Identifier: alaskaklondike00mcla (find matches)
Title: Alaska and the Klondike
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: McLain, John Scudder, b. 1853
Subjects: Alaska Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries
Publisher: New York : McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e or four feet where perishablefood supplies may be kept in constant cold storage. A boxis let down into the excavation where, surrounded by theperpetual ice, the temperature of a first-class refrigeratorplant is constantly maintained. The use of such devices inhotels and domestic establishments furnishes an obviousanswer to the query as to the desirability of being the ice-man in Alaska. In numerous places in Alaska the enormous ivory tusksof the mastodon were met with. These remnants of theanimal life of a past age are supposed to prove that atsome time or other the earth has slipped upon Its axis,changed the direction of Its diurnal revolution and thatwhat is now the Frigid Zone was once within the Torridbelt. Of late that theory has been combated by those whocontend that the mastodon was not necessarily the denizenof a \varm country and that the climate of the north hasnot necessarily changed. However that may be, all relicsof prehistoric days are suggestive to the imagination and
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oPQ 114 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE no little interest was excited by the discoxery on the roofof one of the Rampart cabins ol a pair of enormous hornsjoined together by a portion of the skull of the animalto which they once belonged. These horns were found bysome miners digging in the gravel of Little Minook creeknot far from Rampart. They were embedded at a depthof twenty-two feet below the surface and w^ere in a re-markable state of preservation. They measured three feetand ten inches at the widest spread and fifteen and a halfinches in circumference. The tips curved inward somethingafter the manner of buffalo horns, but the pair were muchlarger than the horns of the American bison. ColonelTimothy E. Wilcox, deputy surgeon general of the UnitedStates army, who first joined our party at Juneau, andsubsequently fell in with us again at Eagle, and who wason a tour of inspection of the hospital service and sanitarycondition of the Alaska military posts, obtained from theowner of these horn

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