Bisbee daily review., 1902-08-05
THE MINING FIELD SCIENTISTS
 ARE COMING EXTENSIVE EXPLORATION OF CLIFF JEWELLERS TO BE
 MADE.
A St. Louis Party wHI Seek For In.
formation Concerning an Ancient Race of People About Which Little is Known.

is Known.
 Much interest is being manifested not only in Arizona, but in other sec tions of the country, in the proposed visit to the former homes of the cliff dwellers of this territory by a party of prominent St Louis scientists. The party will start for Arizona about August 1st, and will spend several months amongs the ruins of northern Arizona. The most interesting pla- ces from a scientific standpoint are tc be found in Yavapai and Coconlno counties. There are numerous cliffs and cave dwelling homes between Camp Verde and Flagstaff. near the Moctezuma well.
 Among the party will be Dr. William F. Parks. V. Mott Porter, of St. Louis, and Dr. Henry Nj. Baum. of Washing ton, D. C. They propose to dig for specimens to be taken to St. Louis and exhibited during the worlds fair in 1904.
 The ancient American dwelling pla- ces cover 200. .0su square miles. They begin in lower Colorado and extend through New Mexico and Arizona in
 
 ico.
 Thousands of these ruins have not been explored. because no one with the time or equipment has ever pene- trated into the isolated parts in which they are found. Others have not been entered because they are perched at such great heights that men have either feared to scale the cliffs or have
 lz he when the homes were occupied there were stairs cut in the sandstone clins, but these have in so many places worn smooth with disintegration that no stairway remains to be climbed to- day Holmes saw in the Canyon Rio Mancos cliff houses so high above the dry river bed that they could only be made out with a telescope. The cliff presented no possible means or reaching them. Up in the great Colo rado canyon. still so little known. Major J. W. Powell. of the Smithson- ian institution saw cliff dwellings 4.SO0 feet up in the cliff, or almost mile from the canyon bed.
 In the first number of his magazine Records of the Past, issued in Janu- ary of this year. Dr. Baum said:
 The most perplexing problem con fronting the historian of the humaH race is the presence of prehistoric man in the western hemisphere as the builder of great temples. palaces, mounds and pyramids. Did he md his way here over Bhering strar or now buried continents in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans
 Not many years ago considerable
 l~ f Arizona. Southern Utah and Nevada were marked in our school geogra- nbies as unexplored territory. This territory was supposed to be wilder ness inhabited by bears and barba- rious Indians. and such was the case. Vet scientific exploration has demon strated that the land once marked unexplored is rich in the remains of forgotten races, and that Ameflcan rivals in human interests those parts of the old world which are populariy sr1pposed to be hoary with antiquity.
 @Recause of historic threads-Sacred and profane-that links us to the past. we in America are apt to ignore tne archaeoloeical wonders at our own door in contemplation of the runs oi the valley of the Nile and along the TigrlS ana EupErdtts- A4thcush n hii' W A of since the days Of the Spanish ln- yasion. It is only of late years that the attention of the Americans Of aver age intelligence has been directed to the mighty chain of ruins that extends from the valley of the Gila. in Arizona, to the Isthmus of Panama and along the western coast of South America We are just awakening to the fact that America has ruins that rival in interest those of the old world, with the added mystery that We have no tangible clue to the builders Of the great mounds in the Mississippi valley the cliff dwellings and pueblos of Ar zopa Colorado. New Mexico and oth- CT parts of the southwest. and can onIy speculate as to the name and fate of the race, or races, that built the pvramids, palaces and temples that ex- cire the wonder Of the traveller in Mex ico and the central American states and the wanderer along the Cordil- leras."
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