Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-07-31 | Page 4 | This Wolf Has a $5000 Meal

This r Wolf olf Has HasA HasA HasA A Meal Ambergris is sought by many and found by few Every summer says Dr Robert C. C Murphy Nurphy curator of oceanic birds of the American Museum Mu Mu- seum scum of ot Natural History the beaches draw huge crowds and thousands of people eople who scan the shore for treasure treas trens ure uro and I get many letters from rom persons persons per per- sons who believe they have found ambergris which evidently Is Js worth finding Even in th these days of ot marked-down marked values it sells from 15 to 20 per ounce The substances taken for ambergris by prospectors are usually wax or resin sometimes sometime even soap and h have ve no value The only discovery discovery dis dis- dis covery within my personal experience ence of real ambergris that had b been n washed ashore dates back to 1912 when an Alaskan submitted a sample that proved to be bc the real thing He told me how haw he while strolling along the beach near Nome None had interrupted in in- a wolf eating what he at first thought to be a chunk of car car- rion non The wolf wol ran off and the man examining the stuff thought it was yas ambergris and ambergris and it was His find weighed about 35 pounds and he figured out afterward that the wolf walf he chased away had enjoyed a meal