Show old sourdough Is own dentist lack of teeth forces him to levy new set from forests seattle they used to say the meat packers reached the height of 0 elli clency when they utilized everything about the hog bog but the squeal tile palm for utilization of alil lable resources homeer ho weier weer goes to 0 nita robin son SOD thirty third degree sourdough who lives tit at engle eagle cit alaska in the yukon rier twelve miles or so from the canadian alaskan boundary line and some tit les lea from dowson yukon territory center of the great klondike gold rush of isil writes william C lyons in the new york times after some seventy summers halt of which had been passed in the a almost continuous daylight of the arctic climes as well as an equal number of dark long winters nim being bein still youthful in spirit and resourceful in the extreme when ambition or necessity called for notion action deemed it necessary to extract most of ills his teeth oatmeal mush and canned soups soaps are warming food commodities for a breakfast when the mercury boers hoers around sixty below and great quantities of them are consumed along the yukon but noon time ond and evening call tor for red meat tile sourdough set dom complains when the meat Is tough he con can handle it easily if be has teeth what this country really needs nim kirn has often reflected in i a paraphrase of that famous epigram of tile the late vice president Marsh marshall nil la 19 a good journeyman dentist but the country did not boast such a luxury true the united states public health service sends a floating hospital up the yukon some summers but more often than not it stops at fort gibbons or goes up the tanana to nelana nenana Ne tiona when nhen the early cuts it off from the upper reaches of the great waterway and leeway hence eagle city gets its dental service ice perhaps once in five years venra who wants to wait five years for a letof set of false teeth nim also reflected ted and from that reflection an idea was horn born ill have to wake make a set myself novel training for dentistry nim had and gone into the interior of alaska about tile time the first cry of gold cold I 1 re sounded from the yukon he had found a few small pay streaks but lie he was one of the large horde who did not amass great wealth and returned to seattle portland or san francisco to start hanks banks and big mercantile establishments lie he stayed these thirty years he stayed slid and as time went on he become became a past was ter in the lore rf of woodcraft lie he learned about the habitats the toi habits bitti and the anatomy even if not the hie language of the black hear benr the grizzly the wolf and the timid mountain sheep beep ne ile became a mighty hunter and chile the fascinating lure of the search for gold again and again gripped him and even occasionally now in ills his old age still grips hlin him he Is known knon best as a hunter hence the name anfin christian names lait anan no little in the alaskan Ala wilds lie ile lost ills in a few years and became first Nin irod rod and then just plain nim its as tie lie Is known today perhaps he remembers ills his old name but nhouy else does when the great idea about ills his teeth came nim set forth tor for the deep woods where grow tile the mighty spruce trees that exude gum from the bark known to woodsman nud aud sourdough us spruce gum with a good s sized hunk of this he fashioned a mold as tile dentist would liae had him do on a hunting sortie he bagged a growling bear a snarling sn arline wolf and a bl enting mountain sheep from each of these animals he matched teeth according to their suitability for incisors grinders or molars on his small native grindstone which be turned with a deot pedal he ground the teeth of these animals to suitable lengths and shapes As a miner nim had collected slugs of silver remnants from his mortar and crucible these lie spun or drew through dies which he had bad made him self into a thin wire upon the wire he strung his sheep wolf and hear bear teeth and bound them together until they looked like the necklace nei klace ornaments of t the elie indians of old who still live about him in the deep woods and along the streams A go at science about the elie milage lie he bought until lie found some of the rubber of the shoe packs or rubber boots es s sentral to the sourdoughs wardrobe these he sacrificed on the allar of science in cust tron pots until lie he had obtained a material p plis dis d Is tie tic to shape around the spruce gum molds lie he succeeded bucce eded the teeth were fastened could it be called vulcanized into the plates and the silver wire anchoring the teeth to the plute plate and holding them together before they here ere cast gave the semblance of a liberal use of in fillings and camouflaged the falseness nim miu still hunts the bear and the ran mountain sheep and with the teeth of their ancestors denes defies their toughness as lie he puts away portions of the red meat so essential to meet the rigors of tile the last fron tier it was several seer nl years ago antu chell n lie he fashioned the plates tile the conein dentists come and go more often now but nim hus has no bubines hu sinea 4 with thern them unless they want some advice on the laboratory side of their profession sounds tishy fishy mendacious perhaps per hups the story Is touched for us its true by carl fit johansen president of swed ish steel products inc of if seattle and san francisco back in the party early Os mr johansen was Cor corneals nells first paid footfall coach in those early curly days before eligibility rules interfered lie played star football for eight years four at cornell three at williams and one at harvard lie he wrote rote authoritatively on football in the old new york sun before the late walter camp was heard off he has known nha robinson since nina first went to alaska |