Salt Lake Herald | 1899-03-31 | Page 2 | Union Pacific Scheme

I UNION P AqFC SCHEME Offers Iducement For Scientists to Visit Wyoming Cheyenne Wyo March 31The Union Pacifc railroad has in preparation prepara-tion a clrcqlar letter Pt InvIaton whle is unique in the history of railroading roading and which Wm give that road wide and weleared advertlsement apd at the same time promote the In teret of science aId 1dgely increase the Interest of students ot geology pal pa-l ontolob and mineralogy in Wyoming and her extraordinary fields of gigantin ggantc fossi remains The company will ex tend to upwards oC 300 colleges and universities of the United States a cordial cor-dial invitation to send mfrc expert geologist geolo-gist or poleontologst with a corps of assistants to Wyoming the coming summer The invitations will offer in the interest of science frte transOr taton from Chicago on the eat ana San Francisco on the wet to Laamie Wyo and return fOI all the member of such properly authenticated parties the transportation being god during the surer months There is no doubt whateler chat the invitation will be largely accepted and that a more extended ex-tended knowledge of the wonderful fos i beds of this state will be the result and that many mesums will be greatly enriched by the collections made Botanists Bot-anists entomologists and oriholo gOats will find in tIe high plateaus and semiarid plains regions of this state an exceedingly rich field for work The circulars referred to are now in press