Show YEAR MILLION YEAR OLD OLD BONE MAY BE OF PLEISTOCENE AGE Stanford Professor Declares De lares It Is Horses Horse's Tooth Livery Stable Man Says Saya Not Not but It Is Palo Alto Product Bj 81 Th am S Special LIl N. N Nan 5 PALO ALTO Cal Dec Dee 9 9 Palo Palo PaloAlto PaloAlto Alto has been listening to an argument argument argument ar ar- between a professor of Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford tord and a livery stable man over a a. fossil tooth which was unearthed In excavating for the Hughes building bunding at University avenue and Bryant street the heart of Palo Alto The professor thinks it is ia a fossil of a horse while his opponent opponent opponent nent has his doubts because he he has had a lot to do with horses J J. P P. Smith professor of paleontology paleontology paleontology at Stanford and a high ranking expert pronounces it the tooth of a horse of the or pleistocene period This means about a million years of age On the other hand W W. D. D Smith ex experienced experienced experienced ex- ex with horses pronounces that the fossil is not a horses horse's tooth but is at a loss to explain what it Is The fossil is about three inches long and an in diameter It shows numerous ridges It was found in black soil about nine feet below the surface About twenty years ago Dr John Casper Branner head of the geology department at Stanford unearthed a mammoths mammoth's tusk of an anold anold anold old vintage on the Stanford cam cam- pus Some notable excavations have also been made in Alameda county |