Show I SCOTTS SCOTT'S LOST MINE MYTH IS EXPOSED Butte Bute Publisher Who Returned From Gold Fields Tells Interesting Tale BOYERS BOYER'S WONDERFUL FEAT Believed to be he Only Man to Cl Cross s Death nl Valley Alone AloneS I nc on Foot S Whatever halo ma may bo he the source o ohis oC ci his lila apparently unlimited wealth tho the theold old myth mth of Scottys ScotS lost Jost mine In Death valley vaHey has been thoroughly ox- ox posed said Frank Franl- Collins manager of oC the Butte Bulto Bule Evening News who passed through Salt Lake last nl night nigh ht on his wa way vay homo home from tho lie Nevada Ne gold fields felLs It I was a 1 week ago Sunday that Joe JoeS Bo Boyer er left heft the Patsy Patty Clark property S at Funeral range on a prospecting trip and It I was sas on Thurs Thursday ay that he rip ap- at Furnace Creole Creek ranch thir- thir ty miles mies from the place he started S Shaving having crossed Death valley alley valey and endured endured en en- dured forty eight hours without food fooL or water loyer who ho is we well ell known lown In the Nevada mining country counti started ou out In his usual way to look hook over some of oC the hills his and went rent from the Pats Patsy Palsy Clark property feet Ceet above sea sealevel level hovel to Konze's property feet fee below the level of the sea When hen read ready to return home he decided to t do doso doso doso so in a roundabout way intending to look over ovel the country countr on the way I Iwas It I was but a n short time until he discovered ered erod that he lie was as lost Jost on tho the desert desert Lo Lost Loi t In Death Valley In crossing Death vac valley ho struck certain boggy places where he was obliged oh- oh liged geL to remove his shoes and craw crawl on his hands anti and knees toward what wha he thought was a spring sprinG of water Upon arriving at tho ho place he found that tha he had been the tho victim of or a mirage Later he discovered a n spring but the lie wat water r was salt sal and unfit to drink He Ho took off of his clothes and climbed Into the the spring to cool cooJ oft off or and falling asleep slept there thieve for Cor more than three hours after which he resumed his journey journe In coming cominS down lown the slope toward the valley valey he crossed crosseL the spot which was supposed to lo have been tho lie place where Scotty Scoty had his lost Jost mine and reported on his return th that thIt t there was not a sl sign n of ore In the whole vicinity This is true lue as Js Is known by everyone who ho has ha been in Death valley vaHey Salt Salt- Salt Lakei Lakers Perished hecl The Thio course courso which Boyer loer too took over the desert was the same Iame as that taken takei by the party of oC Salt Lake people who perished In Death vaHe valley man many years It was wa-s four days after h he ago I wa acer started starlet that crawled into the Furnace Creek ranch the fit st man to have hl e successfully crossed Death vaHe valley alone and on foot foot |