Show prehistoric california THOSE who are familiar with the contents conten ts of the book of mormon will observe in the following extract from a statement of a paper read by theodore H hittell before the historical society in a meeting of that body held in palace A hotel san francisco a remarkable corroboration of that record the tae paper was wag written by dr D L yates tates and appeared in the on francisco bulletin it was said California that posse possesses sices some of the oldest known relics on the continent the first authenticated record of the original occupants was found on toe the table Kwun mountain tain region in tuolumne county and is of an age prior to the great volcanic outburst fossil remains of the rhinoceros and abd an extinct horse are found under the lava layers forming the table mountains which are 1400 feet thick 1700 feet wide and many hundreds of feet high where the river beds have been washed out and have been covered col vered again to the depth of from three thousand to four thou thousand mand feet more since the flow of the lava this lava rests on a bed ol of detritus which is often entered by running tunnels funnels the human relics and stone implements found in these formations give evidence of numan habitants differing from any known since there have been found spear heads a pipe of polished stone two scoops scoop of letic rock lesem bling the grocers scoop an implement R of aragonite resembling an unbent bow but the use of which is unknown and cannot be conjectured a stone needle with notches at the larger end and the tae finest charm stones that have ever been found there have been brought to light the fossils of nines nine mastodons twenty elephants various pachyderms in the table mountains numerous evidences of animal life in the cal erous serous formations in the texas flats absi dian spearheads spear heads fossils of the elephant horse and camel about horaites ite 1 bones and evidences of prehistoric etolil e human industry in tulare and in trinity and siskiyou Sis kiyon you many proofs of the contemporaneous existence of man and extinct mammals inthe in the san jose valley are deep layers of coniferous trees in ia such a carbonized state that they crumble into dust when exposed to the air they are of the pliocene period and show that the entire topography of the region has changed and that where now tae valleys and mountains are destitute of timber there were once coniferous and deciduous dec idous trees afford in ing tood food and shelter to monster mammals in comparison to which man was but an a insignificant insi 1 n mite la in the layers of the miocene rn i cebe period are found in california the remains of amphibious animals not to be found elsewhere |