The Coolidge examiner., 1930-04-25
(By IRWIN HAYDEN
Continued from lost week.


Grande ruins, in the central ella
river valley of Arizona. She and
her son, now Supt. Frank Pinkley,
in charge of national monuments IN
the Southwest, saw much history
made in development of knowledge
of the prehistory of the section.
If any one reads these attempts
depict some degree of the fascl-
nation connected with field arch
Geology, more than one reader must
have visited the ruins near which
the Van Bergen-Los Angeles Mu-
scum Field party is at work. II
the visit has not included contact
with Mr.. Pinkley and his mother,
not to mention his family, some
thing very essential to full en-
joyment of the occasion has been
lost.
A few days ago I started trench
in in a westerly direction, from
a point selected by me as most
decidedly east of the east wall OF
the compound. Madame Pinkley
and some ladies came along just
after | had located a three inah
vertical wall, the top Of which was
Is inches below the surface and
another wall, sloping, which
think is one side or a part of one
side of the pithouse. Madame
Pinkley assured me that | would
find the compound wall by going
east. not west. She was right,
for had to take an about face and
drive the trench east, and in the
course of my digging I found a
floor, which ran under heavy ca
liche wall nearly a foot wide; and
on the other or east side Of that
was a side of a pit-dwelling; and
east of that was a higher floor;
and east OF that? Well, l am still
trying to find out.
Madame PinkIey AS Educator
Arthur Woodward was not con-
tent with the abalone shell pendant
which he made after the pattern
of a coast object and planted in
my trench. He got him bit OF
mirror glass and made lovely
little arrowhead and put that in my
trench. found it; and was amazed
at its crystal clarity. / marvelled
at it while Woodward stood by;
but it was not the sort of an arrow
point one would expect to find in
this central ella river culture, so
the joke did not work.
It did, however, reach the ears of
Madame Pinkley, who made me
happy a few days after by giving
me a beautiful arrowpoint Of obsid-
ian; and dampened my joy saying
she wanted TO help educate my eye
so that people could not fool me so
easily with shell and glass all nice
ly faxed!
Believe it or net, Mr.. Woodward
was much surprised one day, after
his joke on me, to find, under a
nice bowl, cute little baby's
pacifier.
All of this harmless taking on our
part is childs' play compared with
the fakes which have been attempt
ed and so nearly put over. Recent
ly the University of Arizona, am
told, reached a final decision in re-
gard to certain objects made of
lead, inscribed with Latin, which
were found apparently in undis-
turbed caliche in Arizona. One of
the men who aided in the work of
investigation says that geologist
called in to examine the formation
in which these objects were found
privately admitted that if they
were planted there was nothing in
the nature of the surrounding soil
to show it. But, l hear, it turned
out that the Latin inscriptions
were taken f. ON three or more diff
ferent books and the lead was an
alloy, such as printers type is
made Of.
Discovery From Air
While we of the Van Bergen
Los Angeles Museum Field party
were digging away in our ancient
and time-worn compound, near
Casa Grande Ruins, Neil M. Judd
eminent American archeologist con-
nected with the U. S. National
museum, was out here directing
the photographing of this entire
section Of Arizona, from the air.
Some of those who read these
papers remember having seen an
account of an interesting happen
stance in England, quite recently.
A plane took photographs from the
air. One of the shots included a
wheat field. When the print was
made, there in the wheat was the
ground plan of an ancient Roman
village. The growing wheat where
ever it stood over walls was darker
than the surrounding grain.
Last August our own Lindbergh
took many aerial photographs in
the vicinity of Pecos, N. NJ, with
astonishing results. Especially val
liable was the method, in showing
the location of ancient farm lands.
A few hundred feet east of the
great h0uSn at Casa Grandp r,1inc