The Washington times., 1901-08-11
A Pillow UNEARTHS A CITY.
Arizona Farmer Makes Remark
able Find i'm a Field.
Remains of Prehistoric Town
Buried Beneath the Surfacc-Scien-
fists Regard IL Most Import
ant Discoyery-wondcr Pottery.


ant Discovery-wondcr Pottery.
The most astonished man in the United
States was probably Columbus Gray. an
old Arizona settler, known all over the
territory as cap Lum' Gray, when.
while blowing up an uncultiv&tcd mound
on his farm near Phoenix. Ariz.. ht IN
earthed a section of a village nf q pre-
historic people. This event. 50 important
to scientific research occurred when tt@
industrious farmer was preparing his
new ground for late crop.
According to the natural laws C irri-
CATION. ground cannot be Hooded when
elevated above the level of the ditch The
arid land Of Arizona has, with u few OK
ceptions. a perfectly level surface. These
exceptions usually prove to be aboriginal
mounds. Independent scientists. scientific
societies, universities and even the stu
dents of antiquity employed by Uncle
Sam have made numerous expeditions in
the soutbvyse, in sea-cb Of traces of tha
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'',i'-i'ta ii'S vi -'oi'h AiH'i va.
volumes nave been written of the ciiif
dwellers of Arizona and the mound build
ers of other ,rerritories and states of the
S.,,,th... -. ,s,.,. - -. - - -
~ ms 49, SAM " enc
iatter race In arizona In iact' no trace
few wears when the progress of agricult-
,,ra a,ci,is,,t,Il,. ,lisc,,..rod ,b.ss buried
,1a,,..s.; - -. -
haDitallohH OF u FORMER peopie-F
When the first rumor of traces reached
the ear OF science the bureau of ethnolo-
sy hurried it's greatest experts to the
-, 49,. 80. ,,-,,,.,,.;,,.,,, ,,,,ts he
SCENT "et "SAoie Pie'''u'io'lS N'"io "0
taken by the department. which cannot
act without the authority of Congress,
individual scientists had to a large ex-
tsnt cIairo,d ~, bought M, much of ,bese
tent claiiheu OF poush' up i'iuch Vi ',ese
lanes. Great expense IS necessitateu 1T
unearthing and preserving these hidden
villages of n long-forsotten people. hence
,,.,,a -, -, -, 90 a,,ligbtan tho
i'u. ~ o "
world as 10 their extent ana feal chaf-
acter.
..Can LINN" GRAY whose early days
-, -. a., s,,hti,c, oer ,ho hostDa IN
"efe steil1 ~ Hshtitls oit iiS Ho''e
dams ana whose education eHlpFaceu
knowledge of digging for potatoes rath-
or than for underground cities. scofred
at the Eastern scholars who told
strange fairy tales to the erect that be-
meath the HfeIess desert and fertile Salt
Riyer Valley existed wonderful cities
1,-bicb had hsar, bIriIt before the discovery
of kmeTica Mr. Gray believed thar the
rcd r1fn sho,,Id he turned loose ad IibitIIn
~ scaln tba heads which contained such
irrncssiole Ghost stories.
Tut can Grav's conternnt for the
etrare. theories Of the wise men from
~ ls9st,' chans,ed into wonder that yerg-
- o,'to terror. when in breaking the new
eyro,,rd which he Intended irrigatinc with
2 n,,rnn Wei he turned IN the unrnistaS-
4l,fe sittyf,s Of a nrehistoric mound. Ii was
ir,nossibIe RI cultivate the ground for the
odnbe-Ifise covering was hard as sand
Stone TboroushIv Disguised with his dis
coverv which depriyed him of turning
his Mot of elevated ground into an al
faifa match the old farmer threw down
his plow and went into town TO tell of
for III. asked ..what can YOU raise on
ground as hard as sandstone" He de-
Scrihed IN as an .'old DUNN and com
nlained bitterly of AL that rubbish
str,vrn over his Mace
Then MS has been the case in so MANY
of these innortant discoveries stray sci
entists cIIrio collectors tourists and
accents sx,-arrned 10 the scene and carried
away every relic which could be found
pear the snrface The earth being Stone
ike in it's cornposition. il is almost i'm
possible for other than experts to ex-
cayate these sneciInens without breakage
or in tI,ry of some sort. Not realizing the
true value of his possession. Cap Gray
willingly told tho crowd TO help them
selves However several days later
ayhen he learned that several pieces of
the notterz, which one of the ctlrfo collect
ors had i1uearthed had been sold for the
price of several alfalfa crops he put an
a hrunt sion TO the devastation which had
hean going on AT a lively rate
Then, finding that some collectors who
wers determined to obtain specimens
,roi,ld Wait nntiI night and then by the
brilliant light of a tropic moon deepen |
he hole where the first relics were found
and labor late into the night until their
efforts we're fruitful the farmer buiIt a |
Iiftie hui Near the nnorInd or mime as
he Insisted ,Inon calling in Since then il
bas 1eveIonst5 thar the Tno4,nd is an ~
tension OF some of the prebistoric VIII |
10 g I-bieI, ta,-a hon ,,-eartba5 ,s,r-iro
~, last goi,r 81. Nv. years and which are
~, ,1rler The control and r,rotectic., of
he rri,-ereitZ, ~ Arizona and several
otber scientific eocIetieS while a few Of ,,
,t,s,,, - co,,a ,,nd.sr ,bs core ~ .ha
P,1,Ha,I ~ Etl,noloe-1,
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have m.,5e overtrres 10 CAN GRAY he |
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