UTAH: Terrible Lizards

In 1909, in the northeast corner of Utah, on a bare ridge of the desolate Uinta Mountains, diggers discovered the fossil remains of several dinosaurs (“terrible lizards”). The U. S. Government set apart 80 acres at the site, named it Dinosaur National Monument, recently began building a museum. Last week the Department of the Interior announced that, by proclamation of the President, the monument had been enlarged: to its present 80 acres were added 318 square miles of Utah and northwestern Colorado, making Dinosaur National Monument practically a national park. In it, tourists will not for some time see dinosaurs. The only complete specimens dug at the monument are reassembled in Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh and in American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan, the University of Utah and the National Museum, Washington. For a look at terrible lizards in a national park, tourists can go to Fossil Cycad National Monument in South Dakota, where WPA has built a few poor imitations out of concrete.