The Washington times., 1914-06-07
Congress Urged to Create Ma.
tionaI Park and Preserve
Relics of Race That Built
Great Stone PuebIos.
Remains Prove Skill in Crafts
and High State Of Culture
With Written Records in
HierogIypMcs.

In our own United States, recent
explorations have shown, there
happens to be collection of ruins,
buried beneath century-oId earth
and stone, as interesting historic
ally and anthropologically to Amer
icds as the ruins of ancient Rome
and Greece.
There is in Washington today a
representative of the General Land
office, noW on leave of absence,
who wants to interest Congress in
particular and the country in gen.
erdl in the discoveries recently
made in New Mexico, this NTH a
piep to having the Federal Cop
eminent take over the lands which
partly cover the antique ruins and
give them governmental care.
William B. Douglass spent ten
years exploring and surveying this
region. He mas sent to Washing
ton by the governor of NeW Mex
ico and the Santa Fe chamber Of
commerce.
A GREAT FIELD SCHOOL.
The contemplated national park
aspires to something greater than
a mere pleasure ground" said Mr..
Doughlass 1T is to be the great
field school Of American anthropol-
ogy, open to scientists throughout
the world. II is planned that not
only shall the great ruins be kept
intact, but that every specimen of
this ancient culture, which excava-
tors may remove, shall have its
scientific value protected b. sys-
TEN OF positive Identification. To
accomplish this there is section
in the bill creating the proposed
park which provides that all per-
sons or institutions availing them
selves of the permission to exca-
vate or gather objects of archeo-
logical interest shall furnish with
out cost 10 the Secretary of the In
terror full details OF their investi-
cations. Including duplicates OF all
maps and photographs and desctip-
tions of all vases. skeleton remains.
or other antiquities which they may
remove"
Mr.. Doughlass has with him many
interesting photographs and a re-
markabe collection of antiquities,
which he has obtained while explor-
ing the recesses Of the mountains
in which these ruins are to be found.
That these tribes reached high
state of aboriginal culture and were
skilled in arts that have since been
lost to the world IS evidenced, says
Mr. Doughlsss. by the wonderful
state of preservation OF some of the
walls that remain standing, the
masterful way in which the cities
were laid out with {. view TO Ge-
fense in the event of attack. and
many SLABS covered with hieroSlyph-
les, indicating that they had Il writ
ten Language and kept official rec
Urds.
cover 400 square Miles.
More than two hundred square
miles are occupied by these ruin
fields. there apparently having been
a series of cities. the principal be-
ing located on the plateaus while
OH the cliffs below were the caves
Of the more humble members of
the tribe.
One of the larses' nf these
plateau buildings. Tnowu as the
Tyuonyi ruin. cOntaIned 725 rooms
on the ground floor. and was. /. is
believed, Al least four stories
high, making a total OF approx
imately 5000 rnnms This buIId-
ing the walls of which are still
standing. was constructed OF uni
FORM blocks Of stun. about eight
cen inches in length. II WAS cir
c;Ilar in shane and contained
spacious central court, wnicE Der
mitIed abundant Iight and ven
tillatiun. In the center Of this
court were lpcated subterranean
,I,g W h.