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\For the benefit of those who have never visited, or flown over,
the Knik Glacier, situated about 30 miles from "’aline r, un the T^-dk
River:
Imagine a huge Y with the u^er left leg a slowly moving glacier.'
The upper right leg is a deep cleft running back into the Chugacli
Mountains. It, is in this steep walled valley that L«ke George forms.
The stem of the Y is the Miik River
Every year the glacier shoves slowly down to form a dam of ice
four hundred height across the right leg of the Y. vVter from melting
snows are corraled to form Lake George with a death of 400 feet and a
length of 25 miles. When the -pressure is great enough the impounded
water bursts through the ice barrier and one of the greatest sights
the world can offer is witnessed by the mountain sheen, wild goats and
soaring; eagles.
Boulders of ice the size of' modern ofiNLce buildings are tumbled
one over the other and shoved out into the river. Grumblings and
growlings like those of some mad Boreal Gad echo and re-echo across
the mountain chasms. The ~rnik Valley fills with a seething, swirling
and ice-burdened torrent rushing headlong for the inlet. It is truly
a cataclysm of Nature, the breaking out of this self-dumping lake.
And it dumas itself every year.
Yes, every year....but when*? Like the break-up of the river at
Ne-iana, your guess is as good as the next fellows. This will be the
first Nnik Glacier ^ool...just the start of what we hone will in time
be an even greater event than the break-uo on the 'fanana which paid
the lucky guessers approximately seventy-two thousand dollars last
spring. Make your guess... you may he lucky. Tickets may be purchased
at business houses in Calmer, I'atanuska, Wasilla and Anchorage.
RULES such as those which govern the Yenana Ice Upol will prevail,
except that this year it will be impossible to stop the clock by a
wire attached to the ice itself. The cost would be prohibitive con
sidering that only a thousand tickets are to be sold this year -- just
enough to det it started. Next year thousands will be offered.
The clock, which has been borrowed from Nenana, will be locked in
a tamper-proof box on the new T:nik River bridge. A float will be so
arranged inside a length of perforated well casing: that it will trip
the mechanism which stops the clock the moment the water In the river
has raised ten (10) feet abova the present, or average summer level.
It is estimated by old timers who have seen many breaks that this rise
will take place at the bridge within a couple of hours after the big
break is made through the glacier, and after considerable study by the
committee it has been decided that this will be the fairest, simplest
and surest method of determining the day, hour and minute upon which to
nay the prizes. ^rizes will he paid on CL0C"r time.
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Residents, of Alaska only are eligible to hold tickets.
In marking a ticket remember that 12 Noon and 12 Midnight must be
so marked, not 12 n.m. or 12 a.m.
In arriving at oavrient, the committee will consider it one minute
until it is the next^ i.e. the 30th minute and 59 seconds would
still be the 30th minute.
If tickets show a combination such as 'dicky and Co., etc., names
of all in the combination should show on the reverse side of ticket.
The ticket itself will be ^aia.
Tickets incorrectly marked will be thrown out and the money refund
ed. Names or addresses left off freak names will also be consid
incorrectly marked. A list will be published showing names, month,
day, hour and minute of all guessers and distributed to the nrinci
nal centers where tickets are sold.
io commission is to be said salesmen, stores or other neonle soi
ling tickets.
Prizes will be raid to the three closest guesses in the nronortions
of 60/b for 1st, 40,3 for 2nd and 20-3 for 3rd. At least three members
of the committee must be nresent when the clock box is onened.
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