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which were secured by the Museum-Gates expedition of 1905. The 

 pottery is gray, red-brown, and polished black, like that of the 

 Tnlarosa and the Blue. The whereabouts of the specimens secured by 

 Mrs. Grosstead are not known. 



No. 124- Pueblo. — A number of ruins have been reported at Oak 

 spring in the Fox mountains, said to be about 3 miles north of East- 

 camp and about 10 miles east of Luna, N. Mex. 



No. 125. Pueblos. — In the locality known as Johnsons basin, lying 

 among the foothills east of the road from Luna to the Salt Lake, 

 southwest of Zuiii, Mr. Ab. Johnson, a stockman, reports many 

 large ruins. These ruins have never been examined and this is the 

 first mention of their existence. 



III. — The Upper Salt River 



The general course of the Salt is nearly due west from its source in 

 the highland about Alpine, Apache county, Ariz., where also rises 

 the San Francisco. Its tributaries are almost exclusively from the 

 steep watershed north of its valley. The most important of them is 

 White Mountain creek. 



1. WHITE MOUNTAIN CREEK REGION 



White Mountain creek has its origin in the " rim " southeast of the 

 town of Pinetop, Navajo county, Ariz. On the upper reaches of the 

 creek are caves and small stone structures which were probably hunt- 

 ing lodges, the country being too high and rough for permanent habi- 

 tation. Lower down the stream, between Cooley's and Fort Apache, 

 are a number of rectangular pueblo ruins, and near the post are 

 extensive caves, which formerly were used as burial places and con- 

 tained until a few years ago many desiccated human bodies. 



West of White Mountain creek on Forestdale creek is a group of 

 very large pueblos, one of which is of circular form; and on Cedar 

 creek, a tributary of Carrizo, a large ruin due north of Silver Ball 

 peak is reported. A number of these pueblos were explored by the 

 Museum-Gates expedition of 1901. 



To the west, on Cibicu creek, a tributary of Salt (Black) river, 

 are other large stone pueblos like those at Forestdale; these have 

 not been examined. Other creeks descending from the " rim " into 

 Salt river will doubtless show, on investigation, sites of ancient habi- 

 tations. 



Above Fort Apache, on Salt river, are pueblos and caves which 

 have been disturbed by curiosity seekers. So far as is known, the 

 upper stretches of this river contain no ruins, since it runs through 

 elevated and extremely broken country, from its head in Escudilla 

 peak. 



