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Show GRAVEYARD OF PREHISTORIC PRE-HISTORIC MONSTERS FOUND IN BAD LANDS C .H. Bigelow, Los Angeles man who is widely known here, is being credited today by scientists with the "discovery" of a strange land where the residents are creatures of some 40 tons in bulk and often 20 feet tall. No, Mr. Bigelow has not been on a week-end trip to Mars. I The country is central Utah, in the bad lands of Wayne and Emery counties. coun-ties. And its monster natives are the j fossilized remains of dinosaurs which feasted on swamp foliage some 100,-000,000 100,-000,000 years ago before a great geo-j geo-j logic change transformed their homeland home-land into a desert. The discovery of the new dinosaur fossil field, which may prove to be the richest yet unearthed on the North American continent, was sig nalized last month when an expedition expedi-tion from the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art returned with a sixfoot tibia of a brachiosaur-us, brachiosaur-us, or-dinosaur, and reported it had found one complete speciment of a small dinosaur and other bones which the severe weather had necessitated leaving until a return trip is made this spring. Mr. Bigelow was not actually the first person to find the fossil remains of the monsters of centuries ago. Mormon farmers and rangers in the country nearby had frequently noticed notic-ed and sometimes collected out of curiosity "peculiar rocks." But Mr. Bigelow, who as a road engineer en-gineer had much to do with opening up the region known as the Wayne Wonderland, sensed something scientifically scien-tifically important in the desert relics. He, with Miss Margaret Kuehne of New York, writer and friend of the engineer, last October viewed some specimens which had been collected by Professor Williams of the Castle-dale Castle-dale Junior college. They submitted photographs and reports to Dr. John A. Comstock, associate director of th6 Los Angeles museum. Mr. Bigelow, who though a layman, is highly respected in scientific circles, cir-cles, believes that the new field merely mere-ly has been tapped and that it holds great treasures for the scientists who seek to reconstruct a picture of America Am-erica millions of years before the advent ad-vent of man. From reports of rangers who have crossed the desolate, forbidding country, coun-try, he sees indications that the inter-mountain inter-mountain area may be a vast graveyard grave-yard for the extinct lords of North America. "I believe the Utah field will prove to be richer in fossil remains of dinosaurs dino-saurs than the Wyoming field, which so far has given us our most valuable valu-able speciments," he sajs. From the thigh bone which the museum mu-seum expedition brought back, Dr. Chester L. Stock, paleontologist of the California Institute of Technology, Technol-ogy, made a tentative reconstruction reconstruc-tion of the monster which once used the bone. He probably measured 65 feet in length and was 20 feet tall at the shoulder and weighed about 40 tons. This compares favorably with the largest dinosaur fossil as yet dis covered. A complete 15-foot skeleton was found. It was the remains of one of the little cousins of the big fellow, probably. This specimen was coated with a plaster of paris preparation and was made ready for shipment to Los Angeles. But the early arrival of winter snows forced the expedition to leave the animal for a few months j more rest in the land where he lived millions of years ago. In the central Utah area, relics of a more recent ageof human life and an as yet unidentified civilization also have been found. The Wayne Wonderland Won-derland has yielded highly-colored j rawhide shields and beautifully woven wov-en baskets which belonged to an old, I old culture, Mr. Bigelow states. i With the opening up of the country by means of the Arrowhead trail known as U. S. highway No. 91 which Mr. Bigelow located, a new "happy hunting grounds" for archaeologists and paleontologists has been found, the engineer believes. |