LOST IN NEVADA DESERT
PROSPECTING PARTY'S EXPERIENCE.'
[After ;being lost in Furness canyon, Ahe Death Valley • of Nevada, and nariewly escaping death from thir3t and exhaustion, four San Francisco; mining men- returned to- 'San Francisco iast iaonth' in al'Stiidebaker big six louring car, which .-.they used on a prospecting trip'through the south-west; reports the i' San Francisco Chronicle." While on the way from Shoshone, ,; Idaho, to Beatty, Nevada, the Studebaker party got lost, and it was not until after two days and nighte on the desert, during .which the party suffered from, thirst and exhaustion, that they discovered they -were in Furness canyon through a providential meeting with a Calif ornian mining engineer, who is in • the Funeral fountains, near Furness canyon, on. a .prospecting 1 trip. When the party met the engineer -they were Without water • either lor themselves or. the radiator of the car, and they had to walk a mile ;away from the meeting place for water and carry it back to the. car. According to residents of the district, at least . eeven* persons have been known to lese ' their lives as a result of making the journey which the party made on account' 'of i,he heat;,"which at times reaches 125 ; degrees,.,.a:id the lack of water.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 12
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209LOST IN NEVADA DESERT Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 91, 14 October 1922, Page 12
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