| Show EXPLORING ANCIENT RUINS prof cummings gives interesting account virgin ground in san juan county excavated and quantity of relics found perhaps there is no field for the work of the archaeologist nor one so full of surprises as thit which lies in the ou castern stern part of utah in the region commonly called calleri the sin san juan cou countie coun ritty certainly there is none so virgin in character san juan and its weird eird my mysterious ster lous stoneson stone not even kaend stake account can be with slight stretch slid to be unexplored there is 13 a wilderness Nilder ness there so 0 o ast thit the hesitating foot of man modern man has barely touched its forbidding boundaries little wonder vi onder then that the scientists tits who returned thence are filled with the enthusiasm of the scientist and inspired with th the e spirit of besne to delve and seek and find and disclose and discover professor byron cummings of the Unter university sity of 0 utah has made more and deeper inroads into the mysteries of the cliffs the pueblos the mesas the awful region of desolation thin aej an other man only recently he be returned after a journey into the san juan country where he spent the better pait of three months proffesor profesor isor sor cummings wis was accompanied by neil judd and clifton lockhart Eti dents the first named of the boung men return ed cd with the professor sor lockhart ekhart Lo elected to remain in san juan he will return later the chief impose of the expedition vas ft as to learn if po possible sible something abbat the habits and culture of the people who occupied the pueblos pueblo of te mesas with a view to establishing their relationship with the cliff dwellers professor cummings is confirm ed in his opinion that the who nho inhabited the cliffs are the same as those who dwelt upon the mesas during the brief time ti tie te e e perdition ep edition tion had at its disposal such excavations as were possible were nere ma made large ruin miles southeast t il I 1 tl Montie ello and the side canyons cannons 0 oi tye the montezuma were also explored an exploring trio i south of the san juan river was m nude ade taking the party part into irgin territory two weeks were spent in side cannons ons of the montezuma zuma canyon cannon making m imp ip and locating lo a ruin for exploration tre TIC party decided di aided to excavate a large ruin at the heard of ruin canyon cannon on alkali alkah ridge A per manent camp was established at cave spring and file fic and a half weeks were spoilt spent in excavating a portion of the ruin the party unco cred a portion of tl tle the e ruin and ana opened three kivas or ceremony emoni il climbers chim bers the ruin con t timed dined forty five KIVIS kivas the kivas are mide as nearly lound tiie the ones in the ruin nere about twelve feet in diameter and were about six si feet high the burial mound of this ruin wa was S opened up and although pottery hunter erb had dug in the ruin before considerable on sid erable material was found from the building the searchers abt abcar at ed a good man r bone ard stone atone implements im and some pottery ry from the burial mound eiehl skeletons and parts of skeletons skeleton and fifty pieces of pottery were A ere obtained the mot most important part 0 of f the voik mork was the study of the structure of the buildings and a c cre tremon lal chambers for the purpose of comparing them with similar buildings in other parts of the san juan drainage it wis found that while the ruins were similar the ruin excavated was nery ery ancient and belongs among the old oldest est of this region it is evident according to professor cummings view that on the mesas and in the canyons cannons of the Alonte montezuma zuma there once lined ined a very extensive population they built strong defensive noels ori a on the lim rocks rocki around the heads of car and built dwellings the ruins nuns of chich v aich now ca ei aeres and aciego of ground A I 1 iva was uncover uncovered cal jt at cold spring cave in butler wash h u hatli ith the object of comparing the structures of the ceremonial chim chembars bars in eaves caves with those of the pueblos on the mesas mesa the structure was wai very similar which bendi to prove that the people who occupied the caves were the sime as those who built pueblos huebl Os on the mesa from the fact fiat there were in one ruin as many as forty one ce ceremonial remonia I 1 C h ambers which are supposed to have been used for holding council and religious meetings it i iz evident that a large number of clang occupied each pueblo the exploration work of the trip was under the direction of the american society of archaeology and was under fhe he supervision of probes professor or E L hewitt of washington D C a director of the society who aas as saith nith the party a few dis on alkali ridge kidder defritsch ard and parsons of harvard were ere also I 1 ao 10 with the salt like party in the montezuma Alonte zuma country basl besides es ill tho e work rat mentioned C rt 0 ned professor cummings and party mide an exploring trip into the kaend group of binions in the edge of arizona this country is s iid to be I 1 virgin irgin territory for the A trip was ilso made to monumental valley south of the san juan 11 1 lid ild |
