Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-01-14
Santa Fe Always in the Lead Captures
Location of School of American
Archaeology
II WILL Be OF GREAT ADVANTAGE
To New Mexico in Manifold Respects -Munificient En-
dowment to be Secured.

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For the purposes Of founding a state
museum of American and Compare.
tive Archaeology and Ethnology, in
connection with the school, an appro-
priation Of $1,000 year is asked, the
money appropriated to be expended
and the museum to be under the direc-
ton of board of trustees of which
the territory shall appoint three mem
bers and the institute the other three
members
Decided Acquisition.
Such is in brief the proposition sub.
mitted by the institute and approved
by the New Mexico Archaeological
Society and which will be embodied
in a measure to be submitted to the
honorable legislature and to YOU for
your approval in case of ITS adoption.
This society is certain. having con-
vinced itself, that the objects of the
institute are disinterested and praise
worthy and that the location of the
cided acquisition, for in addition to it's
educational purposes, it would direct
the work of archaeological research,
not only in every part of New Mexico.
but on the entire American continent.
from Alaska to Cape Horn. How rich
New Mexico Is in archaeological treas
ures, was manifested by the result of
the excavations made only thirty
miles west of this capitol last sum-
mer at the expense in part of the New
Mexico Archaeological Society and
under the supervision of the director
OF American work, Professor Edgar
L. Hewett, of the American Institute
OF Archaeology. The development of
this attraction Of New Mexico. will in
time bring TO ii many scientists, tour
lists and students, and will spread the
fame of the commonwealth through
out the scientific world. Men of am
pie means. | am assured. are interest.
ed in this work, and will endow the
School of American Archaeology. even
more literally than they have en-
doWed the similar schools at Rome
and Athens. Other cities and COM
monwealths are eager to secure the
/ school, but New Mexico should not
fail TO grasp this opportunity to se4
cure the establishment at Santa Fe
OF this important scientific institution.
the only School of American Archae-
ology in the world especially since
the terms proposed are moderate, fair
and entirely in the interests of the
territory itself, assuring to it the re-
tentlon, preservation and mainten-
ance of the historic Old Palace. and
/ lhat LOT purposes most fitting and in
accordance with it's romantic tradi-
tions as the Oldest and noblest his
toric monument of the commonwealth.
Not Mere Local Institution.
We would add that the proposed
school will not be mere local insti.
tuition for the benefit of Santa Fe
alone Its worldwide scope has been
indicated. 1t will also be Pan-Ameri-
can for from it will be directed all
American archaeological researches.
The Institute of American Archaeol-
ogy has affiliated with it the great
universities of the country, such as
Yale, Harvard. Ann Arbor, Pennsyt
vania and others, from whom viii,
come the postgraduate students, the
members of the faculty and the lee
turers as well as grants of money for
purposes of archaeological research,
such as the grant which enabled the
New Mexico Archaeological Society
last year to make those epoch-making
discoveries in the Rito de los Frijoles
Canon within sight of this capitol.
From the material side, it must be EN-
phasized that he work of this school
will attract to New Mexico the high
est class of the travelling public, for
which the entire world is bidding. It
will also attract permanent residents
to different parts of the territory.
Most important of all, from the terri
torial standpoint. will be the excava-
tions and researches in the inexhaust-
ible archaeological fields of New Mex
leo. stretching from Aztec, San Juan
county, through Rio Arriba, Taos,
Santa Fe, San Miguel, Mckinley, San
doval, Bernalillo. Valencia and So
zorro counties, to the Gila in Grant
county, and from the Arizona bound
airy past the Manzano ruins in Tor
rance county to the prehistoric ruins
to be found in Lincoln and in other
counties to the east. The professors
and students of this school. will make
systematic excavations in all Of these
fields, will classify the relics found in
the same, and instead of carting them
away to distant museums, as has been
done in the past. will deposit them in