| Show COUNTY PROGRESS WANTS DISCOVERY OF DINOSAURS CORRECTED the deseret news of december 23 contains an article concerning the search ot of the dinosaur beds south ot of castle dale by los angeles sel enlists stating that the discovery of the beds came about when citi 1 fzens zelis of emery county unable to determine the nature of the bonab u tool them to price where they wert were and notification sent to salt lake of the find they further state that this is not a new dincov ery since salt lake knew of the bed and exploited the region as early as 1916 finding a few specimens which were brought back to salt lake but that they considered other beds of more value than that of the san re fael swell which to their knowledge lies in carbon and emery counties tl TI e bed which lies east of ferron and south of castle dale instead of south of ferron as the salt lakers state is indeed in the san refael swell but although tha the beds may extend a distance into carbon coun ty the san rafael swell is entirely in emery county and comes no where close to the carbon county line it is hard to determine just how salt lake knew of the bed so long ago when its existence was not gen orally known to our own citizens until a few years ago when a stu dent of central high school of castle dale discovered the bones and brot a few specimens to castle dale and notification of the find was sent to the university of utah by N L wil lams lame of castle dale where it was considered a new find and men were sent down to make explorations emery county may be considered as bung down in the sticks where we are kept isol ted by oar richer counties up north but we still have people who are educated ed enough to recognize our finds v without taking them to carbon county or anywhere else to be identified it if salt lake knew of this bed so long ago in the past how did they con ider it not worthy of develop ment when from los an I 1 geles of nation wide repute have stated that it is the greatest find in history the beds are large and the spec spee linens found are the most perfect to be found anywhere the matter was no doubt kept 6 quiet as another way of holding em ery county back since the los an geles scientists became aware of the bed through the civic clubs of southern utah after they were advised of the matter by the progress and other citizens of ca tie tic dale and not by salt lake or carbon county the recent work on the bed un der the direction of J W strong of los angeles was stopped topped on account pt the cold weather and because no appropriation had been made on the 1930 budget after a specimen had been taken out to be taken to los angeles and more had been blocked out tor for the work next spring and summer dr chester stock scientist stated that special permission has been se cured from the U S government tor for the work in emery county and an appropriation has been made for 1932 the workmen will return some time in march or april and ex work will be done lone on the bed during the summer emery county progress castle dale issue of jan 1 1932 tut tut brother don t show any peeve go ahead and till fill your high schools with tine fine specimens and the heads of the students with proper scientific dope on em and who claims credit tor for the find don t you know by this time that we cow counties provide the fossils and that therein our function lies and he ours to nobly keep on doing just that and credit of discovery may rest where it listeth next april or may I 1 in coming ov er tt to your stick 0 th woods and pee ee what your schools have study them get per to take a photo pr two and visit the beds last year I 1 met nephi L williams and D stock and so interesting were your beds that I 1 resolved to repeat the call this spring or summer my tiles files disclose that on septem ber 19 1929 the salt lake tribune carried a write up with photo of which article the opening paragraph reads new neu dinosaur area attracts utah science emery county his tract Belle believed cd cisal of famous jeneen jensen ab bit u id skeleton remains of a camato a flesh eating reptile of the dinosaur family believed to have ex ceedee 25 feet in length and which roamed the wilds of utah millions of years ago have been found in emery county and will be added to the un diversity iver sity of utah museum it was an bounced noun ced wednesday by dr freder ick J pack professor of geology it says further the location Is on the northwest flank of the san ra fael swell in an isolated section about 30 miles southeast of price their age is estimated by pro fes lessor or pack at approximately 80 years there there that s good enough forget the other FB |
