Camp on Hell Creek
Sept 3rd 1902
My Dear Prof. Osborn:-
I have waited two mails before writing you expecting a letter but have received none.
We are still at work on quarry No. 1 Carniverous Dinosaur and Sterrrholophurus skull will finish box and load in about four days ready for the trip when Prof. Lull gives in which will be about Sept 12th or 16th.
In quarry No. 1 the bones are seperated by two or three feet of soft sand usually and each bone is surrounded by he hardest blue sandstone I ever tried to work in the form of concretions.
There is no question but what this is the find of the season so far for scientific importance. From the pubic one would think it a Jurassic Dinosaur. It is necessary to shoot the bank from now on and as it is not accessible to horses work goes slow.
I sent the pubic and femur in last load in one block which made nearly all the team could pull. Cook just returned and reports safe arrival at Miles.
In the three quarries with small finds there are about half a car load of fossils possibly more. I have taken a few days prospecting towards Crooked Creek down Hell to the Missouri River, did not locate any bones but did settle definitely the positon of these beds and the bone horizon. This formation unquestionably lies in the Fort Pierre form which we have a collection of invertebrates while the Laramie bones are found immmediately overlying the Fort Pierre. Steiholophus skull is approximately 120 ft above Fort Pierre.
Please advise me regarding freight dispistion of outfit and money. The team and outfit is one of the best we own and if possibe to use them again it would be best to winter somehwere in Yellowstone.
I am concerned that we have struck a pocket here but the Musselshell may turn out something.
I have been using my salary to pay expenses. We�ll send some of the vouchers in this letter but it takes about three weeks to get them after money is paid so all accounts are not in. Have paid out and owe abou $600 inclusive without Prof. Lull. We�ll let him have what money he needs and let him wait till he returns to Museum.
Received books and material yesterday O.K.
Sincerely yours,
Barnum Brown
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