Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1920 — Prehistoric Tree Trunk Found in Iron Mine [ARTICLE]

Prehistoric Tree Trunk Found in Iron Mine

St Paul, Minn. —Discovery has just been made in the Holman iron mine, near Taconite, Itasca county, Minnesota, not far from the source of the Mississippi river, of the trunk and branches of a prehistoric pine tree in an excellent state or preservation and with pine cones about IL The tree Is not petrified. The wood is as sound in the main as though it had been felled only a few years ago and the pine cones are?still pliable. The wood with exposure to air has not softened or crumbled, and the find is the first of its kind on record so far as geologists of the great iron ranges can learn.