Note XI-48 — Chapter XI · ANTIQUITIES OF ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.

Dominguez and Escalante, Diario, in Doc. Hist. Mex., série ii., tom. i., pp. 400-2. A correspondent of the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, July 8, 1864, says that the San Juan valley is strewn with ruins for hundreds of miles, some buildings three stories high of solid masonry still standing. Davis, El Gringo, p. 417, had heard of some ruins on the northern bank of the San Juan, but none further north. 'The valleys of the Rio de las Animas and San Juan are strewn with the ruins of cities, many of them of solid masonry. Stone buildings, three stories high, are yet standing, of Aztec architecture.' Baker, in Cal. Farmer, June 19, 1863.