The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-29
ELEPHAS AMERICANS
Lots Of Elephants In the United States
Good Many Years Ago.
And Some Of Them We're Three
Times as Heavy as the East
Indian Monsters
of To-Day.

TT seems almost incredible that this
busy, bustling and prosperous country
was once a grazing ground for the ele-
plant. says the 81. Louis Gioje-D Democrat,
but, here are indisputable evidences that
IL abounded from the equator To the Arc
tic ocean,, either as the mammoth, masto-
don. pigmy elephant, or dinotherium.
Tho latter existed at a very early date.
but was OF the proboscidian family. At
the highest points Of the slopes OF the
Andes the remains of mastodon skeletons
have been found, and tusks and bones Of
mammoths have been plenty in some Of
the middle ane southern states Of America.
Recent revelations show that the "Elephas
Americanus'' roamed the hills and valleys
Of the Pacific slope. Between Los An
gelesand San Diego fragment of a gigantic
skeleton vas discovered, there being
plenty tn disclose hat the animal in life
must have been one of the largest ever
known. The country is undulatina, where
the bones were dug up, and near by is a
marsh. There was first a mass Of water
washed stones and gravel Is feet deep,
then 10 Of fine sand and under this the
skull and two tusks were found. The
tusks were at the largest part as big as n
child's body, and stretched out in graceful
curves IL feet In length. One of the teeth
weighs five pounds, n had the parallel
dentive ridges peculiar to the elephant.
The elephant has eight teeth at a time, two
ON eacb side of each law. ., yrowiny
4, tho c,,rso ~ , no. ,i,,o Th., ,o,,o
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nr,, III ,ne oa.h par' Oh ,ne la",ahu grau,
away, being pushed forward 10y the new
teeth forming behind. There was every
liuic"'lon Una. wn..e hesscletoui ay was
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aiise how Iong n time has .lans,.d Since a
uas ang,Ifn5 hy lie n~u;cLs,nd 1rhn
American elenbnnt nnpearsd ON the seems
i'm Tho plioccnr Time ~ veoloyicaI history
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sound h.,is ~ oys,crs ci,n,s nnd noc,;ns
In nm. sno, s;x ,,iI,s frn,, .har, H. aia.
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white and distinct AMONG Inc grasses and
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