Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — Expect Find of Interest [ARTICLE]

Expect Find of Interest

The Spokane museum has leased a 160-acre Coplan ranch, near that city, and soon will begin "prospecting” for the complete skeleton of one of the largest mastodons ever unearthed. Parts of the skeleton have been located. The farm, which is a low, boggy plaee, has been the source of several mastodon skeletons unearthed in the past years. There are several more skeletons bogged in the place, it is believed, and the one the Spokane museum hopes to recover complete will stand 14 feet high with tusks extending about ten feet out from the Jaws. This will equal in size the largest mastodou ever unearthed, which was found on this same farm In 1878, and is now on exhibition at the Academy yf Science iu Chicago.