Show hieroglyphics IN ARIZONA arizona ArIzon alse la a field for the to work in which has baa been examined simi tied but little writes a tombstone correspondent ot of the st loula louis glou globe Den democrat somal on every side aide there are a great reat number of mounds and ruins of large arge buildings many of which covers bovere acres in extent and which have never had a of earth turned over in them the hardy prospector as he b climbs the steep rocks bordering the canyons in bis search for gold or silver ledges sees far up the sides aides of inao ces tessible sible blunts the openings in which are built the ancient cliff dwellers houses and which have never been examined by white meo men no one cao caid tell what discoveries might lie le made could access be bad to them J hieroglyphics marked upon rocks or other lasting have been used by nearly all ancient races to perpetuate the bictory hiitt ory of certain events among them especially true is this of the ano people who lived in arizona the remarkable picture rocks and bo boulders bowl ders with strange symbols upon them lett left by the Loric races of Ari arizona have been the cause of much discussion among those who have seen them as to who these ancient hieroglyphic makers were these rook records may his be divided into three dil ferent kinds which it la Is thought were made by two different racer the first bret or very race left jett records on rooka rocks in some iome instances of symbols only and in other instances of pictures and symbols combined the later races race abion came alter after the first race bad baa vanished made only crude representations lionson of animals an imala birds or reptiles rep ilef not using symbols or combinations of 0 lines the age of the most moat ancient graphs and hieroglyphics can only be conjectured but all give certain indi calious that they are many centuries old and the difference differ enoe between the ancient and the later race leads the observer to believe that the older baero gly phles were made by a people far superior to those who came alter altar them and who left no record in symbols as we have said with the exception of crude representations of animals and reptiles in many instances it Is is quite evident that ahat the same rock or colff has been used by the two different races to put heir markings upon the later or inferior race often making their graphs over or across the hieroglyphic writings of the first race of the superiority of the first people who left their heir writings on we the rooks or bowl bowlden ders found in the ancient mounds ruins mine and graves there can cab be no doubt for their writings show order and a well defined design to in symbols were evidently intended to convey their history to others and it in ia quite probable that thai those who made the great mounds houses and canals canala were the authors author oi 01 juose writings writing it may be truthfully truth lully asserted that thai the cliff dwellers dwellen of the rook rock houses in the deep canyons of the mountains were of the same race as an we mound builders of the valleys valley for sia exactly the same class of hieroglyphics found on boulders from the ancient ruins of the valleys are found on the rooks rocks near the houses of the cliff dwellers if this superior lu race was so BO dis Linc tive from all other ancient racen of arizona in their work being so BO lar far advanced advance dasto as to solve what would be called even at the present day difficult engineering problems to dig great canals canala many miles in length the remains of which can be seen at the present time and to bring them hem to such mob perfection for irrigating purpose to build such great houses and to live live in cities may it not have been as many who have hare studied this subject now contend that this superior race were white people instead of a copper colored race as ae has generally been supposed rho of the more ancient race are often found on sheltered rocks on the slopes of the mountains leading UD from toe tae valleys valley generally protected from tue elements by overhanging cliffs the dry climate has baa kept the writings from wearing away and being lu la most moat instance picked into rocks which have a black glistening surface sur tace but of a iter color underneath the contrast la is very noticeable and when in prominent places there hieroglyphics can be seen several hundred feet away As no int tal tools have ever been found in the mounds ruins or clift dwellings the were probably bly picked into the rook with a sharp pointed stone atone much harder than the rook rock upon which the work was waa done it to is a singular fact that although iron copper gold and silver abound in the mountain mount alna 6 throughout arizona no utensils ute naila or orna ments menta of these metals are found ju in be mounds or ruins yet like of ancient origin have been found which appear to have been used for reducing ores oreb and in and around which can be found great quantities of an unknown kind of sing in many instances the hieroglyphic boulders bou have been found in great heaps of several hundred in number as it if many different persons persona had contributed a piece of atile strange writing to the collection these them etched boulders have been found buried in the ground with ollas containing the charred bones of human being and could the writings on the boulden be deciphered we would undoubtedly learn of the virtues of the prehistoric deceased just as we do of a person who dies iu in the present day when we read the epitaph on a tombstone of the one who to is burled buried beneath it in opening some of the mounds wounds the investigator finds they are made of the fallen walls walla of great adobe buildings and as an be digs deeper he be finds rooms of various which in many instances have bare cemented walls and floors floore in one instance there djuna the impressions impression of a baby babyc s feet and bands bandi made presumably as the child had bad crawled over the he newly laid soft cements cement in another mound we the cemented walls of a room were fou found nd covered with hieroglyphics and rude drawings whlor were thought to represent idellar constellations to a certain extent some of the plo aured rocks left by the superior race tell us as of part of the daily lite life of this ancient peoples people for in a number of instances the pictures picked into the rooks although rudely formed are self bell explanatory and the ancient artist tells plainly by his work what is in meant on the edge of a litt little valley levalley in the superstition mountains there was found a treat areat rook on oil which had been etched many small animals ani mais ap paret pare itly representing sleep and at one side was the figure of a man as an it if watching them it way may be the ancient herder border himself sitting in we toe shadow of the great rook rock while hla big sheep were grazing gracing in the valley below had bad passed away the time in making this rook picture the hardy bardy wild sheep still till found lu in the mountains of arizona way may be the remnants rem nanta of great bands formerly domesticated by this people the skeleton of 0 via t tie prehistoric mat man dug from beneath the stalagmites mites in the cave of menton mentloe oe prance france and which set all the scientific men of the world talking and thinking gives proof ol of no greater age than many ol of the tone bones or relies of some of these ancie ancient tit mound aud and canal build n the incident illustrating the great antiquity of prehistoric mau man to iu arizona to is the following in 4 a well on the copert norta ot of at the depth of leet feet from the surface a stone atone mortar such as aa me ancients an clenta lusell was waa found standing upright sou in it was a alone pestle bealle showing the abe mortar had bad nut beon been carrier carriea there ther by any underground current of j f water and ana that it hd bad no aoi beer disturbed dla from the position pogi tion in which lia its ancient owner had bad leit left it with the pestle in it there la is only one way to account tor or the position ot of this tau mortar anti and pestle they had bad originally been jolt on off what sit at that time was waa the surface of the and the slow alow wash from the tb mountains bad gradually during unknown ages raised the eunace for miles oo on every lado ide to the depth of feet the question is in asked will this hieroglyphic writing ever be deciphered As has baa been asserted asBer teJ the authors authora ot the most moat ancient bier bien writings or markings seem to 10 have nad had well defined forms or marks which were lu in common use for this class of la Is it not must reason able tj ta suppose that a race of people so go far advanced lu in uther other ways would have perfected a method ol of transmitting by marks of some kind their records to those who might cume after them again where so BU much batem system is shown in the use of symbols it may be presumed prea umed that toe me name mark wherever used in tue toe same pool alon carries carriea with it a fixed meaning alike at all times having such auch a fettled system of marks marki there must maat be a key to te the concealed in the be writing and quite likely the key tor for deciphering hieroglyphic writings will some time be found on one cf the att undiscovered hieroglyphic ache in the high mountains moun taina or in one of the wounds amounda not yet examined on 00 the other band there aau be no 0 key tu to ty se he interior class of mauo maue the people who came ater the mound canal and city builders had bad disappeared for the crudely marked forms of reptiles animals or similar things bad a meaning it if any varying with each individual maker who were those people who formed a great nation here in the obscurity ol of the remote past padl were they the ancient who were not only a maritime but a col colonizing oDiz nation and who in their heir well manned ships might have found their way to the coast 0 01 america aas since and from then jour journeyed north noab or were they some of the followers of volan or namoa who had bad wandered north and founded a colony of the Aztec fc whoever these people were and whichever way they boy oame came from the evidences of the great works they left behind them gave ample ampie proof that they were superior anu ana dil derent dl lerent from other races around them and these particular people may have been the bearded white men man which the indians indiana had bad traditions of when coro coco bados followers first came through the oils and salt river valleys in 1526 |