[Illustration: FIG. 15.—Inverted cone ruin.]
The best example of the mushroom type of ruin, shown in the
accompanying figure (fig. 15) is about 6 miles up the canyon from
Taylor’s ranch on the right hand side of Hill Canyon. It is clearly
visible from the road which follows the stream and has a wide outlook
up and down the valley. Although the top of the rock on which this
ruin stands would at first sight appear to be inaccessible, Mr. Owen,
by means of a log, surmounted it and reported that its surface is flat
and that the walls thereon are about 20 feet long and five feet wide,
enclosing a roughly oval chamber, as their outline follows the rim of
the top of the rock. These walls, when seen from the road with a good
glass, appear as low ridges constructed of indifferent masonry.