The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-09-27
RUINS OF AMERICAN CITIES.
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 The largest of these cities, the anna teur archeologists of Arizona and Cali fornia have named Los Muertos-the dead city. The ruined walls protruding through the soil may be traced for three miles down the valley. The outlines of the buried city show that it was almost square. Several streets are clearly traced by the bits of walls still above the earth, and these show that the streets were very narrow, but regular i in which they differ from the ancient Mexican pueblos of the southwest. Here and there were evidently plazas Or public squares, and the unusual thick ness of the ruined walls shows that the 1 buildings facing these plazas were the 1 biggest in the community-probabl , Notifications or temples or meeting halls, several stories high.
 The ruin of wall twelve feet thick , may be followed all about the city In some places it is two feet above the earth, and in a few places the wall has disappeared When Mir. Cushing ex- plored it he found where the ruins showed that enormous towers had been built upon the walls, probably for pur- poses of defense Stone implements Of warfare are frequently unearthed. One of these articles found in great numbers is a battle-axe of polished granite and weighing from five to twenty pounds. There is also a peculiar sling found oc- casionally in the dry sand. Long spears of ironwood, wood indigenous to the arid regions, tipped with flint heads, have been found in Los Muertos by the dozen The aborigines there evil dently had not reached the boW-and-ar- row period.
 Whoever the mysterious and wonder full people who lived at Los Muertos may have been, they belonged strictly to the stone age, for not bit of metal i has ever been dug up in the ruins. The little ornaments and gew-gaws that the l Indian mothers loved to wear and be- deck their infants with were invariably 1 bright shells brought from the sea, or polished stones of varied colors. Large
 quantities of these are found, such as turquoises, ruby, mother-o f-pearl, in the shape of neck amulets or wristlets. | The extensive irrigating ditches were
 dug with stone implements, and the huge rafters of the lofty buildings were
 worn off with the same rude tools. It must have taken years of incessant toll
 and patience beyond that of modern
 men to complete the work these people
 accomplished with the crude means at
 hand. That they were pastoral folk is certain. In their fields grew the pumpkin, cotton, flax, tobacco, species of potato, barley and corn. Of domesti- cated animals they had the COW, sheep, dog and turkey They were not given much to carnivorousness. The meal of
 their corn or barley or the wild acorn
 was more toothsome, baked into cakes, than the flesh of animals. It is not pos-
 itively known that they ate meat at all.
 The Yuma Indians of this day are very
 careful about eating flesh They be- liAve in the transmigraAon of souls into
 the animals about them. No evidence
 has been found that they lived upon
 other foods than cereals, oysters, fish
 and fruits.-Helen TT Griswold in the
 New York Evening Post.