The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-09-07
ANOTHER SKELETON OF A MAsToDoN


by the name of Charles Dennis, whose farm
is a Quarter of mile east by north of the
village of Pike, Wyoming County, while
digging ditch. found two great RIBS OF an
unknown animals. Subsequently COM
mittee from the village went to work and al
most the first thing discovered were two
mammoth tusks, which, being removed,
measured over nina feet. the bases Of which
were as large as seven Inch stovepipe'
gradually tapering to the point OF the ivory
about two inches in diameter. The animal
was found nearly on its back. In digging
beneath the tusks in order to remove them
as nearly whole as possible, as the earth
was rem owed that supported them one OF
them broke into three pieces and the other
into two. The next remains discovered
were seven teeth, several bones of the spine,
the collar bone the scapula or shoulder-
blade, portions of the cervical ami caudal
vertebr@, and fragmentary portions OF the
head and submaxillary bones, all OF which
we're in a more or less perfect state OF pre-
seryation. The teeth are perfectly sound,
the enamel being as perfectly polished as
when the mastodon was alive and grazing
on the hills and in the valley OF Wyoming
centuries ago. 50, too, are the outward
tips Of the tusks, which for distance o.
more than two feet are as SOLID and souno
as they ever were. The scapuia, the splnous
processes and sections OF tina sternu IN arr
tolerable well preserved.
; Jndoinp from the dimensions of the tusk
and the enormous size OF the scapula, TN
cervical and dorsal yerebre, the masiodo'
must have stood, when alive, Twelve fee
8 high and fifteen feet long from the head tt
) the base of the tail. 1t is couriosity wei
worthy the investigation OF scientihc men
$ The mos, singular feature u the fusks
n their wonderful curvature. forming Amos
h complete circle, allies the animal nearer 1
: the n a mmoih than any mastodon here1oior
8 discovered, either in this country or Europe
e The teeth. however, If there were no othe
+ data, demonstrates the class TO which I'M
v specimen belongs, VIZ, that OF the mastoaou
d One of these teeth, which Is found separat
g ed from the rest. weights four POUNDS an
measures six inches one way by four th
other. The size and shape OF the moiar
differ as they are approximate to, or rcmo'
,f from the anterior part OF the mouth. In
!, ribs found, or what remains OF them, ar
:. about thirty inches long. Inc coiiar Don
Ie measures perpendicu!ariy thirty;hrce inchs
/. ,ransvcrsely, twenty-eight inches : readt
1t Of socket, seven lnches one way Auu mn. "a
70 other. tine Of the bones of the spine mea'
re- nres twenty-five inches. In the jaws OF IN
mastodon there is found, besides the upps
,usks. inferior mandibular tusks-a chara'
tcrist.c not known in the anatomy OF Ii
elephant, The specimens found in this co
y lection correspond 50 perfectly with the ~
= counts given by Di. John c. Warren IN h
: able work on the Mastodon Glgan'cns
= North America, and also with the ana'on
= Of The skeleton now nj Cambridge. that
= places the question Of the identity OF Z
4e remains found ut Pike beyond the pos
- ~ Of doubt There isl marked life
~ ence however, touching the shape OF Z
as tnskg. Those found at Pike. as said bcioi
form almost complete circle instead oil
~ sligh, curvature downward aud on
= ward, as represented by the cut IN DR.. Wa
u rem admirable treaiises on the Cambria
skeleton. which was found in Newburgh
1916 The lusks OF the Pike mastodpn mu
y have curved upward AMI outward from Z
= socket. The DETECTION Of the points Of
garilv could not have beeu less than Gig
teen niche. from the base line -Roctes
~. \. Expre1s-