Show IN DEATH VALLEY vallea ONCE MORE GOLD COLD HAS baeli discovered THERE RF dottor with bones of 0 D ian fl how tile the IF funeral Moan lalni cal their fato fate of 0 an r train NCE been more discovered gold fil ly death valley add the kolavo d dwig says saya the new 1 herald ono oace ork abor the lohe wurt arid 1 e els 1 8 breatha bre athlea treeless and I 1 lif allme blell will gleam vi with bones of 0 JS tors and explore once mare wagons will rit stand in ia th hot white sands with shining rus amt t less lees tires until they rack drop 0 t to 0 p pieces le s f or want of apart an im 4 dr lp moisture cog tor to hold 0 t them h e m t together e er take down clon your map and draw a alia eno from latitude 35 to 37 and longi tild 1 ly to and you will have within the la in closure a block of desert comp square miles I 1 the area of the desert Is traver travens Rd by numerous parallel valleys running manic from northwest to southeast and an bounded by greil ranges of 0 tr treeless tree less lesi hills bills the tha center valley ol of these li is the one that bears the 0 name of 0 death it Is the hottest or on earth and vies to in many ways with the bottomless PIL and no wonder it is from to y feet below the level of the sea at various times since its disco discover very individuals have penetrated the arid J waste once a government expedition passed hurriedly through it but could not spare time to make explorations exploration for or fear ear of 0 losing their lives springs were found but they were bere not sufficient to quench the thirst ol 01 a suffering mule the average mid night heat during summer is said to in 4 close to degrees much of which is 1 subterranean yet it is to this region and that of 0 the mojave that the gold fevered miners minera are hurrying 0 death valley is overhung on the east by the funeral mountains which rue above it in great bald ridges they are ara called the funeral moun mountains talas because they witnessed one of 0 the saddest trig trag edles that even the death valley has ever witnessed in the early an emigrant train steering teer hg south uth away from the regular trail sighted a t range of mountains on OB the far side of a wide blinding desert two days will take us across the ds desert and in the mountains we will find water they argued so they filled their water barrels and with cracking whips launched their white prairie ships over the white ant aal motionless wies of the borax desert forty miles fifty miles a nights encampment camp ment sixty seventy five rolles miles and the blue mountains that had hung hnas like a painting against the sky were reached no wood no water no grass no song of birds or sound other than the thirsty lowing of maddened oxen the tha cry ot of children and the wall wail of women mea bien have instincts that are godlike in emergencies such as these they parcelled par celled out the precious store of food and the more than precious store of water giving the women sai and children two thirds of everything in sight then they pitched camp it at the tha toot foot of the mountains on the next day with infinite trouble they sra ra dually rolled the great wagons to the top of the mountains one behind tho the other in a long una line they wheeled into a stony plateau at the top then a g great reat cry broke iron from them to the west lay the shining white while levels of as dead a land as god ever made there was nothing but grease wood and a few bare clumps of sagebrush I 1 in n sight nothing but the silence of death and the austerity of 0 utter desolation at their feet beyond the me mesa sa which they reached later was a narrow valley all streaked with soda like ilke tte the white ribs of a skeleton spotted with lava buttes and blotched with sage it was death ia 0 go back they never have survived the journey they the could only plunge on into the ill all known and so they lowered the wagons or ropes down to tho the mesa or table land balow they could get no further A nielan melancholy choly meeting was held there were nera no tears only sad questioning eyes and burning 9 gazes a zes across tte the wastes they resolved to separate EMU emli w M they resolved to separate w took his own whithersoever the bus bands went there went t the be wives falth aa ful mute and and abs tbs lit tle tie children A great gaunt emigrant named 9 drand brand took his children in his arm arb ta and followed by his wife and abd board 1 the others struck off westward tow Pesa pesamino mint range ranee the ot others hers separated S idea 1 going according to their r several ito a in one day there staggered into I 1 mining camp in eastern california dead a 3 UM tall skeleton like man hearing bearing by J woman in his arms he sat at down will where B the side of a little stream with fill cradic c wore were washing for gold like when they came to him ho he r earled them w let a wild beast and would not touch the tha woman it was as brand brana ond F finally he was subdued by force a miners gs g realizing eal izing his condition conditt the seek ek be urn food and drink and irk in a tart was wasa was well the story he be told UP na ling ing A rescue party was which hurried eastward kiong alons and trail which brand had traversed traverse found tile scattered either side they on thirty ff 0 w f 1 iry dry and remains ks late men women and children auth jound W tars Is s 1860 bones were still 0 f soma co 1 f the tha camp on the mesa of a at 0 yards yard 5 hem ahem were 1 w athin grbich they bad to heob |