Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1919 — FIHDS TEETH OF MASTODON [ARTICLE]

FIHDS TEETH OF MASTODON

Two Enormous Molars Picked Up in Field Near Gifford. V. M. Peer, who lives on Dr. W. L. Myers’ farm just east of Gifford, found a couple of huge teeth in a field on the farm Thursday. They are no doubt a couple of 'molars of a mastodon, which probably perished in the muck centuries ago. They weigh about six pounds each, Mr. Peer informed The Democrat over the phone Thursday evening The finding of these teeth calls to mind the finding of a mastodon tooth some 20 years ago by one of the Norman boys, in the Iroquois river north of town, that weighed some six or eight pounds. This was found several miles west from Gifford, and was probably no part, of the animal from which the teeth found by Mr. Peer belonged.