The Cordova daily times., 1921-04-01

Shoi id5e, AldShd. AbOul year dSO l Parker spent several months in Crook | country, making Investigations near Prineville for Henry Mccall the son. in-law of Thomas Lawson. Mccall | was interested in seeing if copper, ! tin, silver or gold could be locateds in :! paying quantities in Crook county
 "I was unable to find any deposits | of these metals,' said Parker, though that does not necessarily 1 mean that they are not there. I did find, however, indications which led me to believe that there are valuable mineral deposits of high grade iron ore in Crook county, As you un- of volcanic origin. It would require drilling to determine whether hemi- tite ore is there is paying quantities. Personally, I believe there is an extensive hemitite ore suitable for mining within 10 miles of Prievllle.
 Ours is an old New England fam ily." continued Parker My great, great grandfather, Parson Walker, was the first minister of Concord, N. l H., and was it's only minister for many years You probably have heard of him; he was quite famous. I was born by the shores of the Atlantic on July 9, 1867. I was graduated from the School of Mines at Colum. bia university I accepted chair in the department of mining after being graduated and for 20 years was a professor at Columbia My present work is that of a mining en- gineer and mining geologist.
 I Since 1910 I have lived in Alaska. In 1906, with Dr. Frederick A. Cook, was on an exploring expedition in the Yentna river district in Alaska. As you probably know, the Yentna river takes it's source from the gla- ciers in the sides of Mount Mckinley Il With us on this trip was Russell Porter, who served as our topograph- II Ci' hG bItLpo "O plCpCI bI llIio district are now the official maps of the United States geological survey of this district, which lies about 40 miles south of Mount Mckinley.
 'Dr. Cook was very anxious to see ; if we could find a way from the head of the Yentna river to scale Mount Mckinley. After repeated ef- forts, we found there was no possible pass whereby we could reach the northern slope of Mount Mckinley from the head of the Yentna river.
 After finishing our work, I started out, but Dr. Cook said he would stay for a week or two to make hunting trip with one of our packers, a man named Brill, who hailed from Mon. tana. Dr. Cook stayed to do his hunting. He kept the motor boat for use on the river, which, by-the-by, is one of the swift rivers in Alaska. When Dr. Cook returned to the states he announced that after my departure he had found an easy way that we had overlooked and had climbed Mount Mckinley. Prior to his reputed ascent of the mountain Dr. Cook had sent Belmore Brown off on an exploring trip, so that Dr. Cook and his companion Brill, were the only ones who could say whether he had or had not climbed Mt. Mo- Kinley. Dr. Cook produced photo graphs of the summit of Mount Mo Kinley and also of the glaciers, as proof of his assertion that he had climbed the mountain. Belmore Brown pronounced his claim absurd.
 q, myself, knew that the photo graphs were-to use harsh term faked.
 "You remember the controversy over the matter. This controversy served to advertise pr. Cook, so that he wrote and lectured about his trip and made lot of money. A wealthy man named John R. Bradley, believ- ing Dr. Cooks story, put up' the money for trip to Greenland to hunt muskox. When Dr. Cook reached Etah, in Greenland, he told MT Brad ley he would stay to do some further exploring. Bradley left him with one man to serve as assistant, and small outfit of supplies.
 "There is no need of going into particulars as to Dr. Cooks trip from Etah You will remember that he claimed that with two Eskimo boys he reached the north pole. You will remember what furore his book, My Attainment of the Pole," created Some of the best known and most trustworthy explorers, believing in Dr. Cooks integrity, publicly ex pressed the opinion that he had