ANIMAL REMAINS
FOUND ON DORIC
To lie Photographed. Brought
to Town and Placed on
Exhibition.
Drifting lias recently disclosed a
huge tusk on H. F. Thumm's
ground. No. 2 Doric creek. It is
more than 10 inches in diameter
and has been uncovered for a dis
tance of possibly 12 feet. The
point yet lemams imbedded in the
earth, and the exact dimensions can
not be ascertained; but it is be
lieved it will prove to be one of the
largest specimens of its kind ever
fou.id i 1 the north. Its curvature
is even, and the only thing, so far,
to indicate imperfection as a speci
men is the tact that it is broken in
two six feet from the big end. This
great piece of fossil ivoiy was found
in the roof o! the mine about 17 feet
from the surface.
Some 50 leet distant, on the same
claim, there was recently unearthed
the fossil head of a prehistoric spe
cies of buffalo. No horns now re
main attached to this massive piece
of bone, but one of the projections
remaining intact prove that they at
one time existed of immense thick
ness and length. The skull is
broadest at the top, and if both the
horn nobs were in place the whole
might measure nearly five feet.
Kye sockets on the sides are large
and deep. The brain cavity is
small and covered by immense
thickness of bone. The structure
of the head indicates that these ex
tinct beasts were prepared to de
fend themselves against powerful
foes.
The specimens will be photo
graphed, after which they are to be
sent in by Hcetei 's teams and placed
on exhibition in Rampart.
No. 2 Doric is a very rich claim.
It was first worked to any extent
in the w inter of 1903 04. Fans were
washed running between $300 and
$400. A large cleanup will be
made this spring. The claim was
formerly the property ot J. H. Win
gale, who let it go by default.
'♦ MILKS OK PAY
ON 1‘IONKKK
Kmn rs i f pay having l>een touml
«>n the North Pink <1 Pioneer creek
have l>een heart) lor tome time {>.»■*!,
am) now tlehnile am! reliable in
l<> rotation ha* l-ceu icteivcd that
the rumor* are true.
O. A i*tver >»n j <|riltv>l int*>
pay futtuuig, in etimv instance*, as
high as $2 to the pan. F'ifty-cent
pans are numerous, and enough has
been accomplished to place No. 2
safely among the good paying
claims of the district.
Pay may now be said to be located
for four miles on Pioneer. A. H.
Lane, J. F. Nellany and O. A. Diver
; are building cabins preparatory to
opening up their claims.
The strike on No. 2, North Fork,
fttt nishes another case where an old
timer received the wrong “hunch.”
The claim was originally staked by
George Shirley, who let it lapse.
Afterward Mr. Diver had it record
ed and proposed to give Mr. Shirley
a half interest if he would help pros
pect the claim. Mr. Shirley refused,
saying he had no use for that couu
trv up there. Now the section al
luded to would he called rich in
any mining camp in the world.
WINDY WINTER
ON PIONEER
A correspondent writes as follows
from Pioneer creek:
It lias been so windy this winter that
we had to tie the pay streak to keep it
from Mowing awav. We had to put
weights on our cabin to keep it in place,
so we would not find ours If on our
neighbor’s claim next morning; and we
had to tie everything around the house if
we ever expected to find things as we
left them. Even the wood pile would fly
away.
One of our neighbors went to get a
couple of buckets of water. On his re
turn before he could reach the house a
whirlwind came along and blew all the
water out of his buckets.
We don’t know where all that wind
came from. We had the full benefit of
it and all th.it we wanted this winter.
We do not complain. If we had put
sails on our cabin we might have moved
further south.
JULES MARION’S
OPINION OF GLKN
Ushmoii Ncw», Feb. 34.
Glen gulch, one of the richest strikes
ever made in the Kan part camp, is near
ly worked out. This information is
brought by Jules Marion, the lower rivt r
mail superintendent, who was in the
Kampurt camp last month. *
“The !>est ground on Glen,'* says Ma
rion, “has yielded many good homo
s.«. s, anil is about exhausted. It is
dropping dow 11 as a producer. Some ol
the boys who made the l*est stakes there
put their money into other propositions
in the camp and still are in the Rampart
district
“What Cheer b. r ;s one of the propo
sitions in the camp that t* attracting con
siderable attention
'The Koono jwoylr are (Hitting in a
hsdvanltc plant on I.tub Mtnook Along
pipe lute has l«ren installed The plant
wilt cost probable ur more
Mr M.uii>iM m iotm.it urn w m
Krnratt. C.Wn guk-h {?r<>mi*v* a
g itttl nunv n»<>i* Tbr
hs.iiiunt pi-mt ..Uu.lv! la i* on Big
Miii.h.Ic
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W. W. CROCKKTT
WINES,
LIQUORS
AND GOOD
CIGARS
St. Louis
KS-C
BEERS
The Highest Priced but
the Best Quality.
BILLIARD
AND
POOL
ROOMS
12-year-old Crow Whiskey—The Only Stock.
Somethiny; New—Try Our Apricot Cocktail
The Oronndhog and His Kind
It is probable that no American
who ever wandered far enough
afield to see any of the animals here
treated of has failed, at some time
or other, to hear and perhaps take
part in discussion as to their rela
tionship to each other. It is equally
probable that no two Americans
ever met w ho held the same opin
ion: one will declare his belief to
be that the groundhog and the
marmot are identical, while the
woodchuck is entirely distinct; an
other will declare they are all the
same; another, they are all different,
and so on. I have listened long
and patiently to these discussions,
and held my own view; but not
long ago while Alaskan marmots
were under discussion my temper
was put to the test by some one
remarking: “They are all the same;
there is tn difference between the
marmot and eastern woodchuck or
badger.” liadger, indeed! What
sane man, thought I, ever before
failed to distinguish between a
badger ai d a whistling marmot?
Then and there I resolved to get
authoritative statements with which
to enlighten the next groundhog
assembly I happened amongst. I
wanted to dispose of the badger
proposition first; so 1 took up the
dictionary and turned to—
KAIHiKK. A plantigrade quadruped
of the genus f'rsus. (I.inn.,) now ranked
in a separate genus, lalut or MiUt,) oi
a clumsy make, with abort, thick legs,
ard long clav. on the foie feet. It in
ti, h t« the north ol hurope ami Asia, fur
rows, is indolent and sleepy, fi'eds to
night on vcirci; l>l< s, and is generally very
tat. Its skin is used tor pistol furniture,
its flesh makes good bacon, and its hair
is used for brushes to soften the shades
in paint ng.
The American badger is called the
groundhog, and is sometimes white.
Now wei 1.n't that shake your
confidence in the wtsdi in of Noah
\Veludei .* I't'couiag hI, I turned
to—
('•Kill Spin HI The | opol r n imr of
the American \ re tom vs, or marmot. ilMt*
alls Called, in New I Itglam!. H e. ,y, am. k
Then I begun to see that the
dn tioiian was aiming to dodge the
issue and liy lo please all by with
bolding the truth from any; but I
thought I would follow up the sub
ject a little fui ther, so I looked up—
WOODCHUCK, [wood anrl Persian
chuk, a hog. See Chuk.] In New Eng
land, the popular name of a rodent mam
mal, a species of the Marmot trihe of
animals, the Arctomys monax. The
groundhog. It burrows and is dormant
in winter.
Remember, the dictionary directs
us to see—
CHUK. A word used in calling swine.
It is the original name of that animal,
which our ancestors brought with them
from Persia, where it is still in use. Pers.
chuk, Zend, chuk, a hog; Sans, sugara.
Our ancestors, w hile in Kngland, adopted
the Welsh hwc, hog; but chuck is re
tained in our popular name of woodchuck,
that is, wood hog.
So it is found that we could call
a groundhog a ground chuck or a
woodchuck a wood//<y without in
either case changing the sense. But
1 remember that the dictionary
called the groundhog a marmot, an
epithet not applied to the badger;
so I turn to—
MARMOT. [It. marmotta.] A quad
ruped of the genus Arctomys, allied to
the murine tribe. It is about the size of
the rabbit, and inhabits tlu higher region
of the Alps and Pyrenees. The name is
also given to other species of the genus.
The woodchuck of North America is
called the Maryland marmot.
The marmot is allied to the mu
rine tribe; so I find —
MU KIN T pertaining to a mouse or
. mice.
. Now there you are. According
I to Webster and his success* rs
i. The badger, the groundhog,
the woodchuck and the marmot are
one.
j. The groundhog in New ling
land is .1 woodchuck, ami the wood
chuck is a groundhog. They are
both m irmots, anywhere, and are
both clinks, or hogs.
,t Marmots are murines,ot mice
Hogs make good haem; hence,
marmots Wing mice, mice must be
marmots, marmots are badger*, and
badgers are hogs and make good
bacon; therelore mice make good
Iwcon,
So much for the dictionary. In
the future, as in the past, 1 will cal!
a badger a badger, ami discretut
him t*.r bacon, to me a groundhog
is stt'.I a gioiitdliog. am) a marmot
i* ho mouse. C