Show prehistoric SKELETONS I 1 the carnegie museum is maintaining a force of workmen on tho the green river near jensen between the K ranch ar and veral making excavations that are of great interest to science it is called a dinosaur quarry for in the jurassic formation they are excavating a regular menag arie of prehistoric fossils of an animals that have long since disappeared from the face of the earth one of the men working there ther eEarl earl douglass writes the following interesting account of operations to the vernal express work is now going on in earnest at the carnegie museum dinosaur quarry on green river near jensen all through the winter before the sun has risen over blue mountain the sound of hammers is a heard it is so remote from tho the things of civilization that ahks not much disturbed the worlds world or broken the slumbers of many late sleepers yet discoveries are all the time being made and the record of the strange past history of our planet is being greatly enriched there are a few men at work day after day and week after week forcing the hard rock to yield up the treasures which they have kept so long workmen are too often considered as mere tools in such operations erat ions but it is right that when men show interest faithfulness and unusual inability ability in difficult painstaking work they should have their share of the credit such is due the men laboring fat at the quarry they are thoughtful steady resource ful men and this makes the work far more pleasant and effective for the one who has charge of the operations operate ons I 1 these operations are expensive and though the people are not taxed to push them on the primary object for which these bings are done is for the merit ment of the people it is right then that they should know what is being done and learn to appreciate it and the campara dively few men who are doing the work dr holland the di I 1 1 rector of the museum furnishes the push ambition and aam mr carnegie with gener pus public spirit furnishes famishes the money we do the work woric hero herd awhile I 1 while the preparation 01 ol the specimens and the beautiful I 1 mounting moun is done by arthur cog gershall ge shall who is a ge genilus nitus line of work and his skilled help ers there are some who think that we are still working on that big bug as some here profanely I 1 call it that is now being mounted in the reptile hall of the museum beside the famous skeleton of diplodocus replicas of which have been mounted in the famous museums of the world the limbs and other parts of the skeleton are so much larger and heavier than those thos of the dip that they undoubtedly will make him look like a rate race horse there is is one sad thing we have not yet found a skull which we are at all sure belongs with this skeleton but we wa hope to find it yet we know of no more favorable place in the world to look for ita lower jaw has been found however which corresponds with the one which professor marsh associated with the skeleton of skulls of dinosaur have been excessively rare in fact before this qua quarry U was discovered as dr I 1 holland expressed it headless I 1 dinosaurs were in fashion though we have not by any means found heads to all the nearly complete skeletons we have found no less than five skulls in the quarry a better collection probably than all the other qu quarries arTies can show and our hopes are light for there is not room here for particulars but still as was stated two or three years ag ago we are apparently getting no two skeletons alike it is a regular menagerie mena garie of the reptiles of the time we get longdin long dinosaurs and short ones ong agg ed and short legged saddlers wadd lers and skyscrapers sky scrapers dinosaurs that went on two legs and that walk edwith four legs dinosaurs that probably took a minute to td maka make one lumbering ering step dinosaurs that jumped jum P ed or walked on two legs and those that hopped like a kangaroo kang aioo those that lived on vegetation and those that fed on I 1 their forty second cou I 1 like some da daf to i with some joaie of my hunter feia in vernal for a weeks weds od oita through a jurassic jungle jung i along some jurassic river v hunt big game I 1 I 1 B to watch the expression on fe faces and hear some of 6 exclamations perhaps will wel when the weather is favorit if I 1 do ill tell you abod loal and what they said |