Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-04 | Page 2 | Bones 50,000 Years Old Found Close to Bisbee

Bones Years Old Found Close to Bisbee Believed Relic of Conflict Between and Puny Man Stone The picture re of a stone age man armed only with his hammer of of- flint ClInt bravely facing a hu huge e mammoth marn- marn moth is no myth Professor Byron Cummings for twenty years ears with the University of Utah has er erd d just such a drama and It occurred occurred oc- oc years ago Professor CummIngs who is w J. J y t I ad his find In rec recent ns banks ot of the White river ten mIles northeast of Bisbee The head ot of a. a gIant elephant with teeth and id tusks sufficiently preserved to enable the identification of its type was suddenly disclosed whIle operations operation's operations op- op were in progress and awakened much Interest and cu- cu But still greater Interest was aroused when in the same bed ten feet below the surface were also found two human skeletons and several hammer stones It Is os- os sIble according to scIentists that the two men suddenly red reda a huge herd ot of mammoths mammoths' and were trampled to death The finds according to Dr Cummings Cum Curn- may rewrIte a chapter of paleontology and establish lish hish that long before scientists ever admitted that life existed on this earth there roamed th the hills hillsand hillsand and valleys of af Arizona a h rd of the great beasts against which puny man marshaled his his' scanty cant wits and l hurled his little hami er