The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-25
MANY D|NOSAUR|A
HAVE BEEN FOUND
Splendid Fossils Collected in
Utah for Carnegie Institute
of PittSburg.
ARE IN EXCELLENT SHAPE
FINE SPECIMENS FOUND IN EAST
ERN PART OF STATE,
Especial to The Herald Republican,


vernal. April 24.-Dr. w. J. Holland,
director of the Carnegie institute at
Pittsburg, reached Vernal last week
on his way to the camp of Professor
Earl Douglas, who has been employed
for years past in collecting FOSSILS for
the institute.
The archaeological department OF
the museum is especially valued by Mr..
Carnegie, who furnishes the funds for
this work aside from the endowment,
which he has given the institution.
This phase of the work has been I'M
der the care of Doctor Holland Tor
many years. and has been conducted un-
der his direction over very Iarge areas
in the fossil fields of the west.
Expeditions under the patronage of
the Carnegie institute have visited the
DakOtas, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming
Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado in for
mer years.
Started Two Years Ago.
Two years ago an attack was made
upon the eastern borders of Utah. The
summer of 1908 was utilized by Profess
sor Earl Douglas and Doctor Holland,
who was with him for a short period,
in making preliminary surveys OF the
Uintah deposits.
Professor Douglas headquarters were
in the vicinity Of Kennedy's Hole dur
ing that season. There he succeeded IN
discovering more or less perfect spect-
mems of over sixty mammals, also forty
or fifty specimens of large reptiles and
a host of invertebrate fossils. Most Of
these fossils represented species en-
tirely new to science.
Professor Douglas success was so
great that Director Holland had him
return in 1909, and urged him TO make
a special search for dinosauria. The
result has been most satisfactory. In
the quarry he has opened above Jensen,
he has discovered six dtnosaurta, large
and small. in singularly perfect state
of preservation.
exceed in size any dinosaur which up
to this time has been discovered in
America. Exact dimensions cannot, OF
course, be made until the skeleton is
taken up, But the vertebrae vastly
exceed in size those of the dfplodocus.
which is the ornament of the Carnegie
museum in Pittsburg, copies of which
have been presented to many OF the
crowned heads of Europe.
DR.. Holland will remain at Mr.. Doug
las camp for few days, and will then
return to Pittsburg to be present at the
Founders day exercises of the Carnegie
institute on May 2, when President Will
liam H. Taft will make the principal
address.
Early in June DR.. Holland will prob
ably go to st. Petersburg, where he
will present his majesty, the car. a
replica of the diplodocus, a willingness
to accept which his majesty has already
expressed.
First Specimen Found.
Last August Professor Earl Douglas
came to Vernal to stay, he said. as long
as the prospects warranted. He fitted
out at Vernal for a trip into the hills
TO the east and above Jensen. He was
out but few days when he found the
tail vertebrae of a huge fossil, or
at least eight of them in place, and
the missing smaller vertebrae near by,
which had been weathered off from the
ledge.
Mr.. Douglas made his headquarters
at William Meals, the nearest farmer,
about three miles from the FOSSIL seven
miles above the Jensen ferry ana about
fifteen miles east of Vernal. From his
headquarters he searched the hills and
found many fragments and some very
good specimens of the giants OF old.
but he had found the greatest lead at
first and there he began a systematic
uncovering Of the dinosaur. AS he
progressed he estimated the size of the
skeleton to be 60 feet long and 16 feet
high.
When Douglas reported to DR.. Hol-
land, he laid the matter before Mr. Car
negfe, who in turn agreed to furnish
the money to get the fossil to the mu-
scum at Pittsburg.
Results Encouraging.
MI OOuSldS ana MS FORCE OF work.
ers had not cross-cut very far when
they found they were working on
another skeleton and to the scientists
delight, he found the neck of a still
greater animal leading under the body
OF the one already found. Then another
cut was made and almost beyond his
belief Mr.. Douglas found a small dino
sauer nestled between the two larger
ones.
About a month ago workmen put in
q small blast in the cut below. and to
the establishment of Mr. Douglas, I'M
covered fine specimen of small car
nivOrous dinosaur.
Now Mr.. Douglas thinks he has a
burial ground of the finest lot Of giant
animals that has ever been discovered
There is a great desire on the part
OF scientists to find skull of dino
saur intact. One has never vet been
found. Mr.. Douglas feels confident he
will find more than one. The neck YER
tebrae of the largest skeleton found is
in place and one joint taken out and
boxed weighs over a ton; of course, it
is petrified and not chiseled clean, but
1t is monster and so are the others
The field where Mr.. Douglas found
so many mammals and reptiles new to
science is near the Devils Playground
about S5 miles from vernal, in a south
easterly direction. The country is In
the gilsonite zone and nature has many
wonderful things in store there for
those who seek.
All Are Impressed.
The fossil grounds were visited last
fall by DR.. w. H. Ochsner of the Ie- |
land Stanford university and he was
favorably impressed, but Re only saw
the beginning of the work.
Professor Hinckley, geologist of the |
B. Y. U. Of Provo, saw the prospect in |
It's early stages and he was thrilled |
with the possibilities of the find
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