The hottest snot on the earth is Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley, Eastern California. 33” feet below the sea level at its lowest jxiint. Only one white man, Oscar Denton, of San Diego, has ever survived more than two summers in this place. In the summer months tho thermometer sometinies registers 161) deg. Fahrwheit. The surrounding hills are called the Funeral Mountains. Here is mined the world's greatest supply of commercial borax.
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 120, 6 February 1923, Page 5
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