Show SAN JUAN in the years 1130 40 A D by albert R lyman when henry I 1 of iceland england made war on Us brother robert hobort of nor landy 0 ora shut robert up to dlo did I 1 irk in II 11 1 Wel welsh shI eitam on when david was waa king of 0 scotland and on down to tile the lowing rown ng of 0 stephen of blois at eat human affairs of historical import were going sta llly forward in what was I 1 to lp be jan san jian c county oun j 1 utah those affairs may not have hae been chronicled on paper or oil oa parch pann pent wj baia benevolent old monk jre in fat far away britain but they were being faithfully recorded all the same pid nd the riddle readers of tills this uncompromising age are beginning to ade decipher the record k the surprising discoveries dasco cries of andrew ellliott douglas and other ful fill hunters and observers has justified some pleasingly definite conclusions about antiquity in the region of the four corners accepting at face value certain matters matteis of their tit is still unnecessary to repeat oi of their splendid research search le te since it la Is already offered by conservative magazines of nationwide vade reputation j tills this brinis brings ui us to a time eight hundred ayedis yeas aa ago ga several groat great auth on the subject had guessed A at sea seven h undred years ago but when tIle they jj got ot at the he brath of tile the thing if it put aft them a century further anto tile the past I 1 eight hund hundred led bears ao gap an ladus tilous arious race ot of fat tai mers cultivated the iou bouthern thern half of san juan county their cheli farms farms extended thru thiu the great eagel brush belt and their homes browned hill after hill tor for many miles front from their elevated dwellings tha they ey could signal one to another and these signalled signal led messages could lie be flashed with great speed across the country by day or 01 night I 1 the sin smallen smal afler lei less leas important honio i occupied lesser eminences while lille t tra bagre commanding points still behr bear ruins of 0 the big house wince ten tha major or minor chieftain dwelt dwell his servants and these alies old dwellings on the hills are aie maikel illarde d now by rank growth of bru baush s I 1 or OP trees due to the extra amount or of humus in the soil from long usage and bones and other things left to dec decay ay in that age level banks one above 1 I 1 another reached along the hill sides sand ind across the slopes to catch every gush of rain lain danks banks or dams across ciany nany ravines formed reservoirs leser volis or of various size most of them small and more often dry than otherwise aa these terraced slopes and around feese myriad ponds grew corn pota toes gounds gourds tobacco cotton and other plants with the run off completely prevented nied the ll 11 was quite suf su detent lo 10 their needs tho the it may hatti hate been been bla no greater than it Is now emery building had its cistern cister fi or reservoir reser voli to hold water tor for T use these were so pronounced in depth that they still catch rain ta to support bi big F weeds or brush in the bottom niamy many af pf f thele houses houdei behind distant instant from rom any ledge edge or of stone were built of upright posts or logs freely plastered with mud most of 0 these dwellings wellings have crumbled beyond re le but some of 0 them were burned and their dry mud converted perte into brick still marks tile the place ate afeei the long centuries cent uiles white mesa sustained alneil front five to fifteen thousand of these old farmers armeis they occupied all of what Is now th the town and the fields of and cu cultivated much more moie land alian the blanding people have yet yei undertaken to 0 cultivate perhaps more thlin than they ever ae will cultivate till they terrace 1 he slopes and dam the ravines laines to save every drop deop of rain lain as they saved it liere here in the days of henry 1 I these ancient farmers had a reservoir where the gr grayson ayson garage stands bands today they 11 had ad a dwelling a few fell feet from cokey perkins pel kins home ind and was plowed up in tho the ditch ci dossing the street south east cast ut kf his housed house other blinding blanding homes laie are built squarely on oil HIP iraln employing the stones they collected from blanding theli their work Is traceable tra cable in every direction their dishes and are aie in evidence by the wagon load stone mills stone axes hammers liam meis and the round stones they used to throw are aie too common to attract attention theli their flint faint knives and arrowheads airow heads have always had a charm chaim and have been collected by subsequent races including tile the white race till they are aie somewhat rare raie in the ibe north west part ot or danding banding I 1 t the lie ruins luins of 0 a great gie U hove cove acne ing th tin ree ee acres its size and lis its pro pio location mark it as the headquarters qu aiters of a chief or sub chief toi for it 11 holds a presiding position it must have sheltered from three hun bundled dreLl to a thousand people awl froin its roofs loofs they could communicate by signal with most of white mesa and the mesas east ind and west alio hallways the inner courts tile kivas and secret chambers once teeming with human lire life are aie in a great silent heap overgrown with trees and brush from in the mute depths of walls and door ways ays comes a str strange alige call to the fiddle leader beader no mistake about unit that cry cay wo all licar hoar it while we ive gaze I 1 at A t tile the lipai dud and we vio long with ith a long ing that hurts to read if nd tile the whole re ie coi coid d which experts expel ts begin to stand could it be that lieuary lieury ha here a counterpart counter pait glutting himself on tile the ila haidea rd earned ined substance of ills his people and that here was another weak robert of normandy whose eyes were burned out while he ivas was bound in ili a dungeon A castie castle ci owned crowned the hill to the foitl A of what Is now bluff in its east end they had built a spacious alva and to the west of it ahey hey liao ban a generous ie generosa gene nerous roua sized chatem A deep worn roadway boadway led up to it 11 from the river liver bottom to the south east and I lan ian an oyer over the hill to the nio mouth of cottonwood north west this much traveled highway ran by the very ery doors of the etiva w there heie it Is probable pio bable a priest administered some rite ite or pronounced some service or 01 ceremony for tile the passerby pas seiby y yet e t this castle by bluff and the ily llis ca castle st le by landing are aie but two among hundreds eds or among thousands of their k kind indin in san juan in tangled klov giaves I 1 of trees ddn n brushy points and nd in places where they are aie least expected I 1 you become a aware are that you are i stumbling over the old ruins of hu hit man endeavor endea voi crumbling walls broken bicken ill dishes stone mills old d dams al and banks and cisterns steins cl join in a voice that speaks as one that thai ilia hath b n i familiar spirit from the dust |