Evening Huronite in Huron, South Dakota

University expedition finds longest simple stromatopora

Vermillion June 16 discovery by the 1931 University of South Dakota paleontological expedition led by Walter V. Searight finds a stromatopora up to 27 feet long and three feet thick in a fossil reef near Rockford Iowa. The party, collecting fossils in eastern and southern Iowa for geology classes, includes four students and noted other finds at Mason City Brainard Elgin and West Bend. More than $32,000,000 in federal funds will be spent in Nevada this year for government buildings Hoover Dam work and munitions depot construction.