The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-08-06
A BURIED CITY
IS DISCOVERED
In Observation-Disclosures of Buried
Aztec Cities in Utah and
Arizona.

Along the Dolores river in south
western Colorado there is a buried
city or it's remains, and Major E. H.
Cooper, the "Cliff-Dweller Man." has
left Denver, for a careful investiga-
ton of this ong-forgotten abiding
place of a long forgotten people.
Last summer when | was pursuing
my Investigations into the history Of
the ancint peoples I stumbled over
this buried city" said Major Cooper
and marked it out and carefully COW
cred over the parts that were visible
until this summer, when l should
have time to explore it fully.
What l shall find have not the re-
motest idea. The city lies in the will
derness and only traces Of walls were
visible. | did some explorations last
summer, and found that the walls
went down into the earth and | could
trace them for some distance. In the
vicinity | found similar evidences Of
a buried city, and l am fully convinced
that a thorough exploration will bring
out some interesting facts relating to
the early peoples of this continent.
In Utah and Arizona.
There are evidences of buried cit
les in Utah and Arizona, and as soon
as l have made satisfactory progress
in the city along the Dolores river
shall go to Utah and Arizona to con-
tinue my Investigations. l can not
proceed far, as l must go to New
York for a course of lectures in the
public schools, covering five days a
week for ten weeks, or fifty lee
lures.
I'm all probability these buried cities
are the homes of that mysterious peo-
pie commonly designated as the Cliff
iwellers," said Major Cooper. They
were as Indigenous to this country
as the peoples are to any country.
They were far advanced for their
time in the arts and sciences, grow
ing grain. having irrigating systems,
raising cotton and making cloth.
However, they knew nothing Of metals
as we find no metal whatever among
their ruins.
"The Toltecs and AZtecs and prOba-
bly, the ancient Peruvians were off
shoots of those people, but the Indians
were not The Moqui Indians may
possibly be the descendants The Toll
tees reached the apex of civilization
of their time. Their temples show
this. Mysteriously they disappeared,
and then came in old Mexico of today
the warlike Aztecs, that had a high
degree of civilization in the time Of
Montezuma, when Cortez conquered
them.
Driven From the Plains.
THE Toltecs and the Aztecs came
down from the north. They were the
offshoots Of the people We call the
"Cliff-dwellers,' forced to migrate by
the warning tribes that invaded their
country in what today is southwestern
Colorado. The Mound builders are
another offshoot.
"Originally the 'Cliff-dwellers' were
a plains people They built their cit
les, raised grain and cotton, and were
an agricultural and progressive peo-
pie Then the ancestors of the Nava-
ioes came in from the north, seeking a
warmer climate, and eventually drove
them to refuge in the cliffs. AS
time passed, they migrated, and from
them come the Toltecs, Aztecs,
Mound-builders, and probably others.
These ancient people, ages ago,
left their plains homes, and time has
covered these cities over, and these
are the ones l now propose to inves-
ligate.
That the tribes that caused this
exodus came from the north is legend,
md among the Navajoes is tradi-
ion that their ancestors crossed a
body of water. Originally they came
rom the Japanese race of today
IF money was spent as it should
re- in southwestern Colorado would
)e found ancient remains as remark