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No. 76. Pueblos. — Small pueblos occur in the pine forest south of 

 the Spur Ranch valley. They consist of two or more rooms and 



are not so numerous as those 

 on the north side. Similar 

 sites may be seen in the woods 

 which extend between this 

 place and Luna. 



No. 77. Pueblo. — On the 

 west side of Rita Blanca,near 

 its mouth, is situated the chief 

 ruin existing in this locality. 

 This ruin is made up of a 

 number of polygonal house 

 masses ranged on the gen- 





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Fig. 28. Plan of ruins on Stevens cienaga, showing rec- 

 tangular stone houses superimposed on pit-dwellings. 



tie slope extending southwest 

 from a high, lava - capped 

 mesa which bounds the valley 

 on the north. 



This slope has been graded to furnish level areas for the houses and 

 in every part of the site there are evidences of an incredible amount 

 of excavation, still discerni- 

 ble after farm occupation of 

 many years. The ruins of 

 the largest house mass form 

 a high mound containing 

 rooms of unusual size and a 

 large circular kiva 8 feet 

 deep. (PL iv, a.) Adjoin- 

 ing this mound is a large 

 " reservoir." South of this 

 much of the ruin has been 

 cleared away and the stones 

 laid in the walls of an im- 

 mense shed called locally 

 galera, erected by the Mexi- 

 can settlers on the founda- 

 tion of a portion of the 

 pueblo; for this reason the 

 galera extends in a northeast 

 direction. South of the 

 galera few traces of Avails 

 remain, this condition being 

 the result of the long-continued occupancy of the site by the great 

 Spur ranch. 



No. 78. Cliff -dwellings. — On Rita Blanca, one-quarter of a mile 

 north of Spur Ranch house, is a ruin consisting of a row of houses 



Fig. 29. Plan of Spur group, Spur ranch. 



