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Show Scientists Plan New Work In Utah Dinosaur Fields For the last 40 years different citizens of Emery county have known of a dinosaur bed extending extend-ing from the north boundry of Emery ccunty over an area of DO miles toward the southwest. A government! surveyor, Robert Forestor, brought a number of bone specimens into Emery about 1890. No particular interest was taken locally in the bed until N. L. Williams of Castle Dale, having hav-ing a keen interest in the same since a child, persuaded a number of instructors from the Brigham Young university at Provo to go over the field, last March. Dr. Harrison R. Merrill, one of the instructors, after returning, wrote a story of their trip, through which scientists from Los Angeles Angel-es became interested. Dr. Chester Ches-ter 1,. Stock, curator of paleontology paleontol-ogy for the Museum of Southern California and head of the paleontology pal-eontology department of the Los Angeles university of arts and science, immediately made a trip to Emery county and was e,sc .ed over the field by Mr. Williams. The field proved of so much interest in-terest to Dr. Stock that when he left Emery county he went direct to Washington, D. C, and obtained ob-tained the government right to develop the field. From Washington Wash-ington he telephoned William M. Strong, field man in paleontology for the Museum of Southern California, Cal-ifornia, to come and begin work. Mr. Strong, with some help from Emery county citizens, excavated ex-cavated a perfect skeleton of a 15-foot fleet-running dinosaur The specimen is as yet unclassified, but will be mounted in Los Angeles An-geles museum as soon as it arrives there. Mr. Stock had to discontinue work because of weather conditions, condi-tions, but in a recent letter received re-ceived by Mr. Williams from Mr. Strong, he states they are planning plan-ning on returning as soon .as weather conditions are favorable in the spring. Dr. John Corn-stock, Corn-stock, assistant director of the California museum, declares it is one of the largest dinosaur fields known. |
