The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-08-08
A REMARKABLE FIND.

II may interest readers OF The
I News to know that DR.. MILAN Brown
an American archaeologist. according
| to press reports, has come to the con
| clusion that white race many cen
turtles ago must nave landed on the
Pacific coast Of Central America and
settled there. These people, he be.
lieves. reared the gigantic structures
the ruins of which are found in that
region. He points out that statues are
found in graves in Peru, which show
European features; also that tradi-
tions Of white people are found all
the way from Mexico to Peru, indicat.
ing that tn einhabitants there once
we're white.
A remarkable discovery has also
been made. recently in Wayne coun.
~, Mich, near the city of Detroit, uu-
der the direction of Prof. J. G. Kinna-
man. editor and publisher of the Am.
crican Antiquarian. He has discover
ed an immense grave yard In that
county, twenty five miles in length
and nine miles in width, occupying
an area of 225 square miles. II has mil
lions of graves, some of which have
been opened and carefully examined
by Professor Kinnaman, Dr. Orr. ..
the University of Toronto, DR. James
and others.
The opinion of these scientists Is
that archaeologists will have to re.
wise some OF their old theories con.
corning the original home Of the white
they have found number of metal
plates on which the home life and
conflicts of white race with Indians
are represented. On these plates,
which are made of tempered copper
there are also Inscriptions resembling
we are told, the hieroglyphics Of
Egypt and the cuneiform characters
of the Chaldeans. On these plates they
have engraved their history with great
artistic skill and finally buried them
with their dead.
1t will be generally admitted that a
find OF this kind is of immense inter.
est. and Importance. Millions OF
graves in one graveyard indicate a
density of population of which we
can hardly form an idea, And the sim
ilarity of the characters found to
those of Chaldea and Egypt strikes
one as a most important fact. What
explanation can be Offered to account
for it?
According to the Book of Mormon,
in the year 1913 b. c., Nephite ex.
petition went northward from the
Land of Nephi, and found a record on
twenty-four golden plates containing
the history of race almost extermin.
ated. The record was condensed by
Moroni and inserted in his historical
collection
According to these records the an.
cient race, the Jaredites came from
the region where the Tower of Babel
was built. At the commandment of the
Lord they emigrated eastward and II
nally crossed the Pacific to America.
Here they multiplied and prospered,
until, because of their iniquities. they
became the prey of murderous secret
societies, and were visited by war.
pestilence aud famine. For centuries
war ragged. The wicked slew the wick.
ed, until the entire people was exter.
minated. A few years before the fin.
al conflict near the Hill Cumorah. two
millions of warriors had been slain.
How many more persisted before the
final catastrophe is not known, but
we may well ask whether In the re.
cent discoveries near Detroit we have
confirmation of the history of the
Jaredites as given in the Book of
Ether. The bodies of the slain at the
final conflict were, of course, not bur.
led but We're left on the field, but a
graveyard several miles in length and
width indicates harvest of cath
such as can be accounted for only by
the facts related in that record, as
having preceded the final disaster. -
Dcseret News.
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