which I made to 
satisfy myself as to the nature of one of 
the ruins on the grounds of the Indian school. There is 
also much evidence that the people did much grinding; and 
there is an almost total absence of arrow points - even 
chips being scarce. Axes, however, are quite numerous. 
At least one of the ruins, that on the grounds of the school 
and extending therefrom, ought to be explored systematically 
It contains the remnants of a settlement of about 200 dwell- 
ings and possibly more, and several low, mound- like eleva- 
tions. Nearly all the specimens I send you came from this 
ruin. A few were donated by the Supt . and traders here, 
while the rest I collected in the stone piles removed by the 
Indians from a part of the ruin that was being converted int 
an orchard, and during the little digging. You will notice 
the great difference in the workmanship of the different 
classes of specimens. The Apaches all say that when they 
came into this valley (which was quite recently) the ruin 
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'were here as they are now, and they have no idea who were 
their builders. They have for the people the name !f na— 
ilsoh-ki-de" , which means "old timers w . 
In the top of some of the ruins in the valley and more 
often next or near to them, the Apaches have built their 
khuvas . Wherever these dwellings have been abandoned and 
the brush burned or blown away, there is left a rounded or 
oval depression in the ground, of from 8 to 12 feet in dian- 
