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THE M A. G A Z J N E JULY, 1945 25 CENTS the science of geology and the story of their formation is delightfully and un- derstandingly told by Carroll and Mildred Fenton in THE ROCK BOOK which is profusely illustrated. This is an easily un- derstood book for the novice in geology and excellent as a refresher course for the person who studied it at college. A knowl- edge of rocks is needed by the collector of minerals and gems of course if one is DAKE ISSUES NEW EDITION GRAND CANYON- to have any more than a surface interest. If OF GEM CUTTING BOOK MIRACLE OF EROSION . you possess a good book on mineralogy and another on gemology you should certainly A revised, enlarged edition of ART OF On September 12, 1909, Julius F. Stone have one on geology and I can think of GEM CUTTING has just been issued by and four companions shoved off in four none that I would rather recommend than Mineralogist Publishing company, Port- boats at Green River, Wyoming, to run the THE ROCK BOOK. It also has a chapter land, Oregon. Dr. H. C. Dake, editor of Colorado river rapids. Two months and 12 on how to collect and label rocks. the Mineralogist magazine, and Richard days later the party arrived at Needles, M. Pearl, well known Colorado gemolo- California, at the end of one of the most If it follows that one's visit to the opera gist, are responsible for this third edition. successful of the early day trips through is more appreciative with a previous Grand Canyon. knowledge of the story and music or if a Besides a new introductory chapter on visit to an art gallery is more intelligently gem cutting as a hobby, there is a 37-page This merely was the first of many trips enjoyed by a previous study of arts and art- section which contains many valuable tips Julius Stone made to and through the ists then it is even more important to the on special lapidary technics. Among these watershed of the Colorado river to con- enjoyment of any trip, anywhere, to have a are bedside lapidary for cripples; power tinue his exploration and study of the fas- working knowledge of geology. Every vista feed (diamond) saw; theory and practice of cinating geology of this country. from a train or car window presents geo- polishing (by E. P. Van Leuven) ; sphere Finally, in 1932 he felt conversant logy and if the view is beautiful there is cutting; pitch polishing; cameos and cameo enough with the subject to publish his own great satisfaction in knowing the founda- cutting; typical home lapidary shop; how and the conclusions of others as to the tion of it all. to cut star quartz; drilling holes; coloring geology of the Colorado river canyon. agates (Idar method) ; how to polish jade, Hence the book, CANYON COUNTRY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, and many others. The chapter on jewelry The Romance of a. Drop of Water and a N. Y., 1944. Illus. with color plates, making was omitted from this edition. Grain of Sand. photos, line drawings. Index, 357 pages. $6.00. While part of the book is a day-by-day Many photos, drawings, index, 128 —LELANDE QUICK pages. $1.50. record of his first trip through the gorge, the greater part of the volume is devoted • • • to a study of the geological history, with "FISH TRAPS" BELIEVED BUILT over 300 halftone illustrations which with BY HUNTERS. NOT FISHERMEN the explanatory notes accompanying them, In March we obtained a limited supply give a graphic story of the miracle Nature On a series of terraces at the base of the of these books, but it was soon ex- Santa Rosa mountains in southern Coa- hausted and since it did not appear at wrought in the formation of the Grand that time that more copies would be Canyon abyss. chella Valley, California, are three rows available, we refunded checks to a num- Grand Canyon is mainly the work of of symmetrically placed small rocky en- ber of persons who had ordered them. closures, known to the tourist world as Now, however, we have received a erosion, and for a detailed study of how sand and water and heat and cold, with "Ancient Fish Traps." NEW SUPPLY OF sufficient time, h£.ve been able to gouge To refute this popular claim and to pre- out this great chasm, Stone quotes at length sent all facts possible in attempting an ac- George Wharton James' from the report of Captain Clarence D. curate explanation of these structures, Dutton in Tertiary History of the Grand Adan E. Treganza wrote a nine page illus- Canyon District, recognized as one of trated paper on the subject, which has been The Indians' the most authoritative studies ever pub- reprinted from American Antiquity for lished on the subject. January 1945. Among the many theories Secrets of Health With foreword by Henry Fairfield Os- advanced to account for the stone-circled born of the American Museum of Natural depressions are that they are sites of former History in New York City, the book was homes, traps to catch fish from ancient American Indians enjoyed rugged Lake Cahuilla, shooting blinds for hunters, health because they followed close to published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. 435 the principles Nature has prescribed for pages with index. $5.00. mescal roasting pits, storage pits for mes- healthful living. White Americans have —RANDALL HENDERSON quite beans, sweathouses, or the work of gotten far away from some of these nature. basic "musts"— and are paying the • * • price in pain and disability and doctors' WORLD OF ROCKS VIEWED Mr. Treganza concludes that the "fish bills. James discusses the subject bluntly FOR NOVICE AND STUDENT trap" theory is erroneous and is solely the —so that all may understand. We live on a rock, for the world is al- outgrowth of local misinterpretation. He most wholly a rock in one form or an- believes that if they are house sites, as some Halftone Illustrations other. A large part of it may be covered scientists believe, they must be unique, as 280 pages — $3.25 postpaid by the sea but underneath the sea is rock the diameter ranges from four to IOV2 feet, for sand is little pieces of rock. We do there is no evidence of continued occupa- everything with rock from seasoning food tion and their arrangement would be pecu- DESERT CRAFTS SHOP with it to building our homes and using liar for such use. Most of the evidence, as El Centro, California its metals for making our machines for he presents it, seems to point to the possi- making everything else. bility that they served as blinds for antelope How these rocks came about is known as hunters. THE DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT • Frank C. Lockwood, of the University of Arizona at Tucson, has spent almost a lifetime writing about the men who made history in the Southwest. He has told of their adventures and triumphs in such books as Pioneer Days in Arizona, Tuc- son—the Old Pueblo, With Padre Kino Volume 8 JULY. 1945 Number 9 on the Trail, The Apache Indians, More Arizona Characters. DESERT next month will publish his latest tribute to one of COVER SONNY AND HIS BURRO, at Old Vulture mining the Southwest's lesser known heroes, camp, southern Arizona. Photo by HAROLD Francois Xavier Aubrey, the man who KELLOGG, Santa Fe, New Mexico. first won fame by riding horseback the 780 miles from Santa Fe to Independence, BOOKS Canyon Country, and other reviews 2 Missouri, in five days and 16 hours. CLOSE-UPS Notes on Desert features and their writers .... 3 • Mojave, the desert tortoise which James E. Mayberry found last winter POETRY My Desert Trip and other poems 4 near Long Beach and sent to the Marshal Souths on Ghost Mountain, long since has come out of hibernation. Marshal re- MINING Doodlebug Prospector ports that Rider has Mojave looking al- By WALTER FORD 5 most natural again, having worked patiently for long hours with a dull knife, LEGEND I Found the Cave of a Pima God scraping off the layers of blue paint some- By CLEE WOODS 8 one had daubed on him. "He seems grateful to have the gooey stuff off," PERSONALITY Meet the New Commissioner! writes Marshal. "There should be a By DAMA LANGLEY 11 $10,000 fine and 50 years jail sentence for painting tortoises." MINERALOGY Glittering Stone of the Aztecs • Dr. Byron Cummings, archeologist By JERRY LAUDERMILK 13 and director emeritus of Arizona state museum, has returned to Kinishba, north- EXPLORATION Wild Palms of the San Ysidros east of Globe, Arizona, to continue re- By RANDALL HENDERSON 17 search and writing. He already has written one book, Kinishba, and many HUMOR Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley papers and reports relative to this pre- historic pueblo of the Great Pueblo By HARRY OLIVER 22 Period. ART OF LIVING Desert Refuge, by MARSHAL SOUTH .... 23 • Mountain Treasure, in this issue, is the seventh of the series Barry Storm LOST MINE Mountain Treasure, by BARRY STORM .... 25 wrote about lost gold and silver mines in the Superstition mountains east of LETTERS Comment from Desert readers 28 Phoenix, Arizona. Although the Lost Dutchman, supposed to exist somewhere NEWS Here and There on the Desert 29 in the broken ruggedness of this range, is the most famous of them, Storm in MINING Current news briefs 32 this series has written about other less well known ledges and mines of the HOBBY Gems and Minerals Superstitions, for they too have lured men for generations—to adventure and to —Edited by ARTHUR L.