Show ANCIENT RUINS FOUND DISCOVERIES OF UNIQUE CHARACTER CHAR-ACTER IN COLORADO Find Indicates that 1 Partially Civilized Civ-ilized People Pre eded the Gulf Dwellers > TRIBUNE SPECIAL Denver Colo Jan 7In construct IngHlrrigatlon ditches for the Govern nfnent on the recentlyopened Ute reS ration r-ation Thomas H Wlgglesworth unearthed un-earthed ancient ruins of n unique I character The discoveries Indicate that they are of the highest scientific Importance Mr Wipglcsworth is a civil engineer and has lived many years In southwestern Colorado Tradition and other evidence leads to the belief that the cliffdwellers were the immediate predecessors of the modern mod-ern Indians The ruins discovered by I Mr Wlgglesworth were undoubtedly Inhabited by a partiallycivilized people peo-ple differing In habits from the races they preceded I Is the opinion of Mr Wlgglesworth that this earlier race lived In fertile valleys and Inhabited In-habited adobe houses Instead of houses of stone The mud houses said Wigfeles worth occupied sites on the level ground and were surrounded by fields of grain I have dug through mounds seventyfive feet long and thirty feet wide which represent the remains of one of the large adobe structures Wo uncovered thc most beautiful vast of antique workmanship I ever saw The case was black with age and as the workmen of that region especially espe-cially the Indians are superstitious in such matters they threw the vase over the dump and it was a hard task finding find-Ing it again The Indians claim that the older ruins are the remains of former for-mer MoquI or Zuni life but they will not express an opinion on the subject |