The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-27
CLIFF D.
RELICS OF AN i
COLO
The Skulls and d
historic People
With HundT
Large ]

once more entered
time only ruin and /
centuries were to be
The existence Of /
been known, but nc
ton was ever madel
ago, when Charles n
and miner of the S
companions conclude
abandoned dwelling
Denver Republican de
their Investigations.
securing a collection
after wandering from
on the top of the G.
land could be made
menced exploring tn,
first entered little o
found, but they fina
that was almost mace
above a large reserve
and it is the opinion
this great tract ofgrC
by the people who Ii
low. But now pin,
are standing on all 81
of them have sprung
decayed and then hN
others, no man Twin
may have been hund
been thousands of We
Mr.. McLoyd says t
Montezana County v
sides of walls of the
and its tributaries in
erevices caused by
were so completely
elements that many
found in a perfect ST.
As a rule, these caves
cessible places. WI
were reached quite Fl
cut in the rock, and
ladders must have be
Quite a number {
were of pretentious d
est being a building
of which are 112 roc
upper stories. This
stories in height wit
built of dressed stone
of the surrounding so.
stance now unknown
ture now would be
Roman period.
The race, according
vanced by the smitl
existed about ten Il
This theory is based
the people lived andf
of the Salt River befc
stream was changed
trees and fungi in the
The adjoining nat
are the only race that
concerning these pee
that the cliff jewellers
being overcome by I
ferring death by dro
at the hands of the e
the water below the
stead of drowning,
cliff jewellers were a
race, judging from Il
ments of war and the
were used in their cru
ing.
Phrenologically spe
quiet and peaceable,
the skull being very I
pressed, while the frc
formed and denoted so
Among the skulls il
one that consists of 0
shows no trace of a 8
three parts, as is usu
skull. The bones fou
that they were a pc
height and well form
hands and feet, the
finer IN texture than t
race Of savages. The
any domesticated amin
the exception of the
utilized in many wa
dust brushes, bone nee
been found. The ayr
found consisted of
pumpkins, for aricl,
the yucca for tn
Their textile fabric
mats and cloths made
yucca plant interwov
from the turkey or fm
and is soft and fexit
evidently only in the
dead, who were rappe
taking the place Of the
days, while for an Of
coffin, they used a ms
of iron wood and com
manner that the model
are made. There are a
cloth woven out of b
was made on q crude l.
cords. There was in t
800 pieces of wood, a
intact by explorers, but
trying to remove it, a
from a dwelling to tn.
canon, and only pieces
ence, no ether loom {
found.
There were discovere
of these people large re
ing the water that can
mountains. These res
with stone walls. The
fccs, it being situate;
"mesa verdi, " or foot
feet in diameter, wal
walls and now contains
teen feet of water. !
was carried on in the
canons and was accom-
labor and with the crud
nothing having been 70
except a sharp-pointeC
wood, which was use
ground for planting.
Their household ute
pottery jars and casks :
covered with a subs
modern varlish. Bot
coils and are light IL
course very durable.
The knives were mad
of the deer highly =
sharp. There is nothin
they were acquainted in
the uses of any kind {
used both wood and Goa
cooking purposes, and
places just outside the
manner that the Mexi,
The sandals used, unSk,
savage tribes of the re
of vegetable tibers and
there is nothing to sAo'