Arizona republican., 1911-03-28
ANCIENT SHRINE OF
 AN UNKNOWN PEOPLE
CAMELBACk MOUNTAIN GIVES UP ANOTHER OF ITS LONG,
 GUARDED SECRETS.
Harry Diehl Demonstrates that the People of This Valley Were Always of Religious
 Nature.

Locating a shrine of an ancient l people on the rugged side of Camel back mountain. a few miles from Phoenix. H. A. Diehl, a merchant of this city. has demonstrated himself to be also, an "unconscious" ethnOl- ogist, one of those people who go around exposing the secrets of the dark and misty past. without pre- meditation or studied purpose. Some people can do such things only when they are backed by an archaeological society with a high sounding name and piethoric bank account but all Mir. Diehl had to work with was a couple of picnic parties, which he used as a lever to pry the lid off the sepulchre of the ages
 Mir Diehl is pretty good at keep ing secrets himself for his discovery was made last Thanksgiving day and it was not until yesterday that he decided to take the world into his confidence. MT. and Mrs. Diehl, Mir. and Mrs. James A. Estabrook and MT. and Mrs. J. H. Nelson, on November 24 of last year went to the north side of Comeback on q picnic. After the picnic dinner Messrs. Diehl and Es- tabrook decided to do some climbing so they worked their way under the overhanging rock known locally as The old Man." and there is a sort of a shelter. but one that could hardly be called a cave, Mir. Diehrs attention was attracted to several pieces of cane from two to three in- ches long and verying in size from that of a lead pencil to salf inch in diameter As the pieces of cane certainly never grew in that vicinity and were all cut up in similar lengths as though for studied purpose. Mir. Diehl assumed that he was in a pos sible vicinity of something more in- teresting and began to dig. In few minutes he had uncovered a tur- quoise bead and several more of the pieces of cane.
 Returning home he told his friends of his find and on Christmas day a big picnic party. including F. E. Cool ey, employed in MT. Diehi's shoe store. visited the place, Mir Diehl having given directions for finding it. Mir Cooley and those with him dug around
 
 a cigar box full of little pieces of cane. several more of the turquoise beads, pieces of obSidian arrow heads. pieces of stone axes and a number of small bones that might or might not be parts of d human frame Will Lowe who was a member of the par ty, also found a string of six beads.
 An interesting fact about the canes is that many of the pieces are wrap ped with little piece of cloth. one in particular was unwrapped yester- day and it was found that the fabric was coarse woven, hardly resembling anything of modern weaving and just large enough to reach around the cane which was a half inch in diam eter. overlapping enough to make a perfect wrapping. From each of the four corners of the cloth, which is white, extends a thread of the same material: these threads being wrap ped around the cane and securely tied. The little fabric when spread out revealed what seemed to be either double cross or a rude repre- sentatiOn of a human being marked in black ink upon it. The figure is too small to be clearly made out.
 Another thing noticed about the canes Is that each one of them is filled with the seeds or fibre of some plant or plants. giving them the ap- pearance of hard shelled cigarettes. One piece of cane. half of split