Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-23
STORY OF THE MOUNDS,
MAJOR POWELL TELLS ABOUT
THE WORKS
OF the Oldest MISUNDERSTANDING
Things Fonnd in the rumuii
which They Ereoted-An-
cient Human Flesh Re
duced TO black Felt
and Powder.

mnn Powder.
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u'peS OF ihu'"'s V'Nl''"''VN
these works, which are scatlend To 'he
number Of huudrc,ls OF thousands over
~, gro,t,r mar, If tbc Upitcd States.
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we know thht tne MOUNTS vi i~'',.'"
Tennessee and Western North CAruliim
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were probablv the authors also OF most
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c,,. Giv,si iyati,1 was found In caVos
Facing tba Nississippi river. six mile,
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tb,' ,oyticnt fpre III b. sandstonr bluff
III f.st Inn, ma 10 frrt hinh. mi, ,vull
s,,j csuine, nv, literally covered with tlid,
ctchinps represnnting mmdruppds. birds
birI-tracks and syinbnllc or fanCifHl ola
ircts, The noor y spread TO u depth %
Two feet with the bones Of iishea aii,
beasts, fragments Of pottery. CHARCOAL
md nslles. Obviously this plnco was uaei
for residence purposes dufng q long pc
Rod OF time, Yet more remarkable Is
| cave near GuntcrsYlllo, Ala, Evidently
# was used for many genera tons as o.
cemetery. aud the number Of dead dcpo.
| itrd IN II must have been very itehl
Though much Of its contents have pee
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door is yet covered 70 n depth. OF, fon
feet with material composed cljeuy
fragments Of human bones Ia ltnnr,'
see aud kcntucky the ht-h o. none
stored IN caves centuries ugo j. holh'
times remarkably preserved a.,
ION n farm 10 Boilinger county ,All'
souri,, belonging 70 q man hnined l'cu
| Bcss, Is an area OF cosidcfaple vkirn
surrounded py an qhol9ht Snu VI .Ai
about three feet hlgh ~ Narea. lhs,9
Of u formerly wete many roma tAH Z,
mounds uaed for burial PURPOSES Di w
Indians OF prehistoric unios bui lori
years Of continued egluyau9n o. thf 20
have nearly leYeled them However tH
mass OF material composing llem W.
so great that even now ine lauI WIN
The enclosure ~ Two lvr' 9sI l., Inn ,iii
outside, ana 70 neh = y lth' ~,
seventy-iive bushels per acre n soo
years, the owner says, WINE tiaat ~
side yields only MY bushrls' lloWn
over one Of the MOUNDS ie" Years. y x
| Mr. Bess struck something, ana, on al
pinr. discovered two sioue couins' ea'
containing nskeleiDn. IN one - the 60
fins be found q guIrd-shaped vessel tll'
with lead ORE 70 Elt" 'hhi N' "'''' wa
turned Y into bullets; .,.,.t.,,.,
"in 1870 the pope m ihe nrlkhpori, 20
, OF town in Mississippi al7eofen'l IN
the pottery In which ne mounts
that region were unusually nei hAd 60
r siderable commercial falun, feSul
e mining fever az once broke out ~