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Morgan x gives the following description of the same ruin which 

 seems to the author to bo tho Mud Creek village: 



"Four miles westerly [from Mitchell ranch], near tho ranch of Mr. 

 Shirt, are the ruins of another large stone pueblo, togother with an 

 Indian cemetery, where each grave is marked by a border of flat 

 stones set level with the ground in the form of a parallelogram 8 foet 

 by 4 feet. Near the cluster of nine pueblos shown in the figure are 

 found strewn on the ground numerous fragments of pottery of high 

 grade in the ornamentation, and small arrowheads of flint, quartz, and 

 chalcedony delicately formed, and small knife blades with convex 

 and serrated edges in considerable numbers. 



"This is an immense ruin with small portions of the walls still 

 standing, particularly of the round tower of stone of three concentric 

 walls, incorporated in the structure, and a few chambers in the north 

 end of the main building. The round tower is still standing nearly 

 to the height of the first story. In its "present condition it was 

 impossible to make a ground plan showing the several chambors, 

 or to determine with certainty which side was the front of the struc- 

 ture, assuming that it was constructed in the terraced form . . . The 

 Round Tower is the most singular feature in this structure. While it 

 resembles the ordinary estufa, common to all those structures, it 

 differs from them in having three concentric walls. No doorways 

 are visible in the portion still standing, consequently it must have 

 been entered through the roof, in which respect it agrees with the 

 ordinary estufa. The inner chamber is about 20 foet in diameter, 

 and the spaces between the encircling walls are about 2 feet each; 

 the walls are about 2 feet in thickness, and were laid up mainly with 

 stones about 4 inches square, and, for the most part, in courses. 

 There is a similar round tower, having but two concentric walls, 

 at the head of the McElmo Canyon, and near tho ranch of Mr. 

 Mitchell [Mitchell Ruin]." 



As the name Mud Spring is locally .known to the natives, especially 

 to employees of livery stables and garages, the ruin is hero called 

 Mud Spring. The tower and the other circular buildings axe united 

 to other rooms as in similar groups of mounds. The presence 

 of surface depressions, thought to indicate circular kivas, 2 shows that 

 the Mud Spring mounds are remains of a village of tho same type as tho 

 Mummy Lake group, but with towers united to the largest mounds. 



The time the author could give to his visit to the Mud Spring Ruin 

 (pi. 3, h) was too limited to survey it, but he noticed in addition to the 

 two circular buildings already recorded, a large mound situated on 

 the west side of the gulch, and numerous small mounds on the east 



i Op. cit., p. 190. 



2 Although the kivas of Mud Spring Ruin have not been excavated there is little doubt from surface 

 indications that they belong to the unit type. 



