The Filer record. (Filer, Idaho) 1919-1930, 1924-07-17

Montezuma Castle. Arizona. 1906. prehistoric cliff
dwelling. 100 acres.
Chaco Canyon. New Mexico 1907. numerous pueb-
los and clir dwellings. 2os2s acres.
Navajo. Arizona. 1909 prehistoric puebios and
elf dwellings. $50 acres
Hovenweep. Utah-Colorado. 1923 prehistoric tow
pueblos and clin dwellings 2s6 acres
Tumacacori Arizona 1905 ruin OF Seventeenth
century Franciscan mission, 10 acres
Gran Quivira New Mexico. 1909. ancient pueblo
and early Spanish mission. 40 acres
Casa Grande. Arizona prehistoric relic. $50 acres
Yucca House. Colorado. 1919. prehistoric relic. 10
Ruin. New Mexico. 1923. prehistoric pueblo
OF 500 rooms. acres
Pipe Spring. Arizona, 1929. old stone fort and
spring OF pioneer days. 30 acres.
Muir Woods California. 1908. fine redwood grove.
S26 acres
PinnacIes California 1905. many spire-like rock
formations 600 TO 1000 feet high. 2s53 acres.
Natural Bridges. Utah. 1905 three very large
natural bridges. 274o acres
Rainbow Bridge Utah. 1910 height 900 feet span
AIS feet, 100 acres
Stka. Alaska. 1910. park OF historic association.
16 fine totem poles 81 acres.
Colorado. Colorado 1871 wonderful example Of
erosion. many lofty monoliths. i5,sS3 acres.
Papago saguaro. Arizona, 1914 characteristic des-
ert fora and many photographs, 1910 acres
Lewis and Clark Cavern. Montana. 1908. immense
shoshone Cavern. wyoming. 1909. large limestone
cave. 30 acres
Dinosaur Utah. 1915 deposits Of fossil remains.
so
fossils. $40 acres.
capulln Mountain New Mexico 1915. cinder cone
Of geologicaliy recent formation. ssi acres.
ing VALLEY OF Ten Thousand Smokes" 1910 acres
verendrye. North Dakota. 1917. Includes Crow
high Butte. from which the famous French ex-
SCOTS Bluff Nebraska. 1918. point OF historic
interest in winning OF the West zoss acres
Pages OF interesting matter could be written
about these national monuments Take. for ex-
ample. those Of Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado.
They illustrate the history Of the American South
west from the prehistoric times Of the cliff dwell
ers down through the many years Of frantic
searching for gold by the Spanish soldiers and
the colonizing and PROSECUTING by the spanish
priests Cortez conquered Mexico FOR Spain in
I51921 II looted The Spaniard then
turned his search for gold toward peru-which IL
snother story-and toward the unexpored wilder
ness to the North The air fun OF northern
treasure myths-El Dorado. the giided man. and
whole people clothed in gold; the Seven Cities OF
CIbola with their golden domes: Quivlra. the city
OF gold Side by side soldier and priest invaded
the desert Each desplsed the other; each used
the other. Coronado's expedition from Mexico In
154O that penetrated as far Kan~ss Is one OF
the most romantic In all history
Gran oulvira was once the noUrishing pueblo
city Of Tabira. believed 20 be Quivira By the Span
iards II was discovered IN 1881 by Francisco
Ranchez de Chamuscado. Francisco Dc Acedevo
founded the mission IN if2s The Apachfs wiped
Il our about 1910 The ancient pueblo held about
zoo The great stone church was built 10 1914
Both stlu stand In this ghost city q. the long ago
Moniezuna Castle Is one Of the relies Of The
prehistoric people called elf jewellers and + very
old II Is communal house Of - rooms built In
shallow cave IN the face Of lofty clTs
Casa Grande (Creat House, Is prehistoric mrs
terry II WIS already ruin when Fray Marcos
discovered n IN 1859. II is a large building u
natural concrete called culeche smoothly piasered
within II stands In q large compound q outlying
buildings enclosed In a rectangular wall
Aztec Ruin was presented 10 the nation By
Archer NJ Huntington OF the American Museum Of
Natural History. II Is being extensively excavated
and restored Centuries before Columbus one Of
the richest cenfers Of prehistoric civilization was
the VALLEY Of the Aninas river In northwestern
New Mexico There. within the radius Of single
mile vast mounds Of earth and fallen stone mark