Show MINING ENGINEER PERISHES ON BORAX LAKE DESERT SUffERINGS OF PASTY 1 BERKELEY Cal Calr CaI June 2 22 His His condition bordering upon a a. state of nervous nervous ner nero ous collapse and hardly able to tell the story of his terrible experience Herbert Masters tho the young youns mining engineer en en- neer who was a member of the Borax lake ako expedition in which Charles Davidson Da a graduate of the University t of California mining raining col col- lege lost whis his life Hie in tho the intense heat last ast returned to his home homo in this city last night He left the five others of the tho part party at Randsburg after the burial of Davidson in a rudo rude grave on the he desert by tho the shores of the lake I where ho he met his death All of the tho others suffered terribly but managed to o make camp after twenty four hours of torture in tho the broiling sun We arrived at Randsburg last Jast Thursday and started on our trip across Borax l lake ke on Friday fa said paid ll Masters H The lako is a mud deposit covered b by bya a he heavy JP crust Our objective point was wu an old camp on tho the opposite shore thou thought ht we would find some prospectors When we o commenced drawing our line Davidson became prostrated with tho the heat which was I terrific A little later he ho collapsed Then Chen he broke away awa from us and run run- nin about fifty fe feet t. t fell 11 on on hU his face One Ono of the tho boys wont Went back to him He died shortly afterward after Ono Ono by ono one We wo followed a R. course toward the opposite shore When I arrived I discovered disco that there was no water After several Beveral hours we found an old well weIl but tho the water was wasS sulphurous sulphurous sul sul- and salty and at the bottom was a dead rattlesnake Two of the tho ori original nal party of seven had gone sone to Randsburg for batteries when we wo started started start start- ed on the trip across the lake lako and that loft left four of us huddled together There was wall Thomas A. A Graves a mining expert of Olcan Olean N N. Y 1 David ld Bunkers Norman Norman Nor Nor- man Stein and myself II In In the morning before sunrise sunrise we weI I took a roundabout trail skirting the tho lake When half Wa way to Randsburg we met an automobile party and were carried the rest of the way in the tho ma- ma chine That afternoon wo we 0 went out onto that seething mud lake once more and got tho body of oft Davidson David The Tho boj's boys made a ro rough ch pine t box and we gave c a George Georgo tho the most mORt decent burial we were capable of The Tho ritual was not much but it was th the best beet we wo know knew His grave sra is out there thero under that sun close to where he died The others of the tho party are aro pretty badly used up but the they will be a all allright l lri I ri right right- ht It was Ws a terrible experience and andI I am am through h with the desert J |