that Dr. H. C. Yarrow, of the Wheeler Survey, observed more than 400 mounds in this vicinity in 1872. The figure given, in itself, suggests a possible exaggeration and yet many ruins were unques tionably razed during the succeeding 20 years as the cultivated fields of the modern community increased in extent. Prof. Henry Mont gomery, then of the University of Utah, reports 2 approximately 100 mounds near Paragonah in 1893 an<^a n^e estimate is given by Mr. Don Maguire of Ogden, Utah, who conducted excavations at the same time as Professor Montgomery in the interest of the Chicago World s Fair. Less than half of these remained in 1915, when the writer began his investigations for the Bureau of American Ethnology and the number was still further reduced during the next 12 months, leaving a bare half-dozen large elevations in the fields al ready under cultivation and several smaller mounds in the sagecovered area adjoining. But the largest of these, whose size alone has delayed their reduction, had also attracted earlier investigators and each mound still bears the scars of their several undertakings. In addition to the above observers Dr. Edward Palmer, of the U. S. National Museum, conducted limited excavations at the same locality during one of his numerous expeditions through southwestern Utah between 1869 and 1877. None of these investigators, however, with the single exception of Professor Montgomery, 8 has published an 1 U. S. Geographical Surveys West of the looth Meridian, Capt. G. M.
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