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-Not. the Skeleton of a_Mastodon but that of a True Elephant says sure ‘Talmage. Last Tuesday Dr. James ‘. Tal mage of Salt Lake City arrived in on or and made a’spec Tip +o Béra where ‘the huge skeleton was uncovered by Christian Kunz ‘on July 12th while 2 digging a a canal ‘on-hig fart fart ie purpose of examining @ moth skeleton and to make ‘thor ough examination—of—the ground, where it was found. A number of bones were again uncovered which a were in perfect, condition and ~well ‘perserved. Some parts of the skele ton has not yet been uncovered but efforts are_being madec.t_find_every bone. Dr. Talmage stated that it was not the skeleton of a_masto don but, t that of the truer ex elephant or mammoth and miuch larger th than the mastodon such as rodmed these valleys i in early times. Judging from the grounds of sand where the skeleton was found, “the doctor was of the ‘opinion that the hugh animal weighed fully thirty tons and in trying to * cross ‘@-sand-bar-mired-in-the-quicksand and perished. Many specimens of the mammoth have been found east of Salt-Take and these intermountain valleys; put. no complete skeleton like this one, ‘It will’be shipped to
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Paris Post
Paris, Idaho, US
Fri, Aug 04, 1911
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