Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-29

spent some little time IN searching tho
| ruined aoodes Of Clin dwellers.
since his return Dr. Cole has said
nothing about the question OF the age
OF tha prehistoric race and as q con
| ,u'uDr Dr. tobern Us of the opinIon
that his collaboration found nothlno
ihal would more definitely doteru
inc Wucu Woptad, and TO scientists
orally all important question.
lNe particular abode from which Ir.
Cole brought the latest collection ot
relies was discovered by himself and
party While engaged in work for the
Northwestern University last summer.
The ruin was not thoroughly explored
ot lhn time ana it was with eminent
satisfaction that Dr. Cole on his latest
NlHlt found several Instruments. speci-
mems pi pottery flutes the bones of
woman whose height was estimated nj
between seven and 0ne-half and eight
ieet and small yinls which Dr. Cole
calls tear bottles. The abode In which
the relies We're found Is located along
the Maucps river where the land TO the
northwest rises iu three terraces From
lhe second terrace cli0 rears itself
IRON 100 to 300 feet in the air. The cl1f
Is OF volcanic ashes or tufa and cut IN
It's side are the homes Of the cliff dwell
lcrs
Dr. Cole says Of his explorations.
My visit began among the ruins along
Beaver creek, where the Mesa Verde Is
the most interesting part OF the coun-
try, Here is "a series Of rugged noun
tains more than 200 feet long and forty
miles wide and here are also numerous
canyons. fortified at the openings with
watch towers from 100 to 400 feet high.
In these canyons are the ruins Of
what appear to be the first buildings
on the American continent Cities were
numerous along the Mancos. The homes
OF this ancient people were built In the
sides OF sheer cliffs 1000 feet above the
river. The only way Of reaching them
was by climbing up from the second
terrace below, or down from above I
counted I'm this region los large build
ings and believe there are more than
one hundred more Of them along the
river.
Among other things / located a
pyramid building containing 400 rooms.
and In the same district / found am
other building In the form Of a letter
h. The latter had originally been
four stories high, and had contained
l,lOO rooms. IL was here that / found
the bones OF a woman who must have
been from seven and a half to eight
feet tall
In one OF the rooms were cooking
vessels still I'm the ashes The vessels
contained bones Of birds and cobB and
kernels Of corn The bones were OF
a turkey Of size much greater than
those of the birds OF today. The corn
resembed ordinary popcorn. Metates
or stones on which the corn was
ground, and tortillas on which II was
baked, were found In abundance In
several rooms / discovered axes knives
and hammers, and IN addition we're
bone instruments among them being
six flutes made from the leg bones OF
pellcans.
zone room contained well preserved
mummies together with corn, gum, var
ious kinds Of cloth, bone needles, pipes,
idols and tea bottles made Of clay and
burned red or brown"
Dr. Cobern, In speaking Of the
relies found by Dr. Cole, thought
the height given Of the woman
whose bones We're found was not ac-
curate but added that there was a
probability that the skeleton was in
tact, thus making Il possible 10 get an
accurate measurement.
DR.. Cobern thought that an en-
tire skeleton was not found and that
the height OF the woman was approx
mated from a femur That you can
see said Or. CObern, could not be de-
pended on as an accurate measure
ment. as Il often happens that persons
with very long legs have short bodies,
and where a femur Of large size would
indicate a stature in proportion II
might have been the bone Of a short
bodied person who had long legs but
was Of the average height.
There Is one thing named among
the relies taken back TO California by
Dr. Cole which | think is strange. He
speaks Of finding tear bottles. Now. |
consider that is odd that Dr. Cole
should know the little clay Jugs were
used as tear bottles. We have never
had any history Of the cliff dwellers
and We therefore do not know that
they used tear bottles. / suppose that
the resemblance OF the Jugs 10 the tear
bottles used by the ancient Egyptians
has caused Or. Cole TO designate the
jugs found by him as tear bottles In the
absence Of another name. Still the
finding OF the jugs brings US something
new and am glad to learn OF it,