Show LOF OF MASTODON VIEWED BY PROF GOULD JIll The of a mastodon sit sit- situated on an inaccessible cliff about three miles below Moab on the Colo- Colo Colorado Colorado rado river v was as visited by Prof Lawrence M Gould yesterday m in com com- company company pany with D E Baldwin and Fred Strong Jr The existence of the pet pet- has been known foi Ol a number of years ears and photos of the unusual carving have been widely pUblished However attempts In recent lecent ealS to find it have been unsuccessful and its existence v was as doubted by archaeologists Mr Baldwin had seen the pet pet- six years ago and yesterday esterday he was able to find it after arrer a consId- consId consIderable considerable erable search J Prof Gould was elated over the find and he took a large number of photos of it The carving gives every evIdence of being extremely old as lt it is badly weathered However the outline of mastodon or extinct American ele- ele elephant elephant is plainly to be seen Since mastodons are supposed to have disappeared on thIs continent some or years ago the which was presumably carved by cliff dwellers or some tribe of man arouses interesting speculatIOns Cliff dwellers are believed be- be to have lived in this region many thousands of years after the disappearance of mastodons Ar- Ar Archaeologists Archaeologists agree that pictures carved on cUffs cliffs by the ancIent inhabitants are invariably likenesses of animals then existing on the continent and that the cliff curf dwellers or 01 early Indians merely pictured what they had seen This being ing the case the of the mastodon indicates the existence of a race of man much older than ar- ar archaeologists archaeologists belIeve the cliff dwellers dweller to have been Prof Gould will exhibIt his photos fo archaeologists and doubtless a bombshell will be exploded in the theories generally accepted regarding the early inhabitants or of this area |