The daily Alaskan., 1916-03-01
CARPENTE8. .TELLS 0F THE
 BEA0TE5.0F ALASKA GLACIERS

f a 1eAan on board said that he could have lassoed him from the deck, The deer had magnificent antlers. Its horns and head rose above the water, and its body could be seen close to the surface. It was still swimming as we moved outward, and we saw some hunters near the shore start out to catch it.
 It was from Juneau, the capital of Alaska, that l rode out in an automobile to see the Mendenhall glacier. The mOraIne of this nigh Iy ice mass lies within nine miles of The city.
 The face of the MendephaH gla- cier is a mile or more wide. It 8 a 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 Ha rode almost to the foot Of the glacier and there left the car. We then climbed oyer the rocks of the mOraine to the edge of the glacial stream which flows along the foot of the wall. We were not moro than the width of 8 city street from the wall It. self. The MendenhalI glacier, where 1t bursts forth from the mountains, is net more than @ mile wide, It rises almost precipitously, with grea' gutters cutting its face and with many small holes which the guides tell the credulous Chechako, 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 mlnorR when starT- ing. Indeed, they prove the story showing @ photograph of Q miner masticating the worms which he is sucking from the ice. The photograph Is a real one, but the worms, I an told, are strings of spaghetti.
 
 From the Lynn canal westward' from here for a distance Of four or five hundred miles, are to be found the greatest glaciers of Alaska. Gen. Greedy gives a cata- logue cf tho names and localities of more than 200 of them, and G. X. Gilbert of the Hartman expedi- ton says their glacial ice covers from 15,OOO 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.
 Nearly every river in Alaska has it's source ir a glacier. The triDu- raries of the Yukon are fed by glaciers and tho same Is true of tae Kuskokwim. The Tanana, up on which Fairbanks is located, IS formed by the Chisana and Nabesna river, both of which rise in glaciers in the WrangeII mountains, and the springs forth from a glacier of the Alaskan range. The Cop per river is fed by glaciers, ana the Copper River railway, which connects the KenneCott mines with rhe sea, passes between the ChiSds glacier and the Miles glacier on it's way to Cordoya. The Childs glacier is 800 feet high and three miles in width.
 Glacier bay is only a short dist ance from where I am writing. This body of water is fifty miles long, and 1t has more than a half dozen glaciers of enormous size. The biggest Is the Muir glacier, named after John Muir, who discoEered it. It is three miles wide where 1t enters the water, and the height of the ice wall is almost 1000 feeI roo feet being underneath the sur face. The glacier is very lively and it has been supposed by some to move as much as sixty feet a day, but a fair estimate would probably be oDe-azxth of the speed
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 In addition to tbE valley glaciers Alaska has some great ice fields or ice caps, such as the Malaspina glacier. This glacier is @ great sheet of ice, larger than the state oP Rhode Island. It has a front