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Show BONES OF A MASTODON Uncovered in Channel of Snake River. FIND AT AMERICAN FALLS Wagon Load Tnken Out of the Itlver Bed Well Preserved nnd Not in the Least rossillzed Femui Forty-Five Forty-Five Inches in Length, Weighs Toity-Five rounds A Ball Joint, In Perfect Form, Ten Inches In Diameter An Ivory Tusk to Be Given Utnh University. American Falls Ida. Juls IS That the Snake riser tbinnet contains the bones of nn extinct lace nf mastodons was eildcnced again today by a find one mile down the rlici from Jiere bs William Jlnrnbnrt He brought In a wagon load of bones all well piesernd and not,, the least fossllled belonging to some animal which when allte una obi loiislt' nun b laiger limn nns of the extnnt cjuadrupfils The femur which Is In peifect condition measures n Inches In Jcngth and neighs 15 pounds A scttloiLlrif the xertebrae shotting the tupltol ssvwn a surface G b 9 lathe a while a ball Joint In lei feet form la 10 Inches In dlimtlcr The bones ttiro uncoieied within two feet of tho sur-fnct sur-fnct und cnnsldeilng that Hies ait well preserxed und the processea of decay or lHtillliMlli.il linn ncdthoi of them begun, be-gun, there Is much spetuhtlnn as to how tecentls Uils munimoth Hied Mr. I! 1! Stunt has an Itois tusk fiom the same soune welshing ;; I minds which he will piemnt to tho Lnlxerslty of I'tah |