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Show RICHES IN NIAGARA GOLD IN PAYING QUANTITIES IN THE WHIRLPOOL. Peter Nlssen Sayo Soundings He Has Mada Demonstrate the Fac. Beyond Possibility of Doubt His Idea Ex-plainej. Ex-plainej. It has remained for Peter Nlssen ot Chicago to thrill the henrts of the residents res-idents of tho Nlasara locality with an opinion that tlicro Is gold In paying quantities at tho uottorh of tho Niagara Niag-ara whirlpool, that river pocket that is so full of mystery. Jlr. Nlssen Is tho man who twlco boldly navigated tho whirlpool rapids In a boat of his own construction, and on his secoud visit to tho whirlpool Is alleged to luivo tak.cn soundings in order to penctrato tho mystery of Its depth, formation, etc. For over six hours Nlssen floated helplessly about tho pool, taking soundings when opportunity offered, and now, In nn interview, he says tho full Importanco of his discoveries of that eventful day did not como to him for six months. Hero la what he says: "A llttlo over a year ago' I floated nrountl In the whirlpool ono day from 12 o'clock noon to 7:30 o'clock In the evening. I bobbed my lead agnlnst tho bottom moro than 100 tlmos, but obtained no moro than 32 good sound-Iug3. sound-Iug3. Besides these soundings I dls-tllcovored dls-tllcovored tho remarkablo fact that the bottom of tho pool Is covered with sand. Thcro was something so strango about this that I could not lcavo off thinking about it. Tho interpretation of It did not como to mo till moro than six months later. "In order that you may follow my thought I want to tell you a fow facts with which you may already bo familiar.. fami-liar.. There was a tlmo In the geologic history of America when tho northeastern northeast-ern part of this country was entirely covered with Ice. This Is sometimes called tho Labrador Ice Bheet, from tho fact that It covered tho Labrador peninsula and camo from that direction. direc-tion. Its southern border crossed tho Ohio river near Cincinnati. It oxtend-ed oxtend-ed through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and west of tho great lakes. "The Ice contlnuoJ to thaw at tho southern and westorn extremities, while the frost and snow kept adding to it in the north. This made it moro like a mighty glacier across tho rocks of Canada. Its Immense weight and force ground and scoured theso rocks and carried tho debris southward, whore It was deposited from place to place wherever circumstances permitted. permit-ted. Before this lco ago there was a Niagara river, but whon, on account of tho warmer cllmato In this region, tho lco receded northward and tho Niagara again began to flow, its old bed from the whirlpool to St. David's had been entirely filled up, so that tho river found an easier outlet toward Lowlston. "Theso facts are well known. Every student of Niagara is familiar -with them. It Is equally woll known that there Is a belt of gold-bearing rock that extends all through tho Labrador peninsula and northwest of tho lakos. It has an area of ovor 200,000 Bquaro miles. In this rock thcro aro tho gold mines at Hastings directly north of tho falls. In thla, rock aro also gola mines throughout Labrador, Quebec and Ontario. It Is tho very samo rock in which Alaska gold Is found. It Is tho debris of this rock that was carried car-ried down by the ice and deposited in which gold Is found in the Chaudiero country, south of tho St Lawrence. It is the debris ot this rock, carried down in the same way, in which, according ac-cording to ono well-known goologlgt, 'thero is gold everywhoro In the Unit-' ed States from Canada to Florida.' If la this same debris that has filled up the St. Davids channel, of which tho whirlpool of Niagara was a part. "When the river began to flow anew it was directed against this deposit, like tho giant nozzlos used for gold mining in the west. Out thero they collect flno gold sand between tho rails at tho bottom ot tho flume, whllo tho water, sand and gra,y'ol flow" on. The very same condition exists In tho whirlpool. The water has flowod for ages and washed out millions upon millions of cubic feet of sand and gravel. Take theso faes In conjunction conjunc-tion with my discovery .that thero is sand on tho bottom of tho whirlpool, would It then bo unreasonable to think that this is gold-bearjng sand? Omaha Bee. |