Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-22

tended up and down the valley for over
twenty miles.
AN IDEAL CAMPING PLACE.
| could see them as far as the eye
could reach. The whole valley and re-
gion is grassy, has splendid water. and
is heavily wooded with as fine cedar and
pine as l ever sawtin my life. 1t is an
ideal camping place. and the one place
of all the Rocky mountain region that
| would pick for a ranch, and I have
seer them from Colorado to Oaxaca.
Mexico.
WONDERFUL INSCRIPTIONS.
The place thai l examined most close
ly was a great sandstone box about one
mile long and a quarter of a mile broad
and about 800 feet high. With a narrow
terrace in front of each row of dwell
ings were excavated residences, some
with one room, some with a series of
back chambers, some with connecting
chambers, all fronting to the light.
Some had the fronts walled up with cut
stones, some with small doors cut out
Of the surrounding stone Some had the
floors plastered over, some the entire
rooms plastered. All We're covered and
blackened with smoke. Practically all
had holes cut into the sides OF the walls,
larger or smaller in size, something like
lockers On a vessel, evidently used as
store houses or closets. The whole face
of the cliff was carved above the doors
with pictures of men, birds and ami
mails. I saw at one place a series of con
centric circles, the only approach of
Geographic writing I have ever seen or
the American continent. Along the
whole cliff above the doors Is a range of
large holes sunk deep in, evidently used
as supports for beams of wood, showing
that all had a sort of outside residence
or porch, as well as inside residence, all
of which, however, had decayed. Ex-
cept on top of the mesa where the
Smithsonian Institute had excavated
and thrown up a charred log, l saw not
one remain of a piece of wood. Some of
these residences were quite extensive
and elaborate, evidently the abode of
the richer or more powerful families.
Others had only one little room with it's
porch or outside room. And they were
innumerable. One of the party said he
has counted over 1000 on that one rock.
I could see twice as many on other
rocks within range of my vision. Two
members of the party stated they had
seen the tunnel through the entire me-
sa from one side to the other. I did not
have time to explore this. I saw with
my own eyes that both sides of the
mesa were equally we'll honeycombed
with dwellings. l would estimate that
5000 people at one time occupied the
four sides of that one rock, not count
ing the top. Probably $4,000 or 10000
died on the faces of the cliffs in that
little valley.
A WONDERFUL SIGHT.
And now to me the most astounding
fact of all. From the top Of that mesa,
as from the top of another Eiffel tower,
unrolls before the sight the fairest scene
my much travelled eyes have ever rest
ed on. I would say it surpasses the
view from the top of the Right In Switz-
erland. Tt also gives thrill that the
Right cannot give. Only one can feel it
who, like myself, believes that know
myself Is the greatest Of all divine
commands. Only he can feel it to it's
full extent who has sat on the aban-
doned hill, where once stood the citadel
Of Carthage. On the fiat top of that
mesa are the ruins of a well-built town
of cut stone, inclosing an open square
about 300 feet in diameter. 1t was not
a dirt town o an adobe town. No sign
of such material enters into it's con-