Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-23
An ANCIENT CITY UNEARrHEp.
a Washington Man Said TO Have Made q
Important Discovery.

washington MAN said To Have Msde ~
Important Discovery.
A Santa Fe, n. NJ, correspondent Of the Boz
ton Globe writes: Last November party left
this city for the purpose OF exploring certain
ruins which we're reported to have been found
by prospectors In the southwestern part Of the
territory.
These men have returned and bring with
them most marvellous story Of what they dis
covered. They have certain relics to bear OUT
their tale and these relics show that they have
undoubtedly unearthed . city OF lost race
which peopled this country long before the
present people had existenos on this CONT
nent.
1t has been a legend among the Pueblo In
dams IN this territory that there was once n
great city near the line between New MEXICO
and Arizona, but this has been treated 60 .
myth by the white people, o. there has never
been seen anything which wouid indicate that
there was foundation upon which TO build the
story.
This legend had it that far out on the sandy
plain there were ruins which showed that many
people once lived there and they wore Loaf
when the country was covered by the sand
ana debris which turned IL into an arid plain.
About November a prospector cane in from
the Sierra Madre range and said thar he had
found ruins Of houses far out from the noun
tains, which looked like none that be had ever
seen. He told his story TO many and finally
there was one who listened with more than or
binary interest, and this was Walter Williams
young gentleman from Washington, ID. O.,
who has been out in this country in the inter-
ests Of the National Museum.
He saw at once that he was on the eve of q
great discovery. and made arrangements to
search for the ruins and If possible get draw.
ings and models of them for preservation AZ
the national capital.
Williams organized q party and with the
prospector Is a guide started for the country
where the ruins were said to be located.
The party consisted of Williams. James Dob.
son, the prospector, and three other men who
were taken as assistants and workers in camp.
They left on November Is and reached the spot
where the ruins were TO be found on the lst Of
December.
They remained three weeks al the Mace and
made q thorough search of the country for
miles around. That they have been well re-
paid Is shown by the drawings, models. relics
and specimens Of various kinds. showing the
handiwork Of the ancient race which inhabited
There we're found the remains Of sirty-svs
houses and while only . few were SO well pre-
served that they could be reproduced there
were enough parts left to show that there wss
inhabitants
The buildings that we're found were all OF
stone, and il 10 to be believed that in addition
to these there must have been many that we're
VI "ooo or Vi eooDe prick winch have been
completely destroyed in the years that have
rolled by.
One Of the houses was in almost perfect con.
dition, with the exception Of the doors aud
roof, which were gone. This was . massive
stone edifce containing sixteen rooms. Il was
only two stories in height, and the rooms
were very large, some Of them being twenty
feet square.
The building was oblong in shape with q
front Of sixty and . depth OF 40 feed There
were evidences that the whole place had been
foored with . tesselated pavement and soms
Of the squares were stil 70 BE- found in
place.
These houses were almost entirely covered
with the sand which had been drifting over
them for hundreds Of years, but BY persistent
digging the streets were laid sufficiently open
to show that they bad been paved with stone
The strangest part Of the matter 10 the face
that the nearest water TO the ancient city b q
least seventy miles away. There are evidences
that at one time there was . water courss rum
ming near the place. but this has been almost
obliterated-
Williams 10 not satisfied with his invss.ies-
tions, 40 he had neither the time nor the means
to make the researches which be thought nscss-
sary 70 be made. and he will mako his report
and thinks an expedition, fully equipped, VIII
be sent out by the government which VII -
cover the Whole ruined city.