Show THE CASAS GRANDES prehistoric hulich to lie reproduced at thc jhc Vf pair fair along the cliffs bounding many of the mountain streams in arizona the explorer will find vast excavations made in the solid rock and w which MCI 1 a at t some time long lon n anterior to this have been the abode of human beings fraer fragments 0 of ingeniously 0 wrought n pottery ollas or jais filled with charred corn and beans are arc found about those my mysterious caverns cavern and tone stone hammers and axes axe besides beside other implements of tho laborer are arc often dug ducy n from tile the ground in the vl vicinity inita those are arc the ruins of the clift cliff dwellers dv about whom so many conjectures have been made by sanon scientists and so much lia lias been written first among these prehistoric relics both bogli in extent and state of pro preservation erva are the famous casas grande grandas they are situated in the valley of the gila GA iba about twenty miles from the station of casa grande on the southern pacific railway and are by far the larg est in extent and in the best state of as fK lp 0 i 4 kia 61 1 i I 1 jg aa ass lit uri AIN ANCIENT C I 1 EIN T RUINS OF THE CASA GRANDE preservation of any prehistoric ruins in ill the united states the features of the din cliff ruins are peculiar and in all respects they are interesting but the S builders of los casas grandes were to them as our anglo american people are arc to the native indians indian of today to day tile the cliffs were the abode of a hunted race who burrowed in their eaves caves with the instinct of self preservation whish h comes to an animal when it would avoid its enemies the dav dwellers aliers of the valley lived in great magnificence surrounded by their flocks their herds and their fields of grain devoting their attention to the development of their by no moans aru rude de arts and sciences in 1887 some of the prominent men of the territory petitioned the government to take some steps to protect the ruins from tile the rava ravages es of time and weather lier their endeavors were successful and the department of the interior sent men to build a roof over it and such walls as would protect it from the sand and windstorms wind storms this has been completed during the last year and the worlds fair association is making preparation to reproduce the ruin in chicago next nest y year car among the prehistoric ruins of the united states this is the most mos prominent and most of all deserves the attention and interest of scientists though 0 the narrative of its existence lias ila gone forth to the world in many exa exaggerated c forms it has never been examined and passed upon by those who can give any reasonable opinion of its ago age and origin 0 with the story of the cliff dwellers it is still a mystery and one that perhaps will never be solved the hieroglyphics of the egyptians have been read but those of pr prehistoric c america have not and the mysterious ruin of the casa cas grande stands tho the monument of a people who it seems passed from existence almost in a day without a single definite conclusion to work their origin or extinction |