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Show Alaska is found to produce something some-thing besides fish, seals, and icebergs, after all. : A vessel has arrived at San Francisco with a cargo of fossil ivory from that prized domain. So fur as explored, the banks of the streams of Alaska are said to abound in fossil ivory. The marshes adjacent are reported to be full of bones and tusks of ancient elephants, many sticking stick-ing out of the mud like stumps. A member of the Alaska fur company affirms that there is ivory enough on the Yukon river to supply the commerce com-merce of the world for one hundred years. |