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Show Arlzoua Objeota of Antiquity, Arizona Republican. Arizona has a priceless treasure in her reruaius of the Toltec eta. The ancient castles, dwellings and irrigation irriga-tion works are rapidly vanishing under the unsparing hand of tho modern farmer far-mer in tho irrigable valleys, and the writer knows of instances where the cedar floors of elaborate cliff dwellings have been burned for no other purpose than to "smoke out" a swarm of bees and thus secure tho honey stored in the recesses of the cave. Such reckless destruction of that which cannot be replaced re-placed should be, at the next sitting of the legislature, constituted a crime against the state. The records of antiquity an-tiquity have not as yet but imperfectly searched in this territory, and it would be commendable, both from patriotic and scientific points of view, were the legislature to institute measures looking look-ing to a compilation of data and collection col-lection of relics in connection with the pre-historio races of Arizona. |