Show jensen dinosaur quarry becomes national monument bere heres s government report N its policy of preserving to tile the nn I 1 IN tion llon all or at bladt the for foremost emosi of the national beauties onders mid and wealth the tha federal government linb ills balod within n the boundaries boun darlos ol 01 tills thle state four national nil all more or loss known to tho the tourist end and the public through Itter literature aturO but little known front personal vials or observation all being tho the are conce concede dedi dt however to be among the most beautiful and binl extraordinary adiong the 40 or wore more that have been derieg bated throughout the country the mont ments are known cnown as an or little alon ton can on monument the rainbow bridge ment the natural bridges nion iti uincent rient and the dinosaur national monument at jensen the official report of which has just been on maja made to tho department of the interior by W J hanna special agent in the local office of the field division of the general land omen with his report mr hanna included numerous photographs of the excavations cavat ions lons all and work at tile the inyim anent and reproductions of extreme interest Inter cut and value to the department with regard to the history discovery method of and value to of the work of prot iroe earl iu in excavating the bones bonen of the gigantic prehistoric king of blasts the initial photograph in the report Is of a restored brontosaurus front from this deposit feet long and 20 feet high now lueta installed llod in the carnegie museum inua euni at Pitt fiburg following throughout the hie report fire are detailed pictures and accounts showing practically every bono its condition when found bow it is dug from the sand stone atone how it la in preserved nod and transported to the railroad and finally delivered to the museum with numerous and kalua continued ou on page 6 faub OIA j janst DINOSAUR QUARRY NATIONAL riNT continued irom pago page one ble sidelights side lighta on the fossil holds fields of the iho uintah recognized as aa the itie world a foremost deposits of 0 the monsters at 0 the earth mr air cannao IIa unas which Is id graphic lu in sta its of tho the bubin batin nad and activities and aud wealth in ili fossils Is hi us as follows fol lOWB in no DO other part of the world has there boon been found such buch a deposit of dinosaurian fossils us ua that recently discovered iu in the uintah basin in a uenh and now noh embra lid ed in the dinosaur national mauu moist ahe carnegie sent its first expedition into the uintah basin in ili 1908 and the expedition proved so successful that thab it was waa keut the following year this one under miller the direct direction iun of prof doug task lusu liones bones that had boon been weathered out oat of the clays and sandstones were found iu in abundance but they railed failed to furnish the mute ilal desired d as dissociated bouts boat a had buen been found before lit in tho the dakotas and in colorado complete were now flow needed not und and brokon broken bones when the search boarch of 0 the curua bodh boda in tile the region had been completed ld and were ruther rather discouraging und and it begun began to look as though now new fields would have to be a sought und and when it had actu all been decided to give up tile the search bearch on the following day and puck pack up tor for the return trip dr douglass Doug laya discovered a sandstone am latono ledge containing exposed seven larico aarle vertebrae in serial aerial order tile the first lonea bones associated in skeletons tonn 01 01 ot at skeletons that thus far had been found 1 I to ile be tho the vertebrae of the anterior portion ot of it a tall tail of huge dinosaur while the hope that at last a complete skeleton ok lelon eleton had 1 bi on en discovered d the museum at onto advanced enough money to continue tile the expedition a permanent camp was established ut at the peak aud throughout the of 0 1809 1909 and 1910 the ork of excavating was continued it was wag tedious and difficult work except lor for a few shots lit at the beginning to remove the ovir hanging rock mid nd to make room for the workmen no blasting blaa ting could be done without jeopardizing the bones within the excavating had bad to be dune done by hand the bones being removed with the matrix adhering to them As the massive rocks containing the different vertebrae were removed each was numbered and a corresponding number lud indicated on a chart to record the spot aud and the order train from which it came As AB soon us removed the lonea bones with the mat rix attached were wrapped in burlap steeped in wet plaster at t parts to set bet the bones and to prevent their being easily broken in transportation at a single time vertebrae were exposed for or a distance of at so 30 feet all in order serially aerially and aind the ribs on both sides in position tiou it proved the fulfillment of the dream of the fossil hunter lu in the spring ot of the following your year the work of removing the gigantic ak elleton to the pittsburgh museum begun began over pounds of honea bones aud and rock were shipped by wagon 80 miles to the nearest railroad and then by rail to pittsburgh the work ot of removing the Po olmous from the hard matrix was done at that place and aad in the spring of last year tho the enormous anor ek skeleton eleton was set up in the Itai luent beside that of a diplodocus that abat had been previously installed and partly roa res or made the dinosaur is the largest oke bite leton known to adelco all the bones of at the skeleton toD now tit at pittsburgh belong to the same lame individual and comparatively little restoration was necessary the discovery of 0 this gigantic skeleton however proved only the beginning of a which have been made tit at the monument up to the time the guarr line been a continuous surprise tit in the great number of oc species of those these strange and gigant lo animals and in tile the number ot of almot tons tona and splendid which it has produced no other quarry has haa produced such buch satisfactory butla factory skeletons ake letona and skulls the most startling re cent discovery Is a neck with veri debrae each three feet long while the corresponding vertebrae ot of the alio diplodocus 90 feet in length measured only two feet home of 0 the ribs of title this monster have been found and it Is expected that the skeleton may be complete I 1 kroin tile tact fact that over pounds ot of the bone and matrix have already bi ui removed from froin the quarry and that so ninny many skeletons etona have been obtained so BO nearly complete and there to ia such aa extent of tile the bone rock it Is ie believed by prof douglass Doug laBS that the future muy lit in tin tile establishment of a covering fur for the more valuable purt part of the quarry tio no that it will be protected hom the weather and that at one sli skeleton eleton may bo be worked relief from the elements and left lor for Insil tion and study of in tho the position in which w I 1 I 1 ich it has haa rema luul preserved tor for millions of years tho the general pub lie would also tin be permitted to visit and study it prof douglass thinks then the monument would be worth considerable co sid erable effort to visit reports ot of the he other three monuments ments in utah are contemplated by 11 II stanley in charge of the borni office of 0 the field division of the general land office but lie he liaa has boon unable to have them made lie ile announces however that work will be b begun on them at once |