The Detroit times., 1914-01-14

HORSE DUG UP
ON OHIO FARM
Bones Are Found Beside Those
of a MastOdOn, Near City of
Cincinnati
PROVES EXISTENCE OF
ANIMAL BEFORE. DELUGE
Passage Between Asia and
America Believed TO Have EX-
listed in Early Period

Bridging the lapse OF centuries, yes,
aeons OF years. since the time out OF
which no human remains have come
down to as. since the day when the
mastodon brow sed the pampas that
are now the blue grass farms OF Ken.
tu~k ky; since the day when the nam
moth tore his way over the hills and
valleys OF what is now >Ohioa small
group OF bones have been placed 10
attract the attention OF the visitor
In the Museum OF Natural History at
Cincinnati. These bones are those
OF prehistoric horse found along
with the bones OF mastodon, 20-odd
feet beneath the earth's surface. That
the bnes show horse and mammoth
TO have lived side by side Is certain.
Just little over a decade ago, ar
Hyde Park, now fashionable suburb
OF the Queen city, but then still out
in the country, some workmen were
given the task OF sinking the shafts
for two cisterns in the barnyard OF
the delightful old Shaw farm, back
from the main road The borers on
reaching depth OF % feet suddenly
came on strange object. lnyestgat-
ing. they found bone, with others
near tall so large, save for a few
scattered fragments between, they
could not have belonged to any crea-
lures today alive. Nor, II they might,
would the bones OF any modern time
animal be apt TO come 10 burial in
wholly virgin soil, % feet under the
earth's surface.
The workmen advised the Shaw
family Immediately and these folk.
being people OF education and culture,
who understood the scientific value
of such find, at once ordered work TO
be halted until Prof. Hayes, then cur
ator OF the local Natural History so
ciety, could take charge. Along with
Hayes came a New York savant and
under their care excavations con
tinued. Immediately upon the finding,
the bones were covered over with
muslin TO preserve them, and then,
as soon as practicable they were
given their present coating OF shellac
which will preserve them from
crumblng for all time. Before the
entire field OF bones was exploited
hole, 10 feet square. had been cut.
This. however, seemed TO mark the
limits OF treasure and no further eff
forts toward excavation were then
made.
Fascinating as were some OF the
foolish theories advanced by village
Wise-acres at that time--among others
that some Indian circus had encamp-
ed here, in the days before the De-
luge-the scientific theories 10 be
built upon the find are of even great
er interest
It is no far cry, as travellers count
distance, from Hyde Park, now Gin
cinnau, To the Serpent Mound In
Adams county. in this same state OF
Ohio. The Serpent Mound is, OF
course. a prehistoric earth work, care
fully constructed by the prehistoric
Mound Builder, TO show serpent.
Over in Asia. mounds identical in
shape, identical in construction, iden.
tical In content. abound. Wherefore,
It takes no great stretch OF reason
ing for scientists TO believe that the
peoples OF early America and early
Asia were one and the same and that
doubtless they crossed at Behring
straits when an isthus existed there,
no doubt In the Pliocence period. Not
only do the mounds serve To show
this, but the Asiatic elephant Is but a
diminuative replica OF the mammoth
and mastodon found in Siberia
again down In Kentucky-also very
close To where the Shaw mastodon
was found
Granting the existence OF this pass
age, the fact that mastodons were ex-
istent in both Asia and America, and,
now, the fact that horse and mastodon
grazed side by side. here In Ohio. why
not az reasonable 10 credit America
with the birthplace OF the equine
race, az lands on the other side OF
the sunken isthmus where We still
find him in his Wild state?
The Hyde Park mastodon and the
prehistoric horse, found in rock so
deep that no chance freak OF our own
times--when the horses introduced
by the Spaniard into the country had
sent descendants into the midwest,
recall other data bearing out the an
tiquity of the horse in world-history.
A British authority states that this
early horse was indeed close akin 20
the tapir and the rhinoceros in his