Jensen, Utah, Dec. 2, 1909



My dear Dr. Holland,

I enclose my financial report. It includes November and part of October as you will see. We are obliged to get things on a rather large scale and when we can get them. I have ordered about two tons of plaster which will cost about $125.00. We ought to get 2000 ft more lumber which will cost about $30 per thousand and hauling. Then we will be pretty well fixed and it seems that expenses ought not to be so high. I have written about regular expenses.

It snowed last night, but we have got things so we can work in the storm and we have all been working to-day as hard as ever. One of my men says there probably will not be a worse day to work this winter. Although it is a cold looking world when one looks around yet the snow has gone from our Dinosaur ledge, and we have a snug cozy little camp indeed. The wind may rave out in the valley but we get only an occasional puff here.

So far as I know no Dinosaur quarry like this has ever been found before. We do not find a limb or a pelvis here and several feet away a few connected vertebrae, but it looks as if we are even going to find the spinal columns of the three Dinosaurs which we have already found with the spinal columns connected together throughout, at least they are so far only the neck of the lower one is broken and doubled back on itself. But everything is there apparently. They may make Diplodocus ashamed of his borrowed limbs tail &c. I expect to find one or more skulls now as much as I expect to find the next vertebra of a connected series. The ribs are not all in their exact places by any means but so far they do not appear to have gotten more than a few inches away. Two of the skeletons appear to be Brontosaurus. The other is a small Dinosaur.

Another skeleton a few rods east of this quarry is nearly ready to take up and box. It is intermediate in size between Brontosaurus and the smaller one though nearer to the latter in size.

Still farther down the hill we got [five? fine?] feet and hind limb and the ledge is full of bones but they are safe and we must abandon that place for the present.

We will have to continue work on the quarry or hire a man to watch the thing and see that everything is all right.

We are now pretty nearly settled in our new camp and will soon have all the men, the most of the time, at work on the Dinosaurs. We realize that we have a stupendous task and the men are working like beavers, not to put in time but to "get the blamed things out." If we stopped to consider what a terrible lot of work there is to do we might fall over, but we know that by thoughtful, scheming, persistent, work we can get the thing out, that is if the funds hold out, and then we feel we are breaking the worlds record, in one respect at least.



Please excuse haste.

Yours as Ever,

Earl Douglass