Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-01

work of some old light worshippers. But men who have studied the pot teries and and the painted rocks of the cliff dwellers say some other race than they bowed before 1t when the first slanting rays found their way over the mountain tops into the caves rift. The story of its discovery sounds curiously like some of the wierd chapters in Rider Haggard's stories of "The Moun- tains of the Moon"
 Bachtell himself is no ordinary man. even among the prospectors of the Ari- zona strip. A Maryland boy. he found his way west. And among the spurs of the Rocky mountains, where they stretch away out from the main range into the silent reaches of the thirsty desert, he has for many years spent a strange, solitary existence. wandering through dry gorges and climbing preci- pices in search of remnants of prehis- 'torfc' peoples. f17' "''''f'
 Bachtell spent three months in these mountains. He found some arrow heads and many mineral specimens. He was more anxious for these latter at the time than for anything else, and he overlooked no opportunity to talk with prospectors. From these he got much valuable information.
 To find minerals where life itself is a fight requires peculiar ability which few even among the prospectors of Utah and Arizona possess. And so these men, when they told anything. confided information of value. From one of them Bachtell learned of the stone god. -..,-fl ma.
 The man had found it while looking for copper. And the story of his dis covery sounds uncanny. He was fol- lowing up some copper fioat-that is to say. he had run on bit of mineralized rock which he knew must have been detached from a ledge. He went back in the direction whither he knew the rods away. As he went he ran across other float and some of this showed richly. He crossed a steep ridge, de- scended into a deep gorge, and, follow. ing up the other side, toiled on upward toward the crest of the range, where it's backbone lies sharp and jagged at an altitude of between 9,Oe0 and 10000 feet.
 And so he had reached the little break where he had made up his mind the outcropping must show He4set. tied himself on a shelf of rock and pick. ed into the rotten formation with his hammer. A small rift suddenly yawned into an open cave mouth as the frag- ments fell away before him.
 He widened the aperture. Before him opened a cavern. Eventually he crawled into the place He lit a can. dle and saw a great chamber in the living rock.
 All of these things were of stone Cooking utensils, bowls and pestIes where they had pounded their grain, and odd-shaped basins. filtered the floor. In the middle, right opposite the cave door. was the image of the war god.
 In Salt Lake City BaehteIl showed his discovery and many who had ex. plored cliff dwellings inspected it. The idol had none of the characteristics of relics from those places. It was hewn out with chisels and 1t is thought that these were of copper. hardened after the manner the ancient Egyptians used "a process which has been lost foI hundreds of years. The chiseling is so fine that even the hair is thus marked. The links of 8 chain are carved about the neck and a circular amulet at their end Its upper half has the divergent rays of a rising sun. This and the fact that the idol vas facing the eastern entrance to the cave indicate that ii vas used by sun vorshippers