The skeletons of three persons, one male…

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The skeletons of three persons, one male and two females, evidently, were unearthed at the Mud Springs ranch a few days ago. They were found in the old wagon road leading from Chloride to Fairview and were covered by only a few inches of earth. From the manner in which the skeletons were found it is evident that the bodies had been hurriedly buried or dumped into a hole in the ground. The bones show evidence of long burial, as many of them are badly decayed. Of the three skulls found but one was in good state of preservation . This skull is of a most peculiar shape and belongs to a man of some wild race of people, the Apache or perhaps the Aztec race, as the bones give a measurement of a man considerably less than six feet tall while the head would indicate that its owner was considerably over six feet, and the teeth are in very good condition, giving evidence of a person of some thirty years of age. The other skulls are smaller, one giving evidence of about the same age as that of the man, while the other of a person of fifty or sixty years. — Chloride Black Range.