Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1904 — Guees Again, Prof. Riggs. [ARTICLE]

Guees Again, Prof. Riggs.

S: me portions of a mastodon’s bones were lately dug up by a dredge working in a ditch near LaOroes Prof. Riggs, of Field Oclumbian Ms-eam. Chisago, came down, took a few sniffs at tbe ancient bonce, and then declared that the theory that mastodois need to p'ay in the back yards of the p-imondi&l ret idea's of t'.is region of Indiana was exploded, with a big p'ode. Their remains be says, were brought down with the glaoial drift Riggs’ idea may bo correot butw* dmbt it greatly. If the b nee were brought down ia the glacial drift the moat likely place to find them would b; the glacial gravel beds and moraines, bnt we have Joever heard of any being found in mch places. Moreover, if they were so brought, they would natural'y be scattered widely aid different bones seldom found together. Instead they are generally found several piec s together, and in miry paces like the living animals bad got mired and perished where the boces are fouod. Moreover, we have read about‘Big Bone Va'ley,” down jome place in West V rginia, way south of the glacial region, where the early settlers used to fLd big benes by tbe wagon lead, sticking out of tbe mud. around a salt lick, where tbe imstodons and oth r big crittera got mir. d when they went after tbe ealt.