Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-10-13 | Page 8 | An Interesting Problem

AK CTTERZSTTJTQ PROBLEM. Was Washington once the site of a great city, long forgotten, unknown to the modern archaeologist? Did there live and thrive on the North American continent a race prior to the AxtecsT Are there treasures of art burled under the soil of this capital? Wherefore, then. the mysteries of stone Just unearthed in the digging for the foundations of the 'new building for the House of Representatives? Represen-tatives? Far below the foundations of the houses destroyed to make room for the new edifice these fragments have appeared, and the memory of man today to-day runs not back to the time when such structures were there as to call for these deep-laid bases. Nor do the oldest inhabitants know of anyone who remembers re-members having seen or heard of such. Washington was built upon virgin soli, so far as city creation was concerned, in the Judgment of its foundera Here were farms and small dwellings, a manor ma-nor house or two, and an unbroken record rec-ord of freedom from the inroads of the city-makers. The North American Indians In-dians did not build cities. They did not dig into the soil to found their structures. struc-tures. Here, then, is a problem for the historians and the archaeologists to solve. Washington Star.