Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-04-19
Ancient Treasures.
TEL. Wetmore in Tucson Star. I


 Sometime during the year 1857 two Chilenos stopped at Sarac in the state of Sonora. Their object was to eX- plore some of the old ruins in south ern Arizona and locate some of the principal mines that had been worked by the Jesuits.
 The Apache Indians were very troublesome and killed several of the party causing them to abandon the enterprise in 1S60
 They presented Senorita Clara Bor- vean, then a young lady of thirteen years, with two Spanish books, inform ing her that they gave detailed ac- count of the early missionaries work and explorations in Arizona.
 Senorita Clara and her parents nov ed to Tucson and she was married to Chas. o. Brown in 1864.
 Mir. Brown states that nelghbor borrowed the books and failed to re- turn them, reporting them destroyed. Several priests visited Tucson in 1864, and returned to Mexico, with a pack train loaded with treasure taken from the San Xavier and Tumacacori churches. Mir. George Foster states that he was with q detachment O. United States troops quartered at Tu- bac in 1864, and reports pack train coming in to camp one evening and leaving early next morning, that, up on visiting the Tumacacori church they found evidence of new exCava- ton having been made in the floors of the west wing of the church and some thing having been taken therefrom. The soldiers picked up piece of rich ore that had been dropped in their haste. Mir. Brown suspects that these priests had possession of the two Span ish books. One book was devoted to the workings and general description of the old mines, and the other one gave a detailed account of the eXplOr- ations of the Jesuit fathers, stating that seven priests visited Tucson, June 18th, 1915, then inhabited by Pimas and Zunis, who lived in houses and cultivated the soil by a system or irri- gation. The padres continued north ward across the Gila and San Pedro ! rivers and San Carlos to the White mountains to a place that answers to the present description of Camp Apa che, where they found large encamp ment of Apache Indians and resided with them several years. These places retain the same names as when first visited by the padres. These books referred to the ancient ditches and mines of the cave dwellers.
 There seems to have been tradition amongst the Zunis that there had been a great flood covering the earth and that some Indians with theil families took refuge in boats and drift ed on the waters for many days final | ly landing on the San Francisco mountains, they beng covered witt dense growth of timber and many wild animals abounded thereon. These Indians made excavations 1T the mountains and resided therein When the waters receded they culti vated the valleys by system or irri igation and storage of water. These people became quite numerous anC made extensive excavations in the mountain causing it to settle.
 They abandoned this settlement and moved to the present Zuni vii lages in New Mexico.
 MT. Brown states that in 1872 MT Chas Franklin informed him that he had resided with the Zuni Indians anC that they had tradition about thi' settlement in the San Francisco noun tains. MT. H. E. Lacy states tha persons familiar with the Apache tongue can converse with the Zun Indians. The early explorers were generally escorted by Indians wher visiting the various tribes in friendl! l NAY