The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-03
FAIL To CROSS
DEATH VALLEY
Scotty and Newspapermen Run
Their Automobiles Into
Sand Dunes.
WILL TRY AGAIN WITH
HIS SIX-MULE TEAM
He Declares 1t Is His Intention
to Show the Men His
Panamint Mines.

RHYOLlTE, New. July with mol
low eyes and exhausted bodies, Editor
Horace A. Dunn, of the Gold6eld Chron-
icle, and w f. Traugbber, of the Gold
field Tribune, lay upon the ground in
the streets of Rhyolite for two long
hours yesterday afternoon TO rest for
an automobile trip to Goldfeld, while
'Scotty,' who had taken them into
Death Valley to show them his mines,
walked about town boasting that he
was tresber than when he left the
town two days before with the news
pspermen.
Traughbsr lay Eat on the ground
near Scotty's automobile, while Dunn
bad moved a little further over and
was resting his head on a low sidewalk
Scotty hunted up other newspapermen
to show them the condition of the Gold :
field scribes.
Both of the newspapermen we're
game. however. and did not murmur
Like two fox-hounds. they lay near the
automobile, as if fearing that il might
start out for another chase and leave
them behind
1.-The trip was worth the hardships,
If we didn Z see the Mines said
Dunn, raising up from the ground and
rubbing his eyes as he looked into the
face of the sun, which had moved
around the corner since be arrived ''It
was great trlp.'
Yes, and we are going to try it
over, said Traughber half awake. HWe
got stuck lie the sand dunes with the
two automobiles, but we are going to
! take mules next time. We will go in
six-mulc rig and this will enable US
to reach the place.
Treated Royalty,
Glow did Scotty treat us! Rovally.p
SAID Dunn. "He is not the same Scot
ty in Death Valley as you see him
around town. He casts off all Of that
show and gets right down TO business.
lie is in his sphere when ~ Death Val.
ley. He is perfectly at home there
He is natural scout aud guide, a good
cook and perfect host. l was never
better treated in my life Scottv in
camp, with towel about his head and
stripped down TO his undershirt from
his waist up, is the handiest man |
ever saw with cooking utensils
Ills Death Valley mulligans beat
| anything | ever tasted" interjected
Traughber.
Then they detailed their experiences
of the trip, which were told graphically
in the newspaper way They had ar
Gold6eld in two automobiles. and out
fitted for Death Valley. They took on
$500 worth of supplies. Scotty has fire.
quently boasted of mis- mines and has
often been asked TO show them. He
had just been showing ASSAYS that ran
as high as S45.200, and exhibited ore
that he claimed would run $4,000 to
the ton. This, he said, was taken from
his mines in Windy Gulch in the Pana.
mint mountains, near the place where
Poet"Prospector Eddy is now camped
and where be is prospecting his group
of claims
The newspapermen Of Gold6eld de-
termined to test the truthfulness of
Scotty's statement, and offered to 90
with him 20 his mines
eve will verify Scottys statement.
or expose him, said the scribes.
81 will show them, said Scotty.
''Scotty, honestly, are You going 10
take these men TO your mines, or are
You going into Death Valley. run them
into the sand dunes, and bring them
back, with the story that YOU couldn t
get to the mines?' was asked Scotty
by a friend in RhyoIite Just before
their departure for the desert
q can't guarantee automobiles 10
~ 'AAiNHSH HuliN iuutS uG ItpIleu.
Il can start with them--I can do my
part, but watch our smoke
Brags About Himself,
Upon their return 10 Rhyolitc Scotty
sought this same friend and pointed
out the newspapcrmen ms they lay upon
the ground.
'Wc went some,' he said .'They
are game, but they are about all in.
| never felt better in my life. | am
Just now beginning to feel good Oh
yes! | Will show them. | have sent
Shorty With an automobile 10 have
my siXmulc team sent into Rhyolite
! Will take them for q little trip over
to Gold6eld tonight return with them
Wednesday morning, meet my mules
here and take them 10 my mine. The
mules never fail me-
81 have been going some with these
boys, | have spent over $500 trying
TO show them my mines. and | am 90,
ing TO keep going till | show them.
Beat it if YOU cau!'
The newspapermon had rested so that
they could travel by sundown aud the
party started out for Goldiisld in n
big auto They had been ont for two
days aud nights without sleep. but
Scotty looked frcshcr than he did when
they started out. He had been drink
ing heavily and the trip TO Death Val
ley has sobercd him up.