The Alaska daily empire., 1922-12-14
DaWsOn News l

NOW cOllleS engineer, With a story of tropical valley in the heart of the frozen North near the Yukon boundary, where boiling rivers so heat the sur rounding country that rose bushes; grow ito the height of trees while veins of precious metals run side by side to mountains of coal and fierce bubbling springs of oil.
 For r years. with only two pack dogs to carry his equipment, the lone prospector explored the sub-Arctic regions, uptn he by chance came upon this vast paradise in the midst of snow covered mountains.
 The area or une 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 range one winter and reaching the crest, Perry prepared to descend into the next valley when he was surprised to find it was covered with a heavy fog. This valley was approximate 200 miles long and about 40 wide. Rivers of hot water ran through it, fed Iby 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 and its neighborhood for "a year and never before in all his experiences in a game country had he seen so many wild animals which congregated there for the 1uxuriant 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 almost square from fat-Iand they were so tame that he has been able to walk among them and could al most touch them as they fed.
 The country is never visited by the Indians, due ito the fact that the are found in the sandStones and shales; the Indians believing these monsters still roam the country, and although they know it ito be a hunt CTS paradise, they give the valley Q wide berth and will not go around it. In addition to the hot springs, which break from the ground at boil ing temperature, there are mineral springs of various descriptions.
 The black soil is nf {, depth which Perry estimated at between CT and 70 feet, on a clay sub-soi. while the tree growth was abnormal. The or dinary rose bush is like a mans forearm, and so dense they were like trees, to force a way through them, while the willows grew to q walk along the branches. Some of the trunks of the latter were fully foot and half through; vines grew to a length of about 60 feet and nettles and ferns were of an unusual size.
 During the winter there was no frost fin the valley, and for g miles along it there was open land suitable for ranching, the width of the bottom being estimated at four miles. In other sections it is a mixed park line district which would need clear ing of birch and willow, but there are considerable areas open in patches. Perry states that in ad- dGtion to the marve!s of vegetation, the minerals in this unknown ter rain 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 being very rich. In particular, >he found three veins which were extra good These were about 40 feet wide and 150 feet long, but there are. thou sands of others, says the engineer Coal there is, too, with iron in prox' imity; of the first named what prac ticSlly amounts to a whole noun tain was found, one seam measuring