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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 144, 13 August 1872, Page 7

An interesting archaeological discovery hj reported in a recent number of the San Francisco Bulletin : —Various stone implements, evidently of human manufacture, have recently been found in San Mateo county imbedded in rock of a formation far anterior to the period usually assigned as the time of the origin of man. These relics of a former age are strongly confirmatory of the theory of some modern scientists, that the human race existed on earth many thousands of years prior to the period indicated in the Mosaic account of the creation. Several of these interestnig specimens of man's early handiwork have been brought to the city, and on close examination they prove beyond a doubt to be artificial, bearing still the marks of the tools used in their construction, though the use which they were intended to subserve is not so clear. Some of them look like sinkers for fish-lines, some like arrow-heads, and some resemble instruments for'cutt'ne purposes. To prevent the destruction 'dd attend the operations of mere curiosi^,earners it is deemed best not to indicate the exact locality until men of scientific attainments have had an opportunity to examine the rock in which the remains are imbedded.