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dred thousand; and in one place, between camps 91 and 97, there is 
a long wide “valley, twenty miles in length, much of which i is. 
covered with the ruins of buildings and broken pottery. 
These ruins are uniformly of the same kind; not one stone now 
remains on the top of-the other; and they are only discoverable by 
the broken pottery around them, and stone laid in regular order, 
showing the trace of the foundation of a house. 
Most of these outlines are rectangular, and vary from 40 x 50: 
to 200 and 400 feet front. The stone are unhewn, and are most of 
an amygdaloid, rounded by attrition. 
Now of the tributaries which come into the Gila from the north, 
there are several besides the Salinas, which, at their mouths, are 
insignificant in size and can be stepped across; but in this whole 
region no legitimate inference can be drawn of ‘the size of a river, 
throughout its course, from that at any one pol 
: It may be large near its source, and after bec estate deserts of 
sand, through arid regions, serene by rains, become very auth 
and even disappear altoget 
| Therefore, except the Salinaas’ of which we have oral accounts, 
Be nothing i is known or can be inferred of the magnitude of these tri- 
| -butaries from their appearance at the junction. These tributaries 
come in near camp 81, where the mountains are so precipitous and 
bold no conjecture can be formed of their course. 
= The Salinas must have been the branch by which the expedition 
of Coronado ascended and crossed into New Mexico. Its general 
direction is not far from a line drawn from its mouth to Santa Fé, 
_ and nearly in this line are the seven towns mentioned as being on 
_ the head waters of the San José. Indians now pass from the Pimos 
i village to New Mexico on this route. 
__ I omitted to mention in its proper place, that we were informed 
by an intelligent Marricopas Indian that, about fifty miles from the 
mouth of the Salinas, was now standing, in a perfect state of pre- 
servation, the walls of a large three story building of mud, withits 
interior sides glazed and finely polished, and about it was to be 
Senos traces. of large eueqaibe, and broken pottery in great 
| There i is another tribe of Indians called the Moquis, who, like 
the Pim ‘and Soones, cultivate the soil and live in peace with 
se hbors; but the exact locality of this tribe I do not know, 
nd the fact that it is on or near the head waters of some of 
ack amy with —_ respect, your obedient servant, 
; W. H. EMORY. 
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