| Show J in tn M MI CAHOKIA AND ITS MOUNDS I i The Cantor of a D Dead Planning to Thorn Thom Thor S 5 l nh i HB i H B X 4 Id d U LI U Ii 14 U U U U U U U U U Special Correspondence Flat cB St Bt Louis Louies LOUI HI Ill 1 July Jul 7 American nr h are ara earnestly advocating the preservation either by L public platon or private purchase of ot the so co called mounds lest lut these e most Important relies relics of ot the mysterious mr mound builders bulten be le obliterated before bror science lisp lias h had time to lo satisfy satiety itself lUelf us Lie lS to their origin Unit and Ind history D B I Bushnell of or the Peabody museum at lit Harvard laran lui has baa recently lent completed u a 1 plan plait planter ter t ci r Wi tit lt t of ot the group grup of mounds mound which will 1 be placed In the in institution Institution n with which lIe he la is connected ant and an rut attempt will wi be made to Inter Interns ns It eat t the national geological survey IrVy In Inthe Inthe inthe the matter to secure soure Its I It In la Inthe inthe the tb effort effert t tO 6 procure an nn appropriation from Congress far or the purpose of ot etab establishing lishing a n national park rk here here It I this effort tails falls a n general genera subscrIption list Hit lt for tor li of at tho the mounds wilt will wi be b opened Tills This remarkable group of ot mounds mounts follows fallows the winding course OUI of ot the Lit Little Li tit tle tt river and was i once con connected cn by a u lint line of ot single tumuli with Wih the th smaller group of ot mounds from which St Louis Lut derives its Is title flUe tte of ot the tho Mound Moun City t The great grat mound at Su St 51 StLouis Louis Juls tins vanished but bul one on mound re t mains mins among the Cahokia group grup which li is hI to lo be almost Its Il exact coun counterpart cun This mound munt commonly known ai 5 the Cahokia mound is III the largest In existence Some years ago it I was wa carefully surveyed by C II n Shannon chief engineer of oC the Wabash railroad who ho found It I to be JOIO feet long feet fee t e wide and 97 feet tee high U It I covers coven an area ar of ot 1355 acres The top Is a n plateau In li the form for of t a I rectangular parallelogram MS 1 acres a re In extent The Tho present plent contents content of at the tho mound mount II approximate very f closely cO I 1060 cu cubic cub I bic b 0 yards yar of ot earth It I was 11 long ago n I definitely derided decided that the mound mount had hal been built bui by b liana hand and and the material I taken train from the lie surrounding country The holes hole left let by bf b the diggers may ma still al I Ib bo ho b teen seen ren In the spring they are ar lakes lake from rein three to IG 16 feet fHt deep dl The h nearest ones one are arc al lees lew If then than tOO JOO yards LItO Ics front from the i mound and the h h farthest ones once are not yards yard ya away awa Estimating that each tach carrier took tok two to feet of lt dirt at nt a n trip trl and that he lie could dig with wih his Hint flint nt spade Mo and to the mound six cubic feet fHt an hour he would contribute In a day of ot 10 hours M O cubic tNt feet of ot earth Irth to tho tile mound At this rate ral It would have hae tak taken taken taken en one man working MO 30 day do In a year elu 1000 40 years ears to complete the tho gigan gigantic tie tic tc undertaking Who erected this enor enormous moul monument whether slave or free fre freand t anti and why wh It II was vos 11 built bui are ar the great gret questions to be solved The mound ha ha has never ner been leen leel really ex cx explored e This Is II the Harey family which hlen hen has hl owned the mound mount for tor 40 0 years rl has hai ha guarded JUA I It permitting no explorations within It I by 11 others otherl and ant making none itself with the single exception of a tunnel Into the mound on the lh northwest corner comer dug dUI by Thomas Ham now OW dead Mr Its Ita Itam Hamey m mey iney y had penetrated only TO 70 feet teet when he was u compelled cm le to abandon his hla hil ox ex explorations by lack of ot funds fund The great age of the Ih Cahokia mound has never ner been questioned White men mn saw It t 39 years eal ego ago and ant It 1 was war Wa as a much a mystery to the Indians of oC the thela Mississippi la valley alle then an at Q It I Is to the world today toa Dr Peterson of ot St Louis Lis who tho has hal made a close clow clo study tudy of ot the Ca Cs group croup thinks think that It was u built bi by b Indians I I a 11 Caesar Lon Lion who came cam to t this hemisphere with Dr Pe Pc Peterson terson sAys 1 found Indians IndianA In hI South America building mound mounds He lie le saw the th I leople ople bury a R chief chit In tn one on of ot them scaling Iraln up U with him his hll wives win and fa ta Ila slaves Uw and an covering the tomb with great gret lt heaps of ot earth while the wives 1 and slaves slave were w yet yit alive Ie n Sto Soto s chroniclers chronicler reported thousands of ot Indians ImIRI living upon up mounds mound the chief In each frh village having his tepee tp upon up the theis lar is at atThe The popular theory Is that the Caho aho ku mound wa was 1 built bui by b nm sun 1 worship era Pf anti and this theory Dr Peterson n eon con on riders elders tofa the right one on but he h dos does dOI n i think the mound was 11 built bui as a a temple 1 L 1 t I alone He lie believes bl It was wua also ulso th the 1 tomb of ot great Brent chiefs who w ra burled buried burle one upon another through generatiOns generation and allt the Ih summit of ot burin burial I places supported the tires lire IrH of th the temple or H whatever WI necessary n t to 10 express ep the n religious belief That the II mound Ilund was I the Ih renter tenter of a n avast avast vast vat population either temporary o or permanent I Is hI apparent from the Im In mem menee len quantities of ot arrow arlo heads head pot pat pottery pt pattee tery tl tee and Ind other dug 11 front froit 1 th thu tho smaller mounds HIV antI tho tto toll sell 11 near ler by lt Li Prof Prot William Mi dam Adam of ot Alon Ii 11 who linn has ha ninny tunny yearn rell li In 10 iy the ho mounds liec he slid and elM In tilt tilo State Slut l hd 11 Mno belIeves HelI that the tho Ih mound 1 1 grout group 11 the Ihl Mecca tit or r re of or If lbs hv t whole empire o oth ot of th lh the The found th Ih thin Ait AU it th IIII City II up of ot en 10 o th r religIous tIl celenia tiles nies on ot A ia almost elmost similar to thIs On th the flat nal u uthe If the Ibl alein which hue Hid of ot nh was divided two parts ft Ire iii II u 0 or slit It III one ut of which burned the sacred UN tire Tills Mexican temple mound won faR no nomore not mote more titan limn halt half the sire of ot the lie The many mailer mound here hErl are ore ot of the wm same form ax as 11 the large om one mU nd have their counterparts In the group These TheM Prof Irot think liy mt have been bel the bite Mt o of at minor temples or of ot tin the of ot the priest who t ho at ut the great tern pit III Dr II H M 11 of ot Washington one of or the American says lay thud the mound wait WOI un the civil M tie well letl as lIS the re capital ot or a 1 great race moo The civil III functions run Uon are ul ways Was ay closely connected among primitive peoples Thit pottery and already found in the ground about Cahokia are arc ro nf of lieu scientIfic value and tle which may come caine after aCter tho Iho opening o of at the chief mound will wilt It Is II hoped ho t be bo still more enlightening Tho The pottery fount found m in In almost perfect condition and bears a 11 striking resemblance re to relies relics of ot tho Uio stone atone sto age unearthed In itt th tin old nui world The long necked JoUles am nt vases are arc like Ilk bottles am cures horn from the tile valley of ot tho the Nile Nil am and many man have lIao painted on them III In bright red 11 1 pigments symbols used by b thu sun worshipers Reversed couch conch sheila held sacred by the Dud in India have It e also been bien found In Inthe Inthe inthe the mounds file Tho pipes pI lies are In Indigenous but other clay articles 1 are aro to those recovered from the oll ot of Great ar Britain Mounds have been found In central centra Asia ARia extending In n I long chum chain tram from the great wall nail of ot China Into Asia Aia Mi Mt Minor Mtnor II nor These rhese mounds have havo the tho same iren character as its n the lie American mounds mount notably nt lit Mona Adena where explorers ers els havo dug out copter implements Implement and tine of ot tera era cotta cotto work evidences Iem to provo prove that there tharo was wan a n mound building ag age com COlli common mon mOil not only to North America but to Asia lint and Europe J and mid from tho tim mounds may laity b he be eventually constructed a satis factory theory of at the common origin of the tha human race The Tho nf ot America are not con confined confined fined to and Ard Mexico They exist I t In N X Nw w York no nil well veil us many other status though the eit t and most elaborate ate all those of ot tho thu Mississippi valley The Tho New York mounds me Ille found In the western part of ot the state ilot In iii county notably near hear the villages of ot omi anel Sal Bal there are many mony traces of the people who once on o covered the continent nt and possibly the whole earth In addition to the mounds Ire are interest tnt remains at 11 Salamanca of ot what was Ither itier Ith r a 1 fort tort or a signal station on the summit of ot a high hill bill overlooking the tile valley of fIt the Allegheny ny river The ilie 8 m in mound ot of earth Irth which crowns till the lie lull hill la is protected on one olle side aIde by a 11 rampart of stones atones of ot equal size piled IlIe loosely el together On Ott the opposite std he the Ih view lew down doan the thO river is II unobstructed ed eti II for fOI many miles ullies and there ther could have hat sighted a n war canoe ranol it at a aO hong O K distance The rIte Seneca a Indians Indiana In who Vho were vete WM mot here by tho the white pioneers could give no of this work |
