Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1905 — MORE MASTODON REMAINS. [ARTICLE]

MORE MASTODON REMAINS.

R J. Yeoman of Newton tp., was exhibiting a back molar of a mastodon Saturday that he had that morning picked up where the Curtis creek dredge had thrown it out. While most of the roots of the tooth were broken off and gone the remainder was in a good state of preservation and weighed 5| pounds. Mr. Yeoman will make further search for more bones of this extinct of the mammoth. It will be remembered that only a few years ago the Norman boys found a more complete tooth, weighing some seven or eight pounds, in the Iroquis river, near the Grooms bridge, and bones of this species of elephant have been unearthed in many places in this and neighboring counties. The largest elephant now in captivity would, judging from the great size of the bones of the mastodon that have been nneartbed, be but a pigmy beside' the latter animal. Just received, our Hominy Meal at Rensselaer Feed Store.