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Other ruins with high standing walls were reported in Rum Canyon 

 but were not visited. 



The duplication of names of canyons in this district is misleading. 

 Names like Ruin Canyon are naturally applied to canyons in which 

 there are ruins. When the author learned at Dolores of Ruin Canyon, 

 he supposed it was a tributary of the Yellow Jacket or McElmo, 

 but while the canyon known to cowboys at Dolores by this name 

 has large ruins on its rim, it is not the "Ruin Canyon" to which 

 attention is now directed. The duplication of names has led me to 

 retain the name Rum Canyon for one and to suggest the name Square 

 Tower Canyon for the other. 



After leaving Ruin Canyon the Old Bluff Road takes a southerly 

 course, passing through the cedars until a sagebrush clearing replaces 

 the "timber/' where it crosses two well-preserved Indian reservoirs, 

 or bare surfaces of rock, dipping south, the southern border having as 



Fie. (i. — Square Tower Canyon. 



a retaining wall a low ridge of earth to hold back the water. The 

 retaining wall of the second reservoir has been built up by stockmen 

 and, when the author was there, contained considerable water. Cross- 

 ing the second reservoir a trail turns east or to the left and follows 

 the road to Keeley Camp, near which arc the "Keeley Towers." 



At present an automobile can approach within a mile of these 

 ruins. 



Square Tower Canyon 



To reach the Square Tower Canyon (pis. 11-17) one returns to the 

 reservoir on the Bluff Road and continues east about 3 miles farther, 

 where a signboard on the left hand indicates the turn off to Square 

 Tower Canyon. Following the new direction about southeast the 

 great buildings are visible a mile away. An automobile can go to the 

 very head of this canyon and a camp can be made within a few feet 

 of Hovenweep House. If the visitor approaches Square Tower 

 Canyon from the McElmo, he passes through Wickyup Canyon, where 

 there are two towers on the summits of elevated buttes, not far from 

 the junction of the canyon and the Yellow Jacket, 



