The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-06-28
PaEBIS7 BIC RACE.
NY FOUND RUINED CITY OF
4 Nv Tun CLIFF JEWELLERS.

IN CliifS--I hey "0Io SA'h~0W ON"
,,.d Enemies--The Ruins Compared
"a those of Pompeii.
81 tho lover of archaeology no field
orts finer prospect than one of
.na,p New Mexico. 1t abounds III
;,ri,ies of every description pertain
'D' nr.historic races of America. Its
-os md monuments are undoubtedly
49," ancient as the pyramids and some
analogous in many respects. Mr..
,p + Coape, the artist, and the wri
hove been in camp amid the ruins
.no last two weeks, excavating and
Investigating generally.
". estimate that the city must have
r-,ined fully $4,000 inhabitants, as we
49,. counted over Is, 900 rooms in the
s..o If fine cliffs, where they are ten feet
dozen and ten feet square ON a average
qbev extend around the face OF cir
.n,or mountain for IA distance OF over
s,e miles. The level mesa on top is full
8 ,,ins of their old temples, powwow
lilac and dwellings,. Estimating three
..rsons to each room, and $4,000 rooms
=, have 45 600, but the probabilities are
.ho+ each room was the abode OF
=, east five persons, and the buildings
,.n If the mesa may have contained
t,ur as MANY more. 1t is safe and con-
.o,yatve to say that it was city OF at
least $4,000 inha bitants.
That they had enemies there can be
=, ,npstion. as tt ey selected a strong,
u.+n,al fortress for their city. Their
onanies were undoubtedly savagts, per-
hans the Apache Indians, whose pres
err reservation is on the hunting ground
: +bpr torefathers, not more than 5O
ni,ss distant from this ruined city.
The cliff jewellers were doubtless
,ir;1izpd people to great extent, as
+boir architecture, their pottery and
f. o+bor evidences here abundantly testify.
Il vonld seem that their enemies finally
orov,iled over them, destroying them
and their city, as they disappeared from
tbe lace of the earth.
The country is as wild as the interior
hi Africa. 1t is no. an agricultural re-
yon and how $4,000 people maintained
he in such a place and under such con"
f6ons will forever be a puzzle to the
mast discerning nrchaeologist, There is
large spring of delicious, cool water on
he face of the cliff near the only en-
rance This at least insured perma-
lent water supply against a prolonged
eg. Of the enemy.
Thew buried their dead on the mesa in
atacombs followed out for distance
hone main avenue of over two miles.
he sight is indeed a ghastly, grews0me
De- never to be foI gotten.
trimming skulls and clumhling bones
tfeced back the light from torches.
he sepulchers are followed out IN the
tails similar to the face of the cliffs lt
dry, soft conglomerate formation,the
Iches and walls of which are supported,
d never was there a more favorable
ace, nor could there be, fer a reposl-
by Of the dead than this.
We have already excavated a consider
e AMOUNT OF pottery in good state
Preservation; also copper ornamen,S
d vessels. We have four Mexicans at
work and will remain here a month
in hopes of making further impor
pit discoveries.
The ruined city was discovered in Jan
F last by Mr.. A. P. F. Coape, an En-
shnan who has spent the last SIX
Prs in that part of New Mexico hunt
and fishing
The ruins are 50 well preserved that
y look as if they might not have been
abandoned, yet how many thousand
rs have rolled around since the city
w VIII nc duN dCllO4l ~ OhO Nt'A
n conjecture.
he country abounds in many other
las Of the prehistoric race of America.
81 canyon Largo, in Southern Colorado,
sI re IS quite tier of cliff dwelling vii
~ IN which much valuable pottery
SAo to have been found But @@this
- evidently the chief jewellers, as the
wow holes and foundations of large
Nc buildings and the plaza about
would indicate. This ind eed is the
'Pei OF America, and we'll worth the
ulon OF the scientific world general
j. NJ. HATTEN.
a Million Friends.
"'ehd IN need is friend indeed,