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100ft.mm THE RUINS' OF OLD MEXICOHa! Clawson, Salt Lake Coy, Gives An Interesting Description,TRACES 01* THK TOLTECB.ICiiln* I’Diiml WlilcltOf Ureal AutU|ultjr Old ▼tiucs UlirofcrvtlIr, and Mr*, fcUanley n. i ’law* js hart- received u latter from their r »n Uwl, nuW in 014 Mexico, in which lift dcfOrtben I hr discovery of some old A** lev' mines In lb* vh Inlty nf (Jiurivro del Oro, from which point the leiu-r h wtr Un, Mr. lt;D1awsuu m-cms much enrout* *?td in hi* work mid will U* join J shortly by his brother, WilJoll, who left during hint week for the name aeciiuti. of hill recent dlfoovtT) ho sayn:On th«* Ifith of hit month (Jami*ttiy) I dl'tuvorvd hoino old Axb sum* ,In fact, they ore about the largest lhave Hi vn in thin auction. li appears th.it ut olio tine- there whs u large city tbrre which, from the extent «»f the ruin* 1 should Judge to Imvo had about 1 in ha hi Ui n in. Homo of tin? walls«tin standing art ut least four ton hie It. 1 And th- houses those iK'Oph* built to b« awfully email The lnrtf»**t 1 found t* NCi'pt the wlimited ehutn* hers or place* of large gatherings) wan not over 5x* feet. The ground is * \-wed with broken pottery. I could not find any Intact so did not carry any away with me. On« thing that 1* proof to me that these people were win wor* shippers l« that ull their house* ni° built on tIn* east aide of the mountainsw bare f hey could see the sun rise. Ihave found this out aIko, that Instead •f bury in,; their dead they cremated them urol placed Hie ash*-* in a city i' wi with Ihree small leg* about uto| li ch lung. The bowl*, ux a rule, ineas u:t about five Inches across thu top.Those ptopic must have inhabitedthis country long before the Astvcs; Inf it, I think that they are « specks »ftin Toiler*, a race of peo||. that inhabited thin country long before tb\atecs. Why, the ruins aioiie pruvo tl.ls. I am of the opinion that tin ure at least 3.000 tir 3,000 years old ft* It iv«old U* Impossible for ruins to become coimjMc within only a few hundred .\ tind nxnltt, 1 have proof of this;I have found some ruins on the top of mountains that would take at lean one and a half to go to water and re-him. but thev must have had water, iii. no doubt, will claim that lin r» had not wash* *! the canyons soHep, but you must figure that etime -fthe rAnyone are JkOOu feet deep andh« w many years would It take water to wrsh this d»'#i» ’ Then nnotlmr thing:At oho time or 1 should s,i it tt,hm these people inhabited this coun-t y, the weather must have in,-,, n^il» ftti c nil tin* houses were built ofm tic and not of paJma, grmm and rmali-' Um pi' s. i,t rncc* or fyen the Astteis built their houses. In fact It would t ■ impossible to live in a atone hmmc hero hi cauSt fhe stone would become lt;•• aim that u person could not live Intbstu. tfji* 1 i*'At the ruins of the Aatvet around the ‘Tty of Mexico, weapons of war i found; also hieroglyphics arc curved upon *•■««« of their buildings, whn* )•• n* no weapons „f war or hieroglyphic* an- t** hi* scop, j found the h*sd nf a small Imagf* but'sorry to say lHt It On the top lt;tf the mountains to thetest of the city I have spoken of Is a piece of council, I Should judge Tin iv . t- the ruins of two long building , «»mit 12 feet w ide and 3*« feet lonjf. Inthe lt;**nter arc the ruins of a round building. This I think Is a puu* of v-iHhip nnd s*t urtanRed that the sun can be «s-n as It rises.”
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Salt Lake City Deseret Evening News
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Mon, Mar 09, 1903
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