Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — MASTODON SKELETON [ARTICLE]

MASTODON SKELETON

Is Found Imbedded in the Earth Near Anderson. Anderson, Ind., June ,^25. — Farmer Wells arid County Surveyor Dolph Smith, with several men, will resume work tomorrow morning bn the digging of the earth from about the skeleton of a prehistoric mastodon in a marsh eight miles northeast of this city. The discovery of the jaw bone, with six teeth and a great mass of bone, believed to be a part of the head of the mastodon, along with large bones that seemed intact with bones still below the ground, has led the men to believe they (have made a great find. One piece of the jaw bone is 28 inches long. It has six teeth, each tooth measuring four inches square and all in a remarkable state of preservation.