Show A NOVEL WOODYARD The greatest curiosity noted by tray i clem in Alaska Is the wonderful hnen of drift wocd on the coast between Ya katag and K > ak inlands some 1200 or lf > 00 miles northwest from Seattle The constant deposit of logs and driftwood Is this particular spot which has be jn going on for hundreds perhaps thousand thou-sand of years Is duo to the phenomena of time tides the Pacific gulf stream time mysterious ocean currents and peculiar pe-culiar formation of the shore lines at that point Logs and timbers are I readily identified there as having come I from Japan China India and other parts of Asia as well as from California Califor-nia Washington and other parts of the American continent There die fine logs of the camphor tree the mahogany ma-hogany the redwood and the pine In this driftage Some of those from the State of Washington contain the names of the men who foiled the trees and of the sawmills for which they j were destined but never reached Logs eight feet In diameter ore in this novel woodyard and some entire trees 150 feet long arc there uplifted by 1 time roots cast Into the sea by some terrible tempest and sent floating around the world Often persons ou the beach descry Vs trcca flouting shoreward with fantastic roots above the waves One beach after another has been formed by the floating tim beis and a little distance buck from the shore the deposits arc so aid that the wood In somo places is petrified while a little deeper In the earth it has turned into coal The newer logs are without bark and as hard as stone due it Is thought to their loiii immersion la salt water They have all taken on a whitish appearance In places the timbers are plledftwenty feet high at other points ther rise to a height of only four or live feet Under this wonderful won-derful beach are found largo quantities of dark duby sand rich in fine particles of gold for the separation of which no successful process has yet been discovered discov-ered Chicago TimesHerald |