Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1904-12-11
DEATH VALLEY EXPLORED.
\ncient Puins in the Solid Rock
Copper Utensils and Stone Ham,
mers Found ia a Round Shaft


mers Found in a Round Shaft.
DOC" WinslOw and Martin Dunlap, !
9th of whom have been prospecting
or the past forty years through the
ntermountain country for gold, silver
md copper, arrived in town It's week, |
fresh from prospecting trip through /
Death Valley j
They went into the valley in June |,
md since that daF returned to civil !
zatiCn Cnce to renew their stock OF |!
provisions. They have travelled over !
800 miles through the valley, guided
by Jim Dutch, haif-breed Moapa In
dian. hey spent nearly two months
in what they call the Saw Tooth
range and have made locations in
that locality of "A claims
They have been twice On the border
land Of death from thirst. and once
We're hemmed in by terrific sand
storm which killed their pack ami
mails and nearly destroyed Dunlap's
sight.
They found some of the most pc
culfar formation in that district ever
seen by the eye Of - L. In one place
! at the foot of high mountain of lime
and white quartz they found an OLD
shaft sunk in the p ante bed rock
, fifty feet The shat was round AMI
holss IN two sides WI, IN had evident
II been used as a stairway fer the
miners
In the center of the shaft Lad at
one time been a center post running
10 the surface. notched ever l.
inches and spliced in the center with
deer thongs This was displaced and
leaning on one side of the shaft. The
granite had evidently been softer
when sunk on than al present for il
had evidently been worked with stone
Implements. as the marks or the sides
q the shaft would show.
At the bottom Of the shaft were
three hammers ot stone. which the
.snders have sent 70 the Smithsonian
institute, and two copper basins.
What the shaft had bnvn used for is
beyond conjecture. as there seemed
70 be no naturalization in the granite
About 100 feet aboove the shaft. uE
-,1e mountain. was room cut int
the lime formation and in the cente,
If the room was a. FIVE foot sink. pr
sumably used for baths. a trail ha
been worn in the rock from the shat
10 this room. which was hewn afte
the manner Of the cliff dweilers' hal
it2tiCns on the Colorado river.
Nearly 1.G miles from the sout1
line Of the valley they struck a ledg
Of black. g:ittering quartz. in whic
huge blocks were pilel Up to a heigl
CLASSY and impossible of access abov
, the valley, being heated nearly re
HOT under the blazing summer SUI
They We're evidently of volcanic 70
nation and show evidence of havir
49, been deposited during some terrib
d, volcanF. upheaval. Numbers of the
svUckS were inscribed with strans
u hierosjyphcs. which We're not q
~ cipherable by the ,orospectors, b
- which they copied crudely and viii
consist OF roughly cu1 pictures
| shor1-horned deer, mountain she,
feet. They also include cuts in
relief of nude men and women,
posJures of worship. dancing and fis
ing. Stars, crosses and triang
were also ensraven on the rocks. a
several suns with long rays We
among the displays in the ancit
picture gallery.
About thirty miles further north
prOspectors struck a we'll worn tt
leading to the apex of a range Of sn
white quartz. which they gained af
infinite hardships and found LED
four feet in width. in which cubes a
wire gold were plainly seen.
This ledge was located and trat
for over three miles to the northw
and samples taken from it VIZ
shown the Progress representa-,
which it is estimated will go into I
hundreds of dollars per ton
Mr. Windslow stated that they VIZ
backed by Helena. Montana, capt.
and would meet their Montana as
ciates at Butte this week and Diet
mine what should be done with tn
valuable acquisitions-Calien P
gress.