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Glimpses of our National Monuments

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  • OUR national monuments 9 Carlsbad Cave is 26 miles southwest of Carlsbad, N. Mex., by automobile road. Carlsbad, which is on the Ozark Trails, is also the nearest railroad point, being located on a branch of the Santa Fe Railroad. W. F. Mcllvain, president of the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce, is custodian of the national monument. Through the cooperation of the chamber of commerce considerable improvement work has been done with private funds. CASA GRANDE NATIONAL MONUMENT The Casa Grande National Monument, established to preserve interesting prehistoric ruins, is an area of 480 acres of typical desert land, covered with mesquite, creosote, and salt bush, located in the Gila Valley of south central Arizona at an altitude of 1,422 feet. Casa CraiHlr The Casa Grande, or "Great House." the main feature of this monument, is a burnt-out, dismantled group of solid adobe walls, ruins of a great building which at one time was four stories in height. The standing walls are 6 feet thick at their base. The first recorded white man to visit the ruin was Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, builder of the Tumacacori Mission, who passed here in 1694 and wrote a description of the ruins, which at the time of his discovery must have been standing for over two centuries in about the same condition that they are to-day. In addition to the great building there are many ruins of other prehistoric dwellings, the whole indicating a remarkable record of advancement in the architecture of the builders at Casa Grande up to the time of its final abandonment.
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