The KID"S CAVE
Arizona Republican Newspaper
June 10, 1897

Messrs. J.M. Burnett and W.H. Bonsall have lately returned from a 
trip into the Superstition Mountains.  Mr. Burnett describes the '
Kid's Cave" visited by them on their journey. It is one of the most 
remarkable fortresses in Arizona and concerning which even less is 
known than of Cochise's stronghold in the Dragoons. It was believed 
that the Apache Kid hid in this cave six or seven years ago, or 
about the time of the murder of Johnny Dobie, a 17 year old boy 
at Frazier's Ranch, the last murder the Kid is certainly known to 
have committed. His body was found by his uncle, Sam Nabors, who 
was foremen of the ranch then and is still living in that vicinity.  
The slaughter of his nephew interested him in the Apaches and he has 
since been engaged in the accumulation of a lariat made of Indian 
hair.

The kid's Cave is three miles from Bark's Ranch, so situated that 
the mouth of it overlooks the country for miles.  The opening is 
approached by a steep incline of not less than fifty degrees. This 
incline is about 400 feet in length.  The moth is about seventy 
feet wide.  It is about sixty feet from the opening to the rear 
wall.  

Messrs. Burnett and Bonsall found the tracks of deer and mountain 
lions. There were found also eleven Indian beds, that is slight 
excavations in the floor of the face filled with boughs. There was 
too, a map of the locality