Show Publicity Uintah Uintah Basin I In last weeks week's Literary Dig DIgO pi P pea red an article telling a 6 the from removal of dinosaur bonus Jensen to Salt Lake via the di tah i imore basin The Digest Js is ismore more than The article r in part is as follows tJ The Dhe unearthing of bones of oc tino- tino o- o saurs twenty five million yea and their transportation to th University Uni- Uni of Utah by caravas ib has as formed an interesting to the history of the west we a ar told in a press bulletin issued by- by the bythe the unIversity The dinosaur quarry marry near Jensen Utah In the basin is on one of the largest quarries where remains of these huge animals ani- ani nl- nl mals are found Last year U u nl- nl y obtained permission t t unearth un- un earth specimens from this and the Carnegie Institute OCi burgh allowed Dr Earl D i glass to superintend the ng and boxing ot of the bones Five excellent specimens of different species were obtained One is a carnivorous dinosaur and one of the largest specimens in existence the head beIng being be- be Ing practically complete n i ing very seldom found It seems t that that- t i This particular section ot dle far west was about twenty five t Ion years ago a section or of the sea sea The dinosaurs lived in anI an oId old swampy land along the edg edges s oI III rIvers or on the shores of lakes They were what their name terrible lizards and varied ln in size from lizards not much larg larger larger- r than those now Ih lining to something over one hundred feet feel long Th The Ca face ti it that so many dinosaurs are fo this particular spot Is accounted for forb forby b by an ancient sand bar in an archaIc stream Through sonic some great change in i- nature these dinosaurs were evidently evi- evi dently J at about the thes s same me time and dead bodies floated down the stream and were stranded o on the I sand Then they were covered with sediment which eventually eventually event event- became feet thick and was changed from sand to solid r rock ck The uplifting of the earths earth's surface at that particular point came some time later and changed this ancient lake to the Rocky mountains Erosion began the rock away and has now practically practically cally uncovered the hones bones of oC thess thes animals This particular quarry has been becu worked by the Carnegie Institute and the Smithsonian Institute both bothof ot of which several specimens The university was fortunate In obtaining obtaining ob- ob five that are still better The dinosaur caravan was a real reminder of the west as it once was Nineteen wagons were loaded with the bones at the quarry and trekked their way miles from Jensen to Salt Salt Lake There lis hs no railroad into in- in to tho Uintah basin and in some places the roads were Impassable for automobile trucks so the pioneer method of transportation was resorted resorted re- re sorted to The drivers were typical time old westerners five of them never l haying aying seen a railroad train trainor or street car before and thus tIms more than one thrill while at that same time Ume dong doing their bit to tc aid fn n. n the study of prehistorIC times |