Jensen, Utah, July 5, 1910

Mr. Douglas Stewart

Carnegie Museum

Pittsburg, Pa.



My dear Stewart:-

Your two letters of recent date received. They were in time to give credit for deposits in my June report. I asked for the $150 to get caught up.

The team I got is a splendid team for our work -- in fact for all round work. Probably could not have gotten a better. Almost everyone who sees them wants them so unless something unfortunate happens they will bring the money at almost any time It looks now as if we may have to come another year though we are going to rush the bones into the boxes just as fast as we can, and they are coming out fast now. I think that I can profitably hire one or two more laborers to "muck out" the dirt and finish out the cut while we work around take out and box the specimens.

The tail, -- except a few small vertebrae -- most of the pelvis, some of the dorsals, and part of the neck of No. 1 (The Big Dinosaur) are out. The rest is almost ready to take out. Of course there will be a quite - a good deal of digging yet but it is getting pretty well in sight. As it appears now, if no more bones are recovered it is by far the best huge Dinosaur yet recovered. There are 25 or 30 bones of it yet in sight.

No. 40 lies so that when No. 1 is out the femur will be practically uncovered. This specimen so far is almost exactly in place no bones so far being more than a foot or so out of place. The femur which we found by the pelvis when Dr. Holland was here undoubtedly belongs to the specimen (No. 40) not No. 1, as we then thought. The ribs are in place but the lower ends of the upper side of the body are swung back evidently by the current of a stream flowing in that direction. We have uncovered from about the 30th or 35th caudal up to the 5th or 6th dorsal - or to very near the fore limb. So far it looks as if the skeleton was buried intact. We cannot tell about the neck until the dorsals of No. 1 are removed.

A few feet lower we have struck another tail -- O I forgot to say that No. 40 is not very minute. Some of its ribs are 5 ft. long. Well, the one under this is smaller. All we have discovered of this (No. 45) is about a dozen vertebrae of the tail all joined together as in 40.

We have discovered one other fact: the Dinosaurs had the Christian method of burial. The heads were toward the west, at least the tails are all streaming to the eastward. This after all is not a perfectly useless custom for it does apparently aid a little in their resurrection, at least it makes a little less of a mix up.

Of course we dont know much about No. 45 yet, but so far it looks as good as any. We are apparently getting quite a good deal of Stegosaurus.

We have not yet got out any more of the little Dinosaur No. 24. I much appreciate the kindly interest of our friends at the museum. We certainly are going to beat the world on older Mesozoic Dinosaurus unless the rest of the world gets a move on it.



Yours in haste,

Earl Douglass



My report is delayed two or three days on account of one or two failing to send receipted bills &c. Will send some pictures of quarry soon.