Appeal from the General Land Office



This is an appeal by Earl Douglass from the decision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated July 24, 1913, holding for cancellation his mineral entry No. 04764, made April 5, 1913, at Vernal, Utah, for the Carnegie Museum placer claim, survey No. 6206, for 80 acres unsurveyed, which, it is stated, will conform to the NE 1/4 SW 1/4 and NW 1/4 SE 1/4, Sec 26, T. 4S, R. 23 E, S.L.M, upon extension of the public land surveys.



The character of the deposit claimed is disclosed in the report of the mineral surveyor as follows:



This claim is adapted for mining for the fossil remains of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals ***  the ridge shown upon the accompanying plat as Fossil Reef, contains fossil remains of prehistoric animals throughout its entire lenght upon this claim, but at no other point in such abundance as at the point at which the open cut shown upon the plat, is being excavated.



The record discloses that the fossil reamins of the prehistoric animals have been excavated for uses in scientific