Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-04-11
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 But tO return to the rum. The first and only room of the structure entered measured about thITly-tive in length by nine feet SIX inches in wIdtb, and the ! stories, of which 1t k said there were ! originally seven, and three now stand | ing, appeared to have been about ten | feet apart, as was noticeable by the | burnt ends of the round pine jOists now l firmly embedded m the separating walls of the rooms and we'll preserved.
 The former. as above stated. arc built Of concrete maternal, and are from four ! to five feet tblck near the ground, and, | for that matter, they seemed C. dimln- 1 Ish m thickness but little to the top. In l the center of the building. surrounded | by the other rooms, is one ten feet wide and twenty-five feat lOug. having only [ one eutrauce, while it's walls are pierced Ht regular intervals Wtlr small round 1 holes, communicating with the adjoining rooms. For what purpose, other than for use as place Ol confinement, that room was set apart, it is dliHcuit Co con ceive; and If tD prison purposes. the cs-
 cape from it would seem tO have been
 an imp0ssibility. It may, however. tqve done duty as a sort of fortress. or ace of last refuge for @ small garrIsOn, bent on repeliIug the assaults of b-sirginc foes, armed with such rude weapons as
 were in use when the casa was in- hahIted, long centuries, probably, be- Tore the invention of gUnp1wder or the more destructive dynamite. The concrete which Compu-Cs the walls. is
 hard and dlslntecrg'.s slowly, and gp-
 pears Ss though Ii would rrsIst the in- . sa4Hs.a .H e Q
 tuTIcs more. The wiss old builders who
 mixed that concrete seemed to know
 nothing Of tEe art Of afuic making. as
 at pre- eut practirei, for they tempered
 the mortar. composing It of gravel and
 sand. instead oi the biblical straw, and
 as eqUCrca-tEey have left behind
 them buildings that have Outlastcd al
 memory aud tradition. Iu places there
 appear evidences ( at tie concrete had
 been la'd in rectangular blocks of th,.
 thickness Ci the wall. and in other
 places no loiut divisions are di~ceruibIr. and the iu~Idos of the walls are covered with a thin, hard and smooth finish. vainly sought for ih adobe structures of less remote period, and which may now be chased among the lost arts.
 ASurHEE BUILDING.
 About lJD feet south of the main building are the ruins us another build- ing of the same general character and material, having one wall still standing m tolerable repair, with it's axial lines
 ranging due north and south, gs in the other described structure. Going some 900 feet north from tue latter. the cu- rIous investigator VIII find the remains l ot what appe ITS Co baye been a large. l well formed oval basin, inclosed by l solid turf embankment, some sixteen or more feet high and at a point still far the- tO the north is q small, square | plateau, having nicely sloping sides, ! upon which lie the crumbled remains of ! another such building. Not far from | this last place, tc tue westward, may | still be traced across the parched plain, | for distance of ab. mt thirty miles, to | the banks of the Gila river, the route along which led the "old Montezuma ditch, through winch water was brought 1 from that stream with which Go irrlcate the country round aDout, cover it with gardens and fit It to produce food for the dense population which at some far remote epoch of the past must have dvelt there. or that long vanished pre- historic race, the dIsmantied casa and the crumbled ruins which surround 1t are the only monuments which they have left behind. and such is the irony Of fate that these tell naught of those who built them.