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3. RUINS SOUTH OF RED HORSE GULCH 
Ruin No. 18—There is an immense ruin on the divide south of 
Red Horse Gulch about half a mile down the canyon from Heathers’s 
tank. This covers about 5 acres of ground. Seemingly it 1s com- 
posed of a group of buildings of the “ pole-and-mud” type. I was 
able to spend only a few minutes at the site, so an adequate de- 
scription of it can not be given. I would judge this ruin to offer 
the best opportunity for fruitful excavations to be found between 
the La Plata and Mancos Rivers. There are three large burial 
mounds which would not fail to yield many specimens if by any 
chance they have escaped the ravages of the badgers. 
4, RUINS AT RED MESA 
Ruins at Site No. 19—Upon the first terrace east of the La Plata, 
just below the mouth of Cherry Creek, are many small ruins, a de- 
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Fie. 4.—Ground plan of Ruin No, 20. 
scription of which would be only a repetition of tedious detail. In 
the river bottom is a detached point 25 feet high and about one- 
third of an acre in extent whose top is entirely covered by a ruin. 
The many slab-outlined inclosures are probably rooms like those 
excavated in Ruin No. 17. 
Stone Ruin at Site No. 20—On the bluff west of the river is a 
stone ruin 77 feet long and 32 feet wide, the long axis extending 
east and west (pl. 62, a). A tentative plan is given in figure 4. 
This ruin consists of a row of three kivas flanked on the north by a 
single tier of rectangular rooms. At the west end is a smaller round 
room not in line with the large ones. Rooms 1 and 2 and a part 
of kiva 1 were excavated. The north and east walls of room 1 are 
