A LOST CITY.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4996, 5 July 1926, Page 1

A LOST CITY.

OLDER THAN THE PHARAOHS. VIEWS ON AMERICAN DISCOVERY. Mr T. Harrington, the explorer, has now submitted a full report to the museum of the American Indian Heve Foundation upon the holy cave which has been discovered ip a mountain of salt near the lost city of Pueblo Grand, Navada. The ruins of the Pueblo Gra,nd stretch for six miles along the Moapa Valley, ami 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 Azetcs found by Cortes when he conquered Mexico. While 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 ha,d mined salt in a cave in the middle off the mountain. It is quite possible that they also burned 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 df 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 off the hill. The salt is crystalline and almost pure.”

Mr Harrington beieveis that it is the remains of a great salt lake which existed in early geological timas. “The light from our torches shines os from millions of diamons,” Mr Harrington says. “At other times the salt is as clea ; r as a, window pane, and you can see far into the rocks of salt.’ At other times it is like, a glazed window.”—Melbourne Age.