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Show Restoration Of Old Ruin Is Promised Prehistoric Building in Mesa Verde Is to He Rehabilitated j for Benefit of Visitors to Colorado's Wonder Land . WA8HINGTON'. Mar U. Rentora-llon Rentora-llon of a peculiar prehletorlc ruin In the Me.a Verde national park. In Colorado, Colo-rado, will be attempted thla aummar by Pr. J. Walter Keakea. chief of the bureau of American ethnology of the Hmlthaonlan In.tltuilon, according to an announcement today. The ruin I. a large, circular one. .It-uated .It-uated near Karvlew Houe, a puebla of tha Mummy Ijika group, and no( far from a necropolle which, tha In.tltu-tlon In.tltu-tlon elate., h.a yielded valuable re, turn. In archaeological .pcclmena left' by early Indian". Preliminary examination h.e Indicated Indi-cated that the burled building belong, be-long, to a type not ued aa a dwell- ing, hut const run ed for some unknown un-known communal use. The Institution' announcement aald It waa projMwed to strengthen and otherwise oth-erwise repair the shattered walla, so thai tourists might aee snother of the grat Mn Verde buildings In a condition somewhat as it was before the ravsges of time had overthrown Its walls and filled Ita rooms with refuse of various kinds. |