Arizona republican., 1920-12-06
WORKMEN UNEARTH ABORIGINAL RELICS
 ON HILL IN MIAMI

Apache Indian worlxmen engaged TOT ne past few days in excavating the sewer trenches on Prospect avenue, be- tween Hillcrest and Adonis avenue, on LAolan Hill, have encountered many ourled relics of the ancient race of lglnes which once had a village on y.'t eminence, now one of Miamis Inest residence sections. The high Scnool students especially are showing o keen interest in the evidences of an carly race brought to light by the ~orlSmen.
 tesrs before the mining camp of .alaInl was started. the mesa on which Alamfs splendid high school building stands was known as Indian Hill as at present, to residents of Globe. who 'iteh came to Indian Hill for the pur- pose or digging for relics among the a.ihs or the ancient Indian village. Many of the best specimens of Indian pottery, stone axes, flint arrowheads, hetates or stones hollowed out for pull Nerizing corn. and earthern jars or otlAs, now in private collections in this district. were excavated on Indian Hil oy those early delivers into that buried clty of the ancients.
 tarly settlers in Miami still remem- ner the outlines of a great council chamber, crumbled to ruins, which had stood on the mesa about midway be- tween the site of the present high school building and the edge of the hiutf overlooking the A. E. railroad tracks
 From the outlines of the council chamber. shown by the rectangular rows of fallen boulders from the crum- hled walls, i- could be seen that it was originally a room about 30 feet square, isadiating from each side of the cen- 4 ral council chamber of the village were la or more in number.
 John Davis one of the districts pio- neers, secured probably the best find Tn those early excavations on Indian Hill. when he found an earthern olla containing several fine Mexican opals and native topaz. Mir. Davis also ob- tained many good specimens of paint cd pottery. with their pristine colors Still vividly bright, some fine stone hatchets. ollas and metates. The ex- cavatiOns referred to were made in 1905, several years before the town was started.
 Since that time many home builders on Indian Hill have dug up relics of the ancient tribe in excavating for the foundation for houses. In the con struction of the earlier concrete buildings in the town, especially the Fitzpatrick building, it was the prac- ice of the builders to haul boulders to build into the walls from the canyon now known as Adonis avenue. Many stone hatchets, arrowheads and other stone implements were found in the wash in gathering up boulders for con- struction purposes in those early days or the camp. It is surmised that most of these Indian implements were car ricd down into the gulch by rains and erosion from the settlement on the hill, as the ruins of the ancients in Arizona are almost invariably found on an emil nenoe overlooking the little valley be- low where they are supposed to have practiced their simple husbandry in the cultivation of corn and beans.
 The relics unearthed by the work men on the sewer trenches are found chiefly in a layer of fine red clay, about three feet below the present surface, but must originally lain deeper, as from three to six feet has been graded off the orifinal sur face of that portion of the hill in laying out the street Stone axes, many pieces of pottery, metates and innumerable fragments of human boaes have been dug up by the work men. The Apaches doing the actual work of excavation. handle the human bone fragments with great reverence when encountered by them in digging Glen Lewis, Apache chief and fore AholA VI Ahe NeetFotiOA soA5' ASSON cred a particularly fine stone axe. The pottery is generally broken to fragments by the picks of the work men. digging in the stiff. tough clay It was manufactured from a clay of z type similar to that in which it i! now found buried.
 Where fragments of human skel etons are encountered in the clay hey are generally surrounded by houlders. as though the aborigines haC dug the grave in the softer clay, anC then lined and covered it with stones likely as a protection against burrow ing and marauding wild animals. Al olla is almost invariably found ac companying the bone fragments.
 Much conjecture has been indulge( in by scientists and archaeologist concerning the identity of the ancien