Show ww TRILOBITE ESTI ESTIMATED TO BE YEARS OLD SALEM ORE UP the trilobite estimated to be years old was on display today at the state house discovered in an old indian camp on the outskirts of salem the spec imen was the first such fossil ever found in the entire oregon country the discovery was announced by professor herman C dark clark mette university and verified as a species of Ei El rathia bingil trilobite family of the middle cambrian age by the smithsonian institution of washington D C this rare trilobite Is usually found near and in the house range moun bains of utah md and it was thought some indian might have carried it here from that locality from S L tribune oct 28 34 1 I have in my collection numbers of this species found at antelope springs and others bored to be us ed as magic necklaces to ward oft off danger and one so bored bund found in place on the chest bones of an old warrior when so made up into a necklace the utes call it suroor pitch napa tsoy which means liz ard toot foot beads I 1 have sent such a bored specimen to the smithsonian with a tull full description of the practice of the our old timers the indians here in the dim past prized them very high 1 ly |