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Show A whiter in tho Arizona Enterprise Enter-prise suggoata Lhfl oxcavation of the foundations of the raiug of the ancient Spanish cathedrals, which stretch in an unbroken lino from tho gulf of California in Sonora to soulbwe-itern Colorado. These cathedrals we e probably built in tho time of Cortez. The Spanish builders were subsequently subse-quently massacred by the Indiana, and tho writer suggests that the occupants occu-pants ol the missions mentioned must have buriod their treasures under the altars or floors of the cathedrals, whence they had fled ai ajlaat rofuge. lie thinks that not more than sixteen feet of excavation would bo required to determine their position. He thinks that documents might be found which would revolutionize all the accepted theories of tho early occupation of this continent, fix as realities the moot perplexing fables, and diiolodo older than Icelandic records re-cords of tho ear lie it settlement of the continent; determine tho race of tho mound-builders, show who constructed the magnificent idols of Copan and Palenque, as well as the chtl-fortiti-catious of southwestern Colorado and tho symbolic picture-writings in cave of Arizona and Now Moxico, etc., etc. |