Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1911 — MASTODON SKELETON FOUND [ARTICLE]

MASTODON SKELETON FOUND

Imbedded in Clay in Tippecanoe River Bottoms. Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 4.—Guy Fisher, brother of John Fisher, sher-iff-elect of Tippecanoe county, has found a fine specimen of mastodon skeleton in the Tippecanoe river bottom near Battle Ground. The skeleton is lodged in clay on overflow ground, at a spot seldom visited. John Fewell a local geologist,. gays the ground in the vicinity of the place was deposited there during the glacial period. Evidently the river has occupied its present channel for many centuries, as several other mastodon skeletons have been found along its banks. The theory is that the animals went to river for waiter and became mired in the swamps. Fishsr made a flight excavation around the skeleton, and found that it took up a large area, indicating that all the bones may be there. It will be taken up and brought to this city.