Arizona republican., 1904-05-18
CAVE CREEK EXCITEMENT
News of a Rich Strike in the nashack.
 erty Mines.

The excitement over the mining de- velopments in the Cave Creek country is increasing and spreading. Many old mining men have always had gr, at faith in that region and their faith is now beginning to be justified. Mention was made day or two ago by The Re- publican of the Devies discovery near the Mormon Girl mine Yesterday news of strike in the old Mashackerty in the same neighborhood reached town. R. F. Doll is tire principal owner of the property with William Channel, who has been working it for several years most of the time alone. The work has largely been confined to a tunnel for an extension of which a survey was made not long ago by Captain Inga l.. The tunnel ran through a. rich con- glomerate formation and finally pene- tratcd a rich hematite kidney The de- nosit is a very extensive one and as says are so high in gold that the own CTS do not like to say at the present time what they are.
 The tunnel is twenty-five feet wide and sixteen feet high and 135 feet long. It is ore all the way from the mouth and the farther it has gone the richer the ore has got
 
 ited it one could take ore from any part of the tunnel and wash gold out of it. MT. Colley, a Peoria, H., attorney, who has been living in the Cave Creek country for his health for the last year, was in the city yesterday. ..Je said that there have been several other promising discoveries in that neighborhood re- gently and interest has been revived in the old Phoenix and Mayico~a m nes. The people there believe that there will soon be a great camp on Cave creek.
 The MashaC kerty mire was located by the father of the Channel boys, twenty seven years ago and the family has ev- CT since been interested in it. There are those who have been curious as to the way in which it got it's name. There has never been anybody of that nama in this part of the country or fin any other part so far as is known. More over, it is not euphonious or conven- .ent name.
 Captain Ingalls, told yesterday how the name came to be bestowed. It was named after Meshaokerty Channel, he said, but that stetement gave rise 10 a further inquiry as to how it hapr rened that a Christian man ever got such a name. It was brought out that that was not the name gwen 10 MT. Chan- nell by E.is parents. It was the resu of the exercise of his nerve on a cer- tain historic occasion. Chanren came to the territory in an early day ard at last found himself utterly broke" When his fortunes were at the lowest ebb General Crook came through the country trying in one way and another to make good Indians out of the Apaches. He had some business with the Mohave-Apaches he wanted to eX- ecute a treaty with them and he was ip need of an interpreter. Channel heard of the opening anG went to see Crook about it. Crook asked him if he was an interpreter. Channel, who waS in in such financial straits that he would have undertaken to hold down the chair of Hebrew in the University Of Bonn, replied that he was an Apache scholar. He accompanied General Crooks command to the fee1ing grounds of the Mohave-Apaches. Crook, Channel and members of Crooks staff approached the Indians and