Show I Bear Lake Lale Tooth Revives Legend of oJ Indian Fear State Official Finds Oversize Molar Believed Relic of Prehistoric Age I a tooth of some prehistorIc prehistoric tone animal perhaps the tooth of ot the Bear lake monster which an anold anold old Indian legend sa says s 's s made Its home nome In Bear lake said H. H E. E Crockett secretary of ot state Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day on his return from a week end outing at the northern Utah resort What at about the Bear Bar lake monster monster monster mon mon- ster Well VeIl as the story was told to me when a lad continued the secretary a monster on the order of a sea serpent made Its home In Bear lake and would make inroads occasionally upon the camps made by the Indians alon along the beaches of the lake and would carry of off a papoose or squaw sox that so that the the- red men in erecting erecting- their tepees kept away u a a rule from the lake bench benth But regardless the monster would carry off the papoose or squaw oc oc- oc As to the size of the monster it varied according to the h hway way the legend came to the n nar nar- nar r- r Monday as I r was walking on the beach at the northern end of the lake which beach Is now the greatest on the lal lake e due to the fact that the Utah Power and Light company is pumping from the lake cubic feet or gallons of water per minute and has so re reduce reduced reduced re- re duce the level of the water that its recession has left several sandbars sandbars sandbars sand sand- bars I picked up what appears to have been a tooth of some prehistoric prehistoric tone animal You can see yourself what it is There Is the tartar solidified on the tooth there are the roots and there apparently is a cushion resting the tooth In the Jaw I Intend to turn it over to some scientist at the university and get his opinion regarding it But there is no question about Its being a tooth In size it Is more mor than two inches In length and one and a haltIn half halt halfIn halfin in width with four roots Years ago Heber K Hansen of Cache county while hunting along Bear lake continued Secretary Crockett was attracted by by- bya a great commotion in the lake by some animal animal animal ani ani- mal swimming and he hid behind a tree on the beach and when the animal came In range of his gun he shot and killed a dant moose the only one that have I have ever everno known In that section pf the ha state Possibly this tHis tooth may have belonged to tos s some me giant moose and land the r recession of the waters of the lal lake e washed It out But I have given you the legend as told me when lad a alad lad and by M Mr Mr- Hansen i In Iii la late t y years ars as als also alsofrom f others J. t |