The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-07-07
HISTORIC RUINS.
Case Grande to Be Reproduced at
the Columbian Exposition.
Arizona to Have Headquarters IN q stfae-
ture Built In Imitation OF the
Famous Adobe Pile Which
Guarded Lost City

Picturesque and romantic ruins are
0o;no to be erected at the worlds fair
Ohv the people of Arizona. William
aD'Neill. president of the board OF
worlds fair managers for the territory,
lis in the city with the plans and speciii-
cations The ruins will be used as a
territorial building by the Arizona COM
mission and will contain its exhibit
They will be fac simila reproduction
of the famous Casa Grande In the south
ern portion OF the territory This
adobe structure is perhaps the most re-
smarlxable of the ruins in North Aneri-
ca, and, in fact, is the only remains OF
aboriginal architecture on the conti-
nent, barring, of course, the govern
me mt building in Chicago.
The Casa Grande was first visited by
7 Europeans in 1888 by Cabeza de Vaca,
and his followers of the ill-fated Ponce
de Leon expedition. Four years later
Coronado, during his expedition to the
southwest, made it his headquarters.
Then, as now, not even tradition as
to the race that built it remained among
the surrounding tribes. The building
was once the main gateway to an I'M
mense walled city, the ruins OF which
still cover the plains, and to such an
extent that in the accurate estimation
of scientists the city's population must
have exceeded hundred thousand
The remains OF vast irrigating bitches
and cemented reservoirs are found in
F. the vicinity of the ruined city. Some
Englishmen having money cleaned one
of the irrigating bitches last year, and
reclaimed one hundred and fifty thou
sand acres of land.
The prehistoric ruins of Casa Grande
are between five and six stories high
and fifty feet square. They are COM
posed of sun-dried brick, with heavy
buttressed walls, and, like all the other
ancient ruins in that country, bear evi-
dences of having been destroyed by fire
for the charred remains of rafters still
cling to the walls. All about for miles
and miles are strewn broken pottery
arrow heads and stone axes, which tel
scientists thatone day thousands of years
ago that city blazed with fire and was
deserted by panic-stricken people
Casa Grande is the most famous feature
of all those old Sun-baked ruins, and it'
unknown origin the sudden and unac
countablc fight and dissolution of th'
- iAls-sbitants OF tlaes ci.yrit guarded an'
the deep mystery which has clung to i
for ages make it one of the most In
teresting subjects of scientific investi
cation. 1t will be, perhaps, on its re
production at the fair, the most inter
esting building in which any OF tn
states or territories will make head
quarters.
The exhibit OF Arizona, anyway, wi
be one long-continued delight in tn
way of curiosities. Besides the exhibit
of minerals, semi-tropical fruits an
other products of the territory, M
O'Ncill says there will be a magnificer
display of petrified woods better eve
than the one shown at the Paris Q!
position. Then there will be added al
other curio in the shape OF the large
mass of meteoric iron ever discovers
1t was found in the northern end OF Il
territory. There viii be a complete di
play of the recently-discovered onyx