From the Auburn Daily Bulletin of Auburn, NY
Friday, November 1, 1872

Indian Relics

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   The workmen on the Midland railroad in Genoa, have found some interesting Indian relics in the gravel-bed which has been opened about a mile and a half north of Genoa village. The gravel-bed is a high, and deep bank, on the east side of the track, and the steam shovel which is used, is eating its way rapidly into the heart of the bank.

   In this bank, at a considerable distance below the surface, have been found Indian skeletons, arrows, cooking utensils, and various trinkets, such as were wont to please the untutored savage. On Tuesday, a brass kettle of considerable size and in a good state of preservation, was unearthed - or ungraveled.

   The bank is "pouring out" a great variety of these interesting relics of a departed race. The perplexing question is, how did they become embedded in this gravel-bank, several feet below the surface? Did the "noble red man" place his household goods and household gods "in cache" here when he was forced by the pale-faces to leave the tramping-ground of his ancestors? Or has this gravel-bank been thrown up since the red man roamed through this country?

   Or are these not Indian relics after all, but indication of some Pre-Adamic race? And is the kettle mentioned above one in which they used to boil the icthyossaurus and the megatherirum, and make trilobite soup? We pause for a reply from the savans.

   The country about Genoa was a favorite tramping-ground of the Indians. Here they used to whoop it up right lively for Logan and his predecessors. The "Indian Fields", as they are now called, extending for miles long the west bank of the Big Salmon Creek, was their corn-ground, and is now one of the richest portions of the county or State. On the east bank of the creek, two miles below Genoa, in a deep pine forest, is one of their cemeteries, in which can be seen hundreds of graves. They were buried standing, and each grave is traceable by a depression of about 2 feet, caused by the decaying and falling to pieces of the "corpus" of the occupant.