Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-11-14 | Page 31 | Artesian Well Graces Desert

Artesian Well I Graces races Desert Stovepipe Wells That Once Saved Lives Will WillBe Be Made in Resort STOVEPIPE WELLS Death Valley Valley Val Val- ley Icy Cn Cal Nov 13 Where AP seventy-seven seventy years ago th the ing p thirst patched m members of the famous party parl here her sipped a n saving life-saving draught from froma it a shallow water hole and ea eagerly erly I a a. piece of or of ah an t x hoof a crowd of merrymakers i today day dined danced In in celebration of the formal opening of ot a n new ne barrel art artesian well In this d desert sett by basis Stovepipe Wells In the h heart att of or orD D Death valley la is the lowest depression depression depression depres depres- sion In America being feet feeL below be below below be- be low sea level With the opening l of the tho new wolf well it Is being d developed loped as all a n sightseeing resort linked ed to Mt Whitney by a n ro road 1 piercing the Panamint mountains It was Wa on November 12 1849 that the Jayhawker patty led by W. W Lewis Ma Manly Madly ly and first sighted the shallow water hole of ot Stovepipe Wells Wells' and nd took back the good news to the Bennett tt and Arcane Arcane Arcane Ar Ar- cane families families- with their four suffering suffering suf suf- fering CerIng children who h had d bC been n l left tt behind When the un unencumbered members of the party forged on through th the desert sands The meager bit of ot watell which seeped sparingly through the sands saved the adventurers who had staked d their lives in th the gamble iambIc for California Call Call- fornia Cornia gold The ne V newell well with Its 1000 barrels barrels bar bar- role of ot water an hour leas has made possible hotels resort rt homes frUit and flow flowers rs where Its pioneers pioneers' found round a crater of broiling sand