Show ANCIENT ELEPHANT ELEPHANT BONES DISCOVERED SPOKANE Wash Oct 27 27 What are ar belle cd to be the fossils o 0 an m elephant that wandered over the plains Pasco and Hali- Hali lotus Kali lot lotUs liS probably before the glacial were discovered recently by soil experts of ot the Columbia basin basir i Eti ft out of ot an embankment on a heavily tra traveled highway hway the tinn bones had long lone challenged but not until the th survey surey sun ey party b by sere ere they M MC MC C Lapham western Inspector bu- bu burea bu bureau reau renu rea I of ot soils solis San Francisco and party nho 1 ho made the tho discovery disco ery Im- Im ir sent nt for tor Kirk Bryan Bran geologist Investigation for tor the tion ten Work of or was left leCt to the geologIst who uncovered pounds of ot fossil fOB ll within three weeks time In addition to a consIderable ot of the elephants elephant's skeleton skeletons skull of ot rodents the tooth of ot a I tor horse e and miscellaneous bon bones s were found The Th elephant was mature a according to Bran Bo Br an and as aa largo as al the modern species The Tho bones bODes sere cre nell ell preserved but not lly hea ml and all the tha major bones In whole he said The foe fos- fos fossils sits sils ere sero shipped a away assay ay to the United States State national museum l I Ington D C The Tha excavation e was nas made mad In Ritz IIII soli soil a thick mantle of ot fine train fh fie e to feet thick which constitutes the wheat lands of ot east east- eastern eastern ern era Washington regarding the th ori- ori origin on- on ori-Cin ori gin of oC which there has been much controversy Identification of ot the gh elve gie e a line IIno on the tho th age nr of the the geologist said which he thinks Ie Ia I as old as the tho cene c and possibly tho the Pliocene |