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Show RAILWAY TOBEATH VALLEY HAN rRANCISCO, April i -The southern gateway of the dreaded Death valles, home of the tuttlesnakc nnd the Cilia monster, nnd tho -f - I'Pulchroof scores of ndventurous and lll-fnted miners has been broktn -f open Such Is lh news received yesterday In a letter by Trot. Ualley f of the tSate Mining bureau. The lottei he received sesterday told of the opening and acceptance of a stretth of rond several miles long, reaching from Manvel, on tho f Santa l'c railroad lines, to the great dry lake, through which the Cal- -- Ifornla nnd Nevada Stato lines lun Manvel Is about at tho summit of the Vanderbllt mountains, whlth have been a formidable obstacle to s- - tbe tourism who lnve mudo their way In past scars Into Death valles. At tho gnat dry lake the mountulns have been cioiwed and there Is a somewhat easy passage Into the valley for pack trains nnd wagons. -t- The new line Is the California Kaslcrn. In addition to furnishing un entianco to Death valles this roid Is supplying meann to reach the Tonopah mines, and ulso tho Searthllght Mining district In iwuthern f Nevada. Tho line does not enter Death valley, but reaches a point fiom which It Is comparatively un easy journey to tho dctolato district over which loom the I'unamlnt mountains. -t--t--f-f-f-t-s--f-f-r-f-s.s--f.f-f4- -fsv fsV4- 4-f-f-f-f-f-f -f |