Arizona silver belt., 1900-07-05
THE CLIFF JEWELLERS.
,eeil A. Deane's Theory Ascribes
 to Them ureat AniIl ty.

10 Them ureat AniIs uty.
 Now comes Cecil X. Deaue, custo.
 a,n of the State Historical and Nat.
 rl History society, with the most
 ,Rr,ling theory Yet projected regard.
 the remoteness of the cuff dweilers,
 ma part of them. Two weeks ago
 Mr. Deane headed a small party of ex
 plOrers into the country of the c,lil
 ige Iers in Arizona and western New
 ytxlco. It's special mission was to
 elocate a stone house, said to have
 oren discovered ten years ago when
 COlonel Marmon Was making an oiii-
 ,al survey of New Mexico.
 This structure was said to have been
 lnder the lava strata, it's uoors and
 Sindows being completely blocked by
 inc soliditieu scuria. When Dr. Co.,
 bern was in the cliff dweliers' section GNew Mexico about a year ago, he
 first heard of this remarkable prehls-
 Orc house. It was supposed to be aot far from McCarthy's, a station on ] the santa Fe Pacific railroad, and part oft was said to be exposed through l tle lava blanket.
 Mir. Deane and party made a l thorough but prOtitless search for the Narmon stone house.
 Failing in the main quest, Mr. Deane and his colleagues did some general exploring on their own account. Near the given site of the elusive stone house they came upon the site of an old Iake covered with lava. The lava lad overflowed it to depth of 100 eat or more.
 Fifty feet above the original level of lle vanished lake chff house was Dund. From this long untenanted s5ode the explorers took two bushels |0ica.clned corn, which, however, had not come into contact with any burn. ng substance. It was of an altogether if rent variety from the cora that is, sld has been used by the Indians.
 Oyer the corn was layer of clipped stone, which appeared to have been sddened by some intense heat. Sev- sral feet of solidited debris lay above toe burnt rock. The lava heat had the same effect upon rock in other places examined.
 IN THE TERTIARY PERIOD.
 In the house in wh ch the corn was stOred there were no weapons or uten. siIs made of lava. On the other hand. E1ch weapons and utensils were plen- tiful in the cliff dwellings, at lower levels.
 On these conditions, existing pretty generally, C. A. Deane bases his re- theory as to the period of be cliff dwellers He holds that the diff dwellers comprised two peoples, he first of which existed prior to the me when the lava flow came. toward he end of the tertiary period. A amily of these ancients, he supposes, lived in the structures above the lake. The other, he thin ks, came along after he lava had cooled.
 If Mr. Deane's theory is sound. the ] emoter cliff dweilers long ante date my other inhabitants of the earth of | which the slightest trace has been 'reviously discovered.
 One of the relics which Mir. Deane ,rought home with him IS mastadon's ooth weighing g pounds. His prize said to be 10 pounds heavier than me in the Royal museum at St. Peters arg, which previously held the prize or size. The tooth is now in the oOms of the State Historical and Nat ral History society at the state house. was dug out of the earth near Der allllo, N. NJ. The state house collec- ion has been further increased by one choice specimens of pottery by the Deane party.-Den- er RaDnhl,cap