FEWKES] RUINS ON THE UPPER VERDE RIVER 199 
passageway through the intervening partition. The front wall of 
one of these rooms is pierced by a round peephole, which commands a 
view upstream. The walls of this ruin are thick except in front, where 
they are badly broken down. On their inner plastered surfaces marks 
of human hands appear.t 
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Fic. 61. Ground plan and section of ledge-house near Jordan’s ranch (height of front wall about 50 feet). 
Ruts ry Sycamore Canyon 
The presence of ruins in Sycamore Canyon (Dragoon Fork of some 
of the older maps) was reported, but on investigation the author was 
unable to find any large buildings on this tributary of the Verde 
River, although he examined several ruins—forts, cavate rooms, and 
1 These are the ruins about which an imaginary story was published in a Jerome (Arizona) newspaper, 
later copied into journals of wider circulation, that they were still inhabited. 
