Show CLIFF DWELLER STUDENT Dr H 2VI Bium Has Been Investigating Investi-gating Ruins in Southwest and Will Explore Salt Lnko Valley i Dr Henry Mason Bauni who has been touring the Southwest In the interest in-terest of the Records of the Past T3x ploratlon society stopped In Salt Lake yesterday The purpose of his visit to the prehistoric dwellings there was to find out as nearly as possible the extent ex-tent of the population and to fix If I possible the dale of the destruction of the Cliff Dwellers lie says that no one has any conception of the vast number of those people or the area over which they hold sway The most Important of his discoveries Is that It In pivutlrolly certain now thai t the homes of the Cliff Dwellers were not built ih a protection as Is popularly believed but that the three classes of people tin Cliff Dwellers Mesa Dwellers and the Valley Dwellers are all of the same race and furthermore further-more If J there were any wars carried on butwcen them the cliff dwellings yelp no good as fortresses ar they were loo nay of access having simple gradual approaches and besides un enumy could with perfect case got above them and roll stones down Those people ho said never llvd on desert land as some have claimed for there arc positive vldenees that the cllmatln change wat > made at the same lime the lava How occurred The destruction de-struction nf all lifE took place at the time of the seismic disturbances and those who escaped from the laVa must have died with the poRtllenre follow lag the decomposition of thu dead bodies bod-ies This has boon called Impossible he says but the recent eruptions of Martinique show that pestilence does follow and that the bodies do not necessarily ne-cessarily sink In the stuff lie says the Indians here now can In no way ho connected with the prehistoric people Dr Baum will make an Investigation In the Salt Lake valley after which he will proceed to Washington and make out his otdclal report concerning this trip r |