Show BO AES 8 OF 40 TON DINOSAURS fold FOUAD IN Gr Grai aveard eard of prehistoric monsters discovered in the san rafel sell emery county clipped from the hollywood cit izen news written by C E engstrom C 11 bigelow los angeles man Is being credited by scientists with the discovery of 0 a strange land laud in which the residents are creatures of some 40 ton bulk and often 20 feet in height 0 so o mr biglow has not been on a neek eek end visit to mars the country Is central utah in the bad lands of emery and wane counties and the monster natives are the fossilized remains of dino saurs sours which feasted on swamp foil foli age some years ago be fore a great geological change was the cause of transforming their home into a desert the discovery of a new dinosaur fossil field which may prove to be the richest yet unearthed on the no american continent was signalized fast pst fall when an expedition expedit ti on from the los angeles museum of history science and art returned with a six mix foot tibia ot of a or dl and reported it had found one complete spec spee men of a small dl and other banes bones which the severe weather had necessitated leaving until the return trip in the spring mr biglow was not actually the first person to find the fossil re mains of the monsters of centuries ago farmers and rangers in the country nearby had frequently no and sometimes collected out of curiosity peculiar rocks bur mr baglow who as a road en gincer had much to do with opening up the region known as wayne won derland sensed something if icalla important in the desert relics relies he and miss margaret kuehme of new york writer and friend of ot t the he engineer last october viewed some specimens which had been col lecter by N L will ams seminary teacher of castle bale date and photo graphs and reports were submitted to dr john A comstock associate director of the los angeles museum the result was the first expedition and arid its finds which may make the los angeles museum one of the most important centers of pale onto logical research in the united stat es mr biglow who though a layman is highly respected in scientific cir cles believes that the new field has been merely tapped and that it holds great treasures tor for the scientists who seek to reconstruct a picture of american millions of years before the advent of man from reports of rangers who have crossed the desolate forbidding sec see tion he sees goes indications that th 9 in ter mountain area may be a vast graveyard tor for the extinct lizards of north america I 1 believe the utah field will be P proved roved richer in fossil remains of di dl than the wyoming field which so far has given us our most valuable specimens he says from the thigh bone which the museum expedition brot back dr chester L stock paleontologist at the california institute of ogy agy made a tentative reconstruction of the monster which once used the bone the animal probably ceasur ed 65 feet in length and was 2 20 0 feet tall at the shoulders and weighed it 1 is estimated about 40 tons this compares favorably with the largest fossils fo sils yet discovered A complete 15 toot foot skeleton was found it was probably the remains of one of the little cousins of the big fellow this specimen was coated with a plaster of paris preparation and made ready for shipment to los angeles but the early arrival of snow forced the expedition to leave the animal tor for a few months more rest in the land where he lived mil lions of pears ago in the central utah area relics relic ol 01 a more recent age of human life have been found the wayne non on derland has yielded highly colored shields and beautifully woven has bas bets which belonged to an old old culture mr biglow says the dinosaur field which Is re feared to in the foregoing Is the field which mr samuel killpack and biank beckwith sr went to last fall they saw a monstrous dinosaur leg bone in the dirt five feet long and the vertebrae of another but they did not molest these pieces these two men expect to visit the fluid again this summer with chris gronning Gr nning it Is very interesting |