The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-25
EARLY MEXICAN GIANTS,
Reasons for Believing That a Race Of q.
Tooters Lived in Arizona.

From N, Prescott Prospect.
Does anybody believe that there ever has been
a race Of giants in the world? Does anybody
believe that a race Of gigantic men, who were
from twelve to twenty feet high, ever lived In
these United States Of America And vet the
proof that such IA race Of people did live in this
country is to be- found in the Grand Canyon Of
the Colorado River in northern Arizona. This
proof consists Of first Footprints in the red sand.
stone, Footprints that appear 10 have been made
by the moccaNIncd feet Of gigantic men. Men
whose tracks measured twenty inches In length
and who stepped five feet Al a stride.
The second proof Is that there IL the petrifed
body Of such a man, likewise in the red sandstone
Of the Grand Canyon district. This body was
that II a living, breathing man, but, after death
the ilesh was replaced by lime or silica, held in
solution in tn" water There is ample evidence
that nature was able 10 perform this feat, as the
Purifying process Is being carried on In the
canyon to this day.
The third fac, is that there is and was q strong
and almost universal tradition among the Ancien3
people Of Mexico and Peru that such a race
Of giants lived IN their country.
Perhaps II Is almost too much TO call this proof,
but IL is al least Curroborative testimony.
Last June ] visited the Grand Canyon a. Q
tourist, The Auantic and Pacific Railroad 10
Flagstaff. thence by stage seventy miles TO the
HHnce trail on the brink of the gorge. There
] met MI. Hull, who was acting as guide into
the canyon and who was a pioneer Of northern
Arizona He told me the following story, and,
WIN hpnlEl'N l1 NY tTtuulltN, L DPllfve llm.
Three years ago he and a companion named
Jim Lavellr had been prospecting in this part
Of the country They found a ledge which they
thought was valuable and had started out OF the
canyon with samples Of the ore. expecting to re-
turn in O few days, One Of the Indians was with
them, Mr. Hull speaks the Indian language
fuently and the Indians have a great admiration
for him. The Indian said; Have you ever
seen the big Indian MP here" volunteering 70 show
II They followed him up a foot trail which led
through a. cr'Nlcc in the red wall, thence on 10
the banCl like formation above hut still in the
mi Isl Of tho red sandstone,
They came TO a place where a projecting rock
stone which was covered with a white incrustsaon
Of lime. Outstretched on this slab was the body
Of a gigantic man turned into stone. The body
was entirely nude and lay face downward. They
estimated his height To be Gig hteen or twenty feet.
The left arm was ont AT full length, while the hight
arm was doubled under his head. The left was per-
slab. IN" night leg was broken of just below the
knee and the broken part was missing, They
looked Al II ten ny fifteen minutes and then con-
tinued thor Journey intending To return and make
a more complete Investigation. Plans changed
and they failed 10 return.
MIR Hrll lId the story to several people, bus
80 il happened that he had never been back there
and that he had never tried to do anything With
his discovery
lie also told mo that reliable Indians had d.
scrihed To- him tracks Of both men and animals
in the solid rock not far from this body and In the
same formation, These he had never seen, but
Nv lNOi Nv A'i' w 'I'lI
This was startling information. but | had been
in n measure prepared for II. In the 6rst place
1t had always seemed reasonable 10 me that The
prehistoric, primeval hunting savagee should
have been IT large stature. Geology tells us that
there. VAS a period in the history OF the world
called the Tertiary or Mammalian age tina, was
PECULIARLY favorable to animal lie. II is the age
81 the mammoth, the great cave bear, the cave lion,
The w"ully Ihinocerous. the primeval OF, the great
Irish ELK, the gigantic sloths and other familiar
animals, that were far larger then than nov.
Was man 10 be left out entirely amid all this
list of piants'