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tracks, opposite the west end of Black butte, is a small group of 

 remains. (Page 397.) 



No. 165. Pueblos. — One-half mile south of Oldtown and 22 miles 

 from Deming are extensive ruins. One of these is a pueblo built 

 on a sheer bluff 80 feet high. The ruin shows the outlines of GO 

 rooms, and part of the buildings evidently stood more than one story 

 high. Professor Duff says (p. 398) : 



From beneath the floor of one of the rooms in the ruins at Olcltown Mr. 

 David Baker and myself took out four fine ollas (bowls) inverted over crania, 

 these bowls having a hole knocked in the bottom, each inverted over the 

 skull of a skeleton. They were found 4 feet beneath the surface, and were as 

 fresh and nice in parts as when placed there. The dead had been laid away 

 with their heads to the east and in the eastern portion of the room. 



This section of the Mimbres valley affords excellent land for agri- 

 culture, and the pueblo remains are correspondingly large. Ban- 

 delier includes them in his account of Mimbres Valley ruins. 



No. 166. Pueblo. — On the east side of the Mimbres. 1 mile from 

 Oldtown, is a pueblo which was built of flat rock laid up in mortar. 

 (Duff, p. 397.) 



No. 167. Pueblos. — On the Mimbres river, below Deming, are sev- 

 eral pueblos which are mentioned by Mr. Duff, one of them situated 

 on the ranch of Mr. Byron and the other near the Keith ranch. Two 

 miles northwest from Byron's an old burying ground exists, but of 

 the village, which was built of adobes, little remains. Professor Duff 

 states (p. 399) : 



Mr. Ralph Byron and myself exhumed a skeleton from a level patch of ground 

 north of the main ruin at their ranch. The skull has a small decorated bowl 

 inverted over it, but badly broken. The skeleton laid about 1* feet beneath the 

 surface and had been buried with the head toward the east. 



In the crown of the hill near Mr. Byron's are mortars cut in the 

 rock, and pestles 1 to 2 feet long are found in this vicinity. The mor- 

 tars are from 5 to 12 inches in diameter and 12 to 18 inches deep. 



No. 16S. Pueblo. — The existence of an ancient pueblo ruin on the 

 ranch of Henry Coleman, G miles from Deming, near the upper end of 

 the Florida mountains, is mentioned by Mr. Duff (p. 397). 



No. 160. Pueblos. — A number of ruins lie at the base of Bed moun- 

 tain, 8 miles southwest of Deming. One of them, situated a short dis- 

 tance from Thomas Word's ranch, is large, and great quantities of 

 broken pottery occur there. (Duff, p. 398.) 



No. 170. Pueblo. — Thirty miles southwest of Deming, near Col. 

 Richard Hudson's Cedar Grove ranch, evidences of occupancy are 

 reported as very marked, but no excavations were made. (Duff, 

 p. 398.) 



No. 171. Pueblo. — This ruin is on the ranch of Mrs. Collins, 4 

 miles west of Deming. (Duff, p. 397.) 



