or ems Q PREHISTORIC OYSTERS IN Iii THE BOOK CLIFFS Discovery Discover by Miners Cause of Com Coin ment went and S Speculation Speculation Palm Palm Leaves and Monkey Skulls Too in Basin Bashi BasinA BashiA A lr press s dispatch irem Grand Junction Juno Juno- tion tells about a prehistoric bed having been discovered In the tha Book Cliff CUff coal mine The Free Presa Press f fis Is not not In a position at this thia time to tell what the difference Is la between a prehistoric oyster and aad ono one of the good old su succulent fellows served today However the shell of ot that tha t same has been discovered discovered dis dis- covered in the rocks at the Jensen Dinosaur quarry In addition to that Professor Earl Douglass ha hu has discovered monkey Skulls cad d prim leaves All of which helps to prove that statement that this was once a a. tropical country and also once the tha r bottom of the sea The Grand Juno June 11 tion dispatch says Much speculation and comment b has been excited by t the e announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment that the miners in the Book Cliff coal mine have uncovered a bed of prehistoric oysters more than a amile amile amile mile back at the extreme end of ona one of the tunnels In the mine Samples of the oysters that Is what they ther r rare are supposed to be are on exhibition at the offices of D. D B. B Wright manager mana ger of the mine In this city Manager Wright stated this mornIng morning morning morn- morn r ing that the formation had been uncovered un un- covered cohered for a distance of thirty feet teet j jor or more In the roof of or the tunnel and acid that the bed is approximately six Inches thick The vein of coal which tho the company compan is mf mining ing at this thia place is six feet thick From Indica Indications the bed of oysters may extend for hundreds of feet and miles Some speculation has been caused as to w whether ether the petrified animal life lite was at rot one time oysters clams mussels or some form of or life Ufe now unknown The samples on f tion bear marks very closely resembling resembling bling that of or oysters The samples are In a fine state of preservation and t the animals covered completely the completely the bottom of or the sea to a depth of sir r f f inches The crevices between the animals animals an an- are arc filled with oat coal At this particular spot spot the the roc rock extends upwards for a distance of oC eight hundred feet before the surface surface sur sur- face tace is reached Just how these came to be where they are with the present home of oC tho the oyster thousands of oC miles away Is an interesting study The bed lies at an angle of oC twenty nine degrees