Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-28
AMEnrcAx Observation-Disclosures.
They Are Believed by One Arcbmologii
to he the Most Ancient Haces af Mon

WESTERN hemisphere, even as Schllemann
delved after the antiquarian treasures of
old Greece, is Rev. G. II. Green, who is
an enthusiast on the subject of American
archaeology and who has spent several
years time and many thousand dollars
of his private fortune in exploring the
wildernesses and mountain Businesses of
the south west. Mr.. Green has come to
the conclusion, after much investiga-
ton and consideration of the subject,
that the ruined houses, mummies,
human bones, utensils and implements
found in the Grand Gulch in Utah ante
date any human relics or productions
yet discovered, being anterior, in his
opinion, to the wonderfully ancient
ruins at Karnak in Egypt Mr.. Green
figures the probable date of the presence
In life on the earth of these tribes of
cliff-dwellers at more than 10000 years
ago, and this theory Is sustained by the
opinion of the chronological department
OF the Smithsonian Institution.
Mr.. Green, who is stopping at the
Leland Hotel, in st. Louis. has been ex-
hibiting some of the relics found by him.
self or by Charles McLoyd and G. G..
Graham and other explorers in the
wild, almost impossible, canons in New
Mexico, Utah, Arizona, Colorado and
Nevada: What the first adventures
found Mr.. Green purchased, and to
these he added such archaeological
specimens as he and his special ex-
ploring party found after most adven-
turous research. The whole collection
will be on exhibition at the Worlds
Fair in the chronological department
under charge of Professor Putnam of
Harvard College. Before the date set
for the opening Of the fair Mr.. Green
hopes to have obtained many more
valuable specimens and to have so
cleared the subject of many of the OBJ
securing circumstances that now environ
it as to make plain the correctness Of
his theory that the American cliff
jewellers were the Oldest human race of
which we have any knowledge.
The Federal government should send
to those regions well-equipped expe.
dltion comprising competent ethnolo-
gist and archeologist," said Mr.. Green
to-day. "The surveys heretofore made
have been entirely Typographical or geo
loglcal-both necessary and useful, of
course, but throwing no light on the
most interesting phase of all, the archeo-
logical. II is true that several explorers
have visited the places where relics of
the cliff-dwellers may be found, but
these Investigations were almost value
less because not scientifically conducted.
The arch@ologist can often derive much
more knowledge by seeing specimen
IN stu than by examining it after being
removed from its environment, Pur-
ported cliff-dwellers have been brought
east and exhibited; that was plainly TO
crafty curiosity, because these individ-
uals were Indians and the clitf-dwelers
Of 10000 years ago were not Indians,
but white men-they belonged to the
Caucasian race, as their features and
skulls plainly indicate. 1t Is to obtain
accurate scientific information about the
relics left by those historic American
races that the new association has been
organized. Some of the best known men
IN Chicago will be interested. The
organization will be Incorporated under
the title Tho American Bureau of Cliff
jewellers Exploration 1t will not be
for profit. No work of the kind, even
under the most favorable conditions, for
exhibition or sale CT recovered speci-
mems will yield as much as it costs to
obtain them. The association will be in
the interests of science and American
archaeology.
u had many strange experiences in
my exploring tours. There were seven
IN my party, and as VIC were 200 miles
from railroad we had to pack our
supplies on horseback. When we To-
Gated the canon in which we knew the
remains to be we found its sides to have
O sheer descent of more than 1900 feet.
and we travelled 10 miles along its edge
before finding place where we could
descend. We finally got down BY
zigzag route, practically leaping from
ledge to ledge and making our ponies do
the same. efound the houses of the ex-
tinct races built under cover Of project
ing water-worn cliffs, and SO protected
from the elements that they are in
fairly good state of preservation, being
everywhere covered to depth of Ii
inches or more by fine, dry dust. In
the floors of these ruins we found at
varying depths beneath the surface
cooking utensils, bone and stone implc-
ments, feather cloth, ornaments Of bone
and shell and weapons of various kinds.
No iron was found. These people must
have antedated the stone age and vet
We're superior to it, as their handicraft
shows.
"The buildings themselves arc won.
derful. They are built of dyed brick or
of stones hewn with great skill and mar
Vicious taste, considering the deyelop-
ment of the architects. The pillars ana
arches are well proportional, and the
structures were evidently intended to
be lasting. One built under an AUDITING
Cliff in the Mancos canon is 425 feet
long, so feet wide and ten stories in
height. Each house is also fortress.
some OF the supporting pillars arc hol-
low cylinders pierced with loopholes.
whence an invading enemy could be
repulsed by arrows or other projected
weapons. On the ground floor of this
palace are 1876 rooms. In places the
structure reaches up to the overhanging
mountain side, which is covered with
hieroglyphics.
"Great reverence was paid the dead,
especially women and children. En-
Dalming in most effective style was
known to these people. One mummy
of child we found was excellently pre-
served. 1t was wrapped in three cover
ings of buckskin and buried where
neither sun or rain could reach it. A
woman's body, well preserved even to a
considerable portion of the hair on the
head, was also found. Many skulls and
large bones of the body were dug UP.
These remains indicate that the race Of
prehistoric cliff jewellers were not In
dians. Not a characteristic of the ex-
listing Indian is to be found in these
bony physiogomics. They resemble
more the white races OF northern
Europe. The cliff-dwellers were large
men. Some of the jawbones we found
We're larger than that possessed by any
man living tn-unY One of The unrnnl,