Show Fossilized Hoof From Utah Mine Raises Question Petrified Foot Found by Locomotive Locomotive Loco Loco- motive Fireman Discloses Discloses' Pre Present nt Day Equine Once Had Five Toes Not Four The finding of a in a shipment shipment ship ship- ment ment- of coal from the mines at atS S Utah has upset some scientific scientific entitle th theories ories the find being a petrified horses horse's foot toot of modern shape and which is now puzzling the scientists of the East the find demonstrating according to archeologists archeologists arche- arche that the present equine quadruped originally had five flye toes and this find which was made by John T. T Reid mining engineer of ot Nev and who is well known in Utah where for so many years ears he has hns mined has upset the theory of evolution as applied to the tho development of the horse The New York Times in speaking of the find says A fireman was stoking his engine engino in Lovelock one day about a year year and a half ago when he noticed in his coal a pe shaped peculiarly lump which on close examination proved not to be coal He showed it to a local doctor who said Ill Til bet its it's a fossil Show it to Mr 1 Reid They did so and Mr 1 Reid became be became became be- be came excited He lie recognized It as the fossilized remains of ot a horses horse's right forefoot But the point of the thing was that no such fossil should have been found among coal deposits depos depos- its In that part of the countr country It violated all the rules TRACED TO MINE Mr Reid spent more than a year trying to learn where the coal coal on that particular engine had been mined He wanted to find t the e rest I of the horse if It he could or or the rest of the leg But he never never could I get any further than tracing the coal as having been shipped from Scofield Utah I 1 In the meantime Mr Ir Reid put In considerable study on the fossil he had He lIe learned that equine anatomists had traced the development development development develop develop- ment of the horse from a small toed four-toed animal they had found In n earth formations dating to the eocene epoch up through the oligocene cene epoch the miocene epoch and finally the pliocene ene and pleistocene epochs growing larger and losing one toe In each epoch until in the thelast thelast thelast last they found the equine quadruped quadruped quadruped quad quad- as it exists today And here as Mr Reid e explained it th the plot thickens For coal deposits de deposits deposits de- de posits of ot Nevada and Wyoming and Ithe I the region thereabouts are classified classi classi- fled fied under the cretaceous which antedates antedates antedates an an- an- an any of the epochs mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- abo above e. e In other words any animals caught in the cretaceous I strata of the earth must have been walking about earlier than those described de described described de- de scribed above and scientists had averred a horse dating from that period should have hav had five toes and been much smaller CITES OTHER FACTS This fossil must have dated l I from irom the cretaceous cretaceous' age Mr 11 Reid said because It was found among I the coal deposits which are called Laramie in my part of the country I and which geologists ascribe variously varIously varI- varI to the upper or lower horizon horizon hori horl- I zon of the period There I is other corroboratory evidence j I I Continuing Mr Reid said In InI I i Willis Utah they found recently and now have on exhibition at Brown Brothers in Ogden an ant ani animal mal oral track imbedded in the roof of a coal mine The rhe track had been I imprinted from above showing that I j when the coal was forming animals Were vere wandering about the earth I though that is not generally accepted ac- ac Miners have told me also i f that they have ha come upon animal 1 bones imbedded in coal They i j could not of course describe themI them I adequately for they had no learning learnIng learning learn- learn Ing on n. n the subject It Is well known that vegetation vegetation tion existed in that period for fossilized fossilized fos fos- remains are plentiful SuperIntendent Superintendent Superintendent Su Su- of the Union Pacific coal mines at Rock Springs Wyo has told me that Imbedded in the coal they have found what I closely resembled the modern co cocoanut cocoanut cocoanut co co- I in excellent preservation From other authorities we learn that the flora of the period was considerably like present-day present vege- vege tation I y 2 My Iy theory greatly Kratly strengthened v I I by this fossilized horse foot is that the e good d Lord Lora original originally made these things as we see them today I Although I was an evolutionist in I the beginning I havo changed my |