Jensen, Utah, Aug. 5, 1910

Dr. Wm. J. Holland

Carnegie Museum

Pittsburg, Pa.



My dear Doctor Holland,

I enclose my financial statement for July. As you see there is a balance to your credit of $46.57 but there are two or three small bills to pay. Have had to buy 2000 ft more lumber. Purchased it of the coop. I have not yet recd their statement, but am writing them a check for $100 to pay for this and others supplies.

Will you therefore deposit One Hundred Dollars to cover this.

I have employed another man for two weeks at least in order to push the work as rapidly as possible. We have come where it is necessary to extend and deepen the cut.

The work is moving steadily and satisfactorily. I wrote that I hoped to get most of No. 1 out in July, and so we have by far the greater part -- that is assuming that the large neck (no. 25) goes with No. 1. This I begin to doubt again. We had to get other things out before finishing No. 1 so there will be bones of no. 1 for some time yet even if no. 25 is the neck which belongs with it.

We got out the rest of No. 24, the small skeleton above no. 25. It extended only about to few limbs. After getting it out I remembered that 20 ft directly east we had taken out a series of 8 or 10 cervicals of a small Dinosaur. Just below was a small jaw or fragment with pencil-like teeth a little like those of Diplodocus but small. It is likely that these belong with No. 24. We shall try to get skull after no. 40 is out of the way.

We have yet to find of No. 1 the fore limbs, (not including scapula & coracoid) left hind limb, skull, a quite a good many foot bones and some ribs to make the thing complete. There is abundant chance of finding them. The scapula & coracoid lies under neck. We have just found another of opposite side 25 or 30 ft farther east and down further in cut. With it are sternal plates. If these do not belong to same individual the[y] are apparently of same size. We have not uncovered anterior dorsals yet so there is abundant hope of finding fore limbs &c.

This is a big fellow as you know, but the prize so far, where Sauropod - Dinosaurian anatomy is concerned is No. 40. We have taken up or in sight from about the 35th caudal forward to near the fore limb. When femur, tibia and dorsals of No. 1 are removed we shall see about the neck. The smaller (not the smallest) bones of the tail are somewhat mixed up and there are two short hiatuses in the medium-sized caudals but from the 12th Caudal forward to the 2nd or 3rd dorsals there is not a break. The ribs are in their places only the lower portions of those on the left side swung back by currents. The sternal ribs which we saw -- curious to say -- were lying on his back -- on the dorsals. There is undoubtedly a complete set as there are a lot of them.

It looks as if we might get most of skeleton of Stegosaurus but it is scattered through the quarry. Have what is probably lower jaw covered with scores of bony ossicles, and perhaps we have skull.

We don't know much more about No. 45, only that there is a series of at least 10 or 12 caudals in unbroken succession. It is smaller than No. 40 & larger than No. 24.

We are getting other things too numerous to mention, of course.

I took off the left ilium of No. 1 and then sacrum and right ilium together. It came down in very good shape.

 ____d no. 40 was in place anterior to 12th caudal but as you remember the femur has dropped down or gotten out of the socket about a foot.

We had fiercely hot weather, 106o or more in shade. I arose at 3P.M. or earlier and we managed to work when there was not too much danger of death from heat. It is more comfortable now.

Mrs. Douglass seems to be getting almost well. The rest are in good health and spirits. We are now getting gratifying returns from our pretty little garden. The beautiful little spring never for a moment ceases its flow.



Yours Truly,

Earl Douglass