Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1885-10-09
THE MOUNDS.
4 Great Mystery s0tred at last. The Hound
Builders Chinserical. 4 Beautiful
Theory spoiled. Anf part of
History Shorne of its Magic
and Romantic Charms.

ties. Sometimes, when we see one OF
these mounds approximating a small
mountain, by way of distinction, we
call it potato-hill, or sugar-loaf, because
it is similar to one or the other of these.
We say, also, such were produced by
natural forces, why simply because the
work of building such mound, or noun
tain, is to large for ordinary human en-
terprise, say again. if such were built
by man, there would be near by a
deep hollow, or general depression cor
responding to the magnitude of the
mound; which is not the case. Alas
Alas For human theories, human
knowledge and human reasoning No
ono ever dreamed that the mountains
were produced by human agency, they
are to numerous, to large and to di-
versifed in every respect, no unity of
design is coupled with their general
contour. No one rightly viewing this
subject can come to any other conclu-
sion than what all these mountains,
mounds, hills and valleys are of geo.
logoical origin. Now whatever pro-
duced one mountain produced all noun
tains, though the agencies were more
active and more powerful at one place
and period than at another. place and
period, greater and more energetic in
producing large mountains than in pro-
ducing small mountains. We may
readily persume that the mountains
were not all produced in the same peri
cd of the worlds history The mounds
are sometimes in groups and sometimes
sporadic, sometimes uniform in size
and sometimes vary, but not always
similar in outward appearance, whether
large or small, one or many. Now we
affirm that whatever produced one of
these mounds produced them all, and
we are inclined to believe they were all
produced at the same period Of time,
for several reasons which we will give
hereafter, if not all at the same doubt
less under similar conditions, the period
in which these mounds were formed,
shall designate as the mound period,
which is correct as geological specif-
cation of time. As we said above the
same forces that produced one noun
tain produced them all, and the same
causes that produced one mound pro
duced them all, phenominal indications
are that the mountains were produced
at different periods, while the mounds
were produced at the same period.
We are told by geologist that all rocks
were formed or grew IN still water deep
down under the surface, and that all
upheavals, have been produced by inter
nal forces, and that these forces were
under or in all upheavcd matter, we
speak of the dip of ledges and strata.
They do not dip unless we mean they
dip upward. All lodges of rock more
or less incline lin their formation they
were horizontally in mountains and uu
der mountains and on the sides OF
mountains to some angle towards the
mountain summit. This shows that
the forces which broke the origlna
rocks turned the fragments upward
and also that these forces were under al
upheaveI material, even if it is as
large as the rocky mountains. Now
thisis the way the mounds were formed
Whatever produced them was not
above them, nor in them, but under
them. Let me illustrate IL a little
boy in playing should get under bee
and stand up and make mound or
the bed with his head, no one coulc
believe that the producing cause of the
bed mound was above the bed, there
would be no evidence, if however or
examining under the bed we should dis
cover dent just under the bed mounc
and corresponding to with the upper
impression, the concavity beneath ccr
responding to the convexity above al
| would reasonably conclude that what
ever produced the concavity beneath
produced the convexity above and thu
would be reasonable and correct
Again if it were known that nothin?
could get under the bed but a litt|,
boy, then all would know that Gttl
boy had produced the bed mound, bu
how and when are other questions
Just SO with the formation and origil
| of the earth mounds. / do not mea
that they were produced by little bo
beneath them, but by something CORES
ronding to the little boy. Let u
bring our reasonings a little closer t
the main point. If anyone who ha
been interested in knowing the origi
of these mounds had dug beneath the
natural base this mystery might has
been solved long ago. II one we're
dig from the top of mound, dow
through the center, through the has
and at any distance beneath, say OF
hundred feet and come to a ledge |
rocks, broken and upheaved in noun
shape, he would know at once, tn;
whatever force broke and bulged up th
ledge, also bulged up the mound on I'll
surface. That the agency that pr
duced the one produced the other, ar
more, that this force operated beneat
the rocky strata. His conclusie
= would not only be legitimate, but
: would be demonstration, an lncontr
vertible fact. Again if one could C
one of these mounds through the cent
and pass the bicuting line down al
distance say, one thousand feet al
could inspect this surface all the ";
F down and at any point in the whole d
= tance discover that one stratum ofear