The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-10
BIG REPTILES
R0AMED MOUSE
RIVER VALLEY
Minot Man Unearths Two
Petrified Vertebrate Of Mon
sters of By-Gone Days

Minot, N. D., Jan. 1O.-Was the
Mouse river valley once the feeding
ground Of the dinosaur. prehistoric
reptile which millions Of years ago
inhabited the North American con-
tinent? Evidence which tends to
prove that such was the case is own
Cd by G.. A. Jones of this city. and
in the belief of Mr.. Jones and an
thropologists the proof is weil-n'sh
p! conclusive.
! For the Minot man has in his pos
/ session two petrifed veterbrae OF
one of the monsters, the relics OF
byrone day when Mother Earth was
young having been found 10 years
ago in a hillside on South Hill when
contractors were excavatiIig for the
basement of the pr. A. NJ. Harda-
way home at Ola Main street south.
The dwelling is now occupied BY DR..
Z. c. Stone.
The vertebrac. each about three
inches across and about two inches
| longitudinally. fit by means of ball
and socket arrangement, and are de-
1 clared by scientists to have been,
back in this distant past, two OF the
pieces which formed the extremity Of
the tail bone of mature dinosaur.
as made certain by comparison with
reconstructed skcIetons of the great
beasts.
The bones were uncovered when
the side hill at the address given was
partially cut away by scrapers, and
Mr.. Jones believes that the fossil re-
mains Of Mr.. Dinosaur may be bur
led deeper in the earth covering
which has proved his tomb for mil
} lions Of years. The project Of >cxcav.
ating further would be an expensive
project, it is declared. and unless
} delivers into the scientific mysterie:
of the past become more keen about
/ eyhumins the skeleton, it Is prob
able that the bones Of the reptile
will continue to rest undisturbed II
/, his South Hill grave.
J, The dinosaur, says scientists
!, roamed most of the entire world j,
the days before mountains, at a tim
when much of the surface OF tn
earth was swampy land. profuse il
vegetation which furnished suster
ance for q strange~and forgotten as
sortment Of animals. Vast marshe
\ and inland seas are believed to hav
\ existed. and forty-ton monsters wa
> lowed through the mud like the be
hemotE of Holy Writ. The dino
,sal,rs lived on vegetation alon
n browsing on plants along the shore
or reaching deep into the water wit
la gfraffe-like neck for the vegtatio
which grew in the bed of lake 6
stream They are believed to HAY
nj ovee frequently on two feet. in ka,
II CARGO fashion without the leaf
p which characterize that native
81 Australia
r. The tdinosaur is c:assed as repti
because the skeleton of the gre
D BEST, resembles that of crocodi
Or or lizard more than that of mode1
Mt guadruped, and is believed to ha'
Or laid which would have anlaz'
lg the largest ostrich ever hatchet
re Bones Of the brontosaurus and d,pl
k docus members Of the family. ha'
been found in all continents, some +
III them, indicating that the origin
ut owners had reached IS feet in leng
a. and had stood 16 or more feet hi;
p at the hips, with necks which cou
d, reach 40 feet into the air.
l. The cause of the extinction of Il
pc dinosaur has never been definitely d
b. termined, it is stated, though a aui
change in climate, an immense It'd
wave or other phenomenon of natu
II believed to have brought t
species death in a brief space
time.
- Perhaps At some future date, a nj
I activity will he undertaken in Min
the excavation in the interests
IT science of South Hill and simil
10 places in the valley where more m
re be learned of the life of the massl
M monsters Of a forgotten era.