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The Raider Reporter (Winifred, MT), 20 April 1983, located at <http://montananewspapers.org/lccn/TheRaiderReporter/1983-04-20/ed-1/seq-2/>, image provided by MONTANA NEWSPAPERS, Montana Historical Society, Helena, Montana.
I ,' '. i .' . * * .. ... * * \ * \I ' R A · · I o . ER ,; . ' ' Pl.GE\ 2 , *' • ~ • • * ~ * * • f\EPORTER • March 22, · 1~83* · *. * * ~. i ' • ! IMPOSSIBLE A party ct: ilur prospector;a was working the barren- hills at the head of sp- ring Valley near Eureka, Nevada, in July of 1877. They were picking their way through the area step by step, looking for a telltale outcropping of precious metal. One of the men noticed a peculiar o~ject pro- jecting from a high ledge of rock near the spot where he was breaking sa- mples. Out of curiosity he climbed to a point where he could get a bet- ter look at theJrotrusion and was amazed to find that it looked like the leg bone of a human being broken off just above the knee. Since it was firmly embedded in solid rock, he got his companions to help him dislodge the po- rtion . that held the od- dity. With the aid of some small picks they removed the upper portion of the encasement. The rock was hard as flint and the bo- nes s:>lidly set in it. The quartzite ·.was· dark :red and the bones were almost black. When the last of the stone had been picked loose, the leg bone and the foot which was still . attached stood out perfe- ctly. It had in addition to about four inches of leg bone above the knee the · knee joint and lmee cap, the lower leg bones, and the complete bones of the foot. The men quickly noticed the unusual size of the leg. From knee to heel it was thirty-nine inches; the man who had owned it had been nothing less than a giant, 'l'he miners realized . they had a most unusual · find. They brought it to Eureka, where it was pla- ced on display in a store window. Doctors who exa- mined the specimen·agreed that it was unquestionab- ly · human, incredibly old, and certainly the leg of . FOSSILS a giant~ The Eureka paper wrote several stories a- bout it, some of which were picked up in other · parts of the country. Two museums sent representat- ives to search for the rest of this remarkable skeleton but they went away empty handed. There . was just that tantalizing leg bone and foot-nothing more. Such frustrations are common in the world of the archeologist. In the strip coal mine op~rated by Captain Lacy near Ham- mondsville, Ohio, in the autumn of 1868, a work- man named James Parsons loosened · a huge mass · of coal which fell into the pit, revealing a large, smooth, slate wall which was literally covered with hieroglyphics, in lines about three inches apart. Crowds flocked to see this marvel. Local scholars could not read the hieroglyphics. By the time qualified scientists got there with proper eq- UiIX11ent, . the slate had- crumbled in the air and thew-itin~ was destroyed. PAINTING. The Earliest Evidence of Paleolith- ic art i1 •a cave was found in 1834 at Chaffaud, Vienne, France, by Broui- llet when he recognized an engrav.ing of two deer on a piece of flat bone, from the cave, dating to . about 20,000 B.C. The number of stratigraphica- llydl.ted examples of cave art is very limited. The oldest known dated examp- les came from La Ferrassie near Les Evzies in the Perigord region, . , where large blocks of stone en- graved with mimal figures and symbols were found in the Aurignacian II layer, dated to c. 25,000 B.C. LARGES'r Pansrama of ti 1 e Fis s i- ssippi com~leted by John- Banvard (1815-91) in · 1 8 46 showinp the river scene for 1?.00 miles in a o- trip probably 5,000 feet long and 12 feet wide, · was . the large s t painting in the world, with an area of more than 1.3 acres. The painting is b e lieved to have been destr G yed when the rolls of canvas stor- ed in a barn at Col ~ Spr- ing Harb c, r, Long Island, New York, cauvht fire shortly before Ba nV<l rd' s death on ray 16, 1891. The - lar~e s t p aintine now in existence is n ro- bably Hattle of Gettys- burr,, c ompleted in 1883, after ?. ½ years of wo rk, by F-aul i- hih y- poteaux (F- rance) and 16 assi s t a n t s. The raint i n p is 410 feet iong, 70 feet h i ;,: h and weiphs 11,792 lhs. It rl e~ picts the clima x of the Battl e of Gettysburg, in south:c:entrai P 0 11n~ :; lv .... na on July 3, 1263. In 1964, the painting was ~cught by Joe KinF. of winston- Salem, North C~ rolin a , after b ein g scor e ri by E.- W. McConn e ll in a Chica ~ o warehou~e since 1933. Th e lar r.:E-s t \ C- ld ! •: aster\ is II far a di s o, P ainted between 1 58 7 and 1590 b y Ja ~ opo Robusti, alias Ti- ntoretto (1518-94), and his son D o~e r ico on W all \E\ of the S e la del 1-'ag- ~ior Con ~ iF1io in the Palazzo Ducalc (Da r e' s f- alace) in V eni c e, Italy. The work i s 72 fe~t 2 in- ches lon ~ : - ,n d 2? f •,e t 11}? inches h~ ~ h an d c o nt a ins more than 1 0 0 hum r. n fi- gures.
