Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1907 — Finds Remains of Mastodon. [ARTICLE]

Finds Remains of Mastodon.

Word has reoaatiy bean received from Prof. C. W. Gilmore, whe. accompanied by Prof. W. T. Shaw of the Washingten State College and a party of scientists from the East, is now in central Alaska, that they have found a specimen of the mastodon frozen intact In the great Muir glacier, near the Chiikoot Pass. The party set out on this particular errand and their hopes were more than realized when th"ey discovered this large and perfect specimen imbedded in the great ice field in very much the same position as when overwhelmed by the frigid elements. On some portions of the animal the hair and flesh Were still fresh, but crumbled when exposed to the air. It ia estimated that die length of the mastodon from the end of its trunk to the tip of the tail was about. 75 feet, and that when standing on all foun the height must have been nearly 40 feet _