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ther south on this stream the ruin on the Holson ranch has yielded 

 many specimens of ancient workmanship. 



No. 150. Caves. — On Lone mountain, south of Central and near 

 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad, are several ruins. 



Professor De Lashmutt writes : 



The caves are about a mile south of the Old Loue Mountain post-office. They 

 are in limestone, and are in the side of a cliff 150 or 250 feet above the 

 bottom of the canyon. The rocks near the entrance are worn smooth from 

 the Indians climbing up and down. They have evidently been utilized by the 

 Apache, as arrowheads, several scalps inclosed in a pitched wicker water 

 bottle, an old " six-shooter," a saddle, and horse trappings have been found 

 there. 



Fig. 50. Mealing pits in a rock outcrop on Whiskey creek. Grant county, N. Mex. 



Professor De Lashmutt can not say whether any relics indicating 

 a people earlier than the Apache have been found in these caves. 

 There are two main caves, into one of which it is possible to pene- 

 trate about 75 feet. 



No. 151. House sites.— These are found in the Whitewater moun- 

 tains, northeast of a siding called Hurley (on the old maps called 

 Hill Top), 2 or 3 miles north of a siding on the Whitewater-Santa 

 Rita branch of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad. The 

 mountains lie 12 miles east of Silver City. The rooms are made by 

 walling U p spaces between and under large masses of rock which 

 have fallen from the cliff above, and resemble the constructions of 

 the Yaqui Indians of Sonora, Mexico. They are probably from 800 



