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Show h 13 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY- MORNING, MAY 28, 1922. 'I - 1 j I Weaving Romance From Prehistoric Mounds Mi n - ?, l , . Southern Illinois Yielding Evidence of Race Country Before Advent of Indian ; Prospecting Reveals Wonders. En-habiti- ng 'Fwo Mound similar altar gras found during the others preliminary work last fall, and have been unearthed in other mounds in other sections of the oountry. It is the theory of Dr, Moorehead that the mound builders used these altars in connection with ceremonial rites. They were Inserted, as this one was, in a large platform of clay, evidently s dance floor, and when their ceremonial usefulness was ended they were covered with earth hence the mounds. One of the skeletons has been turned over to Washington university here to be examined hi an effort to determine the age, sex and physical characteristhe skulls tics. speaking, Generally which have been found show that the mound builders were a powerful race physically and with large brain cayltles. but wittr the protruding lower j w usually associated with animal cunning and The ashes found in the basin cruelty. also will be submitted to an exhaustive chemical analysis. Dr. Moorehead declares that the pottery- fragments- which he has found indicate beyond doubt that the women of the mound builders had developed a ce- A builders is beginning to get results that will be written Into history, Professor Warren K. Moorehead, Massachusetts archaeologist, is In charge of the expedition, which is being financed by the University of Illinois and watched with interest by the Smithsonian Institution and other eclentlfio organisations. He made his preliminary investigation last (all, digging through one mound to determine that it was composed of strata of earth arranged by of various kmds human hands, - and has just completed some spring excavations which have revealed wonders of the culture of this forgotten race. The diggers will return this fall and again in other seasons, for It will take ten years, probably, .to reveal the epic of a . people who brought conch shells from tne sea, obsidian from the Yellowstone, mica from the" Alleghenies, copper from the Groat lakes and flint from Missouri. During five weeks of work just completed, Dr. Moorehead unearthed three fire-bak- Dinner Remnants Found. It had once been a enlwon "rtlnwr. with Its centei phut a young deer killed a day or two before. The. cooking pot was a big earthenware vessel with flaring ri m. suspended over a charcoal firs with thonpx of green hide fastened to - initiated projects at Muscle Shoals, Ala were given their answers today by the house military committee in the form of a counter proposal framed None of the ofby the committeemen. fer submitted by the bidder and forwarded to congres by Secretary Week for final decision was found acceptable. That made by Henry Ford came closest to winning the award in that it was made the baeis upon which the committee bated it reply. ; The committee acted in a way, it was explained, which will leave its decision subject to acceptance by any person or interest willing to meet its terms and which will permit it, at the same time, to support its counterprot posal before the house when the of Muscle Shoals is acted upon - Larger Than Cheops. The largest of the Cahokla mounda known as Monks mound, because of the fact that Trappist monks built a monastery on its summit, is larger than the great pyramid of the Cheops in Hgypt. It (s nearly 1000 feet in diameter and more than 100 "feet high. It covers more than sixteen acres of ground and contains more than 84.000,000 cubic yards of earth. . It has been estimated that, with modern machinery, it would require more than two years for 2500 men to build It. And the Indian women who carried every bit of this earth in baskets "toted only a peck or two at a time. Dr. Moorehead will not .enter into any discussion of the age of and Implements he has found. He has Indicated, however, that he does not believe they are 1000 years old. Whenever it was four hundred ears one thousand seven hundred, ago, squaws gave dmner parties then, just es A few $avs ago five they do nowadavs white men. digging near Cahokla creek in the trinity of one of the mounds, uncovered the evidence supporting this assertion. Altars Discovered. - BY WILLIAM H. FRANCIS. (Copyright, 192. by ait Lake Tribune.) ST. LOUIS, Mo.. May 27. The eighty or more earthen mounds? scattered over a SMLacre tract in the Cahokla district tn Madison and SL Clair counties, ki Illinois, a ehort distance across the Mississippi river from St. Louis, have begun to yield up to science their story of a North American people who Jived end vanished in the vague mists of long, long ago. The record Is a fascinating one of .the trade, art and agriculture, of the men who inhabited the Mississippi valley Prior to the supremacy of the Indiana who greeted the discoverer. Be Soto, end the later Jesuit explorers. Hints of the Story have been obtained before. In explorations of mounds in Ohio and Illinois and In almost forgotten attempts to fathom the mystery of the Cahokla mounda But now a comprehensive expedition to this metropolis of the mound ramie art higher than that achieved .by mound, builders any other prehtstorlo north of the cliff dwellers of the southwest. The fragments uncovered In the mounds were scooped up by the Indian women as they filled their baskets to carry to the mounds. . skeletons, twenty-thre- e cemeteries, fifty-tar- o funeral jars and urns. Countless small art objects and implements of aar, and, moat Important, an .altar. Six mounds wars penetrated. The altar was in the center of the bass of one of tha mounda The mound has a diameter of about ISO feet and eras about twenty-fou- r feet high. That altar is a basinlike structure of baked clay, about eighteen Inches in diameter, Its sides being about three inches thick. It was filled with ashes the nature of which has not been determined. ARE REJECTED Frames Counter Proposal for Possible Basis for Bidders. House Committee cub-jee- that body. No time was set bv the bidders in WASHINGTON, May 27. (By the calling tor their answers. L. B. Mayo, Associated Press.) Bidders competing ehief engineer for Mr. Ford, was the for development bv private enterprise first to receive a copy of the commit-of the government's $106,000,000 war tee's plans. He, representatives of the Power company, Alabama Frederick Enstrom and Charles Versons, makers the earthenware cars in the rim of the of the other bids, were asked to advise Around the fire, in front of the the committee pot early next week whether household utensils. wigwam, qjrth-Mr. When R4whtte men uncovered the thev wohM accept the proposal. said he would confer with Mr, Mato broken cooking pots still were spot, the there, 1,111 . thongs had turned Ford . in Detroit before giving an to dust. charcoal from the fire answer. nas scattered among the broken pots. Some committee members were rep, The bones from the venison stew were resented as being confident that the where they had fallen. Hut there were worked out - bv the "committee no human bones Hvlrtefitiy the diners plan had departed The mound would be accepted bv Mr. Ford despite hurrlendly. builders had no written language, and the elimination of the Gorges, Ala., tn no notes left thev (urhtnd explanation. steam plant from the properties to be in " disposed of with Muscle Shoals. Others, however, apparently lacked the confidence , their colleague evidenced in this regard and called attention to the reported declarations of. Mr. Mayo and other witnesses for Mr. Ford that offer had to be accepted Mr. Ford as a whole and not in part. Washington County Land Plats Have Been Filed , Notice that the two new township plats have been filed in the Salt Take land office by the United 8tates eur- -' veyor general was issued yesterday by Begister Gould B, Blakely. The land ie in Washington eounty and ia described as township 40 south, range 19 west, and township 40 south," range 20 ' ' west. unappropriated and unreserved sections will be subject to entry under the public lend laws on and sifter September 29. For a period of ninety-on- e days prior to that date soldiers and sailors of tha world war will have a preference right to file on the land. FosTorncB at goshute. Mav 27. A new WASHINGTON, has been established at Goposoffie shute, Juab eountv, Utah, with Francie Mrs, Lorens ,T. Franklin as postmaster. Wickham has been appointed postmaster at Grant, Wyo succeeding M. 1. Kenhey, resigned. . Hundred New Midsummer Bres ake a Refreshing Debut for Decoration Day Priced Scores of crisp new for Monday ginghams swisses, combined with cool in a rainbow of coloring Red and .white ,, navy and whiter black and white, brown and white, new blue and white, orchid and white, green and white. 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