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other artificial elevations. Casa Blanca, like Casa Grande, had its 

 oval mound with well-like interior, 1 besides several other elevations 

 of earth debris. The accompanying plate (xxxvni, a, b) repre- 

 sents Casa Blanca from the east, showing, a, one angle of the unex- 

 cavated surrounding wall as it appeared to the author in March, 

 1907. No walls now stand above ground, although it is said that 



North 



Fig. 122. — Ground plan of Casa Blanca Compound 



portions of buildings were visible as late as the middle of the 

 eighteenth century, and perhaps later. 



The surrounding wall (figure 122) measures 305 feet on the long 



'According to Hinton, Handbook to Arizona, p. 413, "There is one large 

 circular enclosure still to be seen near the stage road and within gunshot of the 

 Casa Blanca trading post." 



