The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-09-28
Mounds
of Mystery
THE LEGACY LEST BY THE ANCIENT
TRIBES OF NEW MEXICO.


A I'uzatinE EnlEma FOR tle scientlsfr,
IL the Hundred Nile city Of the
Dead, with Its Haunted ItuinS PEG
pied with skeletons
Much has been written Of the ciih
dweIlers: vast volumes have been com
piled concerning the ancient tribes OF
.IRahuac, the Toltecs, the vanished de-
scendlnts Of s;the fair god'' of ancient
Mexico. andaIl the long gone tribes OF
the great southwest have had, their
rIjce in hctitiOIls and historic narra-
ike. Eur who has heard OF the mystic
rious -.iosi Atlantis OF New Mexico,
the vanished people of the mound,
whose tribes We're once as the autumn
leaves and who itcTfEhed-trot individ-
unIty. iii.t ~, 4 raice-nt one fell swoop,
as iron, tie aN-euSina wrath of Sod:
Thc attention OF the urchaeoloSist
has been catered upon the hazy his
tory OF the ,.iiT jewellers. upon their
homes and their habits, forgetting that
there exists IN peculiar proximity
field Of more attractive mystery. Inc
cliff dweficrS haze drawn our ATTENTION
because the LETT Us their homes Inc
vanished rlce OF Ssocorro county, n. NJ
has fuiica u interest us for the reason
IHslL IL lc.I Us AgAAttliFS AACAAAAAA9'
even a wall intact or "A ruin unplun-
dcred. Vet stay, Have you ever been
aion. the Tnle Rosa in the wild pinon
clad re.,ions Of the San Francisco
rliDu-sfaius?A Are you familiar with that
-arEGrcd- nile clyy of the dead SO
stran9 ely Ike Tie lost city OF ouivera'
vc: Car. far !:lr-,s and IaOre wonder
f,ll. HIVE you eyer entered the great
a--cs,yution u thu prehistoric pueblo TO
IKE south OF I-l:.lil. cA'f OF the barren
isc. - Of Xix rloJIa tn
.rlic -Ru!nas Enca9 tIdGs.' or 'hhunt-
Ell ruins" rs we would call them IN
.,usii i. are but a few miles north OF
san !fF--acisCo. nor thc Sai francisco
Of CALIFORNIA; but the san Francisco OF
ssoco1.ro counly=, y. NJ. SIcxican and
Indian pueblo older than the quaint
village OF Acolna. the citadel OF the
Clouds which was young when the
Spanish priests and explorers first ven
tured into that desert wilderness, to
he slaughtered as they attempted the
daring ascent to the summit oil the
great AconIa mesa
The pueblo OF san Francisco was
cI.umblin.s tuio decay when Acoma-so
called oldest city in America'-was
young and fourishins with the blanket
weaving hosts of the Aztec. Her
quaint adobe house of penatcs' was
fast disintegratinS when Aiontezuma
in his youth looked down In all his
pride and semisavaSe hauteur from the
gorgeous but barbaric palace of Cha
puItepec. So say the people OF the
present pueblo. whose generations
dave lived and perished within Its mar
row boundaries.
-, ~ ~
Deopled yet with grim and ghostly
-ods of other days and with specters
That stin stride threateninEly along the
yubterranean corridors. But we of TO-
lay are too enlightened to accept this
savage superstition. so we will look Mt
the "Ruinas Encantadas" only as they
are. There Is bur little left of them.
In 1867 tine first white man. whose
name was smith. ventured into the
forUidding businesses OF the land of
Tule Rosa. Smith, then In the prime
Of life, arrived at AIagdalenH in quest
of newer fields of goblin quest of
fortune, pleasure and adventure. a
Yankee in every sense, there was no
danger in tho wilds of the hundred
mile city OF the dead" which Smith
would fear. Geronimo nor the ApaclIc
Kid was yet in his reign of terror,
but the Apachcs We're out for blood.
and the country was formidable one.
But Smith pressed on. y hundred
miles beyond the village of AInEdnena,
beyond the famous Horse springs,
later the scene of two never to be for
gotten massacres-bcyond the old, his
toric Turkey mountain and the land OF
pInions, where the silvery Tule Rosa
winds and has wound its way for CEN
turtles untold-this valiant pioneer of
the west ventured with his burrO train
and trusty knife and rifle.
smith. whom the author had the
pleasure of meeting shortly before his
death, was by nature Intended as an
urchaeologist for his love of the rare
and curious, the mysterious and am
tiuuc. was directly responsible for his
nnnI determine ton TO reside In that
land OF ruins aud relics. Until the
- of his dcn II lie never LEFT t1e
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