Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-25
ARIZONA CAMEL
 STORY REVIVED
 BY ODO SKULL
What is Thought By Some to Be Skull of One of Those Famous Animals Found in Mountains
Arizona Republiean.)


 " A. Ware of 220 East Madison street th's city. has brought to the Republican office a curiosity in the way Of an antiquarian exhibit. It is the skull of some animal that the To- cal scientists have not yet been able to classify. Whether it belongs to some species Of the present day that has become extinct in these immed'- ate parts. or whether it is the skull of some beast of a former period that has been kept from the action of the elements until recent times, can be better guessed at after there has been expert opinion to the effect that it is not Of a present day species.
 The skull was found near Goldfield, a one-time interesting min ng camp at the western end of the Supersti- tion mountains, not a great distance from the Roosevelt road. IL was found by Mir. Ware in 9 gulch, on the surface of the ground, whence it has been washed recently from some secure hiding place, unless it is proved to be 9 present-day animal, as has not yet been done. It was brought to Phoenix some months ago and was on exhibit on at the fair, though at that time there were so many noisy things craimiDg atten- ton that the skull could not be heard in It's quiet claims for recognition. Since then 1t has been iu q curio cab net until it was brought to the Re publican ofice.
 The most casual observer can sec that it is not the skull of either horse, a COW. or any horned animal: nevertheless, its general shape is q little like that of some equine, though much smaller than most horses. Mir. Ware thought when he found it that !t was the skull Of q camel. and. in a general way, it looks more like tamel's head than anything the aver age man eau think of Color to that belief s added by the knowledge that some thirty or forty years ago per hsps ionger. the government liberated a herd Of camels in western Arizona, and for years afterward one was oc- casionally seen by a mountain travel CT or prosDectOr, and one or two have been brought to Phoenix within the memory of present resients ot Phoenix, though it is supposed that all are now dead.
 The camel theory, however. is dis credited by at least three local Eeter- '3aTiaus tO whom the skull has been shown They say the bone that formed the coupling Of the head to the neck is too large for that of S camel
 The skull win be kept here Q short time, and those interested may sec it af this office. IL wilF then be sent 10 the Sm thsonian Institute In the hope Of settling it's identity, unless some person sbO"ld buy t Of Mir. Ware or definitely settle what it is and arrange for it's retention here. It is only one of many exhibits that arc occasionally found in Arizona, and which should be a part of that territorial museum the people have been wait ng so many years for the legislature to create.
 It bas been suggested that the skull is that of one Of the mastOdons with which II. R. Patrick claims to nave excayated the Grand Canyon of the Colorado but it is not large enough for that. Brutes that could dig as big a hole as the Grand Canyon must have bad heads at least ten feet long, while this is not moro than twelve or fourteen inches long.