The old Abe eagle. (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 189?-189?, 1895-04-04

firm says many II nanciers and merchants
are of the opinion that we have reached
the turning point and are on the up
grade. Some say that this 10 due to the
fact that we have reached the very bot
tom OF low prices, and that in the nature
hold that the expected establishment
of bi metallism makes money easier and
stimulates industry and commerce. But
just now people are moie interested in
results than causes. II they can have
an era of general prosperity they will
gladly reap the harvest without waiting
TO analyze the producing causes.
Chicago Journal of Commerce: 1t is
announced officially in the City of Mex
leo that the Federal Government has
approved the concession granted to o
syndicate OF American capitalists, in
+ which George M. Pullman ia prom
inent stockholder for the construction
OF a railroad from the coal fields of Mex
co to Bnena Laredo and thence along
the Rio Grande border to Matamoras.
and from there down the Cult coast to
the port Of Tampi"o. This road will
traverse one of tho richest agricultural
sections in Mexico and will develop the
coal fields OF Mexico. The proposed
road is subsidized by the federal govern
ment for distance OF ITO miles. The
contract for the construction OF the road
will be let Immediately.
Scientific american: A remarkable
specimen Of the red cedar was recently
unsarthed by the opening Of the Metz
gar Indian mound on Deer creek, near
Yellow Bud, Ohio. A largo bad Of ashes
quarter of an inch IN thickness Gov
ered space Of about ten feet by six.
Near the edge Of this ash bed a large
Iog was found. 1t was about five and
quarter feet in circumference, and as
sound as il buried but few years ago.
The side branches had been cut away
from the log, and one OF the scars was
30 perfect that the marks of the stone
axes used in the work are plainly dis
csrnible. There are no cedar trees now
growing nearer than ten miles from that
immediate noighborhood, and none we're
there growing when the early settlers
came, 30 that the trees must have disap-
pesred from there long ago in the past,
or the improbable alternative accepted
that the log was brought from 8 long
distance. Evidence was furnished that
the log was originally about eighteen
feet long. Right beneath the log was
the skeleton Of human being. A small
pen had been made OF small cedar sap
liugs, arranged in the form Of tepee
around the large log. The skeleton was
about two feet below the origin,l sur
face Of the ground, and the earth form.
ing the mound over the skeleton had
depth Of about twenty four feet from
the summit. The earth to form the
mound had evidently been brought in
baskets by manual labor, as tho dumps"
in some cases, formed by different tinted
materials, could he distinctly seen. The
circumstances favorable to the pressrv-
alton OF the cedar log had evidently
aided in preserving the skeleton, and it
is possible the size OF the log had some
relation to distinguished parsonage.
The body had been laid straight under
the log, with the legs extended and the
arms at the sides. Around each wrist
were two bracelets made OF native cop
per, and several hundred sholI beads
were around the neck and on the chest.
II il believed that the dry ashes with
which the body had been covered, in ad.
dition to the great depth from the sur.
face, had aided in preserving the log az
we'll as tho human remains. Even traces
OF hair we're found around the skull. AS
we'll as dried and shrivelrd portions of
tho brain wore found, while rude cloth
aud mating, as we'll as buckslxin, put
over the corpee before the ashes, wo-s
in fair state Of pre- Isryalion. As tho
use Of the cedar log would see m to have
been matter Of choice. IL opens a new
Geld for speculation az to the possibility
Of the tree having had somo special sig.
nihcance IN The funeral ceremonies Uf
the Mouud Builders. A section OF tho
log has been secured for The museum of
the Academy of Natural Sciences Of
Philsdelphia-the exploration indeed
having been made under the auspices OF
that body.
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