The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-06-29
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Horse in Oklahoma

Ibeen discovered in oklahoma, our
ing the past few years, and all
have developed to be genuine, There
We're finds at Berlin, Orlando Null
hall. MoAlester, Olustee, and In the
Wichita and Arbuckle mountains.
| Prof. ]. b. Woodwork of Harvard
University visited the state and
made number of invests cations in
company with Prof. Tan OF the
United states geological survey.
Woodworth's work. however. was
among the fossils and limestone
boulders in the Kiamichi mountains.
Prof Gould says.
There were mastodons in Okla
homa and not so very long ago.
either, from a geological stand
point AS the historian counts time
Tsuppose Il would be anywhere
from 10000 to $4,000 years since
the last of these gigantic elephants
took his departure.
The mastodon or mammoth
fiourished very recently in what we
know as later territory and pleista-
Gene time. In general appearance
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phant of Africa, only larger and
with curved tusks. Mastodon swele.
tons are not particularly rare.
There is perhaps no one of the
United States in which a large
number OF bones have been found
They are usually found in places
where the animals begged down in
some ancient swamp or In the
Iquicksands of a prehistoric river
One OF the great mastodon finds
in this state was made by G. W.
Kneisly of the geological survey in
the Wichita mountains, near Law
ton. while near 0lustee were fouDc
fossils similar in every respect TO
those discovered near Dozier Tex.
They We're sent 10 Washington
The discoveries of many lime
stone boulders. ranging in size from
twenty-five pounds to rocks weigh
ing several tons has interested geol-
ogists of the entire country for sew
eral wears, and has led Prof.
Could to believe that Oklahoma was
at one time covered with ice in the
path of glaciers. These stone are
found in the Kiamichl mountains,
near Atoka and McAlester and in
particular at a place near where
the Frisco railroad crosses the
winding stair mountains. between
Fort Smith. Ark, and Talihina, Ok
lahoma At this place great quanti-
ties OF them have been exposed.
Prof Woodwork of Harvard,
Prof. Gould and Prof Taft of the
federal geological survey made
thorough investigation OF these
boulders. The fossil found in them
indic4 ted that the rocks have been
carried several hundred miles as
none of the rock is native to the
country where the houlders were
found. 1t was the opinion of Prof
Taft and others that the only way
these boulders could have been
carried from their original position
was by ice, and that therefore their
presence in the shale is evidence
that there were glaciers in OKLA
homa at the time these rocks We're
laid down. These boulders also
show peculiar scratches found on
boulders in the northern part of the
United States.
The return this summer to Okla
homa and Texas of the Yale party,
headed by Prof. Llhl has renewed
the interest in Oklahoma fossil and
it is understood members of the
state geological survey will join the
party from the east. OF the most
Importance, of course. is the wos,S
of locating, if possible, the original
horse.
Many. many gallons of adulterated
live Oil are sold in the United
'tates each year. 1t is adulterated
1ith Peanut Oil, Cotton Seed Oil.
tic. You get nothing but Olive on
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