Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-07-20 | Page 14 | Utah Mastadon Largest Found

utah mm LARGEST FOUND Skeleton of Mammoth Dino- j saur Now in Carnegie Mu- seum Dwarfs Others in Size. i Utah also can boast of a prehistoric jj past. i The recent discovery of a mammoth dinosaur in the "Uintah Basin, near Vernal, although looked upon as com- 1 praratively insignificant at the time, H Is now stirring the pulse of the scientific world and causing archaeo- loglsts and geologists to sit up and take notice. Egypt with her pyramids i and ancient Babylon wltu her Biblical history having nothing to present to I attract more atention them the 1 skeleton of the Utah mastadon, which 1 is on record as being tho largest one f ever unearthed. " i The skelton was unearthed by ex- cavators working under the direction 1 of E. C. LaRue, engineer and geologist, geolog-ist, connected with the government service, a little more than a month ago, and now reposes in the Carnegie museum in Pittsburg, where today It is the marvel of thousands, who enter the museum to see the wonders of the world representative of all ages. The skeleton of the Utah mastadon, according to Mrs. Robert Spangler, of Salt Lake, who passed through the "Smoky City" on the return from a recent trip to New York, is of such gigantic proportions that It dwarfs the skelton of a similar specimen occup E. lng a place alongside in the museum. r