| Show CROSSING THE TE DEATH VALLEY Don MaguIre Writes of a Trip to This Dreary Land 2 i 1 EMIRA EI WHO 11 SVEltE LOST Trip li ln lug il 10 floe 0 Don of oC Ogden the widely ld l known and metal not long lone lon since contributed lan an article to Mines Mits and Minerals In which he portrayed some of or tho things to be he n seen en li In time tho famous Death valley of ot California Ho late has hn nt d this with an nn another other 10 article which is II of ot l Interest and In iii 11 which ho ito 10 tells lol of at the encountered In iii II Crossing Death Valley Vahey 11 lie le ie sos says a S Jour the tho route tole lay IRY directly across desort and before he Core us Ua ran Jn Wagon tracks t were mado the year or before by hI b miners and adventurers who en cattle in o to the tho th sliver silver mined of ot from Belmont Helmont and Old Oll Tax rex our guide ulde said anid that previous to the tho lato late excitement one could see sao S I on that desert duerl waste wal the tie of ot the by the tle early carl of oC which a number tot for want of at water ater In the years When about seven soven miles out outon outon outon on the tIe desert de ri we came across the tue bones boned of ot three oxen cracked worn ond wea and arid n V little three I Hear tirar It I n a 1 little further away lay 11 tile Hie 11 tire of oC this tile lii wheel but lit l littie tie rusted although It hal hul lain there al nl almost almost most at 15 25 6 Y Yet a it little further on Oil t we up lf near ear th the road the tho solo sole soloan of or an old Id boot bot It was waa curled and distorted tn Into ft a 1 queer shape ha P and the tie he hel heel l was tCO sloping Ing to the tho tole rob the wooden pegs had to so 0 shrunken In 11 the leather of or the coles loles that upon taking up the relic rele h y fell out Still farther on we found a 1 broken china ehnA tobacco pipe a tt I few Cell porcelain porcelain lain buttons four faur flat 11 t AS iS s wo 5 found fount these relics of ot trao former bt l travel over oer ver the time dreary mind fors for tor bidding bl waste t oil 01 ol I Tox r X salt Id that they the were I te Part tl Qt of the time remains r mall of ot the tho party part In ill tho year 1619 ibi or 1050 started to o cross crosa this thiS without a guide They Tiey had separated front from tron a larger party who had haij taken a n course courso south froth from Us Log Ve Ye Yega V rail gap ga In II ii what h t Is known an fl the tho state of Nevada N and nM who in going gains I from tho th h V Yo Ve to tho the south auth of ot the tue next one had ht gl taken an old c e establIshed route roule across the desert but our unfortunate few tew be tie believed tie that they the could taM tato tak n a n more moore di ill direct level route roule crol the desert dC crt and over oler the of ot mountains In taking this new route the emigrants found It easy eMY for a 0 time but after ater posit pa paIns i s sin Ins in Ash Aih their troubles trouble began Their descent de cent from th Funeral Futeral Into Death Dath D ath Valley alley was torn tom th theal rn to abandon muc of at o lb ir Property properly and when upon the unknown desert they were without ulon water night was Vas Wits t them I lcm nail and Ind the tIme days day tint that tot fol 1 the destruction of most mOlt of o 0 th lr number for in taking limiting their way WiY the time desert time the party became crazed with thirst atul wandered meandered In var various VI ious bus directions becoming delirious them stripped i themselves them elves of or nil ni clothing and and like Iko wild wilI beasts belAI began to tob b burrow fn n ih tie the hard Imoni har desert sands ads with wih their bare barehand hands Two men inca named Towne Towns and Walt along with wih Mrs Mf Towne owne and nine Other oIlier persons persona escaped by reaching the ferons mountains and finding In a spring prin The TIO remaining U 15 1 per persona sona men m I n women and nd children Wh vho lia ibo party left let their bones In Inthe Inthe the Ito and ana one orme of at the surviving 12 13 name Il 0 the name namo of Dath Valley aliey Valey to sinks Rinks of at IC lit lime on which he lie hI had so 80 suf cut suffered fared and atti hs his had perished In Inthe time the th terrible old days of ot overland travel In III 43 x xIt InI It seem that the man Dennett one I of ot those rho pho escaped was nl the tho prime spirit I advising the ho Death Val Yal Valley al alIcy Icy ley rOllo Instead Of or the tho route further cast ala by b the wi of at the of tho Ma and after the disaster to 10 his hs ji showed to tu lila his friends In Sn upper u pcr California a specimen of lt native sliver silver which he lie claimed to have broken from fromn Cr m n five fe toot foot ledge l or at Vein eln and nd which was as but a n days dRs Journey west Well of ot Death Val Valley Icy ley He lie Jl claimed to have found Cound this Vein vain near a spring at which he was ti 1 I awful thirst Ho He carried carie tile Ole with wih him and later on converted part art of at U It I Into Inlo a n foresIght for tor forit fn it rill rifle An An n assayer of ot Butts Dutte county Cal examining the sight sIgh made from Crom the mineral and also n a part or of cit the tho specimen from which It I was al formed found that It was WI native silver siver Tin Jut 10 statement of whether true truo trl or tat created an nn excitement at t once In nute county Cat Caf and a party wai wat formed to return to 10 th the des rt to re rediscover rl rediscover discover what has lias pIne been ben mown known to tAme fame ns us I th Ih Gun OUt Sight lode loe but bUI that lode lod 10 was wu never found fud and all to this day coy ing the Gun Oun Sight the hD basis Of 7 OUI lode prompts I liany n p poor hoot prospector to vainly for that celebrated bonan bonali bonant t ss |
