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Show The Painted Desert San Diego, Col., Jan. 22: Former -QxnoBltlons have , shown wild men and womon from" tho AiuTpodcs') b'uT It has romalned for tho San Diego Exposition to II iid a whole nation of wild men within tho boarders of tho United Stntcs, a whole vnst area where nothing hns progressed slnco boforo tho Invasion of Moxlco by Cortez lu 1D17. This nrca is In northeastern Arlzoun, nnd tho Snntn Fo Rnllway will cover ton ncres of ground nt tho exposition with ns close a copy of this country as Is possible to produce. TIiIb locality Is known ns tho Painted Paint-ed Dosuret. Its n laud whore no white mnn hns dared nttempt agriculture agri-culture or mining, whore there Is nothing but the Indian, his nuclent civilization uu-nltered, living In six story Iioubpb with 100 rooms without an outsldu door, doing the same things in tho snme wny his forefathers, did for centuries before white men enmo to Amerlcn. ' Comparatively few white men have penetrated thU district, 'ono has remained there. At long Interacts Inter-acts ii scientist hns ponotrntcd the fastnesses of tho red nnd yellow hills. Indians emerge from It occasionally oc-casionally but thoy Invariably re- turn. There homos are tho Ident- jH Icnl buildings erected many centuries flj ngo. There pottery is the sW, fl used for tho snmo purpose and in tho nfl Bnmo rudo manner. Their customs jflj nnd tribal laws remain unchanged jflj since when no mnn known to the con- HJ trnry. They Irrigate small patches flj of grain just ns did their, forefathers. H Tho country repels ovon tho hardy flj prospector. Trees, except those pot- 'flj rifled Into stono, nro not soen. No jflj two hills nro of tho same color. Tho flj vory rocks are variegated In hue. fflj Tho pitiless sunscorches all vegotn- iflj tton encouraged by the winter and iH spring rnins. H Mcmbors of tho Santa Fo explor- flj Ing party declare tho Pnlntod Desert H rivals tho wonderful Grand Canyon jiH of tho Colorado in grandeur and H benuty of Bcenory. A second party jflj has been sent into It to gather mat- jflj orlal for the great exhibit tho rail- flj vny will install nt tho San Diego H Exposition, to contain everything flj possible to bring from thatf. region, Bfl a territory that scorns to haVe been Bfl forgotten by Nnturo herself. " flj |
