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Show SIX EIG RESERVOIRS UNEARTHED IN WEST 50,CO:-Yecir-O:J Tanks Are Found in Spring Valley. j Gold Hill. ITuli. A series of six ' immense n-erviirs h.'lU'wd to have i been constructed about f.0.000 years : ago have been discover-il in Spring j VKllpy, Nevada, by members of the I ro.-inoL'iapiiic scie;y. I T!ie reservoirs are triangular and ran-e from a lew inches to 60 feet in depth. The retaining walls are about S00 yards Ions and are feathered back into the hillside. The walls are from six to twenty-live feet thick and are believed to he composed of granite, covered with debris. The huge tanks overlook a once fertile valley, whore coal deposits have since been found. It is thought by members of the society that the reservoirs were used for Irrigation pn rpnses. Claims that the reservoirs resulted from glacial action have been denied by the Cosniographic society, which points out that no trick of a glacier could construct six perfectly symmetrical sym-metrical masonry formations. In a limestone cave in the mountainside moun-tainside above the reservoirs members of the Smithsonian Institution found several crude implements and weapons, among which were several "arrow springs," a little wooden rod with one end bent into a hook. The arrow was placed into the crook and the rod sprung after the fashion of the catapult. The "arrow spring" is considered con-sidered to have preceded the bow bj several hundred years. |