Show A remarkable ruin ruh prescott Di dispatch patch parties from down the gill valley who have been prospects prospecting i ng bring back sensational reports of the finding of an immense ruin once a city of the aztecs azteca or whatever people inhabited this country the city aa shown by the ruins ia is milea miles in circumference and many of the walls are still standing to the height of twelve and fifteen feet the city lay in the valley where the land was perfectly level and could be irrigated but in the centre is their fort or stronghold overlooking the valley and about feet in height this is ia in in a re state of preservation and if left alone will last hundreds of years yet the mound on which the fort is built was fir first st built 0 of f dirt feekin feet in height and covering ag about five acres of land the edge edg e is walled up with round b boulders u iders from the river laid in a kind of cement now hard bard as the stones themselves on the top of this is another wall located in the center and covering F about two acres tho the remainder of the surface of the lower mound has been used as a garden and soil boil b haa as been carried up from the valley on the second tier has been built another covering about one acre I 1 and nd on this was the fort of stone containing the bouyea of the warriors and the tools for culli bating the lower mesas on the edge of each of the mesas the wall came u up more than three feet above the e surface and inside of these defenses are thousands of boulders weighing from one to ten pounds were doubtless f for or the purpose of hurling down on an attacking foe thousands of flint arrowheads are lying on and around the base of this fortification showing that it must hava have been be a long time before it was captured in the upper fort are a large number of A skulls alls and other bones belonging to the human body and that part was undoubtedly the one in which the final struggle took place pottery of all kinds some broken and some entire is lying within its limits and water was doubtless taken up in these vessels even today the position p 8 would b be e impregnable without artillery and undoubtedly the inhabitants were besieged and starved to death it is now standing in in the desert deser t portion of the val valley I 1 ey and no one di discovered it prior ri 0 r to last week by the base of the wall runs an old ditch about thirty feet in width and which conn connects acts with the gila through this they got their water aad arri gated the surrounding country the ditch is perfectly straight and four and one half miles in length with the exception of the casa cass grande it is by far the most extensive ruin in the territory and nd local antiquarians are organizing to investigate it |