The national parks portfolio . the similar formations in the well-known Luray caves in cavern has been closed on account of depredations of vandals. THE DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT T^HE Dinosaur National Monument in Northeastern Utah was created to-*? preserve remarkable fossil deposits of extinct reptiles of great size. Thereservation contains eighty acres of Juratrias rock. For years prospectors and residents had been finding large bones in theneighborhood, and in 1909 Prof. Earl B. Douglass of the Carnegie Museum ofPittsburgh, under a permit from the Department of the Interior,
The national parks portfolio . the similar formations in the well-known Luray caves in cavern has been closed on account of depredations of vandals. THE DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT T^HE Dinosaur National Monument in Northeastern Utah was created to-*? preserve remarkable fossil deposits of extinct reptiles of great size. Thereservation contains eighty acres of Juratrias rock. For years prospectors and residents had been finding large bones in theneighborhood, and in 1909 Prof. Earl B. Douglass of the Carnegie Museum ofPittsburgh, under a permit from the Department of the Interior, undertooka scientific investigation. The results exceeded all expectation. Remains ofmany enormous animals which once inhabited what is now our SouthwesternStates have been unearthed in a state of fine preservation. These includecomplete and perfect skeletons of large dinosaurs The chief find was the perfect skeleton of a brontosaurus eighty-five feetlong and sixteen feet high which may have weighed, when living, twenty tons. Unearthing the Skeleton of a Giant Dinosaur of Prehistoric Days
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