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the T extending in a general easterly course and the stem southward 
for several hundred yards. Most of the land belongs to Mr. E. 8. 
Casebolt; the southern part belongs to Mr. W. H. Utz. 
Over all this area are abundant indications of an aboriginal village 
site. The ground is strewn for acres with potsherds, broken bones, 
and especially with the refuse resulting from the manufacture of flint 
implements. A great amount of good museum material, including 
nearly every class of objects usually found under such circumstances, 
has come from here. 
The same conditions, but confined to a much smaller area, are 
reported to prevail on the eastern part of Mr. Utz’s farm, on a 
segregated knoll. This was in a blue-grass meadow, where nothing 
on the ground could be seen at the time of the writer’s visit. 
With reference to this village site, Judge West says :% 
* * * From a half to three-quarters of a mile from the earthworks [the “Old 
Fort’’] and on a line parallel with the west side, there begins an area of country 
extending to near the terrace before mentioned [the Petite Osage plains], a distance of 
about two miles and which is about the same width the other way. This entire area 
is literally covered over with low mounds, containing wood ashes, stone implements, 
pottery, mussel-shells and animal and human bones. Indeed the whole ground 
seems to be filled in this way. 
[Page 533.] This district may very aptly be termed a city in ruins. The ground 
for a depth of from three to five feet, or more, is filled with the bones and domestic 
implements of a departed race, and for miles around their broken implements lie 
scattered everywhere. They were undoubtedly a people who had a fixed and per- 
manent abode, and an agricultural people, to a limited extent at least, for some of 
their stone implements must have been made for the cultivation of the soil. They 
must have used their pottery vessels for cooking their food, and the low mounds 
represent their kitchens, in which wagon loads of broken vessels might be gathered 
up—broken at the domestic hearth. 
The “‘two miles in extent either way,’ which Judge West con- 
siders the area of former occupation, would carry the limits of the 
village site far beyond the points where any indications of it exist. 
The ‘‘low mounds,” the only real evidence of an aboriginal town 
(‘city in ruins”’ is hardly applicable), do not exist in this neighbor- 
hood outside of the limits of the two farms mentioned. Further- 
more, it is not to be inferred that the débris on the main village site 
is equally distributed over the entire space; it occurs in separate 
deposits. In spots ranging from 20 to 50 yards apart the ground is 
literally covered and filled to a level below plow depth; but in going 
from one of these spots to another, the débris becomes less abundant, 
in places almost disappearing midway between the deposits which 
are farthest apart. The deposits are in one or two rows, according 
to the width of the ridge. Locally these are called ‘‘mounds,” hav- 
ing been somewhat elevated at one time, though most of them are 
now leveled by cultivation. Some of the deposits, in pasture lands, 
aIn the Kansas City Review of Science, 531, Jan., 1882. 
