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Show PUS TO EXHUrvlE PREHISTORIC FOSSILS Uinta Senator Wants Skeletons Skele-tons Restored and Installed In-stalled in Museum. Senator Ton B. Colton of T'lnta Ts urging urg-ing a hill asking for an appropriation of ?500 or $3':0i) to be used in exhuming and restoring skeletons of prehistoric animals to be found in the Uinta basin and installing them in the museum at the University of Utah. Although of Ue minority party in the upper house, Senator Collon has gained eunsidcrat ion of the proposition by several sev-eral members of the majority and it is probable that he will receive enough support sup-port to get the appropriation bill tlirougli ihe senate. The largest deposit of prehistoric fossils in 'the United States is. said to be near Jensen, in the Uinta basin. The Smithsonian Smith-sonian Institution has had experts there for several years exhuming the fossil remains, re-mains, several of which have been installed in-stalled in eastern museums, but so far none has been set up in any Utah institution. insti-tution. Senator Colton's original idea was to have the area containing the fossils set aside by the state for state purposes, but upon investigation he learned that the area is included in the public domain and the request for an appropriation is to be suhtituted. Senator Colton also plans to ask that peyote, a plant which comes In the same class as opium and cocaine, be Included among the narcotics in the state statutes. So far the use of peyote is confined almost al-most exclusively to the Indians of the state and largely to Indians of the Uinta country. Its influences are similar to th6se of opium and cocaine and other harmful drills mentioned in the Harrison act of the federal statutes. Senator Colton Col-ton asserts that he has definite information informa-tion that the drug or weed has been responsible re-sponsible for more than one crime among the Indians within the past few months and urges that legislation be enacted which will prevent its further use in Utah. |