Show YOU romul standing dorest F n D Schemer born geologist who recently discovered the great glaciers in idaho county has found a town forest in the center of coster county in the same game locality he has discovered the petrified bones bonea of a now extinct race of men and animals which will bo be sent gent to chicago the forest covers a an u area of four square miles and tho the condition of tho the ground shows chows that at one time an enormous flow of clay which worked in from the northwest buried the tree trunks to a great depth this clay lim hai turned tamed to stone and no one can ascertain its true depth without going to great expense all the trees in this forest ha have ve their tops broken off and stand from ton ten to forty feet above the ground averaging about twenty eight to the acre schem ephom took the exact measurement ment of some of the trees and found them thein to average twelve feet in diameter on top and sixteen feet in diameter ot at tho nr face of the ground how far the trunk reached through the clay stone to the sou soil he had no means of ascertaining A branch which had become detached from a tree and was lying about sixteen feet from it was vaa three feet feat in diameter from the size of the trees and their branches mr Scheme rhom thinks thoy they are arc a species of redwood such as is found in california and attributes their fossilization to the clay which bearing a large part of mineral and presumably coming from some volcano soon turned tho the living trees into monuments enta of stone idaho cor san francisco Exam examiner itier |