The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-13

and marvellous scale Here are great watch
towers, built undoubtedly to resist assault,
clearly demonstrating the theory that the
| cliff jewellers were a warlike race. Moth
| ing wilder, more desolate and impressive
| can be imagined than these stony voices
from an unread past.
/ In the Navajo canyon, Colorado and
also in New Mexico are mines of these an
/ Gent peoples. Many of the wise men who
have studied these mines profess to find
/ striking analogies with the structures
around Lake Tilicaca and 60 so far as to
claim that there is no incongruity in the
! theory that the cliff dwellings of the Man
cos canyon were built by the same prehis-
toric white race that reared the pyramids.
One opinion advanced is that there was q
period of pyramid building just as there
was one of cathedral building. Pyramids
were built in Egypt, Peru and Mexico.
The Colorado and New Mexico cliff dwell
ings may have been copied after these
structures. 1t is, However, conceded that
savages have dwelt within them, whoever
constructed thSm.
In the Sandal house, cliff dwelling Of
80 rooms, were found innumerable wooden
sandals left there by the inhabitants when
they departed for unknown regions. 1t
gives you queer sensation TO go poking
about in dark corners of these weird dwell
ings and unearthing cups, bowls and jars
from which possibly people OF Pharaoh's
time drank, or shoes which may have COW
cred the tiny feet of some new world maid
en- who lived during Noah's day.
The most interesting discovery in these
dwellings of which heard was that made
by Captain w. A. jackson, one Of the pio-
neer miners of Colorado. He is grizzled,
picturesque veteran, as full of delightful
stories as an egg is of meat This was the
story told me as we rode from Dolores to
Mancos:
~ believe the Mesa jewellers to have
been ancestors of the Pueblo indiana The
remains of their pottery and architecture
are the same In the La Nilata range I
once found kiln in which these Mesa
jewellers baked their pottery. But the
most interesting discovery / ever made
was in the Mogollon range on the ella
river. There is q peak there, an extinct
volcano, from whose crater lava had pour
ed 600 feet west into the canyon. Our
party followed the course Of this lava and
found where it had been damned up like
driftwood. Then a second flow OF lava
had rushed down and broken this drift
wood and dashed the lava high up the
walls of the canyon Looking up We saw
the roof then the doors and windows Of
an ancient cliff dwelling. With difficulty
we scaled the side of the canyon and en-
tered this dwelling. A convex surface of
lava and obsidien glass was formed over
an object of some sort. With difficulty we
lifted ir back. and there was the perfect
skeleton OF a human being. so. if some
scientist could tell fro-n the state OF the
crater CT that extinct volcano when was
its last eruption, we might discover when
these dwellings were inhabited, for in
all probability this creature was living
there, engaged perhaps IN his daily yoca-
ton, when this deluge OF lava dashed up
from the canyon and cntombed him alive"
That the valley Of the ella was once in
habited By mighty race Is conclusiyeiy
shown BY the remains Of i--igating canals,
which may be seen there, Whose age is
only a matter of conjecture And 80 By
many indubitable signs has the great west
shown us that the new world Is Old, old
beyond question. old beyond answer.
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