The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-03-30
UNEARTHING RuGE
FOSSIL REMAINS


Dali Deweese recently established
a camp and placed number OF men
at work unearthing the petrihed bone1
Of sore huge preh s:,i;s monster of
the antedeluvian world which he dis
covered neatly yet tr feo in th. l'in:.
stone lodges in the moantains Ia lat
den Park, some three miles east of
the Felch ranch ON the Cripple Creek
road.
The fossilized remains which Mr..
Deweese Is ende ivor;ng to excsyate
are those OF some monster of that
plastic period when the earth was
young and belonged probably TO the
diuosauria or megatherold families as
classified by scientists.
The remains are said to be in an
excellent state of pre- -eryaticn and
1t is hoped that a larse part OF the
skeleton may be taken out intact.
Some OF the larger bones. according
10 sir. Deweese. are crushed and
fractured by the pressure and up
hcavai OF the rock stratum in which
they are incased and in which they
have laid for untold ares. but II is ex-
pected that enough OF them can be re-
moved unbroken TO enable the animals ,
frame to be built up much as It was
in life.
The remains will be presented by
Mr.. Deweese to the museum in the
city park in Denver. where they will i.
be mounted for public inspection.
The museum authorities are CO OPP
Grating. with Mr. Dcweese in the work
OF digging out the remains. which is
an undertaking OF considerable dIfn-
Guilty. requiring as IL does care and
delicacy OF operation.
Mr. Dewcese devoted some time
last fall In an attempt to remove the
demains from the rock in which they
were imbedded. but winter came ON
before the task was completed and
they were covered up TO await the
coming OF warm weather in the spring
A great many fossils OF prehistoric
monsters were uncovered In that por-
ton Of Fremont county twenty-five or
thirty years ago under the supervision
OF Prof Marsh OF Yaic college and
the Smithsonian Institute Of Wash
ington. ID. C.. as well as the museums '
of Yale and Harvard colleges OF New
York. Boston and Philadelphia were
greatly enriched as the result OF the
excavations OF that time.
Several large museums have in
formed Mr.. Deweese that tho fossil
beds Of the Garden Park district werr
exhausted. but the recent discovery
there has shown their predictions on
that subject TO be based upon mis-
taken premises. Mr. Deweese is OF
the opinion that the fossil beds "a
Fremont county are the richest in
the Rocky Mountain region and offer .
n most ailuring field for the invest.
cation OF the scientist engaged In that
particular line OF research
A number OF people this morning
went out to the place OF excavation on
Garden Park on Invitation OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Deweese to inspect the fossil re.
mains that are te.ng uncovered and
10 enjoy picnic dinner. In the party
sesides Mr.. and Mrs. Dcweese were
DR.. and Hrs. Hart Goodioe, Dr. and
Mrs. c. A. vawter. A. n. Livingston
and sister, Miss Anna. Mr. McKcllar
OF the Wet Mountain valley and
mother. DR.. and Airs. Theodore Ash.
ley. Mrs A. c. Dickinson. w. n.
Dozier, A. e. Wilson. Frank l.. Smith I
and W. B. Chapel All except the
four latter, who returned to town
about I o'clock this afternoon. remain.