Show Death Valley Is Death Valley California miles Juliet from Crom Los Angeles which for tor more than three-quarters three of a century has defied dele man in his efforts CD tu combat combat combat com com- bat the suns sun's heat and thirst at last has been conquered Death Valley is miles mites long and from front 10 to 35 mit milts 8 wide vide and nd at one oue time was a a. seA seA bed hel Toda Today it itIs itIs itis Is feet below sea level in places although along one one of Its rims towers tow toll ers Mount 1 Whitney the highest summit m ini 1111 l the the- continental United States In this great area are of ut sands and waste and lifelessness the ther- ther from May until th tha middle of October registers about 1 7 degrees degrees de de- de grees and no man mail dares tr try to live e there thoro during that period If IC he values his life The area is properly Named flamed because be because be- be cause with th the days o of till the Fol Forty Forty- y- y pioneers In who braved the Pacific trail tried to ross the basin and per perr Their principal difficulties were the lack of water the suns sun's terrific heat and a rocky b barrier long along the edge of tho the desert wh which ch cut them off from the ds lards beyond About a year ear ago ngo H. H W. W an engineer who used of his own means blasted a highway 39 miles long through th tha rocky locky barriers and at Stovepipes Sto Wells In Inthe inthe the heart of the desert he drilled toa to toa toa a dc depth th of or feet and discovered erl d a asping asping ing spring of fresh water which provides 1000 gallons art ani hour Near this 3 spot p ot t a n. modern story one hotel has hag r. r recently been erected which ton on on tams all the bhe e presen present t da day conven conveniences 01 on lences namely electric light lights runn rian ings hot and cold water swimming pools ls golf courses and tennis courts and ancl n nearby arby is an nn vL tors from Los Angeles can cam fly Cly to Death VanC Valley and back within a n Cc low fen hours 1 whereas In tho the gol gel druch druc f p on- on struggled through the tJ O heat for days clays and we weeks week's Ks and even then lost their lives Death Valle Valley thus Bias ihas lS been ron rou- ac a 1 dynamite was on ortho of or tho the chief and primary primar factors factor's HI in tho ho conquest |