Show dinosaur to be excavated for aft state ahr aw universo university ity a UTAH AT bast TO SECURE HUGE FOSSIL DINOSAUR FOH FOU exhibition IN university OF SALT LAKE CITY NOT nov 8 ono of the prehistoric dinosaurs common to this region will be taken to from the national dinosaur quarry at jensen utah and placed in the museum at the university of utah in the near future arrangements were recently completed with dr hubert J work of bt the department of the interior by dr frederick J pack head of tho the department 0 of geology and mineralogy at the state institution and vernis ision was wait given the university to work the quarry the excavating will bo be under the direct supervision of dr earl barl douglass of the carnegie institute of pittsburg who has had twelve years of experience nee along this line and who has been excavating in the quarry af at jensen for the past nine year these prehistoric creatures according to dr pack were extant upon the earth about years ago they flourished along the river courses and lived partially in the water and partially on an land laud when they died their bodies floated down the stream channels and accumulated on a great delta at the mouth of a great river this fact accounts for the large number of fossils found in so small an area since that time all tho the bones and sediment have been burled buried and converted into solid rock the quarrying therefore entails the necessity of chipping tho the fossils out of solid rock the mammoth creature Is being taken out of the quarry embedded in great rocks it will be sent to the university enthat form and will later be chipped chapp ed out and assembled by dr pack and his assistants I 1 |