Cleveland County herald., 1921-04-28
MINE FOR DATA
 ON LOST RAGE
Mexican Government Sinking Shaft to Uncover Mysteri-
 ous City of Gods"
BUILDERS THOUGHT INDIANS
Immense Stores of Valuable Archeo- logical Material Have Been Taken From the Various Excavations
 To Make 1t Show Place.


 San Juan de Teotihuacan, Mexico.- Prospecting for the habitations of a lost race in virtually the same manner as miners dig for gold, federal em- ployees here have just started to un- cover the remains of a city of at least 100000 inhabitants which f0urished four thousand or more years ago. Here and there over the confines of the buried city have been sunk shafts to find streets, houses and temples known to exist below the level of the 1 mountain valley in which lies the little village of San Juan Teotihuacan, the name of which means in the Aztec | tongue City of the Gods"
 The Mexican government has appro- priated funds for this work of excava- tion, which is in charge of Manuel Gamio, director of anthropology of the department of agriculture. The gov ernment hopes eventually to make the spot one of the show places of Mexico.
 Dominating the area are two pyra- mids, one to the sun and the other to the moon, which for centuries have de fed the efforts of archeologists and historians to trace their origin. The pyramid to the moon is still un- touched, retaining an appearance to the lay eye of a huge mound of irregu- lar shape, overgrown with grass and rubbish.
 Builders Thought indians.
 Senor Ganio says the city now un- der excavation at one time covered an area of fifteen square miles with a population of more than 100000. Its builders are unknown to history, but Senor Gamio believes they were part of an Indian tribe which wandered into Mexico from the north, and finding the valley fruitful and the climate salu- brious, decided to settle there.
 The presence of volcanic rock as one of the top strata covering the ruins in- dicates that one of the nearby noun tains erupted and inundated the city l with lava.
 Entry to the grounds is made facing the "Temple of the Goddess of the Winds," which was discovered less than year ago, when erosion uncov- cred well-defined walls and decorations typically Indian and Egyptian in their conception. This temple has now been dug out and reconstructed on the ex- terior.
 The inside Is reached at present through a series of subterranean pas sages. Inside the visitor treads over massive stairs ornate with decorations of huge serpents with obsidian eyes and grotesque conceptions reminiscent of Egyptian art. The work of interior excavation and reconstruction is far from complete.
 Paint Still Bright.
 Between this temple and the pyra- mid to the sun is a stretch of one quarter of a mile, which is at intervals pierced by the shafts of the diggers and in some places by the uncovered remains of a house or public building with the paint still bright and the fres- coes as intact as the day they were placed there severalthousands of years ago.
 Between the two pyramids is a we'll defined plaza, on one side of which street has been uncovered, known as the "Path of the Dead" Flanking the plaza are hundreds of mounds, which Senor Gamio assured the correspond ent contained either houses or temples. Immense stores of valuable archeO- logical material have been taken from the various excavations. Human bones, terra cotta beads. obsidian knives, ar rowheads, children's toys of clay, cook ing utensils, incense burners and crude musical instruments form the bulk of the find, and all are preserved in museum which has just been erected on the grounds.
 In connection with his supervision of the excavations, Senor Gamio has ! interested himself in the Indian life of the valley, and one of his first ef- forts has been to estab1;chh schools with special attention paid to manual train ing.
 Originally the valley contained 200,- 900 Indians, but these had been re- duced to 10000 in colonial days, and now number fewer than 5000. They earn but poor living when crops are good, and when these are failures star vation and widespread death ensue.
 Groups of Indians engaged in pot tery making, new industry in the val ley, were evidence that a portion at least of Senor Gamios program was being carried out.
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