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Show Death Valley Slakes Thirst Stovepipe Wells Where seventy-seven seventy-seven years ago the starving, thirst-parched thirst-parched members of the famous Jay-hawker Jay-hawker party here sipped a life-saving draught from a swallow water hole and eagerly gnawed a pice of an ox hoof, a crowd of merry makers dined and danced in celebration of the formal opening of a new 24,000 artesian ar-tesian well In this desert oasis. Stovepipe Stove-pipe Wells, in the heart of Death valley, val-ley, is the lowest depression in America, Amer-ica, being 2TS feet below sea level. With the opening of the new well, it is being developed as a sightseeing resort, being linked to Mount Whitney Whit-ney by a road piercing the Panamint mountains. |