. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. 0. PLATE 3. DEATH VALLEY—THE MOST ARID SECTION IN THE WEST. A miner was rescued recently at point marked "A" and the skeletons of two other men were found within a radius of a few miles. At point "B" 60 people died from thirst, with water within six miles in one direction and fourteen miles across the valley, where is located the Keane Wonder Mine. Many other deaths have been reported during the last ten years. A catalogue of the fauna of this "great and terrible wilde
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. 0. PLATE 3. DEATH VALLEY—THE MOST ARID SECTION IN THE WEST. A miner was rescued recently at point marked "A" and the skeletons of two other men were found within a radius of a few miles. At point "B" 60 people died from thirst, with water within six miles in one direction and fourteen miles across the valley, where is located the Keane Wonder Mine. Many other deaths have been reported during the last ten years. A catalogue of the fauna of this "great and terrible wilderness wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground" can be written in a very few lines: the jack-rabbit, the horned toad, the scorpion and lizard, the kangaroo rat, the desert turtle and that rattling subtil enemy of man which "stingeth like an adder," and of which it is written, "it shall bruise they heel and thou shalt bruise his head," and his more deadly but silent brother, the side-winder, and the coyote whose cry alone breaks the profound silence of these regions, embrace the list of those that are generally known. The voice of the mocking-bird and the sweet carols of our feathered loves ever are mute, the only denizen of the sky being the vulture whose shadow falls upon the desolate land as he sails in search of his carrion food. The only aboriginal inhabitants are the remnants of the Piute and Mojave Indian tribes whose day of total extermination is rapidly approaching. But even the worst and most unpromising of these regions are not without their material wealth. Zinc is found in paying quanti- ties, and large saline deposits have been discovered mixed with borax and nitre. Nitre claims are controlled by the mining laws of the 31. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resembl
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