54 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 
During the past summer, however, Mr. Hatze, a Land Office 
surveyor, determined the metes and bounds of these three 
clusters and later Doctor Fewkes visited them in order to 
determine their present condition. He found that a settler 
had filed claims on the neighboring land, the adjoining 
one-quarter mile section, and erected his cabin. Some of 
the cabins in the neighborhood have stones remarkably like 
those of the towers; in other words, the necessity for imme- 
diate action, if these towers are to be preserved for posterity, 
is apparent, and the land on which they are situated should 
be withdrawn from settlement and the buildings put under 
the care of proper authorities. The three groups are known 
as the Square Tower, the Ruin Canyon group; the Holly and 
Keeley Towers; and the large ruin at the head of the Cajon 
Mesa called Cool Spring House, on account of the fine water 
which is found in the cave back of the cliff house. 
During the fiscal year Dr. John R. Swanton, ethnologist, 
was engaged in extracting the words from his Hitchiti texts 
and adding them to his dictionary on cards of the Hitchiti 
language, and in preparing a grammatical sketch of 75 pages 
based on this material and that collected by Dr. A. 8. 
Gatschet. 
Much time was devoted to transferrmg words to cards 
from his Alabama texts, and from material in Alabama 
secured through native informants, into an Alabama-English 
dictionary. The first 25 pages of a grammatical sketch of 
this language have also been completed. 
A comparison has been made between the Natchez 
language on the one hand and Koasati and Hitchiti on the 
other, in order to establish the position of Natchez in the 
Muskhogean linguistic stock. This has not yet been set 
down in full,.but all of the essential points have been type- 
written on cards. 
A paper of 44 pages has been prepared in elaboration of 
some recent discoveries regarding the Siouan peoples, 
discoveries which have an especial bearing on the relation- 
ship of the various Siouan groups to one another. 
A small amount of work has been done in continuance of 
Doctor Swanton’s investigations into the economic basis of 
