Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1913-02-11
MANY WONDERS Of
UPPER G|LA RIVER
Miss Agnes Laut Lauds At
fractions in Current Num-
Der Of Sunset
PECULIAR PREHISTORIC RACE
Dwelt Amid Strange Fore SITS.
Mountains Still in Virgin
State

Deming is not often spoken of in
connection with cliff dwellers and
mummies, yet from Deming the
most wonderful of all the caves of
prehistoric America may be reached
on the Upper ella. Miss Agnes
Laut who visited this interesting TO-.
cality several weeks ago describes
the wonders of its scenery and an
tlquity in very interesting way.
Miss Laut took the trail from Silver
City and places the distance from
there at about fifty miles, Both the
Silver City papers have been asking
that road bc built into the ella
country for some time. Ii would
seem that here is IA wonderland in
deed at our back door that should
be brought TO the attention of the
pleasure seeker and our own as well.
How many have visited the Upper
ella country? In part the article
which appeared in the current mum.
ber of the Sunset magazine is as
follows:
THE MONKEY MAN.
When the Grand Canyon of Col.
OradO first became known To the
world there sprang up a whole
School of Southwestern Art to cele.
brate its wonders and beauties. A
man once came home to France with
wonder.yarns of "A race of monkey
men or mannish monkeys in South
Africa that You could put in a cage
and that gibbered like a parrot.
World went quite wild over it. 1t
meant the Missing Link, the history
of man from monkey up. But the
stock Of the professor who said he
had made the discovery went down
He couldn't make good and deliver
the monkey men. Ii was a nine
days wonder and then a fizzle.
Yet there is a second Grand Can.
yon not stones throw from every
day tourist travel, wilder in game
life and rock formation If not so
large with prehistoric caves on its
precipice walls where sleeps a race
of little mummied men behind doors
and windows barely large enough
to admit a half grown white child.
Who were they? No one knows
When did they live? So long ago
they were cave men. stone-age men
so long ago that neither history nor
tradition has the faintest echo of
their existence. Where did they
live? No, it was not Europe, Asia,
Africa nor Australia. If it were we
would know about them. There
would be a Carnegie Foundation
Expedition to dig them up and ex-
hibit them in a glass case, and re.
construct their history. As it hap
pens, this second Grand Canyon is
only in plain, nearby, home-staying
America, 50 when the boys of the
Forest Service pulled Little Zeke
out of his gypsum and pumice stone
dust in cave, measured him up and
found him only twenty.thrce inches
long though the hair sticking to
the skull was gray and the teeth
were those of an adult as it hap.
pened in only matter-of-fact Amer
lea. poor little Zeke couldn't get
shelter. They trounced his little
dry bones round Silver City, New
Mexico, for few months. Then
they boxed him up and shipped him
away to be slowed ont of sight in
the cellars of the Smithsonian,
Washington. As Zeke has been
asleep since the Ice Age, about 5000
years b. c.. it doesn't make much
difference to him, but one wonders
what in the world New Mexico was
doing, allowing one of the most
wonderful specimens of a prehistoric
dwarf race to be shipped out of the
country.
A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION.
In another place Miss Laut de
scribes the coloring of the canyor
in graphic manner as follows:
1T is sunset. The rocks of thes,
box canyons in the southwest are o.
a peculiar wine-colored red ant
golden ochre, or else dead gray ant
gypsum white. Owing to the grea
altitude some of the ruins ar,
5000 feet above sea level-the at
mosphere has that curious qualit,
of splitting white light unto il
seven prismatic hues. Artists O
the southwestern school Lungrun
Van Dyck and others account foI