A Wonderful Relic

A few monlhs .sime Mr. W. A. i who has been traveling in the región of country lying sou west of Pueb] tween thia city and Mace's Hol ered a variety of fossils. among others i sea turtle in an excellent state of p vatlon. Mr. Conant called the attention of the newspaper press of the State to hit diseovery. and considerable eommcnt wk elieited. The matter gradnally ,, from the attention of the public, thonjfli Mr. Conant determined to search in in the saine locality with the hopo oí making additional discoveries. On "' day lie arrived in this oity, bringing vitj hirn a large stone figure of a man v he had uriearthed at the head ofa longdn' arroya about six miles north of the t,Vl. dence of I'. K. Doston, Esq., about twcmy. five miles from the city. The figure rts found etnbeded in very hard clay, requir. ing vigorous use of a piek to looien ii, , cedar tree grew neár by, one of the oí. which had grown between the ara and the body of the figure, making ü neeessary to cut tlie root before removin the statue from the bed ia which it doubtless reposed for centuries. Mr. i nant gjtatea thnt while sittíng on ground eating his lunch in tlic localiir above mentioned, his attention , traeled to a eurious looking stonc pro. truding from tho ground. Be remoré the caith from aiound it, and fornida:. . semblance to a human íbot. He then proceeded to dig away tho clay abont a bot in dopth and soon uncovered tlic cutiro figuro and haring obtained a=si-tanee brouglit it to the city. Dnfortunateir in removing tho figure, from it bed, wooden lever was placed nnder tlie iteck and the head broken ofif. It has howew, been neatly replaced. At first the dicovery was supposed to be thc pe body oí a human being of gigantic stature but closer exatnination proves ittobei pieee of sculpture, but by whom executei or to what age it bolongsno one sen know. It is composed of a sort of slale rock, colored a dirty yellow on the oalside, possibly from contact with the surrounding clay, and represents a man reclining, one arm being crossed over his breaat and tho other lving aloi:. side with the hand resting on tía The position iseasy and natural. The cutiré length of the statue is seven fe oches : length of arm four feet onc inch, breadth across tlie shoulders tWO I length of hand twelvc and one half inctcs, length of foot thirteen inebes, tho wcight of figure is about 450 ponáis The type of human race representedisj strange one. The hand, which is tiimci slightiy to one side, as is natural in a aclining position, is of the Asiatic tjpo. a sort of cross between an anoiont Egyptian and an American Indian, the check bönes being remarkably prominent. The figure is spare and thin, mucli like tho men in ancien t Kgyptian pictura, while the whole body ia covered with bdentations Ouo remarkable featurf which strikes the observer is the groit length of thc nrms and the ape-like appearance of the hands and feet The hand which rests on the leg, il' the arm wcre straightencd, would reach to tho knee, while the feet are long, flat and slim, and the great toos about tivo tnchea shorter than thoSo in the middlo of the feet. At the end of the backbone is i tail about two or three inches long, strongly suggestive of thc truth of tlie Darwinian theory. The figure wás at Djberg Sc Ricker's 8tat)les all day Tuesday, and was visited by hnndreds of our citizens. There is considerable excitement here over the discovery and a general desirc on the part of all to hear tho opinión of' some scientist with rejard to the origin of the curious work of an. There can be no question about Üwgenttineness of Üns piecc of statuary. The stoue shows the effect of time, and the circumstances of the discovery are soch as to preclude anything likc a re;ietion of t'.ie Caidiff (üantfraud. - Pueblo Chieñiiin.