Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1888 — Who Were the Skilled Builders? [ARTICLE]

Who Were the Skilled Builders?

One of the mysterious ruined cities southern North America is that of San Guivera, near the western point of Texas. This was known to the early Spanish explorers, but, being at present forty miles from water, it has seldom been visited. A late surveying party found the ruins to be of gigantic and substantial stone buildings, one of which was four acres in extent. The indications point to a former existence of a dense population. To the southward is a stream of lava from one to ten miles wide and forty miles long, and the surrounding country is most arid and desolate. No inscription, no legend tells the tale of the great city or of its fate.