The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-06
ANCIENE HUNS.
Relies Of ENIiuct TJucc~ who un-
habited Colorado aud utuh.

Pueblo ,Col) Chicnaiu.
The ancient ruins which arc scattered
all over this country are some ~ tao
greatest uuwutten pages of the worIIs
history. The fertile valley has boon
densely inhabited and highly cultivated
by an enlightened race oi people ccuiu
ries ago, while the ruins of the houses.
corrals, towns, Qualifications. bitches.
pottery ware, uonntgrpre8ble writings.
etc, 20 TO show there have been many
arts cultivated iu those days, which arc
now entirely lost to the human race.
Their houses have been built of most
every kind of rocks, from small bnuIdpr4
TO the finest sandstone The finest of
these ruins, and the most perfect. arc
located fifteen miles mp thc Auimas river
or about thirty five miles below Auimas
City in large valley fifteen miles lon..
by seven miles wide, ON the west Side of
the river. This valley has been covered
with buildings of every size, tho two
largest ones being 3OOXG.OOO frrl and
are about 600 feet apart They are
built of small sandstone laid I'm adobe
mud, the outside walls being 4 feet and
the inside walls from 10 feet. Iu the
lower story PORTFOLIOS have been built
for defense. There are rooms uow left
and walls for about four stories high still
standing About the second story on
the west side, there has been 70 balcony
along the entire length of tho building.
No signs Oft door are visible i'm the outer
walls, and the iugress must have been
from the top, in the inside there being
passages from room 90 ruom Most of
them are small, from eight by ten to
twelve by fourteen feet, tho doors being
two by four feet. The arches over the
doors and PORTFOLIOS are made of small
| cedar poles two inches wide, placed
across, on which the masonry is placed.
The secpers supporting the floor are of
| cedar, about eight inches through and
from twenty TO fifty feet long and about
three feet apart, q layer of small round
poles is then placed across the sIeepers.
| then layer of thiuly split cedar sticks
then about three inches of dirt, chen Il
! layer of cedar bark, then another layer
! of dirt, then carpet OF some kind OFF
! coarse grass, which forms the floors. Tho
rooms that have been protected from cX
posurc are whtcwashcd and are oluu-
mented by drawings and writings. ln
| one of these rooms the impression of
hand dipped IN whitcwash, un iOist, is
az plain us ifit had been done onlyu few
days ago. In another room there arc
drawings Of tarautulas, ceudpcdcs,
horses and men. One room
in the eastern portion "a quite
curiosity, it being perfectly round, and
must have been used for q ball 10 is
about twenty feet across ln some off
these rooms have been found human
bones, bones of sheep, corn cobs, goods,
rawhiles, and all colors and varieties of
pottery ware. These two large buildings
are exactly the mmc in every respect.
Portions Of the building plainly show
that il has been destroyed by fire, the
! timbers being burned OH aud the roofs
cavng in, leaving the lower rooms cu.
tirely protected. The roc, these build
ings have been built Of must have been
brought long way, as nothing 20 compare
with it can be found within twenty miles
| All the timber used is cedar, and bias at
least been brought twenty five miles
| Old bitches aud roads are 10 be seen in
every direction.
In conversation with the Navaios iu
regard to these ruins, they say their fore
| fathers came there five old mems ages
ago 600 years. and these ruins were
| here, and the same then as now, and that
! they have no record Of il whatever.
The only thing 10 show its age Is dato
in one Of the rooms just opened, which
took two men one day 10 get into, and
found on the wall tho date OF 1928.