Show BRA BRAYED VED DEATH TH V VALLEY LLE levada evada Woman oman Penetrated Fastness for Wealth Wealth Was Was Accompanied by byS S Only Half Breed The weird Funeral Mountain of S Death Valley Nevada are to yield rich of copper and gold ores as a of the successful prospecting of Lillian Malcolm who it Is stated these deposits on a ridge ridget t I hat towers three thousand feet In ia the r Jr ir In making this find she was ac- ac only by an Indian half half- Ir ed Once Lillian Malcolm according to I er ier story crossed the Chilcoot in Al- Al i 55 5 1 5 5 1 jf 5 5 5 5 ci S 'S MISS MISS LILLIAN MALCOLM 1 LC 5 e in n her ber search for gold d had not be been n built bunt that iy I the difficulties of A 1 I in the Chilcoot region Miss Il 11 declares that the tour of t he Pu Mountains however was r more ii re ha ous than her lonely jour jour- n ri t g the Chilcoot years ago N No- No hit person has ever visited t the he spot where I viewed the great copper cop cop- per Pel er deposit until I made my way ay th there re she said in a recent interview T ti have never before seen such ruggedness rugged rugged- n ness ss In mountains as the Funeral Range presents To climb up almost perpendicular per per- grades means to slide down o others before the objective point can canci t be ci reached I have been a prospector f for or ten years and have passed much of l my Ily time in the mountains of Alaska Colorado and other places where there i gold The Funeral Range Is the worst of any I made up my mind that I would search for gold and copper Int in inthe t the tle e foothills of the tho Funeral Mountains I Swan was compelled to cross the range to tog tog I g get t where I wished to go and although al al- t hough though I had no DO fear there were mm min minutes ue utes es when in I did not dare to look ook back but only kept right on I There were many places where a misstep meant sure death All there Itts to do was to go head Once started there was no DO way to stop without conf con- con f fussing defeat Finally I found what I Iwas Iwas Iwas was looking for tor At first I could hardly believe my eyes I had reached a point about twenty five miles from the line of the Clark road and sixteen miles from the line of the Borax Smith road when the ledge loomed up Im im- im Then I was happy I have studied geology and other lines leading to mining and I have done assessment work with my own hands In ri deep shafts In short my experience has been such that I believe that I am competent to know whether my mineral mineral min mm eral discoveries are aro valuable The Tho ledge stands up clearly from fifty to seventy five feet with both g gold ld and copper In it but It-but but more copper than than- gold Millions 1 maybe there In Ineasy Ineasy ineasy easy reach reach reach-a a quantity that I believes believe is s almost beyond ordinary computation tion If It I am not Dot mistaken the discovery dis covery is valuable not only for tor its rf richness but also because it opens up knowledge of an entirely new copper belt In the Death Valley is added to Miss Malcom's trip by the fact that tho the Indian In dma dian halfbreed that she took Into the thed d desert sert ert where so many strong men have died Is Bill Kee f who is Scottys friend This Indian Is a a. good guide Tho Iho ho next step that Lillian Malcolm contemplates is that of informing the ther r railroad builders now constructing lines Into the mineralized regions of Nevada of tho the topographical features of ot the country to be crossed in order td bring her copper and gold discoveries dis discoveries reasonably within transportation tion facilities and the place that formerly formerly form torm- erly required weeks for her to reach will soon be made accessible when the present railroading surveys are carried out in rails There Is plenty of timber In the PanamInt Mountains that can b utilized for mining purposes and tho toot of the steam whistle may zany yet b be heard In the fearful fastnesses of or d desolation that have havo so long appalled s hearted stout man only to bo be con- con q ered finally by a ft woman la In search of p. p cious clous metal metai |