Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-11-07 | Page 4 | How'd You like to Dig for Oil and Find an Elephants?

HOW'D YOU LIKE TO DIG FOR OIL AND FIND AN ELEPHANT? Back in the Pleistocene, or glacial epoch, the world wo3 the play-grounu of animals that were animals You hay have thought that day at the circus that tht? elephant you saw was a whale of an animal And M it waa 1o a person who lives on a globe where brain count for more than mere glze of body. But. back In the days when the oil you now Ube wa being formed, those were the days when you should have gone to the zoo' Elephants then were regular moimtom. It would have done thn late .Mr liar-num liar-num good to huve seen them Skeletons of prehistoric animal- jha- heen found by Dr J. C. Merrlamj nf the t'nlveralty of California, in the! oil pits of the La Brea ranch They were imbedded In the oil-soaked stands in crater-like pits- The animals wcre trapped In these pits and their bones ...! Among th greatest of the kalctona reconatructcd as shown In j the imperial elephant, which stands 16 feet at the shoulders. Th- average' heiirhr of th modern alSpluUit is about nine reel. An Infant In Guinea is usually burled In sand up to its waist when the mother Is busy Thousands of Chinese guards are H helng tken to England to not a KLi domestic servants. H