Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — MASTODON SKELETON [ARTICLE]

MASTODON SKELETON

Perfect Specimen Uncovered by Dredge in Porter County. Valparaiso. Ind., Oct. 30.—The dredging machine of William Brown, a contractor of this city, threw out the bones of a mastodon from the Koselke ditch, now being constructed in the southern part of the county. The bones were found at depth of ten feet, and are in an excellent state of preservation. The tusk measures eighteen inches in circumference, a vertebra is seventeen inches from side to side- and a rib is three feet long. The- leg bones, when placed together, measured six feet.