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Show DEATH VALLEY SCEfiEjpOID! TONOPAH. Nov.. Nov. 1 1 . Ur. a eiollnc 8.000 feet from Chloride Cliff. In 'he Euneral range, to Ihe floor of Death Valley, approximately rum feet below si.i level, NTr, and Jl-s C. C. Hotik and MISS Mlanche Kob reeentlj motored into that historic valley. val-ley. Thby have Jus; returned to their! homes here. Describing the trip. Mr. Iioak dt -dared he considered ''he view from Chloride i.'ilff the e,Ual Of. if not su - pet lor to that of the Orand canyon in Arltona, ' In Death Valley they visited the only w hite mar, there n.imed Ienton. ; lie lives at furnace creek ranch, owned 1 a imiax company and main-( tolned slmplv to protect tho water i tight of Furnace e-eek. "The heat at no time during por- j Hons of the two dSys we spent in the ' valley was excessive," Mr. Boak said. I "about 10 degrees in the shade being the warmest. Mr. Denton, who has j bee., there eight years, keeps the gov- ernmeni weather records and he told1 us 'only 134 In th shade' was the j warmest on record. "At times, he said- during the heat of the summer, a hiaek gaseous haxe would lc, motionless on the sump of: the valkay for days. During such rimes he never dared go outside the ' house, he said, but kept his water-power water-power propell'-d fan going continuous- ly until a breeze dispersed ihc base, j ' .Most of our drive through the val-tsy val-tsy was made at a depression of from 2j0 to 00 feet below sea level. The toads could not be complained of. "We encountered no sand, although much I of ths course was over coarse gravel and small cobblestones. '.Mount Whitnev. in the main range of the Sierras, was clearly visible, j Thus one stands in the lowest valley In the world and feasts the eye upon i the snow-clad peak of the highest mountain In the United States." oc |