The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . ^—to a height of from 100 to 150feet, In the southern part, the tufa extends to the RioGrande in a sheet of varying thickness, and here innu-merable canons are cut out by the mountain torrents. Theface of the country thus presents many miles of almost perpendicular cliffs of yellowish and orange colored tufa, and inthese are found the cliff dwellings. This is one of the richest archseological fields on this conti-nent. Many thousands of cave dwellings have been explored,the largest of the commun
The land of sunshine; a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico . ^—to a height of from 100 to 150feet, In the southern part, the tufa extends to the RioGrande in a sheet of varying thickness, and here innu-merable canons are cut out by the mountain torrents. Theface of the country thus presents many miles of almost perpendicular cliffs of yellowish and orange colored tufa, and inthese are found the cliff dwellings. This is one of the richest archseological fields on this conti-nent. Many thousands of cave dwellings have been explored,the largest of the communal houses have been examined andmapped. Hundreds of smaller stone ruins have been locatedand sufficiently investigated, and a small beginning has beenmade in burial mound exploration. Another interesting linewhich promises good results is that of jDhotographing andsketching the pictographs or rock writings of the prehistoric. ARTESIAN WELL AT ROSWELL. THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. 129 inhabitants. These inscriptions are evidently the work oftribes far more remote than tlie immediate progenitors ofthe Pueblos, who occupied these dwellings in comparativelyrecent t^imes, that is, about 350 years ago. Almost all of theseinscriptions have been copied and are being worked up. A fine group of Pueblo ruins is situated in the PajaritoPark. These are the largest that have been found, some ofthem having contained as high as 1,200 rooms. The largestand most interesting are Puye, Otowi, Tsankawi, Navakw^i andTshrega. These have been carefully mapped and measured,but very little excavation has been done. In the same regionare several hundred smaller Pueblo ruins, containing origin-ally from one room to 500 each. This class in the PajaritoPark is built of volcanic tufa. Similar ruins exist in ChacoCanon, in San Juan county. Here the prehistoric villageIndians seemed to have attained their highest culture and de-velopment. There
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