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mound, however, is comparatively intact, and yields from time to 

 time pottery and skeletons." 



No. 8. Pueblo. — Situated 7 miles south of Solomonsville, on Mr. 

 Henry J. Olney's ranch, at the foot of Mount Graham, is a ruin 

 with stone walls. It consists of several mounds along low ridges 

 above an arroyo, and the site has been excavated at different points 

 by curiosity seekers, who have exposed a number of rooms during 

 their work. The chief and most important feature of this ruin is a 



splendid spring- which shows at 

 points traces of Avails by which it 

 was confined. 



No. 9. Pueblo.— On Peter An- 

 derson's farm, near Solomonsville, 

 two or more large adobe mounds 

 formerly existed, but they were 

 leveled to prepare the fields for 

 irrigation. 



No. 10. Pueblo.— On Lem. 

 Place's ranch, situated 2 miles 

 west of Solomonsville, are traces 

 of mounds and the stone cores of 

 walls." From this ruin a remark- 

 able stone tablet " of irregularly 

 rectangular form, with a bird's 

 head carved on one edge, and the 

 tail on the other," was secured 



(fig. 6). 

 No. 11. Pueblos . — N e a r 



Thatcher, Graham county, 10 

 miles from Solomonsville, are sev- 

 eral sites on cultivated fields and 

 the ruins are mostly leveled." 

 Near Pima, which is at the west- 

 ern end of the valley, are other 

 ruins. 



A collection of stone implements from these sites was sent to the 

 National Museum by Mr. J. H. Carlton (cat. no. 98, 613-642). 

 Farmers in the vicinity frequently plow up pottery and other relics, 

 and these are generally sent to the museum at Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 No. 12. Pueblos. — Near Old Camp Goodwin, Graham county, are 

 several ruins. Like most of the ruins in this part of Arizona, they 

 are small and relatively unimportant. They are usually overgrown 

 with large mesquite trees and mammoth cacti. Bandelier states that 



Fig. 6. Ceremonial stone slab, Solomonsville, 

 Graham county, Ariz. 



" Twenty-second Report of Bureau of American Ethnology, pt. 1, 173. 



