Show t IU r 1 1 SALT LAKER A. LOST LOSTIN LOST LOSTIN LOSTIN IN DEATH VALLEY D D D- H. H B Boyer oyer Wander i in n the the Blazing Canyons Three Days IS 1 WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER r. r When then n Found He lie Was OR Almost De- De tI III Ills S hotly Body J at 1 Y Emaciated and Almost Unrecognizable hIe Death vaU valley e. e 1 I in n Its whole history of or hor horrors has few Cew records mote terrible ter ter- I t than Ian the tale fate of or D. D II H. Boyer Borer a ang mining ng man C formerly ormer 1 of Spokane Who t for or three days dl's wandered down th the c California Inferno to escape at atI I last b by a 3 miracle alive yet et demented hi in n mind 3 and n d so o In bo body th that a t h ho 0 will never be himself again The tale of oC his har hardships is brought by Fred ed Birney one of the discoverers discover er ers crt of f the tle famous Camous Furnace Creek Creel copper cop cop- per mine sa says S tl the Ie Spokane Chronicle Air Mr 1 Ir Boyer used to make male his headquarters headquarters head head- quarters a around here au and was for a aCO I CO long g time engaged In mining in the Coeur Alen es sal said Mr e I Lately n t e I he has b been cen ma making k Ing his home In to Salt Lal Lake ec Ho lIo was wa sent Into Death valley talley vall y by a San n Francisco outfit to examine tJ the tho Kunzle e group near the Furnace Creek Creel property I met him on at the trail going Into the ru I II It about t the lr th of April na I Having g nl had a i some I experience Ie enco in that country I warned 1 hint him 1 m never never ne to go o a n quarter of a aa mile away front from camp unless he ha had a compass and a n canteen full Cull of water B Boyer o er Just laughed II Why h I Im I'm m an nit old desert terrapin h he e retorted Lost In hr Blazing Bin Canyons i t iThe The urI e morning after ho struck the thet 1 Kunzie C camp he wandered oft ort to look looka a at t a prospect a n mile away an and In those blazing can canyons where not a a. sl sign n of oC living thing can grow row he was wasson soon son hopelessly sly lost The more he ho wandered aroun around the more ho he was waa wason on used and desperate with the knowledge of oC his Ills condition he struck on In n search of or water first up one cn canyon on and then up another The The heat was drea dreadful dreadful ful to 10 I Thus he kept on all aB that day and night and on until i 4 I o'clock of oC the second afternoon In that time Imo h hencer he he- e never nc stopped once but kept aimlessly almIN aimlessly aim alm- IN lessly sl plod plodding on The camp p was a mile a above ove sea level up In In tho the Funeral range In his wan wanderings h he went down to Death Valley Valle an and the then n n started up the range ranso again from Crom which he hc came but it was all In vain There Thore was no water anywhere and his condition condition condition con con- was seas something too fearful to be described Ills tongue ha had swollen until until until un un- til It was so thick that he could hard hard- hardly I ly 13 The alkali dust filled his nostrils and left them blee bleeding Alren Already ho was beginning to to loso 1080 weight for tho the blazing sun was drying him hint up t t t. t i a t l- l lJ wn it Monument 1 On the afternoon of the second day clay he h had d given up all hope of JC coming out alive all but yet ho struck doggedly on In one of oC tho the canyons he heaped heape a monument of oC stone and on the tho smooth stretch of or the canyon camon wall he ed with a u pebble this Inscription which he believed was to be his only epitaph t t D. 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H Boyer Doyer Salt Lake Utah Passed Here 4 O'clock April 18 18 1906 can I He uHe was then d down n where the canyon can can- canyon yon on opened Into Death valloy valley ISO feet eL below the level of or the tho sea sea perhaps perhaps the lowest point on the face of the earth Over Our Jcl Death th Sink He uHe had searched tI In vain aln over o tho the Funeral range for Cor water and he decided ed that the only way nay for or rescue was to lu reach tho the mountains on the tho oth other side of ot Death valley But between between be he- tween him and amI the in the bottum bottom of oC the volley valley was tit the terrible Death valley valle sink 11 live or six miles river dwin elwin- wide where the Amargosa 1 It is a alIe vile lIe brackish am stream of liquid poison polson whoso waters are thick with soda and borax and antl mud The sink Ink Is nothing but a marshy there little death trap with here and antl tufts of oC refuse wh where re the soda and the semi borax have o become crossed that No o human being ever sink except General Frederick Fun- Fun ston stun who while on a government go expedition ex ex- edition with a party arty of or engineers p tt traversed It In pontoons pontoon years ago And yet Boyer noer struck out across r and anti nil all that that slough o of despair night ht an and until the next nest day clay he wa waded and and und leaped onward ina Inthe In Inthe a contest dreadful and anel unequal most t with the mo nature that I ever hC heard I of oC From runt little hummock of or borax and anal salt sail 0 one would leap to lO another and if IC h he ho ml missed o his footing h he hel held his leather spread out before him and antl would coat oat c It In tho the marsh as a sort of lI light ht upon he ht could clamber onto the until I bun buoy death nearest hummock In that trap I lie He tool took his shoes oft off and swung around his als neck by the strings them IUs Ills feet Ceet s were ere lite literally rail parboiled lJ by bytho tho the hot and amI biting ooze of the marsh Still Xo 0 Water lIter lion lIow he ev ever r got sot across there I can he ho managed mann manag somehow never gue guess a but ed eel to reach the tho on tho alto other ohr I side l l' l Still SUII ho he was s as without water t for Cor the tho range was as barren as the Funeral mountains B By that time he lac was getting de do- dom demented and anti in his fever fc racked ImagInation imagination Imagination Imag Imag- m lake Jake of oC at he saw row always a n great crystal clear water far Cor up on the mountain sides and ancl when ho lie would climb cling up there theca for fOI a drink tho Cho lake Into a glare of oC torrid would disappear sun sunbaked clay Wells Vens Bennetts Bennett's Once h he struck mounted high but in instead In- In n- n a und and III I his hopes stead of oC drinkable water stater he found a brackish salt salty slime sling that even et eu In it his desperation ho lie could not swallow and ancl slept for Cor In III It He lie lay Iny down clown hours When hen he awoke three se e or r four foul our barely strength enough to totter tott tot tot- he had the final filial advance along t ter cc r on for hl his valle valley 8 o'clock that night 1 tho alto foreman foreman foreman fore fore- At Smiths Smith's Death S Valley man o of Borax wun wandering aimless an and ran Ii saw him through the tho evening gloom Cant Can't He lie Hl foreman took tool him him to tho Cho The Thc and amI the crew set et themselves them hem ranch hoU house the breath orliCe of or work ork to save selves to t remained It would have O life liCe that still than brae a afew him moro morn been fatal to give gl It was seas hours hour and ancl few drops of of let lel him before before the ranchers rancher would alono alone even for fOI a moment In III it hi III I d. d Ii in lit inous ous ravings he lie would have i 1 III u n i. ii J t t. t water like a n beast When lien hen n was as In hi sun ha I PI t I. I i fj II he ho told the rancher his hK lIa num III 11 rancher who had se seen n him tt h n u h h h- went Into the I Kunzle camp a t i. i t. t dl t t before absolutely refused wll i r. r III I. I It li It It for Cor the lie poor 1001 fellow w I. I I a poun pounds s In three e days day and Wt wi i- i nat n tn- tn vied to a mere merc dry parc paie-ln-d paie h Ie i t i 1 parchment tight lIght 0 r hi- hi boney honey frame lIe He was quite el It was several sc days h in II uv U ru strong enough to start for CUI Salt SiH all T tai In the company of Clarence La Limi to ltd h m-l m tt I Ed Donnelly brother of or tin the lh L nn Il Ilof lof l of Snowstorm fame in tin till I r They were wre mining il l that way I fear rear that he will 11 ne never 1 or I b fJ t Hi l I I sf iho again When the news of his hK b h. h in m i I. I I spread the lie miners at lOU eI HN ill Ial I at al the lie quit work and 1 i t nt I I search for Cor him We e lei hi tracks and If IC he had only k k i I I f i I I Iwo st wo o could have overtaken Ii him hilll I Pu u I h ii hf f striking onward al a t 14 i iday Id day duy an and night until hi Iw its t f I II i I Ius was us lost l in the Amargosa M swa nl II H. must have gone eighty Ight mil rail r in ill I n II three levee days |