The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-05


 near the Yukon boundary, where boil ing rivers so heat the surrounding country that rose bushes grow to the height of trees while veins of precious metals run side by side to mountains of coal and fierce bubbling springs of oil.
 For seventeen years, with only two pack dogs to carry his equipment, the lone prospector explored the sub-Arc- tic regions, until he by chance came upon this vast paradise in the midst of snow covered mountains, according to the Dawson News.
 The area of the country explored is roughly 700 miles north and south, and 300 miles wide; it lies between the coastal range and the Laird and Fort Nelson rivers and contains fac tors hitherto unknown to Canadians.
 Crossing a range one winter and reaching the crest, Perry prepared to descend into the next valley when he was surprised to find 1t was covered with a heavy fog. This valley was ap- proximately 200 miles long and about 40 wide. Rivers of hot water ran through it, fed by hundreds of hot springs, which bubbled out of the earth in all directions, the steam be- ing condensed on rising and forming the fog he had first seen from the range crest.
 Perry remained in the valley ana it's neighborhood for year and never before in all his experiences In a game country had he seen so many wild animals which congregated there for the luxuriant vegetation that was made possible by the heat generated by the springs. In the valley were hundreds of mountain sheep and goat, caribou and moose, with bears and all other fur bearing animals.
 Due to the exceptionally good graz ing in the valley, Perry states that the moose and deer looked like the pictures of the old Norman horse-ai- most square from fat-and they were so tame that he has been able to walk among them and could almost touch them as they fed.
 The country is never visited by tne Indians, due to the fact that the i'm prints of huge three-toed animals are found in the sandstones and shales: the Indians believing these monsters stfll roam the country, and although tbev know 1t to be hunters para disc they give the valley wide berth and will not go around it. In addition to the hot springs, which break from the ground at boiling temperature there are mineral springs of various descriptions.
 The black soil is of a depth which Perry estimated at between sixty seven and seventy feet, on a clay sub soil, while the. tree growth was aD' normal. The ordinary wild rose bush were like trees, with stems as thick as a mans forearm, and so dense It was impossible to force way thru them, while the willows grew to g tree size. and it was possible to walk along the branches. Some of the trunks of the latter were fully a foos and a half through, vines grew to a length of about sixty feet and netties and ferns were of an unusual size.
 During the winter there was nc frost in the valley, and for 25 miles along it there was open land suitable for ranching, the width of the bottom being estimated at four miles, In oth CT sections it Is a mixed park-like dis trict which would need clearing of birch and willow, but there are con siderable areas open in patches. Per ry states that in addition to the mar t this unknown terrain are quite equal to the other phenomena. In different formations, but close together, gold silver and copper were found, some of the samples brought out by Perry be ing very rich In particular, he found three veins which were extra good These were about forty feet wide and a hundred and fifty feet long, but there are thousands of others says the engineer Coal there is, too, with iron in proximity; of the first named what practically amounts to whole mountain was found, one seam meas uring eight hundred feet across the vein while the largest iron ore seam met with ran about 200 feet thick as far as the explorer could judge-
 In addition, oil formations were met with, and numerous seepages