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stand rough Indian transportation and was therefore made on 
the spot from native clay. 
So the story widens with the hits of the old times 
picked up, everything having an Indian man or woman once living 
and breathing at the other end. The hunt for the Indians is 
not made with a spade and the fingers, but with the informed 
mind. 
The District of Columbia Indians were in the stone 
age, and imperishable stone tools left in the soil are silent 
though eloquent of the old times. So many of the implements 
are of a stone called quartzite that archeologists earnestly 
desired to know what was the source. Dr. W. H. Holmes and 
De Lancey Gill, archeologically sleuthing here and there over 
the District, found quartzite boulder beds In the once 
beautiful valley of Piney Branch and saw chips and partially 
worked cobble stones lying about. Here, said Dr. Holmes, 
appears to be the quarry. Subsequent ditching revealed that 
here was one of the greatest Indian quarries discovered in 
the United States. 
Thousands of tons of chips and other quarry refuse 
lay under the tree-covered gentle slopes of Piney. Dr, Holmes’ 
trenches showed that the boulder bed had been worked in places 
to the depth of ,^8 feet. An Incredible amount of labor had 
been expended here to fashion by blows of stone upon stone 
leaf shaped blades, the blanks from which arrowheads and knives 
were made in far off camps. In the old days of the District of 
Columbia a temporary camp of mat houses would be seen on the 
