WONDERS OF ALASKA
DREDGES RECOVER IVORY PREHISTORIC ANIMALS' TUSKS Four great gold dredges, the property of a British-Canadian company, are now operating in the Yukon Valley, Alaska. The}' probe the deposits of silt and gravel to a depth of 40ft., and in many places the rock bottom of the valley is swept by these giant machines in their search for gold. Mr. T. Y. Wardrop, of Christchurch, who inspected the dredges during his recent- visit to Alaska, stated in an interview that the machinery was bringing up great quantities of mastodon and mammoth ivory and prehistoric walrus tusks. Mr. Wardrop was shown an ivory tusk 15ft. long and lOin. in diameter at the base, and he was told by scientists that between 200,000 and 500.000 years ago the valley was sub-tropical and inhabited by mastodons and mammoths.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22211, 11 September 1935, Page 10
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