04 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 66 
ARCHEOLOGICAL RECONNOISSANCE IN WESTERN UTAH 
Previous to June, 1915, our meager knowledge of the archeological 
remains in western Utah had been gleaned mostly from casual notes 
in the official reports of early government geologists, surveyors, and 
army officers attached to frontier posts. Very few scientific excava- 
tions had been attempted and almost nothing had appeared in print 
regarding their results. The cultural relationship between the build- 
ers of the anctent Utah dwellings, remains of which consisted pri- 
marily of mounds, and the prehistoric pueblos and cliff-dwellings of 
southeastern Utah and the adjoining sections of Colorado, New 
Fic. 79.—Small storage bins in rectangular adobe dwellings at Beaver City, 
Utah. 
Mexico and Arizona, furnished a much mooted question, a solution 
of which seemed highly desirable. The preliminary task of securing 
definite and first-hand information regarding these mounds was com- 
menced in May, 19015, by Mr. Neil M. Judd, of the National Museum, 
who, under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 
remained in Utah six weeks, engaged in researches that extended the 
entire length of the state. 
Mr. Judd began his reconnoissance at Willard, on the northeastern 
shore of Great Salt Lake. Years of continued soil cultivation had 
quite leveled the dozen or more mounds once noted at this place; 
only one remained in the spring of 1915 in a comparatively undis- 
turbed condition. Excavations in this mound disclosed the remains 
