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Near San Jose the Gila Bonita creek enters the river from the 

 north, and high up on this stream are houses built in niches in the 

 cliff. These cli if -houses were explored by Charles F. Solomon, of 

 Solomonsville, and Prof. W. S. Devol, of Tucson, and an account was 

 published in the Graham County Bulletin about 1895. 



Many of the ruins in the Pueblo Viejo valley were located by Dr. 

 J. Walter Fewkes and the writer during the explorations of 1897.° 



No. 5. Pueblo. — A pueblo called Buena Vista is situated in the 

 vicinity of San Jose, a village on the river above Solomonsville, Gra- 

 ham county, Ariz. This is a stone pueblo of many rooms arranged 

 around a central plaza ; it contains also detached houses and a large 



Fig. 4. Arrow polisher, Graham county, Ariz. 



" reservoir." The location is a high bluff above the Gila, and appar- 

 ently the place was long occupied. An ancient ditch ran at the foot 

 of the bluff. Doctor Fewkes says: 



Surrounding this larger stone inelosure there lie at intervals low mounds, 

 some of which betray evidences of rooms, while others are simply ash heaps. 

 Two large circular depressions, a few hundred feet from the central building, are 

 conspicuous. The limits of the cluster of mounds which compose Bnena Vista 

 could not easily be determined, and probably no two persons would agree upon 

 their extent. 



The largest and most conspicuous ancient building is an irregular stone struc- 

 ture which is situated somewhat back from the edge of the bluff, and is now 



a See Tiventy-second Report of Bureau of American Ethnology, pt. 1, 168-192. 



