Show ORIGIN OF DEATH VALLEY an indian legrend ilog arding a queen as a no a the indian legend regarding the origin of death valley in mayo county california is an ili ili wresting interesting one from the outer edge of this vast furnace it is three hundred miles square and one hundred feet apet below sea level one ode may mav see far off tremulous through the shimmering wives waves of heat a sort of butte that has the form of a ruined castle the story goes that in the old days day before the amar gosa river ceased to water the valleys the place was the site of 1 a I poss powerful erful city ruled by a princess as beautiful ns as cleopatra and as imperious as elizabeth an or to the reigning aztec monarch described to her on ills his return the glories of the icings icing palace in ill the city of mexico resolving to equal tiie hie magnificence of her neighbor she began the erection efti of a vast buil building din g all the laborers ant and I 1 artisans of the city were svere employed and tile the work was pushed night and d day 1 I y for within twelve months the aztec ruler was was to be her guest and she wished to sv welcome elcome him to a palace as splendid as his own she exhausted tile resources of her ber realm men went road mall ss with ith toil foil aud and hunger li unger and it at last tue the hil high I 1 I 1 priest protested lie avas was ordered to execution and dying in cursed d tile city for tile the princess sa sake ice that iii night mafit the earth shook and sank the river riper dried up and tile the morning sun poured down a flood of heat beat all perished peri hed and now nov the ruined walls of the palace alone remain the A amargoso amargosa largosa nar gosa by the way I 1 is it a most CIA itic stream am it flows south routh ninety miles from its fountain bead in the is western esterre sierras vanishes at resting spring mountain is in evidence again for fop fifty miles mile disappears for a space there then bobs up and runs along tur bule for one hundred miles all trace of it is lost at death valley |