| Show dr earl douglass De discovers Discover ss dinosaur skeleton ini in 1909 A K J 0 a fj N of A A IT yoe N W ft 44 MIR 49 4 41 A af v IVA V jo 1 1 I 1 am I 1 aw aw au TOP dr earl douglass Is shown at work in dinosaur quarry in 1909 ho Is uncover ing part of the rich deposits of fossilized dinosaur bones SO worker exposes and numbers the huge bones ready for shipment to museums the huge site of the bon can be estimated by size of the rn an Z 14 A al X I 1 ala V 14 4 K a topi old ahme train Is parked outside the site of the present vernal clafy office ahli dyve fral dinosaur fossils I 1 a shipped via tit old walton railroad DO TOMs asnive bones lie ready for a aping ff till k 4 IV ts af pf 4 ott tt ika N rok 4 7 vf 1 4 MUSEUM WALL beatly sits are shown hown on an whit what eventually became st ft wall of ill the visitor confer the th fossils pictured are ar being rolie fed so 0 o that they mar be b mot allf soon n la in what I 1 have leavo been looking to eo claimed a 0 dentist 0 one e day in 1000 1003 its ho he climbed to a ridge oil tile the south side bidoor lot green allver dilver arid and gabed across at tile Up tilted barata of 6 what la is ROW now dinosaur motional monti monument for many months dr earl air douglass had trudged over hills and iru ravines vines look ing for this format formation fori which now ow lay jay before him au jjoe tile tho upturned pages of a book 1 idill I his was to be the he of exten olvo work nt at dinosaur quarry where prehistoric pr ehi monsters would be uncovered to fo startle the world dr douglass Dou glasa hod had been directed to the ridge in alorth of fossil fragments frag menta by 13 durton burton mr burton told ur mr douglass about the big dinosaur bones in the bluffs blots 81 nouh uch of on green river where mr durton burton had change of 0 the construction of a dredge for mining gold from the sands of the river i dr 1 duglass Dougi ass had been enthused with the northeast irn utah area by 0 A feterson who had collected able material materi pl in this area tor for t afo e Ai musean of natural nf tural history in 1893 mr peterson had found fossil fragments on the same alde where dr douglass stood 15 bears 5 ears later and the collection had remained undisturbed until just a few years ago it was in ili 1907 wm win J hoi lot land director of the carnegie museum decided to send dr douglass to northeastern utah to make a thorough ex cx of the strata of the uintah basin get gal federal approval the basin which it was d do sired that dr douglass douglaas Dou glays cx alore was at that time con tinned in the uintah and un i indian reserva diotis after consultation with wil government overn ment officials the t 11 e necessary papers were furn ishad permitting perm bitting ur mr hoi 1101 land and his fits to enter these reservations tor for the purpose of collecting fossils f the only condition was that neither mr holland nor his fits representatives were to provide the indians indiana on the reservations i with whisky this proviso was not in the least degree embarrassing says bays mr holland in writing of the instance on his way to utah dr douglass made some hurried investigations at grand june tion which were most interesting lie ile located in an abandoned stone house on the road from dragon to vernal making this spot his fits lical headquarters quarters he explored the fossil bearing exposures in hi this thin desolate deso latt land from the crossing of the white river in tile the east to the banks of tile the green river in tile he west and north and an south of the trail to vernal lie col lecka a large number of fossils mostly vertebrates among thein numerous species new to science one tract of 0 country lie designated the devils devil s playground ilee here lie he discovered a number of fossil turtles one of its his most remarkable discoveries was that of a complete skeleton of a shin glim long tit lit eked ma mammal minal known to science ns as nolle hor hinus tills this fossil has been for mony years one of the striking displays lit in the gallery of fossil mammals mammal in the he carnegie Carn museum arid and Is alie ill most derfelt representing epresi enting this genus in ill LX istance in ili the Itin language guage of nil mi holland first fossil discovery it was wag in the spi I 1 ng of 19 1901 that hat dr douglass arid and mr air holland discovered the first dinosaur dino satir fossils A description of lite dl cco cry from the pert pen of if mr holland follows we started out shortly atter after dawn in fit a tight light by a team learn of grey mules the irlie long day was spent oil lie cactus covered ridge of dead man a bench in ili frnnk ing our way through gal ill gullies arid and ravines ivies to 0 o tit alorth I 1 he next alay wo we went forward through tile the broken foothills which lie tast oust OIK am bouth of tile the griat great gorgi through which tilt grcia from 11 aln uinta Mount aills on oil its course toward ali the grand canyon of thy tho colorado As we slowly made our way through stunt PEI pd groves 0 of pine little we realized that we were upun upon Iti jurassic badt we le tethered out mules in fit ali lie forest douglass douglasb went to tile right and I 1 to lo tile tie left scra scrambling labling up anat ani down the gull gullies es in search of jurassic fossils with willi tile the understand ing that if lie he found anything he was to discharge the shot gun which he carried and if I 1 found anything I 1 would fire the itie rifle which I 1 carried heard shotgun ills his short gun was pres present ent ly heard and after a somewhat toilsome wa walk ik in the direction of the south I 1 heard another shot I 1 came phim stand ing beside the w weathered ea out femur of a diplodocus lying at the bottom of a very nar low ravine into which it was difficult to descend whence this perfectly preserved bone iad had fallen from what stratum of the many above us it had been washed we failed to ascertain nut there it was ah ab clean as been worked out from the matrix in iii a laboratory it was too heavy for us to shoulder arid and carry away and possibly even too beav for tile the light whee wheeled ed vehicle in which we were traveling so we left it there proof positive that in that general region search for dinosaurian dinos auran remains would be very successful this sp ectman was later taken to a lutheran college somewhere in the mid div dip west some of tilt bradu ates of which we found dreda ing 1119 for gold in tire the green rivet river below the gorge arid and to whom we spoke of our dincov ery exploration work was con oil tinned by dr D 0 it g I 1 a 9 8 throughout tile the year and until august of 1809 1909 when I 1 was delighted to receive from him film a letter in which lie told me that nt at tile the very st imah of a ough jagged peak lie had dis covered the rent remains ailis of a huge dinosaur I 1 was not long in going out to join film I 1 was more than pleased with what I 1 found had been accomplish ed cd arid and realized that future work was full of promise I 1 subsequently named the huge animal louisae in ili honor of mrs andrew carne gle and which has long stood mounted lit in tile callery of fossil reptiles in fix tile the f carnegie museum railed donation ahen when I 1 reported tile alie re suits of our work in utah to mr Carlic carnegie gle hi fic was highly arid and added to his annual of to catry carry on oil tilt abo from icar to ar r ie we were re rewarded by pnat arid and sometimes chov er c bleg les dinosaurs t many families geneen and species tp ciles were sov sev era ral I 1 of the etnis ns fire arc al most perfect one of time mounted in tile tho carnegie arrill seui sauil I 1 on oil n clab lq Is tile the most perfect skeleton of n small if dinosaur discover 11 scover ed d |
