A LOST CITY

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3311, 6 April 1926, Page 5

A LOST CITY

DISCOVERY IN NEVADA. OLDER THAN THE PHjARAOHS. Mr. T. Harrington, the explorer, has now submitted a full report to the museum of American Indian Heve Foundation upon the holy cave which has been discovered in a mountain of salt near the lost city of Pueblo Grand, Nevada. The ruins of the Pueblo Grand stretch for six miles along the Moapa Valley, and have been buried for countless ages under the drifting desert sands. Mr. Harrington, in his report, from which the Central News New York correspondent quotes, expresses the belief that the people of this Pueblo, who, at their zenith, had attained a high state of culture, may have been ancestors of the civilised Aztecs found by Cortes when he conqurea Mexico.

While u engaged in the excavation work he discovered a cavern running through the mountain of the Mother of Salt, 12 miles from the Pueblo. “In a preliminary survey of the cave I discovered,” the report proceeds, “that the Indians had mined salt in a cave in the middle of the mountain. It is quite possible that they also burnt their dead there. Everything I have found in the cave has been perfectly preserved—the wooden handles of their prehistoric hammers pieces of sandals, torches of creosote thousands of corn cobs, the remains of many meals of corn, even their quids of tobacco. There are hundreds of these quids everywhere in the cave. The mountain of the Mother of Salt is several hundred feet high, Under a thin capping of earth the salt begins and extends down to the base of the hill. The salt is crystalline and almost pure.”

Mr. Harrington beieves that it is the remains of a great salt lake which existed in early geological times. The light from our torches shines as from millions of diamonds Mr Harrington says. At other timss the salt is as clear as a window pane, and you can see far into the rocks of salt. At other times it is like a glazed window.