88 Hunting Horned Dinosaurs 



scow some two miles below "Happy Jack Ferry/' 

 (See Fig. 32) to a camp we made near a speci- 

 men George had found of a plated dinosaur. 

 Charlie and Disney brought down the motor- 

 boat, but owing to the very low stage of water, 

 they were in it, most of the time, hauling the boat 

 through sand, by main force. Our scow floating 

 with the current beat them to the landing. We 

 left Levi to haul all the fossils from our upper 

 camp to Denhart on the new branch of the Cen- 

 tral Pacific Railway, between Swift Current and 

 Bassano, Alberta. For two months George la- 

 bored with never less than one assistant on his 

 plated dinosaur, the prize of the season. It 

 seems that some caudal vertebrae were seen by 

 him sticking out of a hard silicous concretion in 

 the face of a bluff, with thirty-five feet of sand- 

 stone on top. This was tough and hard to dig 

 up. He used blasting powder as you see in two 

 pictures where George is running away after fir- 

 ing the fuse, the other shows the explosion. It 

 took a month of constant labor to get down to 

 the concretion and another to cut away enough 

 of it, so it could be handled when cut in sections. 

 The constant hammering opened closed seams 

 in the flinty rocks so it could be removed in 

 chunks, with the sections of the fossil within 

 them. George secured the pelvic arch, hind- 

 limb bones, many ribs, caudal and dorsal verte- 

 brae (likely the entire column in front of the pel- 

 vis ) , the skull, with its necklace of dermal plates 



