Show THE mauhee expedition the extended report of the united states bureau of ethnology expedition to tiburon island referred to in the disi aiches a af fw f w days ago ought to contain some information of more than ban ordinary interest to people here who hive give attention to aber se matters matten in america the expedition reached mexico from where a brief report was telegraphed prom from this it would seem that special im atta attaches elies to the visit of the party to northwestern sonora bonora rather than to the dislada which was the chief objective point A month was wag spent to in sonora Bo fiora where the explorations exploration a resulted in discovering remains remaina of a prehistoric race never before lecog n zoo zed by are J late among we the discoveries made were two moun bains covered with fortifications and entrenchments entrenchment and od other evidences of a great population distin et ct from either the zuni farther north or tara puma cave dwellers farther south thre to la one important conclusion arrived at in connection with thid ibid expedition tion s work namely that the be features of a higher civilization than that of later centuries among the natives indicate a distinct class of people who have disappear el before their more savage neighbors the prehistoric civilization of this country is not the work of the ancestors of the present indians lu diane except so lo far as ae some gome of these may have been associated with a destroyed branch of he ancient americans who while they existed as a nation were antagonists of the savage tribes this more enlightened branch maintained the On Cun stian ristian religion and a hig high horder order of until its people drifted aholo that religion and dissensions and crime weke we weakened ke ned anem for their annihilation bythe by the si stages the discoveries of the late expedition under prof mcghee may not dot fully establish tab liah the sonora remains to be the WO work k of this more civilized people no til 1111 farther investigation la is made but bai its ite tin tendency dency in that tbt diren direction tion in ig of importance in view of a truth already known beyond dispute among abote who have weighed the abe matter fairly sod and that will be thoroughly recognized inythe in the not distant future viz that ine book of mormon history of locien aae is an accurate of the abe kilis and fall of nations ou this continent in former agee |