Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-07-09
HISTORIC RUINS.
Casa Gracdo to Bo Reproduced at
 tho Columbian Exposition.
Arizona to Have Headquarters in a St-uc- turc Built ia I-aisatioa of tho Famous Adobe Tiic Which
 Guarded q Lost City.

Picturesque and romantic ruins arc
 going to be erected at the worlds fair
 by the people of Arizona. William
 O'NCill, president of thcs board of
 worlds fair Eacc~cr5 for tho territory,
 i5 in the city with the plans and opccil-
 cations. The ruins will be u5ed as Q
 territorial building by tkc Arizona cca-
 niS5iOn end viii contain its exhibit.
 They will be fac si-nilc reproduction
 of the famous Casa GranGc i1 the south
 cra portion of tho tcrrit-ry. This
 adobe structure l. perhaps tho IcSt re- Iaarlsablc of tho ruins il North AIlcri-
 e, and, il fact. i5 tho only remains of
 aboriginal architecture on the cOnti-
 ncnt, bcrri-,}, of course, tho govern ncEt building ia Chicago.
 Tho Case Graldc v-c5 first viSitcd by
 Europeans il 1j35 by Cabeza Gc Vacc.
 and EiG followers Cf the i-l-latCd Ponce de Leon expedition. Four year5 later
 Coronado. Gc--i--:g lis expedition to the southwest, made ]. his headquarters. Then, G5 nov, not even 2 tradition c1 to the racc th-t b1il- i5 rcIlci2cI clorg the SGrT0uc.li1G t--ocS. Inc b-ildirl' waS once tls ncil gltc---y t0 ca irl- mcrSe U-allcl city. tho ruin5 of y-hich still cOvcr tho plci-a, c-d t0 S--h cl c-.tclt tAct ii tkc cccurcto C5tiE-ti0- of S-iC1tist5 tAc Ci,y'S poDu. .otio- auce havc C-cCc,l-l . hundred tlougcal Thc rcu2ic5 cf vc5c iriGati1G dit-he5 and ccIncltcd rc5crv5ir5 crS i1ulI in the vi-ility of t&c ruined citr. Some Englishnc1 having money cleaned one of the irrigatilg ditchcs last year, and reclaimed enc hundred and fifty thou sand acres of land.
 The prehistoric ruins of Casa Grande arc between five and six stories high ! and fifty feet square. They are com 1 posed of Su1-j!ricd brick, with heavy ! blttressc1 vv2li5, and, i,7c all the other | ancient ruins ia that country. b,ar cvi- | denccs of hoving been destroyed by fire, ! for the charrcd rcnain5 of roftcr5 still | cling to the walls. All about for niles | and miles arc strcvn broken pottery. arrow heads and stone axes. which tell ! that one dcy ythOu5aldsOf years ! ago that city blazcd with fire and was ! deserted by Q panic-S-ri-l,cn people. ! Case Grande is the most famous feature ] of all those old Su1-bal-cI rJinS, and its [ unknown origin, the sudden and urac- coI1tablc flight and di5so uei0n of the | of the city it guarded and | tho deep EyStcry which has clung to it for ages ncllc it ono of tho most in 1 5ubjcct5 of scientific inveSti- gation. It will be, perhaps, on it's re- production at the fair, t',c most inter csting building i1 which any of tho states or territories will make head quarters.
 Tho exhibit of Arizona, anyway, will be one long-continucd delight in the way of curiOsitiCs. Besides the exhibits of minerals, scni-tr0pical fruits and Othcr pro1uctj of the territory Mir O'NCill says there will be a magnificent display of pctrifcd woods, better even than the one shown at the Paris cz- position. Then there will be added cn- OtEcr curio in the shape of the largest mass of nctcoric iron ever discovered. It was found i1 tho northern end of the territory. There will be q complete dis play of the straightforward onyx.