Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-09
JEWELLERS
 RUINS FOUND IN SONORA
The Sierra Madre Mountains Was Home of Mysterious and Diminutiye Race Who Lived Among the Cliffs,

Between the states of Sonora and Chihuahua on the Carretas river and about twenty-odd miles eastward of BaYispe, an adobe town on a river of that name and high up in the Sierra Madre mountains can now be found, the remains of the ancient cliff dwell e-s' homes. The place where these ancient dwellings of an ancient and ulminutive race of people, now eX- tinct, is on the bluffs of a deep can yon about $500 feet above sea level There are two or three of the dwell ings in existence. with walls evidently built of mud and about three stories high. one chamber built above the other The rooms are about ten feet long. eight feet wide aud five feet high The entrance is through a lit tie doorway one and half feet wide. Remains of tiny little fireplaces not more than ten inches long by six in .cbes deep can yet be seen. A hole in the upper side of the rooms is srtil visible when the smoke escapes. At the front of these ancient dwellings
 tree about eight rncnes in diameter at the base was placed with limbs on it. Up this the little men and women climbed to enter their apartments The tree Is there yet with the limbs nearly worn through by the tramp oi thek little folks feet. It is evident that these ancient people had some knowledge of agriculture, for in one the rooms was found several bush
 els of corn cobs with the peth part gone; the shell only was left. The re mains, also, of deer antlers and bones almost gone to decay were found. No; a sign or a bone of the inhabitants of these little homes could be found any where. The spot where these dwell ings exist is almost inaccessible and from beneath the ruins flows spark ling stream of water from spring The timber in these houses, if such they can be called, is red cedar and
 juniper and the same is black with age though sound. It was evidently cut with fire because in every place
 where it was examined it showed eharred remains. Not a sign or yes tfge of a tool of any kind could be
 ounG with which the timber could be cut The largest piece of timber found that had been burnt through was perhaps five inches in diameter
 A grown man cannot stand erect ir the rooms, and it is a tight squeeze to enter the little doorways In sev eral places across the small streams in the neighborhood are several small dams yet remaining The conjecture is that these tiny people brought in soil and filled the space above the dams and there raised their corn and other produce, if any, because there seems to be no available soil in the vicinity which could be used. Tho dirt was evidently packed in for the purpose indicated. The place where these cliff dwellings exist is about six teen miles southeast of Chitehuaca mountain, nextinct volcano.
 The place was discovered only re gently by a white American prospect or, and was absolutely unknown to the Aexicans in the vicinity. Several men of repute have since seen these houses and examined them. Awe and wonderment fill the mind as one gazes upon the ruins. Who were these lit tie people? When did they live? Why did they make their homes in such cut of the way and inaccessible places? The same class of ancient lhabitations are still in existence in Arizona, but the history of them is conjectural, ... .