The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-10-28

II FEW years ago." says Day al
 A len Wiley in an absorbing arti
 cle in Appleton's for November. "a party of adventurers were going over a portion of the Bad Lands of Wyoming, when they chanced upon little hut, once the home of sheep herder, but long since abandoned Their curiosity was aroused by this, the only sign of human habitation they had come across, and. naturally, they peered about it. One of the party noticed that the house did not rest directly upon the ground, but upon piles of what seemed to be dark-colored stones. In this part of the Bad Lands one seldom sees even a pebble, and the stones aroused his inter est.
 "T wonder where the fellow got those stones,' the man remarked as he called the attention of his companions to them. With the explorers was naturalist. Pull Ing out one of the stones which had be- come loosened, he gave an exclamation Of surprise Looking at the dingy-colored substance carefully, he said: This IS tiny part of one of the greatest creatures known to man. It is a fragment of brontosaurus.'
 "A messenger carried the news to the nearest town. Thence 1t was given to the world by the electric current, and fossil hunters throughout America and Europe received the intelligence. Fortunately, MT. Walter Granger, the scientist who made the discovery, is connected with the Museum of Natural History in New York, Realizing that the bones the sheep herder had thrown together to support his home had probably been taken from the ground near by, he began digging up the earth. After a few hours work his shovel struck against a hard substance which it could not penetrate. Working around it. he finally uncovered another piece-a single bone longer than a man of ordinary height
 Bone Cabin Quarry as it is now known to scientists the world over, is by far the greatest hunting ground for these animals of the past that has yet been discovered, but it is only small corner of the region where they lived. The story of the hill and valley. as read by the ge- ologist, shows that this was once fertile country, with it's trees and grass and bushes nourished by rivers and lakes, so that it afforded abundant food for the biggest living things that inhabited the land. That they roamed over this part of the earth Is shown by the finding or ther gigantic skeletons many miles from the ruins of the little cabin; for since 1t was first visited on that spring day in the year 1898, the Bad Lands have been the gather ing place for fossil hunters from both the Old and the New World. The locality forms a vast graveyard for the monster lizards known as dinosaurs, as well as strange horses that lived in the old days, crocodiles older than any that ever fioated in the Nile, and mammoth turtles.
 '.The way in which these hunters of ex tinct animals and reptiles find their mighty game is interesting. In searching for it they bring to their aid geology and natural history. Their weapons are chief. ly the pick, shovel and spade. but some of the places containing the skeletons are so large that they use blows and scrapers drawn by horses 10 remove the earth GOV ering
 .Bone Cabin Quarry is itself revela. tion. After the cabin was torn down and the richness of the find revealed, the ex-