Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-11-27
A LOST PEOPLE.
WONDERFUL DISCOVERIES IN NEW
MEXICO.

America, as well AZ Italy, has It's t
Herculaneum and Pompeii, if we may q
believe the reports of Messrs. Patterson \
and Mackley, two gentlemen engaged a
in mining in New Mexico, v no have 8
inst arrived at St. Louis with remark
able specimens and more remarkable X
statements. Some stupendons ruins I
have been discovered at ,Abo City, ln I,
the Manzana or Apple mountains, IN
Valencia county, about twenty miles
west of the Rio Grande, and nearly the
same distance from the Atchison, rope
ka and Santa Fe railroad. The district
was once very populous, but has now
no inhabitants. Welearn from long
report in the Republican that there is
evidence of vast volcanic eruptlons III
the vicinity, which overwhelmed large
cities and buried them and their lnnaD-
itants in hot ashes. There are lava beds
fifty miles in extent, and at one Time
the crater of one of the mountains must
have been sixty miles long and from
fifteen to twenty miles across. Inc re-
mains of temple with walls sixty feet
high and ten feet thick, and covering
an acre of ground, were found. Inc
timber, which is Of pnon wood, was as
sound az when first cut.
There is on one side of the piece OF
timber some rude figures, one OF the ALI
Seeing Eye, representing probably the
sun. Other figures are deeply indented
| in the wood, as if made by anything but
a sharp.edged tool. Mr.. Patterson says
that he found stone hammers, but moth
ing in the shape Of the sbarp-edged or
steel tools There are small burrows
seen in the wood, as if plowed out with
a stone gouge. The building evidently
belonged to a style Of architecture an
| terror to the adobe, aud dried brick Pc
Rod. Mr.. Patterson 5inelnes to the
opinion that the locality was the site OF
one of the seven cities mentioned by
tho Spanish chroniclers, the author OF
which traversed the country after the
conquest of Mexico, among which were
the cities Of Camelone, Grand Cavra,
Santa Cruz, Puerto de Abo. the Aho and
the old Pecos, and another situated q
few miles west, OF Abo, in the lava
beds. .
Another specimen is a human skull
| evidently that of a young fe'naie' al
, shown by the teeth, which was exhumet
q about half mile from the church
8 Skulls are quite plentiful among the OF
. ruins in the vicinity. About tive mile
o from the Abo springs they have d'scoV
= cred some ancient silver diggings.
Il The smelters were built Of adobe o
n sun-dried bricks, and were elevate
o some twenty or thirty feet above to
d surface of the ground In digging dow
5, thew found the remains of an aqueduc'
% in which water was conveyed from
IT spring three-fourths OF mile dista"
le to dam which diverted the water int
D. the smeltering works. About five acrt
le was found covered with Stag, which n
,e Patterson has taken mp for q mill SIT
rs From the old furnaces a trail was toun
p leading directly from the smelling wor'
to 10 the mine in the mountains, WINK
I'd here rise in peaks to a height OF -lo,o
he feet. The ancient trail'pnrsnes az'gz'
k, course, having length OF some II
&c miles, which, in an air line, the dlstan
in Is not much exceeding one mile. Ever
ed thing was transported in these old mi mi
at inc days on men's shoulders, to and frc
rst the mountains. There are now trees
the 'pinon' growing on the trail lars
a than a mans body, showlngnthe AN
on quit7 ofthe path, Mr.. Patterson SAID
nd was two weeks in discovering the mir
on after finding the smelling works s.
his The mine from which the silver "
old taken was concealed by fallen tlmb
zen some of which had taken root. Il 70
on nearly fortnight 70 clear II away
he was found to be seyenty feet 4d deep, "
ave several horizontal shafts, "A lot OF p
hes terry was also discovered, and also 2 T
Ing turquoise mines which bore evidence
ing former working. The pottery cons
bed of drinking vessels used ny these
Par inhabitants of the country The ves'
Init are Of various designs, representing 3
joy eral species Of birds and antelope sc
of the specimens are striped and spot
it's with A black coloring Al old MI
.;,o named Baxter found in digging dow
low i chamber about ten feet square, hav
lid on one side ii fireplace, across wi
,dsr hing crane having clay hook. ant
~ -s.l &c Al, hoo1- ~ &C n hone On