Show Dinosaurs Dinosaur Ab About t t Ready tobe to tobe j. j be Installed in ire In U. U of U. U Museum I By J. J Cecil Alter I Two Two or three li 1 fe dinosaurs aret are aie riding up UD out nut pl of of t tle I. I e rn rocky kY past 4 fr iron rom m the vicinity of Jensen onsen moving I toward vard Ward Salt Lake Lala City and ana the tho lint Un- r of Utah museum Shaking i t l lem m eves rr front from n their stony stony bed l Pere they lain for several million nillion years they find ro l progress ess a aI a I I difficult and movement very slow iT ow w compared with their speed before be be- fore ore re going last to bed in ln that grassy radle prior to the stone age but the aid of a competent groom groom gin s n Ear Douglass Douglass' tamer an ana an I R f fa Utah dinosaurs for fOl the past sixt six six- a tl 1 een n years yeal's extensive parts of ot at least t rt r stir prehistoric beasts are Pi u the way to the show room I 1 I removed from froID The Tho skeletons being go he Dinosaur national monument nt 20 e t tarries by the University of or Utai Uta job f c with Mr Douglass have haven een n deposited In a closely compact compact- ra mass one large largo animal with a aih aline ih t td d ed rag ng i line Une of at huge hugo vertebrae with i ib he l o ribs attached lying immediate immediate- ate 0 above another similar skeleton lyl elther of ot these the e has the skull at- at n ched for while parts of or skulls 4 P avo vo alwa always B s been so small as to indi in- in di iJ a delicate support for the I U ead ead ad thus the heads Have ilave been 4 j away In some manner Some arts arts of ot other bones such as legs yap ti tit ad d so forth are also In convenient y J and good condition for tor re- re l oral oval with the university collection IJ Jr if t Complete Skeleton l' l Pound Found adr a l to i Perhaps the most Interesting fosa fos- fos a l in this immediate mass which he e a university has been fortunate t tb the Ugh gh to Lo obtain is a smaller apeci- apeci r et jv en with the head intact the only fad ad found so far In the sixteen an ab pars ars of ot excavations In this quarry I i. i r. r s f tre a bead is s not so large largen in n com com- it t i p parison with some ne' ne I of f the other otlie- b bones nes nesI found the rows of te teeth th d eing n only about b ut eight inches apart apart anti ana nut but u littie lit little t. t tie tle e longer th than n that that but but the skull smil is s s such ch a rarity rarity and ul espe especially l h ill in such an excellent state or comp completeness complete compete elc- elc ness ness that Mr Douglass considers this this' a a very ierY important sp men lie Several everal disarticulated ti also being taken for for this c collon ll Oll to toS S show V lO the thc variety arle of the d deposited Irenes tenes and and to to indicate in a way w way j the bro oTo ea and mid scattered condition of the bones in th the rock fastness s s. s Thu finding of at a a complete complete- skeleton In in proper position in any riy quarry quarry in tIle the world has lies been t ail an unusually unu hire fro occurrence occurrence f The skeletons taken tal from the Utah quarry have ranged from a afew afew te few v feet in length being smaller than a small pony up to more than feet in extreme l length Most of oC these have been delivered to eastern eastern eastern east east- ern m museums After Arter eastern museums had obtained obtain ell all they I needed and the quarry was about tobe tobe to tobe be closed Mr 11 Douglas was induced by the University of Utah to take race takeout out some further further bones A Asman small amount of exploration showed that t this could be done readily the re result result re- re sult Bult being that the university is to obtain specimens superior in some respects to any so far taken out There will be important parts missing from the tho best of of the specimens specimens I mens but since the missing parts of C I an any one skeleton have bave Deen peen round in other skeletons the replacement I of or these bones artificially for exhibit purposes with explanations will wUI be easily and cheaply done though it may be decided to leave the skeletons skeletons skeletons tons exactly as 18 taken from the quarry It is expected that the theOn theOn theOn On Last Page THREE DINOSAURS i r t From From Page One i 1 l t r. r work orl will Tie be be completed d' d i at the q quarry quarry arr this ll s summer summer a d shipments made ta l to fo o Salt saL Lake Lake city City this fa fall some sometime time after which Mr Mr c as assisted d by others wilh wl vill the f 1 1 exhibit at tile the it possibly iii hi r a special ui 1 l. l 1 t j f Ari fyie future of ot tJ tha d dour Ur quarry Is uncertain is-uncertain in in Mr lir Doug Doug- Ii N la S' S p WJ on Z t three a are a a ii gr great many many y more more s' s sli lr Eons that could be obtain obtain- e e 1 o of of i the l f fa fat t that tha all i the le leading oft u uiE tae tue j country i 1 have 11 ye r ha a t f opportunity POt I f l' l j t to tog g a et Vh t I y wal l cl d however It s Js hardlY v likely that any gre great t hmo amount amount nt of exI ex- ex ex- ex I 1 C l if will ill v-ill n follow The The Themo mo most t ti i proba-bl proba probable and and the most appropriate a future for the quarry has been sUg suggested sug fr- fr bested by y Mr r pou Douglass l ss s's a and d rs s r it it be prepared for tourist visits visits' pf To lb ul s would would j q ire ail ari tip tip- ap apP P pp pr pr preferably f l by co congress r for r e exposing exposing p parts s of of everal Q line linea n. n s a ap p ln t th l properly m p with V with th i d' d other substances for lor jail Ill time f The iThe hone bowies S could be partly partly denuded the ne being being cut cuta c t a away vay so that such an exhibit gould would I Ue be e i LI n more more re interesting interesting if if Ul the hones bones b nes were assem assembled lcd i in l a museum J After Alter thus being prepared d for vie view viewing view view- i fug ing g by the lUb public c MI Mr I D ug ass P plan plan an w would be to hous them in for protection against the elements and the the raids of vandals and open the the place ace for tourist fr traffic c jn to season under rinder the care of of 1 v 1 |