Jensen, Utah, Dec. 16, 1909



My dear Dr. Holland:

I write to ask if you will send some things which we cannot get here. Could you send us some steel suitable for making small chisels, or moils, from the size of the smallest we use in the laboratory, or a little larger, up to 3/8 inch. A cake or brick of modelers clay like that which we use in the laboratory. All the small picks you can spare, -- those made in New Haven.

We are having very cold weather but still and the work is moving nicely. For about 10 days I think the thermometer has been below zero every night. Over a week ago we heard it was about down to 15o (13o to 16o) and it seems that it has been getting much colder since.

Our cabins and tents are very comfortable and we have plenty of dry cedar wood. At the quarry it is comfortable to work whenever the sun shines.

Don't depend to much on what I say about skeletons which are not out, but it looks to me now as if the largest skeleton would be one-fifth or one-fourth larger than the common - every day brontosaurus. We have a block with 3 cervicals out and I judge it weighs 40 to 50 hundred. One cervical is about 4 ft high.

It is going to be difficult to get some of the things out on account of their going into the hard cliff but they ought to come out in splendid shape and be grand stuff to ship.

It is to be hoped that Mr Carnegie will help the thing along for it will certainly be hard for the museum to stand the expense if he does not; for it cannot be done without a large outlay of money. I can tell better a week or two later, I think how the _____der rolls will work. It depends much on whether we can get good cleavage planes back of the specimens. We will have to use drills, and "plugs and feathers" to a good extent, to ___y off blocks. The bones are almost perfect! Magnificent!!

I wish you all a truly happy Christmas.



Yours faithfully,

Earl Douglass