The herald., 1921-02-17

ION It
.ouost of the national PARK
svstem, established last NO
II vember-is likely to have many
1,,,,rs this season. Some will go
s.suse II is new. Others will go be-
.,ss Of the claim Of Utah that Zion
s.r.l. Yosemite In beauty { form
"a ,ar excels It In beauty Of color.
And sill others will go because OF the
sory Of a mysterious cliff-dwelling
.est has been discovered-and is be-
vsrsd 10 be inaccessible and untouch-
Shvt the hand Of modern man. More
.,sr a second canon, with many ram
,~scstions. has been discovered In Zion
NATIONAL park. White men have been
m for at least have looked down
NTH n from the plateau thousands or
,apt aboye-but they are few. And
NO knows what relics Of the mysteri-
ans prehistoric people Of the great
American Southwest these unexplored
unons may cOntaini
rYploration parties are already get
tng ready in Salt Lake City and Los
ANGELES. It's no wonder. The story
n the discovery of the inaccessible
tBsdwellings Is one to whet the In
t,rest OF the keenest mountaineer.
nus the story goes:
Eyre Powell of Venice, Calf, point
d bis telephoto lens at a high per-
rndicular cliff In q. side canon about
threeouarters of q mile away and
uueesed the bulb. A certain quarter
san inch In the print attracted his at
.unton. He enlarged it as much as
ussIble. It then showed what Is ap-
nrntly a cliff dwelling something like
90 feet long and 60 feet wide. The
dfdwellIng Is in a shallow cave
tbouf 400 feet above the talus at the
foot Of the cliff. Below it are appar-
atty traces Of lodges once used as an
ascent and now almost eroded by the
clements. Hence It is a fair guess that
his particular clif-dwelling has been
unysited since modern men entered
this region.
And II this mysterious, long-hidden
abode Of the Cliff-dwellers proves to
" q reality and is reached by some
daring climber, viii 1t yield something
iswi That Of course is the question
that adds zest to the quest. For,
though here and there are archaeolo-
rsts who believe they have solved the
nystery Of the prehistoric people, II
Mks to the common people as IL the
s~dentists were still guessing at the
snsvers to the questions: Who are
hgi How long did they live there
What became Of themf So the pos
tblky that this Zion Cliff-dwellers
Inaccessible refuge, untouched by thu
hhd Of the spoiler. may contain some
hing that will throw light on these IN
answered questions is fascinating.
curiousy enough, the many relic
d this prehistoric people throw littl'
q no light on these questions. Thi
sne more strange, since the villag
ries Of the ancient inhabitants, wit
ii the accessories Of village life
iras, shrines. burial places, fields, II
nsation works, ~lookouts, stairways-
preserve q pretty complete picture o
me u this ancient Southwest. More
aef' buried under the debris Of build
nu and In the graves of the dead ar
uf'ous artifacts Of stone, bone, WOOD
s0ef and clay, which indicate the II
ass1iai and domestic life Of the pei
: ceremonial objects, such as pipe.
suenes and medicine stones, togethe
.un the symbolic ornamentation q
snes1e and mortuary pottery, Civ
rimpses Of the social and religion
ue q the times.
escn structures rs are above groun
-.s been pretty thoroughly examine
q astonishing variety has bee
'sad. For example, there are man
radSellings, Of which those in Me-
csue national park In Southwestern
1000 are probably the finest in q
ne Southwest.
~ NE Jemez plateau In the mort
entnl part of New Mexico
which 1t is proposed to s.
ae = the national park Of the eli
s-sAsfe are both pueblos ar
%sseiIings Of the excavated ty,
80 'sasate dwellings" The, pueb
~ many-ehambered communi'
found upon the mesa.tops al
'saeya me smaller ones are
M; the larger ones have fro
800 tour stories. The cavate DIVE
~ widely. Some are enlarg,
49, caves. Others are wholly q
~ ~ezcavatious In the face Of Il
ne frsat vail being formed
eursis roct In stu. Some a