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'lt;•.j.■ } \.'y\ ?\‘S. k;.\ :%'-• v/xiiijr liiiFROM PAGE ONEhapsIhe-' greatest'* authority orr ;the geological,5 paleontological and archaeological * aspecis ■ of the- site. * * •: ■ lt;- %• ; •/) 'i u t\. ^:Hc said the lake was a favored hunting spot fdr e4rjy noddle people- ^ho roamed the. Great Plains in pursuit ofaoow-extinct'* species of' bison around• 10,000 years;ago when'extincf forms of? mammoth, horse - and camel were relatively abuhdant’ ori the * plains, too. ■ / •' *• /•The first .Europeans to visit the. site probably were the Spah-^. ish explorers, and-there is a belief that Coronado and his'Mtis'-' visited the/site'in the*'early/'summer, of.* 1541, Dr. Holden said.*'• 1 .r '■ . 1' 'S; / ’i'- ' /'iWAS CALLED ‘/THE POINT OF WATER”' ' : -The site --was-knbwi/to/fte Spanish,'explorers some1 300 / • years; ^forc the /firsr AngjpfAmerieaiis ‘‘ever' saw,, if The-' ..Spaniards- labeled .the plaqe*i£El'PirntaMe';Agua;”:’or “The'• V -Point of Water'* lt;» their/early maps, a name, befitting its role ‘ -?s the/’headwaters''/of the'Brazos.' *-:yV //■■ -- . formed'by a- natural dam,: the/lake'overflowed land 4he Stream of clear,-ifresh ..water'.-caused- fthe- Double Mountain ...Fork to. flovy. ail the way * to the!Gulf• of Mexico', Dr. Holden •A said. ? jy*‘ £ j; v?/: :' : /•'. •/ :•:; The. first Anglo-Americans/to Visit'the’ Lubbock Lake:Sit'^ ' • * lAverc scputs, of ’Col/ R/ SI,Mackenzie in 1872. Trailing some ' ? horse;and cattle; toieves; who .had , raided Uie San: Angelo-re- route - used by /Spanish Wpedulons and found• • - ■ - ' ••• • ** y*peditions 'and /bund: El 'Punta/de'Agua Until this ^time.Mhe’ 'Anglo-American believed the High Plains to., be' impassable except When the hundreds’of playa or surface lakes were .filled with rain water, Dr. Holden said. Finding such a. watering place...* hum* a.- nuremig jjianu •••»*-5H'fhkPUn,a d-e ^aMCh??^d ovefTiiehi;c6n*nt:rated- on/the “'' 'Buffalo'hunters'V began/; fre-cado built a; small 'store-in the West side of *the lake very close to.the springs./. .:r ; Store Burned In 1886 * Tlc store: was located there until, it burned , in 1888 and was rebuilt farther-down/the Yellow House Canybn'-about,a mile, not far from 'where North College Avenue, crosses it.:'/, ’“A few. years ago, while excavating : a shaft near the site of .the first store,V-Dr.- Holden related,' Dr...Green .found a large iron .nail* from::Singer’s first store at the lake site.'* ■ '• This was' fortunate,he. noted, because it gave ah unbroken record of - man’s presence at the-place; from./Uie early elephant hunters some 12,000 years ago down/to Old Man Singer/*. Cattle By The Thousands - ;Early Anglo : settlers thought bE-tlie site as a valuable watering place, aVid pioneers * George Wolffarth, Rollie' Bunis, Frank Whe'elock and Will and Van Sanders- have reported-.seeing .-as many 'as 3,000 cattle ‘drinking there, (at one -time; ‘Dr.. Holden said. :roofing some buildings an‘d sri'ap-. ping, power :lines: — ’ 7;:7 ■; ; ■iThe’ Weather B'jr’eau at.Rich-mpnd, Va., rejxjrtea one tornado touched^ down/ in'■ Cehtral/Vir- ( ginia .and swept' eastward', cover- :. jng ;eight counties.before moving * into the AtlanticV'/v- / •' ■ 7WeatherFROM PAGE ONE£• fl ‘:iylt; • to lt;•:»■;rr.eastern, coast.queuing the si(e Fn’]877/aftd'in late:iS80 br 1881. George Singerl-l IA tornado sti*uck Danville, bn -i. the -North,. Cavqlina -border,/ in- - i, juring^four. persons/ami' causing .A property, damage.-/About*1.4,000-1j s5cuatt; /.feet of ..roof -, was. lifted/-' ?:,neW factory in 'the„ East ^ / Virginia county of Richmond./ *'Wind gps^.of 98 m.p.h./Iashed v Blackstone, ./Va!/Jn;.athunder-stonri. A small twister unroofed a house and damaged', another house and son^e. barns'at Sautbe, • Ga. ; -• v 5“* *-• •- ■ i:/. . .:No injuries: wre Reported. ' V . The severe ^storm's broke out : as south winds ? powered‘ .warm / air . from: Jthe/-South -.‘AUabtic states, northward: Temperatures were in the 90s.Monday in Flori Ida and prolonged drought .ai-' pcared to {worsen:V. air/and, showers.; spreadinto toe Northern and '.Ccntfal ’;^•“Attention;was“-first;calledf,to V^1?8 tp*: along,die- eastern .. the .possibilities of. .this locality W?: of: .Vie. .Central Rockies. / as an archaeological :site back generally-.- clear/ inin the early 1930s when projectile * • ---/vSS 1 ^ P^l; ^' '-ari^ points of the -Early -Man type fi JR— SoutlvCentral, South-
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Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Tue, May 16, 1967
Page 25
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