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SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1925.

THE CE

of GREAT

STRANGE OBJECTS of the WEST

WHEELER

NATIONAL

Nature Formed Strange and Fantastic Monu- ments in the West, Prehistoric Man Added To Many of Them and Traces Are To Be Found To-day.

[By KATHERINE LOUISE SMIT 15; }/

The automobile lemaking people 'j boekunt the auto visitor to its cunyone; 'nequiniul with Amerken's Egypt, with ancient cornmunity house with Are- and

the parts that scientists, have studied ¦ places where food was cooked

for years and that enthrall with their mystery, the venni pulaces percbet 96 high mens or in stupendous unyans and the relies of a civilization that goes back no une krown how far. Some of these marvels have been" set aside na National Monuments by the Govern- ment, some will Berome. National Parks, President Coolidge réendly aut aside the Carlsbad Caves in New" Moxies and has other travels únder consideratio:, and all through the wind-awept menus und shadowy-gerges there are wonderi of nature or strange creations of pre- historie mon that are well worth a detour of the main line of travel to see. "Gibraltar" House

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rooms where priesty worshipped. The hirvest ruin & Gibraltar House, which sinuda great on a pile of rocks and can he xvon for some, distance. The roof is gone. but enough » remains to show entrance and windows. This Gibraltar Hause and other ruins lie in the midst ofn, exuite covered plais. The age of these rains is unknown but there is resson to believe that settlement in Gibraline House antedated the cliff dwellers.

Casa Grande,

One glimpse of this strange dwelling of prehistorie times will make you desire to see other wonders of ancient America, so dechle to see the Casa, Come with me for u glimpse of some Grundé or Great House rain, which is of these marvels. Just nurth-west of not for Dom Florence, Arizona. The Mosa Verde Park, hear the Colorado-" history of this is little known. But Utah line lies the Desert Valley," Casa Grande is considered one of the called Hovenweop, studded with pre-noteworthy relles within the limits of historic castles and towers. This dis- the United States. It was discovered in trict consists of over two hundred seres 1694 by an intrepid Jesuit Father, Fray and contains muny multi-chambered and- Kino, zaissionary to the Indians, who single-roomed towers, clf and epit once said mass within its walls type houses. Here are evidences of the about the same time it was seen by a life of an unletiered people whose his nephew of the Governor of Senora, tory is forgotten. The Hovenweep Mexico, who was sent to protect the

At

CASA GRANO

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missionaries from the Indians. Al the

tain you see other, ruins of great tire of these visits Casa Granate was archeological value among them the probably four stories high, and near it to-day are ruins of other houses,

Montezuma Castle of grent interest because of a picturesqueness. This has been compared to the antiquities of

„structure.ja different from the Gibraltar Central Amerten and the Indians still House and Casa Grande because it is call it the "home of the chief." Cug

not built above ground but is an assem todian Frank Pinkley says that someblage of cliff dwellings, the principal. parts of the village that have been uncovered may have been built four hundred years before. Columbus dis- covered America. It is certain that the soil was cultivated and here an in Gibraltar House. the builders Bad no metallic implements or draft animals,·

Aztec Ruins.

Strange, silent monuments of former ages also greet you at the Aztec Ruin National Monument in New Mexico where there is a pueblo type containing five hundred rooms, and in the Yucca House in Colorado on Sleeping: Moun-

one being Montezuma's, Castle in Yavapa?': County, Here is another castle that is said to have equal because, though smaller than the nearby ruins of Chaco canyon, it is better preserved. The Mojave Apache Indians occupied this valley before the white man came but they have no tradt tion concerning the builders of Monte- | Zuma Castle. It. Is situated in a niche

in the face of a vertical cliff 175 feet: high. If you are venturesome you can climb the wooden ladders that junch to. the Castle, which is built in the form

of a crescent. When you get to it you will see the Castle in five stories high, that the walls are of masonry and adobe, that the back of the Castle is formed by the cliff, that the floors are of mud and stone, and that- twenty-fivei rooms connected with doorways may be counted. Peep holes are in the walla of the outside rooms. Sa., many cen- turies have passed since the Custle was built that it is wonderful it has been so well preserved, but Government funds have helped in its preservation. " Bandeller National Monument. Equally as strange as these pre- historic ruins of Indian civilization is the Bandolier National Monument in New Mexico, which.. you will Immediately associate with the great archeologist Adolph Bandelier. Here is found another type. of dwelling Besides the numerous ruins of muay

chambered pueblos-sonie having a hundred Tooms-there มาย strange conical shaped rocks which were bollows ed out and used for habitations. They have holes in the apex of root and apparently did well for dwellings "but with no windows it raust, have been. impossible to observe, the neighbours. actions. But most interesting of áll`in this monument are two stone images "known as the Stone Lions, each meétor- ing seven feet in length, which are con-- aidered many authorities as being the most important specimens of aboriginal aculpture' in the United States. Such images occur in Mexico, and Central America but this is the only known instance where they have been, found in our own prehistoric remains. Research work in these ruins has been carried on by the American School of Archæology and Smithsonian Institute.

Petrified Forests.

We could go to other odd and furious- 'places but if you care for diversity, let. us stop at the Petrified National -Forests of Arizona, which we reach-by auto from the railroad. There is an abundance of petrified coniferous trees which lie scattered about, none erect, and the theory is that they were ones growing beside an inland sea and during

· decomposition--after, they,, had fallen the cell structure was derived from sandstone at any rate, you can drive through four forests and, see highly coloured and beautiful specimens which

look like onyx, 'opals, and will surály want to stands Natural Bridge formed by a (spanning a canyonga, bridges,

places looks like, preciour storek Bertouli Natural.. Bridguide

Some one who sees you do moly ask if you have seen thesi Natural Bridges in South-eastat and if you are. Atvastomed hardships in camping ant! horseback travel you wilf stra|g| want to go to these three stupi Natural Bridges, the SAS Kachin and Owachomo. Thou entirely different from othur,NE Bridges in America and spring from walls of White Canyon as the Ter stream" erosion. They are Wi

· space of five miles. The largest |la 222; fest high, with anarchy.a, wide. It is sixty-five feet thick top. The two other bravoS ATERA what amailer. Efforts are being "to have a good road to these, remat bridges, but now, a' hard" Journ required. In spite of this many ti visit them outfitting with a packa after leaving the ruflrond or subor The Rainbow Bridge, another immi curiosity is in the same asetibaat country and home day an auto nË connect it with the thron. An brides

“Wheeler.National Monumysi Of an entirely different clame ths. Wheeler National Monumuis you approach through Wagon a Gap and which is of great because of eccentric erosion and volcanic action, There are so hundred acres here travarnesi. canyons with precipitous sides them are alrangé, formations to fantastic forms show pinnaclei ani shapes. It is thought John C. RE and his party 1848 reached. country when disaster everlooke for skeletons of mules and camps, ment, have been found. The dir of reaching this Monument makami. hesitate, but some day it will one of the sights of Amerien. named after one of our United Engineers, who was in - chai geographical explorations in Co

The Devil's Tower. Before we stop our little some af the queer sights of W

·America let us take a peep at th Devil's Tower in Wyoming, eizhojp from Deadwood and near the Hle. This remarkable rock?ia "fect high and is of volcanteenlight in: so:"high that, it can hoë zemë, twenty, miles away and there gro who boast they have seen it on day one hundred miles awaJOSE Tower part shoots up eight bu feet and it is three and a half [around"" the base. No wonder Indiana: for centuries directed course by reference to this loftga and white pioneers from Verdry pathander of the French, to office Indian” wazs directed their mari" this towering beacon. It is mad Tower has been scaled only unct thần by um, man, who spent mont preparing ladders, but it is well

visit and is one of the notable fes of the Black Hills region:

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