The three men now regularly employed here are all practical miners and could draw miners wages. They are intelligent and resourceful. One is also a carpenter and another clever at iron-work. On account of being near their homes we are able to employ them at, or a little above, "the going wages".

In order to get all the skeleton of No. 240 (an Apatosaurus with a skull) it was found necessary to go back 135 feet to a point below the west opening of the cut then being run, and begin a new cut to deepen the old excavation. This exposed a considerable area of the bone-layer in the west extension of the quarry. This cut had been run to the eastward 150 feet -- 16 feet farther east than the older cut -- to the region where it was expected that the remainder of the huge skeleton, part of the neck of which had previously been found, when a large section of the river-sandstones which contains the bones slid into the cut. This, with a large mass of rock which will have to come down before it will be safe to work, will further delay the taking out of bones near the end of the cut.