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Desert Magazine 1951 r -, • THE , MAY, 1951 35 CENTS May Forecast for Wild flowers Late March wildflower reports from "the fish are friends who generously keep Desert Magazine posted are similar to those really fresh since of last month—no mass displays such he switched to as had been hoped for. Along Highway 111 beyond the Mobilgas" Desert Magazine pueblo, lavender sand verbenas still blossom in sections where irrigation overflow reached them. In the Joshua Tree National Monument the Joshuas are in full bud and should be well opened by the middle of April, remaining to the latter part of the month, according to Frank Givens, park superintendent. Lovely red plumes are beginning to tip the thorny ocotillo bushes, and will be worth seeing by the middle of April. Mass quantities exist in Ocotillo Val- ley on the way to Julian, California and along Highway 60-70 leading toward Blythe, California. Others cover the hillside beside the Palms to Pines Highway above Palm Desert. In the Death Valley area there are a mile or two of primroses and sun- flowers in Daylight Pass and a small showing of verbenas in Jubilee Pass, according to T. R. Goodwin, monu- ment superintendent. The Las Vegas section, Dora Tucker writes, has a few verbenas, encelias and the ever faithful lupine. / Throughout Arizona the story is still no rain with weather mild in the WITH MOBILGAS YOU GET top perform- southern part and cool about the Lake ance and economy. Everyone knows the Mead Recreational Area. Surprisingly, amazing mileage scored by the 32 different makes and models of American cars in the scarlet mallow, scarlet bugler, poppies, Mobilgas Economy Run. They averaged 23.9 hyacinths, lupine and others of sim- miles per gallon using Mobilgas in the rug- ilar character are to be seen near Mesa, ged 840-mile run from Los Angeles via reports Julian King. Hedgehog cactus Death Valley and Las Vegas to Grand Canyon. are in bud and will be followed by The Mobilgas Economy Run proved that staghorn. The creosote and grease- every motorist who is a good, safe driver, wood bushes are also putting forth. who keeps his car in good condition, and who uses Mobilgas or Mobilgas Special Some should last well into April, aug- (premium), can get more from his invest- mented by the saguaro, that giant of ment. Both Mobilgas and Mobilgas Special the wastelands, ocotillo, palo verde deliver maximum power and mileage, as the and ironwood. However, generally Run showed. If you car runs knock-free on speaking, the blossoms are scattered Mobilgas, then save the difference. But, use and with the exception of cactus, will Mobilgas Special if your car requires it ... you'll be money ahead in the long run. be extremely limited in most sections. lobilga; Since the rain gods of the desert FREE-AT YOUR MOBILGAS DEALER-To Indians have not seen fit to favor the help you get more mileage from your car, 32 CARS AVERAGED arid regions this spring, those who drivers, mechanics, and fuel engineers who participated in the Run have pooled their follow the wildflower trails with cam- experiences in a booklet. Your Mobilgas 23.9 era and magnifying glass will have to Dealer has a copy for you. MILES PER GALLON be for the most part, content with GENERAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION IN THE MOBILGAS cactus blossoms. Much as one misses — converting nature's gift to better living. ECONOMY RUN the colorful carpets, cactus will not disappoint, since no lovelier flower exists than those delicate waxy blos- I soms in numerous clear shades. DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT CALENDAR May 1 — Fiesta and Spring Corn Dance, San Felipe, New Mexico. May 1-6—Fiesta de Mayo with pa- rade, Nogales, Arizona. May 3—Ceremonial Races, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., Santa Cruz Day Corn Dance, Taos, New Mexico. May 3-5—Southeastern Utah Junior Livestock Show, Ferron, Utah. May 5—Cinco de Mayo, Mexican patriotic observance, Tucson, Ari- zona. May 5—All day auto-caravan through Volume 14 MAY, 1951 Number 7 Joshua tree National Monument, start from Palm Springs Desert Museum, 9:00 a.m., bring lunch COVER Saguctro in Blossom. Photographed by Harold O. and water. Weight, Pasadena, California May 5-6 — Sierra Club overnight camping trip to Indian Cove on WILDFLOWERS Forecast for May 2 northern edge Joshua Tree Na- tional Monument, California. CALENDAR May eve-its on the desert 3 May 5-27—Annual wildflower show, Drill Crew in Marble Canyon nearly 2000 varieties displayed. PROGRESS Community Hall, Julian. California. By JOYCE ROCKWOOD MUENCH ... 4 May 6—Nineteenth Annual Spring Foruotten Ghost of Gold Mountain Festival, 22 miles east of Lancaster, GHOST TOWN By NELL MURBARGER 8 Hi Vista, California. May 6 — Public pilgrimage to old Gem Hunt on a Ghost Town Trail Spanish homes, Mesilla, New Mex- FIELD TRIP ico. • By HAROLD O. WEIGHT 13 May 10-13 — Elks' Heldorado and MINING Current news of the derest mines 18 Rodeo, Las Vegas, Nevada. TREASURE May 12—Final guest lecture of sea- Lost Gold of Mono Lake son by Edmund C. Jaeger, noted By A. FRED EADS 19 desert author, entitled "Desert Mis- FICTION cellanies,'' 8:00 p.m.. Palm Springs Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 19 Museum. PHOTOGRAPHY May 15—Observatory open for First Pictures of the Month 20 Quarter moon, Tucson, Arizona. POETRY Joshua in Flower, and other poems 21 May 15-30 — Bear Hunting Season, LETTERS Arizona. Views and comment of Desert's readers ... 22 May 18-20 — Annual Calico Days NEWS celebration, sponsored American From here and there on the desert 23 Legion Post 797, Calico Guest CONTEST Ranch, Yermo, California. Pictures-cf-the-Month announcement .... 28 May 22—Observatory open for view- QUIZ ing full moon, Tucson, Arizona. A test of your desert knowledge 29 LAPIDARY May 24-26—Unitah Basin Livestock Amateur Gem Cutter, By LELANDE QUICK . 30 Show, Vernal, Utah. HOBBY May 26-27 — Sierra Club overnight Gems ard Minerals 31 camping trip to New York and CLOSE-UPS Ivanpah Mountains, California. About those who write for Desert 36 May 26-28—Fiesta of San Felipe de BOOKS Neri, Old Town Plaza, Albuquer- Reviews of Southwest literature 37 que, New Mexico. COMMENT Just Between You and Me, By the editor ... 38 May 26-July 5—All New Mexico Art LANDMARK Show, Old Town Plaza, Albuquer- Desert Trail Shrine Is Dedicated 39 que, New Mexico. May 30-31—D. U. P. Stake Memo- The Desert Magazine is published monthly by the Desert Press, Inc., Palm Desert, rial Day celebration, Fillmore, Utah. California. Re-entered as second cla^s matter July 17, 1948, at the post office at Palm Desert, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S. Patent Office, and contents copyrighted 1950 by the Desert Press, Inc. Permission to reproduce contents May 30-June 2—Annual Elks' Rodeo, must be secured from the editor in writing. Carlsbad. New Mexico. RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor 1SESS STACY, Business Manager May — Exhibition of southwestern MARTIN MORAN, Circulation Manager E. H. VAN NOSTRAND, Advertising Manager Los Angeles Office (Advertising Only): 2635 Adelbert Ave., Phone NOrmandy 3-1509 paintings by H. Arden Edwards. Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs submitted cannot be returned or acknowledged Southwest Museum, Highland Park. unless full return postage is enclosed. Desert Magazine assumes no responsibility for California. damage or loss of manuscripts or photographs although due care will be exercised. Sub- scribers should send notice of change of address by the first of the month preceding issue. May—Week end chuck wagon break- SUBSCRIPTION RATES fasts in the desert by automobile, One Year $:i.5O Two Years Sfi.00 horseback, hay-wagon or tally-ho. Canadian Subscriptions 25c Extra, Foreign 50e Extra Palm Springs, California. Subscriptions to Army Personnel Outside U. S. A. Must Be Mailed in Conformity With P. O. D. Order No. 19687 Address Correspondence to Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, California MAY, 1951 Dropping from the rim of Marble Gorge at 350 feet a minute. There has been no accident to passenger or crew member. Drill Crew in Marble Gorge Deep within the 2500-foot walls of Colorado River's Marble Gorge finger of the river deep in the shadows. a little crew of men from the Bureau of Reclamation has been engaged For more than a year, the squat for many months in preliminary drilling to determine if the site is suit- group of tents and house trailers had able for a 230-foot dam. This is one of the most inaccessible damsites sat on the rim, living quarters for the along the Colorado River—but Uncle Sam found a way to get his men crew making preliminary investigations and supplies down over the precipitous canyon walls. to determine a site for the proposed Marble Gorge dam. A small spot in By JOYCE ROCKWOOD MUENCH the desert landscape, 21 miles over Photographs by Josef Muench Navajo lands from U. S. Highway 89 at Cedar Ridge trading post and 100 BERING OVER the edge of upward to the steel tripod beside us. from the nearest railhead at Flagstaff, Marble Canyon, we could see The setting was tremendous. Rug- it is the focal point for a battle front the small squares of the tent- ged canyon walls swooped downward, in the 200 years' war with the great camp, 2200 feet below us. The tiny decorated by thousands of centuries river. ant-like figures down there were Rec- of weathering. Each passing age had Machinery and equipment brought lamation Bureau men, taking the mea- left its mark in definite layers on the by men is dwarfed against the over- sure of the Colorado for another dam, rock, and the inner gorge of marble, whelming size of the canyon they seek their only contact with the outside tinted red from its overlying beds, drew to subdue.
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