| Show FOSSIL IVORY IN A LASKA ALASKA stories of 0 miners miner th that at sound like romances it was quite the result of accident that what may be called the last home of the mammoths mam moths for we can hardly credit the indian tales of live specimens specimen became known to a white man says the pall mall gazette the redskins red skins 01 ol a village on the yukon river have long known of the spot but of the value of the ivory have beer beep totally ignorant they are silent men those redskins red skins except when liquor is if in them and it required long residence among them bafo before re a minar named george hughes heard of the treas treasure ure trove and its whereabouts illness kept this man a prisoner pris onel at a year or two ago As he recovered L li began to learn many of the indian ways and partially mastered t the he language of the particular tribe he was with his attention was attracted tc the ivory ornaments the natives wore womb and he noticed that even their rude dining articles were made of the sami same material he induced the india indians tc show him the place whence came the ivory it took everal days hard sleighing to reach the spot but the reward was worth the work the miner saw what no white man had ever before witnessed there on this plain frozen to the ground were hundreds 1 and hundreds of skeletons of gigantic I 1 beasts and scattered everywhere wert I 1 the file tusks white and gleaming with frost this was undoubtedly a graveyard j of mammoths mam moths and the miners fancy pictured it also as a battlefield for in some instances the tusks of on ont i animal were found buried in the skeleton of another but this is not the 1 i place where the ivory has been found one miner on sixty mile creek found a tusk of a mammoth that projected seven feet out of a bank the lomei end was buried in frozen soll soil yet another came across a tusk he could scarcely lift while a third who camf cam 1 down from klondike the other daa da told of a mammoth tusk found close tc the already famous bonanza creek it II is perhaps not strange that no one has haj brought down any of this ivory but bul I 1 some of the adventurous men out ol 01 the thousands who have gone to the th arctic gold fields s will perhaps return with tusks it is not much to be expected however as the more ivory one on carries the less gold one can bring down and besides these miners may have been romancing that is hardly to be believed however seeing that thai several who had no connection with each other told of tusks |
