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Show / 1/ \ I MR. MORRIS SUPERVlS ES :::XCURS ION TO NAT TONAL DI NOSAUR MONUMENT SUNDAY The r e a r e othe r fo ssil beds in Ame r , t he Doctor expl a ined , bu t the l ar gest Di sour ev e r round came fr om Afri ca , meagt;r ove r 120 f eet f r om ti p ~o t i p , The r e o o.lso some found in South Americ a , In th e cours e of h i s l e cture , Dr, '? showed us some of h is pi ctures of s pee · which have been r emoved . This Dinasour camp is made of Tr an s· Men , said the Do ctor, who ar e wonde ri ng place to plac e , some have never pa s sed seventh grade and t he r e ar e ~cime col lege uates too . Th es e men have lost the ir j o and have started t o roam the country , a n Government came to their r escue and made possible for them to earn their living o_; receive some mor e education . At the end of the lecture we ate our l unch and were then taken on a t r ip out to the quarry where excavation was reing carri ed on . Mr . Hicks, one of the men of the camr who before entering the camp didn't kn ow a fossil from any rock, accompanied us and explained in every detail th e meanin[ and why th es e bones are foun d in the soL rock as they are . He al so tol d us how old certain bone s and fossils wer e supposed t o be, as h e had been, ,taug ht wh il e a membe r ·or th e camp . Mr . Hi cks come s fro m New York, and hopes to take up geology as a vocation in being a guide for tourest at th e camp . At fo ur t hirty we we r e ready to come back to cnmp , arriving her e ar ound 7:30 I We, the members of th e !?,r.ou p wh o e r e fo r tunate to gp on this trip, wis h. n ow to take this opportunity to thank Mr. Morris for h is kind ser vices and all others who helped to make this tri p a success . i ::,, r t h e pa:;t t wo we eks, Mr. Morris, ~ur Ed ~ca t i ona l Advisor, h ns been making pl ans for an ex cur s i on to the famous Dinos a ur Nat i onal Monument, at .; ensen , Utah . Fi n all y pl an s we r e perfecrted when a t ruck lo a d of 20 mer~ fro m t h is ca mp visited the Dinos aur Quarry last Sunday ~ The gr o ~p lef t camp at 7:45 a.m . Sunday,pase;;ed t h r oug,h Vernal at 9 :10 . After a sto p of t en minutes t he group continued on toward Jen sen. All we nt well un t il we h it the road that t urns off the highway t oward the Quarry. After about a mil e on t his road it became almost i mpas sabl e a s t here evidently had " been a cl oud b urst the evening previous and had wash ed rocks , mud and debris into the r oa.d_thut·it was practically impassable, and the truck sunk up t o the axles •. With our capable driver , Srun Petrofesa and the men pushing andpulling and dig ging the truck was finally brought through and the nice shiny shoes and clean trousers were not a very pleasant sight_. When we finally did arrive we had to walk from the main road to the Quarry Camp, as the road was completel y destroyed . Incidently as we were approaching _ t he cam~ men were seen walking down in de ep wash es hunting for car parts as the fl o od the night before had was hed three cars down th e hill side . Upon arri v1.ng at the Dinasaur camp we we r e dir ect ed to Dr . A· C• Boyle , Ce.mp Su pe rv 1S or. He welco med us to cam:r and aft e r having the party r egister h e guve us an interes ti ng l ect ure on geology and on t he f ossil s which th ey were finding. MEN D!SCHARGED DURING WEEK Dr . Boyl e had a black board and dr ew his The following men were di s charged explanations, m.;king it more expli cabl e the week , we wish them we11. during infor the men . He started from t h e beg have job.s are : Frank Burdick , who Those ning of t he earth's creati on , shovring and John Tangaro . Blaine Holt Harold wh at mus t have t a ken place in t he formTeddy Roseberry wiH ~o to anxd Johnson action of th e earth . Then he ex pl a ined scho~l , they came back fr om eastl e Dal e how the -mammoth Dinosaurs and Re ptiles Camp DG- 27 . othe r fellows who havejobs lived and how during the process of eroand are going to scho ol are: Lave nr Ti msion th e se bones , we now witness on t he othy , Randall Lillie , Lesli e Reid , earth 1s surfa ce, were once t h ousands of .Robert Ostl er , Standley Sitvang i, Rodney f e et deep. Dr . Boyl e durin g h is discussion stated Edwards, Lowell Hutch ing s and Elden Bawden . that fourt een compl ete Dinasaur skeltons ~UFT, HOOPES MOVES TO DUCHES NE had be en taken from t his quarry durin g the rt s eems that Supt . Hoo pes be gan t o past thir ty years . And how Dr . Ear l Dougthink th at Sal t Lake City was a l ong way l a s , th e discove r er of this quarry , so from Bridge l and, at any rate he got wil l ingly s pent mo s t of pis life ex cavattired of runn ing back and forth eve r y wee, ing and shi pping thes e fourte en s ke l t tms to t h e car engie Meusum i n Pittsburg , Penn. or two and so h e has moved his famil y t o Duch esn e . We ho pe Mr , Ho opes l ikes h i s Th is is t h~ only National Dinosaur Mo nument in t h e Unite d s t a te s, stat ed Dr , Boyle . new h ome . |
