The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1914-11-05

which was written by a Tribune
special writer after he had visited the
famous bone yard" and viewed the
burial place Of the saurian monsters
buried there millions of years ago.
The Captain Felch referred to was
the late Marshal p. Felch. well known
to the older residents OF this commu-
nifty, whose ranch on the Canon City
Cripple Greek road is pointed out to
visitors as the place from which ONE
OF the richest fossil treasures Of the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington.
ID. c.. were exhumed.
Canon City. Colorado. October IA
Among the innumerable natural curl
osities of Colorado none possess a
deeper interest than what the people
OF Canon City are given TO calling
the bone yard
The vicinity presents the finest
geological exposures / have ever seen.
the little stream thru whose canon
you approach the now renowned field
having in many places the formations
cut cleanly down three thousand feet
showing all the stratidcations. II
would be an ideal spot to start n
school OF geology. The whole coun-
try round about Is much broken and
the dip of the rock is such that in leav-
ing Canon City you pass over the ex-
posed edge OF every formation from
the tertiary TO the silurian. but the
exposure only becomes OF unusual in
terest as you enter the canon of OIL
Creek. where the walls rise shere and
ciear-cut above you showing the
stratification through many geologi-
cal periods. The bone yard proper
Is but seven or eight miles out from
town. but the interest continues for
the geological student for six or seven
miles beyond.
There 1; is" said Captain Felch.
who has charge OF the operations of
quarrying out the mastodons. He
wa spointing TO a dizzy ledge OF
sandstone away UP the perpendicular
side OF the canon where stretch OF
white sail-clo;h protected the redeem
cd treasures from the disiutegrating
action of the weather.
lis II a private enterprise Of yours
Captain asked 10 you sell
these mammoth homes 10 the highest
bidder. or how
'Oh. dear. no. replied the captain;
= am working In the interest OF
science. not of the collector Of curiosi-
ties I am setting out these evidences
of the ne that existed on the world
during what Is know as
THE JURAsslC HORIZON
for Profesaor Marsh. of Yale college. e
And is this quarry your own prop
eriy7 and how did you discover these
bones in the rockss''
AS t. your first question. no. the
quarry q mol mine excert hy priority
of occur alton. It IS government land
but Il ldsoins my ranch over there IN
Garden park, ard am nrt Mkniv %
De distu-hed IN my possession for 1;
gCu'i ne uEeiess 20 anybody else.
As t1 how I came To discover this
Z lost. bGt most lntercEfinr PAGE from
I the rrest book o. nature. that was
anfurai enough. We are a Yankee
family With the native lncuisitiFeness
deveioped in a special lire. We are
nafuraiisfs. That odd little girl
there of mine. demure as she seems
Is a born student OF nature: she has
made some rare and
VALUABLE COLLECTIONS OF IN
SECTS
that have attracted attention She
e not yet able to classify them com.
rletely. but you see she has had no
Instruction, except what she CLEANED
I herself from the scientific books and
periodicals which have been about the
house. Ny children discovered this
particular spot and drew my atten.
tion to IL. II Is a perfect geological
mine; but as n matter OF fact these
saurian remains abound In the Iuras.
sic exposures about here. They. s-e,
however. found in this particular spo;
in greater abundance and perfection
than anywhere else yet discovered. "
How do you account for that"
asked.
= COX st the confirmation here and
I think the reason will suggest itself. -
said the captain. Some
l4.0oo.000 YEARS AGO
that SPOT was doubtless the mouth
OF an old Jurassic river. and there.
fore a natural feeding bed for the
semi-amnhibious creatures whose re
mains I am now excavaiing. The
] quarry Is a perfect mass OF bones. and
the variety OF animal remains found
I Is greater than in almost any other
place in the world Many OF them,
too. are highly specialized s."
You are using that word In a tech
I nicai sense Captain; please explain.
well you -Een-/ many CT these r.
mains had already become known 10
iFclenco. bot We occasionally end some
hasias such well marked special that
Is Individually feature as 20 require a
new Classification Now ! have jus,
gotten out something I think VIII prove
OF almost startling interest 10 scien
.ullc minds"
Not the missing link. Il IS Cap
tain. I asked banteringiy.
Exactly. the missing link" he re.
piled with perfect sobornoss. but per
haps not the link you have in mind