Show n eath Valle Vall y Opens to Tourists rt I l f 2 O y J t- t 5 r rv L fax s O r t tF F yE ff hr a tt tw r r w e. orr rr z CU J m 1 ai res r-res n x z rJ t By By ELMO SCOTT WATSON r A LILY t I what visions of horror t those hoso Words conjure up Ul In the D mind of ono who knows anything this famous spot pot In southern California visions visions of an Inferno of heat laut and ami thirst a narrow valley shut hut hutIn In between black walled mountains mountain and lying below sea soa level leve-I the lowest low est point mint on nn the American continent tons Mom of a white plain across which the hatam heat hat WH area shimmer and of mirages of ot cool les Id appear before the eyes of at dying m n II to mock their then n vanish of R n rotate barren land IO whose e terrific heat literally let up op up mens men's blood in lu their their eln veins and drives hem aind before tiny they die Ille a 1 IIla plague e spot to be wired hatred b by nil lh mirK Creatures Sack was Death neath Valley of ot yesterday Hut But the Wo th tb Valley Palley of is different True the wt t ud sad the thirst are still there but It Is no W ter a place pineo to i lo It e shunned by man mun Instead ni b now now actually being opened opened to urI t tourist t sighting sight sight- ing I traffic amt ami I is III being advertised ed as 01 a R new nd I And the Invitation In for tor tourists T Lai Death f. f vii Vur ey comes Ines from no less a host tan ban the e n United 11 l States national park service TheM The M waa re recently made mode b by byi T T. T i I Mother of ot the thc P purl perk r lI service A 4 hotel for the accommodation of f v Is Tat now flow completed on the very pr edge of at the tile overt n a i few miles mills from Ryan A magnificent v ot of t the tile valley alley with It Its frame fram of Jagged and ld tn colored cliffs may be tamed oed from the hotel lye have also been exude for tor side RIde t Pt to various of Interest One of ot the from of tI these e Is ls penk eAk where an elevation tot loot of feet foet the visitor may Into t feet Death Volley alley which ot at this point polut lies lIell below Rea 0 h level I e ion ra will III lie be able ble to get Wt on n a train In lu Ani Angeles about the tJ 0 p m m m- and ond reach h tb the hotel overt Delt mo moaning The new s lins Ilos already been opened february 1 to ho he hut exact It to flat you expect Death nth v 10 Valley season r you YOI will have t must 1 May Muy 15 15 for on that date the last tk reason bl be out lout of f the tho valley y- y Jl r li will open In the full but sill be the th tulle r always MA May I For dr Death Valley Dt a as ast t It Is U lea In the winter becomes erno WIth nn an me temperature the return of tho the summer Bummer sun and tore It As the runs P up S os high as OS 14 dt degrees or p lt It its it's fam Pr r saying BayIng SOPS goes It Isn't the the tho Death th alley UP 1111 onlY ony In In the tho case caso of ot average B Its It's the la lack k of ty that kills Old will III nr ty is only 01 i of f 1 per p cent cent- tell lit 1 D. D is 10 y you rOil U that It if you OU souse U a n a tub hib ir PI t r It tt Ini of water Wlter and pull one end out outu will wll dr dry thoroughly while u the you OH OU are arc lUg L other halt half Or In n wt rater dip dP your tut time time e and told lohl It up p It Jt Is ls dry In ln a su UI be Jump Into to water full fully clothed and I tI a LIly Ur dry y l to the 10 last Jt thread nd l In halt lur nn an eta otts It be rK egg o on the sane sand and ln In ten te min d 4 and baked herd A alfa cut In field urr II'S h ready rendy fur for stacking In less than two I III'S b Valle Its It's nOT In Death Vj I hib alley got t Its hi e namo na during the flays Ony of 1 t Iron Spring of Q W iD a art of ot emigrants emigrants- California et out from 0 III Ill lit C gold ld fl field Late that summer hummer n t tD ant 7 train trola reached Salt Snit Lake Inko CIt City Utah te t 0 sun an told that the regular mountain of at Sierra Francisco Would beneath twenty t lit th the I snow before they ro top or Of the Ie fates ORles They ero awful ful ruto that OU thit luid hind overtaken ho the Wel 0 of fit V n m r Party most moat of which had hill hunger wh When Q tl tt T was vrna In I iri caught n toOl lake IaU In north northern m California f 1 Lail i Pokers rs vero Patient Impatient to reach M I I O I K wIth other othor they M na UI I of oC John hunt who ho i 1 it t 1 t contracted to ta take them o er the old aid Spanish trail troll to Lo Los Loa Angeles through San Bernardino Progress was was TOS slow and some amo of the emigrants became dissatisfied cd Having beard heard of ot a short short- shortcut shortcut cut leading west vest that would save ro miles of their Journey they decided over Hunts Hunt's protest protest pro- pro test to ta make the ven venture ure The Tho result was that shortly afterwards wards they found themselves In t Is now Death Valley hemmed In by mountains moun tants through which there appeared to be no opening There the party split One group 30 SO persons In all young bachelors from Illinois who called themselves l es The Jayhawkers pressed on toward the he mountains to try to find a way out of the trap trill Some of them then died of starvation some of thirst and others went mad and wandered away to their deaths In the valley In nil all nil 13 of at the theW W 80 perished before they fought their way through to safet safety In the meantime the rest of the party lien Uen with families had found faund a tiny stream nud and there they camped camper to ta rest But nut their food supplies began to run low Their oxen began to die and their wagons to fall tall apart In to the blistering sun aim So the lender leader Asahel Bennett Dennett sent two young fellows Will Manley and John Rogers fo forth h to find a way out of ot this living hell As they d ported parted Mrs Ur Dennett Bennett gave Manley a n double han handful tul of rice rice halt half of all she hod hot and and silently pointed to the pinched hunger faces face of her children He lIe understood her ber mean mean- tag Ing Upon the success of his hi and Rogers Rogers' efforts depended the lives of all the emigrants Then the party porty sat Iowa down to walt wait for the return of ot the till two scouts A week passed two passed two three and still Manley end and did not lIat return At Atthe Atthe Atthe the end fOnd of the fourth week wk all alt except Asahel Bennetts Bennett's wife had hope They Thy will come como hock hack she maintained steadfastly lint Hut they did not and nud the party port resolved ed upon ulan on one last desperate desperate des des- attempt to escape They began stripping the canvas covers rovers from the prairie schooners schooner and making pack saddles upon their emaciated oxen And then Manley Manit and Rogers returned 1 I They spoke poke but briefly of t th the the- days of ot horror spent In struggling tru from one waterhole wl to the next newt across the Ilio miles of the tho MO Mojave lIVe desert of the dead of ot the Jayhawker party whoa they the had bad found along the trail Hut But they had found faund food and most vital of ail 11 H. H they had found a way out of the valley ollY They l gilded uI d the party on the long climb to the tho summit of at the ran range which As the emigrants frowns frown clo do down n upon the valley reached the crest and aud looked hock hack Into the tile trap from which they had scoped escaped Asahel wife raised her arms In a gesture of ot farewell I l she cried And so 1111 It Goott by hy Iloth Valley was named A Although though this occurred three quarters of a R century ego ngo echoes of this tragic event ent have been Iwen heard from time to time In recent years As late lote os as 1018 the two sun survivors Ivors of the Jay Jar Jayhawker hawker parly Col John n. n Colton of burg ut hur Ill and ond Lorenzo Dow v Stephens of ot San Jo Jose P met once onre more to talk o over oer er their thrilling thrill ing hag experience but till last lust living link with the tragic w snapped on February 12 1021 when Stephens died died In hf Oakland Calif at the thene of three ninety years jears Last rast November however however how how- ego ngo recalled of at the Jayhawkers was the story ever again when a crowd of merrymakers merry dined danced In 10 celebration of the opening r of 0 n a new Wells In InD barrel artesian on well at barrel 2000 24 2 this that Manley Valley It was waa on en spot ath D Death out Asahel the two scouts sent ent by lIy oDd and tt on on November f 23 18 10 first the Bennett Ileum and nud members of the thu pArt sipped from waterhole depression where ro now n u grot prent the tiny y of ot water gt gushes forth rth the few tew saving life draughts the strength to struggle on III them which un gave ae e dramatic then than the story lory of the this less Scarcely of ot J Death Valley allty Is li the tory story of of- how low naming of at Industry that borax which forms the basis basin nn an even cen more famous was VII helped bellied make milk this thin spot pot Aaron 01 Winter discovered there therl In rn the till year lived with his wife those RosIe In a frontier home born In tn Ash Meadows a tiny oasis east of ot Death Valley To their home bame ono one day came a wandering prospector prospector prospector pros pros- who told the Winters of ot the borax deposits In the state of ot Nevada and how a great fortune awaited anyone who could find more such Buch deposits Winters asked many questions Including the question of how a person could know borax If It be discovered ered It He Ill was told that the best test was to pour certain chemicals over the supposed borax deposit and then to tire fire It lt If It It were borax the chemicals would burn bum with a green flame flume Winters had made mode many visits visit Into Death Valley and after talking to the prospector was convinced that there was borax there So he set setout setout out Immediately accompanied by his wife and soon afterwards encamped on Furna Furnace e creek In Inthe Inthe Inthe the marsh which appears on Furnace Furnaro creek In Inthe Inthe inthe the spring he gathered the most mOlt looking likely-looking deposit That night he be made the test teat as the prospector prospector pros pros- had told him There was a breathless moment of ot suspense suspense and ond then Aaron Winters cried Roste Rosie she burns burn green I Were We're rich P I The borax Industry of ot De Death th Valley VaIley had come cone Into loto existence The next problem was waa how bow to get the rich borax deposits out of the valley vaIley Out Ont of necessity came the famous 20 mule 20 mule team wagons which are Inseparably associated with the name of at Death Valley Voney For years this unique transport system brought the borax wealth out of ot Death Valley VaIley Then the modern modem tractor wrote finis on another chapter of American one transportation one whose tike the world has never seen elsewhere That was WIlS written last lost y year ar and Rod It marked the passing of ot another era In tho the history of ot Death Valley Dut But borax Is 18 not oot the the only wealth which It It con tams Gold was discovered red there many years ago and It has been a favorite haunt for far the theold old time old time prospector the lur lure of ot Its wealth being all the more attractive because e of the dangers which guard It It Remember the picturesque Death Va Valley ley Scotty whose find lInd there made him rich richand richand richand and who gained wIde nation notoriety by the freedom with which he blew hits his wealth wealthy Even more picturesque was another prospector who became known as tho the Good Samaritan of Death Valley lou ou Heck Deck was one of ot the great number who rushed to Death Valley at the news new of Scottys Scotty's find find He lie nearly lost hU hll life lite on n Its barren wastes and when he lie finally escaped he resolved resol to devote his life to saving others from tram the fate fata which be had hod so narrowly Vly escaped In thAt dread region Each summer Heck Beck made a trip Into the valley of purple nil mist t and great thirst piling up rocks rock and placing E signs on them to guide prospectors to searching for lost travelers traveler and guiding them theta to Bot safety ly For Ioor 13 years far he did this work and during Juring that time he be and hIs lili companion a Newfoundland dog dag named saved the lives of between three and four hundred travelers traveler In the great preat American deserts deserts- the deaerts-the the Colorado and the tho Mojave as ns well as DI Death Valley Then In 1017 Death Valley sot St him ut fit last During ono ona of Ms tins trips be tie came orne to toa a n spring which h he had always used and Imd drank from It It Ho offered slime somo some water to Rufus ufus but the dog refused to drink The spring load Imd become Infected After Alter a 8 terrible trip to his home In where Mrs Bark awaited a their return the tile Good Samaritan went to bed iii and never rose The fhe work wont which h Bt Heck Beck ck Inaugurated has hns been carried on 10 by It the tho United States geological survey until Death DeRth Vall Vally Valley y la is now supplied with enough 1 sign Men posts eo O Unit that It I Is III safe lIf enough la to 1 for fOl anyone who will u use ordinary common sense and not Dot take foolish chances Jho t who do tIt not lIot soon loon learn lm the truth h of Ihl he the prophetic warning of M old timers tint you jou OU cant can't fool tool with the de desert ert get ou time And If It pot ou do d you Ju every now the latest of ot tho the United States park pork service menus means that even een those who fool with her Ier love have better than an even el hence t is th the dangers langen of ot this thU land of or |