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Show DEATH VALLEY IS CROSSED BY A DODGE CAR A recent Issuo of Motor West, tho Pacific coast motor car publication, contains a story ot conquering tho weBtorn deserts, particularly Death Valloy, with nn automobile The trip, which embraced 1000 miles, was not planned as a car test, but tho party, headed by O. K, Par-kor, Par-kor, an engineer, was prospecting for molybdenite, a rare oro used in steel refining. , , The car used was a stock Dotlgo Brothers' touring car and was nick-nnmul nick-nnmul Death Valloy Dodge. Motor West says: "Not only did tho Death Valloy Dodgo party daro death In most ay. ful forms, but they covered a region generally considered as outsldo tho palo of tho motor car. "Tho topography consists of mountain moun-tain ranges with desert valloys, or sinks, between tho mountains, theso sinks being Boparatcd by uplifts of volcanic origin. Tho region Is tho most dreolato and barren In America, Ameri-ca, nnd thcro aro no roads but tho trulla nf tbe occasional prospector. Tho artlclo horo dcscrlbos tho trip across tho Mojavo desert and tho op-proach op-proach to Death Valloy by way of Wlldroso canyon. Continuing, It says: "Wlldroso canyon grndes aro so steep that thor seem almost Impossible Impos-sible for an automobile; in fact, it Is right thoro that many of tho cars which havo- essayed tho trip havo como to grlof and perhaps this Is as well, for If thoy cannot negotiate Wlldroso canyon thoy could not Hvo through tho groator strain to como In the fight with tho Band dunes of Death Valloy. "Tho Parker party found oven worso conditions than those thnt led to tho death of Poto Bush, who fell a victim to tho dosert last year whon his wnter gnv out miles from a supply. sup-ply. Tho wlntor t-torms had plied up tho bouldors and wnvol In Emigrant ennyon until tho w-ny seomed Impossible Impos-sible for a burro. However, thoy fought tholr way through, only to find when Death Valloy was reached that tho whole flat had boon swor with flerco wlndij until the sand dur ,s wero a verltablo sea of sandy wn' ta. |