Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — FIND OLDEST CITY IN ARIZONA [ARTICLE]

FIND OLDEST CITY IN ARIZONA

Rellca Unearthed in Tableland Bald to Be 10,000 Years Oto—Covered With Prairie Dust.

Phoenix, Artz. —Still another “old eat city in the world” has been discovered. When T. Hewitt Myring found vases in Peru in ruins which were said to be 7,000 yean old. it was imagined that the remains of early civilization had been pushed as far into antiquity as they would ever go. But A. Lafave, a mining engineer, has found the relics of a town in an Ari zona tableland near Phoenix which he inisists are at least 10,000 yean old. The buildings are on a level stretch of country whore neither slit nor wash was possible, and yet the ruins were covered with ton feet of prairie dust, which the discoverer claims requires ages to accumulate.