Show DID MAKE COAL AV Y evening sun southern arizona has long been noted for or the abundance of its evidences evidence of the pre columbian civilization of the Tolt ece the mountain tops tope are stone atone castles and watch towers lowers fur far up precipitous canyon walls are yet to be found the curious habitations of the cliff dwellers and on the broad valleys and mesas mesa below lie the ruins of cities surpassing in magnitude the settlements of this thle latter day ossa casa aurande the great house 1 near florence is celebrated even to the degree of being placed under governmental care and protection but sixty miles to the northwest of florence lie ruins far more extensive and ot of far greater interest to the exploring the locality of these ruins may be moro more clearly stated as in the vicinity of tempe about twelve miles from capital city here hege it was that frank hamilton Cush log heading the hemingway aronce expedition dely delved d so 90 long and with such ma orial benfit benefit to the cause of historical science los Mu muertos cuerton erton the City of the dead 02 wherein the researches of the hemingway expedition were mainly prose lies seven miles to the southward of tempo tempe within a dense forest of giant mesquite trees that had bad grown upun upon its site the evidences of ef the city lay for miles on either hand fur for the greater portion shown only by mounds 0 of f debris to be passed pained by the casual observer as more mere inequalities in the gently stooping land there to Is yet prominent at t the e cites centers center a vast ruin of what the cho dim datt undoubtedly a the government house where resided the controlling POW power or of that nation of long ago for miles to the southeast and southwest lay tributary cities connected by a network of canals leading from the salt river and its smaller neighbor the gila irrigating the lands land that the husbandman of the nineteenth century again tills and apparently by much the be same moth methods from the pictographic histories of their successors successor in mexico the anteos aztecs much has been learned of these theme toltec people sod and by analogy much more has been logically deducted yet the scientist must confess that conjecture mainly guides him in explanation of the many mysteries that confront the investigator vesti gator of the relies of arisona Ari zonas s departed nations it Is probable eble that mat at like the 49 record of isris aits lost lee too ten tribes tribe tb the true snip sory will avet be it known whence came bey thich whither they kowha wo wha caused of at least a million people from a let for tile land are quest questions ious that probably will never find true answer A phoenix correspondent of the ban francisco Chronicle says that one of the supreme mysteries of these ancients ancient lies io in the discovery die covery within the last few weeks of true anthracite cost coal within the boundaries of one of the ruined cities it created a decided ex cit ement among the few in who were admitted to the secret ot of the discovery an option was secured upon the land which lay jay three miles northwest of los muertos and work was waa begun at once on the development of what wu was thought to bethe be the main cropping of a coal ledge its black stain being traced in the country rock for fully a mile but the lead bassoon was soon exhausted and the miners were amazed to find that they had been CleR cleaning DIGg out the con tents of a gigantic olla an urn burled buried to its lip in the earth the coal to the amount of over three tons tone was waa contained in a cornucopia in the center of the aar ar the termination of the cornucopia being filled with clean charcoal charo oaL around and supporting the coal soa a ad the charcoal the olla was filled with dry earth of a limestone character the olla had bad been made of a cement cemen the main ingredient of which was wa plainly the hydraulic lime of the region though much a combination needs no hardening from fire the lip of the urn in its ito brick red color showed the effect of intents intense heat beat the olla oils was found to be about twelve feet deep vine pine feet across the mouth and ana materially wider at half the depth inn in no wise different in form from the drinking jars are of 61 that region today the walls tapered in thickness about eight beigh t inches at the lip to a maximum of eighteen inches near the bottom the material was readily distinguishable from the decomposed granite into which the urn had bad been built the coal fou found ad Is denul genuine no linth anthracite reel on the authority of several of the bes beat mineralogists of the coast and sustains every test of the assayer it was waft found closely packed though far from solid and regularly stratified we aa though in a true coal bl blanket ankot in a straight line to the sout southeast hout paralleling at a short distance the course ot of au an ancient canal bits of cw coal were found strewn upon the ground and following this lead five othel oil ollas were discovered buob smaller but in every way similar in construe sion ion and contents to that first explored one was not over three feet in depth yet it contained the cons cone of coal without doubt a careful search along this thin line would developed dev elope many more such pits pite the discoverers after secretly eor etly using every effort to locate coal in the near by mountains at last confessed entire inability to solve the puzzle the formation fur mues miles around to is much the same changing from porphyry to granite and then to sandstone with occasional gold bearing veins vein of copper and aad iron tinged quartz a region where the geologist would scout the existence of a deposit from the carboniferous age A hundred miles milea to the north out east to Is the nearest coal a sulphurous sulphur ou lignite that in places may be called bituminous to fact if the writer be not hotd decided ly mistaken this potted coal of the salt river kiver valley to Is the only anthracite over aver found west of the mississippi the ollai lie within one of the toltec pueblos pue noblee bloe A few hundred yards from he largest are the ruins of a large esstle castle the be walls walla of which were exposed by the work of the hemingway expedition under the circumstances the question la is natural can this coal be an artificial product made by these tolteca Tol teca 1 I must admit that while I 1 cannot we see where the coal could come from the theory of its manufacture is improbable indeed modern science can take wood and by heat beat and pressure and at great expense produce a lignite charcoal a pure carbon is of course easy to obtain but the production of anthracite with its baser percentage perc of earthy matter is beyond the skill ol of we toe modern ex perl mentalist if manufactured by the it la in probable that it was made in the great retorts where found though not a sign of an air blast hole bole could be detected nor an implement that would aid in a lucid explanation fragments of pottery fairly cover the ground near by all marked with the okmun toltec ornamentation of ter lightning flashes and wave lines but in no manner do they thrown light upon the subject there seems to be no logical or Os palblo the theory ry too to offer r the aethra alte is there let him who can read the addle |