The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-12-27
FOSSIL CORKSCREWS
QUEER FREAKS OF NATURE THAT
ABOUND IN NEBRASKA.


s;fas.nti, S,fraIs of Mineral FASH
ion.d :, ,Inttemnttcnuy nv TO he
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r,r N1.ort.s of Art
-N'''odA hi"Na II" ''i '''"'9 "ha'
th" SO called 'deNIlS cofkacreWs real
~ are. They are found by tens Of thou
sands In Nebraska, most particularly
In Sioux county. and some Of them are
oe mud, ms forty feet in height. without
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.I......i.,.,t ,,,,ort, fs e,o s,,b-
9''i'''
nov uit2 e'Oili' - w IN nun
beers Of them together, III me sandstone
cliffs of that region IS moro than any
body can tell, unless, perhaps, one the
orv, h be mentioned later. is to be ac-
ceptcd as correct.
You are travelling, let us say, on
horseback through that part of the
country. and, rs often happens, you
see. standing ont from the face of IL
sandstone cliff. Il gigantic spiral. If, as
eeglogisfs have proved, the sandstone
rock he chippcd away corkscrew
ebai,pd thing OF quartz is exposed to
view fashioned SO mathematically as
IA lao eaaflv mistaken Mt first glance
for 81 vorl, Of art The white spiral
,no.v he free "a n sculptor would say,
~. In other c.seq may be twlncd about
-, e,rt .f avis os - vine would run
aronnd = ynrtical pole.
so,eI,odv awhile npo gaye 10 these
.,,f.,lsz tbn uana devils eorkscrews''
Ia. wont of - bntter and ms expressive
az tho mystory Of their origin. Sclen-
tist, ,liscu..od thnm in vain and many
thoori.s qere formed in regard to them.
tf,i,.,,. =,,.o,.. authorities who declared
tto,.. ,.nr,. fossil burrows excayated In
t,.ti,,.,. tir,o, liz ,,nnher4 of n huge
ND .,tin,t sne,tna And To confirm
al, ,,atf,n tho homo. of some burrow-
e., onir,,l ,,ora actually found Imbed-
dn1 IN tho substance of one of the
.,a,.,o,,.., ,rbts snemod IN settle the
,,,tto,. far awhile until the controversy
,,,s ot,rtod agafn Inv the discovery OF
10 o5g.a,,. ranaius under like condi-
tI,,s af q small door Nobody could
,.sort hat =, door WINS aver II hurrow-
i,., ,,f,nal aud g, that notIon had to
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OIL. t,.t IA. ..f,,a.
81 r,istar5 ,, -. so,,n foIlts called them.
,..,,..,,....,.,.,.i Tho ,,roI,t,tnrte hortnoa az
,,f',.,,,ti.. ,,.,,.,,,5 not Il,.cd I'm IN. verv
Ia,,, 40 yat others augoested TINT
~, Wv, ,,ot,ifad ,i,as Though II was
dinio,,It - ovnlain how mr. yhy the
.,,alo.., which the allaped vines
st,,,,,d II, ,,ont cosos In hove been
t,,inod #b,d haon 90 admirably nre-
served or for tint matter originally
..,ctnd
i, tl,.,=n,i,l.,t ar o., many coptrodJctnrv
tbeorias thn nrohlem saemed likely to
daf,, ,nIntiop indc0nitelv The one TINT
he'll ont Inngesf and canned most ad
hcrnnts was tbot or the extinct pophers.
If accounted for thc "root"-a shane
lese nnnnudocn often nanrlv as bip MS
the "t1yister'' itself nptl attached to the
lower end of the Iotter which obvious
~ no II qnomnd had htcn the nest of
the rodent animal the,"corkscrew" rep.
rescntina= the snlraI hole bv which II
made Its way 10 tra surface of the
ground. What could possIbly be more
easy t. comprehend?
Professor Il. IL. harbour, however
has declared and his decision is nc
copied professionally until somebody
offers II better that the corkscrews are
of vegetable origin They are, he as
serts, the fossil remains of ancient