Show university of utah to obtain skeleton of prehistoric beast tho the action of the board of regents of tho the university of utah in granting to president george thomas authority to proceed with excavation of a dinosaur from the dinosaur quarry at jensen completed the final stops steps in a process which will insure to the state Imus museum eurn at the university one of the huge prehistoric relics the approval of the board camo as a result of the request of dr thomas who sought permission on behalf ol 01 the university to undertake the excavation whether tho the excavation will begin immediately or bo be postponed until spring Is still undecided it will depend to some extent the weather conditions the first step by the university to obtain a skeleton of the dinosaur was taken in early spring when it became known that the carnegie institute had decided dec aided to abandon its lease upon a the quarry the university of utah and the smithsonian institution both initiated a correspondence with the department of the interior with the view of obtaining slon to remove a dinosaur As a result of at tills this correspondence it was proposed by the smithsonian Smiths onlan institution that a mutual association bo be formed for the purpose this offer was declined by the university the matter was dropped for some time but was revived whom dr hubert work secretary of the interior r ame came to salt lake lako in company with the late president harding dr frederick J pack head bead of the university geology department conversed ed with secretary work upon the possibility of tho the university obtaining tho the privilege of excavating from the quarry without the partnership of the smithsonian institution As a result correspondence 0 was again j resumed between dr pack and the department of the interior and it finally culminated in the granting to the university the exclusive i right of excavation tho the services of dr earl douglass geologist who has had debarger at 0 the quarry for the carnegie institute for the past ten years wore were then obtained through the consent ol 01 the carnegie authorities and ho he will have charge of the operations |