Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-21

@utiSu W GAM liatls, ihc AscFdud
humorIst) OF various tracks being
found near the Nevada State Peni- |
tentiary at Carson. The story
was d;scredited even by the Nevada
papers, and was received with the |
incredulous remark: " Another of |
Sam Davis sensational lies" Final |
ly the Nevada papers sfound that Sans
story was net myth, but that the
tracks were petrifed reality, and
all sent correspondents to Carson,
and the battle-born State became
famous the world over for her scien-
tlfc possessions in the line OF pre-
served tracks of antiquity tracks of
man, beast and fowl. Notwithstand-
ing the many accounts given, with
the genuine ring OF truthfulness, Of
these footprints made away back in
the dim, distant past, thousands and
thousands Of years before Adam and
Eve stole apples, we were little In
credulous. But in the course of a
social chat with Ex-Governor Steven
son the other day, the conversation
drifted from one subject to another
until finally the Governor drifted into
/
science, and one thing suggesting an
other. he was reminded of what he
termed the greatest curiosity he ever
saw, while in Nevada, few months
ago, visiting his brother, Hon. Z. Z.
Stevenson, the Governor of that State
and curiosity it was. The Cover
nor's description of the tracks he saw
was entertaining, and we cannot re-
late what he said in the interesting
manner in which it was told, but viii
attempt to give it as near as related
as our memory serves US, many m;nol
details having slipped memory
grasp. Coz. G. c. Stevenson invitec
Idaho's Governor, Edward A. Steven
son, to accompany him to the peni
tentlary to see some wonderful
; tracks, Idaho's Governor consented
and while on the way he asked n
questions bearing on the tracks, bu
t on medtating the idea struck hir
e that Gov G. G. was taking him up t
d show him some kind of improve
O mining car tracks, that State being
IS the van in almost everything COZ
;. nected with the quartz mining indu
,e try. But on arriving there be W;
at agreeably surprised to find that II
,e tracks were of a different and mo-
ID interesting kind than he imagined
eh was to see. He saw man tracks, ar
1e the tracks OF horses, mastodons al
n birds, as perfect as the minute th'
were made, in hard, blue, solid roc
The man tracks were of two kinc
" some showing the impressions OF me
'' casins and others of bare feet. l
ne barefoot tracks even showed to pt
ch lection where the mud had crawl
II up between the toes, but of course
'te is not mud now. but the hardest ki
'u of rock. Tracks of an extinct spec
a'' of bird measured seventeen inches
10 length. The horse, mastodon a
10 other animal tracks were as perf'
h .u9 as tracks freshly made in mud of
consistency to show exact impressie
ate of the feet that made them. l
of tracks of an old goose were Sc
ers with footprints of the little gosl
ny where they followed along on b
ed sides of old mother goose. /
1g- tracks are all on plane as level a
go. floor, and on top of them is hi
ley mountain OF sollu IoCA' WHY"
been ages and ages forming si
those footprints were made in
mud. Geologists from Philat
We phia and otner cities of the l.,
4" visited this wonderful spot, so ca
waiting to the scientific mind.
~ Philadelphians got on mastod'
'D' tracks, and by means of tunnel
lowed them long distance into
the mountain, and found one of the DO
ety of the monster animal, which Go'
Lall, nor Stevenson, by way of illustrat
usi- said was nearly as large as the dl
red. Of the WoRLp office stove-hftee'
sixteen inches in diameter.
'on- Many old notions are exploded
ton these discoveries. One is that
and first man was brought into existe
created out of lump of moth
ness only six thousand years
). for Able geologists say that these tr'
n of footprints in the mud, but no
hysi- solid rock underneath mountain
oeeh roek-were made at least mi
LIS ,, wears ago. At any rate IT is as
HING tain as il is that the statement
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