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Show GEOLOGY Of ALASKA Discoveries of Mastodon Teeth and Beaver Dams Important ' Seattle, Wash., Oct 29. A hydraulic hy-draulic nozzle, cittlng away an ancient an-cient gravel bank on th, Kougarok river. I2u miles from Nome, to wash , out gold, uncovered sixty mastodon teeth grinders of eight huge elephants ele-phants that roamed over Seward peninsula when that now frozen country coun-try was covered with abundant v ge-tutlen. ge-tutlen. Other bones were found, and the miners hopo to come upon the re. malnder of the skeletons. Some 'f the molars have been sent to Professor Profes-sor George Quarkenbos of the American Ameri-can Museum of Natural History, New York. Nearby the nozzle uncovered a 1 beaver dam whose frajtio was mm-pose mm-pose of fir timber a foot In diameter. There Is not a llr tree within hundreds hun-dreds of miles of the place today. The mastodons, beavers and fir trees are shown to have been contemporaries, conUrming the belief that the mastodon masto-don survived long after Alaska had ceased to have a tropical climate. 1 |