Image 47 of El Paso herald (El Paso, Tex.), October 14, 1911, (Statehood Jubilee Edition=Section 6)

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EL PASO TTFRATH New Mexico Is Rich Field For the Student Of Archaeology Ruins Of Cities That Were Old Before Columbus Discovered America Are Found Throughout the Territory La Guna Indians Still Live Largely After Methods Of Their PreHistoric Ancestors First Church in United States at Santa Fe SANTA Fe N It Oct 1 New Mex ico probably contains a greater wealth of ancient history than Any other state in the union From the Pajarita cliff dwellings in the north to the Gila river dwellings in Grant county is a lone distance yet almost all the country traversed is covered with the remains of a prehistoric race In many of these ancient localities there yet reside the decendants of the people who settled the country before history was written This is true of the Pueble Indian villages in the west ern part of tic ctite notably Lagan I fueDio in tne central region the re mains of La Gran Qulvtra an ancient buried city probably destroy by a volcano according to the evidences in the lava and ashes still found are at tracting the archeologUta just as the ctff houses have attracted students to northern New Mexico for ages School