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known to me, from the summit of Woodruff Butte, but I have never 

 visited the elevation, which is conspicuous for miles around. 



Small ruins in the petrified forest "^ were examined, and yielded a 

 few interesting objects. 



PINEDALE RUINS, 



The settlement called Pinedale is situated, as its name signifies, 

 among the pine trees, in a small valley high up on the sides of the 

 foothills near the northern edge of the Apache Reservation. It lies on 

 one of the tributaries of the Little Colorado River, near its source, and 

 is approached by a rough road which branches from the Fort Ai)ache 

 military road a few miles south of the settlement called Taylor. 



The largest of the ruins near Pinedale is situated just beyond the 

 town near an unfinished (1897) stone schoolhouse. It is divided into 

 two parts, which are vSeparated by the road. The ijortion on the right 

 has a rectangular form, composed of a single series of square rooms 

 inclosing a plaza. Tall pine trees of great age grow from the soil, 

 covering the floors of several of these rooms, which indicate the great 

 antiquity of the buildings. The part of the ruin to the left of the road, 

 on the opj)Osite side from the school honse, is more concentrated than 

 the former, and was apparently more densely populated when inhabited. 

 It also has a square form, but with smaller inclosed plaza than the other 

 ruin. Our excavations were confined mostly to the eastern slope of 

 this section, where many ai!«"ient burials were found and a few fine 

 objects, mostly moituary pottery, exhumed. About fifty specimens 

 were collected at the Pinedale ruins, but none of these were different 

 from the objects from other ruins along the Little Colorado Valley. 

 Among the smaller specimens may be mentioned numerous objects 

 made of bone, as awls, bodkins, scrapers, gouges, and tubes, fragments 

 of deer antlers, metates, grinding stones, and spear points. The color 

 of the pottery was as a rule either red with black decorations, or 

 so-called black and white, and was closely related to that found at 

 Four- Mile Ruin,- lower down the valley. 



FOUR-MILE RUIN. 



The ruined jmeblo which I have called Four-Mile Ruin is situated 4 

 miles from Snow Flake and about 2 miles west of Taylor, Arizona. It 

 lies on Pinedale Creek, a small tributary of Silver Creek, which flows 

 into the Little Colorado. Before my visit nothing had been written 

 about this important ruin, as it was known only to a few people in the 

 neighboring towns. My attention was called to it by Mr. Brimhall, of 

 Taylor, but I had little hoi)e of finding much of interest there on my first 



'A large ruin not far from Adamana, on the road to the forest, has attracted the 

 attention of several tonrists. 



-Several ruins were discovered near Stott's ranch a few miles west of Pinedale. 

 A few specimens were taken froui the largest of these, in front of the cabin. 



