We were not more than
the width of a city street from the wall it
self. The Mendenhall glacier, where it bursts
forth from the mountain, is not more than
mile wide. 1t rises almost preCiptouslv, with
great cutters cutting its face and with MANY
small holes which the guides tell the credulous
Cheechako or tenderfoot have been made by
the ice worms They say there are certain
worms that live in the ice and that these are
often taken out and eaten by the miners when
starving Indeed, they prove the story by
showing a photograph of miner actually
nlasticatng the worms which he is sucking
from the ice. The photograph is a real one,
but the worms | am told, are strings OF spa
ghett
AS | stood in front Of the Mendenhall ola
cier and looked at the wall it seemed to me
that was under cliff, looking up at a range
of ice mountains. The moraine was made up
Of boulders and pebbles of all sizes Some of
the stones were not as big as marble and
others weighed fifty tons The bedrock Of
old Mother Earth had been secured smooth
by the glacier as it passed over it, and high
up on the hill it had left boulder that must
have weighed 100 tons. The bedrock was
slate. This boulder was granite
From the Lynn canal Westward running
from here for distance Of four or five hun
dred miles are to be found the greatest ola-
ciers of Alaska General Greedy gives a
catalogue Of the names and localities of more
than 200 of them and c. K Gilbert of the
Hartman expedition says their glacial ice
covers from $4,000 to 10000 square miles
These glaciers are mostly found within 100
miles of the ocean and the largest are on the
south side of the coast range There are elev-
en- wide glaciers on Prince William sound and
you can stand in Seward and see glaciers all
about you on the sides Of the mountains. There
are two great glaciers in the Mount Mckinley
region, one Of which is forty miles long. The
latter is weighted down with broken stones
and is said to have a larger moraine than any
other glacier of the world.
Among the Prince William sound glaciers
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our chief mems colleges, Columbia, Harvard
and Yale; and there are five named after
women's colleges Wellesley Bryn Mawr
Nassar, Radcliffe and Smith The latter are
all cascade glaciers and have mountain streams
pouring from under them
Nearly every river in Alaska has its source
in glacier. The tributaries of the Yukon are
fed by glaciers and the same is true of the Kus-
ko<wim The Tanana, upon which Fairbanks
is located, is formed by the Chsana and Ma
besna rivers, both of which rise in glaciers in
the Wrangell mountains and the Susitna
springs forth from a glacier Of the Alaskan
range The Copper river is fed by glaciers.
and the Copper River railway, which connects
the Kennecott mines with the sea passes be-
tween the Chds glacier and the Miles glacier
on its way to Cordova. The Childs glacier is
300 feet high and three miles in width. 1t
winds its way down the mountains like a
mighty frozen snake for distance of seventy
five miles. The Miles glacier is almost as
large
Glacier bay is only short distance from
where I am writing This body of water is