The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-05-21
THE KENOBHA TELEGRAPH.
KFNOsHA, WIS.,. MAY 21st. 1874.
PREHISTORIC RUINS ON THE
CHA, IN ARIZONA

C1LA1 l4N a1S1AONA
Wickenburg (Arazona) Correspondence of the
St. Louis Republican.
A careful examination of some extern
sive ruins found some miles east Of Flor
ence, on the Hila river, has been made
Lieutenant Ward was the first explorer
who came upon the desclate remains of o
once imposing architectural pile. 1t has
been deserted perhaps for more than u
thousand years, and has been crumbling
away in the wilderness: The Apache
even never pitched his tent or the spot
so thickly strewn with fragments Of the
work of persisted race. The principal
ruin is parallelogram fertilization, 600
feet In width by 1900 in length. The
walls, which were built OF stone, have
long been oVertkrown.and are overgrown
by trees and vines. In many places a
mere ridge indicates the line of the wall;
the stones have disappeaed beneath the
surface. Within the enclosed area are
he remains Of great structure 200x260
feet, constructed Of roughly hewnI stones
In some places the walls remain almost
perfect to height OF some twelve feet
above the surface. On the east side of
the granda casa there are two openings
of an oval shape which doubtless served
The purpose If windows. On the inner
sides of the wall of the palace, fvr such
it doubtless was, there are yet perfectly
distinct tracings of the imlga Of the sun.
There are two towers at the southeas
and southwest corners of the great IN
closure, still standing, one of which is
twenty-1ix and the her thirty one feet
high.
These have evidently peen much high
err, as the broken tops and the amount OF
debris near their base show. A few cop
per implements, some small golden orna
ments-one being an image of the sun
with perforation In the middle and some
stoue utensils, and two rudely-carved
stone vases, much like those found at Zupe
toro and Copan in Central America, are all
the works OF art yet discovered. No cx-
cavations have been made as yet to deter :
mine fully the extent and character of
these ruins. The ruins are situated in a
small plain /; elevated nearly 200 feet
above the bed Of the ella. Just west of
the walls of the fertilization there is a
beautiful stream otwater having It's source
in the mountains which crosses the plain,
and by series Of of cataracts falls into
he ella about two miles below. The
fragments of pottery and polished stone
reveal condition Of civilization among
the builders OF these ruins analogous to
that Of the ancient Peruvions, Central
America amp Mexican nations. The
country in the vicinity of this buried
palace is particularly wild and unusually
desoiate. No clue to the builders of this
great fortified palace, with it towers and
moat, has been, or is likely ever to be
discovered. There is one thing, however,
made apparent, that is, that this whole
country was peopled by race having o
higher grade oil civilization than is foun J
among any of the native tribes Of the lat
ter ages. But whether this race was the
ancestors of the Pimos, or some extinct
people, is not and cannot certainly le
known. The ruins on the ella are an
other uncovered Palenque, another Co.
pan, an Allan exposed, at least to bewi d.
er and conlound. 1t is understood that
these extensive ruins will be thoroughly
explored within the present year
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