Show MINES AND MINING EDITED BY F. F W. W SPRAGUE DEATH VALLEY LOSES MUCH OF ROMANCE Days ays of Fake Mining in Region of Mystery Said to tov v Be Over Ovel FUTURE IS PROBLEMATICAL Experts Regard Prospecting x in Surrounding Ranges Waste of Time Mining activity ilY in the lie vicinity o of Death valley valloy which in lii the hc do of tho the and Skidoo excitements excite ments was booming has sunk back bad to the level dead of or the lonesome lays days s 's following the farewell of or the 20 tunIc borax teams The Thc inhospitable ro- ro abandoned to Ion is practically cli chuck a wal uck-a-wal La l. l winders side II vl e-vl titi ers and a 1 aIe afew Ie few camping about the canon canyon can can- yon ton on springs and desert lesert dl crt wells says ays the tho Scientific Press The panic of ot October bore bon down clown tin tnt cn Death valley an and enl cat a gloom that has not lifted There J is ls not a u wild willI wildcat willIeat eat cat mowIng mewing loud enough to be heard o the thc desert lesert silliness Veterans living hiving on the scant bounty of if grub grub- rub rub- takers are reduced to rations half-rations or iro going to 10 work at ll the Lila Llla C C. the prize mine of th the Coast Cont company Nothing can do o justice to 10 the depression except the dirge dirgo of the lone Ionic store keeper at uL Stove Hlo Well for Fairy lairy Palo Inlo This his collapse e Death ur-Death valley valle nun min ln InC r would not bo be worthy of If much con- con did It Jl not hot marl mark the thC ex exhaustion ex- ex of ot tho thio most fertile Held In America for 01 mining fairy For Fora the lie mysterious a l. l good half century hidden riches i of if Death R valley II e hRh hR have h been n Il used d t. t lo 1 lure luro stakes grub from hid men easy CUSY o v with their theil money mone moneIn In lii more mort recent cent cars they have huac bc been the capi- capi lal of ot ninny many mn a million dollar capitali Has lias anyone anone ever e attempted to lo compute com coin the money mone spent in iii the quest of or the rich i silver i lode ludo of Bennell's Gun Gnu Lead or the won wonderful gold guld of crazy If Ir he lia uis lot let him hint write it H do down lo to the debit lebit side of Death valleys valley's account Rash desert dO r l its used to 10 find fin even evell the ho Peg leJ Leg mine as far al' al north nonh as aM Death valley val val- alIcy Icy ley mI and l dispose of it to tu simple trall- trall tel get gere from the settlements The Tho region relon has been a bonanza for Cor tramps But Bui tho thio valleys valley's age ng-e of mystery has come cume to tu a close With motor cars honking across tho the salt MIL marsh Hush and the Tonopah Tidewater railroad on its fringe e Death Deuth valley has shut the- the book of nr its romance nn and andis is now looking hooking forward forwar to actual oper- oper ution Hion in mining cn li Scotts Mine lInc Moves What the region will amount to In future is largely argel a matter or of conjecture ture Some regard the tho surrounding mountains as a land of oC promise others oth oth- ers rs consider prospecting In the Panamint Panamint Pana- Pana mint and Funeral ranges a waste of or time Many ol old prospectors assert t that the hills hilts have been lal raked cd for fot ledges with a tooth fine comb while others ate are C equally lual certain that th the tho ground has has' no more than been cr scratched d over This much however pan van be be taken as sure the sure the days as a's of I tal Take minI mining are arc gone o onie Scot tys' tys s 's Death valley mine has moved noved U up Into the thc Tin Tiui mountains This rhuis mine of tho the ill Ilk of Peg Peg- Leg an and lc when It Jt sprang into the limelight Ilme was down hewn at al the lower en end of d the near Hidden Spring Since Hince then it has zig back and forth acro across s the valley in a northern hl First It sl skipped to Funeral range next to the near Emigrant Spring Later It flitted over wet to the Grapevines and rested till the work of or the thc l Keane Wonder Yonder made the district too bus busy Now it has taken refuge III In the isolation of the Tin mountains probably for the reason that last spring four fout human skeletons and the bones of sL six burros grim relics rel rel- rel ics lea of a prospecting party parly were Vere found in tnt a Tin mountain canyon canon |