| Show Uintah Basin Described I Id f d J- J By Flo Florida rids Woman om hi c ca Tampa a m Pla Fla la Tribune Experiences of a Tampa woman Mrs Maud Martin Dulaney a q nationally nationally na na- na- na known Chautauqua entertainer enter enter enter- talner and reader ie during a tour tour of the west last summer including a a. a to to te Uintah basin in in Utah and anda a trip to the world-famous world fossil beds near Jensen Utah are described for The The Tribune by y Mrs firs Dulaney he accompanying ing article Ut Utah h Wonderful State Utah is one one of the th garden spots of the earth While I felt awed by the grandeur of the scenery through the Gra Grand d canyon of the Colorado the g geysers eys ra of Yellowstone park and th tho Yo Yoe- Yoe emite e- e mite Valley Garden of of the Jo nods Joda 3 I also appreciated the Ule great greal salt air ail pavilion tabernacle and brand Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor Mor- mon temple of or unit aalt Lake City but it is not Dot of these I wish to speak k lm but butof butof of the Uintah basin of Utah This likely interested me rile pore more because my father being Uni United States om om- 1 i missioner at My Myton ton Utah had been writing nie me of this wonderfully fertile fer fer- tile tUe spot for the tho past pa twelve years but I had never hoped to find such suell an Interesting pl place ce eighty nines Mlles from froma a a. railroad ad I cert certainly can see a wOI fu- fu ure for Utah and the Uintah basin basal in m particular The successful tion of the Moffat hill bill w will insure the speedy speed building of ofa a a r. railway rail raU- railway way my through the basin and n alon aloes the thel l river and all sur surveys take the Hr river nver route A further and perhaps more nore important im un- m- m matter to this section is the oil interests now being in Geologists have been so uniformly agreed that there thele is an Important formation of of oil throughout the Uia Uin ilin- Uintah tah tali basin that thousands thousand of acres have been leased for the purpose of later development along this line The fhe most wonderful fruit crop I have ever seen in my life liCe grew in inthe inthe inthe the basin this season r thin that can grow Irow at an e of O feet is raised there in lance I where water can be secured urell f for f irrl- irrl gation The homes are are small and of or rustic design most of theta them being of logs as aa building material t mu-t io ie hauled from forty to miles milts but everyone seems so i p rom through the basin that you OU would never dream that the they w were re eighty miles from a railroad Think what it would mean to them lo Lo have to-have ha have vo lail rail road facilities to l market e arl i the she crops crop grown there Most of the people there theiu are are- educated edu elu catell refined people who hav have hayn l b been con n attracted to that country by hy its wonderful 1 possibilities and acid ar are enduring en- en n- n during the inconveniences m in v vew ew v e of tha future awaiting them There ar- ar people there who wh have clear denied cleared d thons- thons of dollars off of a few fete av ares res oi of IW sweet yee EVLey seed clover s t this hi st season it on and it itt only requires a a few weeks w eKs for the tIle seed to mature matur after a first crop has leas been harvested Itaro naro Mineral l Deposits Near Fort Duchesne they have the only gilsonite and asphalt beds beds' inthe in ill inthe I Ionly the United States Another thing of great interest tom to tome m me me-is me is the DIn Dinosaur quarry near Jensen Jensen Jensen Jen Jen- sen v. v rich was dis discovered by Prof Earl Eail Douglass of the Carnegie mu museum museum muse muse- eurn e- e The um urn about bout thirteen years ago spot was pointed out to him by anold anold an anold old settler Burton by name e. e There have been three hundred specimens and mounted mounted mount mount- taken cut Gut of this ed for the Carnegie museum b by by- Prof Prot A. A S S. S Coggeshall and the fossils fossils fos fos- sils made malle to look like they did soon after the flesh left the bones which is supposed to Have have been been ten I million of these Is Isa Isa isa years ears ago The largest a brontosaurus measuring ninety feet long and fifteen feet tall at the hips It is is ib of the reptile e family the head head- being small compared with the tho thorest rest of the body bolly the bones hones o of this animal weighing eleven hundred and fifty fiLy y pounds and measuring more than six feet feet in in length Many 1 notables notables notables nota nota- bles have visited the dinosaur quarry Two of ot these were there during the month of August and the sanie same week week-in In which I visited It Garfield Smalls eminent s 's special specialist lot 1st of Honduras who who- is in this country studying yari various us diseases was a guest of Prof Earl Douglas Dougl s at atthe atthe atthe the quarry Aug 4 Dr Smalley had before been near only enly a short time deaths death's door with blackwater fever Joseph Robinson of f On all Aug 23 Sir Montreal and London was there Sir Sir Sir- Joseph had bad hear heard 1 so much of the quarry and its fossils that he went ou out t of his way to S see C it recently Prof Earl Douglass has in skeleton skeleton unea-r unea unearthed hell a strange Interested It ItIs ItIs Its much which he lie is v very r not much larger largI larg larg- Is s very small perhaps than ithe the prehistoric horse Another Another Another An An- er cr specimen discovered by Professor other sor Douglass is called caned the stegosaur Solid Mass hiss of Fossils The picture presented by this perpendicular per per- of rock is ledge and Tails legs and overwhelming carnivorous oUS of ni monsters both boU ribs Imbedded in fu herbivorous are arc and they distinct are these rocks and ancl so they might as though that it seems against a mud I j have been thrown up stuck tuck and then dried I I wall where they hardened under the intense 1 and heat of a glaring d' d desert eTt sun There closing the quarry talk taUe of Is ju soon on It I L be done dono will and that ho more than lW likely ly thai tiit P plans wilt will fc whereby a u Ul n jOU ll ima I perfected will HI be ho t w Jf lit lg i A A. A I state building museum will JJr probably l h i s ratted J aro around nd and amI over th li s t immense rocks 1 s. s ro lh l ng ot of va 1 tl tte v. v RS J L t- t J vile y be nub pub r r. hit hat it n t t-n t l j errs teil eu 1 f l t f I j Im-j stood there in lit i t plo pee t sa sans ns tn en n the tho nu nu mere an 1 m mon i f 11 l the J In III I eh ch h v r. r ti th ni f toile lone ye e r more visited this tu t u u ir e Ired dred people fr fro n n o n a a. a aran ar r rand r rand miles though thou it Is mountainous mountain us le on c n. n a 3 and l an below My Ol an un- I I About six miles mUes other fossil has been found one oue of an animal called the which lived several several million year ear ago and even at that he lived sever ever several i al million years after the dinosaur was buried in the mud near where Jensen now stands Tho The bones of this animal were discovered disco by O. O A. A Peterson of the Carnegie museum and during the month of August Mr 11 Peterson Professor ProCessor Douglass and A A. S. S Coggeshall also of tho the thai C Carnegie museum went over to look at the place w ro the th skull of a a small prehistoric prehistoric pre pre- historic animal had been found The animal resembled SOm hat at the black and weighed about three thousand pounds It had two horns near the end of the tIle nos nose He fed upon plants and probably lived in the lowlands near the river He Iff had hall as associates the ancestry of the deer antelope and horse The horse at that time lime was toed five and was about the size of a fox There are aie also fossils of sea fish palm p leaves and l many other evidences of of- Utah having at one time been tropical I Utah has the only billy lil mountain range in ill the world running contrary to tei the coast line TIle The formation of rock m in in the cliff cUff where here these animals are being bein be be- cin c- c in ing taken out shows SlOWS that th the sea sea bcd bed has covered this ar area a twice since these fossils fossils- were deposited there Geologists claim that they ha have ha erO e- e found rO evidence c. c of a stream of or water near neal the DuchSne riv river r having at one onetime onetime onetime time run in ill the opposite direction to Chat hat w Which the Duc erne river rivet now runs The mountains of Utah resemble resemble re re- ble a great city ity more than mountains mountains mountains moun moun- when viewed from froma a distance J. J L. L Kay is now In charge harge of the work at the quarry at Jensen and andIs andis Is ls the one one who gave me data for this stor story along wit specimen of rocks or different formation and of the dino dino- saul Como Bluff Wyoming is the first place where dinosaur fossils were in the Rocky y mountains Some of the dinosaurs were the largest larg largest est land animals th that t. t ever roamed the earth They TIley differ greatly in shape structure re and ha habits ts Somo Some were vere plant eaters and others on feu on I flesh Some walked walled ou on on r four feet others had weak fore limbs and ana walked wallie entirely on strongly develop- develop ed legs Some had reptile like feet others were bird footed foote Some had to-es to provided wIth with long sharp claws others rs had flat flattened ne r h hoot hoof of like nails Th There wera dinosaurs dinosaur with fth small hea heads s and others with wit large heads and some resembled birds so greatly that only th the slime skillet anatomist could distinguish the flit dt ference Some were of jno size and were wera cla clad in a a. bony armo armo- which gave them a hideous s appear ance ante The largest herbivorous or plant eating dinosaur whoso whose foss f remains have been found uin in th tl was the brontosaurus brontosaurus' or ih thunder riA i lizard rd as as' as It W it was liras v s called u b y Marsh was It was seventy fee lo long g stood tood sixteen feet tall at th hips and had a long tail and equally equally- long neck 0 o |
