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FURNACE CREEK RANCH
Furnace Creek Ranch
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Color by Merle Porter
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FURNACE CREEK RANCH DEATH VALLEY
Bellerin V. Tex Bennett, the first white man to live here,
came to the valley in 1870 with a couple of pair of quail
with the intention of growing barley and alfalfa. He left in
a couple of years when the Harmony Borax Works took over
the ranch. They grew acres of alfalfa, to feed the mules,
dug a half acre pond, planted an orchard and called the
place Greenland. The present name was given to the ranch
by the Pacific Coast Borax Company. Washingtonia Palms
were set out to form a flourishing plantation: a golf course
replaces the former alfalfa field and descendants of Ben-
nett's quail call to one another in the brush. . . . . M.P.
Photo Color by Merle Porter
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