The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-11-27
Ruins on asle GIsa River.
From the N. Y. Herald.


 Some of the gentlemen who carry tape in the service ofUncle Sam. and who are engaged in locating on the face of this Continent those painfully straight township lines that make the maps so very uninteresting, have just stumbled on some of the ruins of the half buried Mexico of tho past, and they reem to fancy that they have made great discoveries. They have found region 'abounding in ruins of elaborate and sometimes magnificent structures. together with relics of obIiterated races, possessing knowledge of the arts and manufactures; a region, moreover. 'beariug evidence of having been formerly under high state of cultivation for centuries These gentlemen are so far from havGg made any notable discovery that the ruins they describe have been for some years set down in documents having so little of an tquity in them as the and Office maps.
 It IS known that Of he different divisions Of the ancient Mexican people that which inhab~ itsd the country on the Gila river was one ps- cuiiarly advanced in the arts of life, and pos- sesse l ia superior degree of what are called in this age the moral virtues It gave another evidence if one were needed, that the men who live in the best country will be the best men of any given family-another instance to assist Ihs establishment, by induction, of the law in human history that nan rises or falls accord ing 70 the climatic conditions n which he lives and the soil from which ho derives nutriment All the views taksn of he pqopiing of Mexico Init, ws believe, tho theory of mgratons. h. deed migrations appear so constantly in an- ciHEt Mexican tradition that antqEarieE can, not hsip themselves. There is also a general accey :ance of the thought that the movemen wag from north to south It has been argued, but not generally acceptel, that race from Akia, having it's seat anywhere on the upper Pacific slope, and growing or moving toward he east came into the Mississippi velley, and perhaps made the structures that are found in Ohio Illinois and Kentucky, but that, coming in contact with the warIlke race of red men, they were driven to the vest Assuning the fact or such movement and that it was always along great water courses, 1t may be traced by the ruins of edifces that were built in tho centuries of struggle. They abound in New Mexico, but there are good illustrations of many on the Rio GrauIe, in the account of the military into the Nayejo country made by the United Statos troops under Col Washington. The country on he Gila river 10 ght well become tue permanent seat of such a race, as the sea would stop further westward progress and tho mountains behind would ba an efficient barrier against the barbarous, buff enemy. IL might ereE be the true valley of Anahuac, rem which were suoEe- quontly to go out the builders of the city of Moxico; for 1t IS never gaid in the traditions that the builders of that city war5 driven from thsir country by an enemy. They went out from ''the land of the heroan as colony, and be- came an oysrteeming population, May it noI have been the monumant-gtrawn and welt worked region that Uncle Sam s surveyors are rubbing theireyes ct ia the nineteenth centGry?
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