Show TELLS OF OFIN HOMES IN DEATH VALLEY ALLEY L. L LF 17 Florman Pictures It as Neither Paradise Nor Nora a r r a Hell HeH GREAT AT RICHES A ARE E FOUND Corning Cooling of Railroads Opens 1 8 R Resources to 10 Energetic Q Ones v That Death valley alle is r really not such sucha i a 1 bad place to live Jive In after arter all and that H there thero Q nr o are untold told rIc riches to be 1 r him who vho will but pul gb gO and seel seek them is t tho tio o gospel sospel that L L. 1 F. F Florman has come to Salt Lake Laloo to preach h. h Mr Mr Mi Florman along with witt a a. number number number num num- ber of oC Sat t Like Lake p people I Is Iz interested d in the Silver Lake Lako mining district of oC Death valley close on the edges Ho He has s an abundance anco of ore some sonic t showing y free gold Jold some somo o of the milling rid and d high grade silver silver- a SO sonic sonio 10 I r which he lie is showing showIng- to tomen men of ot Salt Lake who know s sOmething some something sOme sOme- meI me- me I thing about mining Mr 11 Ir Florman Is 13 stopping stopping- at the Wilson BU But to the tho tho thoman man who Is not Initiated into the mysteries that come conic from rom ii the bowels of tho the earth Mr Florman is an i interesting talker an and tells of or ofa orn a n J lake ke In hi the Death valley count country that for nine tor-nine nine months In the year is the most desirable esir ble pi pleasure sure resort ort or at any rate late camping ground to bo be imagined F For Eor three months of ot the year however however how how- ever ever he ho says the visitor has to go o V s. s armed with a i shotgun to kill tue mCA files Tl These eso he sa says S 'S are as bl big big- as ns a mans man's j thumb and very cry or voracious clou They Thoy will 1 kill a burro in a 3 short while L i S Shotgun ot More Effective CC CI y Mr lr Florman says saS that ho he himself s has shot the thc brutes with a Do revolver r ri but he believes that a double r r shotgun would bo ho more moro effective r Mr Ir along with Frol K Ir Myton I Iton ton and other Salt lIt Lake men has f spent several years in Nevada and California He has He-has has met many o of the ther r r. r quaint characters of the tha desert deser and of these the he has strange tales to tell IcIL Of or the land itself ho also alEo talks Int r t- t Death valley says Mr Florman land of mystery sago sage brush rattlesnakes rattle rattle- snakes much misquoted and abused though having ing its and terrors terro f has at nt last t thrown rown open its doors of or hospitality and its secrets fo io u the world Jt it has bas revealed a l land landof nd c of of wonderful resources riches ort odd l I characters U rs and long lost m mines n p u cg g T Leg g Still a MS Mst r I story Y lt Among those mines foremost in desert history is is Peg Leg still sun a a. arX mystery but bul believed by many old 7 prospectors Clors tors to be bo what is now known as as the Johnnie The Gun lt S. S I ne one on ertho r tho old Id It IJ fas f s s' s r found u J b by a M Mor Mor- r onon while he lIe was prospecting tIng through th the co country but Its values were vere not nt known u until others others- examined ed a n specimen sped sped- men of or a rock rk he h had d up to toI tomake tomake I m make ke a. a a sight for his rifle The uThe M Morman had picked up a n heavy hea piece of ot rock of ot a bluish tint Unto and ana lie ri noticed t ced it was quite soft His J rifle riCh was Without a n sight and h he heI I thought this would woul make mak a good sub- sub te He Re took fook it a couple of ot hunared hun- hun cfred ared fI d miles milea further o on t to a Jol Johannesburg Johannesburg Johannes Johannes- mes- mes burg jeweler who fashioned the tight sight t i iiri antl then then asked sk d him I he had picked It up r r Tho r The Mormon told him on the denert desert des den er ert r and then hen learned the Uie first tImo that hat the ro rock k wits was horn silver sHyer and d very valuable e. e r 1 low o Mint Vas Was Named 1 After learning the value of or his fin find he hiked ed back from Johannesburg more than miles mlles miles and and lo located ted the tho qu mine ThIs This took Look its Us place In past ears jears as a great STeal producer of very ery rl rich h lead sliver ore Mr MT r Florman Florman tells teis o of several other mi mInis mines es with even en more more romantic history history his his- f tory op and per perhaps Pl is at t 1 isis his ls best est wh when h discussing the tho old characters whom S l ho bo has mot met mot mot- moton on th the desert t TI es have hav CI changed l e since the earl early days ds he re remarks als The steel band baud from Los Lo Angeles geles to tp Ion Tonopah pah am and Salt Sait Lake has haM opened a country of J I vast re resources and gol golden en ties tiel Silver Lake ono one of ot the tho many manyi 1 i 1 r F ca camps campa aJo along i this lipe and perhaps I tJ tin the largest i is the thc center center- of ot a rIch I mining district It Is on the t ryk and nd Just sout south of Death valley alley about 18 is miles Th There ro you you find some of or tho the later generation A year ago go we had on one lone tent and pumping station for fOl the Borax Boraz Smith road then in course o or of construction Now Non ow W we have two stores three saloons eI livery and feed fee f c stables and t two o hotels hotel the I walla walia bouse house with J. J H. H Dr Brown a as proprietor being the tho pioneer plon-ec Samu Same U as Other Other Places Pl os Fourteen v. v women othen hold Sunday school chool services each week Love Lovo h has mm s already taken on a new dress and ant an Cupid new feathers for his his' arrows for tor already we have o brid brides s am and grooms sw sweethearts and lovers ers SuEt just i tho same the world world over over I II First honors honors' bestowed were upon Judge Fish Fisi and what t they lej did to Jim when h he bier ble blew bierIn In with a Do brand new bride was was- not writ In tho the book book- Fred Fre K Myton was se second ond best and the boys gave sav him the glad slad hand anti and a ahot ahot ahot hot time Fred Frd Fr d claims the first h hon hon- norf n- n ort ors as papa Well Wt Fred ahn always s 's did td vo te for Teddy I t But the gold that glitters is there and only awaits awaits' the man nina who 11 has as push puah and energy to reap a a. harvest p 1 that will place him in the front ranks of or successful hustlers Tho The Salt Lake road passes through a 1 portIon of this section and crosses tim the Tonopah Tl Tidewater road bett better r known as zm the Borax Smith road rond at Crucero 25 26 miles south of or Silver Lake This adds another supply point within with with- in ens easy reach Salt SnIt Lake v with Its smellers tern and e easy sy transportation should be a close second if not a n arival arival rival rl with Los Angeles in tn tho race for tOl trade and golden opportunities I |