Show MOUND discoveries I 1 was reading in the in relation to some ancient relics found la in the state ot of now new york in the year 1860 1850 an aa I 1 have had some flume exper lenee ionee IQ in finding ancient relies I 1 thought I 1 would pen pea down a few items and send to the in the year 1838 my father moved to the state abate of indiana twelve miles northeast of fort wayne dayoe and bought a farm lit in the woods wooda on cedar creek to in allen alien county As we cleared up the be farm und commenced to cultivate it we found a small mound to in attempting to remove which and level too the and we came to a hard bard cement or burnt bricks with considerable effort we succeeded in picking through it and came upon several ancient relies relics all in a fair state of preservation tion we fouad three copper kettles of about abou t twelve quarts each and we used them in our family for buckets fur for many years we foaud in the same place two sets eels of carpenters carp entera tools toole they were in a fair state of preservation and we cleaned ham them up and used them in the family many years the in them was waa very hard bard though the rust bad nearly spoiled some of the small tools boere were three saws in the he lot but they were much injured by rust ruei they hail had a hevy beavy copper back in them which was oot not injured by rust my lather father cleaned one or of trio saws laws so that he could use it and it was so bard that he could saw iron almost as well as wood wittily with wit tilt it we found many stone atone ample ments that bad beau used for warfare and ana two carpenters foot adze which we cleaned up and used also a hollowing adze for digging out canoes out ot of trees which my lather father cleaned and faed and gave to me I 1 kept Is through ahr kgb all my life and have it now me aa a relics relic and hundreds of people have seen and handled bandied it about a mile northwest from pay fay son aon utah thero there was WAR a group of an clout mounds five in number cumber they are situated on about twenty live acres of laud in the richest part of the farm ing field sad and some of them measure from three to five hundred feet io in olf cumfer nos norald ald about fifteen eat high oue of these MOUD mounds 1118 was on my land and as I 1 desired to move it and level levei my farm I 1 commenced in the year 1870 to io haul it sway away I 1 hauled loads of dirt from the mound and while walle working I 1 came upon some hard cement and dug around it witla with s me effort I 1 pried it open and found it to be a cache of wheat and impei ments used need by the ancients to in pottery I 1 took out the wheat and found some of it bright this I 1 0 cleaned caned took look it home and planted it in a drill in the gaguen to my great a astonishment it came up and grew 1 tended it carefully all summer and it grew a arge stout anil ani an i was differ ent from any other wheat that we grow in this country it was a great produced 60 beas from one grainy gra lialis planting plant log and ni there here were 64 grains in one bead which would make about bushels per acre in good rich soil I 1 sent ent some same of it Is to the be patent office washington and this was their report on it thoy they called it the ancient mound wheat and it is likely to prove a great benefit to the I 1 american farmers near where we found the wheat we came upon two skeletons one a female arid one a male we dug around them with care and saved all of the bones I 1 cleaned them up and had bad them bem put together in the anatomical form orm of a skeleton kaleton ke leton there were some things binge burled buried with them but we did not flod bad any gold or sliver silver there was a pipe with we he male skeleton and the tow stem of it was inserted between his teeth there was also alo a streak of rust from rom his bla right hand band down his big side which we believe to have been a word sword that bat had all gone to rust the smoke five ounces and was wae made of band stone SODA aud and drilled out we found needles for sewing clothes cl made oi of bone also lasts last for making shoos all in good shape made of flint we found also a sun glass and when we cleaned it and polished it we light libb t a pipe fr m the beat of the su sun a as easily as ai by any glass made now si n days daye we found several kinds of olo clo b in thle this place and the colors were all bright in them but the cloth was waa so eo decayed that it would not bear handling all of these theme things were lo in cement so go the wet could not g get into thew them and it was judged by or dr palmer that bat all of 0 these things thing shad had lain here fourteen hundred beare we sold all our cabinet of ancient relice to him for and he be took them to washington the male skeleton measured six feet and the female five fire and a half they were judged fudged to be white people as the skulls were not like indian skulls the mound had five rooms in it and the walls walla were made of adobes acobes eighteen inches long eight inches wide and four inobe thick laid in mortar with out straw in the mortar I 1 ahe he walls walla were plastered and hard bard flais fla lebed bod in all ali the abe rooms aej there were pictures or of different animals lo in bright colomb CB ca the walls we found several tons tone jugs and jars one that would hold bold thirty gallons they had these large ones to store their provisions I 1 in D as an some home of them had decayed meal or flour in them when foaud then there were many mills or mortars in the mound that were used to grind flur flour and meal lo in there was a quantity of 0 corn in the ear found in one of the rooms but it had bad been charred by burning aa se the bouse bones had bad been burned and then covered with earth we found several clay pipes that had bad been used for conduction conducting water in the house seme of them two inches lo in diameter and la in a good state of pros pres cr er now I 1 have described in short one mound chati moved off from my land there are four other mounds oear near by and so far as they have been une unearthed arthou we find walls of houses in all of them similar to the one described and skeletons and bones of nearly all kinds ol of ani animals male it has been said that the ancients had no horses but we found bones that doctor palmer I 1 pronounced pronoun ceo cou horse bonee and he be was wag a man there is a large mound that lays west of the group on jacob s land it has a rather curious history in the year 1871 several people had bad dreams that thai gold and silver had bad been burled buried by the ancients in that m und and in august of this same year one dr ot of california came here to payson he saif said that he was the president of a spiritual society in california and he had bad seen when in a clairvoyant state a mound near this city that hat bed bad pounds of gold and silver coin and jewelry in it and be had come to dir dig it out for the bene fit of his bla society 8 BJ he be asked we me to go with him I 1 went and asked him to describe the mound before be went to it as he be wat was a stranger here he described it just aa it waag was so I 1 had some faith la in him bim we went to the mound took his tape line measured it and stuck a stake over the treasure spot and set met me to watch the stake slake while he went into the corn that was n near ar by to converse coD Veree with the spirits he a went and put himself I 1 in u a clairvoyant stole state and talked to them but they would not dot to lot let him havo have it 11 want where I 1 could hear him tal talking kingto to them and it appeared that five of them had bad been keeping the treasure troa eure and three said eaid he be could not have it while two said that he might have it 8 he be commenced to dig and got down about seven lost feet and found bones bonee and coals and ashes next morning he ahe went back to work and worked all ali daymil day aad in the evening some boys campalong oame came along doing out hunting sod and not knowing that anyone was there they fired a gun at a board la in the fresh dirt and threw the dirt in on the mana baana head he lumped jumped out of ab the hole and soared the boys boy badly they thought bought one of the old ancient anci ente had bad risen from the dead but the old man main quit work soon ator ater and the mound has baa been quiet ever since and the treasure if there in ie any is there yet amasa |