Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-03-09
VAST RUINS ARE
BEING UNEARTHED
lanes H. Moyle Says Mexican
Government Has Enlightened
Interest in Them.
Where Hicroglyphics Are Found They
Are Gathered Up and
Preserved.

That the Mexican government. with
more enlightened regard for the val
lie of ancient antiquities than the
Spanish conquerors, boasting more
developed civilization, ever had Is nov
doing a wonderful work ip the coun-
tries to the south. is The opinion Of
James H. Moyle. MIR. Moyle has iust
returned from Mexico and he has
gone over large number of the ruins
now being uncovered
This work., he declares. has the
largest Significance. | would Ike
to keep in touch with it, and / should
think II would be a fine idea Tor some
local paper 10 watch developments,
and to continue to record them.
"A week ago yesterday / was at
the Pueblo ruins. where the great pyr'
amid of the sun. sitting on q zen acre
base, and rising IA feet, is being un-
carthed-that is being freed from the
;shes debris and lava that was over
laying 1t,
HISTORY OF THE RUINS.
'grhe history of these ruins is that
the Aztecs, tho last ruler of which
race was Montszuma. found them
| there Nhen they came into the coun-
| try, and that the Toltecs found them
I there when they came IN About III
| ruins ~ Cholula, pyramid eight
miles from Pueblo there groups q
| legend that the Aztecs believed that
30 acres. was built by a race Of giants
| who wished TO reach the sun, and
! who were extlnct long before the Az
tees reached the countiy.
with me on my visit was j. II,
Price, a magazine writer who was pre-
aIHns t.ala f.asa .fsfN IA
magazine. He knew nothing Of the
Mormon belief in regard to ancient
American history. Yet he continu-
ally mentioned the significant resem-
blance between the carvings about
the pyramids and the Egyptian pyr-
amids with their has relief cary
ings'
JAREDITE MIGRATION.
The Book of Mormon would explain
! these ruins rs being those OF the Jared
| its migration to America which built
! up a civilization with its center and
| Its great cities for LOGO years In one
locality. below the Gulf of California,
| and north OF the lsthmus. 1t is this
section where the remains are found,
| and this civilization was swept away,
| according to the Book Of Mormon. be-
| fore the lighter Nephite situation be-
| gan to make itself felt, this civilization
! coming from "a migration AT the tnne
of the fall of Jerusalem, while the for
mer had occurred at the time of the
building of the Tower OF Babel.
ANCIENT HIGHWAY.
THE government Is so particular with
these ruins declared Mr.. Moyle, that
| they have encased sections Of walls
| that have been unearthed In glass. TO
preserve them, just "a found and rocks
bearing hieroglyphics have been collect
ed ana placed IN position where they
can be preserved.
, II walked for four miles down a per-
fectly preserved road which must have
been the ancient citys main highway
II was built of cement and this had
prevented the desert growth from get
ting foothod, as Il has elsewhere.
When ] was there the government
had 200 men at work unearthing a
| house which WAS found beneath a lava
| bed, with stone steps 20 feet wide lead
! ing down To It's lower compartments
| There were 20 of them and az the bot
| tom were found cement walls, enclosing
] rooms OF spacious size. and from these
| led more rooms, which had not yet
| been cleared OF their ruins
PLEASED WITH MEXICO,
MIR. Moyle spent several weeks IN
| Mexican cities, and he declares the
| country n one OF the best governed I'm
| the world: that life and property are
| absolutely safe and that great numbers
| OF Americans are taking up their abode
! i'm The pOuutrV