THE WASHINGTON TIMES — OCTOBER 19, 1903
LIVING MAMMOTH.
Dr. Frizell, Back From Alaska, Declares Marks in the Snow Were Huge.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., Oct. 19—Dr. J. P. Frizell, who has arrived here from the north, says in an interview:
“I don’t wish to make myself ridiculous to the scientitic world by stating as at fact that at least one living specimen of the mammoth family is still roaming at large on the American side of the Arctic regions. However, I saw with my own eyes comparatively fresh tracts that apparently could not have been made by any other animal but a mammoth. I ran across the animal’s tracks in the island of Unimak, which is 125 miles around and twenty-five miles in width. It is about four miles from the mainland, and animals can walk back and forth from land.” Dr. Frizell is in the Government’s employ, and has been in the Arctic regions for several years.
“The tracks could be distinctly seen in the ice and snow, and I followed them for quite a distance.” the doctor added. “They sank four inches deep into the frozen ground, and were four feet apart, showing that distance to be the stride of the animal. The size of the tracks were nineteen by twenty inches. In each track were the distinct impressions of eighteen toes. I ran across these animal tracks in the country between Mount Pomgromni and Mount Scheshchaid.
