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used for a corral. The walls which composed it have tumbled down, but enough 

 remains to indicate its ancient form. Apparently it was formed of many rooms, 

 which were built about a central plaza ; stones were extensively used in its 

 construction. 



This ruin was explored by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes in 1897.° 

 There are other smaller ruins near the San Jose settlement. 

 No. 6. Pueblo. — " Epley's " ruin, near Solomonsville, on the road to 

 San Jose. This is a large adobe ruin, with high central mound. It 

 has been mostly leveled during agricultural operations and the mak- 

 ing of adobes. The site is especially rich in stone artifacts, large 

 quantities of which were piled about the borders of the space while 



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Fig. 5. Ceremonial stone slab, Solomonsville, Graham county, Ariz. 



much had been carried away. They consisted of manos, metates, 

 grinding stones, polishers, arrow smoothers, axes, and hammers. 

 Specimens of pottery were comparatively few, and usually were in the 

 form of mortuary vases containing charred bones.'' 



No. 7. Pueblo. — -In the suburbs of Solomonsville, on the right 

 bank of the main irrigating ditch, is a ruin which formerly was large, 

 but at present much of the village debris has been washed away. The 



" Important collections from sites in this valley were secured by Doctor Fewkes and the 

 writer in 1897. (See Twenty-second Report of Hit rant of American Ethnology, pt. 1, 

 171-172, and plan, pi. lxvi.) The specimens are in the II. S. National Museum, many of 

 them displayed in the Pueblo court. 



b Twenty-second Report of Bureau of American Ethnology, pt. 1, 171. 



