Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-11-02
\ IE.\AN WONDER.
An Important Discovery Recently
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49, ':.~ : "n tAc summit which
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Aa.f. "a ;,.-;-.:. .. ll.,.uou: vas struck
'tl..r 80 - ...ir...r,.! - be- "a shallow
a. ,.lf' Il.'hrr explorations
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i.l III; "a- i'a.'"! -'i", riiic'. blocks
~ .a'.! ~. ';..:~ 4 ""mpart.T a q
Nil ".-'n lt.F.':'':'. In places the
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Tar i'..'''s - M - IN" depression
'"'t '''' 80 A4' Hi'!' r-'"i"' turing the
- UNI. II" mount,
-. . zee '''~'r"tt'd "ith mathcinat'
"'' -. +~''''' 49," contains ""mo
,'''''' '''"' S''iii /" nav been
~ u '''''''''". ht Samples OF
~ F'' - az '''"t i''''''N A"hp. ana
',,| an, l"ui'i''' wood hr'e
i'''"'N 81 '''i' ''ii''i' - Nil''a ana 'le
a. measuring 10 the
-, 80 M ''''' - ''ir i"iia'' oi limo.
'''i' "'i' ""i'.i i NOT uhc"lh-
al T. % '''' ''iiS, SHOWS mat ths
80 va i''""'iH SET III siiiclous
anu ,""' ''i' upper part was SUD
!''','' 10 '''' ac'l'h 81 water contain
''E LINZ al s'',"' lii' ne docks give
~ "''"eo "i h"'''' "c'h spiit ny
o''''i + '''N 'H'i'ii' anu saW''' al the up
per ace me thousands "f
i''"uii"N nae n'th discovered on inns
"i''''i'''' '''i' - inc only one III which,
'n'o"sn '"e .%|hcy OF pctrhlcation'
',i' "'''' ciii '"iiiic" an e'iuehce OF
Piaoe III rFiil%atioh occupied by the
nN'"i'' '"iiuerS lar III ADVANCE Oh "hat
H''' "''H accoroeo 'heih ny ANIL
S"'a' i''i'S'
That this mysterious race practiccd
thc arts OF agriculture is proved by the
tact hhat mounds are so close together
IN some districts as to have rendered it
Impossible for their occupants To have
'upslstcd by hshing and hunting; and
that those inhabitants engaged in min
ing and commerce proved by the dis
;oTrry IN Peruvian mounds OF Lake
superior copper. But although copper
chlscls, runners and indentcd knives
THAT might have been used as saws)
hove been found in mounds. there
never was any proof that the mound
builders were wood workers until this
discovery IN Wise county. Wood being
an article that time destroys, all its ev
idences of the home life of the mound
builders must necessarily have long
since been obliterated, except where
preserved by the agency of petrifica-
lion. While this agency in the Wise
county mound has only preserved
beautiful pavement, it may be inferred
that people sufficiently advanced to
execute a work that in recent years
has immortalized Nicholson in the an
nails of street engineering were capa-
BILE of raising handsome wooden tenn
pies and other structures. That they
were not of the same race as the Indi-
ans appears from the fact that the lat
ter have no tradition concerning the
origin of mounds, and were they the
original mound builders, though their
civilization subsequently persisted,
they could not have lost track of such
an important part of the history of
their race. ~.
Certain it is now that the mound
builders who once thickly inhabited
Nhis country were agriculturists, me-
chanics and traders. but to find whence
came they and whittier they went ono
gropes in the darkness of the past.