The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-09
ZUNILAND TREASURES
Dr.. FewkeS to Continue Excava-
tionS In Arizona.
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RICH FIELD FOR WORK
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SEARCH WILL BE MADE FOR
BURIED CITIES.
Clues Furnished By Ancient Tradi-
tons Will Be Followed In Flu
ture Archaeological Explorations
Interesting Fruits of Past Re-
searches In This Historic Region.

DIR. ]. Walter Fewkes, the noted ar
Genealogical explorer of Washington,
who, by his recent discoveries in the
southwest, won for himself the title of
1.-The Schliemann of the new world"
sets out from that city in a day or two
to excavate another mass of buried
treasure which he believes to lie be-
meath the parched sands of Arizona.
The region into which this tireless eX-
plOrer Will shortly penetrate lies in the
weird valleys and among the treach-
erous cliffs of the numerous parallel
mountain ranges running diagonally
across northeastern Arizona into New
Mexico. Here, in the ancient trails
leading from old Tusaya across the
New Mexican border into ancient Zuni,
lie covered in the dust of ages orumbled
cities of a once fourishing race now
entirely extinct. Among these ruined
habitations are mounds containing
hundreds of skeletons of the forgotten
denizens of the desert. Among all
these ashes of empire are jewels, rare
pottery, domestic utensils and the fan
tastic paraphernalia once employed by
a mystic priesthood, which far back
in the centuries taught religion to
people ignorant OF the God of the white
man.
DR.. Fewkes is the only white man
who holds the key to these treasure
spots. He has lived among the Zunl
at the lower end of the trails and with
the weird Hopi people above. He has
been admitted to their sacred priest
hoods and is known to them under an
aboriginal name.
They have confided to him the ira
ditions handed down through the CEN
as Henry Schliemann successfully
suited action to tradition in the site
selected by him as the sacred city of
the ancient Trojans, DR.. Fewkes has
applied the spade in many places, and
the preliminary finds of this American
archaeologist indicate to him that
these ancient traditions are accurate
history. Some of the buried cities in
question are known to have once been
as large as ancient Troy itself.
But who were these people to be thus
elevated out of oblivion? Their cities
were built along the ragged edge be-
tween the kingdom of the ZuniS and
that of the Hopis. Some traditions
state that they came from the north,
others that their origin was toward the
south. An ancient Hopi sage contided
to the explorer tales of flourishing
race which he said once reigned in the
abandoned territory He Travelled over
part of the ground with the doctor and
pointed out spots where buried treas
ure could be found. The most probable
theory is that they resulted from an
overflow of the ancient Mexican people
the same frontier culture Which in
cluded the Aztecs.
They once reached a remarkable stage
of civilization. Their cities were built
of stone. They were short and broad
headed. resembling the Chinese or Jap
anese more than any other race. They
wore their hair long and straight. Both
men and women clothed themselves in
kits and sandals woven from the fiber
Of the century plant. They were an
agricultural people, who probably de-
serted the valley because of the rising
of alkali to the top of their soil as a
result of their mastery Of irrigation, or
they may have been driven out by wan
dering tribes from the north. One clan
of the Hopi people seems to have de-
seconded from them. Excavations made
near the Zuni country show similarities
to the latter.
The largest ruins are buried along the
water. courses of the rivers. The migra-
ton of the ancient people seems to have
followed these courses. The country is
wild and mountainous, a jumbled mass
of parched soil and rock formation. To
cross many of the cliffs is impossible.
The region has a dark and bloody his
tory. 1t was near here that the Mojave
Apaches resorted when they made their
last stand.
Twenty years ago nc white man could
have wandered in many of these parts
unarmed. Many battles between SOL
diers and Indians have occurred in the
neighborhood. Even these modern oc-
cupanls have been exterminated.
Two years ago DR.. Fewkes, with his
associate, DR.. Hough, acted upon the
tradition Of the Hopi sage, who had de-
clared that mound of buried treasure
lay near the point where the Atchison,
topeka 2 Santa Fe railroad bridge
crosses the Little Colorado, resorted to
this SPOT, and, after a month of dig
ging, eXcavated more than they had
anticipated They uncovered what had
been a large settlement of many
houses. built like cells of a mammoth
beehive, one upon another, towering up
into truncated pyramid Of four stor-
les The entrances were in the tops