Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1893 — PREHISTORIC RUINS. [ARTICLE]

PREHISTORIC RUINS.

Great Column* With Carved Frieses Laid Hare In the Sandy Desert Near Yum*. Ruins of a prehistoric city have been discovered by a partv of prospectors from Yuma, on the Colorado desert, in search of the Pcgleg mine. The wind had.laid bare the walls and the remains of the stone buildings for a distance of 430 feet in length by 360 feet in width. Gigantic pillars, quaintly carved to represent dragons’ heads and rattlesnakes, still stood in the sand of the desert, supporting on their tops huge slabs of granite weighing many tons. The frieze ornamentation resembled Egyptian sculpture and exhibited a greater degree of skill than is possessed by the Indian artists of the present day. From the relics cxhfbited at San Diego, Cal., it is evident that an important archaeological discovery has been made.