Show Prehistoric America I Finding a Durlod Prehistoric City In Mexico A Groat Temple aOOxCOO rootCnrvlrKS In Imitation of Egyptian and Assyrian FlnurosCvldonoo of Croat Salami Convulnlonev William Nlven a well know mlnral ogUt of r New York has discovered a prehistoric city In Mexico which In I point of site and interest outranks anything any-thing 01 the kind brought to light rr many years More than Ihat he think he has found the remnants ol a distinct clvllltalion Meilco was the home ol many pre historic races and the whole country train the American border lo Guatemala bears silent testimony to the people ho lived and died many generation before the while men came Ecu items i have been carried on with more or its I regularity sloes the settlement of the country and many Interesting and useful discoveries have been made concerning con-cerning the habits and live of these callYpeople l Uut Meilco Ii I still a new country although la old that tome en tbustasii claim that It was actually the cradle ol the human race A strange but true paradoi Mealco with an area of 75i7oo square miles baa less I than 11000 Goes Inhabitants and Super cent 01 Ihat number are Indians nitrate note section of the country the Indian are still Independent ol the Mexican government and In these Same section lie vast ruins of the cities of other dais zealously guarded by tbe aborigines The Indians are very superstitious In all things but especially 10 In mailers connected con-nected with these mule reminder ol the past Mr Nlven encountered the that lame obstacles as other scientists have gone bore him Bulheieemilo have profiled by Past failure and his perseverance has been rewarded The stale ol Guerrero where the prehistoric pre-historic city was found Is I one ol the wildest of the Central lucan felt There are no riltroadi And In many places only few trail These are tugged tug-ged and In many places difficult 01 pai sage Impenetrable forests dist bar rancai barren desert where theatres ihlnei straight from overhead and the easier starter rui are the natural guardians guardi-ans ot these cllles ol Hie dead I Always feel when I come back from nne 01 these trips said Mr Nlven ai though I never iaied to make the ven lure again flat civilisation weari away Ihe t remembrances and the CW hankerIng hanker-Ing comes back again Ileiides there Ii I a alrange laactnation In digging dlltnl In lo the pail A piece ol broken pottery or a stone Idol conven lillle pleasure or I meaning tile uninitiated but lo those who have made any study ol atcbx I logical 1 matters they often ape volumes rho Stairs 1411c I we airliners defaults to discover 10 Gut rttfo are very tensive in ch inure ao than t at lint supposed At tathet rough estimate iu I should say that territory ol 1 over wo equate inihs toas literally covered foot by foot with sections ol mini Every tIJge and Inlllop bore the remain ol ancient temples I lome of then mammoth mam-moth proportions In mott Instances these prehistoric structures owing to the wind and rain ol centuries were little more than foundations beneath whch I Invariably found some unique and curlout objecjs SHU many ol 1 illegal Hand from three to eight feet hlthand substantially built ol atone and lime Tho ruin have the appearance of belonging be-longing lo one vast city and subsequent Investigations I bore out my first Impact rout My Tn i nous tu ttie mailer During Ihe lime I I wit occupied cicavating I VIi led tile ruins I bl twenty two templei with altars IIIJ In f Hie twenty y ilo of them from I Ave to twenty feet high 1 and from ten to fifteen feet 1 square a he altars were In a much building better state themselves of preservation being as than I a rule the I conitiuclcd ol a superior iraterlal and laid with more care At Qjechomlct lit I an l an Aztec word ffil What I a quantity t of bonei on lop1 I found thai the bul ding stone In some of the dificcihad been carefully cut of equal dimensions and while eicavaung there a great quantity of homes bl anlmala were unearthed This proved to be a circular chamber or loner about twelve feet In diameter and tilled with dual and broken platter painted a brilliant red and white Whatever pigment was uied the color has been remarkably well preserved and apparently Is I ai fresh ai the day It was painted I by eo hand I cf lomeduiky arllit In tile remote past On the Hoot w hlch was also 1 ol plaster there were a larie quanlllv of stone d large quantiti Tno headland many olherlnleresllngotecii that do not Certain any collection that I have ever teen Excavations at Jaballn revealed lettered walls and a great quantity ol broken pottery ol a peculiarly dlaii r let line from that Usually found In the ancient mound ol this country Near this place In the great barranca ofXda tlahco over ijccifcel deep the altar of one ol the temples ioU over twenty feet I Mgh and eighteen feet square U was coust fueled In Ihe lorm ol a pyramid II and tile stones were a faced I so till much care and labor and put together with an exce3ent quality 01 cc intent At Yerba lluena the wills of the temples I are in some places eight feet high while the altar Is I Iwelve feel with I parti ot the ancient stair suit remaining facts place I found many handsome I apeclment In irira I Coal and mil Intact At Organoi ifie ol 1 the must Interesting placea vUneiA Ifce ruin were molly under grounu An excavation wit made Into out ol them and at t1I101 Ihe foundations ol Ihe walli were not Scathed Three chambers viere cleaned out with much difficulty owing lathe They thick were tropical room roman filled ol Kielatlon Ih clay tints and pottery Most of the H > tleiy was broken hut the pieces give an excellent ex-cellent idea 01 ilia art of the period and I consider them quite valuable An other temple I tat found at a place I called I Trial and more subterranean chambers wt 11 One large cut stone at Xochocoliln seven leet long by two feel wide had a figure of nn idol carved on one side with I eaddresi incomplete About Iku yd wt Ion tic summit ul a hill were two large Idols weighing about joo grounds each They bear not the slightest slight-est resemblance lo ihe Aztec Tollec or hill a figures ol the tame claaa At I test l we came upon ruins nearly all uni er giound Near tile tool ot one ol the lar eit of these were twelve prepared pre-pared stunts nearly tbe shape and lie 1 of a sugnr loaf They were built Into the will and placed I jr by side with I their ends projecting It wss A unique i arrangement JJU an entirely I new Oe I parlors In ancient architecture Here I as well as In many other localities were round large circular stones whlcn bear a marked re mbtarce to our grind lone Iron their appearanceaid location I should judge that they were blended < ai Cape lot tne enormous orlglnallf otilloallr r lI r neoa edi mous pf tire used In all the sacred I fices Not far distant w e also found on tie summit ol the mountains several 1 pyramids perfectly formed and about l i sixty t feet high I 1 I Hut the really most remarkable find ol all was near a p ace called UuayatM I Here were Ihe ruins of an ancient temple I i i fix rer feel by suit j leek At the depth of I nine feet from the surface under Ihe altar an olla of terra cotta was dls if covered Ailed with dirt Uiran a careful 1 rn n dt dlroUr do 1 211 examination there wire found Inalde I evenly two beautifully wrought objec i i of mother ol I pearl these were made up Into the moil fanciful and grotesque figure Imagloa le I lour of them were carved head allh a peculiarly shaped bdde very much after the pattern 01 ancient Egyptian and Man attests ushers were representation ol fun and animals Many more bore ranc dIn d-In possibly citric uru or nn mote probable Intended Imagel of unseen East C much believed I In data SO The olla was broken by the pick ol the porn but the fragment were carefully care-fully collected and ouchall I ol I It with the earth and ol jecta nicking It I seat secured undisturbed imagine I mat these trinkets might have been thepnaed belongings ol some prehistoric maid or housewife Indeed looking at the gewgawi I am almost per suadeiTIhat 1 1 Or rtally Invaded r the boudoir of some datkikmncd taintless They were the work ul a mailer hand ol her people Iethaps Ihll Ii why when hoped ho-ped Into the land ol the good aplrtl they laid them In the grave beside ber Ity might be interesting to know thai Mr ISIven media three trloe Including trt lrt the present In search of the lost city I about which the Indian are always 1 talking The first uniuccenluUni I It was upon the second trlpln 1894 tbat he really located Ihe place II I lo left 1 the town ol Cuautla Moreloi on tile 14th ot May 1 of that year and plunged into I the wilJernii It Ii I an erroneous Idea he iai that many people have Ibal Guerrero Ii an unsafe Hate to travel In I and he attributes I t lo this false 1 report Iso I port Ibe fad that these ruins remained so long undiscovered I1n the 21h ol the same month Information was gained I ol some arcl I IT logical I ruins near ban I Miguel Jalter a hard climb of several hours up a tough trail the party arrived I at the summit more than 8000 feet t elhul loln atx e the level of the sea The people had never had a bltm In I ttitlr Man biore thiy lalJ and they etarnln l bre curiously I Hie t rlfln revolvers I and r camera of tne trillion A great many interestIng Interest-Ing I oljtcis were found here anl arc now In the American Museum ol Natural HUtory I Ncariy every town vliiel I n the 1 next three weeks Lad some prehistoric prehis-toric I tuln < mostly mounds The party reached Xochlpala on nJ June ajili and tile story ul the actual ulicovery ol tin ruined call soon alter rd It I beat given In I Mr Nlvens own word It was the day of the festival ol fun Pdro and we were awakened aliorllv alter 4 clock by the lound drums whldi were being vlgoruuily pound In honor of the event While we were preparing tu return lo Coicorula Hip Alcalde called upon usandradvisedus 1 to stay a lew days and make a trip into Ih mount adrus well I of the ton where he aid was a ruined city covering nuny leagues I Me alto offered lolurnUnui illli a guide I had met an Indian hi < Olives on my former visit in 1591 I who 1 > told me nonJerful itoryol a ru tried city about two data on horseback weatol the place At the time I paid little l attention 1 to the t Hory being uied lo tales of Mellon romance and gold mines Hut from hearing the same story from the justice ol the puce my it terest was 01 onto Aroused I deaden to run the chance of a wild Stocks chase and alguified my willingness to proceed at once We found ho ever Hut the Indian who was lo be our guide was out ol town and would not return till evenIng even-Ing On Mi arrival I questioned him clJI and then fell sure that we were on the track cf something of Interest The neat morning icon alter day break we Mt the lon 0 Xochlpala traveling overt trail due west for two leagues I vi hot < it began to wind around Ihe foothills cf i the 1 Sierra Madrebearli I g a lulle to the south About noon wet camped at we-t a spring In a deep canyon The guide promlted lo allow ui tile Ant sign ol rulua at a place called Ycrja lluena We lOon law the Ant cvUencei of prehlitonc ilructurei which however how-ever were little more than foundations i ut the l turpnie at the lop of 1 the hill removed W doubliof I lt the Indian 1 veracity vera-city for there belore us was what was once evidently a great tern leoccupylng t loace of aooitio feet In the center wag an altar ol solid masonry ten feet Square and In a good Hate of preservation preserva-tion At each corner the foundations and part of the walls ol circular toners sli 1 fact f lick I were plainly visible I Climbing 10 ilia lop 01 one tower I found It covered with charcoal dun to the depth ol eighteen Inches Then we mounted our trustee and traveled till auk nearly ten miles among the rums ot what was one lime a great city Ihe houses substantially built ol tuue and lime had been from Ally to eighty I feel 1 square The ruins were found only on the ridges of the mountain while on Ihe I a I ties near the Summit were visible many foundations Alter descending horn the summit Juorjoa feet then were no Matrix ol ruins ol any description descrip-tion 1 was lat Oed that I had made a find ot great Importance and haatcned to lol dl r the city ol Mexico where I began little littoni with the government lor an ei plorailon tight to follow up my And and my efforts were success uL I did not make Ihe mailer public the time for reasons that will be readily apparent Who were these people and how came they to disappear I cannot answer My Impression I that once upon A time the country wai one van plain It WAS probably Submerged by a titanic con Stallion of nature and with It disappeared disappear-ed lu people and their primitive civilisa lion Later the land was ihruit up again ai we ice It now a barren deals late I watte t Ai the nearest water supply ll several miles distant and that only a litlrI i3n tb 11u 11 small spring It Ii evident that tome great Iranilormatlon t In nature has taken place since the land wn populated Of course their hieroglyphics tell ui something some-thing Hut not t ol their history They speak ol their every day life of the r habits and cuatontf as pla n though It were wiltivni lu Look but whence lacy I came and bow they went Ii only a mailer ot the wildest coniecture i There Ii I another quwllon that has at 1 wati remained unanswered Where did Monleauma get all his goldIZId 1 discovery IJuechomlctlipan I may lead lo a solution bt the Gmlbllamd 1 It location 1 loca-tion U within lat mllei of one of Ihe I moil t promlilng I gold belli 11 In 1 Meilco I Ii this ruined city the lost city of the Agree Who know That race wandered I wan-dered Irom jty to nil In search ol a land flowing with milk and honey and believing that they had lounJ It Killed renochtitian on the prestnt ails ol I the City of Meilco In IJH U it not ponlble thai I techomlcillpan wai the cual which t icy tailed lo ft idf lvetylhlnj goei lo snow that want now appears to be several I distinct ton believes apart by barraocai and chasms was at one time In reality one great city A city of this situ 1 would very naturally got nol lied auruid even Into the tat I countries and II requires 110 gas It stretch of the Imagl nation to assume thai Ipe Aztecs hear of in 1 lame and were Indeed In search for III walli when thy came across the eagle with a reptile In In mouth perched on a cactus plant In a iwamp In the real valley ol MexicoUI L I Vail In I ban I ranciico Chronicle I I |