New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-07-03

They bite with snappingt decision noweyssL
and once their mouths close on anything s ~
The indians c a.. them by means Of fshhook
fastened to stick which they push into the brrrS~s
they pull them out The aborgInes are very Tong 90
their flesh, while white men who have efsm En- 'n sre
found on the edge VI Death Valley from Daggeu W
the Needles and also on the banks OF the boiro
found that weigh as much as twelve pounds. Tsese
creatures feed csct and not to be despiseo 10
Ash Meadows, in the northeastern part Of Death
VALLEY already menoued big aikal swamp s ern
Montgomery '' mines WITH Seefs Some distance from
the Indian Creek Valley Here peculiar incident
came to Bartons attention. Of about my years
beautiful daughter aged nineteen, and son Of seven.
teen ard has lived for sixteen years The Ola recu.s
eser s' village s sf' only '"s few White psGp
self and his people so secluded and is not always
cordial to the visitors who find his desert oasis
which gives al the water needed for irrigation, and he
has under cultivation forty acres IN garden produce
pleasant. His wife and children have tried every
means to escape from their irksome desert slavery,
red brother that toll in the fields is only for women,
k e sTe been at w T ava Od e aS d mani an
and the son were away prospecting in the mountains
some tine ago mother and daughter es-
but when the old fellow returned and fonnd them
gone he gave chase and caught them, forty five miles
away. on the top OF the Charleston Mountains, where
the girl making the final preparations for trip 10
Daggett she Is described By Parton as beautiful
splendid shot with the rife, able TO shoot hawks on
the wing and TO lassO and brand cattle or horses
equal to the best vaquero. The parents seem to be
well educated, and although they have not impaired
their knowledge to their chdren the girl has taught
herself to read and write. The mystery surrounding
these people puzzles the few white men who have
Mr. carton relates that In the southwest pert OF
Nevada, In the Peracanut Valley thc Valley OF Waer,
his party discovered a spring In the mountains from
which substance resembling Jelly flowed. This stun
Of amber Color sank into the sand about twenty
feet from where IL cnshed FORTH and the ground where
1t was absorbed looked creamy. The substance conh
like calves foot Jelly 1t tasted salty, and made
horse that had Tapped up some of II deadly SICK IL
had no smell, and Parton unable to conjecture
what it was. Another spring some twenty miles
north OF this, contained long alum crystals below the
clear waters that appeared like trees. one OF the
party who sprang into the spring for bath, came
ont OF II in hurry, with his skin considerably
OF Death Valley lead of jet discovered. and thirty
miles away from that mountain which Is supposed
to be pure cement found.
the Carson and Colorado Railroad, the terminus OF
which Is now Keebo. In California: Here he made
trip into Nevada aRnin and visited the Columbus
900 Cinnamon gather the dirt and boil 1t; after the
borax cry sallzes II Is hauled. ready for market, TO
Candearia. where IT is shipped by railroad: There
lnnd still open for location Twenty miles south Of
Columbus mining camp. Mr.. Barton visited n sui
phur mountain, which Is owned by an Eastern COM
pany, but which, despite Its great value cannot DO
turned prospectOr is that when railroad Is COM
plctel through this wonderful country 1t will he
fOnnd 10 contain riches and possibilities not even
guessed at by the few who know something Of Its
iQhrvcls,