The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-30
ANTE-GLACIAL DAYS.
Remains Of the Elephant Found
on Puget Sound.
FOSSILS or wHlDBY ISLAND.


FOSSILS OF WhiO6Y ISLAND.
Once Greas-Iusked Monsters 1ranpisd
he Derests where Great Clsies Noe
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e"o.ous l.asSes "a siaSlai ~ Anls
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ussno.s snu' al'cl .nu su's.aSi..e - .no
.oiic ~ wafer, - VA uc Secu lhat s1nu
cals' is'sHus anu peninsu'as nave oesn
loriueu' -. pointing uo~n Tue
s.te1M 70 .s mouth. py ROCKING =.
- .te ul.Iu s.a.ev Soase survey caass u
uses souna = VII DC sea tnas the LOT
lna.ion q 'ne islanus soalows GUT .m.s gen
e1at pan. sasnon. Dainolose, niapy
and Camano islands on grand scale re-
semhls the islands caused by freshets in
small streams, indicating that the great
catacIysms, the delage Of waters, came
.nu.l sne a.lcs'ion " .ns oesus.o.a usel'
causing tnose remarkaD!e geological Tor
nations on Mound Prairie, all of water
worn pebbles ana gravel, burying the
| great herds Of elephants, and securing
ont the deep channels. All these islands
and rsr;ns,,as below ,hs rarrovs ra;nt
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W" .'c euui 2, ~ '''e Ioui'u ~ .1'c s10'
ana Aitnousn the genera course from the
narrows to Fuca straits IS north, it Is
nevertheless down the stream to the ocean,
and geographically speaking, it is proper
"a saw Ihat from Oivmnia, the head OF
T nav;rst;cn 70 cana Tla,trrv "a All the
Aa ~"pe - - -. s..e
WY oo"A " tss occan, anu MOI y, -
newcomers 20 the country Term u, from
the old fiction, up north and down
SOUTH term applicable to the Missis-
sippi river and not to Puget sound.
Is i nroy,ahla that when the deln,. If
r-at.-s 20 80 +,.as .ho,.ord. - 49, a.
$3.50 eN..'o s...a. .nousanus =. s10so eae-
Puauts we're "asneo INTO .ne ocean, Others
deposits. and it is their fossil bones which
we find at the present day.
have found elephant tnsks and hip
homes on the cu;mper peninsula. and AZ
seur,im bay and Duneenness. but thew are
more plentiful on WILDLY island. where
gsnecimens az well nreservei teeth
aid ivory tnsks have been
found and sent "a WASHINGTON fsitv- :
During The latter part of the decade of 80
| the United States survey brig Fauntlerov
under charge of Assistant James s. Law.
son. Of the coast survey. Captain Charles
Wiliourhby. sailing-master. was surveying
| in the Tlcinitv of Skagit Head an the
soufh end Of WILDLY island. a norton 81
| the bluff had fallen down, disclosing the
fossil eIephant remains. most of Which
were collected by the Fauntleroy and sent
| to Washington. Among these remains.
which had been buried for untold centur.
| les. were found wedges made from the
rib bones similar to the hone
wedges made bv modern Indians from
| elk and deer horns for splitting the soft
| cedar wood into stakes and blanks with
which to construct their dwellings. Mr..
Luther Z. Moore. discoverer of ssMoore's
Revealed Remedy had a logging camp
on WILDLY island. near this place. and he
has informed me that he saw and handled
some Of the bone wedges / mention. This
shows that indians existed here at the
time these elephants lived. and these ey;-
dences of naInolith;c man are not CON
| fined to Puget sound. but are found ali