INTERESTING FIND.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 5 April 1926, Page 13

INTERESTING FIND.

HURLED FOR COUNTLESS AGES. Mr T Harrington, the explorer, ha 3. non-; submitted, a full report to the «nij» ; ,eum lot the American Indian Hevft; Foundation, : .iipon. the_ holy cave n h - hay'ibeeWs'di«bp v ered : i ,ih •.<> salt near the lost city of Pueblo Grand Nevada. The ruins <>t the Pueblo Grand stretch for six miles along the Moapa Vi ley. and have, buried for countless ages under ilia Ui.lting dC Mr t Harrington, in liis report, from which the “Central News >. Ne York correspondent quotes, ex messes the belief that the people ot this Pueblo, who, at their zenith, had attained a high state of lnv« been ancestors of the uvinsea Aztecs found, by Cories when he conqUelWh'dieengagea in the evacuation work he discovered a cavern running through tlie mountains of the Mother °[ Salt, K ]2 miles from the Pueblo. Gi a preliminary survey of the case I - covered,” the report proceeds, that tlie Indians had mined salt in a ca \® • the middle of the mountain Tt is kite possible that they also burned their dead there. Everything T have found in the cave has been perfectly preserved—thewooden handles of fneu prehistoric hnmmers, pieces of sandals, torches of creosote, thousands of corn cobs, the remains of manv meals of •n even their quid of tobacco, there are hundreds of these quids everywhere in the'cave. The mountain o Mother of Ralt, is several hundred feet high. Under a thin capping of earth the salt begins and extends dovvn to tho base of tbc bill. Ihe salt is crystalline and almost pure.” . | 'Mr Harrington lelievos 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 sqvs. At other times the-,fsalt is a' clear as a window pane, and you can see far inlo tho rocks of salt. At other times it is 'ihe a olnved window.