BURIED CITY DISCOVERED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 February 1925, Page 14

BURIED CITY DISCOVERED.

IX REMOTE RECESSES OF NEVADA. FORTY HOUSES EXCAVATED. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9. . Ear back in the untravelled recesses of Nevada, near the juncture of the Virgin river and Miuddy Creek, a new buried city has been discovered, one which will probably prove among the greatest archaeological finds in North American history, according to Governor James G. Serugham of Nevada. Governor Scrugham’s is to-day en route to. the little town of St. Thomas, Nevada, the nearest town to the ruins, after conferring here with Governor Hunt of Arizona regarding the ronstruetion of a road from the Grand Canyon ol Arizona, to the new discovery. “We believe ne are about to open up the largest puelbo ever found on this continent,” Governor Scrugham said. “The ruins seem to stretch for six miles fifty feet or so above the high-water mark of the river. They are about a mile wide. The town’s population was probably 15,000. “Thus far we have excavated forty houses and eleven bodies, ten of them women. The man’s body was apparently that, of a high chieftain. Ancient pottery, estimated 2009 years old/was found with the remains. “Walls of the housese were of abode, plastered on woven rushes. The clay still retains the mould of tide leaves. Tire floors were paved with stones. “Necklaces of carvefl turquoises were found on the.women. The jewels were highly polished, and shaped like, grains of corn. We found squash and corn seeds and vases and jars of rude pottery.