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Show FAIL 10 CROSS DEATH VALLEY Scotty and Newspapermen Run Their Automobiles Into Saud Dunes. WILL TRY AGAIN WITH HIS SIX-MULE TEAM, He Declares It Is His Intention to Show the Men His Panamint Mines. BHYOLITB, Nev., July 2. With, hollow hol-low eyes and exhausted bodies, Editor Horace A. Dunn, of lha Goldfield Chronicle, Chron-icle, and W. F. Traughbcr, of the Gold-field Gold-field Tribune, lay upon the ground in the streets of Rhyolitc for two long hours yesterday afternoon to rest for an automobilo trip to Gold field, while "Scotty," who had taken them .into Death Vallej' to show them his mines, walked about town boasting that ho was fresher than when he left the town Iwo days before with the newspapermen. news-papermen. Traughber lay flat on tho ground, near Scotty 's automobile, while Dunn had moved a little further over and wia resting his head on a low sidewalk. Scotty hunted up other newspapermen to show them tho condition of the Gold-field Gold-field scribes. Both of the newspapermen wero game, however, and did not murmur. Like two fox-hounds, thov lav near tho automobile, as if fearing" that it might start out for another chase and leave them behind. "The trip was worth the hardships, if we didn't see the mines,'' said Dunn, raising up from the ground and rubbing his eyes as he looked into tho face of the sun, which had moved around tho corner since he arrived. "It was a great trip! " "Yes, and we are going to try it over, ' ' said Traughbcr half awake. '"' We got stuck in the sand dunes with the two automobiles, but we are going to take mules next time. Wo wiil go in a six-mule rig and this will enable us to reach the place." Treated Royally "How did Scotty treat us7 Rovallv," said Dunn. "Ho ts not the same Scot-t3' Scot-t3' in Death Valley as you sou him around town. He casts off all of that show and gets right down to business. , He is in his sphere when in Death Valley. Val-ley. He is perfectly at homo there. He is a natural scout and guide, a good cook and a perfect host. I was never better treated in my life. Scottv in camp, with a towel about his head and stripped down to his undershirt from his waist up, is the handiest man I ever saw with cooking utensils. "His Death Valley mulligans beat anything I ever tasted," interjected Traughber. Then they detailed their experiences of tho trip, which were told graphically-iu graphically-iu tho newspaper wav, Thev had arrived ar-rived in Rhyolite Wednesday from Goldfiold in two automobiles, and outfitted out-fitted for Death Valloy. They look on S500 worth of supplies. Scotty has frequently fre-quently boasted of his mines and has often been asked to show them. Ho had just been showiug assavs that ran as higlr as $15,200, and ox"hibitcd ore that he claimed would run $SO,000 to tho ton. This, he said, was taken from his mines in Windy Gulch in the Panamint Pana-mint mountains, near the place whro Poet-Prospector Eddy is now camped and where he is prospecting his group of claims. The newspapermen of Goldfield determined de-termined to test the truthfulness of Scotty 's statement, and offered to go with him to his mines. "Wo will verify Scotty 's statement, or exposo him," said the scribes. "I will show them," said Scotty. "Scotty, honestly, aro you going lo take these men to your mines, or are you going into Death Valley, run them into t lie &and dunes, and "bring thorn back, with tho story that you couldn't get to tho mines?" wns asked Seottj-by Seottj-by a friend in Rhyolite just beforo their departure for the desert. "T can't guarantee automobiles to run through sand dunes." ho replied. "I enn start with them I can do my part, but watch our smoke." Brags About Himself. LTpon their return to Rhyolite Scotty sought this snmo friend "and pointed out tho newspapermen ns thoy lay upon the ground. " Wc went some," ho said. "They arc game, but 'they arc about all in. 1 never felt better in my life. I am just now beginning to feel good. Oh. yes! I will show them, 1 have sent 'Short'' with an automoblie lo have my six-mulo team sent into Rhyolite. 1 will take them for a little trip over to Goldfield tonight, return with them Wednesday morning, meet my mules here and take them lo my mine. Tho mules never fnil me. "I have boon going some with Ihosc boys. 1 have spent over $1500 Irving to show them my mines, and 1 am" going go-ing to keep going till I show I hem. Beat it if you can! ' ' Tho newspapermen hnd rested so that they could travel by sundown and the party started out for Goldfield in a I big nuto. They had been oul for two days and nights without sleep, but Scotty looked fresher' than he did when they started out. Ho had been drinking drink-ing heaA-ily nuil the trip to Death Valley Val-ley has sobered him up. |
