Desert Magazine 1949 January

JANUARY, 1949 35 CENTS
Why Make Your Home inPalmDesert

Travelers and home-seekers from all over the United States are coming to
the desert country each year in increasing numbers—and if you ask why
the semi-arid land of the Southwest has become such a powerful lure for
Americans, one of the answers is
SUNSHINE
Here in a sheltered cove at the base of California's date gardens of Coqchella valley that a fine water
Santa Rosa mountains where the new community of supply has been developed, paved streets installed, the
Palm Desert is being built the sun shines clear and construction of a school started and electric and gas and
warm nearly every day in the year. telephone service made available for those who would
There is no fog—none of the gas-laden smog which build new homes and income properties in Palm Desert.
has became a plague to dwellers in the industrial com- For those who liko recreation the luxurious Shadow
munities. Seldom are the days even overcast with Mountain Club is now open and offers the opportunity
clouds. Two or three times a year there are a few hours for swimming, miniature boating, riding, tennis, pitch-
of rain—just enough to freshen the landscape and start and-putt golf, badminton and other facilities for enjoy-
the desert flowers sprouting. But for the most part this ment and health in the sunny Palm Desert cove rimmed
is a land blessed with sunshine — warm, relaxing, by sheltering mountains.
health-giving sunshine. Humans thrive in this cheerful
atmosphere. But whatever form of recreation you prefer, there is
always sunshine—the invigorating life-giving sunshine
It is here on a sun-favored bajada overlooking the of the desert.
Palm Desert
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PALM DESERT. CALIFORNIA
CLIFFORD W. HENDERSON
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Telephone CRestview 55269
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DESERT CALENDAR
Dec. 31-Jan. 1—First annual Liar's
contest and second annual Pegleg
Trek, Coyote mountain, Borrego
Valley, California.
Jan. 1-2—Sierra club trip to Deep
canyon in the Santa Rosa moun-
tains. Follow arrows from Palm
Desert, just east of Palms-to-
Pines highway junction, to camp
site.
Jan. 2—Annual rendition of the "Mes-
siah," Salt Lake Tabernacle,
Temple Square, Salt Lake City.
Utah.
Jan. 6—"Old Christmas," Feast of the Volume 12 JANUARY. 1949 Number 3
Three Kings. Performances of
Los Tres Magos in Spanish- COVER ARIZONA WILD GOAT, photographed in White
American villages, New Mexico.
Jan. 6—Buffalo Dance, Taos pueblo, Tank mountains west of Litchfield Park, Ari-
New Mexico. zona, by Martin Litton, Inglewood, California
Jan. 6—Eagle Dance, San Ildefonso
pueblo, New Mexico. CALENDAR January events on the desert 3
Jan. 6—Installation of newly elected
governors in Indian pueblos of RECREATION Desert Dude Wrangler, b y BRUCE CLINTON . 5
New Mexico, usually followed by
dances. PUZZLE Desert Quiz, monthly school of the desert . . . 10
Jan. 8—All-day hike to H i d d e n INDIANS They Follow Ancient W a y s at Old Jemez
Springs and Grotto canyon near
Mecca. Meet in front of Palm By DAMA LANGLEY 11
Springs Desert museum, 9 a. m.
Bring lunch. Eight miles round CONTEST Prizes for photographers 15
trip walking.
Jan. 12—Desert Rock club field trip LOST MINE The Lost Squaw Hollow Gold Ledge
to Kaiser iron mines in the Eagle
mountains near Desert Center. By JOHN D. MITCHELL 17
Meet in front of Palm Springs PHOTOGRAPHY
Desert museum, 9 a. m. Bring Contest winners in November . 18
lunch and water. HISTORY
Jan. 15—Lecture, "An Artist in the Waterhole at the Crossroads
Southwest," by Alvin C. Greiner,
Palm Springs Desert museum, 8 By THERON MARCOS TRUMBO . . . .' 19
p. m. CLOSE-UPS
Jan. 15—All-day field trip to Stubby Of Desert Magazine's Contributors 22
springs in Joshua Tree national HUMOR
monument. Meet in front of Palm Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 22
Springs Desert museum, 9 a. m. DESERT TRAILS
Jan. 15-16—Sierra club, Desert Peaks There's Another Kind of Treasure
section, scouting trip to El Paso By JOHN L. BLACKFORD 23
mountains, northeast of Red Rock FIELD TRIP
canyon, Mojave desert. Green Rock in the Last Chance Range
Jan. 19—Desert Photography group, By DON INGALLS 28
field trip to Indian Cove, Joshua BOTANY Dazzling Tulips of the Desert Ranges
Tree national monument to photo-
graph rock formations. Meet in By MARY BEAL 30
front of Palm Springs Desert
museum, 9 a. m. Bring lunch. NEWS Here a n d There on the Desert 31
Jan. 22—All-day a u t o - caravan to
Travertine Point, the Cahuilla MINING Current news of desert mines 34
"Fish Traps," and Salton Sea.
Meet at Palm Springs Desert LETTERS Comment of Desert's readers 39
museum, 9 a. m. Bring lunch and
bathing suit (if warm). No hiking. LAPIDARY Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK . . 40
Jan. 22—Lecture, "Ancient R o c k
Drawings in the Southwest," by HOBBY Gems a n d Minerals 41
Dr. Arthur Woodward, historian
of the Los Angeles county mu- COMMENT Just Between You and Me, by the Editor . . . 46
seum. Palm Springs Desert mu-
seum, 8 p. m. BOOKS Reviews of Southwest Literature 47
Jan. 22-23—-Sierra club trip to Hid-
den gold mine and Keys View, The Desert Magazine is published monthly by the Desert Press, Inc., Palm Desert,
starting from Garnet, with camp California. Re-entered as second class matter July 17, 1948, at the post office at Palm Desert,
up Fan Hill canyon. California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S. patent Office,
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Jan. 24—Desert Photography group must be secured from the editor in writing.
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Photography," by Al Taylor. HAROLD and LUCILE WEIGHT, Associate Editors.
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JANUARY, 1949
Organ Pipe Cactus at Sunset in Southern Arizona. Photo by Josef Muench
CONSECRATION
THIS ANCIENT LAND
By MADELEINE FOUCHAUX
Los Angeles, California
MY DESERT
By HARRIETT FARNS WORTH
By CATHRYN ADAMS
Loma Linda, California
Waked from slumber, wrapt in wonder,
From my veranda where the hanging olla Lancaster, California Just as dawned the new-born day,
Offers its wind-cooled water close at In the breathless morning magic,
hand, Oh give me the desert with the double glow From the sand on which I lay.
I look across the arid miles where cholla Of sunset at eventide; From the white sand, clean and drifted
And Joshua cast blue shadows on the And snow-capped peaks hemming me in There I saw the desert pray;
A world that's friendly and wide. Saw ten thousand arms uplifted,
sand. Silhouettes against the sky;
Between the dunes of spiny vegetation, When the sun slips over the Joshua tops Saw ten thousand mute forms standing.
Washing the dust of centuries away, In a sea of rose and gold, Unaware of such as I.
A river runs in my imagination; My thoughts drift back to other lands Filled my heart with strange elation,
A window opens into yesterday. In memories I cherish and hold. Viewing there such consecration.
• • •
Marshes and lakes with tree-ferns at the Oh give me the desert with camp-fire nights
edges Warm, friendly stars overhead; CONTRAST
Shine in the valley's Mesozoic light. Where the far-off wail of the coyote's call By KATHRYN AINSWORTH GROVER
There giant saurians wallow in the sedges Woos sleep to my earthy bed. Alhambra, California
And queer, reptilian birds take clumsy • • • A city house shut up and locked
flight. TREASURE I think looks empty only,
By DORA SESSIONS LEE A desert home looks near to tears
A million years have passed. The window, Prescott, Arizona And oh, so very lonely.
closing,
Returns me to the desert, hot and dry. From all the treasure of this earth
Where have the monsters gone? A lizard, These I would choose and more—
dozing,
Wakes up and mocks me with an ancient
A bit of jade from the sands of time
On a burnished desert floor. FACE LIFE
eye. By TANYA SOUTH
A chastened view of the distant peaks Weep not, nor grieve, oh soul of mine,
• • • Where greed's hidden treasures lie; For that which now you reap.
MASTER MOLDER A fortune wrought of the desert gold Life is a wondrous great design
By MILDRED C. TALLANT When the Sun-God rides on high. For souls who climb the steep.
Glendale, California Face life with courage squarely, then,
The Molder of Mountains one aeon, A calm content with my desert home And bravely upward tread.
Pushed a thumb-print deep in the clay; A peace that no gold can buy; There's no advance without its pain,
Impressions then fired in earth crayons A heart serene and a trust divine But there is Light ahead.
Formed deserts, vermilion and grey. And a tranquil desert sky.
THE DESERT MAGAZINE

On the Rimrock trail. Beaver Creek ranch, Arizona. D. J. Dreesen photo, Phoenix.
Desert Dude Wrangler

All kinds of people come to the western dude ranches. Most of them be like. This thin, maidenly lady with
are pretty good eggs—but there are exceptions to this rule. There are the sensitive mouth and hungry face,
certain types of guests who are a headache to the men whose job it for instance. She is going to be eager,
is to look after the riding stock and guide them along the trails. And if thirsting for every drop the cup has
you wonder which class you are in, just read this story written by a to offer. The dyspetic gentleman who
veteran wrangler and you will know the answer. comes behind her. His liver is troub-
By BRUCE CLINTON ling him. He is going to be gruff and
utterly unappeasable — which makes
for a situation that will require a lot of
^ y Hm E westering sun was a flam- and man-daubed landscapes," was all tolerance from me and my brother
/ g ball of fire as we topped the he said. But his manner of saying it wranglers.
* eastern rim of Dead Man mesa. was all the tribute I could ask to that
Dropping behind snow-capped peaks ever-changing canvas i love — the The rosy-faced gentleman coming
in the hazy distance, it cast a veil of desert. next: I can see by the icy look in his
rich purple and fantastic shadows over As we rode on into the gathering eye that his face came from his barber.
the desert floor below us, making it a dusk my little party of city dwellers The captain-of-industry type, I have
stage of silent, exciting beauty. forgot to be weary, forgot to com- named him. Used to giving orders, lord
Sage brush, greasewood and mes- plain, forgot to chatter, forgot, even, of all he surveys (when at home), he
quite were shadowy and vague, while that they were dudes. The spell of a will not take kindly to advice on the
giant Saguaro cactus loomed ghost- desert sunset had them in thrall, and trail. He'll want a lot of handling.
like. each of them, I firmly believe, will be
It was the hour of hours, when the a better man or woman for having Ah! There are others with him.
desert plucks tenderly at heart strings seen it. He turns to give a hand to a buxom
and leaves its unforgettable beauty The above mentioned is one type baggage dressed for Fifth Avenue. On
etched on the human soul. There is of dude—and I don't like that term, the ground, she stares about with a
an ache in the process, a poignant but custom forces me to use it. The fishy eye. Subconsciously I tense for
longing, an insatiable lure, which, humbly great, I like to think of them. her "Boy! Oh, boy!" call which is
having once been experienced, one Men and women big in their own sure to come. If she stays a year that
will never forget. right, yet with a keen sense of their will continue to be her cry when she
I glanced at the saddle-weary dude Lilliputian stature when face to face wants something. If she ever does
nearest me. He was a man high in with this great, awe-inspiring, beauti- learn a name, she'll use the family
the realm of science, widely traveled ful waste. name without a handle. We wranglers
and well read. Certainly beauty was A heterogeneous crowd, they come just love that. It always makes us feel
no novelty to him, yet his eyes feasted yearly in thousands, searching for ro- like English butlers, or something.
upon the scene before him for long, mance and beauty. Many of them find
tense minutes. When he faced me at it—some, never. I like to stand by the Next to alight will be the daughter.
last his eyes had a haunted, troubled corrals and watch them pile out of the She's cut from the same pattern. I had
look and his face reflected an expres- station wagon. I like to think that I one just like her last month. Same
sion of awe and reverence. can read each face and gesture and clothes, same coiffure, same belle-of-
"And they rave about tinted walls know just what the owner is going to the-walk attitude. This young lady
JANUARY, 1949
Riders from Smoke Tree ranch, Palm Springs.
had ridden very little—over cindered first five riders came over in good Then he crashed over backwards. A
bridle paths and with English equip- order. Then came the young lady man already on top shouted, and a
ment. She fostered a strange notion riding the flat saddle. Even before she woman coming up behind the falling
that a stock saddle wouldn't show off reached the last steep rise she was pinto fainted and slid from her saddle.
her jodhpurs to the best advantage, having trouble keeping her seat. I
and insisted upon riding a flat saddle. The girl, in the desperation of sheer
The guest, of course, is most always called to her to catch a handful of terror, contrived somehow to fall free.
right, so she got what she thought she mane and hang on. She gave me a When I finally reached her she was
wanted. glance that was both terrified and writhing on the ground with a badly
We were scheduled for an early haughty. twisted ankle.
start over a long trail. She delayed our I spurred my mount over the rim, So I look again at this girl getting
departure half an hour while I changed hoping against hope that I could reach out of the station wagon, and I think,
saddles and dressed her mount to suit her in time to save her from a nasty "Young lady, you'll ride western—or
her fancy. I decided right then that spill. Then the pinto she was riding you won't ride with me!"
she was going to be my main source lunged up the remaining few feet of But a satanic grin covers my homely
of trouble on the trip, but things went the steep trail. I was too late. mug as the next guest emerges. I've
well for the first eight miles. Then our seen him, too. Under another name,
The girl slipped backward out of perhaps, and several pounds lighter,
trail turned up a small canyon. About her saddle and over her pony's rump.
a mile farther on we climbed the can- but of a type, nevertheless.
I yelled at her to let go of the reins, This fellow was president of some
yon wall and out onto the desert again. but she only gripped them the tighter,
The last few feet to the rim was rather bank back east, very much impressed
causing her horse to rear. She with his own importance, and trying
steep. screamed, and for minutes, it seemed, his daradest to impress everyone else.
I was riding in the lead and when I her mount's forelegs threshed the air He comes West each season and de-
came out on the desert I turned and while he fought the bit with his tender lights in referring to himself as an old-
waited for my party to assemble. The mouth. timer. He is an exceptionally poor
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horseman, and like all poor horsemen, came to hunting lions. I tried to dis- hounds on leash until we reached Rim
self-convinced that none is better. suade the gentleman, but have you Rock canyon, then loosed them and
I was guiding for a ranch that sea- ever tried to argue a toy fire wagon the hunt was on. We rode for several
son on the desert edge. To the south away from a seven-year-old? hours and most of the party were
and east was a range of mountains, One of the other wranglers caught growing discouraged. Mr. Banker was
thickly covered with scrub growth. In my eye and gave me a wicked grin. I downright disgusted. Then, far in the
the foothills there were a few moun- gave up, but knowing exactly what distance, we heard an eerie bawl. It
tain lions and, occasionally, when we was going to happen, I tried to per- echoed through the hills and in a mo-
had the type of guest, the manage- suade Mr. Banker to take my chaps ment the pack joined the cry, filling
ment would organize a hunting party. and brush-jacket. Dutch, you see, had the air with their full-throated baying.
Our banker had been a guest at this been on so many lion hunts that he Dutch's head came up with the
ranch several times, but had never was like a horse ridden to foxes, docile first mournful cry, his ears cocked for-
been able to get in on a hunt. This as could be until the first hound bays. ward inquiringly and he sniffed the
time he was adamant, so the manager Then you might just as well try to breeze like a battle charger. He began
organized a hunt for him. He wasn't hold him by his tail as with the reins, prancing and tossing his head. He
satisfied with the mount I saddled for for he loved to run. snorted once or twice and I hollered
him. He let me know that he didn't My dude gave one disdainful glance to his rider. "Set tight, mister, you're
have to come West to ride a "truck at my worn and shapely chaps and going to take a ride."
horse." badly scarred brush-jacket. One of the Finally, Dutch stood it as long as
By this time he was very much in other wranglers was still giving me his he could. With a rearing lunge he
my hair, so I suggested that he choose wicked grin and by this time I was clamped down on the bit and was off
his own mount from a whole corral feeling the same way. So, with a shrug, to the races.
full. The one he picked was a horse I stepped across my mount and away I tried to keep up with the Flying
we called Dutch, a rangy clay-bank, we went. Dutchman and his rider, but as well
gentle enough at all times, but eleven There were eight guests and four try to overtake the wind. When they
hundred pounds of whirlwind when it wranglers in the party. We kept the disappeared through the brush Mr.
Chuck time on the trail. Beaver Creek ranch, Rimrock, Arizona. Dreesen photo.
JANUARY, 1949
Banker didn't seem to be doing so They were all girls—six of them. From ever diplomacy he has to keep them
well. He had lost his fedora at the the quality and quantity of their lug- from breaking their pretty necks while
first jump and the last I saw of him gage, every wrangler on the ranch out on the trail.
he was ducking right and left to avoid knew that bad times were straight Most of them have ridden a little,
low-hanging limbs. He had a death ahead. These girls come from wealthy and they strive so casually hard to
grip on the saddle horn with both families, have had life handed to them create the impression that they know
hands and his rapidly fading voice on a silver platter. They usually come everything to be known about equita-
came floating back to me. "Whoa! with the idea of conquest foremost in tion. But with all their small knowl-
Slow down, you counfounded fool." their minds. They patronize consider- ege, they can never be taught that some
Fortunately, the chase was a short able, and their visit isn't an hour old horses and some people just can't get
one. When I rode into the circle of before they are contesting for favor along together, that a range horse isn't
yelping hounds Dutch was standing and attention among the wranglers. a bottle-fed thoroughbred, that there
there, as quiet and unconcerned as you Used to seeing men fall over them- is a definite difference between a des-
please. And Mr. Banker—he was still selves at a glance and turn cartwheels ert trail and a bridle path, and that
holding to the saddle horn and look- for a smile, they are at a loss to under- stock saddles are not chosen because
ing straight ahead and shaking like a stand the wrangler's lack of suscep- we think them more beautiful than the
leaf. His face was scratched and his tibility. They don't know that most of English gear they use at home, but be-
clothes in ribbons. But he was a good us have had our fingers burned because the trails demand them for com-
sort. After a minute he gave me a fore, and we're not anxious for a sec- fort and safety.
sheepish look. "Still want to trade ond helping, thank you. Nevertheless, they get along and
mounts?" he asked. It is amusing to watch the by-play have a good time. So, I guess it's
This type can be pompous as the between them, the oh, so casual refer- all right.
very devil, but they're extremely amus- ences to Lord So-and-so's hunters, to There is a contrast in another group
ing if you don't let them get in your Tommy's stable of thoroughbreds, to of girls I have in mind. They don't
hair. And at heart, you'll find them, daddy's new yacht—all of it staged for come so often, or in such numbers,
usually, not so bad after all. some luckless wrangler's benefit. He, but they gladden the wrangler's heart
Not nearly so bad, for instance, as poor devil, must listen politely, then when they do come. They're his own
the group which came this morning. use his own keen judgment and what- kind of people. There is nothing
Breakfast party from Camelback Inn, Arizona.
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Starting the day's trek. Flying V ranch, Tucson. Dreesen photo.
haughty or patronizing in their atti- carriers and runningboards, both car There is a long, loosely jointed cow-
tude. and luggage grey with alkali. boy draped over the corral bars now.
They're the secretaries, stenog- Usually they will be middle-aged, I suspect he is meditating on the gen-
raphers, and girls from the five-and- retired farmers or small business eral cussedness of the human race. His
ten, who have postponed not a few people. The woman will be motherly, name is Hugger, but we call him Red
meals to save money for this trip into gracious, with utmost consideration for his sorrel top. It is probably the
the "romantic West." They are regu- for everybody. She will try her best most beautiful head of hair any man
lar, these girls, thrilled to the last fiber not to make extra work for the hired ever had. Perhaps it accounts for the
of their shapely bodies at being at last help. You see, she will have had a otherwise inexplicable contradiction
in the land of which they have lot of hard work herself. She and the in his character.
dreamed. They're not here in the man with her have had a fair share
desert because it's the smart place to of life's ups-and-downs. They will Red likes to do a little bunk-house
be in season. They are here trying to have managed mighty well to make reminiscing about his conquests—not
make a girlhood dream of romance this belated honeymoon possible, and that any of us believe a word he says.
come true. they get the most from it. Around men, he is all man, and a
darned good one, too. But if there is
Used to meeting the public, they They show an almost scientific a woman within fifty yards, his tongue
are good mixers and are always ready interest in anything and everything. ties itself into knots and great waves
for anything that will add to the pleas- The man will want the why and where- of color surge over his face.
ure of their visit. Eager, vivid, loving fore of all he sees, especially if he is
life, they know little about the desert, of the soil. Surprising how much this A few days ago we had a "gusher."
but they are not ashamed to admit couple will teach the wrangler about She was a radio singer, somewhat on
their ignorance, and they do it in a his own desert country merely through the stout side, and she gushed so much
rueful sort of way that tugs at your racking his brains for answers to we hid in the barn every time we saw
heart. Above all, they never try to their questions. her coming. Until big Jim Barnes got
impress false knowledge upon you. We'll miss them when they go— an idea. Jim is always getting ideas.
The wranglers see to it that these and when they do leave, you can bet Once in a great while one of them will
girls take away with them everything your new saddle their parting injunc- be good, so the rest of us listened.
their particular strip of desert has to tion will be: "Now don't forget! Red was scheduled to guide a party
offer. You're to come see us if you're ever of five women and the gusher was one
There is another type I especially in our part of the country." The fine of them. Before they started out, Jim
like to see. This type usually comes thing about their invitation is that they got her to one side and very confi-
in pairs, driving a moderately priced really mean it. dentially told her that Red was some-
automobile, their luggage strapped to Fun? Sure we have fun! thing of a singer himself. Said he was
JANUARY, 1949
the unseen voice behind many of the
better known singers on the screen, This is Desert Magazine's school of
out for a vacation and incognito to
keep people from pestering him to
death.
DESERT QUIZ the desert—a monthly test prepared
by the staff to enable our readers to
expand their knowledge of the desert country. The questions cover many
Needless to say, every wrangler on subjects—history, geography, mineralogy, botany, literature, Indians, and
the place, as well as the boss and the general lore of the arid country. Readers will find their scores improv-
several guests, were on hand when Red ing as they read and travel. From 10 to 12 is a fair score, 13 to 15 is good,
returned with his party. You've prob- 16 to 18 excellent. A score over 18 is exceptional. Answers are on
ably heard of looks that could slay. page 15.
Well, that's the kind Red gave us grin-
ning wranglers leaning against the cor- 1—In case of a rattlesnake bite the proper thing to do first is—Run for
ral fence. He tried to push by, headed a doctor Kill the snake Apply a tourniquet
straight for the bunkhouse, but the Bandage the wound
lady singer was too quick for him. 2—Leader of the first Mormon trek to the valley of the Salt Lake was—
She headed him off.
Brigham Young Joseph Smith Bishop Hunter
"Oh, Mr. Hugger," she cooed. "That Jedediah Smith
was such a lovely ride. But, please,
won't you sing for me—just once? 3—The blossom of Encelia jarinosa, commonly known as incense or
I'd so love to hear you." brittle bush is—White Pink Yellow Purple
Red's face looked like an over-ripe 4—The Epitaph is the name of a famous frontier newspaper published
tomato as he shifted uncomfortably at—Yuma Death Valley Tombstone Doug-
from one foot to the other. His hands las
twisted his big hat 'round and 'round, 5—The squash-blossom hair dress is worn by Hopi girls to—Announce
and he made four or five ineffectual their engagements Eligibility for marriage Pay hom-
attempts to speak. Finally, he blurted: age to their gods Mourn the loss of relatives
"Madam, you're welcome to the 6—Going through Daylight pass the traveler enters Death Valley from
ride. But for the last time, I can't sing." the—East South North West
Then with complete disgust. "Hell! I
have an awful time even tryin' to 7—The Enchanted Mesa is located near the tribal pueblos of the—Hopi
whistle." Indians Acoma Zuni Jemez
And that, friends, is going to put a 8—The famous Lost Dutchman mine is believed to have been located
crimp into Red's romancing for the in the—Wasatch mountains Funeral range Supersti-
next few days. This will probably be tion mountains Harqua Hala range
his last season wrangling dudes, any- 9—Chief Palma, friend of the white men in the days when the padres
way. I'm sure he feels much more at blazed the first trails across the Southwest desert, was a—Yuma
home with the long-horned dogies. Indian Apache Mojave Pima
Me? I'll be right here when the sta-
tion wagon unloads you, stranger. I 10—The Museum of Northern Arizona is located at—Prescott
wouldn't trade my job for any other Flagstaff Grand Canyon Kayenta
in the world. 11—"Five-spot" is the common name of a desert — Lizard
Bird Flower Gem rock
12—Author of The Land of Poco Tiempo was—Austin James
BRING THOSE BLANKETS Bandelier Lummis
TO THE PEGLEG TREK
13—A metate was used by the Indians for—Killing game Grind-
Letters arriving at Desert Magazine ing meal Storing food Ceremonial purposes
indicate that Pegleg Lost Mine Hunt- 14—Albuquerque, New Mexico, is on the banks of—Pecos river
ers—amateur and professional—from
all over the desert country plan to Canadian river Rio Grande Rio Puerco
sashay to the foot of Coyote mountain 15—Butch Cassidy is' recorded in history as—Indian scout Stage
in Borrego valley, toss their 10 rocks driver Outlaw Fur trapper
on Pegleg's monument, and take part 16—Nevada's famous Helldorado celebration is held annually at—
in the second annual trek for the lost Reno Carson City Elko Las Vegas
mine, January 1, 1949. And lots of
them, being experts in that line, will 17—One of the following desert trees does not have thorns on its limbs—
arrive in time for the New Year's Eve Smoke tree Mesquite Ironwood Catclaw
campfire Liar's contest at the same 18—The great White Throne is in—White Sands national monument in
spot. New Mexico Chiricahua national monument in Arizona
Prospective treasure seekers should Montezuma Castle national monument in Arizona Zion
remember that desert winter nights can national park in Utah
be nippy, and plenty of blankets or 19—Ruth, Nevada, is famous for its—Rich gold mines Subter-
warm sleeping bags are in order. And ranean caverns Open pit copper mine Volcanic
those attending should bring their own crater
firewood, water and grub.
Committee in charge of the contest 20—It is legal to kill buffalo within certain limitations one day of the year
and trek is composed of Ray Hether- at—Uintah reservation in Utah House Rock valley in Ari-
ington, Harry Oliver, John Hilton, zona Monument valley in Utah White Mountain
A. A. (Doc) Beatty and Randall Apache Indian reservation in Arizona
Henderson.
10 THE DESERT MAGAZINE
Veterans of World War II, these Jemez boys are at the This Jemez woman is winnowing grain—as it has been
Indian School at Santa Fe learning silver handicraft. done by her ancestors for many generations. The wind
U. S. Indian Service photo. blows the chaf away as the wheat is poured.
Since Coronado's countrymen
laid waste their original village
They Follow Ancient and killed two-thirds of the in-
habitants, following the Pueblo
revolt of 1680, the Jemez Indians
have been wary of outsiders and
outside innovations. Visitors are
Waysat Old J e m e z welcomed at some of the dances.
But if they become inquisitive
they are told: "We do not tell
those things to white people."
By DAMA LANGLEY Here is the story of a week which
Dama Langley spent at Jemez
pueblo as the guest of her In-
Ym family
er
belongs to the Sum- right to use water from the creek. He dian friend, Marie Aleta.
Squash People, and they appealed to congress but nothing hap-
would like to use the things pened. So he moved over to Zuni.
white people have taught us are good," They are modern there." in reprisal Coronado's countrymen laid
Marie Aleta told, me as we drove from their eight original villages in ruins and
The red-brown pueblo of Jemez, 25 killed two-thirds of the tribesmen. The
Albuquerque to spend a week with her miles north of historic Bernalillo, does
mother at Jemez pueblo during the present town among the fertile fields
cling to old customs and ancient cere- on Jemez creek was started in 1700
thanksgiving dances. "My father and monies. The Indians, aloof and un-
brothers wish they could use a tractor when the scattered survivors came out
communicative, remember how their of hiding in the Navajo country. There
in their fields so they wouldn't have ancestors' hospitality was repaid by
to work so hard and could make more are about 800 living in Jemez now and
the Spaniards in the sixteenth century. two-thirds of them have Navajo blood.
money. But the Winter Turquoise On open dance days white visitors are
People say we must live as we did be- That accounts for their tallness and
welcome so long as they do not intrude for the lack of smiling gentleness found
fore Coronado's soldiers came to our or ask too many questions. But a
country 400 years ago. in other Rio Grande pueblos.
stock answer to those considered im- Marie Aleta has had personal ex-
"Why, one man had a reaper and pertinent is: "We do not tell those perience with Jemez conservatism. She
thresher come into his wheat field," things to white people." is a nurse and she planned to return
she went on, "and the governor took The Jemez Indians took a leading to the pueblo when her training was
his fields from him and stopped his part in the 1680 Pueblo Rebellion and completed, to help her people. But the
JANUARY, 1949 11
Winter Turquoise People told her ing ceremonial loaves of bread, but was about a foot high except for the
mother and father to keep her away. Mother Aleta had torn hers apart. I twenty inch space to be used as a door.
The medicine men could do the heal- sat on the doorstep and watched her The wall was chinked with her pre-
ing, they said. reassemble it. pared mortar and she took a little
trowel and plastered the inside with
Mother Aleta's house was one of the "My mother built this oven many, a thick lining.
older two-story buildings forming a many years ago," she explained.
wall around the central plaza where "There have been so many fires in it "We will get the sprouted wheat and
the dances are held. The walls of the that the lining is burned through and grind it for pudding while this dries,"
house were thick and inside the newly all the heat escapes through the cracks. she said.
whitewashed living room it was cool I have mended it all my life. Now I From the warming oven of the blue
and dim. On the floor, polished with will make a new one out of the old and white range in her immense kitchen
ox-blood, Navajo rugs made a bright rocks." she took a cotton sack of wheat which
splash. The rugs were fine old bor- had been sprouted and then dried. This
derless weaves which Mother Aleta "Wouldn't it be easier to get new kitchen was the most modern room in
said had belonged to her grandmother. rocks?" I asked. her house, and I suspect that Marie
Wood in the corner fireplace stood "Yes, but these rocks are tempered Aleta had made the improvements. The
with ends pointing up the chimney so so they collect heat and hold it. An walls were covered with blue and white
smoke would not come out into the oven of green rocks has to be used for oilcloth instead of paper, and the floor
room. Embroidered cushions were on roasting corn and meat and chili pep- was covered with blue linoleum. A
the ledge which extended around two pers two or three moons before bread blue and white cabinet held the dishes
sides of the room, and the handcarved can be cooked in it. The moisture and packages of food. I looked at the
table and chairs were made by the keeps the bread from coming up nice ceiling beams and there Mother Aleta's
Aleta boys at Fort Wingate. and light and the loaves won't brown household prayer feathers were fast-
in an oven of untempered rocks. ened.
My room on the second story was
reached by outside stone steps. It had The storage and grinding room
a chair and small table and a wooden opened out from the kitchen. Three
bedstead laced with rawhide instead metates were slanted in the floor at
of springs. The mattress was a white one end of the room and sacks of
tick filled with fragrant wheat straw. ; wheat shut that portion of the room
On a long smooth pole hanging from 1 away from the rest. While she pul-
the ceiling by two thin ropes, white verized the dried sprouted wheat I
sheets and quilts were folded, and a walked around and looked at the hun-
very old soft Navajo rug was on the dreds of jars of canned fruits and veg-
floor. etables on shelves, and at the baskets
of dried peaches and dried grapes. The
I was flattered to find that the fam- Spanish priests brought grapevines with
ily "Medicine Bundle" was on one them and planted vineyards which are
of the walls. Each Pueblo house has the Jemez pride.
a magic collection which wards off
witchcraft, sickness, unfaithfulness and' There were long strings of dried
general misfortune. This one was built chili peppers and bunches of herbs
around an ear of red corn, dark and strange to me. Coils of dried squash
flinty from years of usage. From the and bunches of dried svreet corn, boiled
corn two cotton strings hung down on the cob and hung in the sun, draped
and these were tipped with eagle the walls. Outside on skeleton trees
plumes. Three red hawk feathers and brought from the forest and stuck in
a sprig of cedar and a buckskin bag Some of the Indians still use this the ground, whole peeled muskmelons
were tied together with a leather string pit or underground type of oven. were being cured in the sun. Marie
looped through two big chunks of tur- Aleta told me these dried melons were
quoise. The tail of a desert fox com- soaked and simmered until tender, and
pleted the bundle. then spice and dried grapes and sugar
"These are not really Indian ovens," added to make a delicious winter sweet.
During the day the men were busy Mother Aleta explained. "When the
in the fields harvesting the late corn Spanish invaders came the soldiers did When the afternoon sun reached a
and alfalfa. Many of the women were not like to cook over an open firepit certain mark on the time-stone against
down by the creek washing their or make their bread on piki stones. the house wall, Mother Aleta resumed
wheat by pouring it in the big baskets So they built ovens here like they had oven construction. At the two foot
and carefully sinking it into the water. left in Spain, and they made loaves of height she began to draw the oven
The heavy golden grains would not wheat which they brought from Spain. into a rounded top by extending each
float away, but the chaff and other The ovens just suited us, so we have new layer of rocks inside the structure
debris rose to the top. This washing taken them to keep." about an inch. At the top of the door-
is necessary because much of the She carefully cleaned off the plat- way a straightened wagon tire sup-
threshing is done as it was in ancient form and floor of the old oven and ported the rocks about the opening.
times. The grain is brought from the mixed clean sand, coarse salt and "What did your mother use in the
field and piled on the hardpacked cor- ashes and clay together with water and old oven?"
ral floor. A herd of goats is driven leveled the floor with the new mortar "She sent my father to the mountain
over it time and again until their small to a depth of about two inches. Then for a strong young oak and it was fire
shining hooves have beaten the kernels she laid the larger rocks in an open seasoned and coated time and again
from the stalks. circle seven or eight feet across. She with mortar before it was worked in
Other women were getting their pressed them down in the wet floor among the rocks. That was the first
ovens in readiness for the task of bak- and added tiers of rocks until the wall thing to give way in her oven and we
mended it years ago by putting in one
of these wagon irons."
As she neared the top of the oven
she made her clay mortar stiffer and
put more of it on to hold the strain of
the drawn-in rocks. The last few rows
and the top she left until morning.
"Now we will start a fire in the
cooking pit so it will be good and hot
for the baking tomorrow," she said,
and lifted a rock from the top of a
slight mound a few feet from where she
had been working on the hive shaped
oven. I saw a hole two feet deep and
a foot across lined with fire blackened
clay so hard it might have been con-
crete. A smaller opening in the mound
ran at an angle through the ground
and joined the bigger hole near the
bottom. Here fresh coals were added
to the fuel under a pottery vessel if
the cooking took more than a day.
Mother Aleta went across the yard
where her sister was removing the coals
from her oven to place some squash
in to bake. She gathered the live coals
in an old pot and brought them back
and dumped them into the cooking
pit. Then she filled the hole with chips
to the top and covered both outlets
with rocks, beginning a prolonged
heating up process for baking the spe-
cial pudding.
After supper Marie Aleta and I
wandered down to a trading post own-
ed and managed by a Jemez man. It
stands by the side of the road where
anyone visiting the pueblo must see it,
and where travelers on their way to
Jemez Hot Springs can't miss it. From
the well stocked shelves the trader
pays for pottery from Santa Clara and
poverty stricken Zia a few miles away.
Although four centuries have passed
since the Zia men led the Spanish army
of vengeance against their Jemez broth-
ers, the act has never been fully for-
given, and there is not much friendli-
ness between the two villages.
Marie Aleta and I sat on the bal-
cony to watch the last evening chores
of the pueblo. Women were chopping
wood and stacking it close to their Felipe Leyve, former chief of Jemez Pueblo, says "We must give thanks
ovens for tomorrow's baking of for the good things our gods provide."
Rooster bread, a knobby loaf prepared
for feasts following ceremonies. This women turned to cooking the evening treatment. But when I was ready to
yeast bread is patted into a thin cake meal. Men drove their tired horses in come I found that the Winter Tur-
and slashed a dozen times along the from the fields and turned them into quoise People didn't want me.
edges with a sharp knife. Then it is the corrals. "Every man, woman and child in
put into the hot oven and the cuts "I think of my home always as it Jemez belongs to one of the Moieties.
widen and puff up into grotesque looks in the evening time. Have you The Winter People refuse to have any-
shapes which brown a deeper color ever seen mountains more beautiful?" thing modern brought in. Since they
than the rest of the loaf. It is never Marie Aleta pointed toward the dim rule everything six months out of the
cut but passed from feaster to feaster, blue range in the north. "All the time year, the Summer People can do very
each one breaking off one of the brown I was in school and taking training I little permanent improvement. The
knobs. thought I'd come back here and work. Summer People are in charge now, but
Small children with brush brooms I remembered little children dying be- each year a change is made." Later
were engaged in sweeping the earth cause their mothers didn't know how I did a little research on the Moiety
clean under the cottonwood trees and to take care of them, and of older peo- subject and found that the word is
where the dance would take place. The ple suffering needlessly for want of French. It means "half". The Jemez
JANUARY, 1949 13
people are born into one or the other
Moiety and they take their descent
through the father, which is rare in
the Southwest.
Marie Aleta continued, "Why, out
here a man selects his son's wife for
him. He just looks around until he
finds a family with something he thinks
extra good and if there is a girl in
that family he goes when they are all
at home and says he would like to
have his son marry her. Lots of times
she has never seen the boy but if her
family agrees there is nothing she can
do. The boy just moves in and they
are considered married. Since the mis-
sion was built ten years ago the priests
make them come in for a church serv-
ice. Before this happens the boy's
family must provide the bride with a
handwoven Pueblo dress and a red
woven belt. The son gives her three big
silk squares to be used as shawls and
makes moccasins and wrapped leg-
gings for her. She must have Navajo
jewelry and a turkish towel to throw
over her head when she goes out in
the sunshine. And that's what marriage
means in Jemez!"
I was still sleeping soundly the next
morning when Marie Aleta came into
my room before dawn.
"Don't you hear the church bell?
Hurry or we'll be late for the candle
lighting!"
I shivered myself into some clothes
and went out into the keen cold of the
6,000-foot elevation. Soft voices
were all around us as we stumbled
through the darkness to the church.
Warm candlelight and pungent incense
met us at the door and two priests
in vestments were before the altar.
After the regular mass they stepped
aside and an Indian spoke to the
people.
"Ten of our boys came home safely
from the wars across the waters. We
will give thanks to our spirits that shel-
tered them. And the fields are bur-
dened with grain and food this year;
the vines hang heavy with grapes and
trees are bending with fruit. For this,
too, we give thanks. Today and to-
morrow we will dance and feast, and
there must be food in every house for
the strangers who come in. Our gods
must know we are thankful for all good
things!"
At sunrise Mother Aleta was work-
ing on the oven and the last rock was
soon in place. She crept inside and
finished plastering, then applied a
Indian women of the Pueblos

have been baking bread in these
outdoor ovens, built by themselves,
for countless generations.
covering of mortar all over the outside. startling tongue, and the beast had a With sunset the feasting began. Out
The smooth flagstone used for the old black cambric hide. from the fire pit came the steaming,
oven door would continue to serve. A luscious sprouted wheat pudding and
very small fire was built inside to help A horde of painted warriors boiled I have never eaten a better dessert. I
dry the plaster, and we turned our at- out of the kiva and with many clumsy agreed with Marie Aleta when the
tention to pudding construction. falls and lots of yelling came to the table was loaded with food for Navajo
Mother Aleta mixed 10 cups of girl's rescue. They were painted all and other visitors dropping in to feast:
sprouted wheat flour with five of whole sorts of colors and combinations and "Give them anything we have except
wheat flour and stirred it into a kettle armed with three pronged spears. It the pudding!" she told her mother.
of boiling water. She covered this to ended by the bull being killed before
let it steep for half an hour and joined the saint's bower and his body given to
Marie Aleta and me in our task of the old people in the crowd. Just how ANSWERS TO QUIZ
shelling parched sunflower seeds and bull meat could turn into crisp brown
cracking apricot pits to get the almond loaves of bread and baskets of grapes Questions Are on Page 10
flavored center. When we had a small and sacks of wheat was another of the 1—Apply a tourniquet.
bowlful she crushed the meats and day's miracles! This scene was re- 2—Brigham Young.
added them together with a cupful of peated half a dozen times during the 3—Yellow.
melon seed oil to her hot mush mix- day, with a different girl taking part 4—Tombstone.
each time. They were sisters of the 5—Eligibility for marriage.
ture. 6—East.
returned soldiers, and the men who 7—Acoma.
"Don't you put any sugar or salt in killed the bull were the soldiers them- g—Superstition mountains.
the pudding?" I asked. selves. One of them told me he kept 9—Yuma Indian.
"No. This is a ceremonial pudding himself from dying in a Jap prison by 10—Flagstaff.
and salt must be left out. And the 11—Flower.
remembering what fun he had dancing 12—Lummis.
sprouted wheat manufactures its own in Jemez. "I just made up my mind to 13—Grinding meal.
sugar. You wait and see!" live and dance there again," he said. 14—Rio Grande.
She poured her pudding into a 15—Outlaw.
greased pottery jar and we scraped the This is the only Indian dance known 16—Las Vegas.
17—Smoke tree.
live coals out of the very hot pit and to be given without drum and rattle 18—Zion national park.
settled the jar inside. Over its cover accompaniment, and it is strange that 19—Open pit copper mine.
more live coals were placed. The big Spanish-hating Jemez should frolic to 20—House Rock valley.
opening and the fuel tube were covered the tune of La Vesiouvana!
with rocks and sealed shut with clay
mortar. "Now we'll forget the pudding
until tomorrow," she said.
The two kivas in Jemez are rec-
tangular rock buildings entirely above
ground. They have no windows or
doors and are entered by means of lad-
CASH FOR CAMERA FANS
Winter is desert-time, and photographers are scattered through
ders. From our balcony we could hear canyons and over far mesas. Desert Magazine wants the best pictures
unearthly squeaks and shrill squeals these desert camera fans bring back from their explorations. Any
not at all like the dignified hum of my picture, essentially of the desert, is eligible and judges choose the
Hopi friends when they practice for a winners on the basis of originality, technical quality, subject interest
dance. All of this was explained when and suitability for magazine reproduction. Send yours in!
we watched four young men come from
the kiva carrying violins instead of Entries for this month's contest must be in the Desert Magazine
drums and rattles. This dance was office. Palm Desert, California, by January 20, and winning prints
going to be the rarely given Los Mata- will appear in the March issue. Pictures which arrive too late for one
chines! month's contest are entered in the next. First prize is $10.00; second
prize, $5.00. For non-winning pictures accepted for publication, $3.00
The men were bare except for bright each will be paid.
hawk feathers in their hair, brief G-
strings and moccasins rimmed with HERE ARE THE RULES
skunk fur intended to keep evil spirits 1—Prints for monthly contests must be black and •white. 5x7 or larger,
away from the wearers. Their bodies printed on glossy paper.
were painted blue and their faces white 2—Each photograph submitted should be fully labeled as to subject, time
and black and blue. Each one sawed and place. Also technical data: camera, shutter speed, hour of day, ec.
manfully on the tortured fiddle he 3—FRINTS WILL BE RETURNED ONLY WHEN RETURN POSTAGE IS
ENCLOSED.
carried. 4—All entries must be in the Desert Magazine office by the 20th of the
They grouped themselves at one end contest month.
of the plaza and watched a small girl 5—Contests are open to both amateur and professional photographers.
dressed as for First Communion come Desert Magazine requires first publication rights only of prize winning pictures.
slowly up the square. From a space 6—Time and place of photograph are immaterial, except that it must be
between two houses a remarkable look- from the desert Southwest.
ing bull dashed out and with deep bel- 7—Judges will be selected from Desert's editorial staff, and awards will be
made Immediately after the close of the contest each month.
lows and much dust tossing loped in
her direction. The front end of the ADDRESS ALL ENTRIES TO PHOTO EDITOR
creature was out of focus with the rear
elevation. One end looked strangely THE mflGRZIHE
like a buffalo head I'd seen in an
Indian home there, and the tail might
have belonged to a circus lion. A red PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA
stocking stuffed with cotton was the
JANUARY, 1949 15
An old Mexican sheepherder came upon a lone pros-
pector who was taking rich ore out of a nearby ledge.
16
THE DESERT MAGAZINE
From two different sources comes the story that Years later, an old Mexican sheepherder, driving his
somewhere in the vicinity of Squaw Hollow, per- flocks down from the hills into Salt River valley camped
haps concealed beneath dense thickets of man- one night in Squaw Hollow with a man who had built a
zanita, is a quartz ledge bearing fabulous values cabin and was working a rich gold mine in the vicinity.
in gold. John Mitchell, the writer, regards this as The prospector was bringing his ore out on burros, grind-
one of the most authentic of the many lost treasure ing it in a large iron mortar and washing it in the creek.
tales in the Southwest. Reporting the incident later, the sheepherder said the
man told him he was sending the gold east to put his
son through college.
The sheepherder did not learn the name of the pros-
pector and when he returned to Squaw Hollow in later
years he did not find him there, nor did he see any mine
workings in the vicinity. A small pile of tailings near the
ruins of the cabin was all that remained. He did not
search for the ledge, but remembered the rich ore he had
seen at the cabin, and told the story to a friend who was
The lost interested in mining.
The whole country in the vicinity of Camp creek and
Squaw Hollow is thickly overgrown with manzanita brush
and unless an outcropping of quartz is large enough to
stand out above the brush it would be very difficult to
locate. Whether the ledge discovered by the Indian fight-
ers and the one later worked by the lone prospector are
the same would be hard to say.
Squaw Hollow Squaw Hollow is located in a highly mineralized country
and is a good place to camp. Because of the character of
the country, it is easily possible that the original gold strike
has escaped the notice of passing prospectors through the
intervening years, and remains hidden somewhere in
the brush.
gold ledge By JOHN D. MITCHELL THE D6S6RT

LOST Squaw hollow gold ledge is not just one
of those lost mine and buried treasure tales of the
great Southwest. The story is well authenticated and Through the cooperation of Southwestern artists the Desert
the ledge was discovered by a number of pioneer Arizona Magazine is now exhibiting in the spacious foyer of its new
Indian fighters who broke ore from the rich ledge and publishing home at Palm Desert, California, what is prob-
carried it to their camp which was located in Squaw Hol- ably the finest exhibit of art work to be seen anywhere in the
low about 40 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona, in the West.
Camp creek country and about 10 miles south of Bronco
canyon. Well known names among the 46 artists whose canvases are
In 1864 Judge J. T. Alsap, in company with a small exhibited in the Palm Desert Art Gallery include:
number of pioneers under the command of Colonel Wool-
sey, whose Indian fighting proclivities are well known to Gray Bartlett Louis Krupp
Worden Bethel Paul Lauritz
all old-timers in Arizona, pitched their camp in Squaw Fred Chisnall Kathryn Leighton
Hollow after an engagement with a small band of Apache loane Cromwell Axel Linus
warriors. Following the fight, some of the men prospected Leland S. Curtis H. Ralph Love
for gold in the nearby hills. Their efforts were highly suc- William Darling Lon Megargee
Toe De Yong Evelyna Nunn Miller
cessful according to the story, and a few hours later the Clyde Forsythe Agnes Pelton
prospectors returned to camp with a hat full of the richest Paul Grimm Burt Procter
gold ore the judge had ever seen. John Halstead Carl Schmidt
John Hilton Tames Swinnerton
But Apache warriors returned with reinforcements and Carl Hoerman Sylvia Winslow
Woolsey and his little band of fighters were so outnum- William P. Krehm
bered they retreated without having left any markers as a
guide to the gold discovery. Later those who knew about
the gold strike became separated, and it was many years
before the Apaches were completely subdued and the way to all Desert Magazine readers and their friends—to all who
opened for mining operations. The location of the gold had are interested in the world of art—to visit the new gallery,
remained a secret because all of them had expected to and the Desert book shop adjoining, and enjoy the desert as
return at a later date to make legal claim to gold ledge. presented by these master craftsmen.
Not having been with the prospectors, the judge did
not know the exact location of the gold. But after the This is a sales gallery where selections may be made from the
Apache warfare was ended he returned to the region to work of your favorite artist—for these pictures were painted
search for it. He made his headquarters at Camp creek ior your enjoyment.
and spent many days prospecting the area. He was sure
none of his companions had returned to re-locate the rich
quartz ledge, for he found no mines or prospect holes DESERT MAGAZINE . . . Palm Desert, California
in the area.
JANUARY, 1949 17
Pictures of
the Month
Sand Dunes and

Drift Fence. . . .
Fred H. Ragsdale of Los An-
geles took first place in Desert
Magazine's November photo
contest with this picture of a
Coachella Valley, California,
drift fence, designed to break
up the drifting action of the
desert sand (left).
Desert
Coquette . . .
Second place in the Novem-
ber contest was won by Ellis
M. Finkle, also of Los Angeles,
for the portrait (right), of a burro
in Joshua Tree national monu-
ment. The picture was taken
with a Kodak Reflex, 1/100 sec.
at f.8, Plus-X film.
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When the Apaches became too warlike, Uncle
Sam established a fort at a waterhole known as
Cooke's spring along the Butterfield stage route in
Southwestern New Mexico. It was named Fort
Cummings. Later when railroads replaced the
stage lines the fort was abandoned. Today the site
is marked only by the ruins of the former barracks
and a lone cotton wood tree—but Cooke's spring is
still rich in history.
(toce a m^jw outpost en
the Bnticpfidd Thai—Esta-
Wtishtti InlfiMi to protect
wa«p(i tanas and
Waterhole at &
tern the Apaches
Fined abandonment
(My
the Crossroads
By THERON MARCOS TRUMBO
This marker erected by the Stale of New Mexico
at Florida is six miles from the fort site.
PLACES could experience of us were the ruined adobe walls of the existing walls. Bon and I labored
human emotions, this would be Fort Cummings. over our map for some time before we
the loneliest place in the desert," I turned the switch in the car, and decided that it was a plat of the fort
the silence swept in like a cloud from the way it was originally planned.
1 remarked to Bon Burt. the surrounding craggy hills. Probably many of the buildings had
We were standing before the "Yes," Bon replied to my first never been constructed, or existing
crumbling adobe walls of old Fort observation, "Not many people come conditions demanded a change of site.
Cummings, which nestles at the foot back here. Maybe that's why Fort While we menfolk occupied our
of Cooke's mountains. Beyond those Cummings hasn't suffered so much time with the map, my wife, Louise,
sun-splashed walls, one blot of green from vandals and from souvenir and Margie were snooping around the
indicated the single surviving cotton- seekers . . . " ruined rooms, picking up little me-
wood tree beside Cooke's spring. From We found some parts of Fort Cum- mentos that bring back the days gone
prehistoric times until about 50 years mings fairly well preserved. One room by. In this respect Fort Cummings is
ago, this area had been the crossroads still has its adobe roof with the sup- more fortunate than other historic
of the Southwest. Now it lay before porting timbers under it. The newer spots, which have been gleaned bare
us, desolate and almost forgotten, far officers' quarters have door and win- of such items. The girls found a verdi-
from modern routes of travel. dow frames still intact. But many of gris green button from an army uni-
Ever since that first visit, we have the walls that once comprised the cor- form, a bit of scroll from a picture
been fascinated with this historic spot. rals are nothing more than mounds of frame, horseshoes, old fashioned hand-
No doubt a part of our fascination is adobe. I had brought along a map of made nails. Scattered over the whole
due to the friends who took us there. the fort that I had found in a gov- area are cartridges, relics of such dates
Bon and Margerie Burt are both native ernment report of 1870, but it was as 1878, 1881, 1882. Fort Cummings
New Mexicans, raised in the desert, almost impossible to reconcile it with seems unique, too, in the variety of
and possessing an enviable knowledge desert-glass to be found . . . ranging
of interesting out-of-the-way places. from the usual violet through rose-pink
Bon is a tall lean westerner, calm like LOGS to vivid pale green. To many readers
the land of his birth. He is especially From Las Cruces this mention of desert-glass may not
familiar with the r e g i o n around hit a responsive chord. Here is a
Cooke's spring and Fort Cummings, 0.0 Las Cruces simple if not quite scientific explana-
because they are on the L. H. Hyatt's 35.0 Hatch tion of the term. The ultra-violet rays
Flying U Ranch, where he once rode 67.0 Florida, Turn North of the desert sun, being unobstructed
as a cowhand. 72.0 Turn Left by mist or vapor, reach the earth with
73.1 Flying U Ranch, Inquire full strength. Over a period of years
On this particular trip we had directions. these rays will turn bits of cheap clear
started from Las Cruces early on a 74.1 Fort Cummings glass into a variety of unbelievably
Sunday morning, to give us plenty of 74.5 Cooke's Spring beautiful colors.
time to explore. After a brief visit From Deming
with Mrs. Hyatt at the Flying U Ranch 0.0 Deming While Bon and I explored one sec-
house, we had skirted the barn cor- tion of the fort, the women wandered
rals, and drove gingerly through the 14.0 Florida, Turn North off to another portion. Presently we
rocky pasture. At the back of the pas- 19.0 Turn Left heard a combined chattering from be-
ture, we dipped down through a deep 20.1 Flying U Ranch, Inquire
hind the room with the roof, and
gully that must be treacherous in directions. Louise called out,
rainy weather, and found ourselves on 21.1 Fort Cummings "Hey, Butch, what in the world is
a greasewood-covered mesa. Ahead 21.5 Cooke's Spring this thing?"
JANUARY, 1949 19
boil in the kettle, the coffee tossed in,
and the whole boiled until it is almost
strong enough to jump out. After it
is removed from the fire, a dash of
cold water will settle the grounds. The
»T>» result is a drink for the desert gods.
While we lunched Bon and I com-
bined our knowledge to build up a
historical background for the fort and
the spring.
The first white men to camp beside
» ^ : . . . - . • - -
Cooke's spring was Phillip St. George

Cooke and his Mormon battalion
when they blazed the trail to the Pa-
cific coast in 1846. In his records,
D06IE JONES' \\
he describes it as, "a small swampy
s_..:e HOUSE hole of water, apparently insufficient,
with plenty of black mud close to the
surface." It may have seemed inade-
quate, but it was water in a waterless
land. Evidently the spot had been well
known among the Indians from pre-
historic times. Cooke's men discovered
many old trails converging at the
spring. On a hilltop nearby they
found an irregular enclosure of rocks
which they surmised to be a defense
work of some kind. Cooke also re-
corded the discovery of Indian houses,
with mortar stones intact, not too far
from the spring.
No trace of these things can be
found today, but Bon pointed out a
spot on the edge of the arroyo where
an Indian burial ground had been ex-
cavated in recent years. Many valu-
able artifacts of the Mimbres Indians
were recovered here.
Three years after the Mormon bat-
talion broke the trail, the exciting news
of the California gold discovery made
Cooke's spring the campground of a
motley crew of adventurers. Still
later when the fabulous Butterfield
FT; FitLMORE.e:.i'.-.: r
stage was established, the spring be-
-EfiS???*:. :.:***!* :•'••'.
came a watering station on its cross-
country route.
_ .**-•..
F O R T S IN I 8 7 4
Occupied Posts
Discontinued Posts
o
a
Unscrupulous dealings with the
Roods—
Butterfield Trail
--.—
- ••••
Apaches soon precipitate^ the follow-
ing years of warfare. The spring with
its ancient trails became the logical
place for the Indians to waylay the
The "thing" as she termed it, was food, we picked our way down through westbound wagons. The single-file
the gaunt, grey skeleton of a loom. the mesquites to the spring. trail through Frying Pan canyon, west
"Whatever would soldiers want with We spread our lunch under the of the spring, was a tortuous route. It
a loom?" Margerie queried. grateful shadow of the cottonwood, gave the Apaches an excellent oppor-
"Maybe some officer's wife brought while a mountain mockingbird split tunity to swoop down off the hills,
the silence with his trilling. Some- wipe out caravans in a few minutes
it with her . . . " I suggested. and escape to the safety of nearby
"It probably was mighty lonely where in the mesquites blocking the Cooke's mountains.
around here when the soldiers were entrance to Frying Pan canyon, an owl
out on an Indian campaign," Bon vol- kept up a steady tu-woo, and soon A fort became a necessity if the
unteered. "It probably kept her mind another bird joined in with an odd overland stages' trail were to continue.
occupied . . . " meow-like call, which Margerie said In 1863, Fort Cummings was estab-
lished by the spring, providing accom-
"Especially if she didn't know reminded her of a lonesome tomcat! modations for about 150 soldiers.
whether he'd come back alive or not!" There was plenty of dead wood After that the Apaches confined their
We poked into every corner of the about for our fire, and soon the water maraudings to the open country be-
old buildings, from the stone walls of for our coffee was boiling in the old yond Cooke's mountains. Soldier es-
the sally-port to the officer's quarters, smoked kettle we had brought along. corts accompanied the caravans
until the high sun indicated it was "Cowboy coffee" is a must on every through Frying Pan canyon and out
lunch time. Carrying our baskets of desert picnic. Water is brought to a into the open country where they at

o/ oW Fort Cummings. Author's wife in the photograph.
least had a fighting chance. A prom- Thoughtfully, Bon and I retraced couple of buildings at the north end of
inent peak today bears the name the worn trail to the cottonwood tree. the Fort and began a career of cattle
Soldier's Farewell peak, because here Evening was drawing close. We raising. He acquired a few head, to
the armed guard left the wagon-trains gathered our belongings together and which he added from time to time until
and returned to Fort Cummings. returned to the car which we had left he had built up a good-sized herd. The
In the mouth of Frying Pan canyon at the fort. We hated to leave the secret of his success was in finding
we found a stone-walled corral, where place, and invented excuses to loiter mavericks or unbranded calves among
the extra coachhorses probably were among the mellow, golden walls. I his neighbors' herds. On these he ap-
kept. Across the sandy stretch of the noticed several things 1 had overlooked plied his own brand. It was some time
arroyo, a dim old trail led up a distant before. One of the buildings at the before the ranchers became aware of
hill and eventually out across the north end of the fort seemed a little what was happening. When they did,
desert. There seemed to be more stone different from the rest. Dogie Jones left the country with
walls atop this hill, so we followed the prudent and undignified haste.
"Why do you suppose this one
worn trail up the slope. The tumbled house was built with a peaked roof?" As we drove away, I again felt that
walls surrounded what proved to be I remarked to Bon, "It also has its wave of utter loneliness sweep over
the fort cemetery. Nothing now re- fireplace in the middle of the wall, me. Today, the menacing Apaches
mains but a series of hollows from while the other rooms all have corner are gone, scattered to the peaceful con-
which the bodies were removed to a fireplaces . . . " fines of their reservations. The But-
national cemetery. Nothing . . . ex- terfield trail is no more. Its route is
cept one stone marker on which ap- "Oh, that . . . " Bon said, "That's almost forgotten in the blowing desert
pears the following legend: the house of Dogie Jones!" sands. Fort Cummings is a dead,
"And who was Dogie Jones?" I whispering ruin. Only Cooke's peak
SACRED TO THE MEMORY asked. Bon being an obliging person,
of is the same, towering benignly over the
told us the story of the last human oc- country. The spring is much the same,
Tho's. Ronan R. S. Hunter cupant of Fort Cummings.
Aged 49 Aged 33 a gasoline engine pumping its never-
Chas. Devin Thos. Daly About 1891 the post at Fort Cum- failing water to supply the Santa Fe
Aged 28 Aged 26 mings was abandoned. Railroads had railroad which passes through the
Late Privates begun to penetrate the fastnesses of the place called Florida. They were both
West. No longer was the stage route here before the white men . . . before
Co. G 1st Veteran Infantry Cal. Vols. necessary. the Indians. Perhaps tomorrow they
Killed will still be here to give hope and life
By Apaches at Oak Grove, N. M. Sometime later Dogie Jones ap-
peared at the fort ruins. He built a to a new race of weary travelers.
Jany. 17,1866
JANUARY, 1949 21
longing to live in the Southwest." creasing interest. The story of Donald
Trumbo has had a number of historical Van Camp, a successful designer of
DESERT and travel articles in New Mexico desert homes, by J. F. Davies, will be
CLOSE-UPS Magazine and other publications. He
is an "amateur artist" with oils his
published soon in Desert.
favorite medium and has a canvas hung

Theron Marcos Trumbo, who re-
joins the ranks of Desert writers with
"Waterhole at the Crossroads," the
in the Fiesta exhibition at the state art
gallery, Santa Fe. The forts which once Hard Rock Shorty
protected the Southwest country from
story of old Fort Cummings, came to the Apaches are one of his special in- of
the desert "partly because of my health terests. Trumbo and his wife, Louise,
and partly because I've always had a now live in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Death
His ambition: "To so develop my
AMERICA'S painting, photography and writing that Valley
MOST UNUSUAL some day soon I may retire from of-
EVENT! fice work and make my living doing
these things I love." His last feature
"Visitors comin'," remarked
for Desert was "Go . . . Where the
Riverside Gold Lies Buried," March, 1944.
Hard Rock Shorty as a cloud of
dust rolled across the floor of
County Fair • • • Death Valley in the trail of a big
automobile.
Don Ingalls presents his second
and rockhound field trip to Desert readers The car came to a stop in
in "Green Rock in the Last Chance front of Inferno store and the
driver climbed out and sauntered
National Range." Ingalls is with the public re-
across to the porch in front of
lations department of the Los Angeles the store.
DATE Police department. His job, he says,
is that of "working" editor of the Los "Think it'll rain?" he asked,
as he glanced alorig the row of
FESTIVAL Angeles Police magazine, The Beat.
Desert-roving and rockhounding are
old-timers seated on the wooden
bench.
At Indio. California sidelines, and the variscite discovery Shorty squinted up at the
February 18-22 inc. detailed in his current article came dark patch of clouds overhead.
while he and his companions were "Probably will," he remarked,
BLUE RIBBON HORSE SHOW ' searching for a lost turquoise vein. "but I cain't tell yu where.
CAMEL RACES • • • These desert storms comes in
SLAVE MARKET
spots and has clean edges. They
When Henry J. Kaiser completed do funny things sometimes.
STREET PARADE his "Flying Eagle" railroad up Salt "I'll tell yu what I mean,
BAGDAD BAZAAR Creek wash and opened mining opera- stranger," he added. "One sum-
tions on the huge iron ore deposit in mer back in the 'twenties Ol'
CIRCUS ACTS
the Eagle mountains, John W. Hilton Pisgah Bill decided to raise a few
went around to see what Kaiser had hawgs. That was the year the
FREE DAZZLING done to one of his old desert stamping surveyin' crew had a big camp
grounds. The story of the Kaiser oper- down the valley and Bill hated
ARABIAN NIGHTS PAGEANT to see all the garbage go to
PRESENTED NIGHTLY ations—Hilton's first feature for Desert waste.
in more than a year—will appear soon.
• • • "So he had a coupla shoats
shipped out to Barstow, and the
Since the days of the earliest day they was to arrive he drove
Gorgeous Exhibits of American Dates,
Citrus and Other Agricultural Products,
pioneers, men have disappeared with- down in his jalopy to pick 'em
Educational Exhibits, Industrial Ex-
out a trace into the towering sand up. He had 'em in a crate in the
hibits, Desert Oddities, Art Exhibit,
mountains which lie along the south- back end of the ol' car.
Outstanding Livestock Show. eastern rim of California's Imperial "Looked pretty dark down
Valley. The evidence of unknown or south, and Bill figured the rain
forgotten tragedies has been smothered 'd catch up with him if he didn't
FIVE EXCITING DAYS by drifting sand. But what the wind hurry. His old wheezer'd only
covers it may uncover, and recently- go 27 miles an hour, but he
AND NIGHTS visitors to the hills caught a glimpse stepped on the throttle and kept
FULL OF of a desperate battle of the past. Orion jest ahead o' that storm all the
ROMANCE, MYSTERY AND M. Zink will tell the story of "Mystery way in.
of the Sandhills" in a winter number "He rolled in under that shed
DESERT ENCHANTMENT of Desert. over there with the rain poundin'
• • • close behind him. Didn't get a
Exhibitors: For your free copy of new
1949 Premium List booklet write to: With more and more Americans drop on hisself—but when he
Bob Fulienwider, secretary-manager, moving to the desert areas to build went around to unload the hawgs
Riverside County Fair and National Date
Festival, Court House, Riverside, Calif. their homes, the problem of proper they wuz both drowned."
architecture for desert living is of in-
There's Another Kind o' Treasure
By JOHN L. BLACKFORD
Photographs by the Author
In the desert some fellers look for treas-
ure only in the ground. If treasure's some-
thing that makes you richer, then they's a-
plenty who prospects there that needs never
search so long. Maybe if we'd look right
up thar in the sky, in the purple-grey dis-
tances of the hills, in the pink flower-cup of
a cactus, or in the face of a friend we'd
come away far richer'n we ever hoped t' be.
Sentinel Saguaro. Seems uz how a feller kind of needs somebody t' keep company with when
Tanque Verde Mountains, he's out ridin' the lone trail. That's how come me and oP Don Saguaro knows
Arizona each other s' well. Ain't nobody like him f take the squint outen yore eye, an'
wake you up to the rarin' glory o' the mornin'.
JANUARY, 19 49 23
Dawn from Rock Door Mesa, Below—Castles, Bryce Canyon, Utah . . .
Monument Valley, Arizona . . . Ever wonder where your air castles all went to? Them
It takes a lot of sky to cover Arizona. An' you're you built when you was plannin' on growing up? Them
never more sartin of it than when traveling Navajoland. dreamy things you started when you met her? An' them
Monument Valley, yuh know, is way off yonder in Nava- rosy ones that somehow you knew you'd never finish,
joland, where it slips over into Utah State. Bet you cain't 'cause maybe they was just too beautiful? Wall, pardner,
see a dawn break in the Valley and not be a wealthy they're all done and a-waiting for you! Jes pull up strong
hombre ever afterward. Friskier too, fer trailin' up early on the off rein where it says "To Bryce Canyon." They're
t' Rock Door Mesa and seein' it from the Door. there!
Shadows, Grand Canyon, Arizona . . .
Guess nobody ever took pictures an' didn't wish sometime he could of painted
'em instead with a brush. When them black pools of shader lap up t' the brim
of Grand Canyon, seems like yuh pretty near cain't resist thet feeling yorself. Only
when yuh look cross there ag'in, yuh know it'd be no use tryin'. Nobody but
Him ever did paint it really, now did they?
JANUARY, 1949
25
Death Valley from the Golden Badlands . . . Below—Be-ta-ta-kin Ruins, Navajo
Stranger, I've been dry afore, but reckon I've uncorked National Monument, Arizona . . .
more spiritual uplift since comin' outer Death Valley than Kin yuh picture a cave high as half a mountain, and
I ever done in any four seasons since woolies come t' the the other half of the mountain hangin' over it, and then a
range. Dunno but what I'll be goin' back though. They Indian city, all of it, inside? Don't pay t' try, 'cause you
say the Devil's got his golf course all laid out down there. never could fix it up s' breath-catchin' as them cliff
Th' first time yu see it, Death Valley's the mos' dreary dwellers done in Be-ta-ta-kin canyon up Navajo Monu-
place yu c'n imagine—but after yu bin there a few times ment way. Bet John Wetherill were well nigh petrified
the colorin' in them hills sorta makes yu want t' stay there. when his cayuse come to that there spot.
Totem Pole, Monument Valley . . .
Yep, I'm back in Monument Val-
ley; back and maybe not leavin'
ag'in. 'Pears like I belong here,
along with them Injun gods and
them writin's on the rocks. Yo're
askin' "How come thet Totem
Pole's standin' up thar, cracked and
all like hit be?" Wall, pard, Harry
Goulding says: "It's 'cause the Old
Man wants it there." Thet's shore
reason enough fer me.
Aravaipa Creek, Arizona . . .

City folks be some s'prised at
places you kin find water in the
desert. This here place now you
don't need to look fer it even.
There's plenty more'n a pailful—hit
fills up a hull crick, bank t' bank,
and comes ripplin' down Aravaipa
canyon s' crystal clear an' cold
yuh'd swear it's flowin' from Para-
dise. With shiny leaves a-rustlin'
and birds in forty colors singin' fit
t' bust, yuh'd bet it does. Some
things I'd never trust even my bun-
kie t' do fer me. One of 'em is
seein' Aravaipa canyon.
JANUARY, 1949
TO BISHOP
^ ?ZURICH Big Pine-Deep Spr Road,

Approx id Miles
PINE pin* _ =
TO INDEPENDENCE
Don Ingalls and his compan-

Green Rock In the ions failed to locate the lost tur-
quoise deposit which they are
seeking—but the trail eventually
led them to the chance discovery
of a vein of variscite which was
Last Chance Range ample reward for their efforts.
They staked a claim on the de-
posit so all rockhounds may
By DON INGALLS share in the discovery.
SI RESTLESS wind sent a shower led us gently downward through the cold wind was blowing, but there was
^ ^ f of sparks cascading into the picturesque wildness of Payson canyon. ample firewood and we sat close to
"See that patch of green, ahead the blaze for awhile and then crawled
black sky. The three of us hud- into our sleeping bags, planning to
dled closer to the flickering fire. Late there?" Pistol queried. "Well those
are the trees that mark Deep Spring continue our quest for the turquoise
October brings bitter winds and occa- ranch. The trail we're looking for cuts deposit early the following morning.
sional snow flurries to parts of the off to the right about three miles this Two days of careful search fol-
desert country. side of the spring. Better keep a sharp lowed. The three of us worked our
Early that morning I had joined Bill lookout for it." way methodically south and east over
Lewis and an old prospector known Pistol's prediction was accurate and the sprawling hills north of Eureka
only as "Pistol" and the jaunt into the the dirt trail was located without valley. Countless ridges and draws
rugged wastelands north of Death Val- trouble. The Desertmaster nosed off were combed for evidence of the
ley had begun. We started from Bill's the main highway and we bounced our phantom turquoise, but if Pistol's lost
Wagon Wheel mine, located 18 miles way south and east. ledge is in that area, it is well hidden.
north of Red mountain on the Trona The afternoon of the third day
highway. After we had gone several miles,
the Buick was parked and we used the found us with little to reward our ef-
Our equipment packed aboard, we remaining daylight hours prospecting forts, so we decided to abandon the
clambered into Bill's 1930 Buick the adjoining slopes. search in this spot.
"Desertmaster." This mutant of the "I might be wrong," Pistol admitted.
automotive race, has been designed by We were searching for a deposit of
Bill for the rough travel of the desert turquoise Pistol claimed to have dis- "Maybe it was just over those hills up
country but I am convinced that only covered many years before, but had ahead."
the energetic efforts of the desert gods never worked. He showed us several That evening we loaded the car and
keep the contraption together. striking samples, rich blue streaked continued along the trail around the
Just north of Big Pine we turned with mottled brown, but his memory edge of the rolling hills. At a point
east and chugged past Zurich and over of the location was vague, except that approximately 18 miles from where we
Westgaard pass on the old Midland it was "somewhere in this area." had turned off the highway, we came
trail. Beyond the pass the road took We camped that night in the partial to a fork in the road.
an abrupt twist to the east and shelter of a great heap of boulders. A Pointing to the mountains south of
28 THE D E S E R T MAGAZINE
Bill Lewis explains to the author how variscite is formed.
us, Pistol directed our attention to a an old rusted gravel screen. Stepping attempted to protect our interests and
talc deposit splashed across the brown around it I pecked experimentally at those of every rockhound who will
rock. the grey schist protruding from the want to share in our discovery.
"I remember that talc well enough. ground. A few blows revealed a two- • • •
We take the left fork up into the hills inch strip of bright green stone, well PARKS AND MONUMENTS SHOW
here. There used to be an old sulphur marked with black. My excited shout INCREASED TOURIST TRAVEL
mine up ahead. It will make a good brought the others on the run. Lake Mead recreational area above
camping place for tonight." It wasn't turquoise, but it was a Hoover dam in Nevada and Arizona
The road was rough and our pro- find anyway. Bill and Pistol both drew the second largest number of visi-
gress slow but eventually we reached identified the stone as high grade vari- tors among the nation's public parks
the abandoned mining camp. The mine scite. I am sure any gem cutter or and recreation areas during the travel
was active as late as 1942 and most polisher who seeks it out, will agree year ended September 30, with 1,607,-
of the buildings are still in good repair. as to its fine quality. 422 tourists checked at the area. First
We camped in the lee of an old mess The deposit is located about 150 for the nation was man-made Lake
hall and if any ghosts were abroad yards off the road. We left the gravel Texoma whose 500 miles of shoreline,
after darkness, they didn't disturb our screen lying beside it to serve as a divided between Texas and Oklahoma,
slumber. marker to other rockhounds who might were visited by 2,397,508 persons.
want samples for their collection. Other figures released included:
The fourth day dawned grey and Grand Canyon national park, 618,210.
shivering. After exploring the camp The vein itself appears in a dirty National monuments: Canyon de
and mine, it was decided to work the grey schist and runs from northeast to Chelly, 2239; Casa Grande, 35,959;
slopes below the mine for cutting and southwest, its width varying from one Chiricahua, 14,133; Montezuma Castle,
polishing specimens. to three inches. 26,171; Navajo, 505; Organ Pipe
Bill followed a trail on past the Working the rest of the day, we Cactus, 102,742; Petrified Forest,
camp, Pistol decided on the slopes di- opened the deposit for about 50 feet 341,074; Saguaro, 20,146; Sunset
rectly below the dump, and I chose the and took many beautiful samples away Crater, 25,088; Tonto, 16,266; Tu-
rolling mounds-near the road we had in our sample bags. macacori, 26,766; Tuzigoot, 17,514;
followed. Finally we erected markers and Walnut Canyon, 22,693; Wupatki,
At the foot of a ledge, I came upon staked out the claim. By this act we 5453.
JANUARY, 1949 29
Dazzling Tulips of
the Desert Ranqes
By MARY BEAL
of the loveliest flowers that brings enchantment to
the desert late in spring is the Mariposa lily. It be-
longs to the tulip branch of the Lily family, which has
produced the famous tulips of Holland. There are many
species of this beautiful western genus, and some of the
most exquisite are native to foothill and mountain areas
of the desert, where they usually are blooming in May,
June and July. The common name Mariposa, meaning
Butterfly, was bestowed by the early Spanish-Californians
and well suits the splotched, spotted and penciled corollas,
each species with its own richly-colored markings, mostly
with a delightful resemblance to butterflies.
They not only add unusual grace and beauty to their
environment but have a record of.utility beyond most
native plants. In early days, in areas where Mariposas
abound, the Indians supplemented their larders with the
bulbs of Mariposas, welcoming them as one of the choicest
delicacies, either eaten raw or cooked by roasting in hot
ashes, or in pits. They passed on their food lore to the
often-hungry white pioneers who found these "Indian
Potatoes" or "Noonas," as the Utes called them, a valu-
able tasty addition to their meager provisions. The Dig-
ger Indians of California were so named when the first
settlers saw them digging around for lily bulbs and tubers.
Mariposa Tulips commonly are known only as a
garden favorite. Early collectors introduced them into
botanical gardens both in Europe and the United States
and then into home gardens. For many years most horti-
culturists have raised their own stock of bulbs for the Calochortus nuttallii
market, as the hired Indian bulb-hunters bungled the job. Best known as Sego lily, this wide-spread species is the
Unable to resist the lure of this gastronomic treat, they state flower of Utah, where its abundance made its bulbs
popped most of the bulbs into their mouths as fast as largess from heaven to aborigines and pioneers. The Mor-
they unearthed them. mon immigrants to Salt Lake valley in 1847 were in-
The scientific name, Calochortus, means "beautiful debted to the lavish profusion of. the plants for relieving
grass," referring to the beautiful blossoms and the grass- an ominous scarcity of food. Today few think of the
like leaves. The predominant strictly-desert species is the Sego lily as food, its ornamental aspect being of para-
brilliant vermilion Kennedy's Mariposa, commonly called mount interest.
Desert Mariposa. It grows on arid mountain slopes and valleys, 4000 to
8000 feet, from Utah through Nevada to the higher Death
Calochortus kennedyi Valley mountains, Owens Valley borders, the mountains
verging upon the Mojave desert, northern Arizona and
These flame-red charmers are rather choice as to loca- New Mexico, blooming from May to July.
tion but on those high mesas and mountainsides where
they are sovereign they present a gorgeous spectacle in Much like the Sego lily, with whitish to deep lavender-
late spring. In the open the stem usually is short and stout, purple petals, is Calochortus ambiguus, the gland nearly
only a few inches high, but produces several showy blos- oval, the hairs branched and thickened at apex. Very
soms 2 inches or more across, disposed in open clusters common in Arizona and New Mexico on dry slopes and
on pedicels of varied lengths. In the shelter of low bushes up to 8000 feet in open forests, from April to late summer.
the stems lengthen and twist up through the branches a Calochortus flexuosus
foot or more, even to 18 inches, to display their radiance Easily recognized by its tendency to straggle over the
in the open sunshine atop the shrub. The long narrow ground, the slender curving, twisting stems seldom erect,
leaves seldom are much in evidence, especially the basal unless supported by bushes. The greenish or lavender
ones, for they wither early and may dry up by the time sepals are edged with white and have a deep purple spot
the flower opens. inside near the base. The petals vary from deep purple
You'll find them thus glorifying many foothills and to nearly white, oftenest lilac, with yellowish bases and
mountain slopes in Arizona and in widely-scattered loca- purple spots and bands in variable designs, the oval gland
tions in the Mojave desert. A stretch of rolling hills in densely tufted with orange or brownish-orange hairs.
the Avawatz mountains south of Cave springs equals the Found on open ground and dry slopes 1800 to 7000
Arizona displays. Less spectacular are the southeast feet, from April to June, from the Chuckwalla mountains
borders of Antelope valley, the Joshua forest about Hes- in the Colorado desert through the eastern Mojave desert
peria, Ord Mountain and the Providence and New York and the Death Valley region to southern Nevada, Utah
mountains. Also found in southern Nevada. and Arizona.

setting up regulations when present trading
licenses expire in December, 1949. Al Lee,
president of the United Indian Traders, and
HERE AND THERE Zhealy Tso, vice-chairman of the Navajo

tribal council, are serving as consultants in
the survey. Last March the tribal council
approved a resolution setting up new regu-
lations for trading. The resolution was
ARIZONA Basic Navajo Problems Unsolved . . . vetoed by the Indian commissioner on the
PHOENIX—William Zimmerman, acting grounds that changes could not be made
Air Research for Desert . . . commissioner of Indian affairs, after com- until present licenses expire, and that there
PHOENIX—Possibility that the U. S. air pleting an inspection of the Navajo reserva- was no factual background material on
force would establish a giant research and tion, declared that solution of the basic which to base changes—Gallup Independent.
experimental center "somewhere along the Navajo Indian problems—health and edu-
Colorado river" was seen in a recent meet- cation—is no nearer than it was a year ago.
ing of Governor Dan E. Garvey with high- "You can't get doctors on the reservation
ranking air force officers, members of the for $4000 a year and you can't get nurses YOU WILL BE PLEASED
Arizona power authority, the interstate and schoolteachers for from $400 to $500 With the service and quality of goods
stream commission, the bureau of reclama- less per year than the state is paying," he you will receive by ordering from the
tion and the Arizona Project association. said. Zimmerman asserted the reservation Heart of the Navajo Country.
Garvey reportedly declared those at the was well-staffed 20 years ago, but that em-
meeting had been pledged to absolute sec- ployes have left one by one to take better Navajo Rugs and Saddle Blankets
recy, but it was said that the project would jobs elsewhere, while the Indian population Genuine Handmade Silver Jewelry
mean creation of a permanent town of and its economic problems have increased. Set With Turquoise
from 15,00 to 40,000 and would be center —Tucson Citizen. Petrified Wood and Agate Settings—
for development and testing of all types o£ Made by Indians
• • •
aviation equipment. The meeting, re- Write Me for Prices and Descriptions
portedly, was to find whether Arizona Study Reservation Trading . . .
would be willing to give up electrical energy WINDOW ROCK—A field survey of E. P. WOODS
and possibly some of its share of Colorado trading conditions on the Navajo reserva- Navajo Blankets - Indian Handicraft
river water.—Tucson Citizen. tion has been undertaken by Morris Burge, Wholesale Distributor
field representative of the Indian commis-
sioner. Results will be used as a basis for. FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO
Gringo Means Greek? . . .
AJO—The story that gringo as a syno- • • • ' ' - 1
nym for "American" sprang from hearing

American soldiers in the Mexican war sing- HEALTHFUL, QUIET
ing "Green Grow the Rushes, O" is ques- N
tioned by Editor L. T. Beggs of the Ajo
Copper News. Beggs reports finding this
definition in the Dictionary of American
History: "Gringo, a nickname, perverted
DESERT LIFE
from Griego (Greek) applied in several
Spanish-American countries to foreigners
who 'talk Greek,' or unintelligibly." It re-
portedly was defined in a dictionary pub-
lished in Madrid in 1787, so could not have
originated during the Mexican war.—Ajo NEAR PALM SPRINGS, CALIF.
Copper News.
• • •
Gelvin New Superintendent . . .
PARKER—Appointment of Ralph M.
Gelvin as superintendent of the Colorado A LIFE OF CONSTANT ENJOYMENT AT
River reservation in Arizona has been an- PALM VILLAGE IN THE SUN DRENCHED.
nounced by Assistant Secretary of the In- UNSPOILED DESERT.
terior W. E. Warne. "At the Colorado
river reservation, the federal government,
with the approval of Congress, is undertak- SWIM in a glamorous pool.
ing the difficult but highly promising pro- PLAY tennis, badminton, golf.
gram of colonizing impoverished Navajo
and Hopi Indians on approximately 100,000 HORSEBACK rides up the trails of the palm
acres of irrigable land," Warne declared. studded canyons.
Headgate rock diversion dam has been built
to take water out of the Colorado river, and HIKES to the Cathedral-like date gardens.
the main canal and many of the laterals
have been constructed. It is hoped that TRIPS to the snow capped mountains in 30
10.000 Indians may be resettled on the new minutes.
land. Gelvin was stationed at Parker dur-
ing the war as associate director of the PICNIC on the shores of the Salton Sea 40
Japanese war relocation project.—Gallup miles away.
Independent.
• • • ENJOY night club life at Palm Springs.
Pioneer Arizona Archeologists . . . SHOP at Palm Village shops.
TUCSON—Story of the Hemenway ar-
cheological expedition to Arizona in 1887 BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AWAIT YOU HEBE
was detailed at the state museum recently
by Capt. Edward Page Gaston, one of the WRITE for descriptive circular picturing
original members of the party. Frank Cush-
ing headed the expedition, which made a $1,000,000 improvements.
slow journey across the country in covered LOTS START AT $795.
wagons and camped near Tempe. The party,
numbering 100, worked in the Phoenix area
for 45 months and collected 5000 speci-
mens. Los Muertos, seven miles south of
Tempe, was the largest aboriginal city in
the Southwest, according to Capt. Gaston,
but today it is completely covered over by
evidences of advancing civilization.—Tucson
PALM P. O. BOX DD, PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA
Citizen.
JANUARY, 1949 31
New Dam for the Gila . . .
THE DESERT TRADING POST

Classified advertising in this section costs 7 cants a word, SI.00 minimum par issue
GILA BEND—Plans for construction of
a $25,800,000 flood control dam on the
Gila river, at Painted Rock about 20 miles
below Gila Bend, have been approved by
the U. S. army corps of engineers. A sur-
vey of the feasibility of the project was
MISCELLANEOUS authorized by Congress in 1938. Recom-
INDIAN GOODS mended plan of improvement calls for an
WHOLESALE LOTS, Cactus, Resurrection earth-fill dam 174 feet high above stream-
ALWAYS THE BEST in Indian things. Old and Plants, Boxed Cactus. Aztec Cactus Co., P. O. bed, with a crest length of 4710 feet, t o
new Navajo rugs a specialty. Fine jewelry and Box 833, Presidio, Texas.
baskets. Our thirty tons of rocks and minerals create a flood control basin with capacity
include many hard to get items. Always wel- GEOLOGIC & SCENIC color slides for Educa- of 2,480,000 acre-feet.—Yuma Sun.
come. Daniels Indian Trading Post, 401 W. tional Entertainment. Catalog Free. Heald-
Foothill Blvd., Fontana, California. Robinson, Dapt 2, 112 E. Lemon Are., Mon-
rovia. Calif.
FOUR VERY FINE ancient Indian Arrowheads, Want More Saguaros . . .
$1.00; 4 tiny perfect bird arrowheads, $1.00;
1 ancient stone tomahawk, $1.00; 2 flint skin- DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT—in celor
ning knives, $1.00; 1 large flint hoe, $1.00; 2 slides. Sea Pat's Hole, Lodore Canyon, etc. TUCSON—John M. Davis, Santa Fe,
spearheads, $1.00; 10 arrowheads from 10 We hare a stock of excellent 2"x2" slide New Mexico, regional director of the for-
states, $1.00; 20 damaged arrowheads, $1.00; duplicates of the remote back-country of this est service, declared in a letter read at a
10 fish sealers, $1.00; 10 hide scrapers, $1.00; area available for mall sales this winter. meeting of the Tucson chamber of com-
4 perfect saw edged arrowheads, $1.00. The Sand 40 cents stamps or coin for sample and
above 11 offers $10, postpaid. List free. descriptive Hit. ROCKY MOUNTAIN NA- merce, that unless the national park serv-
Lear's, Klrby, Arkansas. TURE ASSOCIATION, Estes Park, Colorado. ice can gain control of 10,000 acres owned
ANTIQUE GUNS, swords, daggers, bolos, Indian by state and private individuals within Sa-
relics, antique!. List 10c. P. L. Summers, PANNING GOLD — Another hobby for Rock- guaro national monument, it may be neces-
Stamford, Texas. hounds and Desert Roamers. Know how to sary to abandon the monument. Davis said
pan gold, where to look for it and be able to
recognize valuable quartz ledges. The places the section in question grows the finest stand
BOOKS—MAGAZINES you go are where rich virgin ground is found. of saguaro cactus in the country, but natural
OUTDOOR RAMBLER—You'll enjoy every issue Two instruction booklets 25c or send your reproduction has been hindered by over-
of this outdoor publication. 60c year, 10c name for free literature and catalogue of
copy. Outdoor Rambler, Box 884, lone, Calif. mining books and supplies for beginners. grazing.—Tucson Citizen.
Old Prospector, Box 21-B211, Dutch Flat, Calif.
BOOKFINDERS—Scarce, out of print, unusual
books quickly supplied. Send wants. Clifton, SIXTY PERCENT INTEREST IN LOST MINE The Red Man's Burden . . .
Box 1377d, Beverly Hills, California. open. You find it—we retain 40%. Located
100 miles from Los Angeles. No cash Involved.
BOOKS—MAGAZINES—BOOKS for Everyone: Search narrowed to area of V4 mile radius. PHOENIX—An opinion on whether Ari-
Unusual, distinctive books not easily obtain- Burrell C. Dawson, 5745Vi Fair Avenue, North zona reservation Indians were subject to
able elsewhere, money-saving values. Rare, Hollywood, California. state sales and luxury taxes will be withheld
out of print, current. Catalogue 10c. BACK-
YARD Money-making, $1. "Learn to Dance
and Call Square Dances," $1. America's SLEEPING BAGS—New double, two in one. pending outcome of a federal court suit in
40% down, 80% feathers. Good for below Washington, according to Arizona state at-
Stamps, $3.SO. Nelson, Joshua Tree, Calif. zero. $35, including sheet liner and water torney-general's office. The suit, filed by
repellant poplin cover. Perfect Christmas eight Arizona and New Mexico Indians seeks
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES gift. G. Hovious, 4068 Lime St., Riverside,
California. to halt "discrimination" in granting social
FOR SALE—Opal mining claim. New discovery, security aid to the aged, the blind, and de-
precious opals, nodule type, red and green WANT OCOTILLO PLANTS — truckload lots. pendent children on reservations in the two
fire. Gem Shop, established business, good Write P. O. Box 9, Palm Desert, California.
clean stock, reasonably priced. Gold placer states. The state tax commission has asked
and quarts claims, good surface showings, LATE FISHER Super De Luxe M-Scope Mineral for a ruling on the tax question since the
lease and option basis. John Glass, Box 25S, Detector. Excellent condition. $145. Bert
Weiser, Idaho. state supreme court ruled that reservation
Wilcox, 407 South Bonnie Brae, Los Angeles
5, California. Phone FAirfax 2090. Indians were eligible to vote*—Yuma Sun.
PHOTOGRAPHS WANTED VRECO 12-IN. SLABBING SAW with blade, An estimated 20,000 persons witnessed
PHOTOGRAPHS WANTED, of the Cahuilla used couple hours. $49. Never used 6-in. the 1948 Helldorado days held at Tomb-
Indian Fire-Eating priests, or of the Fire- trim saw, less blade, $19. Both for $65. 11645 stone in October.
Eating Ceremonial. Tell us what you have Margate St., North Hollywood, California.
before sending them in. Desert Magazine • • •
Editorial Office, Palm Desert, California.
GOLD! YOU CAN PAN GOLD — It's easy! CALIFORNIA
REAL ESTATE Healthy, profitable occupation or hobby. Send
for big, illustrated book, "Gold Panning for
PALM SPRINGS SPECIALS!—LOTS, for homes,
close in, $1450. HOME, living room, dinette,
Profit"—$1.00. Want some of my genuine
California gold? One beautiful nugget, $1.00.
Johnny Mills Dies . . .
3 bedrooms, large kitchen and nook, flagstone Four nuggets, $2.00. Other wonderful speci- DEATH VALLEY —Johnny Mills, 83,
patio, fenced, garage. NEWLY FURNISHED, men gold nuggets, $5 and $10 each. Desert
only $23,S00. Many choice income properties. Jim, 627 Lillian, Stockton, California. Death Valley old-timer, died in the Los
PALM SPRINGS REALTY CO., 260 N. Palm Angeles general hospital, November 5.
Canyon Drive. Phone 2832. CACTI AND SUCCULENTS—From the deserts Johnny, who has been guide and teller of
FOR SALE—Residence Lot 50x100, utilities in, of the world. Don-Rita brand. By appoint- desert yarns at Furnace Creek Inn since the
membership in club, La Junta, California. ment only. Write us your needs and we will early '30s, came to the valley in 1894. He
Price $900. Maud C. Joss, 736 S. Madison try to help you. Michael Donnelly Cacti
Avenue, Pasadena 5, California. Gardens, 334 Lowell St., Daly City, California. was said to have been a mule-skinner from
FOR SALE—Five acres, near fastest growing borax-wagon days, and a prospector who
community. $1000. Also five acres with hot LEARN the profitable jewelry and goldsmithing followed all the early rushes. Johnny was
mineral water. Well temperature 125 de- trade at home. Simplified course teaches a friend of Shorty Harris and Death Valley
grees. Price $8500. R. H. McDonald, Box 21, jewelry designing, manufacture and repairing;
corner of Dillon Road and Palm Drive, Desert gemsetting, etc. Gemcrafters, Dept. F-, Kali- Scotty, and his adventures were dramatized
Hot Springs, California. spell, Montana. from time to time on "Death Valley Days"
DESERT LAND BARGAINS—1. Section level program. Death came as the result of a
land joining Palm Springs, $50 per acre—
entire plot $25,000. 2. Eighty acres and 160 FRED AND JESSIE PORTER welcome you to broken leg, October 1, which was followed
acres good level land with canal water, $67.50 the "Pow-Wow" Trading Post, Yermo, 14 by pneumonia and other complications.
per acre. 3. Salton Sea acreage investment miles east of Barstow, Highway 91. Rocks! —Beatty Bulletin.
opportunities—future winter resort spot of Rocks! Rocks! Rocks in the rough, slabbed,
America. R. A. Ellsworth, P. O. Box 36, preforms and cabochons. Fluorescent and rare
Palm Desert, California. specimens. Caledonite, Linerite, Benitoite,
OCOTILLO DESERT RESORT—Low priced lots Neptunite and many others. See your own Mono Crater Active? . . .
and acreage. Buy in the "Land of the Oco- cut. Gifts and Souvenirs.
tillos" surrounded by virgin desert and moun- MONO LAKE—Possibility that one of
tain area. Twenty-six miles west of El Centro FOR SALE—Karakul wool bed blankets, colors, the Mono craters was "letting off steam"
on Highway 80. Abundance of pure soft blue, green, natural and maroon. Money back was to be investigated by members of the
water and electricity. Investigate now. Send guarantee. Price $17.50. Write Addis Kelley,
for circular. John C. Chalupnik, Ocotillo, via 4637 E. 52nd Place, Maywood, California. U. S. forest service. Friday, October 15,
Plaster City, California. Neal Rahm, supervisor of the Inyo na-
USE THAT MONEY to build now—pay $280 KARAKULS—Producers of Persian Lamb fur tional forest, noticed that steam, smoke and
cash, balance monthly on Ranchito homesltes. are easy to raise, adaptable to any climate what appeared to be ashes were being
No well to drill, no pump, tank or tower. or altitude. For further information write
Elec. and water mains now In—moderate re- Addis Kelley, 4637 E. 52nd Place, Maywood, emitted into the sky from high on the north
strictions. Total prices from $750, Insured California. side of one of the craters near the Benton
title, wide Tiew, near P.O., stores. Write for road. He told his hunting companions, How-
maps of this Ail-Year desert foothill tract.
Clarice Batwlle, Lucerne Valley, Calif. METEORITES WANTED, iron or stone, highest ard Shebley of the Inyo-Mono game warden
prices. Stuart Perry, Adrian, Michigan. patrol and Walter Shannon of the state

fish and game patrol. The three of them Calico National Monument? . . . Rain Hits Date Crop . . .
saw a renewal of activity later in the after-
noon but, since it was the last day of the BARSTOW — Proposal that the Calico INDIO—Coachella valley date growers
deer season, continued hunting and planned mountains be made a national monument had picked nearly 2,000,000 pounds of the
to investigate the crater later. — lnyo has been advanced editorially by Caryl best crop in the 40 years of date culture in
Register. Krouser, publisher of the Barstow Printer- the area when heavy rains fell October 16
Review. In a letter to Congressman Shep- and 17. The covered and ripe fruit showed
pard, Krouser pointed out that the scenery little damage, but unbagged green and ripen-
in the area surpasses that of many national
Centennial Plans Advanced . . . monuments, that it contains Calico ghost
town which once housed thousands of people
RIDGECREST—Plans for participation and was California's greatest silver camp, NEW FOLDER READY
by the desert counties in California's 1949- that there are old borax mines, and thrill- NOW it's LUCERNE VALLEY, high desert
50 centennial celebrations were discussed at ing drives through Odessa and other can- community—center of interesting deposit*, near
a meeting in Ridgecrest November 12, at- yons. It was also suggested that only the mountains, lakes, fishing, winter sports. Her*
are all year homesites, egg ranches, alfalfa
tended by representatives from Kern, San surface rights be taken over so that pos- fields with back drop of majestic peaks. WRITS
Bernardino, lnyo and Los Angeles counties. sible mining operations would not be af- today for new folder with picture-map, frm.
The meeting was sponsored by the Kern fected. Previous attempts have been made ADDRESS Chamber of Commerce
County Centennial committee, headed by to have the Calico area included in the LUCERNE VALLEY, San Bernardino Co., Calif.
Paul Hubbard who cited the importance of state park system.—Barstow Printer-Review.
the M a n l y D e a t h Valley party in the
growth of California. Frank Latta, Kern
County museum director, gave a talk on
the importance of the Joe Walker explora-
tions through Walker pass and along the
Sierras. T. R. Goodwin, superintendent of
Death Valley national monument, declared
the federal government is in accord with
plans to commemorate the Death Valley
party and suggested that the valley be the
f l f i f C L I f f LODGE
AT PALM DESERT
site of the Manly pageant. Hubbard was
named temporary chairman of the Manly
centennial and Dr. P. H. Gaskill of Bishop,
temporary chairman of the Walker centen-
nial.—Randsburg-Ridgecrest Times-Herald. Gateway to the Beautiful Shadow mountain Club
Scotty and His Gold . . .
DEATH VALLEY—Death Valley Scotty Offering the Finest in Desert Atmosphere
says he still has that fortune in gold hidden Accommodations and Cuisine
away somewhere in Grapevine canyon. Distinctive Bungalows - Delightful Dining Room
Scotty declares he let the late Albert M.
Johnson, banker, take credit for supporting With Scenic Outdoor Terrace, Where the Mountains Meet the Desert
him because "I've never been a sucker for
the tax-hogs." But just before Johnson died, Plan Your Winter Vacation in the Sun at This Charming Desert Oasis
according to Scotty, the two of them weighed
up their gold one night, and it came to
14,000 ounces. Then it was divided. "I
know where mine is," Scotty said, "but CHARLES AND GLORIA WYLIE
Johnson put his half away somewhere and P. O. Box No. 4 Telephone INDIO 7-6666
we never did find it."—Los Angeles Times.
PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA
Mojave Old-Timers Meet . . .

DAGGETT—Old-timers of the Mojave
gathered at the Dix Van Dyke ranch at into the heart of
Daggett, October 17, for their annual pic-
nic and reunion. The thinning ranks of
those who saw desert history in the making
harked back to the horse and buggy and
tallow candle era. Some of them recalled
BY BOAT t h e Southwest's
most scenic can-
yon country with
Norman Nevills
the days when Daggett was supply center
for a desert empire, the Calico mountains A limited number of reservations are now being made for the 1949
were yielding their silver and borax, and Nevills expeditions down the San Juan and Colorado rivers—191 miles
Calico itself was a spectacular camp. Be-
sides pioneers of the Barstow area, guests in seven days. Special-built river boats, skilled boatmen, good food
came from Los Angeles, Tehachapi, Sher- and sleeping bags for all passengers.
man Oaks, San Dimas, Pomona and Al-
hambra.—Barstow Printer-Review. Boats start from Mexican Hat, Utah, on the San Juan, and complete the
trip at Lee's Ferry on the Colorado. Arrangements will be made to have
your car driven from Mexican Hat to Lee's Ferry. Sidetrips include:
'EVERYTHING FOR THE HIKER"
Crossing of the Fathers, Music Temple, Mystery, Twilight and Hidden
SLEEPING BAGS Passage Canyons, Outlaw Cave, and the Famous Rainbow Bridge
AIR MATTRESSES
SMALL TENTS For Schedules a n dRates Write to . . .
and many other items N O R M A N NEVILLS BLUFF. U T A H
VAN DEGRIFT'S HIKE HUT ". . . A river trip with Norman Nevills is more than a mere boat ride. It is a flight on
a magic carpet of adventure into a canyon wilderness of indescribable beauty and
717 West 7th Street grandeur."
LOS ANGELES 14. CALIFORNIA —DESERT MAGAZINE
JANUARY, 1949 33
ing dates were expected to be an almost George Pipkin of Wildrose station says dam on November 2. The shock was the
total loss. About 10 per cent of the fruit that recent grading of a detour connecting heaviest in the history of the area, accord-
remaining on the trees was placed in that the completed section of the new Death ing to Frank H. Werner, chief of the Lake
classification. Total crop for the year was Valley highway with the old road permits Mead seismological survey, but no property
estimated at 30,000,000 pounds.—Indio travel to the valley over a smooth high- damage was reported. Rocks littered the
Date Palm. gear route. highway for two or three miles on either
• • • side of the dam, and the tremor caused
Trepte Construction company of San landslides on Fortification mountain in Ari-
Permanent Gold Diego has been awarded the $1,810,665 con- zona, northeast of the dam. Reportedly,
tract for construction at the, Salton Sea the shock was not felt in surrounding areas
embossed binders for Atomic Energy testing grounds. The project
is to be completed in one year. at any distance from Hoover dam.—Tucson
Citizen.
DESERT •
NEVADA
• •
These easy-to-insert binders are Will Set Basic Power Rates . . . Survey Reservoir Sites . . .
made especially for Desert Mag- LAS VEGAS—Late in October, the Ne-
azine readers who want to pre- vada Colorado River commission was CALIENTE—An aerial survey of the
serve the maps and other travel scheduled to set the rates for what was said sites of the proposed Pine and Mathews
to be the largest amount of cheap industrial reservoir sites northeast of Caliente has
information for future use. been made, with U. S. Senator George W.
power available in the United States today— Malone serving as guide. Also included in
They open flat, and each binder 500,000,000 kilowatt hours per year—to be the survey were projects proposed for lower
has space for 12 magazines. used at the Basic Magnesium plant at Hen- Meadow Valley wash area, scene of uncon-
derson, Nevada. Many leading industrial trolled floods the most recent of which, in
Mailed postpaid for organizations, including DuPont, Union October, 1946, cut off Union Pacific rail-
$1.50 Carbide, Houdry Process company and road traffic for days. Test drilling for bed-
Gelatine, Inc., it was said, were seeking to rock at the dam sites was completed Sep-
set up operations at the $140,000,000 Basic tember 1. Unofficial estimates of the cost
THE Magnesium plant.—Los Angeles Times. of the projects were: Pine creek dam, $750,-
• • • 000; Mathews dam, $1,250,000.—Caliente
Palm Desert, Calif. Earthquake Election Day .. . Herald.
BOULDER CITY—A sharp earthquake
interrupted power temporarily at Hoover
T&G Ties Are Popular . . .
SLEEP IN Y O U R CAR HAWTHORNE—Lloyd Mount and Son
CALIFORNIA CAR BEP are still disposing of the 300,000 ties they
Transferable luxurious, air-loam inner- purchased from the Tonopah and Gold-
spring unit converts your car to a field railroad company, and report minor
double bed. difficulties from persons removing the ties
without paying for them. Mount came upon
1-3 hours to install. No Cutting. two old prospectors loading their ram-
Now Available . . . shackle truck with the ties one day and
CUSTOM CRUISING SEAT . . . stopped to chat with them. When they had
Marvelous new dual iront seats con- piled on all the ties the truck could hold,
verting at a fingertouch to single OR and prepared to drive off to their claim in
double bed, reclining chairs, or chaise the hills, Mount told them: "Well boys,
longue. An emergency ambulance, ideal those are my ties, but as you are trying to
for the tourist. Featured in Newsweek. develop a mine and really working, you can
June 21, P. 73. Write for Brochure "F." have them." "But," he cautioned the
CALIFORNIA CAR BED COMPANY startled old-timers, "don't make a practice
2725 W. 54th St.. Los Angeles 43 AXminster 34700 of it."—Tonopah Times-Bonanza.
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RED CINDER the little cones of genuine pinon
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Plant Water Consumption . . .
CARSON CITY—T. W. Robinson of the
U. S. geological survey, addressing the
third annual Nevada water conference, esti-
mated that the annual consumption of water
by native vegetation in the western states made {XOYA the heavt- of- the Vi'snacja
was about 12,000,000 acre-feet. This, he cactus of our South western desect- —
said, was an incomplete figure and over-all gift boxed in quaint -^^^^^^^^______
statistics from all parts of the West would Mexican casseroles
show an annual consumption of 20,000,000
a f $1.95 $2.95 $5.95
acre-feet, or twice the flow of the Colorado
Shipped prepaid.
river. Nearly 100 water experts from Ne-
vada and California attended the confer-
ence.—Salt Lake Tribune.
• • •
Trout for Pyramid Lake . . . 615 B son d i e g o , California
RENO—The state fish and game com-
mission reportedly has reached an agree-
ment with the Pyramid Lake Indian Tribal
council which should lead to the return of
big trout fishing in the lake. The agree-
ment, which was to be signed November 5,
provided that the commission would restock
Pyramid with black-spotted (Cutthroat)
COUNTY MAPS
trout.—Humboldt Star. For Schools, Hunters, Fishermen, Public Offices, and Travelers
• • • CALIF.: with Twnshp., Rng., Sec, Mines, Roads, Trails, Streams, Lakes, R. R., Schools,
Rngr. Sta., Elev., Nat. Forest, Pwr. Lines, Canals, Boundaries, etc.
Bombing Range in Use . . . Sizes: 20x30 to 73x100 Inches
LAS VEGAS —Lt. Col. Theodore C. Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado,
Hoffman, commanding officer of the Las Glenn, Kings, Lake, Marin, Mariposa, Merced, Napa, Nevada, Orange, Sacramento, San
Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz. Sierra, Solano,
Vegas air force base, has issued a warning Sonoma, Stanislaus, Sutter, Ventura, Yolo, Yuba—each $1.
that the area embraced in the vast Tonopah Tuolumne, Santa Barbara, Plumas, Pla- Fresno, Kern, Riverside—$2.50 - $5.
bombing range has been put into active use eer, Modoc, Madera—S1.50. L o s Angeles—$1 and $3.
for bombing purposes. Prospectors, cattle- Tulare, Tehama, Imperial—each $2. „. , . ..„ _, „.
San Diego, Mendocino, Humboldt— Siskiyou—$2 and $4.
men and trespassers in general are warned $2.50. Inyo County, $15; E or WV4 $7.50; San
not to venture within the range boundaries Trinity, Shasta, Mono, San Luis Obispo, Bernardino, 73x110, $15; No. or So. Vx
without obtaining a permit or clearance Monterey, Lassen-^$3. $7.50; NW., SW., NE., or SE!4, $3.75.
from Las Vegas air base authorities. Warn- Also Oregon, Idaho and Washington County Maps
ing signs have been posted around the
area.—Tonopah Times-Bonanza.
• • •
WORLD'S MINERALS 2417 San Pablo Avenue — TEmplebar 2-3870
OAKLAND 12. CALIFORNIA
Norris Dimmitt's "camel-horse" was
drowned when a drain ditch bank near Fal-
lon collapsed. The strange animal, captured
in the wild country of central Nevada, had
been shown publicly for the first time at
the Nevada state fair.
• • •
E. R. Fryer, former Navajo reservation
superintendent and acting director of re-
sources in the bureau of Indian affairs, has
been appointed superintendent of the Carson
Indian agency, in Nevada.
• • •
NEW MEXICO
They Can Join the Pueblo . . .
LOS ALAMOS—San Ildefonso Pueblo
Indians working at the Los Alamos project
think they may be able to solve the prob-
EVERY DAY AT AMERICA'S MOST DISTINGUISHED RE-
lem of the atomic center's citizens whose SORT HOTEL; 3 5 - A C R E GARDEN ESTATE, SWIMMING
votes in a recent primary were disqualified POOL AND A L L SPORTS. BUNGALOWS A N D SUITES.
because they lived on land under complete AMERICAN PLAN.
jurisdiction of the United States. The FORTIETH SEASON UNDER ORIGINAL OWNERSHIP AND MAN-
Indians, who gained the vote under Federal AGEMENT OF NELLIE COFFMAN, EARL COFFMAN AND GEORGE
ROBERSON.
court order a few months ago, suggest that
Los Alamos workers join their pueblo. RESERVATIONS EASIER BEFORE
They would then have the right to vote and CHRISTMAS AND AFTER EASTER
to buy resident hunting and fishing licenses.
The Indians made it plain, however, that
they were not offering pueblo status—just
citizenship rights. In the meantime, Los
Alamos firms are questioning the right of
the state to collect a sales tax from them,
classifying it as "taxation without repre-
sentation."—Gallup Independent.
• • •
N a v a j o C h i l d C a n T a k e It . . .
GRANTS—Alice Bonella, a three-year-
old Navajo girl, apparently is none the
worse for having spent 44 hours wandering
alone in the cold, rugged Zuni mountains
Indians followed her tracks almost 20 miles
from her father's pinyon nut picking camp
and found her safe asleep under a tree. P A L M S P R I N G S , C A L I F O R N I A
—Gallup Independent.
JANUARY, 1949 35
Recall Frontier Fight . . . self shot twice through the lungs, with Inspects Meteor Stations . . .
seven casualties and ammunition exhausted,
ALAMOGORDO—Recent celebration of took the long trail back to the fort. Story LAS CRUCES—Dr. Harlow Shapley, di-
the 100th anniversary of the founding of of the pursuit and battle is told in a series rector of the Harvard observatory, recently
Fort Bliss, Texas, recalled the battle be- of pictures in the museum of White Sands inspected the three meteor observation sites
tween Fort Bliss men and marauding Indians national monument, New Mexico.—Tucum- of Harvard university, located on New
in the Sacramento mountains 10 miles north cari American. Mexico A&M college experimental ranch
of Alamogordo. In February, 1859, Lt. and near Las Cruces. Philip S. Carroll, Jr.,
Henry M. Lazelle and 30 members of and Richard E. McCrosky of Harvard uni-
Company D, U. S. Mounted Riflemen, Never Trust Jeep Tracks . . . versity are in charge of the observation
chased cattle-stealing Indians seven days sites. With specially constructed cameras
before closing with them at Dog canyon. LAS CRUCES—City Commissioner Cand- they are studying the activities of meteors
In a pitched battle, the troops forced the ler told Ted Morse this deer hunting story. from stations at the Jornado experimental
Indians to withdraw. Then Lazelle, him- Somewhere northwest of Hot Springs at ranch and Soledad canyon. A radar instal-
7800-foot elevation with the temperature lation for locating meteors is operating in
seven below zero, the commissioner and two Las Cruces.—Tucumcari American.
companions broke the ice with their jeep • • •
and forded a little stream. A few minutes
THUNDERBIRD later they saw another jeep approaching
with seven alert hunters sitting upright,
rifles over shoulders. This driver spotted
County lor the Navajo? . . .
AZTEC—Since the election and as the
result of the Navajo being given the vote,
RANCH their tracks entering the stream and trust-
ingly drove right in. In a second, jeep and
hunters had disappeared. The hunters
an idea has been advanced for the creation
of a Navajo county to be annexed to New
Mexico and to include that part of the
emerged and made a beeline for shore, Navajo reservation in New Mexico. The
9 Miles East oi Palm Springs leaving the submerged car. The first jeep plan suggested would call for the Navajo
had broken the ice, and the resulting jam, a to have their own county seat operated by
few feet down stream, had formed a beauti- their own elected officers.—Aztec Independ-
ful lake about 10 feet deep.-—Las Cruces ent-Review.
A 663-acre desert ranch with stables, Citizen. • • •
swimming pool, cocktail bar, excellent
Indian Report Planned . . .
cuisine, weekly square dances, breakfast Bumper Pinyon Crop . . . GALLUP—Kimball Sanborn, a member
rides, and every activity available on a of the staff of the senate appropriations
GALLUP — An estimated one million
guest ranch. pounds of pinyon nuts have been marketed committee, has returned to Washington to
this fall by Indians and traders, representing prepare a report to be used by the com-
between $200,000 and $250,000 to those mittee when the next congress convenes. It
gathering the nuts. Traders have been has been customary to wait until receiving
For Information Write Box Y getting about 25 cents a pound from local the interior department budget before the
Palm Springs, California dealers and have been giving 25 cents in committee goes into Indian affairs. But
trade or 20 cents cash to the Indians, it Senator Styles Bridges decided the com-
was said. Most of the nuts are shipped to mittee should make its own investigation
Albuquerque for cleaning, roasting and and Sanborn spent considerable time on
Los Angeles Office c/o Glen Fawcett polishing. There they are bagged in 100- the Navajo reservation in Arizona and New
pound sacks and sold to retailers in the Mexico and also visited reservations and
510 West Sixth Street East, particularly New York City, as "Indian Indian agencies in Oklahoma, Idaho and
Los Angeles, California nuts." Trees in the immediate Gallup area Nevada.—5a// Lake City Tribune.
have been bearing heavily after a lapse of • • •
several years, possibly because of heavy Indian History Clarified . . .
FRANK BOGERT, MANAGING DIRECTOR moisture last fall and winter.—Gallup Inde-
pendent. SANTA FE — A group of Chicago
scientists reportedly "dug up four centuries
of missing Indian history" in New Mexico
the past summer. Dr. Paul S. Martin, cura-
Lovely TWIN PALfllS at Palm Desert tor of anthropology at Chicago natural his-
tory museum, declares that Indian history
between 500 and 900 A.D. has been a blank.
During the summer Martin's expedition dis-
covered new pit houses and pottery of a
type which, he said provided proof of the
life of the Indians of that period.—Tucson
Citizen.
• • •
The Apache Indians of the Mescalero
reservation have proclaimed a closed sea-
son within the boundaries of their reserva-
tion in Otero county. All non-Indian hunt-
ers have been cautioned to refrain from
hunting on Indian lands.
• • •
UTAH
Utah Marks the Pony Express . . .
SALT LAKE CITY—With 11 monuments
already erected and six planned, Utah has
more nearly completed the marking of the
1860-61 Pony Express trail than any other
state, according to John D. Giles, regional
director of the American Pioneer Trails as-
In a scenic Wonderland in the heart of the Date Empire, 12 miles east of Palm Springs. sociation. Marking has been done by the
Ten minute walk to the fabulous Shadow Mountain Club for swimming, tennis, etc. Twenty- Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks associa-
five minute drive to the Salton Sea for duck hunting and boating. One and two-bedroom
suites complete with living room, kitchen and dinette. Private patio. Write or 'phone for tion. New markers planned include ones at
reservations now for winter vacation. Echo, Travelers Rest near Midvale, Joe's
Post Office Box 2, PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA Dugout west of Lehi, and the Overland
station in Tooele county. The organization
Telephone Indio 76231
will attempt to obtain sponsorship of local
ROBERT C. AND FLORENCE STURGEON, Managing Owners organizations during the winter, and plac-
Come on Out WHERE SUMMER SPENDS THE WINTER ing of the markers will begin in the early
spring.—Salt Lake Tribune.

She Lived a Pioneer Epic . . . Eight More Colorado Dams? . . .
BLANDING—Elizabeth Kenny Stevens, SALT LAKE CITY—Utah has extended
85, died in Blanding, November 17. A an invitation to the National Reclamation
bride of a month, she joined the almost in- association to hold its 1949 convention in
credible trek of the Mormon pioneers Salt Lake City. At the 17th annual con-
through Hole-In-The-Rock canyon to found vention, in Oklahoma City, Willjam E.
Bluff, Utah (Desert, May, '47). She cele- Warne, assistant secretary of the interior,
brated her 17th birthday just after the outlined a future potential 4,000,000 kilo-
toilsome crossing of the Colorado river, watt hour power program for the Colorado
where the Mormons cut steps down a river, which would include eight new dams.
canyon and built a road along the face of Those listed were Split Mountain, 90,000
a cliff to reach the stream. Elizabeth and kw.; Desolation, 78,000 kw.; Rattlesnake,
her husband, Walter, moved on with mem- 78,000 kw.; Dewey, 140,000 kw.; Dark
bers of the company to found Fruitland, canyon, 350,000 kw.; Glen canyon, 700,000
Colorado, where she gave birth to the first kw.; Marble, 22,000 kw.; Bridge canyon,
child born in that settlement. Called to 750,000 kw. Today 1,460,000 kilowatts of
help colonize Mexico in 1891, they re- hydroelectric power are available on the
mained in that country until 1912 when river and plants for producing another
Mexican outlaws killed Walter Stevens and 375,000 are being constructed, according to
Elizabeth made the journey back to Utah Warne.—Salt Lake Tribune.
with 11 unmarried children. — San Juan • • •
Record. How to Hunt Bees . . .
SALT LAKE CITY—S. K. Hampton
Sky-Seeding the Desert . . . reportedly has removed 5000 bees from one
tree stump in Salt Lake, "and there ought
SKULL VALLEY—The aerial reseeding to be 70,000 left." He said his method of
of 15,360 acres of sagebrush-covered semi- removing bees had never been tried before.
desert land in Skull Valley, 35 miles south- He extends a glass tube from a frame of
west of Tooele, was delayed by muddv honeycombs into the hollow of the tree • PANORAMA RANCH is situ-
ground, but normal flights were resumed stump. The bees were said to buzz and ated in a cove of the Santa
early in November and completion of the jostle their way up the tube and into the Rosa Mountains, fronting on
experimental project was expected within frame. Hampton planned to smoke the Highway 111, about 12 miles
10 days. The land is being seeded with queen out, "maybe this month, maybe not
crested wheatgrass, each pellet dropped con- till spring." But at the rate of 1000 bees east of Palm Springs. Adjoins
taining from five to eight seeds and a chemi- a day, he still has quite a program ahead. Palm Desert and The Desert
cal fertilizer. The crew of 20, working on —Tucson Citizen. Magazine, across the high-
the project, included 13 Navajo boys from • • • way from Palm Village.
New Mexico. International Seed Pellet
company has contracted to do all the work Super-Road Along Utah Lake . . .
at a reported cost of $2.30 an acre.—Mil- PROVO—Plans for a super-highway to • PANORAMA RANCH offers
lard County Chronicle. skirt the east shore of Utah lake were pre- homesites, reasonably priced
• • • sented to a public hearing in Provo late in
October. The highway as now proposed from $1350, where the charm
Will Erect Tourist Ports . . . will run from north of Lehi to Santaquin, of desert life can be appreci-
SALT LAKE CITY—Final approval has paralleling the Denver and Rio Grande ated at its fullest. Above the
been given plans and specifications for two Western railroad tracks from Lehi to Provo. highway, away from the
$25,000 tourist information bureaus to be It will join the new section of the highway shadow of the hills, these
erected at St. George and Kanab. The just north of Lehi. Purpose of the new
buildings will consist of one large room and super-road will be to divert heavy through sites enjoy glorious sunlight
will offer literature and displays on Utah. traffic from the main areas of Utah county and a majestic panoramic
Both towns have purchased sites and have cities, speeding the flow of traffic and in- view of the snowcapped
deeded the land to the state department of creasing highway safety.—Salt Lake Tribune. peaks of San Gorgonio Pass,
publicity and industrial development. Con-
struction of the buildings is expected to be the desert and surrounding
completed before the spring tourist season S A N J U A N RIVER mountains.
begins.—Salt Lake City Tribune.
• • • BOAT TRIPS
• PANORAMA R A N C H E R S
Will Construct Memorial . . . Bluff or Mexican Hat, Utah, to Lee's Ferry share the exclusive privileges
SALT LAKE CITY—A green light for Eight-Day Trip Amid the Scenic Canyons of the Sports Corral to be
construction of the Daughters of Utah of Southern Utah built in the center of the
Pioneers memorial building at the head of Ranch and planned to in-
Main Street reportedly has been given by Visit Rainbow Bridge
S. D. Huffaker, deputy to Attorney-General and Other Points of Interest in This clude swimming pool, ra-
Grover A. Giles. Construction of the tri- Magnificent Canyon Country mada, dance floor, barbecue
angular building, which it is estimated will and similar recreational facil-
cost $450,000, has been suspended for Write for Rates and Full Iniormation
several months pending litigation to de- ities. Also riding, hiking and
termine whether the state has the constitu- CHARLES LARABEE golf are available.
tional right to participate in paying for the Encinitas, California
structure.—Salt Lake Tribune. For details see your Broker or
drop us a line.
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FANUARY, 19 4 9 37
mines
Death Valley Junction, California . . . Goldfield, Nevada . . .
lytical laboratory in the school of mines
building on the university campus has a
very sensitive counter. The prospector who
believes he has found uranium minerals
should locate as a lode claim as there
usually is enough vanadium and other
metals to justify location. He will be re-
The Los Angeles Chemical company, "A Contribution to the Published Infor- quired to obtain a license to mine and mill,
operating the old clay camp a few miles mation on the Geology and Ore Deposits and then must market his ore or concen-
north of the junction in Nye county, Ne- of Goldfield, Nevada" has been issued by trate to the Atomic Energy commission.—
vada, reportedly continues to ship processed the Nevada state bureau of mines. Fred Reese River Reveille.
clay to various points in California. The Searles, Jr., mining geologist and president
raw clay is loaded by power shovel into of Newmont Mining corporation, is the
cars which are pulled by motor to the mill author. With the bulletin is a geological
over a short-line railroad. Elevated to bins, map of the Goldfield district. Searles was Prescott, Arizona . . .
the clay is roasted to remove moisture, geologist for the Goldfield Consolidated
ground to a fineness of at least 200 mesh, Mining company in the days of Goldfield's The discovery in Arizona of three uran-
and sand and other impurities removed. boom production, and his theories of ore ium minerals that may lead to a new source
The material is sacked and shipped by truck deposition reportedly were followed in the of material for atomic energy was reported
to Los Angeles, and Bakersfield and other recent Newmont Deep Mines strikes at by Drs. Joseph Axelrod, Frank Grimaldi,
oil centers.—Tonopah Times-Bonanza. Goldfield.—Reese River Reveille. Charles Milton and K. J. Murata of the
• • • U. S. geological survey. They said a "va-
riety of hitherto unknown uranium miner-
Holbrook, Arizona . . . Manhattan, Nevada . . . als" was found coating gypsum at the 300-
General Petroleum corporation of Los foot level in the Hillside mine, Yavapai
The White Caps mine at Manhattan, 45 county, Arizona. The new minerals are
Angeles has leased 64,000 acres of oil struc- miles north of Tonopah, for years a con- bayleyite, andersonite and swartsite. They
ture lands forming an arc around Holbrook, sistent producer of gold ores, is being re- are in minute quantities, but subsequent ex-
and exploratory drilling for oil reportedly opened. The present development, however, ploration might lead to greater amounts, it
will get under way at once. The lease was will be confined chiefly to production of was said. A uranium mineral called schro-
said to involve lands held by George C. antimony, a large tonnage of which was eckeringerite, previously known only from
Creager, Aztec Land and Cattle company, developed during the years that gold ore Wyoming and Czechoslovakia, was found
and the New Mexico-Arizona Land and was the mine's principal output. The anti- at the mine.—Tucson Citizen.
Cattle company. One of the largest par- mony is known to extend from the 200 to
cels of land was said to border the Petri- the 1100 foot level, and the vein is wide
fied Forest national monument, just west and exceptionally rich in places. The shaft
of the Painted Desert, south of the Navajo is to be cleared of water to the 500-foot Joy, Utah . . .
reservation. Geologically, the lease includes level and actual mining of ore reportedly
lands in the Black Mesa basin and the first will get under way within a short time. The The former ghost town of Joy, in Juab
well will be drilled on the Little Carrizo work is being done by the Tonopah Divide county 40 miles northwest of Delta, has
anticline.—Holbrook Tribune-News. Mining company. — Tonopah Times-Bo- come back to life with a fluorite mining
boom in the surrounding area. Frank Beck-
• • • with, Delta editor, reports 32 cars near Joy
Moab, Utah . . . in one day, belonging to men staking out
Sampling and purchasing of uranium- Desert Center, California . . . claims. The fluorite, said to run from 75
bearing ores at the Monticello receiving The big Eagle Mountain iron ore mine to 92 per cent pure, is being trucked to
depot of the Atomic Energy commission and its 52-mile railroad were put into opera- Delta and shipped to Geneva Steel at
are expected to be greatly expedited by an tion November 9 by the Kaiser Fontana Provo, where it is used as a flux in steel
automatic sampler which started operations steel plant. Daily output of the mine will manufacture. Mines are worked by the
October 21. As a result of the new instal- be 28 60-ton carloads. Henry J. Kaiser open pit method, scraping the ore off the
lation, assays of ore delivered to the depot declared that he hoped to double shipments ground with a bulldozer and loading it into
will be available within two weeks after within six months. The "Flying Eagle" rail- the trucks. Presence of the mineral has
delivery. Payment is made when assays are road was built in 11 months with desert been known for some time, but shipment
returned. Major P. C. Leahy manager of temperatures of 125 degrees and flash to eastern markets was economically pro-
the Colorado plateau office of the com- floods, which created 20,000 cubic feet per hibitive. In the Geneva shipments, net
mission, stated that an average assay over second runoffs, some of the major prob- profits of $26 a ton are reported.—Salt
a 30-day period will be allowed producers lems faced. Total hauling distance of 164 Lake Tribune.
to give them an opportunity to benefit miles, from the mine to the mill at Fon-
from higher bonus rates by increasing the tana, is one of the shortest hauls for
percentage of their ores. He also reported ore supply of any major steel plant in the Goldfield, Nevada . . .
work has started on modifying the Monti- country.—Indio News. Deep Mines operation reportedly hoped
cello vanadium mill to provide for reduc- • • • to open the new 100-ton mill near the
tion of the uranium content of the carno- Florence shaft by Christmas. The opening
tite ores,—Salt Lake Tribune. Oatman, Arizona . . . was said to have been delayed by material
• • • Liquidation of surface and underground shortages and water supply difficulties. It
equipment of the Gold Roads mine, two is expected that ample water can be ob-
Aztec, New Mexico . . . miles northeast of Oatman, was announced tained from the shaft at the old Sandstorm
A new record for gas production was in November by officials of the United Kendall and Jupiter mines. A large stock-
said to have been established when the States Smelting, Refining and Mining com- pile of low grade ore is ready for crush'
Delhi Oil-Southern Union gasser on the pany, pne of Mohave county's largest mining as soon as the final metallurgical prob-
Barker dome 25 miles northwest of Aztec ing operators. Company Manager L. H. lems are ironed out. Additional ore is ex-
tested 75,000,000 feet. The new gas well Duriez, whose headquarters are at Bayard, pected from development work which will
was drilled below 9400 feet, and its suc- New Mexico, said the move was prompted be resumed as soon as the plant is ready to
cess has spurred drilling operations in the by the "remoteness of obtaining relief from handle the output. At present, underground
area, with many new wells planned.—Aztec the high cost of labor, and materials, and work is largely limited to extending the
Independent-Review. the price of gold." He said it was impossible Laguna shaft.—Goldfield News.
• • • to mine present lowgrade ores economically.
The mine was operated until 1942.—Mo-
Beaumont, California . . . have County Miner. W. J. Henley of Virginia City, Nevada,
T. R. Wilson, who owns a ranch south- • • • has been elected president and general
west of the A. D. Marshall ranch on which manager of Dayton Consolidated Mines
uranium reportedly was discovered some Reno, Nevada . . . company to fill the vacancy caused by the
months ago, has found uranium ore on his "A Nevada prospector for uranium should recent death of Homer L. Gibson. Gibson
ranch, according to Fred Greusel, assayer study the uranium minerals as listed in a had been president and managing director
of San Bernardino. The ore had a Geiger book on mineralogy, and if possible study of the company since its incorporation in
count of 50, with the Atomic Energy com- the specimen case at the Mackay school of 1934. Henley had been secretary-treasurer
mission said to be interested in uranium ore mines museum," according to Jay A. Car- and manager for the same period. Henley
with a count of 40 or above. Marshall's penter, director of the Mackay school. If he states that the company's mill at Silver
ore, which to date has not been checked cannot afford a Geiger counter, he can send City is now in full operation, receiving cus-
by government representatives, showed a in specimens to the U. S. bureau of mines tom ore as well as that from company
58 count.—Banning Record. at Reno or Boulder City. The state ana- mines.
THE DESERT MAGAZINE

Apologies toAlaska! . . . and other lizards. A recent alleged case of
the finding of one—only about five inches
Fairbanks, Alaska in length—occurred at the county airport
Desert: at Blythe. The Palo Verde Valley Times of
This letter is going to you because you that community recounts the incident. There
omitted in your circulation breakdown in is always the possibility that these animals
the November issue to mention the fact that are escaped pets. Van Denburgh, as well
Randsburg Sunshine . . . you have at least one subscriber in Alaska. as contemporary authorities, are of the
Look at your mailing list and you will find opinion that the Gila monster is not found
Randsburg, California the name Frank B. Camp, Fairbanks, in the native state in the deserts of Cali-
Desert: Alaska. Now R. H. that is what we call a fornia,
Bob Hubbard ought to be hung for trea- minute oversight, but nevertheless it is im- Incidentally, after five years of research.
son! Comparing our few dramatic wind- portant because Alaska is a mighty big ter- I am completing a 100,000-word book man-
storms and the gold dust from the Yellow ritory—destined to be our 49th state. uscript on both the Arizona and Mexican
Aster mine with Los Angeles smog for visi- That Desert should reach me regularly Gila monsters. Should any readers of
bility!! Besides we always have the chance every month away up here many hundreds Desert Magazine know of cases of persons
of being hit by a gold nugget, which is of miles from Palm Desert, is in itself some- bitten, or who have captured Gila monsters,
something compared to being hit by a car thing-^but possibly you have, as many I would appreciate it if they would send the
in Los Angeles smog and fog and smudge others have done, submerged Alaska under details—or any other information—to my
of which we have none. the classification "Foreign." Just why in address: 118 South Avenue 21, Los An-
Randsburg sun shines all the time and we h— Alaska should be listed as "foreign" by geles 31, California.
have the finest and healthiest year-round States publications is something you can put
climate in old U. S. A. Twelve months and down to widespread ignorance, which is WELDON D. WOODSON
no smog or fog or smudge, only a few prevalent in the United States. Another pre-
windstorms that waltz through Los An- vailing ignorance is about the Great Ameri-
geles smog to play tag with the sands of can Desert. I have lived and prospered in
the clean, free desert and stir up the Yel- both the desert and Alaska. Those Back-Seat Drivers . . .
low Aster sands to bring us drama from the Give my regards to your loyal staff, and San Diego, California
elements for a few hours once in awhile, in here is a rather premature Christmas card Desert:
our 12 months of perfect climate. from myself and our entire staff. I do get such good laughs out of your
The seagull Bob Hubbard mentioned must FRANK B. CAMP, Advertising Manager "Letters" page. If you edited your maga-
have been blown this way by Los Angeles Jesson's Weekly, Fairbanks, Alaska. zine according to all the ideas offered by
wind according to the weather reports of the letter-writers how awful it would be—
yesterday and today. Th.e worst thing I can no snakes, no rocks, no palms, no field
hope for Bob Hubbard is that he has to trips! I like Desert because it is desert. It
live away from the desert for just a year. L a k e M e a d I s Filling U p . . . actually brings the fragrance of the deserl
MRS. STANLEY SHIRLEY Washington, D. C. into my room.
Desert: CORA DYER
Re your observations about the tidal bore
eating into the earthen barrier at the head
Flapjack Flippin' Liars' Club . . . of the gulf; I helped Randolph Leigh ob-
Desert:
Portland, Oregon
I note that your Hot Cake Artist, Ralph
tain some of his preliminary data on the
river before he started his trip and the ef-
fect of the removal of sediment from the
Desert Stationery
Culver of Colorado, mentions flipping 'em
up the fireplace chimney—and that with
courage, faith, good timing and perfect
river was one subject under consideration.
However, since we all know that it won't
be long—in river time—before the sedi-
ment is again reaching the gulf, your men-
In Mural Color
rhythm he can run outside and catch 'em For Christraas gifts, for Christ-
in his skillet as they come down. tion of a few thousand years is too pessi- mas acknowledgments—or for
He's just an amateur. Up here in Oregon mistic or rather is not encouraging enough,
we have flapjack flippers with real talent. for one of the engineers of the Water Re- liUle notes to your friends—ths
We use any old kind of a fryin' pan, set the sources board told me recently that Lake gorgeous coloring of deserl
dough out to get sour overnight, and then Mead will probably be practically full in blossoms on note and letter
when they come to a nice brown we open approximately a hundred years and it won't
take long after that for the other dams to paper.
the door and throw 'em around the cabin fill.
and catch 'em as they turn the. last corner Any of the following boxed
comin' in. And they really have flavor. It is an interesting speculation as to what stationery will be mailed to you
JIMMIE JAMES effect, if any the enormous weight of water postpaid:
and sediment in Lake Mead may have on
any 'delicate' geological balance that may CACTI AND YUCCA BLOSSOMS. 12
exist in that general area. notes with envelopes. Box, $1.40;
HENRY C. MORRIS 2 boxes $2.65
On Phantom Trails . . .
DESERT BEAUTIES, 12 Fiorachromes ot
Redondo Beach, California cacti, yucca and agave. Box, $1.35;
Desert: More About the Gila Monster . . . 2 boxes $2.50
The Desert and all of us have lost a Los Angeles, California DESERT FLORAL NOTES, 12 Yucca and
friend, the desert with all its wildlife has Desert: Saguaro b l o s s o m s . Box, $1.35;
lost a lover; and the little town of Julian I was very much interested in John C. 2 boxes $2.50
is richer for being his last campsite. Chalupnik's letter in the December issue of
Our Creator has promised us a life be- WILD FLOWER NOTES, 24 sheets and
Desert Magazine proposing the problem as envelopes of Indian Paint Brush,
yond the grave and it is our privilege to do to why the Gila monster does not "infest"
a little wistful thinking, so 1 like to think Harebell, Gaillardia and Columbine.
Imperial Valley, although found just across Box, $1.35; 2 boxes $2.50
the spirit of Marshal South has found his the Colorado River in Arizona. The remark
hidden spring and— of the old prospector, "The reptiles can't CACTUS FLORACUROUES. 8 sheets,
With spirits guarding arroyo and mesa swim, an' they're too blamed slow to hitch- 8 notes, 8 blanks, 16 envelopes.
With vigil that never fails, hike across on the bridge without gettin' Box, $1.65; 2 boxes $3.0C
With phantom hosts of long ago, run over," is not a bad answer.
He's following the desert trails. Many persons, however, contend that they ALL POSTPAID ANYWHERE*
R. N. SHUART have seen the Gila monster in the desert IN U.S.A.
country of Southern California. Investiga-
tion nevertheless reveals that they have Full Refund if Not Satisfied
The More the Better . . . mistaken the chuckawalla or some other When You See This Stationery
Pasadena, California lizard for it. In a different category is a
comment by George Wharton James in
Desert:
I'll be at the Pegleg party in Borrego
1906: "The Gila monster (Heloderma sus-
pectum Cope) is seldom seen in the Colo-
DESERT CRAFTS SHOP
valley New Year's Eve. But don't depend on
it. I'm a pretty big liar.
rado Desert, though in twenty years I have
seen three or four." He, most certainly, Palm Desert, California
HARLAND C. EMBREE could differentiate between Gila monsters
JANUARY, 1949 39
NEW FACETING MATERIAL
Aquamarine, Citrine, Topaz, Amethyst
and Smoky Quartz
Lapidary Eqniptnent and Supplies
Sheet Silver, Trim and Findings
Write for Lists
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SAW BLADE BARGAIN

We have a small quantity of COVINGTON By LELANDE QUICK, Editor of The Lapidary Journal
Diamond Saw Blades in assorted sizes for
sale at one-half price. These blades will It is no longer a surprise to find the been sold in small quantities for $1.25 a
give good service but they did not pass our West, western living and the desert regions carat; will probably cost more. It should
rigid factory inspection. Order NOW giv- featured in eastern magazines. Almost any be available, the manufacturers tell us.
ing size and bore desired. week you can look over the crop at the about February 1 and certainly not before
COVINGTON LAPIDARY ENGINEERING stands and pick out a western feature. then.
FIRST TO SECOND STREETS ON HIGHWAY 99
Hardly a general magazine of importance While first information on how to cut
REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA
has neglected the "rockhound" (perish that it appeared in the Lapidary Journal in June,
word!) during the past year. He has been 1948, we supplement that with some new
glamorized indeed. While all the articles facts from the manufacturer's own experi-
may be true they often stretch the truth to mental laboratories (Linde). They advise
the ductile limit. us that this is important and should be
GORDON Such a tale was the one on California

gems in the Post on November 11th, fol-
lowed the next week by a better article in
the same magazine on the new wonder metal
rigidly followed. We quote—"We would like
to add one word of caution which will be
included in future cutting recommendations,
and that is to avoid the use of hot cements
GEM AND MINERAL SUPPLIES titanium, being produced experimentally at in dopping this material. We have found
Boulder City, Nevada. The former tale, that overheating will result in discoloration
featuring John Hilton, was beautifully il- of the stone and while we specifically rec-
"Dependable Lapidary Equipment" lustrated in color. One photograph of a ommend a cold cement, such as Duco, it
pile of rubellite rubble will no doubt be might be added that there is a possibility
Write for Our Price List mistaken by the unknowing for rubies. The of discoloration as a result of harsh grind-
article will not cause a duplication of the ing or polishing. You probably know that
gold rush of a century ago, but it will bring Linde A polishing powder has been ac-
1850 E. PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY cepted by both the professional and ama-
many gullible easterners poking around the teur lapidary for polishing stones whose
LONG BEACH 6, CALIFORNIA gem claims in San Diego county. The stam-
pede of the California uninitiated has al- hardness is less than sapphire. In this par-
ready started. One dealer reports that with- ticular instance the polish is far superior to
in three days after the article appeared he that obtained with diamond or softer abras-
sold 30 picks to people who were going ives which are not well graded."
right down San Diego way to pick a sack- The largest cut rutile we have seen was
ful of tourmaline and beryl from the bank 10 carats, cut by Ray Merz of the Los
in the first road cut they encountered. Angeles Lapidary society. The largest that
But we didn't laugh too much when we has ever been cut was 150 carats but it
heard it. We did the same thing ten years fractured on completion. The largest stone
ago—except that we didn't even pause to that has survived weighs 84 carats. At this
buy a pick. We had been told that we writing we are attempting one which should
A National Magazine for the Gem Cutter could go down to Ramona on Turkey Day, cut 20 carats. The material is 6 to 6V4
fill our pockets with tourmaline gathered in hardness on the Mohs scale and 900 to
Collector and Silversmith 950 on the Knoop. Its refractive index is
from any hillside, then go into town and eat w-2.616 and e-2.903. The diamond is 2.417.
Some back issues available at 50c each. our fill of free turkey—a treat on the town It is therefore more brilliant than the dia-
Subscription $2.00 per year (6 issues) where the turkeys come from. The trip mond and in the words of Dr. Bandy of the
was a "turkey" all right. We paid for the Gemological Institute, "It makes the finest
P. O. Box 1228 Hollywood 28. Calif. meal, never saw a tourmaline and met with diamond look like a door knob and the
LELANDE QUICK, Editor and Manager loud guffaws every time we inquired. But— finest opal look anemic." The color? It is
it started us on a hobby that led to a career every color. If you facet gems we suggest
and changed our whole life. By our subse- you get your order in to your favorite
quent writing we have led thousands of dealer now.
BEFORE you Buy Any LAPIPARY others into the satisfying recreation of
hunting and cutting gems and exploring
the clean smogless quiet desert byways. When German boys were prisoners of war
Perhaps the highly exaggerated Post article in the U. S. they were subjected to the con-
will do that for others. stant propaganda of the American way of
Gem cutters should read the article on life as reflected in our magazines. Among
titanium, however, because it tells some- other things they observed in copies of
thing of the newest and most beautiful gem Desert Magazine and other publications the
CATALOG- in all the world—rutile. The makers have articles about amateur gem cutting and
just advised us that the correct pronuncia- they read of the great number (now esti-
tion is root-TEEL. Here and there a faceted mated at a half million) of gem cutting
32 pd^fs packed-full of helpful Lapidary Inst- stone of the new material is making its hobbyists. Upon returning home many of
tuctions...should beinevery tocknuls library. appearance to spellbind the onlooker. And them dared to attempt to enter a craft that
here and there the diminishing school of had been closely guarded. Now the amateur
"PluA complete information on the famous I
Hillûist line of Ldpidartj Equipment' including] "you can't improve on nature" folks are gem cutting movement in Germany is
HillquisrCom^ctUpWt Hillûisrte'l&ck Saw, I weakening in their stand by openly wishing spreading like a brush fire, helped by our
for a piece of this new synthetic gem. own army boys stationed there who are
Hillquisf TnmSaw, Hill<}uisr 4ufo Feed, Hillquisr gem hunters. They have not organized into
Gero'Drill 5
GeroDll 5 »o\eSaw,
»oe HillûisrFacetor; Hillûi'st First to announce and discuss the gem, societies as all organizations are suspect,
o; ^
Drum Sanders
Drum Sandr 5 5 H i l l ff D i a d S
Diamond Saws which 36,000 persons viewed at the Long but they are supporting a fine new maga-
Beach mineral and gem exhibition, we now zine on mineral collecting and gemology
J? */Send NOW to offer the first authoritative cutting informa- called Achat (Agate). If you can read
JapUWUf EQUIPMENT CO* tion about it. Dealers have orders on hand German and are interested in the subject
stacked as high as a desert palm. When you can get the address of the magazine by
I54S WVPSr-SEATTU 7, WASH. will they fill them and for how much? We sending a self addressed envelope with your
"NttrioHSilAR6eST,MFe'RS Of FINS lAP/PAKye9UIPM£Nr'
don't know what it will sell for but it has request.

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SEARLES LAKE MINERAL SHOW ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONVENTION
ATTRACTS MANY VISITORS WILL BE HELD IN AUGUST
The first mineral show of the Searles Official dates for the 1949 convention
and show of the Rocky Mountain Federa-
Lake Gem and Mineral society, October
23-24, attracted more than 200 visitors to tion of Mineral societies, at Albuquerque, MOUNTINGS
Trona, and was attended by the geology New Mexico, are August 25-27. It origi- 18" NECK CHAIN—Sterling, doz $ 3.50
classes of the University of California at nally was announced for the latter part of Gold FUled. dox 4.50
Santa Barbara and Pasadena city college. April. The new dates, according to Mineral No. 20IS Sterling Silver Bezel, it 30
Dr. Leo Briggs and Leroy Bailey presented and Gem News, bulletin of the federation, No. 201 Gold FUled Bezel, ft 55
a representative display of Searles Lake will make it possible for junior rockhounds No. 238 Gold Filled Bezel, it 50
crystals. A 50-foot core, drilled from the and many people having vacations in Au- CLEVICES for pendants. GF. doz 1.25
lake, was placed across the road from the gust to attend. Louis W. Heister, editor of CLEVICES for earrings, GF, doz 1.20
school. Field trips were led by Modesto the bulletin, 809^2 W. Silver Avenue, Albu- PENDANT FRAMES, with chain,
Leonardi, William Reburn, Clark Mills and querque, asks that he be informed as soon 22mm Round or 18x25mm Oval.
Ralph Merrill. as possible of the approximate number of Sterling Silver or Gold filled, doz. .. 12.00
people from each club in the federation TIE SLIDES—Gold filled, doz 6.00
First prize ribbon went to NOTS Rock- who may attend the convention.
hounds for minerals and Victor Valley Min- CAST RINGS—Men's heavy Sterling.
• • • asstd. shapes, unfinished, doz 9.00
eral club for lapidary. Individual first prize
ribbons were awarded William C. Oke of Dr. Carl Beck, professor of geology at Additional Items when Available
Los Angeles for a collection of 152 identi- University of New Mexico, was to speak
fied minerals from Franklin, New Jersey: at the next regular meeting of the Albu-
querque Gem and Mineral club. He was
Agate Jewelry Wholesale
Ralph Merrill, crystals; Edward Reden- (Price List Available)
bach, lapidary, and William Shahan, spheres. to discuss "Crystallography," using models
of the different forms of crystals to illus- O. R. JUNKINS & SON
Special prize ribbons went to Clark Mills, P. O. Box 1235 Newport, Oregon
Searles valley display; Mrs. Josie Bishop, trate his talk.
Mojave minerals; E. D. Lawrence, fossils;
C. A. Horen, Fresno, crystals; James C.
Arnold, Hollywood, jewelry; Vincent Mor-
gan, borax crystals", A. G. Ostergard, Pasa-
dena, crystals and lapidary. December 15
meeting of the society was to be the annual
Christmas party.
"IT'S WONDERFUL!"
• • • "Far better than anything else ever. Couldn't put it down until I'd gone through it cover
THRONGS ATTEND FIRST ANNUAL to cover. Won't be good for anything else until I've read it thoroughly. My order will
HOLLYWOOD LAPIDARY EXHIBIT follow." —Lester Burmeister, Marshfield, Wisconsin.
The Hollywood Lapidary society held its "I had much doubt about sending $1.00 for I thought—just a mere catalog. But just try
first annual lapidary and gem exhibit at and buy it back for $10.00. You would not get it for that price unless I positively knew
Plummer park, Los Angeles county de-
partment of parks and recreation, October that I could get another." —T. Wilson, Coalinga, California.
16-17, with nearly 1000 visitors registering.
Walt Shirey was show chairman. Ribbons "It's the finest thing of its kind I have ever seen. It's a shame to call it a catalog. It
were awarded to members for outstanding should be called THE ROCKHOUND'S BIBLE. I'm pleased I saw your ad and answered
lapidary, gem and jewelry work. Mahogany it." —E. Beaumont, Bay City, Michigan.
display cases were loaned to the Hollywood
society by the Los Angeles Lapidary society These are just a few of the many wonderful letters received from those who have already
and its members. O. C. Barnes, a guest purchased copies of GRIEGER'S ENCYCLOPEDIA AND SUPER-CATALOG OF THE
exhibitor, displayed lamps and dishes cut
from Death Valley onyx. Tom Virgin, presi- LAPIDARY AND JEWELRY ARTS. This is a 160-page book 9"xl2" in size, printed on
dent of the Hollywood group, announced heavy book paper, and having a sewed back book binding. It suggests things to do—
that he would set up a committee after the most approved methods of doing them. It is filled with illustrations and instructions
Christmas to start work on the society's designed to fulfill your every requirement.
own display cases for next year's show.
Send $1.00 in paper money or a check for your copy today. It is sold for only a small
portion of its actual publication costs. One customer says, "I see no reason "why you
SECOND NATIONAL FEDERATION should not sell it for cost plus a reasonable profit. It is certainly worth it." This book
CONVENTION DATE CHANGED may be returned to us for full cash refund if you are not pleased with it.
Date of the second national convention
of the American Federation of Mineralogi-
cal societies has been changed from June
3-5, 1949, to June 24-26, 1949, according 1633 EAST WALNUT STREET
to Mineral Notes and News. The conven- PASADENA 4, CALIFORNIA.
tion will be held in Sacramento, California,
in conjunction with California Centennial PHONL 5Y6-6423
celebrations. Reason given for the change OPEN ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY 8:30AM-5:30PM•
in dates was that many schools would not MONDAY THRU THURSDAY OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
be closed at the originally announced time.
The Sacramento Mineral society will be
host.
JANUARY, 1949 41
JUST CAME BACK from a 3 months trip to
Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico. We
A D V E R T I S I N G RATE have jet black Petrified Wood and Agate,
GEM MART 7c a Word Minimum $1.00
Utah Pigeon Blood Agate, Moss and Banded,
all colors, Picture and Colored Wood from
Arizona, Banded and Solid Green Ricolite
from New Mexico, beautiful for book ends,
paper weights, etc. Takes a beautiful polish.
Come and see our new materials. Open every
BEAUTIFUL AUSTRALIAN Opal Cabs, 10x8— NEW FIND — Oregon Wonderstone, pleasing day. Geo. C. Curtis, The Agate Man, 654
$3 00 to $7.20. 12x10—$4.80 to $9.00. Opal patterns, contrasting colors, white, red, buff. First St., Hermosa Beach, California.
rough for cutting $1.20 & $2.00. Ace Lapi- Polishes well. 5 lbs. $2.00 plus postage. Also
dary, Box 67, Jamaica, New York. Nevada Wonderstone, same price. Idaore GEM STONES—Rare gems, semi-precious (rough
Gem Company, 52 E. Commercial St., Weiser, and cut). Stones for every purpose. It may
GOOD NEVADA TURQUOISE in the rough, $2.50 Idaho. pay you to write us your requirements. We
oz. any amount. Turquoise cabochons 50c buy direct from Brazil, Burma, Ceylon, India,
carat. John L. James, Box 379, Battle AGATES, WOODS—All gem materials. New Australia. Importers of fine gems. Jpseph
Mountain, Nev. finds. Eseadillo agate, clear and banded. Tynski, Box 81, Station K, Brooklyn 19, N. Y.
Also Cameo agate, opaque bright coloring.
BRAZILIAN AGATE, Specimen pieces, also Both 15c inch, 75c pound. Very nice. Golden MONTANA YELLOWSTONE VALLEY Agate
good for coloring, $1.00 a pound. Pieces run Moss, Red and Golden Moss, Amethyst Agate, Cabochons, $1.50 to $10 each. C. T. Royels,
from one to ten pounds each. Black Onyx Moss Jasper, Mojave Desert Palm Wood, Ari- Box C, Brady, Montana.
Blanks, 16x12 and 14x12 size—$2.50 dozen. zona Wood blended colors. All 15c inch, $1.00
Mail orders filled promptly. JUCHEM BROTH- pound. Baker Ranch eggs, $1.00 pound. Send FIFTY MINERAL SPECIMENS, %-in. or over,
ERS, 315 W. 5th St., Los Angeles 13, Calif. for list. Tax in California. Postage, please. boxed, identified, described, mounted. Post-
Sequoia Gem and Mineral Shop, 321 West paid $4.00. Old Prospector, Box 21B212, Dutch
Tulare Avenue, Visalia, California. Flat, California.
BEAUTIFUL ARIZONA AGATES. Polished sam-
ples and listings $2.00. Unpolished samples MONTANA MOSS AGATES in the rough for START THE NEW YEAR with a visit to the
$1.00. Arizona Agate Mines, Cave Creek, Ariz. gem cutting $1.50 per lb. plus postage. Also Erskine Collection, 307 Rosemont St., La Jolla,
Slabbed Agate 25c per sq. in. (Minimum order Calif. "The Home of Unusual Minerals." Mail
OREGON PLUME AGATE, from noted Central $1.00). Elliott Gem Shop, 26 Jergins Arcade, order special: We will send you a 2-in. speci-
Oregon gem fields. Finest quality plumes, $1.50 Long Beach 2, California. men
3 of the rare, new, Plumed Mica, plus a
sq. in. Assorted, vari-colored types, $1.00 sq. /4-in. Brown Staurolite XL (Fairy Cross) for
in.; cabochon sized slabs, 50c each. Small ATTENTION ROCK COLLECTORS. It will pay $1.00, postpaid.
rough chunks, $5.00 lb. Fair warning folks; you to visit the Ken-Dor Rock Roost. We buy,
this Plume is in strong demand and is going, sell, or exchange mineral specimens. Visitors FINE CUTTING TURQUOISE—Good quality,
going— Choicest Red Moss Agate $3.00 lb. are always welcome. Ken-Dor Rock Roost, 419 $2.00; high grade, $3.00; extra quality, $4.00
Other gemmy types of Moss $1.25 lb. From So. Franklin, Modesto, California. to $5.00 per ounce. E. P. Woods, Farming-
Plume vein, mixed moss and plume, varicolor- ton. New Mexico.
ed, 2 lbs. $3.00. Include postage on rough
Agate, please. Satisfaction guaranteed. C. G. ROSE QUARTZ—$1.00 per lb. rough. From
Springer, 862 Roosevelt Ave., Bend, Ore. finest deposit known. European and Asiatic
market before war. Rose Quartz, 283 Wildwood
MINERAL SETS—24 Colorful Minerals (identi- Park, Fort Garry, Man., Canada. SAN JOSE SOCIETY PLANS
fied) in lxl compartments — Postage paid, SPECIAL $1.00 SPECIAL—Your choice, 6 sq. 1949 SHOW, APRIL 23-24
$3.50. Prospector's Set of 50 Minerals (identi- inch Picture Wood, 6 specimens Utah Topaz,
fied) in lxl compartments in cloth reinforced 3 sawed halves, geodes and nodules, 10
Work on the 1949 show of the San Jose
sturdy cartons. Postage paid $5.75. Elliott's Apache Teardrops—34 inch, 2 lbs. Howlite, Lapidary society already is under way, ac-
Gem Shop, 26 Jergins Arcade, Long Beach 2, 1 2-in.-3-in. specimen Chrysocolla, 1 lb. Tur- cording to Club President Charles Murphy,
Calif. quoise—small pieces for small stones, 1 2x3 with the lease signed and the rent paid. The
BEAUTIFUL AGATE from Arizona, New Mex- specimen fluorescent Opal, 2 lbs. No. 220 grit, exhibit will be held in the main auditorium
ico, Utah, Arizona Petrified Wood, colors and 2 lbs. No. 320 grit, 1 lb. 3M Black Dopping
pictures. Agates in Red Moss, Golden Moss, Wax. We pay postage on 5 lbs. or over. of the San Jose Woman's Club, 75 S.
Black Banded. Red Banded, Red and Black California residents include 2>/2% sales tax. Eleventh Street, April 23-24. Murphy is
Banded, Carnelian, Moss Jaspers. Many col- Satisfaction guaranteed. Morton Minerals chairman of the show executive committee.
ors in many patterns. Let me send you and Mining, 1901 S. Muscatel Ave., Rosemead,
some of this Agate or Wood, every inch will California. Final meeting of the year for the San Jose
make a gem. 15c per sq. in., will assort. group will be a Christmas party planned for
Minimum order $1.50. Money back if not ARIZONA GEM pink agate in the rough, $1.25 , December 7. In addition to the party there
satisfied. Approximate postage please. We lb. Sugar loaf, California dense Moss Agate,
also have a nice selection of Chrysocolla, new but not too showy, same price, postpaid. will be a showing of colored slides taken by
Malachite and Copper specimens. Make your MaryAnn Kasey, Box 968, Bakersfield, Calif. club members.
next rock hunting trip in our yard. Good • • •
cutting material as low as 35c per lb. Tons SELENITE, ALL SIZES, per lb. 50c; Jasper-
to select from. Come any time. Geo. C. Agate, red, yellow or both, 50c; very fine
Curtis, The Agate Man, 645 1st St., Hermosa Travertine Marble, 50c; red, Agatized small HOUSTON. TEXAS, FORMS
Beach, Calif. oysters, finest grade, $1.00; red, blue and NEW ROCK SOCIETY
grey Dinosaur Bone, $1.00; finest quality blue
MINERALS, GEMS, COINS, Bills, Old Glass, Agates with white bands, all sizes, $1.50; fine The first meeting of the Houston Lapi-
Books, Stamps, Fossils, Buttons, Dolls, Wea- Agate, all colors. $1.00. All local material of dary society was held November 19 at the
pons, Miniatures, Indian Silver Rings and best quality. You pay postage. Hubert's
Rock Shop, Springdale, Utah, near Zion home of W. V. Vietti, with 30 persons in
Bracelets. Also Mexico. Catalogue 5c. Cowboy National Park. attendance. W. V. Vietti was elected presi-
Lemley, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL Roekhounds dent; D. W. Isaacs, vice-president; G. W-
MINERAL SPECIMENS — Micro-mount and from Coast to Coast. Al Thrower, P. O. Box Fulshear, secretary-treasurer; Richard Peter-
Thumb-nail sizes; write today for free list. 305, Santa Cruz, California. son, recording secretary, and Mrs. Jerre
J. B. Byron, Mining Engineer, 1240 Pearl
Street, Boulder, Colorado. SHELL JEWELRY SUPPLIES—$5.00 brings you
Swain, program chairman. Future meetings
30 packages of beautifully colored shells plus will be held the first Friday of each month
GOOD CUTTING material from Nevada, 5 lbs. one dozen fancy cut shells and enough sup- at the Swain studio, 2111 Wheeler. All per-
$3.50. 10 lbs. $6.00. 10 sq. in. $2.00. 25 sq. in. plies to make 7 brooches and 15 pairs of ear- sons wishing to join the society were re-
$4.00. Send for price list on other cutting rings. Satisfaction guaranteed and postage
material, minerals, hand made silver Jewelry, prepaid. Shell Supply .Co., 260 East First St., quested to contact Mrs. Swain, L 9450.
etc. John L. James, Box 379, Battle Mountain, Long Beach, California.
Nevada. • • •
OPAL WOOD in beautiful rainbow colors, PRODUCE SYNTHETIC QUARTZ
AT THE DESERT RAT'S NEST—Coober pedy grained, good cutting. 50c lb, plus postage.
opal, pinpoint and blue fire (10 carat ant- J. E. Lister, West Star Route, Fallon, Nevada. FOR RADIO TRANSMITTERS
hill garnets, will wholesale smaller grades),
cut and uncut moonstones, Ceylon. All Brazil- Synthetic quartz crystals suitable for use
ian facet material in stock. A new blue sap- BEAUTIFUL LEAD AND SILVER Specimen
phire up to 10 carats, flawless. Australian and from Colorado, $1.00, one to a customer. Ask in radio transmitters have been produced
Siam uncut zircons, Burma rubies, Tasmania for list and prices on other fine specimens, successfully under the sponsorship of the
white zircons, Queensland sapphire. Geo. W. fluorescents or cutting. Also $2.00 brings you army signal corps, according to Science
Chambers, P. O. Box 1123, Enclnltas, Calif. a nice slab of Moonstone. Jack the Rock News Letter of November 13, reported in
Visitors inquire at Kizer's filling station, Hound, P. O. Box 86, Carbondale, Colorado.
corner 101 and F St. for address. the Arizona Rockhound Record. The largest
A NEW YEAR Special for You! One specimen specimen so far produced equals the dia-
TEXAS AGATES—Five pounds selected from Azurite, 1 specimen Descloizite, 1 specimen meter of a silver dollar. Realization of
all locations, including plume, iris, fortifica- Vanadinite. All for $1.25 postpaid. Tucson
tion, scenic, opal assortment, etc., postpaid, Thompson, 1621 Nile Road, West, Phoenix, mass production would mean freedom of
$5.00. Visit. 20 tons to select from at 25c Arizona. this country from dependence upon Brazil,
per pound. El Paso Rock and Lapidary Sup- which is the principal source of the natural
ply, 2401 Pittsburg St., El Paso, Texas. Phone WHEN YOU TRAVEL Sixty-Six Highway, stop
5-8721. at Boodle's place, one mile west of Galena, quartz crystals used for this purpose.
Kansas. Thousands of fine minerals, Indian • • •
25 COLORFUL WESTERN Minerals, labeled, relics. Dealers Welcome. No mail orders, Program for the November meeting, of
mounted in attractive box, $1.75, postpaid. please. Boodle Lane, Box 331, Galena, Kansas.
Striking gems, brilliant minerals, dazzling the Hollywood Lapidary society was to con-
fluorescents. Write for free lists. Superior MINERAL SPECIMENS, slabs or material by the sist of a lecture by Myer Wolfenson, en-
Minerals, Box 248 St. George, Utah. pound for cutting and polishing, RX Units, titled: "Silver Casting Using the Lost Wax
Felker Di-Met and Carborundum Saw Blades,
AGATE FOR SALE—We have Red and Black Carborundum wheels Cerium Oxide. Mount- Method." The group planned a field trip
Plume, Blue and Pink Banded, and many ings. Approval selection sent upon request. to Mule canyon late in October, and the
kinds of Moss Agates. All at our ranch at You are welcome. A. L. Jarvis, Route 2, Box December 9 meeting was to be a Christmas
Alpine, Texas, or write J. A. Anderson, Box 350, Watsonville, California, on Salinas High-
182, Alpine, Texas. way. party.

A "field trip to collect staurolite crystals
AMONG THE was planned for November 13 by the GEM VILLAGE
Georgia Mineral society of Atlanta. Simple The Rockhound Colony
ROCK HUNTERS crystals and crosses of various sizes re-
portedly can be collected in abundance from
near Ball Ground in Cherokee county,
For anything in gems, jewelry, cutting
materials, or a location for shop, business •
or just a nice place to live, write to
Georgia. The mineralogy of staurolites, FRANK MORSE
Alan Brooks, commercial assayer and how they were formed, and the various
engineer, was to speak on "Opening and types of twinned crystals were to be dis- BAYFIELD. COLORADO
Developing a Mining Claim," at the No- cussed at the next meeting of the society,
vember meeting of the San Diego Mineral with a listing of other localities where they
and Gem society. He was to discuss staking could be collected.
out a gold claim, filing, beginning the dig- CHOICE CABOCHON MATERIAL
ging and developing, and identifying the Fine crystalled minerals.
minerals found. Bob Came was to speak Officers of the Chicago Rocks and Min- Mineralight and fluorescent minerals.
at the November meeting of the Mineral- erals society, elected at the October meet- MINERALS UNLIMITED
ogy division on "Methods of Identifying ing, are: President, Ernst Gradolph; vice-
president, Bernard C. Kolter; secretary, 1724 University Ave.. Berkeley 3. Calif.
Minerals," with a field trip scheduled to
Phillips gold mine near El Cajon. The Marie Holtz; treasurer, Louis Holtz; cura- "Selections personal as your own"
society board voted to change the meeting tor, George C. Anderson; editors of the
place. Beginning January 1, the group will society bulletin, Herbert and Oriol Grand-
meet in the Natural History museum hall, Girard. At the meeting, Langdon Longwell,
Park Boulevard and Laurel Street, Balboa past president of the Marquette Geologists Silversmith - Stones Cut and Polished
association of Chicago, talked about agates. Custom Made Mountings
park. The San Diego group had 238 mem- His lecture was illustrated with his own
bers on September 1, 1948, reportedly the color slides. For mineral photographers he
largest society in California. explained his method of photographing the POP MENARD'S HOBBY SHOP
stones, which were placed in a pan with Hobby Supplies - Scale Models
colored cloth or paper for a background Moss Agate and Opal Collection on Display
Directors for 1949 were to be chosen by and covered with kerosene which has about
the Northern California Mineral Society, the same refractive index as quartz. For Repairs Phone 6423
Inc., of San Francisco, at the November 378 S. Indian Ave. Palm Springs, Calif.
meeting in San Francisco public library. A.
Maudens and N. W. Hanna brought polished Mrs. Alvin Markwell was elected presi- Visitors Welcome
materials from their collections to the Oc- dent of the Oklahoma Mineral and Gem
tober meeting and explained how they had society at the October meeting of the club • v
cut and polished agates and gem stones. in Oklahoma City. Domer L. Howard is
Miss Gertrude Barnett told the society about vice-president; Mrs. H. T. Daniels, secre- • New beauty in collections
a trip into the Mother Lode country taken tary; Linton T. Riggs, treasurer; Hubert
during September, which was planned for Rackets, Mrs. W. M. Burns and Margaret • Instant identification
members of the American Mining congress Sprankle, directors. A representative of the • Faster analysis
held in San Francisco. The society held a Oklahoma geological survey was to speak on • Uncover new wealth
lapidary open house at its headquarters, the minerals of Oklahoma at the November
1001 Oak Street, November 14, with Harold meeting.
Newman in charge. • • • 1 BULLETIN
November meeting of the Minnesota Min- SEND
eral club of Minneapolis was to feature a FOR
The annual Christmas party of the East discussion on how to cut and polish rocks, D200
Bay Mineral Society, Inc., was to be held and the equipment required, by W. J. B ing-
December 16, with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas- MINERALIGHT does all this with
ham. It was the first formal meeting of the such ores as Scheelite, Uranium,
berger in charge. A potluck dinner was society since April, since the summer and Mercury, Zircon, Hydozincite,
planned, with each member contributing a Willeinite and many other minerals
pot of cooked food, a cake, pie or salad. fall meetings were in the form of field trips. and materials. See these com-
The club furnishes coffee, cream, rolls and Last field trip was to gravel pits at Wabasha. pletoly portable lamps at your
MINKRALIGHT D E A L E R , 12
butter. Each member also was to bring a models from $12.50 up.
cut or polished stone, mineral, crystal or Lee Stokes of the University of Utah was
some other present wrapped for Christmas. to give a talk on the Morrison formation,
Community singing and other entertainment geological stratum in which many dinosaur
was planned. December 2 meeting was to bones have been found, at the November
PRODUCTS, Inc.
be a discussion by Scott Williams and Dave 2 meeting of the Mineralogical Society of
Grigsby on "Quicksilver in California." De- Utah, held in the geology building on the 5205 Sinn Monici Hid.,Los Anitlrs Jl.Cilii
cember 5 field trip was planned for the University of Utah campus, Salt Lake City.
beach near Burlingame where various varie-
ties of jasper were to be collected, then to
an old quicksilver mine near Redwood City.
Regular meeting place of the society is the
auditorium of Lincoln School, 11th and
Jackson Streets, Oakland, California.
^<wW 'Seen ôatiutq, 'pott
January 19 meeting of the Nebraska Petrified Wood, Moss Agate, Chrysocolla
Mineralogy and Gem club of Omaha will Turquoise, Jade and Jasper Jewelry
be held at the Joslin memorial with Dr.
E. S. Bantin speaker of the evening. He
! HAND MADE IN STERLING SILVER
will give a talk on fluorescence, illustrated
by colored charts. Feature of the November
meeting was to be a lecture on the rubies
and ruby mines of Burma by Dr. Don ; |J Bracelets, Rings, Necklaces, Earrings
and Brooches
Spaulding who was stationed in Burma
during the war. The Nebraska society
recently affiliated with the Midwest Feder- :*"•. SPECIALLY SELECTED STONES WITH
CHOICE COLORS AND PICTURES
| ||
ation of Geological societies, and was al- Write "for Folder With Prices
ready a member of the Rocky Mountain
Federation of Mineral societies. This, ac-
cording to Club President Bertha C. Min- ELLIOTT'S GEM SHOP
ardi, places the society at the center of a 26 Jergens Arcade LONG BEACH 2. CALIF.
twin-federation area. She believes that a
society common to both federations will Entrance Subway at Ocean and Pine
make the two larger organizations better Open 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. Daily
friends than ever.
JANUARY, 1949 43
The Yakima Rock and Mineral club has COLORADO JUNCTION CLUB
DIAMOND DRILLING resumed activities with election of officers PLANS FOR YEAR AHEAD
Two Rigs - Go Anywhere for the new club year. Herschel Rolfs is
$3.50 a Foot Up president; Elmer Holbrook, vice-president; A full year's program for the Grand
Special Deal on Large or Several Dale Porter, secretary-treasurer; T. H. Junction Mineralogical society was outlined
Small Consolidated Contracts Tuggle, caravan; Mrs. A. O. Turner, dis- when President Dick Fisher called Mesa
play, and Dr. E. Griesinger, program. county, Colorado, group together November
E. R. BISSETT Meetings will be held the third Thursday of 1, after a three-month recess. Among the
P. O. Box 44 WINCHESTER. CALIF. each month at 8:00 p. m. in the Yakima programs listed were the following:
Grange headquarters building. The club December 20, "Mining Claims and Min-
membership has increased over 100 per eral Law," by C. J. Traylor; January 3,
cent during the past year. "Early Days of San Juan Mining," by Mrs.
Leo Oberto; January 17, "Shooting the Do-
RX-47 lores," pictures and prose by Preston and
W. C. LaRue, member of the East Bay Becky Walker; February 2, "My Four
A COMPLETE Mineral society of Oakland, California, was Years in the Netherlands East Indies," by
guest speaker at the November 12 meeting Galen Sturgin; March 7, "Polishing and
LAPIDARY of the Mineral and Gem Society of Castro Cutting Gem Stones," by Crisa B. Pond;
Valley. He discussed polishing of slabs and March 21, "Oil Shale Processing," by gov-
SHOP cabochons. LaRue polished many of the ernment representative; April 4, "Pre-His-
specimens, especially the spheres, for the toric Indian Uses of Rocks," by Al Look;
IN ONE April 18, Banquet and presentation of
museum of science in Golden Gate park.
President and Mrs. Millard Moore of East special merit awards.
SMALL
Bay Mineral society were visitors at the Paul Phillips spoke at the November 1
MACHINE meeting and President Moore extended an meeting, discussing the origin and uses of
invitation to the Castro Valley group to the waters of western Colorado. The
The Most Practical Ever Devised for join the East Bay society on a field trip to society plans to print its own bulletin this
Gem Cutting and Polishing the Mother Lode country in November. year, selling advertising space to any rock-
hound who has material to sell or trade,
Send for Circular A • e e or services or supplies to offer, to meet
RX LABORATORY The Gem Collectors Club of Utah, Salt publication costs.
Lake City, is planning its annual display e • •
1317 Seaman Ave. EL MONTE. CALIF. for sometime in December. Special ribbons
will be awarded for cabochons, facets, orna- The Maricopa Lapidary society of
mentals, jewelry, polished slabs, carvings, Phoenix had Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Gordon
and the best cut and polished collection of of Long Beach, California, as principal
Utah materials. At the October 21 meet- speakers at the November 8 meeting. Gor-
O/bal - TKexic* ing, Call of the Canyon was shown to the
club by the Utah department of publicity
don displayed and explained standard and
new lapidary equipment. Mrs. Gordon
10 small pieces—average W-V*"—$1.00 and industrial development. spoke on "The Story of Diamonds." In
5 larger—average ¥*"-\" 1.00 • • e open discussion Gordon answered questions
6 still larger—1"-2" or over 2.00 pertaining to the lapidary art and offered
1 small vial clear iire opal 1.50 Delvers Gem and Mineral society of suggestions for solving some of the prob-
50 rough mixed Mexican Opals, Downey, California, had Mr. and Mrs. lems of cutting and polishing. At the Oc-
including honey, cherry, etc., Lowell Gordon of Long Beach, California, tober 11 meeting, Jack Streeter gave a
average 1" 1.50 on a recent program. Mr. Gordon de- resume of his three-month trip through
scribed cabochon shaping, grinding, and South America and showed specimens he
ALL 5 LOTS POSTPAID—$6.00 polishing. Mrs. Gordon gave the featured had brought back. December 13 meeting
Although these are sold chiefly as talk of the evening, a complete and enlight- will be a pot luck dinner and election of
cabinet specimens and have plenty of ening story of the diamond. Field trip of officers.
fire, many of them will work up into new the month was to Cache canyon. It was • • •
cabochons. reported successful, although Sunday morn-
ing found the rockhunters under a heavy Albert Hake entertained the Glendale
Money Cheerfully Refunded If Not blanket of ice and frost. Digging soon Lapidary and Gem society by projecting
Entirely Satisfactory. warmed them up, and all returned with a thin slices of his rock specimens on a
good supply of plume agate. screen. Sagenite agate from the Nipomo
Polished Mexican Opals and other district predominated among the specimens.
gem stone cabochons on approval to • • e The society made a field trip to Nipomo
responsible persons. ' Forty members and guests of the Pomona November 6.
Valley Mineral club attended a turkey din- e e e
DR. RALPH E. MUELLER ner in Pomona for the club's November
Two films were shown at the November
3701 Valentine Road Kansas City 2, Mo. meeting. A committee of club members
decorated the banquet tables with center- 8 meeting of the Southwest Mineralogists,
pieces composed of desert rocks and plants. Inc. Lead Mining, issued by the bureau of
Place-cards featured desert scenes and des- mines, showed the operation of the St.
ert rat nicknames for the members. Speaker Joseph Mining company's property in south-
AN IDEAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT for the occasion was H. Stanton Hill of eastern Missouri. Excursions into Science
The "Perfect" Cabochon Sander Pasadena city college who discussed "The dealt with liquid air. Slides of the Pitts
and Polisher Geology of Mt. Lassen National Park." collection from the Academy of Science in
He brought with him a large display of San Franciscso also were shown. Plans
10" Cast Aluminum Disc takes 10" cloth for a turkey dinner December 13, and ex-
8" Cast Aluminum Disc takes 8" cloth minerals to be found in the park. He de-
scribed the principal volcanic regions of the change of minerals by members attending
It saves you money every time you put world and identified the three different were announced by Program Chairman
on a new sheet of cloth. types of volcanos. A series of color slides Frank Trombatore.
Change cloth from one grit to another in showed the outstanding features of Mt.
a few seconds, no rings or springs to Lassen park.
bother with. "The Manufacture and Identification of
e e e Synthetic Gem Stones" was to be Richard
10" Disc, each $6.50 Kern County Mineral society planned a Liddicoat's topic at the November meeting
8" Disc, each 5.75 joint meeting with the Kern County His- of the Mineralogical Society of Southern
Prices F.O.B. Bellflower torical society, November 8, with Dr. H. H. California, meeting in the lecture room of
See it at your local dealer, or write direct Nininger, director of the American Meteor- the Pasadena public library. Liddicoat is
for free illustration. ite museum near Winslow, Arizona, lectur- assistant director of the Gemological Insti-
Send for free illustrated price list of mod- ing to the groups on meteorites. Field trip tute of America. Members Vance and
ern jewelry mountings! Large selection in for October was to the Searles Lake min- Rodekohr, just returned from a collecting
sterling silver, gold filled and 10k gold. eral show at Trona. At the October meet- trip into New Mexico, were to display their
ing, Thomas Goff of San Diego gave a collections at the meeting. A Sunday ex-
ABERCROMBIFS AGATE SHOP talk on fluorescent minerals and showed cursion of the society to the mineral
16505 S. Lakewood Blvd. some of his paintings in which he used museum of the California Institute of
ground up fluorescent minerals. Thirty-two Technology was being planned by Don
BELLFLOWER. CALIF. members and 14 guests were present at the George, society vice-president and curator
P. O. Box 727 meeting. of minerals at the institute.

Dr. Arthur Richards of Southern Meth- PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR FIELD The following officers have been elected
odist university spoke at the November TRIPS GIVEN YAVAPAI CLUB by the San Fernando Mineral and Gem
meeting of the Texas Mineral society and society of North Hollywood for the com-
showed colored slides of a recent summer A. C. Nebeker, Arizona state mining ing year: Harrison Stamp retained as presi-
trip to western mining areas of the United engineer, gave practical advice to rock- dent; E. L. Watson, vice-president; Mrs.
States. The society met at the Baker hotel's hounds on field trips at the November 2 Helen M. Craig, secretary; Mrs. Jean K.
Peacock Terrace. Next month society mem- meeting of the Yavapai Gem and Mineral Kuhn, treasurer; H. E. (Pat) Williams,
bers will exchange Christmas gifts, having society of Prescott. "Go out in twos," Ne- building board. November meeting of the
drawn names at the November meeting. beker said. "So many things can happen society was held at the Sepulveda Woman's
The gifts, of course, will be rocks. on the hills and desert. You are looking club where Lester B. Benson, laboratory
• • • for minerals, eyes and nose to the ground, supervisor of the Gemological Institute of
and you may lose your bearings. Take Los Angeles gave a lecture on "Mineral and
New officers for the Carson City Min- bearing from a prominent point before you Gem Identification," demonstrating with
eral society of Nevada are: Thomas W. start. microscopes, spectroscopes and other in-
Robinson, engineer with the U. S. geological "Be careful not to enter abandoned mines. struments the crystal structure of gems.
survey, president; Mrs. George E. Norris Young fellows have quite a desire to get Plans were made for the Christmas party,
of Gardnerville, vice-president; Mrs. Eva into a tunnel without realizing the bad and which was to be a picnic dinner with
Gillen of Stewart, secretary-treasurer; poisonous gases there. Do not trust mine "entertainment while you eat."
Orvis Reil, three-year director. Mrs. Alpha timber. I have been in mines where the
Fifer, assisted by Roswell Hall and Joe timber looked solid, but, when touched
Copperthwaite, has organized a junior rock with a bar, it crumbled from dry rot. If Dr. Marc F. Baumgardt lectured on
club which now has a membership of 19. you want to go down anywhere, have a "Historic Geology" to the Pacific Mineral
Jim Calhoun is president of the new group. rope. society .at their November meeting. Dr.
• • • "Look out for rattlesnakes. They are Baumgardt is a Fellow of the Royal Astro-
After a three-month summer recess, the not gentlemen. They do not always tell you nomical society of Great Britain, past-
Feather River Gem and Mineral society of where they, are and they are found in the president of the Academy of Science, and
Oroville, California, is again holding regu- most unexpected places. Always have a kit director of Clark observatory for 21 years.
lar meetings the 2nd and 4th Thursdays at for rattlesnake bite." He showed hand-colored slides to illustrate
the Bird Street school. Visitors are always • • • his lecture. Last to be described was the
welcome. Vacations were discussed at the Dona Ana County Rockhound club, New progress of man — both mentally and
first fall meeting. President Charles Bush, Mexico, has purchased a show case for physically. The lecturer stated that man
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Reeves and Mr. and display of minerals belonging to the club, had been on the earth approximately
Mrs. Don Parker described summer col- and has placed it in the Branigan memorial 500,000 years, equivalent to two seconds on
lecting tours of the West. Most of the 60 library, Las Cruces. At the November the clock of geology. On display were fos-
members and visitors who attended the meeting of the society, a discussion of sil collections of Dr. Baumgardt and Dr.
meeting brought specimens to display and mineral nicknames was presented by the P. A. Foster, showing specimens from the
discuss, with a "picture" by Pearl Parker club president and Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Cambrian period to the present day.
which showed red roses surrounded by Brown of the Kitsap Mineral and Gem
greenery when shown under the ultra-violet society of Bremerton, Washington, visiting
light the chief attraction. A meeting Oc- the club, talked on Washington mineralogy The Calaveras Mineral club has recently
tober 28 was largely taken up with a dis- and geology and the activities of their been formed at Murphys, California. F. H.
cussion of the ways in which the club de- society. The Dona Ana group were guests Wallace is one of the founders.
sires to expand. Efforts are being made to of the El Paso Mineral and Gem society
find a permanent location where lapidary late in October. November field trip was
equipment may be set up and classes started to the Rincon thunder-egg beds. It isn't CHALcedony, it's kalCEDony, but
in various phases of mineralogy, geology, • • • you write it CHAL.—Don Alfredo.
cutting and polishing and jewelry work. Don Alfredo, editor of the bulletin of
• • • the Dona Ana county. New Mexico, Rock- ARTHRITIS. ASTHMA SUFFERERS
hound club, is continuing his campaign Come to JOSHUA TREE for Reliei
The November meeting of the Akron against what he terms "misinformative"
Mineral society was held at the home of The Desert in the Mountains
names for minerals and gems. Smoky topaz Year 'Round Climate
Dr. and Mrs. Omar Fouts, 745 Noble Ave- is one which he says should not be toler-
nue, Akron, Ohio. A symposium of fluor- Clear Dry Air • Pure Soft Water
ated. Ruby sphalerite is acceptable because
escence was featured. Clayton Schnabel it describes a form of sphalerite by color ROBERT A. GORHAM
presented his discourse on "The Light of the without insinuating it is anything else. But JOSHUA TREE, San Bernardino Co., CALIF.
World," which was illustrated by many there is no copper in copperas and it should
specimens of fluorescent minerals. H. C. go out the window. Radiumactive is a
Treese discussed and demonstrated fluores- more accurately descriptive word than IDENTIFY RADIOACTIVES
cent and phosphorescent paints and pig- radioactive, says the editor, who invites with a
ments. The name of the club has been other rockhounds to take up the battle for
changed from Akron Mineralogical to exact and correct terms. GEIGER COUNTER
Akron Mineral society. For Rent by Day or Week
• • • Reasonable Rates
• • • December 17 meeting of the Mineral- and We Have Some Available for Sale
A well-patronized auction sale of min- ogical Society of Arizona was to feature KNIPPER'S "U-RENT"
erals and gems donated by members fea- "Gadgets for the Rockhound," and mem- 2140 S. Main, SANTA ANA, CALIF.
tured the November meeting of the Santa bers were invited to bring their favorite
Monica Gemological society. Past-President gadgets. December 3 meeting was a birth-
Vern Cadieux presided as auctioneer. Re-
ceipts sent the special fund for purchase of a
day party. November 19, E. E. Michael
of the Yavapai Gem and Mineral society of
GEMS ROUGH OR POL I SHED
Mineralight for exhibit and testing purposes
over the top. Cadieux explained the theory
Prescott, guest speaker, talked on shells and
displayed several hundred specimens which
he had collected from all over the world.
^SSBBSMs
of fluorescence and demonstrated several
types of lights. November field trip was The society meets the first and third Fri-
planned to Last Chance canyon. December days of the month, October through May,
meeting will include a Christmas party and in the Assembly Hall, 1736 West Van GEM EXCHANGE*?*
exchange of gifts. Buren Street, Phoenix, Arizona. H. B.
• • • Holloway, P. O. Box 902, Phoenix, is secre-
tary-treasurer.
El Paso Mineral and Gem society has • • • HAZEN'S FOSSIL MUSEUM
published the first issue of its club bulletin,
The Voice of the El Paso Rockhounds. Twenty members of the Cheyenne Geol- See Fossil Plant and Animal Remains
James W. Redding, 177 Anita Circle, El ogy club of Cheyenne, Wyoming, are tak- Gems and Minerals For Sale
Paso, Texas, is the editor, and announces ing a ten-week course in geology under the
his editorial policy, "We've got to feed the supervision of Dr. McGrew of the Uni- On Highway U.S. 93-466, "A mile west
hounds good red meat or they're going to versity of Wyoming. Rockhounds visiting of its junction with U.S. 66 at
get pretty feeble and crawl off and die the vicinity of Cheyenne can contact Mrs. Kingman, Ariz.
someplace." The society has sponsored a Frank Clark, 1202 W. 32nd; Fred Salfis- GUY E. HAZEN
junior group, and at the September meet- berg, 1205 Talbot Court; Mrs. Sam Thomp-
ing Lester Beam was elected to the newly son, 515 E. 22nd; or Henry Arp, 3905 Box 695, Kingston. Arizona
created post of junior sponsor. Bent Avenue.
JANUARY, 1949 45
Just Between You and. Me
By RANDALL HENDERSON
ECENTLY I have had some interesting correspond- building, but whose wages will not permit $100 a month
ence with John Edwin Hogg relative to the future for rent, have been left to scramble for what meager ac-
commodations they can find, or pay rentals out of all
possibilities of Salton Sea. Hogg wants to make his proportion to their wage checks.
home on the desert—and he has a very unique idea for a After reaching a peak two years ago, there has been
homesite. He wants to build on Salton Sea. a falling off in the patronage of guests who thought nothing
Explaining the origin of the idea, he wrote: "Several of paying $10 or $15 or $25 a night for lodging. The
years ago I visited Dal Lake, in India's famous Vale of "vacancy" signs on the more expensive hotels and motor
Cashmir. Dal Lake is the biggest body of fresh water in courts are becoming more and more conspicuous in
India, although only a fraction of the size of Salton Sea. nearly all desert resort towns.
India law prohibits foreigners from owning real estate in Communities which have staked their capital on luxuri-
the Dal Lake area. Englishmen got around that law very ous accommodations for wealthy visitors may have hard
conveniently by building palatial houseboats. The Rajas, sledding in the years ahead. The time may come when
the Maharajas and wealthy Hindus followed suite, with they will envy the stability of those communities where
the result that Dal Lake today has a vast population afloat ample housing has been provided for people who work
in the most elaborate lot of houseboats to be found any- for modest salaries—for after all, these people are the
where in the world. Climate and scenery in the Vale of salt of the earth.
Cashmir are very similar to those features of the Salton • • •
Sea area."
This is the season when visitors from everywhere
Of course the water in Salton Sea is too brackish for come to the desert country to get away from the rains
domestic purposes, but Hogg believes this can be solved and snows and frigid temperatures of other parts of the
with the recently perfected equipment for purifying ocean United States.
water. One company now makes a thermocompression
evaporator which will convert 7200 gallons of ocean brine Clean dry air and winter sunshine of course are the
to fresh water a day at a cost of $1.30 a thousand gallons. principal factors which lure folks to this region. The
The initial installation cost is $20,000—but it purifies physical environment of the desert is conducive to re-
enough water to serve 100 families. laxation, and therefore health.
It is an interesting suggestion to those of us who have But I wish more of these visitors would bring their
for many years pondered the possibilities of the Salton. knapsacks and hiking shoes—and really get acquainted
At present the Sea serves as a drainage basin for the Im- with the desert which lies outside the zone of paved
perial Irrigation district—but houseboats along the shore roads and beyond the property lines of cottage courts and
line would in no way conflict with the drainage problem. hotels and guest ranches.
Perhaps the houseboat owners would do a landscaping For the real charm of the desert country is reserved
job that should have been done long ago by the chambers for those who tramp out across the mesas and into the
of commerce in this desert area—namely, go back in arroyos and canyons which give character to the desert
the canyons and gather a few bushels of the native Wash- landscape.
ington palm seeds now going to waste and plant a fringe One does not have to be a geologist to admire the form
of palms around the shore line. The palms would thrive— and coloring of rock formations of a thousand hues and
and what a picture this big desert waterhole would make fantastic shapes. One does not have to be a botanist to
with a crest of palm fronds encircling its shores! love the delicate flower which exemplifies the tenacity of
• • • desert things by putting down its roots in a tiny crevice
I think the chambers of commerce and the private pro- in a wall of stone.
moters who are promoting housing in the desert areas are When too much of our time is spent in close associa-
giving too much attention to the building of luxurious tion with other humans amid artificial surroundings our
accommodations for wealthy visitors, and not enough at- sense of values becomes warped and unhealthy. Our
tention to the construction of modest quarters for travelers judgment gets out of focus. Trivial things become too
of moderate means, and for workers who would establish important. Important things are neglected.
permanent homes here. The desert world of Nature has healing tonic for
It is true in the Palm Springs area, in Tucson and Las mental and emotional ills. But Mother Nature's cure is
Vegas, and to a lesser extent in Phoenix and Albuquerque. only for those willing to put forth real effort. And so, I
While the builders are trying to outdo each other in suggest again that when folks come to the desert they
the construction of expensive courts and hostelries, the should bring a knapsack and hiking shoes and go out
building tradesmen, the clerks, the teachers, the motor alone or with a good companion and seek out for them-
mechanics, the small proprietors and all the other groups selves the spiritual lift that comes from close association
of workers whose services are essential to community with the things of Nature.

Carlos reservation. The only explanation
of why a reservation was located there in
1872, according to Forrest and Hill, is that
"the white man thought that this land he
would never want, and so it was good
enough for an Apache." The Kid grew to
manhood on the agency, and was a favor-
ite of the whites. He was a sergeant with
the Indian scouts when his father was
stabbed by another Apache, and the Kid
despite warnings, took the law into his
own hands. From that time until he dis-
NEW CALIFORNIA MINERAL There are accounts of Chinese mining appeared into the mountains of Mexico, his
methods, and of conflicts between Chinese life was a succession of escapes, chases and
GUIDE IS PUBLISHED and occidentals and Indians, of the tongs killings. Of his own end, there is no posi-
Long awaited by rockhounds and mineral- and tong warfare, the Chinese theatre, tive record. Men claimed to be in on his
ogists, Bulletin 136 of the California Di- strange customs and religious ceremonies. killing at different times at widely sepa-
vision of Mines, MINERALS OF CALI- He tells how Chinese superstition supported rated places, but the authors believe that he
FORNIA, now is available. Its predecessor, Wells, Fargo, when the rest of the San escaped.
Bulletin 113, with the same title, has been Francisco banking companies went broke THE LONE WAR TRAIL OF THE
out of print since February, 1946. The new or lost heavily. APACHE KID is illustrated with historical
edition has been completely rewritten and The well-known phrase "He didn't have photographs and with a reproduction in
greatly enlarged by Professors Joseph Mur- a Chinaman's chance," McLeod explains, color of Charles M. Russell's painting,
doch and Robert W. Webb of the University "was born in a flow of bloodshed during "Mexican Rurales." It is an interesting
of California at Los Angeles. It describes the great anti-Chinese riots of early Cali- factual item of Southwestern history, but
516 definite minerals and many subspecies fornia." And he traces those riots and their one has the feeling that a more complete
and varieties, and the localities in which political and labor backgrounds, and fol- story of the Kid and his times could be
they have been found in California. lows through to the present position of the written.
In addition to the mineral descriptions, Chinese in our society. Today, he asserts,
there are historical and geological sketches the last of the "old China boys" is gone— Trail's End Publishing company, Pasa-
of aboriginal and Indian minerals, the dis- and acclimatization of the coast Chinese is dena, California, 1947. 143 pps., index,
covery of gold in California, discovery of complete, their Americanization proceeding. bibliography, notes, map endpapers. $3.25.
borax in California and the Searles lake de- If so, PIGTAILS AND GOLD DUST is
posits, Crestmore quarry, the pegmatite gem a fitting memorial to a vanished era. While
area of Southern California, Cerro Gordo, it deals principally with Chinese of the BOOK NOTES . . .
and the glaucophane schists. coast and Mother Lode area, there is no The New Mexico Quarterly Review is
Color plates have been introduced into doubt that it applies as well to the far- sponsoring contests for all types of unpub-
the volume for the first time, with pictures wandering oriental pioneers of the desert lished poems by New Mexico citizens. Wit-
of benitoite, neptunite, crystallized gold, mining camps. It is an excellent book. ter Bynner, nationally known New Mexico
gold leaf on quartz, kunzite, essonite gar- Caxton Printers, Caldwell, Idaho, 1947. poet, is chairman of the contest committee.
net, and gem tourmaline. The pictures of 326 pps., many illustrations from old photos, Manuscripts should be submitted not later
the gold, garnet and tourmaline are par- bibliography, $5.00. than midnight, December 31, 1948, and
ticularly good. One fundamental change is awards will be made January 15, 1949.
the listing of the minerals in alphabetical Manuscripts should be marked either cata-
order rather than by groups, which will O N THE BLOODY TRAIL OF gory I for original poems by New Mexico
simplify reference work for the amateur students either at college or public school,
collector. THE LAST APACHE RENEGADE
or catagory II for original poems by New
Occurrences of the minerals are • listed The story of the Apache Kid, as told by Mexico residents not included in the first
according to counties, with definite locali- Earle R. Forrest and Edwin B. Hill in THE group. Prizes will consist of $50 for first
ties where available. There is an exhaustive LONE WAR TRAIL OF THE APACHE place and $25 for second place.
bibliography containing 2000 titles to which KID, is one of the grimmest chapters of the
the investigator wishing more complete in- closing years of Indian warfare in Arizona, • • •
formation can refer. MINERALS OF in the late '80s and early '90s. And yet Coincident with the release of a motion
CALIFORNIA will be of great service to the Kid was not bad according to Apache picture, based upon Eugene Manlove
any one collecting or interested in the min- standards, the authors say. He was true to Rhodes famous Paso Por Aqui, it was an-
erals of the state. his friends, red and white, and never forgot
California Division of Mines, 1948. 402 a favor. But when his father was killed the nounced that Houghton Mifflin company.
pps., cloth bound. $3.00. Kid followed tribal law and hunted down Boston, is planning to bring out an omni-
and killed his father's murderer. bus edition of Rhodes' work which would
• • • include a collection of his best known
NO CHINAMAN HAD A CHANCE The Kid was born on that part of the works and the story of his life, Hired Man
IN GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA Gila which was later to become the San on Horseback.
PIGTAILS AND GOLD DUST was
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traces their story from the spring of 1848,
Familiar Birds of the Pacific Southwest
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no series of case histories. While the author Southwest is back in print! Size and color keys, and 102 full-
makes no attempt to gloss over Chinese page color reproductions of bird photographs by Donald R.
faults and presents their virtues fairly, you Dickey. No scientific terms in either text or keys. A field
know that his friendship is with his sub-
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Why were people coming to Palm Desert in increasing numbers?

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JANUARY, 1949 35 CENTS

Why Make Your Home inPalmDesert

Los Angeles Office:

Tract Office on Property

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Desert Dude Wrangler

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Breakfast party from Camelback Inn, Arizona.

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Indian women of the Pueblos

gold ledge By JOHN D. MITCHELL THE D6S6RT

Sand Dunes and

Cooke's spring was Phillip St. George

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favorite medium and has a canvas hung

Aravaipa Creek, Arizona . . .

^ ?ZURICH Big Pine-Deep Spr Road,

Don Ingalls and his compan-

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HERE AND THERE Zhealy Tso, vice-chairman of the Navajo

nym for "American" sprang from hearing

THE DESERT TRADING POST

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Mojave Old-Timers Meet . . .

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VflLCRIE JEflN DflT€ SHOP I

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SAW BLADE BARGAIN

GORDON Such a tale was the one on California

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