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MOUNDS NEAR WEST SALEM NOT INDIAN BURIAL GROUNDInvestigation |y Albert A. Hanford, professor of geology at the La Crouse Normal, shows that the lame mounds In the vicinity of West Salem are not burial mounds made by the Indians, but merely natural formations.The belief that the mounds were of Indian origin was strengthened by the fact that in their immediate territory is a rave, the walls of which are carved with quaint Indian inscriptions. Many Indian relics have been found in the cave, which is now used for a storage place for vegetables, but so far nothing has been unearthed in the mosmds.Prof. Hanford has informed C. R. Brown, chief of the stats historical museum, of his research and states that the work will be resumed neat spring.
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Madison Sunday State Journal
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Sun, Dec 02, 1917
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