. Bulletin. Ethnology. 36 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [boll. 35 mound, however, is comparatively intact, and yields from time to time pottery and ; No. 8. Pueblo.—Situated 7 miles south of Solomonsville, on Mr. Henry J. Olney's ranch, at the foot of Mount Graham, is a ruin with stone walls. It consists of several mounds along low ridges above an arroyo, and the site has been excavated at different points by curiosity seekers, who have exposed a number of rooms during their work. The chief and most important feature of this ruin is a splendid spring- which shows at points traces
. Bulletin. Ethnology. 36 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [boll. 35 mound, however, is comparatively intact, and yields from time to time pottery and ; No. 8. Pueblo.—Situated 7 miles south of Solomonsville, on Mr. Henry J. Olney's ranch, at the foot of Mount Graham, is a ruin with stone walls. It consists of several mounds along low ridges above an arroyo, and the site has been excavated at different points by curiosity seekers, who have exposed a number of rooms during their work. The chief and most important feature of this ruin is a splendid spring- which shows at points traces of Avails by which it was confined. No. 9. Pueblo.—On Peter An- derson's farm, near Solomonsville, two or more large adobe mounds formerly existed, but they were leveled to prepare the fields for No. 10. Pueblo.—On Lem. Place's ranch, situated 2 miles west of Solomonsville, are traces of mounds and the stone cores of ; From this ruin a remark- able stone tablet " of irregularly rectangular form, with a bird's head carved on one edge, and the tail on the other," was secured (fig. 6). No. 11. Pueblos .—N e a r Thatcher, Graham county, 10 miles from Solomonsville, are sev- eral sites on cultivated fields and the ruins are mostly ; Near Pima, which is at the west- ern end of the valley, are other ruins. A collection of stone implements from these sites was sent to the National Museum by Mr. J. H. Carlton (cat. no. 98, 613-642). Farmers in the vicinity frequently plow up pottery and other relics, and these are generally sent to the museum at Salt Lake City, Utah. No. 12. Pueblos.—Near Old Camp Goodwin, Graham county, are several ruins. Like most of the ruins in this part of Arizona, they are small and relatively unimportant. They are usually overgrown with large mesquite trees and mammoth cacti. Bandelier states that. Fig. 6. Ceremonial stone slab, Solomonsville, Graham county, Ariz. " Twenty-second Report of Bureau of A
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