Show RELICS OF LOST A PEOPLE Curious Utensils Pound Found Beneath Marl Beds eds In California There are constanty constantly beng being found in certain part parts of California said an oi of official of the S Smithsonian institution to a Washington Time Times reporter relics of a mysterious an and long buried age and pe pee pie Litte Little Butte basin an old mining caim claim Is one of the localities rich in archaeological finds I It is about three quarters of a mie mile In width either wa way and Is capped by a bed of marl marJ supposed from the made to be at least 2 feet In depth and which is b evidently not of primar primary formation The claim does not exceed twenty feet at the deepest point There have have been mortar morta and nd found and they are constan e ing unearthed underneath the banks as te bank they are washed away These ancient rel relIcs relIcs Ics contain no carving carvings Near where the mortar mortars and petes pestles were found the re remains remains mains of a camp fre fire were visIble The char charred d brands the unburned coals and ashes had more the appearance of the remains of a fre fire recently buit built and nd extin extinguished than ot of one actual actually kindled in inthe inthe the earl early ages of the world That relics of a fre fire of certainly a iery very remote period should have been preserved in such en entirety of freshness is astonIshingly re remarkable remarkable In near to the old camp fre fire thae thele were six sir excavations or Spot pot holes as they are common commonly cale called In the marl some four feet In depth ant and five or six feet across the surface the hole holes beIng In funnel form and nd perfectly similar in re regard gard to size and wih with particular exactness as to the distance ea each h one from the theother other A piece of petrified denty found near this locality as was also a porton of petrified bark barkA A number of years ago a company of miner miners while sluicing near the center of the basin where the gound ground was ten feet teet deep uncovered a large quantity of mor inor mortar tar tars pestles and numerous other Indian trinkets together wih with four pipes con constructed of gay gray slate eighteen Inches in two Inches in diameter In the cen center ter ler faring flaring at each ex cx being formed exactly like the but butt end ot of a common tn tin hor horn The pipes wore were tastefully polished both ex cx Vernally and Internally The drilling ot of the cavity was evidently done wih with an In Instrument strument not of sufficient length to per perform form torm the entire work from end to end pr I as i it was plainly to be observed that the I Ie pipes were drilled d from e either end as s the uneven e e condition 3 ll of the ie iee work at r the h hc c cen center I Iter ter cear clearly Indicated These pipes were long kept in the place where they were found as curiosities and freQuent frequently shown to different Indians that the use for which they were constructed might be ascertained but the present race of In Indiana diana dlan being Ignorant of the purpose of the thc manufacturIng of these singular Inglar anti antiQuarian antiquarian relics as were the whites no light on the object of the use for which thE they were male made could be obtained In out a portion orion of the ranch of the late Isaac Trip several years ago man many ancient relics were re unearthed simi similar lar to those already mentioned In a bank ank twenty feet In depth mortars pestles arroW w heads bones were found f from within f two feet e from the Ce surface to the extreme bottom The skeletons on and near the marl ware re not as wel well pro served as those nearer the surface but the they had the appearance of belonging to toa toa a giant race a as the frames were much larler larger gant than those of the present inhabitants inhabitants tants T The trunk of a black oak tree was found about b the the top and bottom of one of the banks and In a per fee feet state of preservation I It was cut Into stove wood and proved tobe or of the roost most Inflammable nature burning wih with the intensity of wood perfectly saturated wih with 01 oil and what seemed most remark remarkable remarkable able among the peculiar qualities of the timber was the slow manner in which it was waR consumed b by th the lire The earth overlying the marl of the basin has singular al aad d diversified ap an The banks as they are wash wah washed I ed awa away by the miners show stratified formations of a very numerous and in I ch character and and each strata seems to he be composed of substances wholly dis dissimilar s similar from the others which would In indicate that they were separately formed In different epochs and that the mn ma composing them came from dir dif ferent erent sources The evidence that the country was Inhabited b a race of pe pee I pie previous to the formation of an any se earth over oyer the marl is perfectly concu seThe The excavations In the marl some have thought and amI the opinion sti still hold to some extent were caused b by the ac acton action ton tion of the water but the most remark remarkable I able ahle theory Is that tle they were the work of the ancient peoples themselves per I haps the basements of the huts In which the they lived and In fact I it would seem that this is the most plausible explanation ton tion as the pot holes are only to le seen in the vicinity where the thc mortars peste pestles fored formed and other relics ofa of antiquity are |