Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1906-11-13
SAN CR|STOBAL
HISTORIC SPOT
Rich in Suggestions
of Strange Peo-
pie.
INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPHS
Cover Mountain Side---.Old
Pueblo Scenes ---- Santa
Feans Tell of Wonders.|

east of Santa Fe and about seven
miles south of l.amy are among
the most interesting places in the
country to be visited. They can be
reached in five hours with a good
team and the road is not bad A par
ty consisting of Professor w. u.
Garrison, principal of the high school
A, b. Craycraft, photographer, Irineo
l.. Chaves and Claud Hutto, left San.
ia Fe last Friday evening a little af-
ter O'Clock, making one stop Of
about half an hour between Santa Fe
and l.amy, reaching the San Cristo-
bal ruins about 1890 o'clock. One
of the party was interviewed yester-
day morning and gave the following
report:
"The weather was very good. but
the moon did not rise until after MIDI
night. The latter half of the night
however, grew very cold and icicles
eighteen inches and more in length
flume near our camp when we arose
Saturday morning. A good camp fire
was in evidence and we would have
gotten very cold had il not been for
Tthis as our bedding was not equal to
the occasion. Regardless of the short
time we spent in bed, each one of our
crowd was very glad when daylight
came. When it became light enough
TO see we were off investigating Just
across the irrigation ditch from where
we were camped. are some of the
most interesting photographs that are
to be seen anywhere. Many of these
were photographed They consist of
Indian heads, deer bears. turkeys
and other figures which are too nun.
erous to be mentioned here. One that
is especially interesting shows two
Indians, one behind and the other In
front Of turkey, endeavoring to
strike the same with stick The one
behind has outstretched arms and
Is doing ~ nossiho TO wake th7
turkey pass the indian III front SO
that the latter can use his big stick
and bring in the game 1t is a pic
ture worth studying and one that
presents character. Another very in
teresting view is that where an In
dian has shot an arrow through the
head of one of their supposed rulers
The figures of both are shown very
plainly. The bow and arrow are visi
BILE, the arrow through the head of the
official and the bow in the hands OF
the perpetrator
. Respect for Law.
"After shooting his arrow through
the head of his enemy the Indian who
performed the deed takes his bow ir
his left hand and points with his righ
hand to the man whom he has shot
His head is in an opposite direction
and he presents the appearance of {
man who has in this day and time per
formed some awful deed and is at the
mercy of the law or in the hands o
a mob. Fear is in his heart, but Il
Is too late. From this picture can BIZ
taken many thought and one which
may lead person to believe tha
even during the time when the In
dians occupied the old pueblo Of Sal
CriStObal law and order were a par
of life.
another picture is that of a nun
Der of deer. The antlers which tn,
ancient artists have attached to thes,
deer photographs are very large ant
especially so for the size of the deer
They seem to be little out of pro
portion, but the picture brings to ligh
the thought that in the early da,
deer was very plentiful and that thu
Indians had an easy time to live.
"These photographs cover a space
Of half mile on the mountain side
which Is in the shape of the outside
of half circle. Every rock which
has fiat surface Is covered with imi
tations of animals. vegetables, fowls
and human beings. Most of thes,
Photographs are quarter of an incl
in depth. How they were cut this
deep in such hard stone is mystery
Iron tools were not in use by the In
dians in that time and sharp point
ed rocks evidently had to be used
1t must have taken several years t,
do all this work. 1t show that tn
Indians in that day and time were
not at all ignorant in that line ant
were lovers of pictures and paintings
Finds Old Pueblo.
Going down the mountain side ant
across the arroyo We came to tn
ruins of very old pueblo. On tn,
east side of this pueblo there was
stone wall, which was 1900 feet il
length, extending from the arroyo OF
the north to larger arroyo on tn,
south. The height of this wall can
not be told as 1t has fallen and larg
amount of the rock has rotted. Their
were four entrances to the puebl
through this long stone wall TIL
main entrance was about the middl
of the wall and about eight fee
across. After examination we decide,
that the large entrance was use,
much more than the three smalle
ones The thought is prevalent tina
this large wall was also used as
corral In which the Indians kept thei
stock at night. There was also
small entrance at the back Of tn