From the Ipswich Tribune Thursday, June 10, 1930
Fossils Given to Library Museum
R. H. Lent has left with the Bank of Ipswich to be placed with the library museum some very interesting fossils that he picked up about 65 miles south of Miles City where a number of Edmunds County homesteaders took land a number of years ago. One is a part of a petrified eel, another a clam shell which spells that thousands of years ago that country was part of a great sea, but the most interesting one is a perfect tree leaf presumably of the elm family which is a stone. Some time in the dim history this leaf fell on the soft rock and made a perfect impression of its likeness. It was covered by other soft rock which finally hardened only to be split open by Mr. Lent to be released as a stone leaf about 1-16 of an inch thick and not a part of either its original bed or its blanket.
M. Plin Beebe also brought back from this same territory last spring a piece of sandstone on one side is a perfect impression of a large oak leaf while on the other is a poplar leaf. This is explained by geologists that in some prehistoric days these leaves dropped into the soft sands of a lake shore and later these same sands became rocks with the leaves impressioned in its embrace.
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