People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1897 — Man and the Mammoth. [ARTICLE]

Man and the Mammoth.

▲ remarkable discovery was made a few years ago in the sandstone rock at the Nevada state prison. The “find” was considered wonderful not only from a geological standpoint, bat from an ethnological point of view also. While the convicts at the institution were unearthing some huge blocks of stone they uncovered some peculiar indentations in one of the slabs. Closer Investigation proved that these queer marks were the tracks of some gigantic beast of antediluvian time—-perhaps a mastodon or a mammoth. When the startling intelligence was announced to

tne prison omcisig, they hail the sandstone slabs containing the tracks c arefully cleaned, whereupon another wonderful. discovery was made. In the same pieces of stone, sometimes at the side and sometimes between the tracks, made by the great prehistoric beast, were a series of human footprints, which proved conclusively that man and the mammoth lived not only at the same ( time and in the same age, but that the* huge beast aud the man had passed that way during the same year, and perhaps on the same day. These wonderful relics of a bygone age were found in a quarry at a depth of about 16 feet from the surface and had previously been covered with a stratum composed of hundreds of tons of stone—the accumulation of the ages that had intervened between the date upon which the tracks were made and that upon which they wero revealed to the scientists. Expert geologists who have since passed an opinion on tho matter say that at the time the tracks were made that which is now hard sandstone was a mucky deposit of soft sediment, probably the border of a lake, where the man had been fishing, and where tho mammoth had c ome to bathe or drink.—St. Louis Republic.