Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-11-17
with the San Juan

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upon a narrow bench occurring about 80
feet above the base of q perpendicular
bluff some 500 feet in height. 1t is 545
feet in length, about 40 feet at its great
est depth, and shows about IS apart
ments on its ground plan. The left
hand third of the town, as we face it, is
overhung some distance by the bluff,
protecting the buildings beneath much
more perfectly than the others. This is
the portion represented by the model.
A three-story tower forms the central
feature; upon either side are rows Of
lesser buildings, built one above .anoth-
er, upon the sloping floor Of rock.
Nearly all these buildings are in fair
state of preservation. This model is
37x41 inches, outside measurements,
and the scale is LIZ or six feet to the
inch.
A" restoration" of the above forms
the third in the series; of the same size
and scale, and is intended, as its name
implies, to represent rs nearly as posi-
BILE the original condition of the view.
In this we see that the approaches were
made by ladders and steps hewn in the
rock, and that the roofs of one tier of
rooms served as terrace for those back
of them, showing similarity, at least,
in their construction, to the works Of the
Pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona.
Scattered about over the buildings are
miniature representations of the people
at their various occupations, with pot
terry, and other domestic untensils.
THE TRIPLE-wALLED TOWER"
at the head of the McElmo, is the sub
ject OF the fourth model. 1t was con-
structed by Mr.. Holmes, and represents,
as indicated by its title, triple-walled
tower, situated in the midst Of consid-
cradle extent of lesser ruins, probably
of dwellings, occupying a low bench,
bordering the dry wash of the McElmo
The tower is AZ feet in diameter, the
wall feet thick, and now standing
some % feet high. The two outer walls
inclOse space of about 6 feet in width,
which is divided into IA equally sized
rooms, communicating with one anoth-
er by small window-like doorways. The
above were all that were exhibited in
Philadelphia. Since then others have
been made by Mr.. Jackson, as follows:
A '.cliff-house' in the valley of the Rio
de Chiefly. 1t is about 20 miles above
the cave town already spoken of. This
is twO-story house, about 20 fee:
square, occupying ledge some IS feet
above the valley and oveEhung by the
bluff. The approach from the valley
is by series of steps hewn in the steep
face of the rock, and this method was
one most used by the occupants, al
though there is way out to the top of
the bluff. This model is AZ inches in
height by "a broad, and is built upon a
scale of l.36.
"Tewa," one of the seven Moqui
owns in northwestern Arizona, is a very
interesting and instructive model, repre-
senting as it does one of the most ancient
and best authenticated of the dwellings
of people who are supposed to be the
descendants of the cliff dwellers. Tewa
is the first of the seven villages forming
the province, as we approach them from
the east, and occupies the summit of a
narrow mesa ], 200 yards in length, upon
which are also two other somewhat
similar villages. The approach is by a
circuitous roadway hewn in the perpen-
dicular face of the bluff, which sur
rounds the mesa upon all sides; it is the
only approach accessible for animals to
the three villages. Other ladder-like
stairways are cut in the rock, which are
used principally by the water carriers,
for all their springs and reservoirs are
at the bottom of the mesa. The village
is represented upon a scale of one inch
TO eight feet, or l.96. The dimensions
of the model are So inches in length, 80
inches in width, and ii inches in
height.
In the spring of 1877 Mr.. Jackson
made tour over much of the northern
part of New Mexico and wastward m