Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1904 — "BONE-CABIN QUARRY." [ARTICLE]

"BONE-CABIN QUARRY."

Greatest “Find” of Extinct Animals Ever Made in a Single Locality. In central Wyoming, at the head of a “draw,” or small valley, not far from the Medicine Bow river, lies the ruin of a small and unique building, which marks the site of the greatest “find” of extinct animals made in a single locality in any part of the world. The fortunate fossil hunter who stumbled on this site was Walter' Granger of the American Museum expedition of 1897. In the spring of 1898, as I approached the hillock on which the ruin stands, I observed, among the beautiful flowers, the blooming cacti and the dwarf bushes of the desert, what were apparently numbers of dark-brown boulders. On closer examination, it proved that there is really not a single rock, hardly even a pebble, on this hillock; all these apparent boulders are ponderous fossils which have slowly accumulated or washed out on the surface from a great dinosaur bed beneath. A Mexican sheep herder had collected some of these petrified bones tor the foundations of als cabin, the first ever built of such strange materials. The excavation of a promising outcrop was almost immediately rewarded by finding a thigh bone nearly six feet in length which sloped downward into the earth, running ipto the lower leg and finally into the foot, with all the respective parts lying in the natural position as in life. This proved to be the previously unknown pind limb of the great dinosaur Dlploflocus. In this manner the “BoneCabin Quarry” was discovered and christened.—Century.