Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-09-14

present Aooms, ami about 800 'eet
hignuf, hut ono any while tue enIife
population excpp, three women were
Il work In the felds hollow, It's only
approach was swept away by storm,
,tnving the three women e. die Of star
vailon In signt OF the homeless nuf-
iiols OF their people, who for macy
days surrounded thu unecalnblo ciin
with upliied agoniztd faces. The
ancient Ac9ma las thus fat remained
asa unscalAble cliff, thought 10 30 rich
with antiquities from the old ruins
Thus bsioit of their homes, tnese pa
iient wanderers Iulh on TO another
clili nnd build tue pfssent Acoma, AZ
the gateway Of which We halls 10 tho
shadow OF one u the towering none
liths TINT have been separated from the
parent Mess by erosion, ahght aud
silonlly gaze w tbs alm0it vertical
sides nearly 400 feet, 70 the most aboi-
iglnal city Ia existence. saniing
maleetically ut0E the brow Of the cif,
with many -colofsj hlankein wrapped
gracefully about them. Watching our
advent, are ZONE OF tho ohieif; ana
woIding their way over preoll itouh
stairway In tue rock, aud n unil over
annd.hRnks which have dnflei In 10
depth Of from twenty to tiKty feet, we
800 thrif men aud women going u anu
from their daily lAbOis IN tho plains
below. We make the atcUnt over one
VI TIT dizElest paths human ftot ever
tf01, anu stand upon tho summit Of
tabls.foek fully $50 foet above, the plain,
which 10 1900 fsol Atove sea level.
The streets are fllleI, the htuieiors
arc covero for We being the second
party OF white women wno had ever
Waited thrm arc as much Of curiosity
10 these sons and daughters OF the
deluft ~ Afa they 10 u. Tho ct
trance 10 the housss 10 effected by
laIdep to the second storI, thea ter
raced up with steps - the upper aloi-
lev. When tho ladder IL pulled up the
lstcinirlug Il c3nsldefod Withdrawn.
We climD their ladders, enter thoiT
homer, AMI roc them mailing hreaI
and pottery; vlsig tneir siiyefsmlth,
who Ia actively employed, Their
women bsing very iona OF drsa.,
bfi lht colors and silver jswelry, nj.
ways proiefring 1t TO gold. a fow
scattered, etsrvol-lOOking iufkeyf,
chickens, swine anu duck, roam aDpu,
al will; and proposes, Ientirely
nude February ~ save n small leather
bfaesluI upou one wns', 'porI upou the
ground lor swing Ia blankets to ths
fathers back.
Tao Old city, covering 1000 feet OF
tho iun-aore area Of the elf, with 10
three streets of quaint terra Oh houses
OF gray adtb; lls huge church, with
walls aixty feut high snd oignt f,ot
thick, having timbsts forty feet loug
aud fourteen Inches square, which
must have cost the labor Of generation;
Ito grAvoyatd, said TO have consum,d
ioriy ysaH IN maEing, by foae u Of tue
nuCesaitY 81 Carrying earth las well 10
every particle Of material used in con-
alfuoilug the ETY. ffaHi tho plains be-
low upon their hAcsh NJ the pfucipitQua
stairway In the rock, whina ~ tuat
time was tho only approach (as q
m0uumooi OF patient toll, scarcely lees
wonderful than tho pyramids Vi
Egypt; itl august surrounding
ecunsry, its wild anu rliIantlo bis.
tury aud tue curlOuu cnAluma OF 10
rrmhining 200 inhauiianlf, the rescTyo
uf whose inner iiia lab tiUua, unaun.
cessfui ol0tls hAvc bsgu made ~ puue-
tTRte-nte rife with Inherent IN lhs lew
wuo visit thia iaolaied city Ra ouv Of the
most inlofssting Ep1ts On Sarth.
Neither tradition nor hinllfY tells a.
when AoOms wac ioundru. IL Wgs III
old tawn when nr'i Geiu by Cdtona1o
In 1870. from w.. ca date began it1 nu-
tnvntio history. Tho original Ac1ma
on tho Mesa huoaniAla being even
then an hnriout TRADITION.
The Acomss welcomed tho Ho'dieis
OF Coronado with deisrenGu, believing
them Of celestial otigin; nus tuuss-
quenily learning their uisliuclY hu-
inan character, slew u dozen u Zsld.-
vars mea, alter having prp'rssoI sileri-
Ruct. Thu Incident oi Hildivnf's ft-
prisal when he behrai.d thT.t-s or
s0ldiorS, aud, after n thres dnys' nAnd-
to.hpud struggle, ctfficd ttu sky
ciiAlol by asssult, has no parallel ia
American history, cave the memorable
aud like exploit " Corlek on tho gToAi
Aztec pyramid. Tho Quuros rem sinoi
uautAblrliot .hfoe.quAttrfn OF o ,eHtu
thereafter, until tho bloody upfs.
ing m 1850, when priest, soldier aud
settler were ninasscfei nr driven from
the land. They wee nitofward resub.
Jvcird by Diego ue Nnigas, anu have
not since oIunly fouellpi sgainnt tnu
ooauguily Of tho white man. They
Rro housed ia the Heltaime structures
la which their ancestors were dis.
covered, Eud Ia three ana half CEN
turloh Of cOntsct with Europeans thei ?
manner Of life remains unchanged.
The Pueblo In undoubtedly the higheal
tyup of the nbUTitfIu d lrlnea.