Food for Geologist - 1876

METZ, KNOWLTON

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Date: 5/14/2018 at 21:40:28

Dubuque Daily Times, Sunday, Jun 04, 1876, Dubuque, IA, Page: 4

Food for Geologist – We mean in scientific sense – may be found in the blue clay bank where Mr. Metz’ force of men are at work on Iowa and Seventeenth Street. From six to ten feet below the surface this stratum of tough clay is found scattered through with egg shaped specimens ranging in size from that of a small acorn to a large walnut. Cut through they present appearance of wood, but the shape is rather against that idea. City Engineer Knowlton has a few for the inspection of the curious. Someone will strike a burned elephant yet. This reminds us of some men working in a quarry near Lattnerville, came upon a large mass of specimens of the Orthis family. They looked so much like petrified corn cobs that the workmen concluded that about 500,000 years ago a corn crib must have stood on that ground. And everybody though it was an amazing discovery.