Death Valley Junction, California Death Valley Railroad was established in 1914, it used of tracks belonging to the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad east-southeast of Death Valley Junction to Horton. Local wired telephones were manual telephone service until the 1980s. To reach a phone in Death Valley Junction when the area was under manual service required dialing the operator and asking for "Death Valley Junction, California, Toll Station" (and the one-digit number). Placing an outbound call required lifting the receiver and waiting for an operator. The operator who answered was in Los Angeles (over 150 miles away). Death Valley Junction is now in area codes
Death Valley Days (radio program) every one of the "Death Valley Days" scripts for 31 years -- which amounts to more than 1,000 stories." For most of its time on the air, "Death Valley Days" was sponsored by the Pacific Borax Company, manufacturer of 20 Mule Team Borax. Dunning wrote: "The show immediately established its ties to the sponsor." The third episode dealt with finding borax at Furnace Creek, and several episodes dealt with 20-mule teams. Procter & Gamble and American Chicle Company became sponsors of "The Sheriff" in 1951. Death Valley Days (radio program) Death Valley Days was a radio Western in the United