Since starting the cut at the present level and thus uncovering the skeletons of Diplodocus and the specimens which we are getting out we have worked two years and expended appromimately $8000.  It is safe to say that the work which we have done will be a saving of from $4000 to $5000 to whoever takes up the work now, and the risk has been practically eliminated.  



Th upper skeleton No. 555 is exposed to about the 25th joint of the tail.  The work of excavating around and taking down the blocks can proceed at once.  As this skeleton is about four feet above the tail of the other skeleton No. 340 the intervening rock will have to be removed and then this tail can be taken out.  The neck of No. 340 has already been removed or nearly all of it