Show interesting 0 e study 11 anteri gym 4 7 it may be an interesting surprise to some of 0 our uld old timers at least those who insist that parley P pratt was the discoverer ot or the section embraced in I 1 this 11 is dist district r I 1 C t t to 0 1 learn earn have evidence going to prove t that this region was disco discovered vered and that the genus homo lived and died iee heie 1 in an age antedating anti dating the dawn of history to our european forebears wl while lie they were yet groping in the darkness of a paganism perhaps more abject thai than was his who metaphorically speaking bows to us today from his sleep ot of centuries long before the pyramids ot of egypt began tower ing heavenward before the mythical Itow ulus anil and renius remus started tile the building of rome home and before carthage thage became the envy and wonder of 0 the world or as aa near as ethnologists can calculate about twelve hundred to fifteen hundred years before the christian era a people lived and died la in this vicinity history no it is not a matter of history nor is it altogether hysteria these are the facts recently while a road construction gang were hauling shale irom from the base of 0 a hill on the henry spriggs ranch below town a 1 mr air kelly an all employee discovered parts of a human skeleton embodied in the shale about four our feet below the surface As it had every appearance ot of great antiquity and the place never having been known as a burying ground mr air kelly carefully gathered all that could bo be found the skull was reconstructed as well as the fragile condition would permit then several photographs were ma inace de and these were submitted to dr hrdlicka curator of physical anthropology at the smiths conion onion institution washington D C also to byron cummings university of 0 arizona formerly prof of 0 archaeology at the university of utah mr cummings has charge 0 of research work among the cliff dwellings of 0 I 1 utah and arizona and his labor in this line lias has been recognized by the most eminent antiquarians of the world this is what he writes in reference to the park city skull in form it is strikingly like the skulls we found in the caves ern utah and northern arizona that belong to a people anted antedating tilla the cliff dwellers ds ellers the rather long head the high middle crest and projecting jaw seem found in both they are primitive characteristics and similar to the cro magnon type of early man in europe we have found their theil ruins ralus in caves and remains of their homes underneath the prehistoric pueblos on the mesas and in the river bottoms of southern arizona they plainly are the early type ot of american and must have lived ut at least twelve to fifteen hundred years B D C it you take take up the national geographic magazine ot of feb 1916 in an article by theodore roosevelt how old is man alan you will note that liis bis estimate of the cro is about thirteen thousand years ago thus we appreciate the fact that no two doctors agree but let us try to conceive the more conser conservative arlve estimate ot of prof cummings and we must realize that great antiquity oi of te tjoe spriggs hill man it Is ia not impossible but highly probable that where now tile the marshy meadow which forms a shore at the spriggs hill was once a beautiful lake abounding in fish and fed by crystal streams and springs where where colonies ot of the genus homo hunted lived as happily as we aho lio boast ot of higher civilization then thea passed away and drew the lark dark vell vail of mystery between us W A adanie |