Show AMERICAN RELICS students of the ancient elvill za lions of 0 america and especially 0 the western states are eager to tc have the great universities begin in the valley some such tempt exploration and study as 1 being carried on in oriental coun tries it is believed that the results to be obtained will be of vast fistori cal amerest iiii erest beffre the babylonians hac C from rom barbarism there were t Is 13 conteri contended ded by one authority ex asting in illinois a people of marvel ous n skill and strange mythology of whose origin abao lute lular si nothing is known in the chicago gravels are found paleolithic evidences of glacial or inter filter glacial man who was the o tem horary of the mammocio mammo ili and the nias inas tojo all over the state are earthen monuments and are remains ot ol the race which held undisputed sway lor for ages and of no jiuei records exist no other state in union it is averred by some is richer in archeological archaeological arche material tin the stately lu sepulchers the elo ele bated signal stations military ue Is tenses and curious emblematic anc dom ilary mounds or oi thes alles aborigines abor ignes n crown the ilie peaks anc an rl ridges da 0 of the I 1 river blaas and dot ill thi prairies and alluvial of illi fill cols Ivery everywhere where from wisconsin tt I 1 the ohio the implements ana an ornaments 01 0 stone copper arid and shell found in the inbur erable graves and village sites site of that vanished race aro are proof 0 their modes oj of life and w ad commercial intercourse in on the illinois river are associated objects finely wrought of shells coral aud sharks bli arks teeth from rom the ocean fossil sharks teeth from the phosphate beds of shley river ir in south carolina nife mian arom north carolina copper from lake superior atlin ite from the P pipe slone ledges ledge of minnesota hematite rom south eastern missouri and obsidian tron fron the yellowstone or arizona in pioneer days fragments or their huge earthenware pans littered the hill sides about the salt springs of galla galin tin till jackson and vermilion counties where they are supposes to have obtained salt by evaporating the spring bater by means of hot stones in ill union county on oil mill creek there are it is said still to be seen scon the th chert quarries from from which they obtained the flint tor for their fine hoes and spades arid and rejected implements and bm of unsatisfactory or unfinished work are still to be found in the heaps of hint flint chips that are supposed to mark the site ot of their open air shops there are domany of these relics r that a system systematic syte matic abic survey an and exploration of them arid and trie me careful ex arni nation and description of their contents contell ts is too vast a for individual effort in ili many states the legislatures have provided provi aed for some come pre or study or 0 till this ehara character |