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[[underline]] Sep. 14 (Wednesday) 1910 [[/underline]]

Drove from Missori Valley to Cox & to Loveland.
The material excavated from Boyer cut-off E of Mo. Valley is like the Kansan joint clay (bluish, calcareous) but with scant pebbles.
Visited Cox pit. Cox has base of pachyderm skull, showing foramen, & wants to keep it until co. fair time (ends Sep. 30).  Secured several small bones & a mastodon tooth.
Collected flowers in locations & S.E. along base of bluffs.
Drove south, & returned to go up hill (S. ridge) after plants.
Visited J. Hoffman at the cement works who has 3 plates (cemented together) of an elephant's tooth. Wouldn't part with it.  He evidently thinks there is a fortune tied up in it.

Also received (from the undertaker) a fine tooth which bears all the Aftonian ear-marks.  It is

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It is evidently [[underline]] Mammut mirificum  [[/underline]]; & was found in the belongings of a young man who worked here for a short time in the R.R. shops, & who committed suicide some months after at Newfine's house.
Left Mo Valley at 2.15 P.M. for Council Bluffs.

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Mammut mirificum -see ref. http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/16150