Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — The Ruin of an Aztec City. [ARTICLE]

The Ruin of an Aztec City.

Colonel JohDStone, former editor ol the Gazette, and William Condon, a experienced prospector returned from the mountains twenty-five miles northwest of Phoenix, Arizonia, arid reported the discovery of the ruins of an old Aztec city different from any before discovered. Among the many hieroglyphics are drawings of men, and on an oval-shaped stone is a serpent, cross and anchor. Around these ruins is a stone wall or fortification in a state of decay. The place indicates that there were at least 00,000 inhabitant*. The country in the vicinity h mountainous aqd has been little ‘proupeoted.—[St. Louis Republic.