The author was guided by Mr. H. S. Merchant to a village ruin, one of
the largest visited, situated a few miles from his ranch house. This
village is about 10 miles due south of the store at the head of Dove
Creek, and consists of several large mounds, each about 500 feet long,
arranged parallel to each other, and numerous isolated smaller mounds.
Not far from this large ruin there is a prehistoric reservoir estimated
as covering about 4 acres. Many circular depressions, indicated
kivas, and lines of stones showed tops of buried rectangular rooms.
Excavations in a small mound near this ruin were conducted by Doctor
Prudden.[15]
The canyon which heads near the corral on the road to Merchant’s house
revealed no evidence of prehistoric dwellings.