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rent pours its yellow, mud-laden waters down 

 over lava beds. Here the red sandstone and 

 limestone are overspread with great rivers of 

 black lava, bits of petrified wood lie about, 

 above the surrounding desert vari-colored 

 buttes and mesas rise, the former cut by ero- 

 sion into picturesque and striking shapes. 



On the summits of the mesas are scattered 

 ruins of ancient pueblos, built out of blocks of 

 lava and stone. At their foot in sand-filled 

 pockets in the lava beds are the burial grounds 

 of the people who built the ruined pueblos. 

 Very little has yet been done in the way of in- 

 vestigation and research among the ruins in the 

 vicinity of Black Falls, though it is believed 

 that long before the coming of the Spaniards 

 they were occupied by tribes of the Hopi In- 

 dian family, who deserted them and the Black 

 Falls country at a much earlier date to take up 

 their abode in a more hospitable region. Spec- 

 imens of pottery unearthed here, however, are 

 coarser and less finished in workmanship than 

 those found in ruined pueblos in other districts. 

 Such ruins, it may be said, are found north- 

 ward half way across Utah and far to the south- 

 ward. One of the most interesting of those 

 that have been investigated lies some three 

 miles from Winslow. 



