| Show Dinosaur dung gets national attention Vernal area merchants Cliff and Margret owners and operators of the Blue Mountain Rock and Gem store on West Highway 40 are on the threshold of producing a craze to rival the Pet Rock craze of Christmases past with the packaging and selling of coprolite or as its it's more commonly known dinosaur dung Although in business for the past year and a half and marketing th the fossilized manure the scope of its selling power wasn't realized until a Deseret News reporter Gail Moore of Vernal printed a feature story of the dung in the November 21 2 issue of the Deseret News The story ran on the News wire services and was picked up throughout the nation and beyond touching off requests for the stuff that keeps the fairly busy every day to package and send it off THE ARTICLE made headlines across the nation and prompted television and radio stations to seek interviews with the managers of the he shop David Hartman Good Morning America spoke of the Uie coprolite and stomach stones that aided the dinosaur digestive system in his morning television talk show Paul Harvey also mentioned men men- Lionel I Vernal and the unique gift on his I show how Other stations showing interest in the and their operation included a aLos aLos aLos Los Angeles radio station KMET Salt Lakes Lake's and stations in Canada and Halifax Nova Scotia The latter Included included in In- eluded live interviews with the Since the breaking of the article in the wire services the gilts have begun to fill orders to areas around the nation that include such states as Alabama New York Ohio Florida and California COPROLITE as the news article reported is petrified dinosaur manure and is commonly com corn used for decorative pieces in jewelry and for lab specimens The coprolite used by the Vernal business is commonly found in the Colorado norado and Utah area stones or gastric stones were used in the digestive system of dinosaurs and possess a different texture than other stones in the shop They have a similar feeling l-eling as those stones that have been polished althou although h they haven't been a kind of oily feel el reported requests for these conversation pieces are not expected to let up throughout the Christmas season even though vario various people have expressed a reservation in purchasing samples of the stone But nut those reservations are quickly when they discover the stones dont don't smell |
