The daily Alaskan., 1922-12-12
4 TROPICAL VALLEY
 IN THE FAR NORTH

engineer, with a story or a tropical valley in the heart of the frozen North near the Yukon boundary. ] where boiling rivers so heat the cur rounding country that rose bushes grow to the height of trees, while i veins of precious metals run side byI side to mountains of coal and fierce bubbung springs of oil
 For seventeen years, with only two pack dogs to carry his equipment, Perry explored the unknown sub Arctic regions until he by chance came upon this vast paradise in the midst of snow-covered mountains, according to a story in the Dawson News.
 The area of the terrain is rough | Iy 700 miles wide it lies between the coastal range and the Laird and Fort ] Nelson rivers, and contains factors 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 cov- cred with heavy fog. This valley was approximately 200 miles long and about forty wide. Rivers of hot water ran through it, fed by hund- reds of hot springs, which bubbled out of the ground n all directions. The steam from these being con- deused on rising and forming the fog which he had first seen from tue | range crest.
 1 Perry remained in the valley and its neighborhood for a year, and never before in his experience in a game country had ne seen so many l 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 goats, caribou and moose. i with bears and other fur bearing ami , mals.
 ] Due to the exceptionally good 1 grazing in the valley. Perry states | that the moose and deer looked like the pictures of the old Norman Ihorse-aImost square from fat
 and they were so tame that he has
 been able to walk amongst them, l and could almost touch them as they
 fed.
 This country Is never visited by the Indians due to the fact that the
 imprints of huge 3-toed prehistoric animals are found in the sandstones
 and shales; the Indians think these | monsters still roam the country. and although they know it to be a hunt 1 CTS paradise they give the valley a
 wide berth. In addition to the ihot springs, some of which break from the ground at a boiling tenn 1 Iperature. there are mineral springs iof various descriptions.
 The black soil is of a depth which i Perry estimated at between sixty 1 seven and seventy feet. on a clay sub-sol, while the tree growth was abnormal The ordinary wild rose
 bushes were like trees, with stems [ as thick as a mans forearm, and so { dense that it was impossible to force
 a way through them, while the will flows grew to tree size and 1t was
 possible to walk along the brar,hes. Some of the trunks of the latter were fully one foot and a half through.
 vines grew to the length of about
 sixty feet and nettIes and ferns were both of an unusual height.
 During the winter there was no
 frost in this valley, and for 25 miles along 1t there was open land suitable flor rauchiug. the width of the bot tom being estimated at four miles. 1 In other sections 1t is a mixed, park like country which would need clear ing of birch and willow, but there 1 are considerable areus open in patch Pes. Perry states that in addition to l the marveIs of vegetation the miner ! aIs in this unknown terrain are quite
 equal in their unusual quantities. In ! different formations, but close to- 1 getber, gold, silver and copper were found. some of the samples viewed in Edmonton and brought out by 1 Perry being apparently rich. In par ! ticular he struck three veins which 1 were particularly good. These were about forty feet long, but there are 1 thousands of others, says the en- l gineer. Coal there IS, too, with iron ! in proximity; of the first named
 what practically amounts to a wnole l mountain was found. one seam meas turing eight hundred feet across the strike.