Show ancient ruins in arizona A letter to the st louis republican gives the following interesting account of some ruins re recently centy discovered in arizona ariona A careful examination of some extensive ruins ruin found some miles east of florence on the gila river lias has been made lieutenant ward was the tile first explorer who came upon the desolate remains of a once imposing architectural pile athas it has been deserted perhaps for more than a thousand years and has been crumbling away in the wilderness der ness neEs the apa apache ehe che even never PI pitched his tent upon the spot so thickly strewn with fragments of the work of a perished race the principal ruin is a parallelogram fortification feet in width by 1600 feet in length tho the walls which were built of stone have long been overthrown and are overgrown by trees and vines in many places a meret mere ridge in lecates the line of th the ewall wall wali the stones having disappeared beneath the surface within the area wo the remains of a greater structure by feet constructed of roughly hewn stones in some pome places the wall remains almost perfect to a height pf af some twelve feet above the surface on the east side of bathe the granda casa there are two openings of an oval ova shape which doubt doubtless leis leas arved served the pu purpose of windows on the inner fhaner side of the wall of the palice palace for such it doubtless was there are yet perfectly distinct tm tracing ping of the image of the tha sun th there thero breare are two towers at the southeast and southwest corners comers of the great closures enclosures In still fit standing anding one of which is twenty six and the other thirty one ode feet high these IIA lla have y b evidently been beem much higher as nsf the broken tops and the amount of debris near the base indicate A few copper implements some somo small golden ornaments one being an image of the sun run with a perforation in the middle and some stone utensils and two rudely carved stone vases much like those found at etaro and copan in cr central america are all the works of art yet discovered no ko excavations have been made as yet to determine fully the extent and character of theyo theme these ruins th the 0 ruins are situated in a small plain elevated nearly two hundred feet above the bed of the gila just west of the walls of the fortification there is a beautiful stream of water having HS its source in the mountains which crosses the tha plain and by a series of cata eata cataracts M falls inta into the gila about two miles below the fragments of potte pottery and polished stone reveal a condition of civilization among the builders of these ruins analogous to that of the ancient peruvian central american and aiex Alex mexican ican lean nations the country in the vicinity of this buried palace is particularly wild and unusually desolate no clue to the b builders ull uli ders of this great fortified palace with its towers and moa moat has been or I 1 Is is likely ever to be discovered one thing however is apparent that this whole country was peopled once by a race having a higher grade of civilization than is found among any of the native tribes of the later ages but whether this race were the ancestors of the pl pi mos or some extinct people Is i not and cannot certainly be known the ruins on the gila are another uncovered palenque another copan an an atlan exposed at last to bewilder Ee wilder bewilder and confound it is understood der stood that these extensive ruins ruin s will be thoroughly explored within the present year |