Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-12-21

careful investigation developed the
fact that this valley was once home
of the Mound Builders, and 1t was
here they mined the flint and agate
! from which they fashioned weapons
OF war and Of the hunt that were
carried to all parts Of this continent
where these people dwelt.
recognized as the kind that the Mayas
of Yucatan In Central America manu-
featured. Only In the Smith river VAL
| lev. In Yucatan and in the ancient
ton1bs of Egypt were these beads ever
found. Scientists declare that the
MayAs, q semi-civilized prehistoric
people Of Central America, travelled
across the lost continent OF Atlantis,
which once joined the old world and
the new, to Egypt, then the center OF
civilization of the world. In Xucat@n,
IA the tomb Of Queen Moo Of the
Mayas, was found miniature sphinx
which closely resembles the Egyptian
sphinx on the banks Of the Nile, and
legend has 1t that Queen Moo reigned
ia Egypt and built that monument TO
her husband, King 4oh-
signs Of Conflict
The A6ayas spread through Mexico
along the Rocky mountains as lar
north as Montana, and were perpeS-
ually ct war with the Mound Builders
whose tonb6 in the form OF great
mounds are found ut widely scattered
points throughout the United States.
The Mayas were q tall and stately
people with handsome, well-formed
features and fair hair, men Of great
strength and bravery and their women
OF remarkable beauty. Their enemies,
the Mound Builders, were short and
squat. dark-hAired, rormd-neaded and
Of far less mental Development than
the Mayas, but great fighters, too.
10th races built towns and cities and
they ware perpetually ut war for 10
centuries or more. It appears from the
ruins that have been explored end this
traces Of their Notifications that are
left that the 1dayas never succeeded
Ia pushing back the lines Of the
Mound Builders far east OF the Rocky
mountains, and their battle line even
tually became extended from Mexico
to Montana along the mountains. All
alonR that line have been found relics !
az their savage warfare-javelin and
spearheads and flint arrowheadss
stone clubs. knives. etc.
For centuries their lines Of forts
and trench systems were maintained
and fierce and bloody battles were
often fought with varying fortunes OF /
war. So bitter became their enmtty 4
that they hurled their armies together
almost 70 race extinction OF both sides,
but neither people gained anything
excepting desolation OF their lands.
Blood and carnage almost unbeliev-
able marked their warfare. IS Is shown
by the time bedimmed evidences found
~ scientists.
ON the banks Of the Arkansas river
Ia Colorado, at thu eo-cailed Red Land
battlefield-a midway point Of conflict
Ia tilear north and south line. there
were unearthed ne less than 1900
skeletons Of fighting men VINO fell on
both ssdes IN one berrible hand-so-
hand melee.
sfse Of Battle
Dug from the earth In the same
,tratas of alluval deposit we're other
evidences that showed this terrible
encounter took place IN the spring
line while their women we're toiling
a forests OF maple that then covered
he western country, boiling the sap
II the trees for sugar. Their sugar
,ots with the fossilized burned sugar
we're unearthed and are preserved to-
Law In the Smithsonian institute az
This battle is said TO
ave taken place approximately l20
ago, but excavation today
iscloses evidence Of the titanic
: B s there also are evidences that
he Smith river valley was. either by