Arizona republican., 1901-01-28

sisted of two to four rooms, though some of them were larger. On one house we found roof which had been thatched with willow and then covered with some sort os burned brick or tile, Most of the houses were probably GOV cred wi;h thatched or drift roofs.
 The houses were always in groups or villages, never alone. The whole side of the mountain had evidently been under cultivation and every ridge had a inc of houses. In front or at the side of each house we found wall or terrace, from one to six feet high, which had been levelled and used evil dently as a garden spot. Down the hiHs.des and along tn ravines we found these terraces at regular inter- vals. They had apparently served as reservoirs for the vallty below.
 Tn the houses we found crockery, stone implements and invariably char coal In a cave we found some scraps of excellent woollen cloth and also of flax or linen cloth. It Is clear to us from our investigation that the Tound dwellers were the same people.
 We found no evidences of great an- tiquity. The ollas, metates, mortars, crockery and implements found in the houses where we eXcavated were siml- lar to those now in use by the Indian in that vicinity, There were evidences that the inhabitants of ;he houses in the mounds had been travelling from ncrth to south and merely sojOurned there for a period of timc The Tahur- amaris of the present may be a rem nant of those people, but if so they are degenerate. They do nos now plaster their houses and live in a cruder fash ion. Tho houses we found were beau tifully p,aStered, some having as many as six thin coats of plaster, We came on down the range, stopping at Tomo- chic for some tome. We were in the Sierra Madres in October and Novem- Der.
 REGENT INDIAN TROUBLES.
 We came through the country where tho recent Indian troubles took place and camped with the two men who shot the man supposed to have been the Apache Kid. The nan who actually shot the Kid" or whoever he was, was so mild hammered that one would hard ly think h. could point gun at a man. He was evidently forced ,o shoot in self defense.
 We heard Of some remarkable houses two CT three stories high in caves somc thirty miles from Garcia, but we didn't visit them. as we cannot see everything on this trip.
 OLD TOPOLOBAMBO COLONY.
 "ContinuinG on our way We paid q visit to the remnants of the old Topo- lobampo cooperative colony in the los Mochos country, near TopoloEampo. The co-opeTativ. scheme has now been given up entirely and the members are working individually for themselves. Out of 1000 or more emlgrants who sett'ed at Topoiobampo less than 200 remain.
 From Port TOpolobampo We passed through Cuiican, Mazatlac. Topic, Guardalajara, Silao, Guanajuato, Que retaro, and thence o Mexico. The rlcheE't CouL.ry we have seen was in Topic, and the next richest is the Val ley of Leon. Mountain country all of the country we have seen in Mexico is rich. With plenty of water crops are assured. We -arry complete outfit Of everything we neci with US. We car ricl our Cutft in wagons to point in Chihauhau about 300 miles south If the borGer. There We left the road and transferred by trail entirely until we struck thc wagon road from Guaymas. We have traveled thus far about 2,jO0 miles. The party has enjoyed excellent health and all of us are enjoying the trip inn cns ly
 TO VISIT SOUTH AMERICA.
 We shall remain some little time in this city. From here We shall prob ably go to Puebla, OaXaca. Mitla Pal enque and thence cross into Guatemala. From Guatemala it is our intention to go through Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Gown the lsthmus to Colombia, thence through Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and possibly Venezuela,
 Tt was not our purpose on starting to make any special scientific invcsti- gation in Mexico, but to devote most of