Show ANCIENT CITY IN OLD HI MEXICO MICH Professor A H Blackiston Makes Discovery of Re Remarkable Remarkable Remarkable Ruins FIND SOLVES A MYSTERY NO CIVILIZED MAN EVER SET FOOT IN PLACE BEFORE El EI Paso Tex March L Professor A AH AH AH H Blackiston archaeologist and pos possessor possessor possessor sessor of the largest private collection of Mexican antiquities In the Smith Smithsonian Smithsonian Institution In Washington has luts returned to this city after what lie he announces Is the most important of ot othis his discoveries In Mexico He says he helias has lias discovered remains of ot people of prehistoric America and that these peo people people pIe complete the link between the th Mound Builders on the north and tho thi Mayas on the tho south Professor ProCessor Blackiston brings back some of the most Valuable acquisitions to ancient American relics among them the largest stone axe ever found and stalks of maize malzer and tornillo brush years old found in a ii perfect state of oC preservation buried in the adobe walls wal s of the newfound city The site of the discovery is across acro s the continental divide from the scene of the Casas ruins which 1 have been the source of most extensive studies by archaeologists in Mexico in inthe inthe inthe the last decade In an almost im irn impassable Impassable passable wilderness thirty miles west of Dos Cabezos in a land never before beford trod by the foot of a white man the ancient city was found Two months ago the deserted city was located by byan byan byan an Indian In guide and the fact was re reported reported reported ported to Professor ProCessor Blackiston who is conducting a government experiment station in the Rio Grande valley and who immediately investigated with the most surprising results on Cliff The village was found situated on ona ona ona a precipitous cliff in part surrounded by b a large natural cave 1500 feet above the Bavispe e river which flows nOs In the deep valley vaHey below Here were discovered the ruins of hundreds of adobe houses all but a 3 ow OV in a good state of ot preservation The quat quality quality ity of ot pottery ottery I found in these houses is superior to that made by the Tol tees and the Aztecs The Casas Grandes Gra des Indians and the tribes just discovered occupy occupy a peculiar peculiar liar position I in the relations of indent in dent tribes of ot the western hemi hemisphere hemisphere hemisphere sphere said Mr Blackiston n Addi Additional AddItional facts just obtained show that these tribes farmed a connecting link Unk between the tribes of ot the north and the south The Mayas and Az Aztecs Aztecs tees form the southern group ind nd the th Pueblos and Mound Builders the Northern the Casas formal orM 1 an intermediate group Their ruins and culture symbols show influences om oin mon to both of o the groups S named Professor Blackiston says that the idols of the newfound group resemble resemble ble those of the Indians of the south Symbols on the pottery made by b them th m mare are also similar simlar Sun Sign Used On the other hand their buildings are like those of the Pueblos The sun sign used was fras the same used by b both the Aztecs A and the Mound Builders This Thi is also the sun sign sl n used by b the ancient Egyptians which in this respect tend tends to connect them with the ancients of the eastern hemi hemisphere sphere The water sign of the Casas and those of the newfound race Is the same as that used by the Aztecs which in turn resembles that used by the Chinese The winged serpent of the Casas is like the same seine symbol of the north and south tribes The remains of the tehi tem temples ples pies of ot the Casas show how un worship and the tribe just lust discovered evidently worshiped in the same way a With the exception of the lone lona guide ulde up to two months ago no man of civilization civilization civilization had ever eer set foot on the ruins Proof of this is furnished in the fact that the ruins stand today without the sign j of ot molestation of the hand of oC man mun white or red The doors of the houses stand sealed as they tile were left when their occupants departed never to ic te turn On the still mountain almost in inaccessible Inac inaccessible accessible ac to man or beast the ancient village stands the doors with rUn Hh stones that have never been be I rolled away by curious hands ruins of oC the ancient ladders lying bin still close chose to the cliff curt of the precipitous height disturbed in no way but by the elements n |