| Show budding archaeologist logist hector lee well known to many of 0 our park city people he having worked at our mines and mills several times during the summer cummer months earning money to pay its his way through school and col leee mr lee Is gaining considerable favorable mention in the press ot of the state because of his advanced study and I 1 writings on archaeology logy earthquakes and its causes etc the yo young u ng man Is now i a senior at the university universia sit y of utah and a student of law making rapid progress in his studies he Is a brother ot of elmer 0 lee ot of this city and Is a capable hard working and studious young man determined ter mined to win both tame fame and fortune in the years to come in last sundays salt lake tribune Is a picture ot of this young ul U student together with fossils found by him in southern utah and analyzed by him together with a brief article referring to his find and analysis of same under the caption ot of camels roamed here years ago the story follows camels roamed utah years ago that was the statement of hector lee senior student of the university of utah who r recently completed analysis of a ai 1 1 fossil I found 0 t three years ago near fillmore southern utah lee declares he has definite evidence that the prehistoric camel not only had a natural home in utah but also that these camels lived as recently speaking as years ago lee explained he withheld announcement of discovery of the fossils so he could determine definitely its nature the fossil has been subjected to analysis by several the specimen found by lee and two companions has been studied by brofee professor r 0 r alfred S romer vertebrate paleontologist 0 at the university of chicago who declares the bones are unquestionably of the native american form the specialist determined the recent date of the existence of the camel by the geologic structure in which the fossil was found the me brain case and the greater portion of the palate are being prepared for exhibition hibi bib tion itlen at the university of utah under direction of dr frederick J pack of the utah university geology department all AH its characters including those of th the e teeth and tympanic region show it to belong to the Camell dae says a statement by professor romer relating to the utah fossil its size Is about that of the existing old world camels and this with a number of features rules our reference to the south american llamas the exact condition under which the skull was discovered continues the report are unknown however the specimen was found about thirty feet back in a cave burled buried under five or six inches of fine dry bollan deposit the cave Is one in the old caverns formed of the many lava beds of the district it Is I very probable pro table that it Is severed several thousand years year old but that it dates half a million years or so BO to the first interglacial is utterly impossible |
