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Show Cannot Reach the North Pole, Following is a synopsis o( Hn article that appuatcd in Hunday's issue of the Inter-Mountain Republican, July 7ih. 1907: Matthew Dalton lives at Wi'. lard, and has lived there many years. Neighbors will tell you he is honest, fair and good in business, without finding it necessary neces-sary to oppress anyb )dy. He has a theory of the, earth's formation a little different than that held by the rest of us, and is pretty well supported in his view by the fact that we haven't come any nearer proving our theory than he has his and he has a bigger theory. He believes there are three spheres, instead of this one little globe on which we believe be-lieve we live, and that the three are connected. We have the honor to occupy the middle sphere of the three, and that the other too are attached io ours,one one at the north and the other at the south, by means of a sort of "neck". If he is right, you 'know why the North Pole has never been discovered. The actual North Pole is down under a whole lot of ice and unpleasant stuff of that sort. And instead of the convex con-vex enrve of the earth continuing over the pole,the curve is reversed when you get within say a hundred hun-dred miles, and if you held to the right line you would travel over the diminishing diameter of the neck, and presently you would be rising upon the sphere to the north of our world, and would finally follow your cancave route to the point where the surface would swell under your feet. Mr Dalton wrote to Lieutenant R, E. Peary and sent him a copy ot his book "A Kev to This Earth" and received following communication: Now York May 14, 1007. M.'W. Dalton. Dear Sir: 1 havo your favor of April iiflrd also aromp'tuylng book "A Key to This Earth" for both of which accept my thanks. I very much appreciate your friendly expressions nnd wishes, and wlillo I am uot likely to have time now to give myself my-self thu pleasure of rcadlug your book, I shall tako It with meaud read It while north. Again thanking you for your courtesy and with bet regards, I am very sincerely. Robert E.Pkiibt, Qiiani Unios IIotjcl, . N. Y. If you have at all followed the literrture of his faith, you will know that they believe there are a great number of "the chosen": hidden away "in the north coun- try" until that time when God, in the fullness of His wisdom, shall set them free. There are the ten lost tribes of Israel. There are a good many rea sons convinicng Mr Dalton that his thcojy is right. One of them I gather from his little book: Where do you suppose the waters went to at the termination of the flood? They couldn't disappear by evaporation. They wonld not "run down, and run into the sea" for the sea was filled. Mr Dalton Dal-ton believes those water were "withdrawn to the north," and that they carried much drift with them. In this drift were many animals. What is on the south sphere? The little book doesn't say. Mr Dalton doesn't say. And that is a good thing. He has already al-ready given us enought to puzzle over in advancing his theory of the North Pole. And until Mr Wellman flies back with news of hnaving camped at the Pole, or Lieutenant Peary drives home triumphant with his great task accomplished, how are we going to convince Mr Matthew Dalotn of Willard Box Elder county Utah that he is wrong. |
