ANCIENT INDIAN VILLAGE IN UTAH.

Waipawa Mail, Volume 2, Issue 132, 17 December 1879, Page 3

ANCIENT INDIAN VILLAGE IN UTAH.

The Pioche Record says :—“ Parties in from that region report the existence of an ancient Indian village at Paragoonah, Utah, distant about 200 miles from here. The houses, now covered with trees and brush, were arranged in uniform rows, and were about eight by nine feet. They were all two-storey, built of adobe, the lower one neatly paved, and the upper one supported by pillars of sandstone rock. The only entrance discoverable was a sort of man-hole in the top. Bone needles, rude appliances for grinding corn, and other relics were found in several of the houses. There is a tradition among the Indians of that region that long years ago the tribe that inhabited those houses were almost exterminated in a fierce fight with the Navajoes, that the remainder of the tribe fled to the other side of the Colorado, and there built them habitations in the mountains where the Navajoes could not reach them, and now lived there secluded. Our informant says the structure and arrangement of tho houses give evidence of a rude civilisation on the part of the builders that no longer exists among the aboriginals now living in that section.”