MORGAN.] RUINS OF STONE PUEBLO NEAR UTE MOUNTAIN. 191 
in one place about twenty feet wide. Here there are some evidences that 
a spring of water was inclosed in a reservoir by means of masonry. The 
building is in two sections, separated by this break, of which the main 
one is five hundred and ten feet long, and the smallest one hundred and 
twenty feet, forming a nearly continuous front. They stand back ten or 
fifteen feet from the verge of the bluff, and are built of tabular pieces of 
sandstone and adobe mortar. Numerous pit-holes in each structure indi- 
cate the chambers and the line of the inclosing walls. The removal of the 
loose material would doubtless disclose the ground-plan, but it would 
involve immense labor. With the Ute Mountain rising majestically in 
the background, and the broad valley in front, the situation of the pueblo 
is remarkably fine. 
The Round Tower is the most singular feature in this structure. While 
it resembles the ordinary estufa, common to all these 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 tweaty feet in diameter, and the spaces between the en- 
circling walls are about two feet each; the walls are about two feet in thick- 
ness, and were laid up mainly with stones about four 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 Canon, and near the ranch of 
Mr. Mitchell. It is shown in Fig. 44, and stands entirely isolated. The 
diameter of the tower is thirty-four feet, of which the inner chamber is 
twenty-three feet; the space between the two walls is about six feet, and 
the thickness of the walls about two feet six inches. It is laid up in the 
same manner as the one last named, with stones about the same size, and 
the walls still standing are about five feet in height. Partition walls divide 
the outer space, one of which measured twenty inches in thickness. 
Several hundred feet from the pueblo last named, further down the 
valley, is another pueblo of large extent, and in a very ruined condition. 
A mile or more below the ranch of Mr. Mitchell, in the bordering 
walls of the McElmo Canon, are two cliff houses. The walls of the bluff 
are here about twenty feet high, with large cavities formed in them here 
