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Visitors to the 1952 Riverside Comity Fair and National Dale Festival will witness the production of the "Arabian Nights" Pageant each evening at 6:45 p.m., from an authentic outdoor Arabian stage. Presented as a community project by the people of the Coachella Valley a cast of nearly 100 performers participates in the production. Date Festival to Stage "Arabian Nights" E COUNTY and the Coachella Valley Improvements soon to get under way on the newly desert area w roll out the magic Arabian carpet acquired property, which will be largely used as a huge for the thousands of visitors expected to attend parking lot to accommodate visiting motorists, will consist the 1952 Riverside County Fair and National Date Fes- of overhead lighting in the date palms, paved roads, new tival at the county fairgrounds at Indio. California. Febru- rest rooms and the permanent erection of nearly 400 horse ary 19 to 24. stalls which are to be built now far from the main arena Staged on a colorful 80-acre fairgrounds amid Cali- and grandstand. fornia's date gardens, the feature of the 6-day program Exhibits will include California dates, desert citrus is to be the presentation each evening of a colorful pageant and other agricultural products, livestock show and junior of the Arabian desert. fair department, floriculture, home economics, dairy prod- Several thousand local citizens will be dressed in ucts, lumber and lumber products. native Arabian costume to add color to the festivities. The The exhibition of minerals and mining, under the Arabic-designed fairgrounds, with beautiful gardens con- supervision of Omar Kcrschncr of Indio. is expected to taining many rare varieties of date palms, will present a be one of the highlights of the 1952 National Date Festival. spectacle of oriental splendor in appropriate desert atmos- Camel races will be featured at each afternoon's per- phere. formance and a street parade with costumed horsemen, The site for the 1952 event will be doubled in size dozens of bands and colorful floats has been set for Wash- to provide room for expansion made necessary by the ington's Birthday. February 22, starting at 10:30 a.m. rapid growth of the fair and festival during the past five Visitors are urged to bring their cameras to take ad- seasons, according to Manager Bob Fullcnwider who has vantage of the brilliant and unusual settings to be seen been responsible for the success of the annual event since at the fairgrounds. Motorists attending the event will World War II days. travel throuch one of California's most scenic desert areas.

DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT CALENDAR February - Midwinter Exhibition; paintings by Taos artists. Harwood Foundation, Taos, New Mexico. February 3—Wickenburg Gold Rush, sponsored by Roundup Club. Wick- enburg, Arizona. February 2-3 — 12th Annual Palm Springs Rodeo, Polo Grounds, Palm Springs, California. February 2-3, 9-10, 23-24—Arizona Daily Sun Classification Ski Races, FlagstaT, Arizona. 'A February 8. 17, 24 — Chamber of Commerce Travelcade, Mesa. Ari- zona. Volume 15 FEBRUARY, 1952 Number 2 February 9—Auto caravan to Box Canyon, Dos Palmos, Salton Sea and Hot Springs. Desert Museum. COVER NAVAJO MISS, by Josei Muench, Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, California. California February 9-10 — Arizona Tribal Agency Indian Rodeo and Fair. PAGEANTRY Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival 2 Mesa, Arizona. CALENDAR February events on the desert 3 February 10—Dons Club Trek to Cave Creek, from Phoenix, Arizona. PHOTOGRAPHY Pictures of the Month 4 February 10 -- Bandollero tour to PERSONALITY Padre of the Papago Trails Palm Canyon, from Yuma, Ari- zona. By HAROLD O. WEIGHT 5 February 10 — Desert Sun Rancher CONTEST Rodeo, Rancho de Los Cabal leros, Announcement for photographers 10 Wickenburg. Arizona. INVITATION First Annual Desert Midwinter Rockhound Fair . 10 February 10—Tad Nichols' film on HOMESTEADING "San luan-Colorado Adventure." Shack on the Mojave, prize-winning story Desert Museum, Palm Springs. By BILL MOORE 11 February 15-16—Square Dance Fes- POETRY tival aid Fiddlers Contest, Phoenix, Wheel of the Wagon Train and other poems . . 13 Arizorm. GHOST TOWN February 16—Bicycle Rodeo, Tucson, Treasure Hills of the Utah Desert Arizona. DESERT QUIZ By NELL MURBARGER 14 February 16-17 — Phoenix Thunder- bird Ski Meet, Flagstaff, Arizona. INDIANS A True-False test of your desert knowledge . . 19 February 16-17—Overnight field trip Kayba Discovers a Strange New World to San Felipe on Gulf of California. Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CLOSE-UPS By SANDY HASSELL 20 California. OUTPOST February 16-17—Silver Spur Rodeo, About those who write for Desert 21 Yuma, Arizona. They Run the Ferry at Hite February 17—Illustrated talk on Zion. LETTERS Utah, by Dr. Richard F. Logan. By JOYCE ROCKWOOD MUENCH ... 22 NEWS Southwest Museum, Los Angeles. Comment from Desert's readers 27 California. TALL TALES February 19-24 — Riverside County From Here and There on the Desert 29 Fair and National Date Festival. Pegleg Gold Hunters Indio, California. National horse MINING show, camel races, "Arabian Nights' Meet for Annual Liar's Contest 33 pageanl. HOBBY February 21-24—Tucson Rodeo, La Current news of desert mines 36 Fiesta dc los Vaqueros, Rodeo LAPIDARY Gems and Minerals 37 Grounds, Tucson, Arizona. COMMENT February 23-24 — Shadow Mountain Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK . . 41 Gem and Mineral Show, Desert BOOKS Magazine Pueblo, Palm Desert, Just Between You and Me, by the Editor ... 42 California. Held in conjunction with Riverside County Fair and Reviews of Southwestern literature 43 Date Festival. February 24—Illustrated talk, "The Picturesque Southwest," by Guy Nelli. Southwest Museum. Los Angeles, California. RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor MARGARET GERKE, Associate Editor February 24—Dons Club Trek to St. BESS STACY, Business Manager MARTIN MOHAN, Circulation Manager Johns Mission, from Phoenix, Ari- 10. H. VAN NOSTRAND, Advertising zona. Los Angeles Office (Advertising Only): 2635 Adelbert Ave., Phone NOrmandy 3-1500 February 24 — Desert Sun Rancher Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs submitted cannot be returned or acknowledged Rodeo at Slash Bar K Ranch. unless full return postage is enclosed. Desert Magazine assumes no responsibility for damage or loss of manuscripts or photographs although due care will be exercised. Sub- Wicker.burg, Arizona. scribers should send notice of change of address by the first of the month preceding issue. February 25—Desert Geography lec- ture: "Indians of the Southwest— SUBSCRIPTION RATES the Navajo. Hopi. Apache, Pima One Vear $3.50 Two Years $6.00 Canadian Subscriptions 25c Extra, Foreign 50c Extra and Papago." Desert Museum, Subscriptions to Army Personnel Outside U. S. A. Must Be Mailed in Conformity With Palm Springs, California. P. O. D. Order No. 19(187 Address Correspondence to Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, California

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This shaggy resident oi Utah was pho- tographed by Nell Murbarger of Costa Mesa, California, who was awarded first prize in the January photo contest. Miss Murbarger used an Argoflex Model C-2 camera with a G filter on Super XX film, 1/50 second at f. 14.

Sand . . . Great Sand Dunes National Monument, at the base of the impressive Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado, forms subject matter of this photographic study which won second place for David L. De Harport of Denver, Colo- rado. It was taken with a 3V/4x41/4 R.B. Auto Graflex camera, G filter, on Isopan film.

•::, •. •' " ' '"''- •' ' Father Bonaventure and two of his "angelitos"—Quechan children of the Yuma reservation. On the left is Carolyn, six years old, ami next to her is four-year-old Junior. Padre of the Papago Trails By HAROLD O. WEIGHT Photographs by the Author Father Bonaventure Oblasser perhaps knows more about the Pa- pago and their country than any one white man ever knew. For 30 ARLY LAST year the good news years he worked among these Southwest Indians and their neighbors, reached us: Father Bonaven- the Pima. Fie lived in their villages, spoke their language, helped them 5 ture Oblasser had been assigned establish schools, build chapels and improve tribal living standards. After an absence of nearly a dozen years, the "Padre of the Indian to St. Thomas Indian Mission on'his- trails" has returned to the desert Southwest and, now with the Yumans, loric Fort Yuma hill. The "Padre of carries on in a modern world the work begun centuries ago by Spanish the Indian Trails"—away too Ions— Fathers Garces and Kino. was coming back to his beloved South- western deserts. Nearly a dozen years had slipped When we visited Father Oblasser at Thomas. There, even though "this old by since he left Papagoland for Cali- his two most recent California posts, Papago" was not quite home geograph- fornia. There, directed by his Fran- he seemed lost. Flis face lighted with ically, he was completely so in spirit. ciscan brotherhood, he served succes- the mention of familiar desert places, And from Fort Yuma hill, on the sively at Pala, Santa Ysabel and San and we knew he was a man away from Quechan Indian Reservation, he could Luis Rey in San Diego county, then home. look across the Colorado River and at Mission San Miguel, far north of It was a completely different story over modern Yuma to the Gila Moun- Santa Barbara. when we came to see him at St. tains, knowing that beyond them, FEBRUARY 952 stretching far to the east and south, the desert Indians, ate their food, lived Until the call came, Father Bona- lay the arid, beautiful southern Ari- in their villages. So did Father Oblas- venture had not even known that: his zona desert which is his true home- ser. With only Indian guides, Father order had missionaries among the Pi- land. Garces traced out the old Indian trails; mas. But before the end of March he It was there that he labored for helping build the walls with his own was at Sacaton, and early in May he nearly 30 years among the Papago and hands, he raised missions in the for- had learned enough of the Pima lan- the Pima. There Indian ways and bidding desert. So has Father Oblas- guage to use it in working with them. thought-patterns became an ingrained ser. There can be no true comparison "I had to," he explains simply. "So part of his being. And there he proved between men of different epochs—but I got a Pima boy and had him talk himself a fearless, an able, and an the mantle of Father Francisco would and talk and talk, until I could talk unresting crusader for the rights of our lit well upon Father Bonaventure's back to him." native Southwesterners. shoulders. Learning the language of those he When we went to St. Thomas, Strangely enough, in the beginning works among always has been of pri- Father "Ventura" met us almost in the he had no thought of working in the mary importance to Father Bonaven- shadow of the statue to his martyred desert Southwest. Born in Portland, ture. In the quick, rushing staccato of Franciscan predecessor, Father Fran- Oregon, he entered the Franciscan his speech, which perhaps is affected cisco Garces. In 1781, near this very order at Santa Barbara when 16 years by the Indian tongues he has learned, spot, Garces was killed by ancestors old. He was ordained and completed he explained it to us: "Suppose a of the Quechans — or Yumans — now his studies at the coastal mission, then Chinese was to come over here and living on the surrounding reservation. served in Oakland, California, from say: 'You likum heap so-so.' Would How very much alike were these two 1908 to 1910, preparing for mission- you be likely to accept his philosophy? men—kindred not only through their ary work among the Chinese. No. You've got to be able to talk calling and their Brotherhood, but true He was busy learning the Chinese their language right. Get their ideas. companions of the spirit. language when told that a worker was Explain yours to them." needed badly among the Pima Indians Father Garces went alone amona of Arizona. Father Bonaventure proceeded to do that with the Pimas. But his work with them, it turned out, was only a Young Father Bonaventure Oblasser, photographed in the garden at San preliminary, a training period for the Xavicr del Bac, about 1920. Already he had established many chapels and task that was to occupy him for so mission schools in Papago country. many years. On July 14, 1911, the Franciscans took over, as part of their program, the missionary work among the scattered families of the Papago tribe. Father Mattais was put in charge of the work, but within a week he was dead, as the result of an operation. The task of leadership fell to Father Bona- venture, then just 26 years old. The lower reaches of Papagoland were "almost the end of the world" then. Carl Lumholtz had just com- 9 pleted the first modern exploration of the area, and his maps, filling in what £$ \ formerly had been totally blank, were not yet published. But in October, 1911, against the advice of Father Justin, the old padre at San Xavier del Bac, Father Bonaventure set out with horse and wagon and native helper to learn about the vast desert territory, stretching to the Mexican border and below, which suddenly had become his responsibility. For nearly six weeks he wandered, on wagon trails and beyond them, to wherever Papago villages ex- isted. Many years later Dr. Herbert E. Bolton, noted Southwestern historian, was to say: "Father Bonaventure Oblasser knows more about the Pa- pago Indians and their country lhan any other man ever knew." Father Ventura gained that information the hard way. When he returned from that first reconnaissance, he had a good idea of the task before him. "Father Mattais had planned to put up a lot of little chapels," he explained. "But what I wanted, number one, was

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DESERT MAGAZINE A dedication ceremony at Topawa, about 1925. Lejt to right: Father Bonaventure, Bishop Gercke, Governor Hunt of Arizona, Father Novatus, Father Collymore oj A jo (white collar), Father Friedolin of Laguna-Acoma; Father Juan who built St. Thomas on Fort Yuma hill, Father Antoine of the Pimas, Father Rafael. through. The government Indian offi- know—and put a thing here and put Rosa, Anekam, San Lorenzo, La cials told me: 'It's impossible! You it there. Lesna. can't do ill' There was no water sup- "For carpentering I had to get a At first religious services were held ply. No teachers. No anything else. couple of Indians from San Xavier who in the school buildings. The mission Nothing! But we needed schools. So had a little training from Haskell In- chapels came later. Eventually the I started building them in the southern stitute. I had to take their word for it Franciscans had about 36 missions part. We had schools in 1912. We on everything they did. But we got throughout Papagoland, one at each opened them with a 55 registration at a building up—the original Topawa pueblo and central village, and two in Topawa." building, the first headquarters for Pa- Mexico. Now there are six men work- The wf.ter? "It was hauled from pago work in modern times. It was a ing in the field Father Oblasser pion- ponds and put in barrels with little fright—but the skeleton is still stand- eered. faucets. It wasn't clear water. It was ing." Later a good floor was put in, His work among the Pimas, of brown. B.it you could drink it." and other additions and revisions were course, helped him greatly with the The building itself? "I didn't know made. Papagos. "The Papago and the Pima a thing about building when I came Then came the problem of teachers. have the same language," he says. "It's out there. I was the most impractical Only a handful of the Papagos had Pima language. The Pimas say the fellow possible. Just a student. I'd ever been to any kind of school. But Papago are a branch of the Pima and studied history since I was a little kid. out of these Father Bonaventure man- the Papago say the Pimas are a branch I didn't even play with other young- aged to obtain two Indian girls to of the Papago. Pima is not a name sters—I studied history all the time. start the educational work, and more they gave themselves. Their name is "There I was with a bunch of green as the other schools opened. Ootam. But the Papago are the Desert Indians. All they knew was how to For open they did, all over lonely Ootam and the Pimas are the River build wattle buildings and make an Papagoland. In 1912 there were To- Ootam." adobe that was stamped down with pawa and Little Tucson. The next year On July 12, 1951, those Desert the feet. I had to show them how to the mission school at Chuecho, and in Ootam staged a celebration at Topawa, make adobe bricks—and I didn't know 1915 Cababi and Comobabi. Later commemorating the 40th anniversary how! But I learned. Mix water, you came Pisinimo, Covered Wells, Santa of the Catholic missionary work in the

FEBRUARY, 1952 creation. The reservation did come into being, as a result of a proclama- tion by President Wilson. But the battle was not over. Many citizens of Arizona, especially the cattle and mining men, aroused by the size of the reservation, protested to Wash- ington and asked that the reservation be abolished. Finally the state and the counties of Pima, Pinal and Jvlaricopa petitioned for abolishment. Hearings were held before Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, at which a large group from Phoenix and Tucson argued against the reservation, and the Committee of Eight argued for it. Father Oblasscr's part was to furnish the historical background for the Pa- pago rights, and to check the accuracy of local data. Using the diaries and reports of the early Spanish padres. Father Euscbio Kino and Father Fran- cisco Garccs, he proved that some of the Papago families had owned the same lands and lived upon them since long before the American Revolution. "We satisfied the mining people by telling them we wouldn't worry about them on the reservation," Father Ob- lasser remembers. "They were helpful to the Papago and the Papago wel- comed them. They gave the Indians work. But the cattlemen we could not have, because it was cattle country and the Indians needed il for their stock. "I remember an interesting argument there. Mr. Campbell, lawyer for the group wanting to abolish the reserva- tion, knew that Secretary Lane wanted to develop the country. 'We're build- ing up a great country in Arizona," he said. 'Down in Altar valley alone we Above—Topawa, Father Bonaventure's first headquarters, and the first have 6000 head of cattle. What do school which he and his assistants built. Photographed with later additions you have in the Papago country?' and revisions about 1918. "Mr. Klotz of the irrigation service, Belov:—La Lesna, one of the chapel and school units founded during who was on our committee, answered Father Bonaventure's service to the Papago. The old Indian, right, was the that, in the Papago country we have builder of this stone structure. to go to 600 or 700 feet to get water, while there you have to go only 200 feet. We have to climb mountains to area and honoring Father Oblasser, The new division took no account of get water for our cattle—but in the complete with a traditional Papago this. Squares simply were laid out and same area we have 25,000 head. You'd least. All of the Papago people have assigned. better give us your country—we can good reason to honor Father Oblasser. "That meant that somebody got develop it better than you can.'" He was one of the small group which somebody else's land. Somebody got With that, Secretary Lane put ad- won their present reservation for them communal land. The land which the ministration approval on the Hayden- and safeguarded their ancient form of whole village of Topawa had worked Ashurst bill, which would set up the land ownership. was alloted to one man." At the same reservation by an act of Congress When he came into the Papago time a similar allotment scheme was rather than just presidential proclama- country in 1911, a movement was un- being carried out among the Navajo, tion. The bill was passed. der way, sponsored by those worried where Father Anslem Weber was work- ing. Father Weber and Father Oblas- "We got our reservation," says about preserving land for the Indians, Father Oblasser. Hearing him- recall to divide: the area into little squares— ser went to Washington, presented the Indians' case, and had the allotments this verbal battle of 1917, you know he for each Papago 160 acres. The gov- is identifying himself with the tribe with ernment approved, without obtaining annulled. which he worked so long. It is the the viewpoint of a majority of the tribe, Then it was necessary to start all and allotments were made for the whole over again, and Father Oblasser joined "old Papago" speaking with pride: "We southern area. But, as Father Bona- a committee of eight, headed by Supt. got our reservation." venture soon learned, the Indians, Frank M. Thackeray of the Pima As he became familiar with the re- centuries before, had divided the land agency at Sacaton, which outlined the mote byways of Papagoland, with his for themselves according to families. present reservation and pressed for its natural love of history Father Bona-

DESERT MAGAZINE Franciscan Father Bonaventure Oblasser looks up at the statue of his famous predecessor, Father Francisco Garces, who was martyred near this spot on Fort Yuma Hill by the Yumans in 1781. St. Thomas Indian Mission in the background. venture became profoundly interested as the greatest liar and defended as about where he said he had gone and in the story of those who had worked the most maligned man in history. had reported faithfully—with proper in the desert before him. He studied For ten years Father Bonaventure distinction between them—the things the musty records of Spanish priest followed out Fray Marcos' course. In he had seen and the things he had been and explorer. He listened to the tales that endeavor he had one tremendous told. He also affirmed his belief that the Indians had handed down about advantage over every other historian the disputed Marcos de Niza inscrip- them. He traced out their pathways, and pseudo-historian who has at- tion on the rock in Phoenix City Park correlating them with modern land- tempted to do the same thing. He was made at the time of De Niza's marks. His work became valuable to knew, from a quarter of a century of entrada. many present historians. When Dr. experience, exactly where the ancient In the foreword to the booklet, Bolton traced Padre Kino's routes Indian trails ran, and he knew that which has become a collector's item, through Papagoland for the book Rim Fray Marcos, guided by the Indians, oj Christendom, he was guided in many the late Frank C. Lockwood, noted was bound to have followed one of Arizona historian, wrote: "Father places by Father Bonaventure's iden- those trails. tification of stopping places. Bonaventure is almost as tireless in In 1939, for the 400th anniversary traversing the vast and excessively arid Father Bonaventure became especi- of that first expedition, Father Bona- desert regions of the Papago country ally interested in Fray Marcos de Niza. as Padre Kino was in covering the It was Fray Marcos who brought back venture published his own translation from his expedition of 1539 the won- of Fray Marcos' report under the title same territory 240 years ago. He goes derful accounts of the Seven Cities of Arizona Discovered. In the booklet everywhere where there are Papagos, Cibola which set Coronado and his were maps which traced the course he on both sides of the border. He knows great army on the march into the believed the early Franciscan had fol- the terrain in detail—has visited every Southwest the next year. For that re- lowed. In it he also expressed his be- ranch, village and temporali. This is port, Fray Marcos has been denounced lief that Marcos de Niza had gone just his recreation as well as his duty; and

FEBRUARY, 1952 9 it is because of the minute knowledge because of his mastery of both the Pa- and annotate Fray Marcos de Niza's of the topography of Pimeria Alta he pago and Spanish languages, that he famous narrative. has gained in his joumeyings, and also is so eminently qualified to translate "For my own part, after reading everything I could find on the subject (though in translations only), I am con- vinced that the exact route of Esteban, Fray Marcos de Niza and Coronado fo 'Detent can never be determined; but I know During February, while the annual Date Festival is in progress at of no one better able to translate the Indio nine miles away, the Desert Magazine Pueblo in Palm Desert story of Fray Marcos and to retrace will for two days—February 23 and 24—provide the display rooms for his route than Father Bonaventure. A a Gem and Mineral Fair to be held under the sponsorship of the few months ago, with the text in his Shadow Mountain Gem and Mineral Society. hand, he covered in person the route he marks out." For two days the art gallery, mailing room and garages of Desert Magazine's publishing plant will be turned over to that growing fra- The de Niza booklet is only a minor ternity of enthusiasts who gather semi-precious stones and cut and item in Father Oblasscr's literary en- polish them. deavors. During his time with the Pima- Papagos he was working on a written The exhibits will be open to all—with no admission charge. In language for them, learning its vocabu- addition to gem stones both rough and polished, there will be dem- lary and formulating a grammar. At onstrations of the tools used in the amateur art of lapidary. the same time he collected all available Desert readers are invited to visit this mineral exhibit—in a myths. From that work, from his ex- setting which includes much of the finest art work produced by desert periences and from his great collection painters. of source material, the Library of And, whether or not you are a rock collector, you are urged to Piman Research, he has been given by bring a stone to be added to the Desert Trail Shrine in front of the his order the task of writing a complete magazine building. This is a good luck Shrine for the travelers who history of the Pima nation, its language come to the desert. and mythology. He is also working on The Mineral Fair is Saturday and Sunday, February 23-24—and a manuscript that will bring up to date the doors will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. You are invited. the work of the Franciscans in the Southwest. His "Franciscans in the Spanish Southwest" was printed by the Franciscan Educational Conference in 1936. Other Indian language man- uals are on schedule. Prizes For Desert Photographs Unfortunately, Father Bonaventure You do not have to own an expensive camera to compete in is involved in so many activities, filled Desert Magazine's Picture-of-the-Month contest. Many of the prize with so many plans, it is difficult for winning pictures in past years have been taken by inexpensive equip- him to find time for his histories. When ment But you must give thought to good composition, lighting, focus we visited him a short time ago at St. and the making of clean contrasty prints—for these are the factors that Thomas, he was busy brushing up on make; for good pictures. And keep in mind this important fact in taking the Quechan language, for which he black and white photographs—it is the shadows which make the is to prepare a manual, reorganizing picture. the missionary work, planning a school Desert Magazine's Picture-of-the-Month contest is designed to se- program and taking a census of the cure for publication the best of the pictures taken in the desert country Yumans. When these matters are at- each month by both amateur and professional photographers. All tended to, he plans to start work among Desert readers are invited to enter their best work in this contest. the Cocopah Indians, and after that Entries for the March contest must be in the Desert Magazine is caught up, there is the matter of office, Palm Desert, California, by March 20, and the winning prints rechecking the de Niza trail to satisfy will appear in [he May issue. Pictures which arrive too late for one himself on some controversial points. contest are held over for the next month. First prize is $10; second As we were about to leave we asked prize $5.00. For non-winning pictures accepted for publication $3.00 him: Did he miss Papagoland? He each will be paid. smiled and answered: "As all our mis- HERE ARE THE RULES sionaries have done since the early 1—Prints for monthly contests must be black and white, 5x7 or larger, printed days, when we enter a mission field we on glossy paper. become one of our Indians in all their 2—Each photograph submitted should be fully labeled as to subject, time and interests. So now this Papago has place. Also technical data: camera, shutter speed, hour of day. etc. become a Yuman, and will judge all 3—PRINTS V/ILL BE RETURNED WHEN RETURN POSTAGE IS ENCLOSED. 4—All entries must be in the Desert Magazine office by the 20th of the contest things and problems from their stand- month. point." 5—Contests are open to both amateur and professional photographers. Desert Magazine requires first publication rights only of prize winning pictures. But even as he said it, Father Bona- 6—Time and place of photograph are immaterial, except that it must be from the venture's eyes strayed to the grim and desert Southwest. jagged Gila Mountains, across in Ari- 7—Judges will be selected from Desert's editorial staff, and awards will be made zona, and we felt that perhaps just a immediately after the close of the contest each month. little Papago remained in the Yuman, Address All Entries to Photo Editor and that the Padre of the Indian Trails could never completely abandon the "Detent y%*fetftHe PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA lonely trails of Papagoland which he had traveled so long.

10 DESERT MAGAZINE "In the days that followed, the silence of the Mojave was moved by the rattle of boards and the ring of the hammer in green hands." Shack on the Mojave Prize-winning story in Desert Magazine's "Life on the Desert" contest By BILL MOORE

UT OF CHAOS — calm! First trip there and 1 thought 1 had And neither of us will forget that That to me is the difference found the homesite we had been dream- first trip. between the city and this land of ing about. Early on an October morning we the creosote bush, warm sand, and "Just at the north edge of Yucca crested the rise out of the Lower Mor- friendly people -- the Mojave desert. Valley. That's high desert country ongo Valley and looked down on a Our place is only a jackrabbit five flanking the Joshua Tree National basin of Joshua trees. Spotted here acres, and it's only the beginning. But Monument. 3300 feet. Year 'round and there among the Joshuas, cholla even in the beginning there is some- living. Let's get it, Sandy!" and juniper, the valley had given birth times something you like to remember. Sandy is my wife. A better trouper to a village. Ahead of us, we thought, For three years we searched. Summer never trod this planet. For since mar- was our five acres. It would be easy and winter. Through heat, cold, violent riage to me her rewards, other than to find. Locate the government marker, winds, a seductive breeze—the desert. our four year-old, Barry, have not measure your distance. That was all. Always searching for our five acres. been of ermine and eclair. No two That's what I thought then . . . Looking back, Victor Lewis, who thousand square foot home of red The Yucca Valley five acres turned has forgotten more about the desert cinder block. And worse. Her affec- out to be high atop a thousand foot than I wil ever know, first told me tion for the desert amounted to: "Well pile of boulders. It would take a goat about the Government Land Office in —I'll go." But she would rather listen with jet propulsion to reach it, much the Los Angeles postoffice building. to Wagner. However, it was the desert. less to build a cabin and prove up our

FEBRUARY, 1952 11 claim. Perhaps there was an air of our rig and stepped down on our land. purple and gold. Far to the east the triumph in Sandy's eyes after our in- Remember the old cartoon: Thrills Coxcombs were bedded behind the itial venture. But she knew me well. that come once in a lifetime? Mine Sheepholes. A light here and there This was only the beginning. had arrived. 1 like to believe it touched flickered. Sandy and Barry were al- For the next two years our search Sandy. We just stood there, saying ready in the car, waiting. But 1 wished tor desert land followed the experience nothing. I guess it was Barry who to prolong this moment. Reaching into of man}' jackrabbit homesteaders: the broke the silence. the rear of the station wagon I found land was too far out; difficult to reach; "Daddy, we gonna build a shack a bucket. In the trailer 1 knew were in the constant sweep of winds; lean- here?" And the way he said "here" soap and towel. Sandy watched me ing on the side of a dune. Our search made it very important, somehow, that curiously. I think I mumbled some- reached its climax one day on the we did build right where we were thing about there being some water Victorville road. standing. It gave us the needed cour- left in our supply tank. Finding a tub age just at that moment. A change in from the rear of the trailer, I filled it. It was April. The desert sun should stripped down, and jumped in. have been warm and the breeze heavy a way of living is always a big step. with balm. But no. All morning it had Especially so with a family. It was Baths have been taken under many been spitting snow. A sharp, slanting good to know at least one was ready conditions and in stalls of gold and wind whipped from the snowcap of to follow through. pearl. But never again in this life-time San Gorgonio and bowled down across That night, away from city lights do 1 expect to receive the keen the black knob of a lava formation. on our own piece of sand, brought to exhilaration that possessed me during Barry, then three, responded to the us a new awakening, a new under- this baptism in desert water. Warmed weather sting with a steady wail. It standing of the desert. Although the by the day's heat, the water first was lunch time and we had ail the silence was there, the coyote paid his soothed, then lifted me to its own fixings in our chuck wagon box respects to our garbage pit, the lizard plane of supplication. Water to the mounted in the rear of the old station left its trail all about our trailer, there creosote bush tossed back its own wagon. The theory was: we were to was something else: the desert isn't aroma of damp sage. This mingling make a picnic of it that day. empty anymore — empty of people, with the tang of a desert cooling, I Theory is wonderful—in books. But that is. filled the pail time after time, lifted desert wisdom does not spring from After darkness laid its fold on that it high, and dashed the contents over musty pages. You learn it by living. of silence, there appeared other lights my head and let it fall to the hot sands There is no other way. And we learned than our own. One, two, three—six in at my feet. There was no stopping that April in the desert is not always all! Homes. On all sides of us. In all until the tank was empty. And I was sunshine and (lowers. That was our directions the wavering flicker of the cleansed, both in spirit and body. last trip to the desert for several oil light, the steady glow of the Cole- As the lamps of the desert grew months. But the land of catsclaw does man, for REA hasn't reached us yet. bolder, I walked back to the trailer. not give: up its prey without a struggle. In a way, perhaps, this last frontier is We were ready to head east now. But One mcrning in the fall of 1950, Sandy closing in on those of us seeking a not for long. We would be back come looked from the kitchen window of her pause from civilization's thumping the crack of ice on the Ozark hills. Northridsic home. Smog lay over the tcmoo. We thought of that. That first And although we have nothing more land. night. than a shack on our desert five, it will "You haven't been to the Land Of- Days following, the silence of the grow, and grow. Just like the Mojavc fice for some time, dear. . . " Mojave was moved by the rattle of grows on you. That's what she thought. By eve- boards and the ring of a hammer in 9 e • ning I had filed on a spot near Twenty- green hands; the grind of a saw that BATA CALIFORNIA NAMED nine Palms. It was Vic Lewis, of refused to follow a straight line. Yet, MEXICO'S 29th STATE course, who found it. Section 24, like the shrub before a soray from a Birth of a new state was announced Township 1 North, Range 9 East. That hose, the shack grew. Digg'ng and officially December 20 when the Mexi- was it. Only four miles from the Plaza. rolling in the sand, Barry seemed a can Senate proclaimed Baja California Only a half mile off the Amboy road. part of the land. At tim^s his shouts the 29th state of the nation. Formal It was one of the first sections opened and laughter would smother the labor ceremonies will be held early this year. in the Twcntynine Palms area. Some- of my breathing. Even Sandy couldn't The new state will retain its terri- one hadn't proved up. Their loss was keep the glow of creation from her torial name. A new city is being my good fortune. eyes as the walls took shane. Up planned approximately 10 miles south In April we started to build our first would come a two-by-four, then the of Tecate, which is in the mountains shack. Up to this time I thought I was sid'ng. and the roof. Knowing all too between Mexicali and Timuan, This pretty good in my desert knowledge. I well the mistakes in its construction, will become the state capital. knew its moods. 1 was a veteran desert nevertheless it was bolted firmly to its slab. The first sand storm that humped The population of the northern dis- rat, I had told myself many times. Of trict has increased 410 percent since course the old timers laughed at this. alon? would find its equal. The shack would be there after it passed. 1920. There are now more than 226,- And justly so. For a part-time visitor 000 inhabitants. The annual income to gain such conceit—well, it was time When finished on that day in June of the territory has risen to nearly to whittle the dude down to size. Build- when the mercury hurdled 110 de- $400,000,000, making it one of Mex- ing our first shack did just that. And grees, we knew the time was at hand ico's richest agricultural areas. Rapid the desert had its first real chance to for us to head east for the Ozarks and strides have been made in communica- claim us, or drive us back to the land wade into our summer film schedule. tion facilities, especially in the con- of fren2:y, the city. Leaving home before we had a chance struction of modern highways. We pulled a 20-foot trailer down to move in. This was our worst mo- The change in status does not affect our mid-section line, following the trail ment. And the one T shall never for- the southern territory, which has only already beat by our neighbor to the get. 32,000 people and is isolated in its west who had his slab poured. Care- It was evening. In the west was lower half of the Baja California pen- fully avoiding sand drifts we stopped still a trace of color. The Bullions were insula.

I-A DESERT MAGAZINE Photograph by G. M. Relyea, Salt Lake City

GHOST PROSPECTOR TONIGHT THE WINDS ARE QUIET By RALPH A. FISHER, SR. By GRACE BARKER WILSON Phoenix, Arizona Kirtland. New Mexico The prospector's ghost astride a ghost burro. With a "desert broom," tonight the desert Sometimes, tornado like, the wild wind blows will dus:— Across the desert country, bringing clouds Sweeping from dusk to dawn beneath tall Of sand. As day advances its force grows saguaro, By RUTH A. MOORE Almost too strong to battle. Rolling crowds Panning the fallen Stardust, for his unend- Healdsburg, California Of tumbleweeds play leap frog. In affright ing lust. Each time it turned it squeaked and groaned The wild things cower close against the hill. As if it suffered pain, Sometimes the storm roars madly. But to- It heaved a sigh for the spokes were dry night, A WINDOW IN THE STORM The winds are quiet and the sands are still. By ELSIE MCKINNON STRACHAN In the wheel of the wagon train. Santa Ana, California I watched From the Kaibab Plateau I he loosened tire, was tied with wire, And saw the grim storm over-flow— The driver prayed for rain; Dropping a ragged curtain of rain For water to soak, and stop the croak Strive Onf And cracking a whip of lightning-chain— In the wheel of the wagon train. In the worried morning sky. By TANYA SOUTH For the lack of grease, the squeaks increase Your Fate will change! Weep not nor And yet I knew the sun stood by. To join in the last refrain. sorrow. For through a window in the storm With a broken heart, pieces came apart All things will change! And your I saw distant cliffs, suntanned and warm. In the wheel of the wagon train. Tomorrow, Reclining where the sky was blue. As bright with promise as you dream. And clouds of white sailed on review. With work and care began the repair Will yet before your vision gleam. Their efforts were not in vain. ACQUIESCENCE With wire and ropes they placed their hopes Weep not, dear heart. But pray! And By MARYLE BASE In the wheel of the wagon train. gather Pomona, California Your inner strength to meet I he Give me a faith like the desert. Outside the court of a battered fort fray. That lives on a timeless scope. For years now it has lain. No one can have life as he'd rather. Hangs each i nxious dream on a distant star. Old timers boast and drink a toast Save he strives endless on each day. Fills each day with patience and hope. To the wheel of the wagon train.

FEBRUARY 195 2 13 Ruins of the Cane Springs Mill still stand guard over the desert mining camp of Gold Hill, Utah.

Gold, silver, tungsten, arsenic, zinc —all these orss were found in high- Treasure Hills of grade abundance in ths barren hills that overlook ths Great Salt Dessrt of Utah. Eventually the rich pockets were worked out and now the Gold the Utah Desert Kill mining camp is just a ghost— but i! is still horns to Leaiha Millard, with whom you will bscome ac- By NELL MURBARGER quainted in this story. Photographs by the author Map by Norton Allen nearest point of habitation to the east or northeast. The nearest town in that GRAY clouds had been —the old mining camp of Gold Hill, direction was Grantsvillc, 100 miles hovering over the Toana Range Utah. away. Though it was early morning throughout the morning; and Peering into the swirling storm I the air was heavy and lifeless. Heat now, with my car nearing White Horse saw what seemed to be a side road and devils were shimmering on the skyline. Pass, a mixture of sleet and snow came turned the car onto its bumpy course. It was impossible to understand how driving out of a leaden sky to plaster The road headed down grade. As ele- any amount of persuasion could have against the windshield and whiten the vation was lost, the snow and sleet of lured the ill-fated Donner party into junipers. The month was June, but I the mountain top changed to rain; and daring that sullen waste. had learned long before that calendars almost before I realized what had hap- Ten miles from White Horse Pass mean little in thai: high arid land ly- pened, the rain had given way to bright the little sideroad crossed from Nevada ing west of the Great Salt Desert. sunshine and blue skies . . . and im- into Utah, and soon afterward entered According to a map, penciled for mensity. a low spur of the Deep Creek Moun- me on the back of a torn envelope, a Across the entire eastern horizon tains. Here was an altogether different dirt road should branch left from the spread the terrifying aridity of the world of neither snow nor searing heat, vicinity of the pass; and 30 miles along Great Salt Desert—75 trackless miles but only the soft warmth of desert that dirl: road would be my destination of it stretching between me and the springtime. Nodding at the roadside

\'\ DESERT MAGAZINE were the golden spikes of prince's plume, the blue of larkspurs, and the . -GREAT delicate whiteness of prickly phlox and primrose. 5ALJ LAKE A few more curves, a few more "%DESERT . humps and hollows and dry washes, and the ok. tov/n of Gold Hill came into view—its small dark buildings ap- pearing as specks of black pepper in the brown cup of the hills. As the road drew near, some of those specks aligned themselves in streets and be- came recognizable as stores and dwell- ings. Three specks at the north limits of town became a depot and two freight cars on a siding, and other specks on the surrounding mountains changed to the shaft houses and headframes of mines. Not until the car was rolling down main street did I notice the unmistak- able signs of ghostliness. The windows of the depot were tightly boarded; the rails that l:d to it, brown with rust. The two od box cars had been con- verted into living quarters, and even these were abandoned. Spanning the sides and front of a large brick build- ing were :he signs of a mercantile company; but here, too, the windows were tightly masked and the doors pad- locked. Only the scattered clutter of disuse filled the square frame buildings that originally had housed a drug store and poolhall. In all the town not a man or mouse seemed to be stirring. 1 was about convinced that even the ghosts had taken leave of the place, when from the back yard of a small tree-shaded cabin came a dull thump- thump-thumping. Circling to the rear of the building, I came upon a small woman, her at- tention riveted on the operation of an old-fashioned iron mortar and pestle with which she was pulverizing a sam- ple of ore. On the splintered pine bench beside her lay a dozen more As foundation for the Gold Hill tions, hoping to trade for food. When samples of greenish rock, a geologist's story, Leatha suggested we start with mining men, traveling by stage to Cali- pick, and a battered goldpan. Clifton, four or five miles to the south- fornia, saw these samples, many of Two minutes after our exchange of east. After a hurried lunch, we were them terminated their journeys and introductions, Leatha Millard's home on our way. began prospecting the Deep Creek re- had become my home, and Leatha had It was soon after the Overland stage gion." become my friend, hostess, guide, and line began operation in the late 185O's First discoveries, said Leatha, were chief source of information concern- that attention of mining men first was to the south of Overland Canyon, but ing Gold Hill's past and present. I attracted to the Deep Creek Moun- prospecting gradually extended to the soon learned that in all western Utah, tains, explained my guide. north and eventually resulted in or- I couldn't have made a better choice. "That is Overland Canyon," she ganization of a mining district and Since coming to Gold Hill, nearly founding of the town of Clifton. half a certury ago, Leatha has seen said, as we topped the four-mile grade the old camp alternately roaring v/ith south of Gold Hill and looked out upon Leaving the main road at the top of activity, and almost abandoned. a great blue cut that half bisected the the grade, we turned left on a narrow "It isn't quite a ghost," she laughed. range. "The old Overland stage road side trail deteriorating from disuse. "There arc: five of us still living here." and the Pony Express route came up Rocks and roots lay exposed in the Only fiv; residents and not one oper- through there, crossed the ridge by eroded wheel ruts, low brush was ating business house in a town that way of the gap yonder, and continued growing between the tracks, and the once had supported a newspaper, ho- on to Nevada. Soon after the stages out-thrust branches of pinon pines and tels and apartment houses. At an started running Indians here learned junipers raked the car on either side. earlier date the traffic of the Lincoln that white men were interested in 'shin- Within a mile we were deep in the Highway had rolled through its now- ing rocks' and began bringing rich ruins of a town which had flourished deserted s.reets. samples of silver ore to the stage sta- and faded before either of us was

FEBRUARY, 1952 15 open to the weather and wandering animals, the old home was the essence of desolation. It was difficult to say which was doing most to hold it to- gether—the square-cut iron nails with which it was built, or its multiple layers of elaborately-figured wallpaper. Cupboards and closets were lined with yellowed sheets of the Intennountain Republican and Salt Lake Herald of 1908. Our last stop in Clifton was at the little cemetery in Johnson Canyon, overlooking the Salt Desert. Although we searched diligently, we found but two markers with identifying legends. One headed the paling-fenced grave of William R. Sheldon who died in 1889; the other, of Ed Emory, 1909. Through the strange workings of co- incidence, both men had died on Christmas Day. En route back to Gold Hill, Leatha kept peering ahead through the juni- pers and finally called a halt. Leaving the car beside the road, we climbed to an open excavation about 15 feet wide, Ollie Young, nephew of Brigham Young, for many years occupied this log 45 feet long, and 50 feet deep. cabin at Clifton, where he was the last surviving resident. "See that gloryhole?" said my guide. "That was the Reaper tungsten mine, owned by the Wilson brothers. It was born. Merc were the hollow rock furnace operated with three blacksmith fabulously rich, some of the scheelite squares of old foundations, the tumbled bellows. After running for two years carrying as much as 78 percent tung- heaps of stone that had once been and reducing 1500 tons of highgrade sten. In 1917 they mined $80,000 shops and dwellings, and the lonely silver-lead ore, the equipment was worth of ore from that hole, and be- desolation of ancient fireplaces long moved to a new site at Gold Hill. cause of prohibitive freight rates, every ago robbed of the homes they had "Farther up this canyon," she con- ounce of it was shipped to the mill by served. The canyon narrowed to a tinued, "was a fine well that supplied parcel post!" thin gash, choked with brush and water to the entire town of Clifton. During the next three days, Leatha boulders. The road faded away, and Maybe we still can find it." and I visited all the historic mines of at its farthermost end sat a lovable old Floundering through high brush and the district, interviewed early settlers log cabin. scraggly junipers, and over boulders for 25 miles around, browsed through "It was Ollie Young's cabin," said treacherously hidden by matted weeds files of yellowed newspaper clippings Leatha, "He and his brother, Brigham, and grass, we fought our way up the and correspondence, and perused musty claimed to be nephews of the original floor of the ravine. The going at last mining reports without end. From it Brigham Young. They located here in became so rough we abandoned the all, I gradually absorbed the story. the early days—long, long before I search and were heading back toward Although the Clifton smelter had came. After Brig's death years ago, the car when a break in the under- been moved to Gold Hill in 1874, and Ollie continued to live here all alone— growth revealed an old iron pump, mining claims on nearby Dutch Moun- the last resident of Clifton. He used to heavy with accumulated rust. tain had been recorded as early as walk to Gold Hill for his supplies. I Simply because it seemed the nat- 1882, Gold Hill's first development of was running one of the stores there, ural thing to do, I gave the old handle importance had not occurred until 10 and would always bring him home if I a few vigorous strokes. It sounded like years after that date, when an amalga- could get away. He was a darling old all the ungreascd pump handles of mating mill was constructed here by man, and as neat as a woman . . . " Creation, rolled into one. But to our the Cane Springs Consolidated Mining Walking on up the canyon we amazement, there came from the rusty company for the purpose of treating prowled about the site of the old Clif- spout a bright stream of cold clear ores from the Cane Springs, Alvarado, ton smelter and from the accumulated water! The old well was still function- and Gold Hill mines. One of the guid- debris excavated some crucibles and ing, even though its town was gone. ing lights in this development had been a couple of "spice pots" used for mold- Below Ollie Young's cabin sat an Col. James F. Woodman, owner of ing the skimmings. ancient frame house, its roof sway- valuable mining property in the Tin- During the earlier years, said Leatha, backed, its walls sagging. tic District at Eureka, and discoverer Clifton's ore was mule-freighted across "This is the old Carmen place," said of the famous Emma mine at Alta, the Salt Desert for reduction at Stock- Leatha. "First time I saw it was in which subsequently sold for $5,000,- ton, where Utah's first smelter had been 1907 when an election for mining re- 000. erected In 1864 by Col. Patrick Con- corder was being held here. Mrs. Car- During 19 months of operation the nor. Later, in 1872. the Clifton smelter men had it fixed so nicely, with lace Alvarado and Cane Springs mines pro- had been built. curtains and fancy sofa pillows and duced $200,000 in ore. Due to the "It wasn't exactly a big-scale opera- potted plants. Everyone said it was extreme richness of that ore, the com- tion," she laughed. "According to ac- the finest home in the district ..." pany's losses to highgraders were stu- counts 1 have read, it was a stack Now windowless and doorless and pendous, while the operation also was

16 DESERT MAGAZINE handicapped by transportation diffi- "Dad carried passengers and freight running over $400 to the ton, and from culties. as well as mail," recalled Leatha. "In the Lucy L. came ore yielding thou- At the time Leatha and her parents the beginning he used horse-drawn sands of dollars per ton in bismuth. moved to Gold Hill, residents of the stages, with relay teams at Last Chance, Other mines were rich in lead and zinc. camp were confident the projected Gold Hill, and Ibapah. As soon as the Coincident with the outbreak of war Western Pacific railroad would be roads permitted, he changed to auto- came development of several import- routed through their town, thereby end- mobiles. His two big Packards were ant tungsten properties, including the ing its extreme isolation. But the West- the first commercial cars in town." Reaper's famous gloryholc; and in ern Pacific, as it built across the Salt The year 1917 saw the Deep Creek years immediately following, mining of Desert, chose to bypass Gold Hill by Extension railroad built south from arsenic became the biggest business of 50 miles. Wendover to Gold Hill, the original all. Even with the remainder of the plan being to continue the line on The original Gold Hill mine, for West largely motorized. Gold Hill still through Nevada and possibly to South- which the town was named, in 1923 depended cm mule teams and horse- ern California. With arrival of the was estimated to hold a reserve of 250,- drawn stages. Mail was stiil routed railroad and outbreak of World War 1 000 tons of ore averaging 20 percent via the old Pony Express trail of the occurring almost simultaneously, Gold arsenic, and minor content of gold. '60s, crossing the Salt Desert by way Hill boomed as never before. Work Through 1924, arsenic shipments con- of Fish Springs and Callao. At the on old mining properties was resumed, tinued heavy . . . but with close of head of the grade, four miles south of new ventures were launched. that year, Gold Hill slipped into an- town, Gold Hill's mail was deposited Shipping was so heavy that sampling other of its periodic declines. for pick-up, and the stage rumbled on and smelter plants at Salt Lake were Plans for extending the Deep Creek west to Ibapah and Schellbournc. swamped and it was found necessary railroad to Nevada had been aban- to place an embargo on ore from the doned long before, and in 1938 the To Leatha's father, enterprising Wil- district. Despite this limitation, the liam R. Lamb, such a mid-Victorian little branch railroad, during its first last train clattered over the little branch mail system was intolerable. To prove year of operation, carried out of Gold line. During 1940 all miners remaining the practicability of a change he estab- Hill more than a million dollars worth in the district recovered but one ounce lished a tentative route connecting with of ore. of gold and other minerals to a value the Western Pacific at Wendover, 57 Mines of the district followed no of $597. In 1942, according to the miles to the north, and for three consistent pattern. One rich vein in U. S. Bureau of Mines at Salt Lake months carried all the town's mail Col. Woodman's Alvarado carried City, the entire district produced but without reimbursement. With the effi- SHOO in gold to the ton. Ore from eight tons of ore, grossing $343. ciency of his proposal proven to satis- the Copper Queen was rich in silver No one seemed to doubt that the faction of the postoffice department. —as much as 1800 ounces to the ton. rich old dowager, Gold Hill, was gasp- Lamb was awarded the contract. The Frankie mine produced copper ing her last. The author at the old well which formerly supplied Two old rock-and-adobe ovens supplied charcoal for water for the Clifton camp. the operation of Woodman mill.

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Leatha Millard came to Gold Hill in 1907 when she was a girl of 16 and has remained through the days of boom, and bust. She lives alone, one of the five survivors in the old camp. She still uses her mortar and pestle and gold pan to test the ore from the hills—for she believes that good days may yet return to Gold Hill.

18 DESERT MAGAZINE And then came World War II and that was all the arsenic Uncle Sam tion and back wall, the tall adobe Gold Hill's tungsten and arsenic once wanted. chimney, and two adobe-and-rock char- again became more valuable than The licking flames of a forest fire coal kilns remain behind as evidence rubies and silver. Arsenic, in particu- could scarcely have emptied the town of past activity. lar, was of strategic importance in pros- more rapidly. Released miners fled to Over the hill, a hail' mile to the ecution of the war effort, not only due new jobs as fast as wheels could carry southwest, gapes the open stope of the to its wide use in drugs but also for them. Briefly opened business houses original Cane Springs mine, and across insecticides needed in protection of again were locked. The four new gov- town, to the northeast is another open vital food crops. ernment apartment houses were yanked stopc—250 feet in depth—that marks Uncle Sam stepped in. Things be- from their foundations and moved to the once-famous Aivarado. Farther to gan to hair. Mines closed for 20 years other sites where men stiil had need the south may be glimpsed the groat were returned to production. Electric of places to live. With close of the open cut of the Gold Hill. Down the lights appeared on the streets of Gold 1946 term the district lost its school, wash to the north—between Dutch Hill. Old buildings were reconditioned but the town's few remaining residents Mountain and Salt Desert—stands and equipped as barracks. Four apart- still clung grimly to their postoffice. the heaofrarne and shaft of Locnlcr ment houses and a trailer court were In 1949, this last remaining symbol of Palmer's Rube — possibly the most jammed with miners and their families. urbanity was sacrificed, and the old notable one-man mine in the history mining camp in the Deep Creek Range of Utah. And then, as suddenly as it had be- gave up its long struggle to repel the After a near lifetime of fruitless gun, it was all over. hovering ghosts. On January 15, 1945, (he Gold Hill prospecting, Pn'mcr located the Rube Across the wash to the west of about 1920. Working alone, it would mine was ordered to cease production. Leatha's cabin stand the ruins of Col. take him months to io:.d a sing'e car During its 16 months' operation in Woodman's old mill. The machinery of highgrade ore. But or.ee it had been World War II it had yielded 100X100 —originally imported from France at loaded and shipped, each car would tons of ore running from 18 to 30 per- great expense—was long ago removed bring him around $6000. And then cent arsenic. And for the moment to another site, but the rock founda- Palmer would start a!! over again, loading another car. When he sold the mine and retired to California in 1932, The desert of the Southwest is his one-man operation over a 12-year a great outdoor playground for period h:;d yielded him $112,000 in TRUE OR FALSE all Americans who like travel gold. and recieation. Actually, much of the desert country is still in Uncle Sam's The Cane Springs, thn Aivarado, the public domain, it belongs to you and me. And if you would like to learn Gold Hill, the Rube—these are but more about this desert land—its history, geography, wildlife and natural four cf the mines that ••:ik!'o the can- landscape, these True and False questions will serve as a school of instruc- yon-sides about Gold Kill and Clifton. tion. You may not know all the answers—but you can learn. A score of Gloryholes and open stopes, timbered 12 to 14 is fair, 15 to 17 is good, 18 or over is superior. The answers are shafts and tunnels—more rn^cs than on page 29. any man could count in one day, and 1—The desert Kangaroo rat carries its young in a pocket in its skin. prospect holes virtually without num- True . False . ber. 2—Ircnwood trees have thorns. True False- .... As I bade goodbye to Leatha Mil- 3—The grain used by the Hopi Indians in making piki is corn. True lard and started up the long winding False road toward Nevrda, my thoughts 4—Buffalo meat was once a main item of food for the Yuma and Mojave were filled with memories of a lonely Indians. True False old town. Most particularly ! was 5—Greet Salt Lake is the largest inland body of water west of the Rocky think:ng what its hidden wealth had Mountains. True ... False meant to three venerations of sn.cn— 6—Ccolidge dam in Arizona is on the Salt River. True _.. .. False . the thrill of seeking, the joy of dis- 7—Indian petroiiyphs are found only on rocks facing east. True _ . . covery and pride of production—and False sometimes, too, the heartbreak of hopes 8—Father Garces often accompanied Father Kino on his missionary r unfulfilled. t ips into Pimeria. True False . Compared to the Big Bonanzas of 9—A rattlesnake has no bones in its body. True False the West — the Virginia Cities and 10—Dog-tooth spar is a crystafeed form of calcite. True False Buttes and Grass Valleys—I knew that i i—Before the Spaniard brought horses to the Western World the Apache Go'd Hill's total yield of possibly $5,- Indians rode on burros. True . False 000,000 in ore was not a remarkable 12—Blossom of the creosote bush is pink. True ___. False figure. But, all the same, it had been 13—Most of Nevrda was once part of Utah territory. clean, honorable wealth. Its produc- True False tion had given employment to thous- 14—Coal is mined in New Mexico. True False ands of men in mines, mil's, smelters 15—Peccary is the name of a bird found in southern Arizona. and manufactories; and even as Gold True _ . False Hill had poured her gold and silver 16—M:iny J uniper trees grow around the shores of Salton Sea. into the nation's treasury, so her tung- True . False sten and copper, her arsenic and lead 17—The wood of the Joshua tree is much in demand for the making of and zinc, had helped to strengthen and hardwood furniture. True False defend that nation through its two most 1 8—Casa is, a Spanish word much used in the Southwest, meaning house. devastating wars. True .... False 19—Kaiparowits Plateau is in Utah. True False Pausing at the summit of the grade. 20—Sangre de Cnsto Mountains are visible from Santa Fe, New Mexico. I turned back for a last salute to a True False gallant old soldier, now fading away in the Utah hills.

FEBRUARY, 1952 heels on Mabah's shoes, which she also was wearing, were much higher than any she had ever worn. They made her stand a little straighter—if such a thing was possible. This was Kayba's first trip to The Place by the Bridge, Gallup, and at first she had been afraid. There were so many houses, so many people, so many cars and so many roads. They had gone into Laughing Man's trading post and when he spoke to them in Navajo she was less afraid. He even paid them cash for their rugs so they could buy pretty things in the big stores across the bridge. Then Laughing Man had shown her a beautiful bracelet and she had bought it with a big bright penny which he said was worth $20. Grandmother had given her the penny that morning wrapped in a piece of cloth. Kayba now was thinking more about other people and things and less about herself; but she wished Mabah hadn't insisted on leaving their shawls with Laughing Man. She felt rather naked without one, and wouldn't people think they were poor if they didn't have shawls? Besides she liked to have one to cover the lower part of her face when she was in a crowd. They crossed the bridge to the road on which were the big stores. The windows were full of beautiful things which attracted Mabah, but not Kayba — not while so many white women were around who looked, dressed and acted so strange. Questions started comint from Kayba fast: "Why do women wear such short skirts?" she asked. "What is that funny thing on that lady's head?" Their skirts were so short they readied only a little below their knees instead Surely it couldn't be a hat, Kayba of to their shoe tops. thought, it was too small and she was about to lose it. "Do their feet hurt sister? See how funny some of them walk? Is that the reason why some of them have no tecs and heels in their shoes or arc they too poor to buy Kayba Discovers a shoes with more leather in them? Why do some of the women have red finger- nails? Did dying wool make them that color?" Then Kayba's tone changed: Strange New World "But sister they do have such beautiful paint on their faces." By SANDY HASSELL Now Kayba felt ashamed when she thought how wicked the women in Sketch by Charles Keetsie Shirley this town must be. Hadn't she seen Navajo artist several holding to men's arms? She was sure only bad women did this and H£N KAYBA walked out of hair fixed in this style. She would these women must be very, very bad Laughing Man's trading post have liked it much better if the dress to walk along in daylight holding to she was happy. Why shouldn't covered more of her body. The col- their men where everyone could sec she be? She was wearing a silver lar didn't fit close around her neck them. bracelet with a turquoise that was as and left a bare V-shaped opening at her A whistle sounded and Mabah knew beautiful as any Navajo lady on the throat. The skirt was so short it a train was coming. They must walk reservation owned. reached only a little below her knees to the big building where the train But there were other feelings that —instead of to the top of her shoes. stopped; there they could see it better. were not so pleasant. Never before had Besides it was so thin she was sure Mabah felt sure the train would be one she worn Mabah's clothes or had her people could see right through it. The sight that would startle Kayba, and

/0 DESERT MAGAZINE told her not to be afraid when it came. lady to come for she stopped talking another Kayba thought—but she liked But horrors, who were these two and began to hurry. She opened her it. women who had stopped by her side purse, took a small white card and The gray lady walked fast to the while she was looking at the train? She wrote something on it. She gave this car, got in and waved her hand. The knew they were women for she could to Mabah. Next she opened a small car moved away and the two sisters tell that by their breasts. They had on book and handed this to her. Mabah stood watching it; then they looked at no more clothes than the scanty little started writing in the book and the each other. Kayba remembered the gray lady turned her back. When she things which Mabah had given her to gray lady had put something in her wear under her own dress. Now they faced them again Mabah had finished writing. The gray lady took the book, hand and looked to sec what it was. were speaking to her and Mabah. Why Just a small piece of white cloth made didn't Ma^ah say something? Kayba put it in her purse and then went to Kayba. She took Kayba's right hand, into a roll that was no larger than her felt as if she could neither move nor thumb. She started unrolling it while speak. Sh; was sure if one of these placed something in her palm and women touched her, her heart would folded her fingers over it; kissing her Mabah watched. stop beating. Oh, why wasn't grand- on the cheek at the same time. It was Inside the little piece of cloth was mother here so she could hide behind a silly thing for one woman to kiss a $20 bill. her wide skirts like she used to do when she was afraid. Chicago, then as director-cameraman The two women turned their backs. for a film company in Ohio. He has So did Kayba and Mabah. How could completed seven pictures since entering anyone look at anything so indecent. business for himself after the war. But who were this man and woman You will meet Bill Moore, his wife they were now facing? They were so Sandy and their young son—four-year- close she could reach out her hand old Barry—in "Shack on the Mojave," and touch them. They were tall and When just a youngster, Vivienne L. which appears in this issue. Plans for straight and their clothes were gray. George of Chatsworth, California, the "shack"—a homestead cabin near One look at the woman and that awful moved with her parents to Arizona's Twentynine Palms, California — grow feeling which those two naked women Verde Valley. The family intended to each day. Though "hardly more "than had given her began to leave. How stay only long enough for her father to a chicken coop now," the Moores' good it made her feel to notice the recover his health; but before a year long-range building program eventually gray lady was dressed very much like was over, all of them came down with will produce a home similar to a pio- she was. Only the colors of their a chronic case of "sand-in-the-veins" neer stage station in architectural de- clothes were different. Their hair from which none ever recovered. sign. was fixed the same way and their The story of the Christmas season • • e dresses were the same pattern and came which changed their lives was told by Margaret Gerke planned a career in below the knees the same distance. Mrs. George in "Desert Christmas," art—and then became a journalist. The heels of their shoes were the same and won for her first prize in Desert Three months ago she applied for a height and had the same shape. Magazine's Life on the Desert Contest. place on the editorial staff of Desert The gray lady spoke to them in a "Desert Christmas" appeared in the Magazine, and her work has been of low soft voice. Mabah answered in January Desert. such high quality that on January 1 English. Vlabah didn't mind talking The author was graduated from Ore- she was moved up to a position as if she liked a person. Kayba didn't gon State College with a degree in associate editor. understand but her sister told her some photography and journalism. This Margaret is a native daughter of of the things they were saying. These four-year exile from the desert was one California—of Los Angeles, to be ex- people lived far away and were travel- of a number—but Mrs. George some- act. She went through the elementary ing in an automobile. They had stopped how always managed to find her way schools there, then moved with her par- to put some letters in the mail box. back to her beloved Arizona mesaland. ents, two sisters and a brother to Sierra Mabah told the gray lady that Kayba At present she and her husband. Madre and attended Pasadena Junior Ward S. George, live on a small ranch College. In 1950 she was graduated was her lktle sister on her first visit to from the University of California at The Place: by the Bridge. The gray in California's San Fernando Valley. But they will be back on the Southwest Berkeley after majoring in English and lady placed her hands on Kayba's art. shoulders and looked into her eyes. deserts in February to gather material Kayba thought perhaps this woman for a series of articles, with time out During her school years she was a had lost a child and wanted to cry on from shutter snapping for some good staff member on both yearbook and her shoulder. She wished she would rock hunts. campus weeklies, and acquired a work- even if they were in a crowd. Kayba • • • ing knowledge of reporting and editing. had four mothers: Her own mother, "A House Divided" the H. William After graduation she learned that there her mother's two sisters and her grand- Moore family call themselves — but were more open doors in the field of mother but she would liked to have only because their affection is deep for journalism than in the world of art— this gray lady for a mother also for both the Ozark country in the east and and took a position as society reporter she loved her. Then Mabah must have the Southwest desert land, and their on the Star-News at Pasadena. But to told her about the bracelet she had home headquarters divided between a girl whose interests primarily were bought with grandmother's big penny these two places. in art and in camping and hiking the for they both were laughing and the Bill Moore is an independent pro- city news room brought little satisfac- tion. gray lady was holding her hand and ducer of 16 mm. travelogue pictures looking at the bracelet. and follows a film schedule which takes On the desert Margaret is finding him to the Ozarks in summer and back the opportunity in her leisure hours to The gray lady's man went to a car to the west coast each winter. Before follow her hobbies—sketching, paint- close by, got in and sat there a few he founded his "Boreal Productions," ing and textile design—in an atmos- minutes; then he honked the horn. This he worked in the east, first directing phere that lends encouragement to must have been a signal for the gray community shows for station WLS in these activities.

FEBRUARY, 1952 21 «•«• Chaffin Ferry at Hite-on-the-Colorado. Only vehicular crossing on the big river for 300 miles in southeastern Utah and northern Arizona, the ferry was built and is operated by Art Chaffin (checked shirt), who is pictured with passengers making the ten-minute crossing. The Model A Ford sedan at the left supplies power for the home-made ferry.

From Moab, Utah, to Lee's Ferry in northern Ari- zona, the Colorado river mean !ers through precipi- tous canyons for 300 miles—and until Art end Delia They Run the Chaffin installed a power ferry at Cass Kite's cli homestead, there was no pcini in this long river-span at which an automobile could CTGSS the stream. Here is the story of two Utah pioneers whose persistence Ferry at Hite and ingenuity have made accessible to ycu and me a vast area of desert wilderness which formerly was virtually unknown except to a few cowboys and trap- pers. By JOYCE ROCKWOOD MUENCH Photographs by Josef Muench Map by Norton Allen yf S JOE and I headed down North viction of long familiarity could only visions cf a highway to open to the 4"£ Wash, in Southeastern Utah, it have sprung from hearing repeated ref- outside world the remarkable scenery seemed that all my life I had erences to the ferry and to the kindly of this corner of Utah, he long had been hearing about the ferry across the personalities of the two pioneers who sought the construction of a route Colorado River at Hite. I felt I knew created it. By their unique accomplish- leading from Hanksville, across the Art and Delia Chaffin — the ferry's ment, Art and Delia Chaflin have writ- eastern flanks of the Henry Moun- builders, owners and operators—very ten a page for themselves in the history tains, spanning the river and climbing well, although we were about to meet of the Colorado River and of the through rugged White Canyon to meet them for the first time. American Southwest. the existing road at Natural Bridges The Chaffiris have lived at Hite only Even the road we traveled in North National Monument. since 1934, and the ferry wasn't put Wash, I realized, was largely the re- into operation until 1946; so my con- Charles Kelly wrote an article for sult of Art's persistent efforts. With Desert Magazine (February, 1947) de- 22 DESERT MAGAZINE scribing the opening of this "New Road Into Utah Wilderness." Almost 500 people came to witness the "wedding ceremony" of Garficid, Wayne and San Juan counties and the christening of the new ferry boat. Now, as we traveled over it four years later, the surface was still un- paved; but it was a gay little road, crossing wet and dry stream beds about 60 times and dropping resolutely between colorful walls on its way to Glen Canyon. We had come from Torrey, on State Highway 24, through Capitol Reef National Monument to Hanksville. From the lime we emerged from the sheer walls of Capitol Wash, the Henry Mountains had been on the skyline. Even as we twisted and turned in North Wash, there were still occasional glimpses o' the snow-covered peaks, until mounting red walls shut us in. Great temples along the river opened a gateway to the shores of the Colo- rado River. The road continues six miles along the river tj reach the ferry landing. Before Cajs Hite's name was associ- ated with il, this was known as Dandy Crossing, taking the encouraging title from the remark of a pioneer swimming through ths river on his horse and calling back to his companions, "Come on across. It's a dandy crossing." Today it is Hite, heme of the Chaf- fins and site of the only vehicular crossing on 300 miles of winding river. Art and Delia Chaffin welcomed us warmly. Homespun figures in worka- day clothes, they each have a smile and firm handclasp for all who come to their door. Art Chaffin has spent most of his Pioneers oj Southeastern Utah, Delia and Art Chaffin own and operate the life along the Colorado River. As a Chaffin Ferry at Hite. Art designed and built the unique conveyance and boy he helped his father develop placer urged and directed construction of the road from Hanksville which passes mines in the vicinity. Later he oper- through Hite and across the river to Natural Bridges National Monument. ated a trading post at Camp Stone, downstream, and finally settled at Hite with his wife in 1934. his plough had cleared away desert Canyon. Paved roads were at least a People asked him then, as now, why vegetation. hundred miles away. The rapids of he wanted to live so far away from Material, supplies, and what food Cataract Canyon make the Colorado civilization. That night, as we sat in he couldn't raise had to be brought in unnavigable upstream, and no boat but the little house near the ferry landing, over rough wagon tracks down North a small outboard had ever come up- Art told us something of his decision Wash, 45 miles from the nearest set- stream against the smooth but powerful and his early struggles. He is a modest tlement, Hanksville. Everytime he left current in Glen Canyon below Hite. man, with twinkling blue eyes and his canyon retreat, Art pushed the There would be no machine shops to thinning hair, but I could hear the fight for a road through this country repair road equipment, none in which answer in the way his voice caressed he loved and believed other people to construct the mechanism for a ferry. the names of the Colorado River, of ought to be able to visit. Art hurried back to Hite, got into Trachyte Canyon, his Indian friends When funds were finally made avail- his striped overalls and set to work. and in the way he spoke of hardships able, they were offered on condition There were many things to be done. overcome. that Chaffin not only take charge of It meant selling the farm house, the He began by turning water from building 27 Vi miles through North thrifty little orchard, the cultivated Trachyte Creek into ditches for the Wash and 44 miles up through wild fields, to get money to build a ferry farm which now spreads out in an White Canyon, but personally guaran- boat. orchard and wide fields. When he tee a ferry on the river! One task followed another, without needed more than the creek provided, Only his wagon tracks marked the heroics. there was the big river with its rich route through the Wash, and there was "We built this house close to the silt, waiting to be pumped wherever just a trail on the longer stretch in White crossing, ploughed up ground for new

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fields, installed a pump to irrigate them wondering how much even Art could carried downstream, allowing adjust- from the river, and worked on the take. ment for rising and falling water. The roads." "Sold more land and built another pull cable is lower and passes between They constructed tourist cabins, too, ferryboat. I want you to see it in the shiff wheels, the largest being attached and rigged up a light plant. Cables and morning." to a truck rear axle on the Ford. The lumber were hauled in his own truck The next morning we inspected the boat's course is thus determined by over the new road. An old Ford was famous little ferry with the automobile the cables and doesn't call for steering. brought in to serve as motive power on that Art asserts, "has probably pulled It is "anchored" by applying the car the ferry. By September of 1946 every- more ears and bigger loads than any brakes, which hold the craft steady at thing was ready, although a storm al- other one its size in the country." shore or out on the river. most washed out the new route just You can see by the gleam in Art's before the scheduled celebration. It is a strange looking craft, as un- conventional as the river it plies. A eye as he explains each facet of his The dedication September 17 was brainchild that he enjoyed creating it. a proud event for the Chaffins and all 60-foot main deck, set between wooden the others who had helped. When the bridge girders, is Hanked by two smaller Three passenger cars or one tanker hurrahs were over there was the ferry decks. On one are gears and wheels can make the trip, with a top load of to operate and a new farm to tend. used in anchoring when big loads come eight tons. A "school bell" on the Then, while Art and Delia were ab- aboard, and on the other sits a little cliffs summons the ferryman to the sent for a few days in 1947, the ferry- black Ford sedan with a life boat slung White Canyon shore and people com- boat sank. A cable, loosened by the over its shoulder. ing from Hanksville knock on his door caretaker, offered the capricious river Cables extend across the river, an- if they don't find him at work nearby. the chance to sweep boat and cables chored on either shore. An overhead The bell peals out more and more away by rising suddenly one night. one, with smaller wires swooping to frequently now as traffic increases. "What did vou do then?" I asked. the deck, keeps the ferry from being Uranium has been located all through

24 DESERT MAGAZINE niTe^e snow-caPPed Henry Mountains rise above the desert in southeastern Utah. A bent cottonwood tree in North Wash frames this view of them from the road between Hanksville and Hite. Below—There are cataracts above and below, but in Glen Canyon where the Chaffin ferry is located the Colorado river flows smoothly. The ferry is anchored to over- head cables which swing from shore to shore.

FEBRUARY 19 5 2 •/y, the country and roads are being im- yon on the way to the Henrys, Capitol gaunt, dignified features, readily rec- proved to meet the travel demand. A Reef and on to paved roads that reach ognizable as an Indian profile. mill has been installed on the south Utah's better known wonders at Zion Hoskininni is part of Navajo history. shore, about a mile from the ferry and Bryce Canyon National Parks. His was the role of peacemaker, coun- landing, to process ore brought down In the Chaffins' comfortable sitting seling the hot-headed young men of his from Happy Jack Mine in White Can- tribe who thought they could stem the yon. It hums day and night and 45 room that evening, we talked of the future. When we weren't speaking of tide of whites by killing them. "You workers, with their families, have kill one now and many more will ended forever the loneliness of Hite. Art's dream highway, or the ferry boat which is playing a part in bringing it come," he cautioned them. Chaffin, with 46 years to run on his nearer to reality, there was Trachyte Art remembers him as a force in ferry franchise, has contracts for haul- Canyon and Hoskininni Rock to hear tribal councils and a friend of the white ing oil almost daily to the mill, as well about. man. But Hoskininni had the common as the mail contract and the growing Indian taste for firewater and always tourist traffic. People are beginning That afternoon we had driven sev- tried to get Art to give him some, "Just to know they can cross the river and eral miles of winding road and then for medicine."' follow White Canyon up to the beau- hiked some distance to see the rock ! particularly liked one story the tiful Bridges National Monument, then monument Art named for an old Na- Chailins told us about the old chief. over the Bear's Ears to Blanding and vajo chief, it stands some 400 feet Monument Valley. Or coining down It was in the days of the trading above the canyon floor at the junction post at Camp Stone. Hoskininni and the canyon they may cross Glen Can- of Trachyte and a side canyon, with a group of his braves with their squaws had come to trade and Art rowed across the river to bring them from the Hoskininni Rock. The strong features, cut from blocks of red sandstone are other shore, insisting as usual, that all said to resemble a proud old Navajo Indian Chief and the rock lias been arms be left behind. named in memory of him. It stands in Trachyte Canyon near the Colorado River crossing at Nile in southeastern Utah. Knowing the Indians' love of a joke, Ait pretended to take a drink from a bottle of vinegar, during the course of the always prolonged trading of blankets and wool for silver dollars, and then the exchange of dollars again for groceries and yard goods. His Ute helper pretended to drink some, too. The Navajos watched woodenly but continued trading and the incident seemed to have been forgotten. But after supper around their campfires. the men came back into the post and belligerently demanded whiskey. Of course. Chaffin said he had none. Thev insisted, moving menacingly up to the counter. Their only weapon was a rope, but Art had seen how effec- tively it could be used around a man's neck. He took down his rifle and laid it across the counter, watching every move among the braves. Their black eyes were snapping and for a time he thought they were going to rush him, rifle, or no rifle. Then he thought of the vinegar. Taking it down from the shelf, he agreed to let one Indian come behind the counter and have a drink. A brave stenped forward eagerly and accepted the bottle. Tilting his head back, he swallowed some of it before he knew what it was. With their most difficult problems solved, the Chaffins dream now of a house trailer. They would like to leave their remote home at Hite-on-the-Col- orado for a time and become tourists themselves. They would like to travel, to see old friends and visit new places. But wherever they go there will always be a quiet little place to return to—a place that will always mean much to them because of the hard pioneering work they did to establish it.

26 DESERT MAGAZINE He Finally Got His Man . . . A Place of Serene Isolation . . . Springfield, Illinois Sherman Oaks, California Desert: Desert: In your December issue, you pub- One of your correspondents recently lished a letter from Harriet Nariss of asked about the Four Corners region. Chicago, who wondered if the Four Perhaps the following information will Prescribes Elbow Greiase . . . Corners—where the states of Utah, be of interest to her. Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona A year ago last October I found the Los Angeles, California join—has sufficient interest as material Desert: road to Four Corners fairly good. West for pictures or a story. from Ship Rock to Tes Nos Pas (a In the November issue of Desert Several years ago I read a short story was a letter from Thelma G. Smith of small group of Navajo Hogans) ap- based on the Four Corners. I do not proximately 30 miles, the road is a Desert Center, California. She wanted remember the author, the title, or to know how to obtain a small cabin well graded, firm desert road, occa- where the story appeared, but 1 do sionally a little "washboardy" over where payments would be 10 or 15 remember the plot. dollars a month. gently rolling topography. At Tes Nos A man wanted for a crime—prob- Pas a small sign marks the turnoff to There are a number of ways to ably murder—built a cabin squarely Four Corners. The road, seven miles, secure a simple home inexpensively. on the Four Corners. When the sher- was a typical single track desert road, More important than money are requi- iff from one state called to make an easily traveled. It winds gently down sites of salesmanship (selling oneself by arrest, the fugitive merely took a chair to a hard surfaced level low tableland good impressions) and willingness to in another state. He moved from one overlooking the San Juan River, which pitch in and work. corner of the cabin to another as the is about a mile to the north. The mon- If Thelma Smith lives close to a occasion justified. ument itself is en this level terrain, a town large enough to have streetcars But one day, just as one of the good camping spot. Circling the mon- —or buses—she might be able to lo- sheriffs arrived, a fiercely twisting ument are the wheel tracks of the few cate a wo:m-out car and persuade the windstorm came up, spinning the cabin who have gotten a kick out of driving transit company to move it for her. around. through Colorado, Utah, Arizona and They sometimes arc anxious to get rid The quick-witted sheriff got his man. New Mexico within a radius of fifty of old stock which has little junk value. KENNETH IRW1N feet. Set it up on a permanent foundation, • o • clean it and apply a home paint job, Here is a place to feel the full impact Desert Changed His Liie . . . put curtains at the window—there you of serene isolation. Mrs. Poss and I are! A c:)zy home. Ancient trailers Monrovia, California reached the monument as the sun was and broken-down boxcars also have Desert: setting. In complete silence we watched possibilities. It was four years ago that an old the colors of a brilliant sunset fade issue of Desert Magazine found its way behind silhouetted hills. Then from far Cinder blocks are inexpensive, and to a trash can and into my life. At away came the strains of a weird but many desert dwellers have put up their that time I was penniless. 1 read your beautiful Navajo chant. We listened own places with them. magazine, and 1 became a prospector. spellbound. This alone made the visit A good persuader with little cash Since then, I have traveled miles to Four Corners worthwhile. but an ample supply of "elbow grease" throughout the desert you introduced This whole region is interesting and and ingenuity can devise a desert home to me. I have driven over desert roads, colorful. But it requires a little extra from just about anything. Cleverness have hiked through desert mountains work to get around in it. For example. can transform a tumbledown old shack and over desert sands. I have become Cove, site of an Indian school a little into a charming cabin. lost and have thirsted; I have been west of Red Rock lies in a basin of MRS. R. ROWAN burned by the sun, frozen by the cold red rocks and green pines at the foot COS and blown by desert winds. But, of beautiful Lukachukai Mountains. It Chiricahua or El Muerto? . . . though 1 slept on the ground like an has an interesting history, and impor- Indian and ate a beggar's fare, 1 lived tant carnotite (Uranium) discoveries Mesa, Arizona like a king. This desert has discour- have recently been made there. The Desert: aged me often, but I always return to road to Red Rock is graded, and from "The Lost Treasure of the Chiri- it. I love its beauty—in every mood— there on to Cove is passable. The Ship cahuas" in the November issue of Des- with all my heart. Rock itself, the Carrizo Mountains and ert is very interesting; but 1 wonder I have one question which you or other places near by in this primitive where Weldon Heald got his material! your readers may be able to answer corner of the Navajo Reservation offer In his book, Coronado's Children, for me. I remember reading some- other points of interest. J. Frank Doby has written a story, where about a certain Harry Carpenter However, in all this country, carry "Los Muertos no Hablan," dead men who had discovered some Guano Caves your own camp, food and water. My don't talk. The names in this story are on the Colorado River. I am anxious brother "Desert Rats" who travel with the same bandits Curley Bill Brocius, to get in touch with Mr. Carpenter and lighter portable outfits, may not agree Jim Hughes, Zwing Hunt, Billy I wonder whether he still operates his with my method, but I use a light, Grounds and others, who appeared in caves. Any information about his efficient, small "house" trailer. I have Mr. Heald's version. The only differ- whereabouts would be greatly appre- acquired the knack of getting it into ence is that the treasure was buried at ciated. and out of places few people approach El Muerto Springs, Davis Mountain, JOHN A. HUSAVA with a car. I usually use it as a base Jeff County, Texas, near the Mexican Desert Magazine never has for more detailed reconnaissance. In border. printed a story on Harry Carpen- former years I have camped all ways Which is which? Are there two ter's Guano Caves, nor does it possible, but now prefer to have more treasures, or perhaps a third location? know of Mr. Carpenter's present complete equipment at hand. Good luck to all who try to find this whereabouts. Can any reader One warning. Look for difficulty if elusive loot. answer Mr. Husava's question? you try to go west from Tes Nos Pas A. B. L. CLAUSEN —R.H. to Kayenta or Monument Valley. The

FEBRUARY 952 27 road is easy going, graded, dirt (watch during the Civil War that it would be Likes Death Valley Cover . . . when wet) from Tes Nos Pas to Mexi- impossible to discover just what arms Hanford, California can Water. It is also good between he was issuing. Desert: Dinnehotso and Kaycnta, but between From studying a Smithsonian Insti- I congratulate you on the December Mexican Water and Dinnehotso they tution bulletin on American and Euro- cover! What could be more appropri- call the trail "over the rocks.'" Three pean swords, I have identified the ate than the road sign, the water, the or four sandy stretches interspersed sword found near the musket as a Devil's Golf Course and the mountains with long stretches of bare, bumpity. "foot artillery sword, period 1830 to in the distance? So far as I am con- outcropping sandstone with only the 1850." cerned, you can use this for a number markings of the Navajo's iron rimmed of issues. Doubtless you have other wagon wheels denoting the location of I am fascinated by these old wea- plans. the trail make this 14-mile stretch a pons. Who once carried them? Were they abandoned or lost, captured or E. R. NASH bit rugged. It took me seven hours e o o From Four Corners to Dinnehotso— forgotten? I now am delving into pio- neer history for an answer. Jumping Beans Intriguing . . . the trailer slowed me up some. Joe Sparks, Maryland McNair and Bob Hood, teachers at They may have belonged to a stray Desert: the Dinnehotso Indian School, warmly from a Mormon battalion. Or perhaps When I purchased some Mexican hospitab c, told us that they had never they were gathered by Cahuilla Indians jumping beans, I wanted to know more seen a trailer come over that road. A present at the massacre of Kearney's about these peculiar Brincadores. Per- line stalwart young Navajo, Fleming men at San Pasqual. It is interesting haps some Desert Magazine readers Begay (;i former Marine) gave us a to speculate. have shared my curiosity. helping hand on one occasion. Bui JAMES A. SUTHARD May I suggest they read John W. ihat is what makes that part of the • • • Hilton's Sonora Sketch Book'! In the country enchanting—the total absence Sandspikes Still a Mystery . . . chapter, "Love Life of a Jumping of civilized trappings, including good Phoenix, Arizona Bean." I found a wealth of information. roads. Desert: EDNA PLANT JOHN R. POSS I have been following the discussion • • • in Desert concerning the origin of The jumping bean's activity is produced by a small moth, Car- Tale of the Musket . . . sandspikes. (Desert October 39, No- vember 39, July 49, December 51.) pocaps asaltitans. This moth lays Long Beach, California I wonder if they may have been its egg on the flower of the jump- Desert: caused by lightning strikes fusing the ing bean. When the tiny worm Not long ago I had a rare bit of sand? It is true that certain places, hatches, it makes its way into the fortune. Just south of the town of primarily because of their large min- forming seed pod. The jumping Anza, California, 1 discovered, buried eral desposits, seem to attract an un- is accounted for by the worm in sand, all the metal remains of an usually large number of strikes from striking its head against the side 1833 Springfield musket, a cadle for passing storms. Might this not explain of the thin shell. John Hilton's running lead balls or Minie bullets, why large numbers of sandspikes have book tells many more interesting and a short U. S. Army sword. been found, for example, near Signal facts about the jumping bean phe- The Springfield raises a question. It Mountain? nomenon.—R. H. was, as 1 say, an 1833 musket con- Another subject, which you treated • • • verted to percussion. But the Spring- some time ago, also caught my interest: She Knew Ezra Hamilton . . . field Company ciaims it never issued the account of the "Trees Which Were Palm Desert, California a model 1833! I plan to send them a Killed by Fear." (March 47 Desert) Desert: photograph of the lockplatc and breech These were trees, junipers I believe, I was very much interested in the tang quite clearly marked "Springfield located in a small area on the Navajo November article by Marcia Wynn, 1833" with tiie famous "viewed and reservation. They had been killed and When Ezra Hamilton Found Gold at proofed" stamp above it. denuded of their bark. The Indians Willow Springs. I knew Mr. Hamilton. The elements long ago had claimed said they had "died of fear." My husband and I first passed the walnut stock, but the long bolt that After reading your article, I talked through Willow Springs in 1902, trav- ties the breechplug tang to the trigger to a man who had seen a similar area, eling in a covered wagon. There was guard is a masterpiece of case harden- and he agreed with me that they might nothing there at that time, except the ing. I have worked on several weapons, have been denuded by a severe hail- spring, which we were afraid to use. later model Springiiclds. The stocks storm. If a thunderstorm were moving In 1906 we again made the trip across are hard and tough. But this one is very slowly, or not at all, it is con- the Mojave Desert to Bishop, this time bent like a relaxed index linger! The ceivable that a large amount of hail in a two-cylinder Reo car. The horse- minute I noted this, I realized that it might fall in one restricted spot and less carriage being quite new, my hus- must hav.; taken all the strength a man leave the surrounding areas relatively band was afraid we might get stuck in could mister, holding the rille by the untouched. the sand; so he had an Indian follow muzzle end, to accomplish that curve. Of course this theory still doesn't us with a team of horses, to pull us The musket, as I indicated, is a con- explain the present lack of vegetation out of trouble if necessary. version from flintlock to percussion. in the region. Perhaps it hasn't rained We arrived at Willow Springs sev- This conversion was authorized by there sufficiently since to propagate eral hours before the Indian and his Congress, the work to be done at any seeds. rig and waited there for him. Mr. Springfield and Harper's Ferry arsenals CARL R. ERICKSON Hamilton had built the stone buildings in 1840-41. No, Sandspikes are not to be and hotel and was also working the I suspect some connection between confused with fulgurites—the fused mine. We stayed in Willow Springs the rifle and General Kearney's march sand tubes sometimes found where several days and he was wonderful to to California. Unfortunately, as far as lightning strikes sandy ground. my husband and me and to our four 1 have been able to ascertain, the rec- Sandspikes are formed by crystal- young children. He served us meals— ords of the Quartermaster and Chief ization — but why and how re- all we could eat—for 25 cents! of Ordnance were juggled so much mains a mystery.—R. H. MARGARET M. WARD

28 DESERT MAGAZINE THE NATION'S MOST EXCITING & UNUSUAL EXPOSITION!

ARIZONA State May Finance Dam . . . 1952 WILLIAMS—Arizona State Game Lake for Waterfowl . . . Department several years ago was in- RIVERSIDE COUNTY BOULDER CITY —Acting Secre- terested in building a dam near Wil- tary of the Interior Richard D. Searles liams for game and fish conservation FAIR and NATIONAL has approved a plan to develop a 5000- purposes. The dam it considered was acre resting and feeding ground for similar in plan to the proposed Kaibab waterfowl at Mittry Lake near Yuma. Dam which would give the town of Cooperating on the project are the Williams a new water supply. It is DATE Bureau of Reclamation, the U. S. Fish hoped the department may renew its and Wildlife Service and the Arizona interest and build the Kaibab dam at Game and Fish Commission. The state the site a short distance north of the commission at its own expense will junction of U. S. Highway 66 and State FESTIVAL construct inlet and outlet facilities to Highway 64. If the game department permit a small volume of fresh Colo- County Fairgrounds does not take over construction, the rado River water to flow through the INDIO. CALIFORNIA dam will be built by town funds.— now stagnant lake and thus promote Coconino Sun. the growth of waterfowl food and per- • • • FEB. 19-24 mit the propagation of game fish in the Inclusive area.—Las Vegas Review-Journal. Indian Tribes Need Water . . . • • • CASA GRANDE — Maricopa and Pima Indian tribes face a desperate Sensational Double-Th:-eat Scorpion . . . shortage of water, said Alfred Jackson, TEMPE—Dr. Herbert Stahnke, di- Maricopa-Pima Tribal Council chair- CAMEL RACES rector of the poisonous animal research man, at a conference in Sacaton. Edi- and laboratory at Arizona State College, son Evans, a member of the council, NATIONAL HORSE SHOW reported a deadly scorpion with two stated he has a 10-acre allotment, but Each afternoon—1 p.m. complete tails and stingers had been last year he received only enough water contributed for anti-venom serum. Dr. for less than one acre. Representatives Stahnke said each of the stingers had of the San Carlos Irrigation and Drain- Brilliant & Dazzling Production sufficient venom to kill a human being. age district accused Safford Valley of The scorpion was dead upon receipt. farmers of pumping water that other- "ARABIAN NIGHTS PAGEANT" —Tucson Daily Citizen. wise might have come down to them. Presented on —Casa Grande Dispatch. $25,000 Outdoor Arabian Stage TRUE OR FALSE ANSWERS • • • with cast of nearly 100 Questions arc on page 19 Desert Zoo Is Assured . . . FREE Each Evening - FREE I—False. TUCSON—Establishment of a des- Starting at 6:45 p.m. 2—True. 3—True. ert zoological and botanical garden in — •— 4—False. There is no record of buf- the Tucson Mountain park has been falo on the desert as far wes( as HUNDREDS OF the ower Colorado River. assured by the Pima county park com- 5—True. mittee. Start of the project is made COLORFUL 6—False Coolidge dam is on the certain by an initial grant of $10,000 Gil a River. by the Charles Lathrop Pack founda- EXHIBITS 7—Falst. Indian pctroglyphs are California Dales found on rocks facing all direc- tion of New York. This money will be tions. used for the acquisition of animal and Desert Citrus 8—False. Father Kino's missionary plant specimens. An outdoor area will Minerals & Mining work in the New World covered be fenced and equipped with cages and the period 1683-1711. Father Livestock and Garces traversed the desert 75 pits to contain native animals while years later. indoor exhibits will be constructed in Huge Junior Department 9—False. A rattlesnake has a verte- the Tucson Mountain House. Plans Many Others bra of bone tissue extending include rock, mineral and mining ex- © nearly the length of its body. hibits, collections of small living ani- 10—True. 1 I—False. There were no burros un- mals, reptiles and insects, as well as CARNIVAL GAYWAY til the Spaniards brought them interpretive displays explaining south- BAGDAD BAZAAR from the Old World. ern Arizona geology, flora and fauna. 1 2—False1. The creosote blossom is Adjacent botanical gardens will include yellow. 13—True. 14—True. nearly 100 kinds of native desert cacti See the huge array o! exhibits in the mod 15—False. The peccary is a species and approximately 400 types of desert ern and unusual-designed Commercial & of wild hog found in southern trees, shrubs and llowcrs. — Tucson Industrial Exhibit Building. Arizona. Daily Citizen. 16—False. Junipers ck> not grow be- low the Upper Sonoran plant as* FOPx A THRILL zone Buffalo Meat Offered . . . 17—False. Joshua tree wood is too BENSON—Arizona Game and Fish OF A LIFETIME poro.is fo:' most furniture manu- Commission had the job of disposing Visit the 1952 National Date Festival staged facture. in an exotic desert setting 18—True. 19—True. 20—True. of 27,000 pounds of buffalo meat— from the 276 quarters of buffalo which

FEBRUARY, 19 5?. 29 it was expected would be available after the 1951 shoot. This annual har- vest of surplus animals is held to keep THE DESERT TRflDlllG POST the Arizona herds within carrying ca- Classified Advertising in This Section Costs 8c a Word, $1.00 Minimum Per Issu« pacity of their ranges. Sale price of meat was set at 30 cents a pound for front quarters and 40 cents a pound for hind quarters.—San Pedro Valley INDIAN GOODS REAL ESTATE News. FOUR PERFECT AND FINE Indian Arrowheads DANDY RANCH and home: Grapefruit and $1.00. 2 large arrowheads $1.00; extra fine dates. Owner can hold full time job and still • • • stone tomahawk $2.00; 4 beautiful bird ar- care for this place while paying for it. Priced rowheads $1.00; 2 flint knives $1.00; fine at $25,000 for quick sale. Write Box 162, Levee Being Rebuilt . . . effigy peace pipe $8.00; bone fish hook $2.00; Thermal, California, Ronald L. Johnson. YUMA—Remodeling work on the 6" or over spearhead $5.00, thin and perfect. List Free. Lear's, Glenwood, Arkansas. 20 ACRES—Oklahoma oil land. Superior Oil Co. Yuma levee, one of those in the Colo- of California drilling and leasing in same WE SEARCH UNCEASINGLY for old and rare county. All mineral rights. Full price $100.00. rado River Front and Levee System Indian Artifacts, but seldom accumulate a George Story, 1425 N. W. 2nd, Oklahoma City, which extends into Arizona, California large assortment. Collectors seem as eager to Oklahoma. possess them as their original owners. To and Nevada, is more than 30 percent those who like real Indian things, a hearty RESTRICTED residential lot, Palm Desert. complete, and specifications have been welcome. You too may find here something Good location. Reasonable. B. Stoker, 3729 you have long desired. We are continually Cortez St., Riverside, California. issued on the next phase of the gigantic increasing our stock with the finest in Navajo rugs, Indian baskets, and hand-made jewelry. job. Although Hoover, Parker and Daniels Trading Post, 401 W. Foothill Blvd., MISCELLANEOUS Davis dams control the flow of Colo- Fontana, California. CALIFORNIA WILD FLOWER seeds. 20 kinds mixed, 25c pkt. 5 pkts. $1.00. Ivan Settles, rado River water in the upper part FOR SALE: Antique Indian collection. Many Rt. 1, Elsinore, California. of Arizona, levees are needed to les- ollas, metates, baskets, artifacts, etc. Box 180, Julian, California. COLOR SLIDES—Travel, Nature, Geology, etc. sen danger of floods. These floods can Free list (with sample 30c, three for dollar). Kelly D. Choda, Los Alamos, New Mexico. originate along the river below Parker BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES BINOCULARS FOR SALE: 16x50 Naval sixteen Dam and along the Gila River west of FABULOUS EARNINGS — Fascinating pastime. power precision prism binoculars. Practically the network of dams in the vicinity of Growing Genuine, living miniature (Ming) brand new. Finest leather case, coated lenses, Trees. New Sensational Business or Hobby. achromatic, tremendous power. See for miles Phoenix.—Yuma Daily Sun. Astounding information FREE. Dwarf Gar- with them. Originally cost $250. Sacrifice for dens, Box 355N, Briggs Station, Los Angeles quick sale at $85.00. Will send C.O.D. express • • • 48, California. with examination privilege if you pay postage. Ed Priest, Box 251, Rt. 1, Evanston, Illinois. CALIFORNIA BOOKS — MAGAZINES DESERT TEA. One pound one dollar postpaid. Cotton Shipped by River . . . BOOKS FOUND: Any subject, any author. Fast Greasewood Greenhouses, Lenwood, Barstow, BLYTHE — The Colorado River service. Send wants—no obligation. Interna- California tional Bookfinders. Box 3003-D, Beverly Hills, again is being used for freight trans- California. SILVERY DESERT HOLLY PLANTS: One dollar each postpaid. Greasewood Greenhouses, Len- portation. United Farms, Inc., which PANNING GOLD — Another hobby for Rock wood, Barstow, California. has 160 acres of cotton in Arizona's Hounds and Desert Roamers. A new booklet, "What the Beginner Needs to Know," 36 pages COLOR SLIDES: Photomicrographs of rare Cibola Valley, is loading picked cot- of instructions; also catalogue of mining books types of Agate. World Travelogs; Grand and prospectors' supplies, maps of where to go Canyon, Petrified Forest, Yosemite, Carlsbad ton on a large flatboat similar to the and blue prints of hand machines you can Caverns, White Sands, Indian Ruins, Big Bend, old Murphy ferry. The boat brings build. Mailed postpaid 25c, coin or stamps. Brice, Zion, Wild Flowers, cacti, reptiles. Old Prospector, Box 729, Desk 5, Lodi, Calif. Four samples 2x2 or stereo and literature, the cotton to the California side, where $1.00. Dave Harris, 2401 Pittsburg, El Paso, it is transferred to trailers and trucked WANTED—The book "Episodes of Fiddletown," Texas. by Bret Harte. Mrs. Dick Groot, 2521 N. to a Blythe gin.—Palo Verde Valley Luder, El Monte, California. DESERT TEA: Picked fresh from the Mohave Desert natural tea gardens. Healthful, in- Times. vigorating. $1.00 per lb. postpaid. Desert Tea Co., 125 Erin Drive, Needles, California. • • • PROSPECTORS AND ROCKHOUNDS WANTED. Plaque Honors Trailblazers . . . To join the newly incorporated United Pros- BORREGO SPRINGS—Commem- pectors Organization. If you are experienced Pinon Incense... or beginners the articles in our magazine are orating and honoring early trailblazers bound to help you enjoy your hobby and the outdoors. Send your name for our new bro- of the Colorado Desert, E Clampus Bring the delightful fragrance chure and literature. United Prospectors, Box Vitus, California historical society, of the Pinon Forest into your 729, Lodi, California. placed a historical plaque on the De home or office. The burner is a FIND YOUR OWN beautiful Gold nuggets! It's fun! Beginners illustrated instruction book Anza Rancho in the Borrego Valley. miniature model of the outdoor $1.00. Gold pan, $2.00. Where to go? Gold Dr. Arthur Woodward, curator of Los baking ovens used by prehis- placer maps, Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, $1.00 each state. All three maps Angeles County Museum, officiated at toric Indians, and still in use in $2.00. Desert Jim, Box 604 Stockton, Calif. New Mexico pueblos. When the dedication service, which was held LADY GODIVA "The World's Finest Beautifier." during the society's overnight trek to the little cones of genuine pinon For women who wish to become beautiful, for women who wish to remain beautiful. An the site.—Borrego Sun. pine are burned in this tiny outstanding desert cream. For information, oven the aroma is a breath of write or call Lola Barnes, 963 No. Oakland, • • • the outdoor Southwest. Pasadena 6. Calif, or phone SYcamore 4-2378. Mullet Season Extended . . . SAVE 50% On New Binoculars! Free catalog. SALTON SEA—Phil Douglas, as- Free book, "How to Select Binoculars." Write Kills kitchen and bathroom today! Bushnell's 43-D32, 43 E. Green Street, sistant fisheries biologist for the Cali- odors and removes the smell of Pasadena 1, California. fornia Department of Fish and Game, stale tobacco. Pueblo Indians WE SPECIALIZE in repairing binoculars, field has issued reassurance to a small com- glasses and telescopic sights. Estimates given. burn pinon for nasal and bron- Frank M. Drake, c/o Wickenburg Jewelers, mercial fishery that permission to fish chial ailments. Wickenburg, Arizona. the Salton Sea for mullet is not im- FOR SALE — 22-foot house trailer with air mediately in danger of being revoked. Burner and 15 cones....$1.50 cooler but no running gear. Would make Burner and 54 cones.... 2.70 comfortable small cabin for Jackrabbit home- In fact, this year the commercial sea- stead. $475. Write Box R, Desert Magazine, Extra cones, 36 for 1.25 Palm Desert, California. son, which usually closes in February, WANTED TO BUY—Oxytheca Ferfoliata. See has been extended to April. Should it Postpaid to You October issue of Desert Magazine for picture appear at any time that the setting of and description. Quote prices per 1000 plants. Hilo Steiner Studio, 500 Harding Rd., Fair commercial gill nets in the sea would DESERT GRAFTS SHOP Haven, New Jersey. jeopardize the propagation of marine WANTED TO BUY—Fantazma Palm Drift—also Palm Desert. California called curled palm. Specify average size and sport fishes, necessary regulations will price wanted. Hilo Steiner Studio, 500 Hard- be set to protect the introduced species, ing Rd., Fair Haven, New Jersey. said Douglas. 30 DESERT MAGAZINE Road Link Completed . . . Farmers Ask River Diversion . . . Park Survey Ordered . . . PLASTER CITY — Opening up a BLYTHE—Claiming gravity diver- BLYTHE—To aid study of a pro- road link which heretofore has been sion into their canals has been increas- posal which would establish a state passable only to jeeps and power wag- ingly difficult since construction of park in the Palo Verde Valley, a sur- ons, the counties of San Diego and the Parker and Headgate Rock dams vey of sites on the lower Colorado Imperial have completed the grading upstream, Blythe farmers have asked River has been ordered by the Cali- of 2 miles of road between Agua Cali- the Interstate Stream Commission to fornia Division of Beaches and Parks. ente springs in Vallecito Valley and place under consideration a plan to Two or three of the best sites will be Highway 80 at the settlement of Oco- divert the Colorado River to canals recommended for further consideration. tillo. The road follows the route of 12 miles north of the city. The Cali- —Palo Verde Valley Times. the long-projected Imperial Highway fornians are asking Arizona's support by way of Sweeney Pass. It is now for congressional approval of the proj- possible for motorists to leave High- ect, which would build a new diversion A must on the Desert Lover's Hook Shelf way 78 at the Scissors Crossing and system for 60,000 acres of the Palo go by way of Vallecito stage station, Verde district.—Yuma Daily Sun, LOAFING ALONG Agua Caliente and Egg Mountain to so* connect with Highway 80 on the west Unique Pueblo Opens . . . DEATH VALLEY TRAILS side of Imperial Valley. The road DESERT HOT SPRINGS — After Before you visit the Big Sink at the opens a new collecting area to rock- 10 years of construction, Cabot Yerxa's Bottom of America, by all means read this hounds, and is another step in the Indian Pueblo has been opened to the book. long-planned Imperial Highway route public. More additions are planned to from El Segundo on the coast to Im- the 30-room Hopi type structure, built IT'S A MAN'S BOOK perial Valley by way of Warner's BUT WOKEN BUY MORE COPIES on a rocky slope just outside Desert Authentic, factual, human interest stories Ranch. Hot Springs. Yerxa has lived in the of colorful characters who lived, loved and desert area since 1913.—Indio Date lied one day at a time. Famous Engineer Dies . . . Palm. Stories of fortunes made or lost over- MOJAVE—It was July 8, 1905. night. Daring men. Girls "beautiful but Death Valley Scolty walked into the damned." Romance and revelry. Ghost Indian Legislation Outlined . . . towns, Lost mines. Delightful rascals and Los Angeles oilice of Santa Fe Rail- BISHOP — Proposed legislation the tall tales of far horizons. way, slapped $5,500 cash on the which, if passed, would provide greater counter and demanded a special train citizenship rights for California Indi- AN OUTSTANDING GIFT BOOK to take him to Chicago faster than any ans, was presented by members of the At better book stores everywhere. $3.85 human had ever made the journey. By California buyers add 11 cents sales tax. Indian board of trustees at a meeting Published by July 9, Santa Fe had chosen a crew of of Bishop area tribes. The legislation THE DESERT MAGAZINE PRESS top engineers, firemen and conductors, would eliminate certain restrictions Palm Desert, California and the "Coyote Special" departed on which exist on lands now held by In- the 2.265-mile trip east. dians and would offer the Indians clear Nineteen engineers, the "Nervy titles to their lands. If hardship cases Nineteen" as they were called by news- existed, debts on irrigation systems LUXURY CLIMATE papers of the day, handled the throttle. built in Indian country would be re- FOR SALE. Acre and 2 aero homesites, el 3200 in desert foothills, mountain water Now. 46 years later, the last of those tired. Under the proposed law, Indians piped to lot. Super!) views, all year health engineers is gone. Thomas E. Galla- spot. From $750, $15 mo. up, reas. down between 21 and 50 years of age would payment. Six photos mailed free with info. gher died November 23 in Mojave at be subject to taxation.—Inyo Indepen- WRITE C. C. BATTELLE the age of 83. dent. Lucerne Valley, San Bernardino Co., Calif. R. P. Hinze, Santa Fe station agent at Fuller/ton, California, remains as the only surviving crewman of the record-breaking run. Hinze is a former ASK YOUR CONTRACTOR ABOUT "PRECISION BUILT" fireman for the railway.—Gallup Inde- pendent. 9 • • RED CINDER BLOCKS Dam Traffic May Be Stopped . . . NEEDLES—Fishermen and other You'll have year recreationists who cross Parker Dam around comfort to reach the Arizona shore of Havasu g »•"-• with Lake are rot assured that the roadway llii will be open at all times, announced "Precision Built" E. A. Moritz, director of the Bureau i of Reclamation's Region No. 3. The INBiRlID RED CINDER OR roadway night be closed without ad- PUMICE BLOCKS vance notice for reasons of security or because of operation and maintenance Homes of Distinction • e • activities en top of the dam. Although are built with never intended to serve as a bridge or public highway, the bureau has per- PLANS AVAILABLE mitted its use as such so long as traffic DESERT CINDER BLOCKS FOR did not interfere with normal operation DESERT HOMES and maintenance work. Moritz said the bureau hopes private, county or TRANSIT MIXED CONCRETE CO. state interests eventually will construct 3464 E. Foothill Blvd., Pasadena 8 an access road independent of the dam. RYAN 1-6329 or Corona Phone 1340 —Desert Star.

FEBRUARY, 1952 31 Flax Acreage Drops . . . Quail Wings Wanted . . . Out After Rustlers . . . EL CENTRO — Despite excellent BERKELEY—Game biologists of PIOCF1E—Suggestions for lessening prospects lor higher flaxseed prices, a the California Department of Fish and cattle losses due to either rustling or heavy swing to cotton in Imperial Val- Game believe they can learn some- accidental shipment of strays were pre- sented at the 1951 Nevada State Cattle ley will substantially reduce the acreage thing about the state's quail speeies if they have enough quail wings to look Association convention. The associa- planted to flax this crop year. Flax over. They have issued an appeal to tion's brand committee recommended acreage harvested in the valley in 1950 hunters asking that the outer, or tip that qualified men who know livestock was 46,000. Although too early to half of the birds' right wings be mailed be hired by the Nevada Board of Stock make a firm estimate on the 1952 acre- to the department's food habits labora- and be given police power to see that age, it may drop as low a.s 35,000 acres tory. University of California, Berkeley. present livestock laws are enforced. lor the entire valley. The swing to Each should be identified if possible, The committee praised existing Nevada cotton and low prices received lor part showing sex and speeies —mountain, stock laws, but deplored the machinery of the hist crop are cited as causes for valley or Gambel's. Study of the wings set up for enforcement. The sugges- the decrease.—Imperial Valley Weekly. will provide information about the per- tion was made also that the present centage of birds hatched this year and law be amended so that all shipments other biological statistics which will must carry a standard certificate filled be valuable in formulating future quail out by the owner.—Pioche Record. LOWER management plans.—Inyo Register. o <•' ., o o o 1351 Brand Book Out . . . FALLON—1951 edition of the Ne- MAP NEVADA vada brand book, issued every five Most complete map yet pub- Shas'a Power Promised . . . years, has been published by the State lished of Eaia California, con- WASHINGTON — According to Department of Agriculture. "'Tie new taining hundreds of the original Senator George W. Malonc, the De-edition contains 3404 brands, an in- place names. 28x42 inchrs, in partment of Interior has given Nevada crease of 379 over 1946. Copies may two colors. Published by Arey- a firm oiler of 150,000 kilowatts of be obtained from the department's Jcne:; of San Diego. power from Shasta Dam on a 50 per- office in Reno for $2.00 each.—Fallon Postpni.:, inducing far:, Si.CO cent load factor. Availability of 167.- Standard. 000 kilowatts of power from Folsom TE^ERT CRAFTS SKOP Dam also has been promised for 1954. Urgs Monopoly Ban . . . Vn)r\ Desert, California If Nevada accepted the Shasta offer, LAS VEGAS—Asserting the belief Malone pointed out, it would mean that competitive practices would expe- that regardless of any power shortage dite materially the development of Lake in California or elsewhere none of this Mead as a sportsman's and tourist's power could be taken away. The cost mecca, representatives from chambers Artifacts would be stable over the next several of commerce and snorting groups met Indian Material generations, which would make it pos- in Las Vegas to urge elimination of "government-sanctioned monopolistic Fine Indian relics, Yr.ma—Folsom material. sible to quote low and constant indus- Shipped on approval postpaid, Orders sub- trial rates. When transmission lines practices" in the recreation area. The ject to G\OC1C on hand and given immediate are completed, rower would be made group drafted recommendations for attention. available throughout the state.—Hum- improvement of recreation facilities A fins museum or relic collection consists of many Individual pieces skillfully combined boldt Star. and planned to send them to the De- •<]•< units or groups in form an Interesting partment of Interior.—Las Vegas Re- instructive picture. This is often I In1 result r* r ^ of investment of capital and intelligent ef- Lake Mead Is Inspiration . . . view-Journal. fort, wii.h considerable amount of time in- ~ o r volved. BOULDER CITY — Ferde Grofe, Waul f<] or needed additional pieces for NEW MEXICO these collections are often available, if the noted composer of the Grand Canyon purchaser can find ;i suitable sourer of sup- Suite, is producing Dawn at Lake Mead Road Improvement Started . . . i> >• For some time now l h;i\ r been buying as his most recent work. He has been GRANTS -- After many years of ;itul selling many of these needed pieces to earnest collectors, museums, dealers ;md working on the composition since mov- promises, some definite action at last foundations. I find that my stock of relics ing to Boulder City, carrying a "musi- has been taken on improving the road and materials fluctuates greatly as new col- lections are purchased and distributed to cal scratchpad" with him most of the from Grants to F.I Mono and the ice buyers in all parts of the country. Th ere I ore: immediately when a new col- time and making notes of ideas when caves and continuing to San Rafael. lection i- received and subjected to disposal, they come to him. He said he wrote The three miles of hard surface road I will issue a complete list of the new and residue m;Ueri:il. I have found through ex- more than 200 storm effects for the will be built by funds from the county's perience that my responsibility to the cus- tomer cinsists of furnishing, as nearly as Grand Canyon Suite before he finished farm to market road fund. Aid also possible, any or all material. or type of relic it.—Las Vegas Review-Journal. will come from the Federal Bureau of desired, if I cannoi furnish the wanted ma- terial, i use my utmost knowledge and ex- Public Roads and the State Highway perience to select a substitute—but this sub- stitute niusi first be acceptable u> the pur- Department.—Grants Beacon. chaser I *f'(rv payment is made. 5 f • if material thai Is desired is not listed, ;m 'EVERYTHING FOR THE HIKER' Indians Sign for Film . . . inquiry regarding it? availability will be } ii'iiin pt !y a r swered . ALBUQUERQUE __ [ndian cere- Price listings are based upon desirable volume or quantity purchase. For i his rea- SLEEPING BAGS monial, warrior, pleasure and hunting son they will be low, definite, and will not dances of the painted desert comprise be flexil le. AIR MATTRESSES For any material needs or information, the repertoire of the White Cloud SMALL TENTS brothers. Indian dancers from the G. TILTON and many ether items Jemez tribe of New Mexico. The broth- ers. Chief Tony White Cloud, Sam. 1615 W. 21 • Topeka. Kansas NOTICE: Listings will be sent free to those Clemen and Val. have been signed by interested. Orders sent in will be filled VAN DEGRIFT'S KIKE HUT Columbia Pictures to do a specialty in the order in which they are received, and will be subjected to remaining stock 717 Wosi Seventh Sh-eet number in "Apache Country." western on hand. LOS ANGELES 14. CALIFORNIA film starring Gene Autry.—Salt Lake FIRST PRICE LIST FEIiKl'AIiY 1 Tribune.

'V? DESERT MAGAZINE Water Due Rio Grande Valley • • • for improving a 21-mile stretch of the on the train... as at home ALBUQUERQUE—Water users in river. The government's seal of ap- the Middle Rio Grande Valley in New proval also has been placed on an Mexico will benefit from a two-way agreement with the Middle Rio Grande relief program instituted late last year. Conservancy District providing for re- The area, plagued by drouth, suffers pairs and extension of its irrigation and also from evaporation from ponds and drainage system. The two-point pro- lagoons and from drainage through gram is first step in a comprehensive salt cedar and other vegetation. Secre- plan to bring the valley up to its maxi- tary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman mum production potential.—Reclama- announced that contracts have been let tion Era.

/icmual ^ianfr (fattest PEGLEG SMITH ENCAMP- Ray Hetherington. of Ghost Town. MENT, Jan. 1—Competing in a field Buena Park; Fred Harvey, Encinitas; of 26 contestants, including several Jay Wilson, Long Beach; H. T. Evans, past masters in the art of spinning Sunnymead; and Nell Murbarger. Costa whoppers. Art McCain of Barstovv ire- Mesa. captured his 1949 championship title In addition to the bronzed statuette by winning Sweepstakes Award at the of Old Pegleg, originally modeled by Fourth Annual convention of Desert Mrs. Randall Henderson, and awarded Liars' Club. The affair is held each each year to the Sweepstakes winner, New Year's Eve in connection with prizes included books on desert sub- the famous Peglcg Smith Lost Gold jects, preserved fruit, packaged dates, Trek in Borrego Valley. and mineral specimens, provided by McCain's winning entry concerned Ray Hetherington. Ensign Date Ranch, a piece of desert real estate assertedly of Borrego Springs, and McCain. purchased by him when its owner rep- Honors for farthest distance trav- resented it as a phenomenal piece of eled went to Mr. and Mrs. F. B. property having "water on every acre." Nicholson, of Seattle. Mr. Nicholson, Only on the train can you enjoy the same Subsequent investigation revealed that a Navy officer at that port, had ob- deft service and freshly prepared meals the land was situated on the bottom tained a special ten-day leave to make as in your favorite place to dine hack of Salton Sea. possible their attendance at the affair. home. Union Pacific is famous lor its Sunset Hikers club, of San Diego, at- Obtaining a rowboat, McCain said, food-served as you like il. at your table he had set forth to inspect his new tended in a body. holdings. His adventures in connec- Prior to the Liar's Contest, the eve- in the Dining Car. It's just another ad- tion with 1 he survey had included a ning program featured around-thc- vantage in going East by Union Pacific terrific storm, a waterspout which campfire singing of many favorite old . . your home on wheels. pinned his boal to the bottom of the songs, with Ed Stevens, of Imperial, Sea; a sea dog which barked at him;providing banjo accompaniment. Mc- FOUR FAST TRAINS EAST a mermaid, who was directing traffic Cain acted as master of ceremonies. to Pegleg's three lost buttes; and a sea An estimated 300 persons were in serpent, which he "battled with my attendance, with approximately 50 water pistol . . . until I ran out of outfits remaining to camp on the des- "CITY OF LOS ANGELES" water!'' ert fiat. "CITY OF ST. LOUIS" Second place in the men's division • was awarded to Howard D. Clark, of LOS ANGELES LIMITED Yucca VaLcv. Clark's tale dealt with a super-realistic mirage, in which his PONY EXPRESS 16 Ticket Offices in Southern California partner became lost in the Last Chance to serve you, including — saloon and was not found until the mirage reappeared a vear later. LOS ANGELES: 434 West Sixth Street or In the women's division, first honors Union Station • TRinity 9211 were claimed by Miss Nancy Biggins HOLLYWOOD: 6702 Hollywood Blvd. who described an alleged airplane ride Hillside 0221 in which she had as her passenger, the BEVERLY HILLS: 9571 Wilshire Blvd. ghost of P'.:gle« Smith. Miss Biggins, CR 1-7167, BR 2-1633 a resident of St. Joseph. Missouri, is Mother Lode Map — Plus Gold Nuggets Cold auggets panned from streams in Cali- Be Specific —Go currently enrolled at an Escondido fornia and Old Hank's colorful, unusual story boarding school. Second nlace for map — "The Golden Trail of the Mother Lode." Stories of the '4!)ers, ghost towns, UNION women was awarded to Mrs. Lucy over 45 pictures and illustrations. Explore this amazing trail taken by the early gold Hillyer. of Julian, for her tall tale of seekers in their search for treasure. The map is SI.00. One Mold nugget and map, PACIFIC a squirrel hunting trio in Kansas. To $2.00; four gold nuggets and map. $3.00. Johnny and Susanne Rich, brother and Postpaid prices. A "different" gift from the sister, weni special awards for Junior West. Send order to — Fibbers. OLD HANK .fudges for the Liars' Contest were I'. O. Box 2462, San Francisco 2<>. California

FEBRUARY, 19 5 2 33 Name Change Confusing . . . Navajos Lease Oil Lands . . . HOT SPRINGS—When the name GALLUP—Biggest sale of oil and of a community is changed, the people gas leases in Navajo history resulted most concerned—next to the inhabi- in high bids which total $960,074.34 tants and post office—are the map in bonuses for the tribe. Two sales makers. Latest cause for concern is were conducted for alloted and for the town of Hot Springs, New Mexico, reservation land in San Juan county. which has been changed to Truth or Total acreage involved was 55,364, Consequences. Rand McNally's new the largest area covered to date in one Standard World Atlas carries the new sale. In addition to bonus totals, the name in parenthesis after Hot Springs tribe will receive $ 1.25 per acre for in its road map; a double entry in its rental each year, bringing the first 1951 Commercial Alias shows Hot year's total income to $0)29.279. The Springs as a post office name and tribe also will get the customary pro- Truth or Consequences as the corpo- duction royalties when and if the tracts rate name.—Pioche Record. become producers.—Gallup Indepen- o o o dent. Seeks Uniform Route Number . . . GALLUP—The Canada-to-Mcxico • • e highway which carries the number 666 Navajo Probe Urged . . . in New Mexico has many other num- SANTA FE—"Cannot you do some- bers in the states through which it thing to protect our children attending pusses. This lack of uniformity long Navajo service schools in this area?'" has bothered Joe Neal of Meeker, Col- wrote Mrs. Charles H. Dietrich to orado. Under Neal's persuasion, a re- Chief Justice Eugene D. Lujan of the quest was made last year for a uniform New Mexico Supreme Court. Mrs. route number. American Association Dietrich said bootleggers are overrun- On the job! of State Highway officials denied the ning the eastern fringes of the reserva- request on grounds that it should have tion in the Slur Lake area northeast been submitted through the states and of Grants. She told of lights, murders not through the association. The Colo- and terror. Justice Lujen replied that Our volunteer speakers are radoan now is working to have the the supreme court is merely a court of saving thousands of lives toddy state highway departments again re- appeal and that it has no jurisdiction . . . in factories and business quest the uniform number, preferably in the matter. However, he said he is U. S. 387, and to do so directly.— passing the matter along to the attor- cfBces ... at neighborhood Gallup Independent. ney general for action if state jurisdic- and eivie centers . . . al social, tion is involved. If Mrs. Dietrich's fraternal and service group statements about lawlessness are true, meetings all over this land . . . he said, "something ought to be done to remedy it."—Gallup Independent. by showing people what they • • • can do to protect themselves AUTHORS UTAH and (heir families against Tunnel "Holes Through" . . . ( eath from cancer. We Can Publish KAMAS—More than four years of labor and many years of dreaming To find out what you yourself Your Book reached a climax when crews "holed can do about cancer, or if you . . . and perform every publishing through" the Duchesnc Tunnel, con- want us to arrange a special service from original ghost-writing necting the Colorado River !:iasin with to printing and distribution. Salt Lake Valley. The holing through educational program for your came as a surprise to crew members and engineers alike. Working on the neighbors, fellow-workers or Send us a description of your I fiends, just telephone the six-mile drive through Broadhead manuscript—word length, subject Mountain in the Uintah Range, en- American Cancer Society matter and state whether it is com- gineers had estimated the bore would office nearest you or address pleted, half-finished or still in idea be 15 feet longer than it proved to be. a letter to "Cancer," care of stage only. Located 18 miles east of Kamas, the tunnel, when completed, will tap the your local Post Office. One of north fork of the Duchesne River and our volunteer or staff workers for the first time will bring water of v, ill be on the: job to help you. the Colorado River drainage basin into Salt Lake Valley.—Salt Lake Tribune. a 2 a Address— Report Urges Echo Dam . . . Publishing Department VERNAL -- "If there is anything American completely useless, it is an uncontrolled river in an inaccessible canyon." This Cancer The statement is contained in the report of Society DESERT PRESS a fact-finding expedition which recently completed an exhaustive study of the Palm Desert, California Green River and Yampa Canyons in relation to the proposed Echo Park

DESERT MAGAZINE Dam. The expedition parly included Objects to "Dead Horse" . . . to feed their sheep. Several Navajos a consulting liydrologist, civil engineers, MOAB—"Dead Horse Point" is an were given 30-day jail terms for fail- mining engineers and a geologist. In objectionable name for a beautiful ing to abide by provisions of the in- their report are 5000 feet of motion scenic spot, according to Oscar W. junction. Knox Patterson, attorney for picture film, graphic topographical de- McConkie who urges a more descrip- the Indians, said his clients cannot scriptions, 630 colored slides, over 200 tive title be given to the Grand Canyon obey the order because they have no plate pictures and pages of statistics. vista station near Moab. To McConkie, place to go; the adjoining reservation is — Vernal Express. " 'Dead Horse Point' suggests that "hopelessly" overgrazed. Moab see sometime a broomtail ran over the rim Times-Independent. Open Halocjeton War . . . and was killed, which could be of no SALT LAKE! CITY —Halogeton, interest to anything living or dead ex- HEBER—David* N." "Uncle Dave" an annual vith a light root system, is cept the broomtail. 'Utah Grand Can- Murdock, 96, Blackhawk Indian war a prolific seeder. It thrives on a wide yon' should be the name of a scenic veteran who claimed to be the last moisture rarge but is a poor competitor. wonder which in some respects sur- surviving Pony Express rider, died De- A good stand of grass will kill it. So, passes anything that I know on the cember 13 in a Hcbcr hospital. Oldest to "battle the deadly weed, the U. S. face of the earth."—Times-Indepen- resident of Wasatch county, Murdock Bureau of Land Management is resecd- dent. was born in Salt Lake City in 1855.— ing more than 100,000 acres of de- • • s Salt Lake Tribune. nuded western rangeland with crested Ask Grazing Rights . . . wheat grass. In the spring, the bureau MOAB—A group of Navajo Indi- will take cither preventive measures ans have asked the Utah Supreme such as spraying with a weed killer Court to reverse a district court order and burning plants.—Salt Lake Trib- requiring them to leave grazing lands une. in southern San Juan county. The • • '• injunction was ordered after white BINOCULAR Sheep Starve in Canyon . . . stockmen showed federal grazing per- See mues PAROWAN—Counting his sheep mits on lands the Indians were usinsz BUSHNELL'S 33 Models NEW FREE $1495 preparatory to leaving the summer CATALOG! r UP range, Carl F. Burton discovered 75 J Guaranteed lo give you more and save you money on every popular m head of breeding ewes were missing. Don't overpay! Compare BUSHNELL'S be After a two-month search, the missing S- " I you buy Send for FREE CATALOG and animals were found—all but eight of Free Book'How To Select Binoculars'- them dead from starvation. Though in an area rich in vegetation, they evi- Wk:., A dently had been frightened and had it. hi m FURNACE CREEK INN VIV jumped into a miniature box canyon rURNACE CREEK RANCH FU.OKAN PUN which was devoid of plant life. When wBT"1 M "Romantic DEATH VALLEY found, the eight still alive were eating lift. other 1 nilding like [.usurious desert . Sunny clciys ol nights. Riding the wool from their dead sisters. Bur- this. Opt'ii to pnblic llail.V }:30 a.in . to swimming...golf...tennis...exploring. Contact 4:30 p.m. - Closed M mdays. el agents or Death Valley Hotel Co., ltd., 630 S. Shatto ton placed tlis loss at $3000.— Vernal 1 C 01.1) INDIAN ce, Los Angeles 5, DUnkirk 75151. Express. CA BOT J I'l IOlil.O • • • Cabot Vci xa, Desert Hot Spiings, Calii. AEC Withdraws More Land . . . Rest and play in KANAB—The U. S. 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FEBRUARY, 1952 35 E-10 — TABLE MODEL Carson City, Nevada . . . 30-inch width of high grade uranium Complete with 8-in. Felker Dia- An unusual mining operation is be- in the five-foot wide vein. Value of mond saw, lVi-in. 100-grit and 220- ing conducted by L. B. Smith and the ore is said to run 0.7 percent grit grinding wheels, leather covered uranium. Underground mining will be buff, sanding disc and vise with Dan Avery at Carson River, six miles Wz-in. cross-feed. cast of Carson City. With a 100-yard carried on during the winter, and ship- Complete (without motor)...$135.00 per hour Bodinson drybank washing ping of the pitchblende ore will be 1/3 h.p. motor 18.54 plant, ig equipped, and a two-yard started as soon as weather conditions ("rating charge 3-00 Lorain dragline, the firm is recovering permit.—Humboldt Star. Shipping weight about 120 pounds. high values in gold, silver and quick- o o o This is perfect economy machine silver from tailings of the early Carson Tombstone, Arizona . . . for sawing, grinding, sanding and Mining industry in the Tombstone polishing. Built for long trouble-free River gold and silver mills. Twelve service. dumps are being worked along a 14- area received good news with an- mile stretch. Quicksilver used by the nouncement that one of its mines, the old mills evidently spilled over into Abril Mine in the Dragoon Mountains the tailings and has accumulated in near Tombstone, will receive govern- pockets or concentrations in the dumps. ment assistance under the Defense —Pioche Record. Minerals Administration. It is pre- • • • sumed that the government exploration Tonopcth, Nevada . . . contract is for the purpose of further A remarkable strike of silver ore at developing zinc and copper potential- the Mohawk Mine at Argentite out of ities of the mine.—Tombstone Epitaph. Silver Peak may prove a life saver to • • a Esmeralda County, Nevada. The new Tonopah, Nevada . . . ore body has been drifted on for a Transfer of tungsten mining and length of more than 150 feet, averag- mill properties in northern Humboldt ing 42 ounces of silver and carrying County has been announced, with the some lead. Width of the vein is un- lease option agreements reportedly known, although it is the full width involving considerations aggregating E-12 — STAMD MODEL more than $80,000. The mining prop- Same specifications as E-10, but of the six-foot tunnel all the way and, with steel 34-inch high stand. Price where crosscut, reaches more than 12 erties are lode claims approximately complete with all accessories, stand feet wide.—Tonopah Times-Bonanza. 20 miles southwest of Dcnio and the and motor, ready to plug in $179.00 • • • mill properties arc identified as the ("rating charge 5.00 Plymouth, California . . . Vicksburg and Pine Forest sites. - Shipping weight about 220 pounds. Copper Hill Mine west of Plymouth Tonopah Times-Bonanza. has been reopened by R. E. Fitzgerald • • « and associates of San Francisco. The Salt Lake City, Utah . . . mine has been cleaned out, and a crew Main extension, at depth, of the is removing old drifts and retimbering Crescent fissure may have been en- where needed. Three carloads of cop- countered in joint workings of the per-zinc ore were shipped to a smelter Silver King Coalition Mines Company at Salt Lake City recently. The ore is and Park Utah Consolidated Mines MODEL E-20 a mixture of pyrite, chalcopyrite and Company at Park City. Paul H. Hunt, Designed for the lapidary artist sphalerite and also includes small vice-president and general manager of who wants an economical, easy-to- amounts of gold and silver.—Hum- Park Utah, said explorations had hit operate unit — compact, quiet run- boldt Star. a small lead-silver-zinc vein in hang- ning and sturdy. Will give years of ing wall of the lime formation. Al- satisfactory service. Ausiin, Nevada . . . Complete with 6-in. Felker Dia- Owners John and Perry Henebergh though the vein is not large, the general mond Saw, 1-in. 100-grit and 220-grit are convinced their Henebergh Ura- fissure system appears to be sizeable. grinding wheels, sanding disc and nium Mine near Round Mountain can Correlation with workings in the fissure leather-covered buff. be developed into a big producer. They at upper levels in Silver King ground Complete (without motor)....$85.00 have 1300 feet of uranium ore show- leads mine officials to believe the 2100- 1/3 h.p. motor 18.54 foot level discovery to be connected Crating charge 3.00 ing on the main vein plus six parallel Shipping weight about 90 pounds. veins which could be developed. Ur- with the Crescent.—Pioche Record. anium shows practically throughout All above prices are f.o.b. South Pasadena, the entire workings of the mine. The Salt Lake City, Utah . . . California J. Bruce Clemmer, chief of the U. Write for free literature ore is autuinite and torbenite, a weath- (And mention Desert Magazine) ering of pitchblende. The operators S. Bureau of Mines' Southwest Experi- predict they can cut into the pitch- ment Station at Tucson, Arizona, has blende, or primary ore with consider- been appointed head of the agency's HIGHLAND PARK able depth.—Reese River Reveille. intermountain station at Salt Lake • • o City. He will direct metallurgical re- LAPIDARY & SUPPLY CO. Winnemucca, Nevada . . . search carried on by the bureau in Sinking of a shaft on the pitchblende Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, 1009 Mission Street property of the Nevada Uranium Com- Colorado and Wyoming.—Salt Lake South Pasadena, California pany, Inc., is continuing to uncover a Tribune. DESERT MAGAZINE "OVERLOOKED FORTUNES" In the Rarer Minerals Find war minerals! Here are a few oi the 40 or more strategic rarer minerals which you may be overlooking in tiw hills or in that mine or prospect hole: columbium, tan- talum, uranium, vanadium, tungs'en, nickel, cobalt, bismuth, palladium, iridmm, osmi- SUGGESTS WASTE TAILINGS TRADER'S WIFE SPEAKS um, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, titan- ium, tin, molybdenum, selenium, germanium, AS MINE SUPPORT MATERIAL OF HOPI, NAVAJO ORIGINS manganese, cadmium, thallium, antimony, A system cf mining using waste tailings Mrs. Ophelia Romero and her husband, mercury, chromium, etc. Prices booming; or other easi y available material as sup- a trader to the Indians, lived for 12 years many much more valuable than a gold port in mines is described in a new report among the Navajo. Mrs. Romero spoke to mine: cassiterite now $1000 a ton; bismuth released by the Cal fornia Division of Mines. members of the Yavapai County Archeo- $1500 a ton; columbite S2IJ00 a ton; tanta- Hydraulic Filling in Mend Mines, issued logical society at a meeting in Prescott. lite or microlite S5000 a ton; tungsten S3 as Special Report No. 12, was written by Arizona. pound; platinum S90 ounce, etc. Now you W. H. Lightfoot. Hydraulic filling is a sys- Discussing origins of Ihe American In- can learn what they are, how to find, iden- tem by which the material needed to fill dian, the speaker noted that she often had tify and cash in upon them. Send for free underground openings is supplied as a dense seen resemblance between the Navajo and copy "overlooked fortunes"—it may lead pulp. The pulp, after consolidation, forms the Chinese—in physique as well as in to knowledge which may make you rich! a "fill" which can he used efficiently for language sounds. The first Navajos halted A penny postcard will do. support and 'or sealing-off purposes. The in their migration somewhere around Alaska. method also 'educes tailing disposal prob- Then, only 400 or 500 years ago, the tribe Duke's Research Laboratory lems. continued to its present habitation. This Box 666, Dept. B, Hot Springs, New Mexico The process of hydraulic filling was first later migration is so comparatively recent proposed in 1864 by a Shenandoah, Penn- that stories of the trek are told by the older sylvania, priesL who. in an attempt to pre- Navajo men, the tales being handed down vent his church from sinking into the caving from father to son. Jasper Junction Lapidary underground mine workings beneath, per- "Certainly." said Mrs. Romero, "the Na- -MOD'S Eagle Rock Blvd. suaded the owners of the mine to fill the vajo and plains Indians who occupy the Los Angeles 41, California lies. CI 0-7197 Bus. Cl (i-2021 workings with waste. Since then, hydraulic central and eastern part of the United WE DO: Custom cutting and polishing. filling has been used in many mines. States—the hunters, fishers and farmers— Custom sawing—24" saw at uc sq. inch. The 28-pag.: text of Special Report No. were Asiatic peoples. But on the other Jade—10c sq. inch. 12 describes I he technique and benefits of hand, the southwest pueblo tribes must have WE HAVE: Slab material for the hobby folks. hydraulic filling, ll is amply illustrated by come up from Mexico and Central America. Silver mountings for rings, pins, etc. 15 photographs and drawings. The report The Hopi, especially, are very similar to Bulk sione for sale by the lb. or oz. sells for 50 cents and may be ordered from the Mayans of Central America. Hopis Finished Desk Wets. Mineral specimens for Ihe collector. the California Division of Mines. Ferry will tell of long ago. when they came up WE SELL: Building. San Francisco II, California. from a land far to the south." Lapidary Machinery and Accessories. Residents of California should add three WE KENT: Polishing Equipment at 75c an hour percent sales tax. Rocks were wrapped and exchanged as Instruction at No L]xtra Cost. • « • gifts by members of the Kern County Min- Call Cl G-71!>7 for appointment. COMPTON CLUB ELECTS eral society at a Christmas dinner. The dinner and party is an annual yidetide affair OFFICERS FOR NEW YEAR of the group. At a Christmas meeting, Jim Carnahan rt ft R was elected president of Compton Gem and Membership list of Compton Gem and JEWELRY MOUNTINGS I Mineral club. Gerald Backus is vice-presi- Mineral society passed the 100 mark in dent: Marge Wakeman, recording secretary; November. Mae Sharp was the IOOth mem- New Illustrated Catalog, 20c Stamps or Coin Frances Reeves, corresponding secretary; The superb finish ;md fine ber, and she received a badge and several craftsmanship of COM LEY's Don McClain treasurer; Dm Bcnefiel, his- prizes for the distinction. ELKHEAD I.I FET] M E PAT- torian, and H:mk Wenninger, librarian. • • « TERN in 3-tone gold filled en- The group worked tailings outside the ables you to create exquisite Richard M. Stewart of the California jewelry equal to the finest pro- Pala Chief tourmaline mi ic in Pala. Cali- fessional shop. Other CONLEY mountings fornia, for tourmaline anil Kunzite crystals. Division of Mines spoke on "Geology and in Gold -Filled - Silver and Plate. Tourmaline was viewed in the dikes of the Mineral Wealth of Inyo County, California" Lowest Possible Prices Consistent with Qual- mine shafts. at a meeting of Pacific Mineral society. Inyo ity — Insist on Conley Quality. county has a total production of $138,- AVAILABLE AT ALT- BETTER DEAUBRS 0 n o 000,000 in minerals to its credit and pre- or write us GEMOLOGY INSTRUCTORS sents a complete sttidy of geological eras. \V. 715 Riverside Ave., Spokane, Wash. PROVIDE MEETING PROGRAM Members of the gem and lapidary division of San Diego Mineral and Gem society en- joyed a special program presented by two /tie present instructors and one former instruc- tor of the Gcriological Institute of America. Jack Shunk, former instructor at the insti- tute, is a certified gemologist and a fellow Petrified Wood, Moss Agaio, Chrysocolla of the Gemological Association of Great Britain. Recently returned from a year's Turquoise, Jade and Jasper Jewelry stay in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, he spoke to the group on "Brazilian Gems." James HAND MADS IN STERLING SILVER Small, a new fellow of the Gemological Association o): Great Britain, spoke briefly Bracelets, Ilincjs, Necklaces, Earrings on the history of the Gemological Institute and Brooches and outlined its courses. Gene Speitel pro- SPECIALLY SELECTED STONES WITH jected colored slides illustrating his remarks CHOICE COLORS AND PICTURES on "Inclusion1, in Gemstones." • « « Write for Folder With Prices Palo Alto Geology society learned of luminescence from Marcel Vogel. guest speaker from San Francisco. Vogcl illus- ELLIOTT'S GEM SHOP trated his talk with luminescent chalk and 05 East Seaside Elvd. LONG BEACK 2, CALIF. luminescent and incandescent light. He Across from West End of Municipal spoke of the phenomena of the ultra violet Auditorium Grounds fluorescent ligit and the radiated phosphor- Hours 10 A. M. to 9 P. M. Daily Except Monday escent light.

FEBRUARY, 1952 37 ADVERTISING RATE AMONG THE IS Em fllflRT 8c a Word . . . Minimum $1.00 ROCK HUNTERS

A new map service has been inaugurated STOP—LOOK—BUY—Specimens, slabs — rough, FOR SALE: Beautiful purple Petrified Wood from A L. Jarvis, Route 2, Box 125, Watson- with Uranium, Pyrolusite, Manganite. Nice by the Hollywood Lapidary Society of Cali- ville, California. On Salinas Highway State sample $1.00. Postage. Maggie Baker, Wen- fornia. In each issue of Hollywood Sphere, Xo. 1, 3 miles South of Watsonvillc. den, Arizona. society monthly publication, a map is MINERAL SPECIMENS and cutting material of FLUORESCENT MINERALS: Complete line of printed. Some cover coming group field all kin Is. Gold and Silver jewelry made to the fluorescent and rare minerals from the trips; others arc designed for individual ex- order. Your stones or ours. 5 lbs. good cut- famous Franklin, N. J. mines. Complete line cursions. Each sheet is punched, so that it ting n-aterial S4.00 or $1.00 per lb. J. L. of Mineralights, S12.50 up. Set of 10 fluores- James, Battle Mountain, Nevada. cent minerals, mounted in Styrofoam, labeled. can be removed from the Sphere and in- Specify wave length, $2.50. SPECIAL: 5 bril- serted in a loose leaf binder. liant specimens of Willemite and Calcite (2x2) McSHAN 3 GEM SHOP—open part time, or find $4.00. Fred W. Morris, 200 Red Maple Drive, • • 8 us by directions on door. Cholla Cactus Wood Levittown, New York. a specialty, write fo:- prices. 1 mile west on Pomona Valley Mineral club of California staged a field trip to nearby Orange County U. S. 66. Needles, California, Box 22. "DON'T MISS" Fine rough gems, Minerals, Sil- ver and Lapidary supplies at Superior Gems & to collect salt groups, and another to the DESERT GEM AND MINERAL SHOP: Set of Minerals, 4665 Park Blvd. San Diego 16, Calico Mountains. The latter excursion 16% to 1" Specimens in box, SI.00 and post- California. (Sorry, no lists.) age, r^any larger specimens 25c up. Wyom- added gypsum crystals, sagenite and petri- ing Jade, olive green 75c per sq. in. Nodules RADIOACTIVE ORE COLLECTION: G wonder- fied palm root to members' collections. from Oregon, New Mexico and California. ful different specimens in neat Redwood chest, « a u Our shop is 2 miles West of Salome (where $2.00. Pretty Gold nugget, $1.00, four nug- she da iced) Arizona. L, C. Hockett, Box 276, gets, S2.00, choice collection 12 nuggets, $5.00. John B. Jago collected azurite, olivenite Salome, Arizona. Uranium Prospectors, Box 604, Stockton, Calif. and malachite in Southwest Africa. From WANTED: old mining and oil stock certificates. THANKS TO ALL who have praised my Ari- Sweden he obtained rare earth minerals, and Hooks, letters, papers, pictures of the West zona agates their bright beautiful colors and in the French Congo he found dioptasc and Southwest, Exploration, mining, survey- unusual designs, we hope to open agate mines crystal groups. Jago told of his world-wide ing, etc. Will trade Franklin, N. J. fluores- soon. Charles E. Hill of The Arizona Agate cent IT inerals, or pay cash. Send description Mines, Cave Creek, Arizona. collecting trip at a meeting of the East Bay and price. Fred W Morris, 200 Red Maple Mineral society in Oakland, California. He Drive, Levittown, New York. INTRODUCTORY OFFER: 6 highly polished Baker Ranch colorful nodules, assorted pat- displayed some of his choice specimens. YOUR SHORT WAVE fluorescent stone collec- terns, $3.00 postpaid. Write for free lists of a a e tion needs the addition of beautiful cabinet New Mexico minerals and cutting materials. Arthur Terry displayed his colored photo- sized z nc ore specimens from Franklin, New Van Sant's, Box 487, Truth or Consequences, Jersey. Solid and mixed colors, every square New Mexico. micrographs of "Crystals and their Inclu- inch guaranteed bright and colorful. We MEXICAN FIRE OPAL—10c to 50c per piece. sions" to members of the Gem Cutters stock only the best. A fifteen pound collec- State whether for specimens or for cabochons. Guild of Los Angeles. Terry's collection tion cinies to you for SS.OO, each stone indi- Minimum order $1.00 plus postage. Satisfac- included demantoid garnets, opals, tilania, vidually wrapped and covered with a money tion or refund. Coast Gems &. Minerals, 11609 back guarantee. Garden State Minerals, 1034 Ferris Rd., El Monte, California. emeralds, copper and lead ore, lapis lazuli Hloomfield Street, Hoboken, New Jersey. and sapphires. Study of inclusions aids the 105 DIFFERENT MINERAL SPECIMENS—$4.00. 20 ASSORTED COLORFUL 2x3 cabinet speci- Carefully selected; makes a valuable aid in lapidary when faceting a stone. mens. Good for a beginner or to add to your helping identify and classify your findings or • • • present collection. This beautiful selection makes a wonderful gift. Boxed & labeled. only $8.00 postpaid. L. M. Jones, General De- 70 different $3.00, 35 different $1.50. Coast Motion pictures in color and sound told livery, Bell Gardens, California. Gems & Minerals 11669 Ferris Rd., El Monte, stories of minerals at a meeting of the Gem California. SO YOU LIKE THEM PRETTY and a lot of and Mineral society of San Matco County, them. Just send me S5.00 and 1 will ship you FIFTY MINERAL SPECIMENS, >/4-ln. or over, California. The first film dealt with life an assortment of m nera] specimens that are boxed, identified, described, mounted. Post- and industry of Nevada, much of the ma- just that- pretty. Also ask for list of many paid $4.00. Old Prospector, Box 729 Lodi, fine specimens and crystals just in. Jack California. terial being devoted to the state's extensive mineral deposits. A second movie described The Rock Hound, P. O. Box 86, Carbondale, WANTED: Plume and Sagenite Agate slabs or Colorado. chunks. Will buy or trade Jade, Rhodonite, the large sulphur deposits along the Gulf BEAUTIFUL PETRIFIED palm root boulder Jasper, Agate and Biconoids. Write Ken C. Coast between Galveston, Texas, and New from fehachapi Canyon, California, 198 lb. Huff, Creston Rt., Paso Robles, California. Orleans. From this small area comes the $65.00. Come and get it. R. Knaus, 10550 PEANUT PITCIISTONE (Alamasite)—Mexico's bulk of the world's sulphur supply. Shoshone Ave., Granada Mills, San Fernando oddest semi-precious stone, for polishing or Valley, California. collecting, 3-lb. chunk $5 postpaid. Or, Rock- • e e hound special, 1-11). fragments $1. Also Flor Reappearing as guest speaker for the IF YOU ARE A ROCKHOUND you need the de Amapa (pink crystalized edidote) rare. Lapidary Journal. Tells how to cut and polish Same prices. Alberto E. Maas, Alamos, Sonora, Sacramento Mineral society, Charles V. rocks, gives news of all mineral-gem groups. Mexico. Send checks only. Hansen of San Francisco discussed "Pearls: Tells :iow to make jewelry, carries ads of Their Care and Setting." The Sacramento dealers in supplies, equipment, gems, minerals FLUORESCENT AND Phosphorescent Nodules: from all over the world. Well illustrated, Beautiful variety of colors. Matched halves membership decided to forego organized beautifully printed. Subscription $2.00 a year $1.50 to $3.00, halves $1.00, parts 60c. Post- group field trips for December and Janu- —back numbers 50c Sample Copy 25c if you paid. B. P. Lehmann, 2S31 Stadium, Wichita, ary. Instead, members were urged to or- have never subscribed or been sampled. Kansas. LELANDE QUICK, Editor, Palm Deaert, ganize their own small parties and explore SMOKY TOPAZ (Obsidian): Clear. Grey, some nearby locations on afternoon picnic trips. California. banded, all cutting quality. 10c, 25c or 50c • • • MINERAL SETS: 24 Colorful Minerals (iden- each, Postpaid. Frey, Box 9350, Reno, Nevada. tified) in lxl compartments, $3.00 postpaid. CLEARANCE SALE — All Mineral Specimens President Ernest E. Michael entertained PROSPECTOR'S SET — 50 minerals (identi- reduced 20% to 50%. Visit us now to save, the Yavapai Gem and Mineral society at fied) hi lxl compartments in cloth reinforced, or send $5.00 for approval selection, stating a meeting in his home. Michael demon- sturdy cartons, $C.OO postpaid. ELLIOTT your want list. Sales tax for California. Coast GEM SHOP, 235 East Seaside Blvd. Long Gems & Minerals, 11G69 Ferris Road, El strated his new lapidary equipment, and Beach 2, California. Monte, California. jewelry, gem and mineral exhibits were shown. TITANIA GEMS $5.00 per carat for stones over ONE DOLLAR BRINGS you twelve fine desert 3 carats. Also mounted in 14K gold rings. mineral specimens with descriptive literature. • • • All precious gems at lowest prices. Ace Latners, Box 4398, University Station, Tucson, "Early Man in North America" was the Lapidary Co., Box 67, Jamaica, New York. Arizona. topic of Miss Elaine Bluhm, assistant in the BERYL CRYSTALS, Columbite, Tantallte, Pur- ATTENTION ROCK COLLECTORS. It will pay purite, Andalusite Crystals, Rose Quartz, Hell's department of anthropology of the Chicago you to visit the Ken Dor Rock Roost. We buy, Natural History Museum, when she spoke sell, or exchange mineral specimens. Visitors Canyon Agates. Mac-Mich Minerals Co., Cus- are a. ways welcome. Ken-^or Rock Roost, ter, So. Dakota. to members of the Earth Science Club of 419 Suiter, Modesto, California. "TUNGSTEN PROSPECTORS," Fluorescent Col- Northern Illinois. Miss Bluhm has spent lectors. Mineralights at Superior Gems & several summers doing anthropological field Minerals, 4665 Park Blvd., San Diego 16, Calif. BLACK ONYX blanks 25c each. Red Onyx Write for free literature. work in the Southwest. She showed colored blanks 35c each. Green Onyx blanks 35c slides to illustrate her talk. each. Prompt service given to mail order ROCK COLLECTORS ATTENTION! Back in jobs. All kinds of fine cutting. Juchem Bros., desert for winter—new rocks—new Trailer • • • 315 W. 5th St., Los Angeles 13, California. Rock Store, The Rockologist, Box 181, Cathe- Rex Layton was elected president at an FOR SALE: Must dispose of all lapidary equip- dral City, California. election meeting of the Gila Valley Gem ment, new 12" diamond blade, mineral light CABOCHONS: genuine imported Agates, Carne- and Mineral society. Other officers assisting V 43, artifacts, 500 lbs. cutting material, lians, Rose Quartz, Lapis Lazuli, Tiger Eye, Mazon Creek fossils, mineral specimens in- etc., beautifully cut and polished. Oval stones him through the 1952 season will be Wat cluding rare sulphates, rock specimens from in sizes from 10 mm. to 16 mm. 25c each. Erwin, vice-president; Mrs. Muriel Layton, Antarctic. Correspondence invited. Write Minimum order $1.00. Pacific Gem Cutters, secretary; and Fenton Taylor, librarian and Box G Desert Magazine. 424 So. Broadway, Los Angeles, California. publicity chairman. 38 DESERT MAGAZINE DIVISION INVESTIGATES Wendell Stewart, member of the Min- RICH CHROMITE DEPOSITS eralogical society of Southern California, ALPHA spoke to fellow members at a meeting in California's El Dorado County chromite Pasadena, California. Stewart's topic was • ••• deposits, the largest source of chrome in "Jackson Hole, Wyoming—Late of the Old the Sierra Nevada, is the subject of a new West." He illustrated his remarks with COUNTER chapter in Geological Investigations of Chro- colored slides. Informal comments on the mite in California, Bulletin No. 134 of the geology of the Tetons were given by Stan California Division of Mines series. Hill. Chromite has been known to be in El Dorado County since 1853, but very little • o • was produced before the wartime demand For several weekend field trips last year, created by the need for chrome in arma- Coachella Valley Mineral Society, Califor- ment in World War 1 stimulated mining nia, arranged a "community kitchen." Mem- activity. At least 5 3 deposits have produced bers found it more fun to share meals and eat together. Now the society is working chromite in El Dorado County, yielding a toward a permanent club "chuck wagon," recorded total of nearly 45,000 long tons of assembling equipment to feed 24 persons. ore. At present, reserves of more than Stainless steel knives, forks, spoons and 600.000 tons of material containing 5 per- divided trays are being purchased, and cent or more of chromic oxide remain. many members are donating cooking uten- Fifty-four mines and prospects are de- sils. RADIOACTIVE ORE DETECTOR scribed in the 61-page text. Maps of several of the deposits are included, and a pocket in • • • This newly developed nuclear instrument the back of the volume contains large-scale Dr. Paul M. Wright, chairman of the is a prccl-cal tool for the prospector, as- color maps of the Pillican mine, a map of department of geology at Wheaton College. cc^yer end physicist. It is an optical instru- Western El Dorado County in two colors, each summer takes a student group for from ment which gives a clear, distinct visual showing mine-; and prospects, and a four- four to six weeks' field study in the miner- s'.alisiical count oi alpha particles (rays) color geologic map of the Flagstaff Hill alogically rich Black Hills region of Illinois. He has gathered illustrated lecture material from any source. Complete with carrying area. case, quencher, radio-active samples and Priced at S'O cents, this chapter of the on "The Geology of the Black Hills," which bulletin may be ordered from the California he presented at a general meeting of the instructions on its use. Mail your order Division of Mines, Ferry Building, San Chicago Rocks and Minerals society. ;odny—or.!-/ S5.00 complete. In Calil. add Francisco 1 1, California. California resi- • • • 3% sales tax. dents should add three percent sales tax. More than 5000 persons viewed exhibits • • c at the annual show of Sequoia Mineral So- Send 10c to cover COG! oi mailing ior large New officers, directors and committee ciety, Fresno, California. A total of 47 —17"x22"—characteristics chert oi impor- members were: chosen at an election meet- families, numbering nearly 100 individuals, tant uranium and thorium o>es o" the world, had material on display. ing of the Oklahoma Mineral and Gem so- cr.d where they are now found. ciety. Alvin IvI. Markwell is president; H. • • • T. Daniels, vice-piesident; J. B. McVeety, San Diego Lapidary society now has a secretary; Frank R. Edwards, treasurer; Mrs. large folding display case, approximately H. T. Daniel-;, parliamentarian; and Mrs. six feet long. It was constructed at an es- Industrial Div. D-7 Tom F. Care/, librarian. Mrs. George C. timated cost of $70 for material and labor. 11927 WEST PICO BOULEVARD McRoberts, Joe Blickenstaff and Mrs. L. T. LOS ANGELES 64, CALIFORNIA Riggs are new directors. ALT A INDUSTRIES • • ii New Address: First show of the San Luis Obispo Gem Box 10, Laveen Stage, Phoenix, Arizona and Mineral Club is scheduled for March New Location: NEW-Sensationaf; GEIGER COUNTER 29 and 30 in the Grange Hall at San Luis South l!Uh Ave., '/i Mi!*' North of Base Line LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT Obispo, California. Exhibits will be non- Lapidary Equipment Manufacture & Design "The SNOOPER" competitive, and the sponsoring group in- lfi-lH inch Tower Feed Slabbing Saw LOW PRICE vites individu; Is and other clubs to partici- Belt Sanders & Trim Saws ONLY $2495 pate. Reservations for space may be made (Send Postal for free liternture) • COMPLETE Find a fortune in uranium with thi* by writing Myer L. Crumb, chairman, San new, super-sensitive Geiger Counter. 1 uis Obispo Gem and Mineral Club. P. O. Get one for atom bomb defense. So small it fits in the palm of the hand or in the hip pocket, and yet more sensitive than many Box 563. San Luis Obispo, California. SI,.\ltS—5c p«r Square Inch large, expensive instruments. Weighs only I '/i "is. Uses flash- Consists of a mixed lot of to or more differ- light battery. Low price includes earphone, radio active sample. • • • ent types, a few of which are Jade, Tlgereye, instructions. Sold with ironclad moneyback guarantee. Describing principal oil shale deposits of Lapis, Palm, Sagenite, Wood, Agate, Jasper ORDER YOURS TODAY-Send $5.00 with order or payment in ihe world. Di. Charles Prien of the Insti- and others. Minimum order—40 inches $2.00 full to save CO.D. Write for free catalog on treasure finders for plus 207r Fed. Tax if not a dealer. The jjold, silver, etc. and larger, more elaborate Geicer Counters. tute of Industrial Research. University of larger the order the larger the variety. Denver, spoke to members of the Colorado Please add postage. DEALER INQUIRIES PRECISION RADIATION INSTRUMENTS Mineral society on "World Development of MIXED CUTTING MATERIAL—25c per lb. INVITED 4113 D, V/. JtFFERSON, L. A. 16, CALIF. COAST GEMS & MINERALS Oil Shale." He explained recovery methods Il(i(i9 Ferris Road HI Monte, California in this and in foreign countries and showed pictures of tho various types of equipment used in several processes of separating use- ful oils from Ihe shale. Chemical constitu- ents and poss ble uses of the oils and by- BLACK LIGHT KITS products were mentioned and comparative costs were evaluated. 110 VOLT LONG WAVE FOR ULTRA-VIOLET FLUORESCENCE NOW . . . you can build your own black light equip- TIMBER! ment at a new low cost with these easy-to-assemble Petrified wocd frcm sliced cabochon ma- components. Geologists, mineral prospectors and hob- terial, book-ends, oenholders or chunks. byists can easily make laboratory black lights for Specializing in Eden Valley limbs, polished or unpolished. mineral identification. Signs, posters, pictures, fabrics, house numbers . . anything "Pink Taffy" rhodochrosite, Patagonia 60c painted with fluorescent paint glows with eye-appealing fluorescence under black light. a sq. inch, S':.5O a pound in small chunks, Kit contains: Ultra-Violet tube, brackets, ballast, starter, wire, plug and wiring diagram. includes 20% Fedsral tax. A sinking new fluorescent nodule Chalce- 4 Watt Kit—(5V4" tube) $3.00 dony in a beautiful wh:.te "snow ball" Special! 8 Watt Kit-{12" tube) $4.00 matrix, 50c lough, 60c polished. Allen. Frantom and Highland Park Enclose full amount with order Equipment shipped postpaid lapidary equipment Poly arbors •, Lapidary supplies I1DON E. SOPER C & H SALES COMPANY 433 So. Central Ave., Glendale 4, California 2176 EAST COLORADO STREET PASADENA, CALIFORNIA

FEBRUARY, 1952 Taking members on a color slide trip Mrs. Jessie Chiuenden distributed more through national parks, Mrs. Helen Beck of her gem location maps at a meeting of was guest speaker at a meeting of Delvers the Pasadena Lapidary society. A. B. Mei- Gem and Mineral society, Downey, Cali- kiejohn spoke on cutting cabochons. fornia. Taken on a recent trip, the pictures • • • included scenes from Grand Canyon, Petri- Ralph Paul is new president of the Long fied Forest, Bryce, Zion, Cedar Breaks, Yel- Beach Gem and Mineral society. Other ft lhanilio DiamondJ lowstone and Canada's Lake Louise. officers for 1952 are Jessie Hardman, vicc- • • • presidenl; Marjorie Hrdal, secretary; Harvey Foregoing their regular meeting, members Hawkins, treasurer; James Greene, Louis FACETED ROUND GEMS of the San Antonio Rock and Lapidary so- Wendcl and Joe Hudson, board members. ciety gathered for a Christmas party. A • • • OF SYNTHETIC program was presented and gifts exchanged. Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore won • • • first prize in group exhibits at the Eastern TITANIA Faced with the difficulty of transporting Federation of Lapidary and Mincralogical machinery for demonstration at society sociclies convention held in Washington. have live times more ability than the meetings, Minnesota Mineral society sched- Diamond to break light into its component D. C. Baltimore members also won a num- uled a scries of home visits. Six homes ber of the individual awards. color:;; producing a magnificent rainbow within easy driving distance were on the effect December 15 open house itinerary. Hosts • • • showed their machinery and displayed col- Three speakers from Los Angeles Lapi- SEND FOR A FREE PRICE LIST describing lections. dary society spoke at a joint meeting of that • e • group and the Shadow Mountain Gem and Titania Rainbow Jewelry Western Nebraska Mineral society plans Mineral society held in Palm Desert, Cali- to maintain a shelf of books which would fornia. "Faceting is Easy" was the topic of CITHER SERVICES OFFERED provide reference sources on gems, minerals Dorothy Alford, Jessie Chittenden spoke JEWELRY REPAIR SERVICE and geology. Furnished by members, the on "Simple Jewelry Design." and A. B. books will be loaned onlv to members. Mciklejohn discussed "Correct Shapes for GEM STONE CUTTING Cabochons." GEM CUTTING EQUIPMENT, MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES • • • "You'll love" Santa Monica Gemological society now JEWELRY MAKING TOOLS AND MATERIALS lists 84 members on the club roster. MINERAL SPECIMENS CONLEY MOUNTINGS • • • FLUORESCENT LAMPS, GEIGER COUNTERS Beautiful, enduring, easy setting Mineral specimens were exchanged by Write for FREE catalog members of Santa Fe Gem and Mineral URANIUM SAMPLES, FLUORESCENT MINERALS Wholesale & Retail Distributors Club at a Christmas party. FIELD TRIP GUIDE BOOKS SUPERIOR GEMS & MINERALS • • • ROUGH AUSTRALIAN OPALS (665 Park Blvd. San Diego 16, Cnlifornin Gertrude Parsons of Sacramento Mineral Society won a first prize at the Death Valley GRIIEGER'S Encampment mineral show for her work FAMOUS TEXAS PLUMES in cabochons. 1633 EAST WALNUT STREET Red Plume, Pom Pom and many other types » • • PASADENA 4, CALIFORNIA of agate. Slabs on approval. Roueh agate. According to the Puget Sounder, monthly PHONE SYCAMORE 6-6423 8 lb. mixture postpaid, $5.00. Prict liit on bulletin of the Tacoma, Washington. Agate request. Club, Stone Age artifacts have been found WOODWARD RANCH deep underground near Helena, Montana. 17 miles So. on Hwy 118 They were discovered by Dr. William D. Box 453, Alpine. Texas Strong, head of the anthropology department at Columbia University, who estimates they Agate Jewelry were made 10,000 years before Columbus S T B I! LI N (; S I I. V E R discovered America. — Pure, genuine recon- Wholesale structed turquoise! Zuni Rear Trunk is again being published by Indian motifs. Delicate! thme Nebraska Mineral and Gem society after Rings — Pendants — Tie Chaim Feminine! Special offer— a year's absence. In the first return issue. Brooches — Ear Rings sterling 1)race 1 CM wit li matching earrings—both Ula Ross described the society's field trip Bracelets — Matched Sets only $3.00 plus .$1.00 fed. and picnic to Tekamah Park, where fossil -••Send stamp lor price list No. 1— tnx. Calif, huvers add 15c leaf specimens were obtained. state tax. Satisfaction guaranteed or money # • • back. Order today. CALIFORNIA COMPANY Blank Mountings P.O. Box 140S-D, Santa An:i, California Clark County, Nevada. Gem Collectors Rings — Ear Wires — Tie Chains celebrated Ihe holiday season with a pot- Cuff Links — Neck Chains luck supper. Beiel — devices — Shanks NEW CATALOGS AVAILABLE Solder — Findings If you want Choice Cutting Material, Fine & —Send stamp for price list No. 2— Hare Minerals, Geiger Counters, Miner- alights, Books, Trim Saws, Fluorescents, Ores, Gems, Ring Mounts, or advice, write O. R. JUNKINS & SON to ... FIRE OPAL 440 N.W. Beach St. MINERALS UNLIMITED Newport. Oregon 1724 University Are., Berkeley », California MEXICO 10 Small Pieces Average Vt,".... 51.00 5 Larger Pieces Average 3A"—-1".... 1.00 12 Nice Pieces Cherry & Honey Opal 1.00 1 Small Vial Clear Fire Opal 1.50 1 Large Vial Clear Fire Opal.. 3.00

$7.50 Entire Lot Postpaid lor S500 EXCHANGE: Agate or other cutting The world-famous HILLQUIST LINE of lapidary equipment material, rough or polished. or good postage stamps. LAPIDARY EQUIP. CO* 1545 w. 49 ST., SEATTIE 7, WASH Satisfaction Guaranteec RALPH E. MUELLER & SON 1000 E. Camelback Road Phoenix. Arizona

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Ittavy-Duty Supo- Stenmri Suptr-fliid. Charecd Ckariri 6" $ S 8.60 $ 7.60 8" 10.95 9.95 10" 14.50 13.35 12" 21.20 17.05 By LELANDE QUICK, Editor of The Lapidary Journal 1 1" 27.95 24.45 16" 31.20 27.70 IS" (i2.50 41.25 34.10 An event of importance to the gem cut- For probably the first time the dealer will 20" 7-1.25 49.50 37.95 ting fraternity will take place here at our not have competition from a host society. 24" S8.80 62.60 48.115 30" 142.50 119.75 Suite Desert Magazine Pueblo on the week-end There will be no admission charged at this 3li" 215.30 179.10 Arbor of February 23-24. We hope it will be a show, no grab bags for sale, no raffles and tnv in C:i] ifornia. Size significant event and become an annual af- no solicited donations of any kind. The Allow for Postage and Insurance fair of large proportions. The expansive small rent charged the dealers will just facilities of the Desert Magazine have been about cover incidental expenses since the Covington Ball Bearing Grinder donated to the local Shadow Mountain Gem host society has no expense for rent, tables & Mineral Society. They are promoting the or cases. Home made cake, pie and coffee ml shields are First Annual Desert Mid-Winter Rockhound will be served by our ladies as a convenience urnislied in 4 Fair. to the crowd and to augment the society's zes and price ;m£es to suit At the end :)f February, when the desert treasury for its own lapidary shop and four require- is entering its most glorious season and the classes and for the building of display cases. ients. Water and sunshine is ji st the right temperature to The machinery manufacturers will be warm hearts and personalities to their most housed in our six garages. All the latest grit proof- expansive moods, there will be an array, lapidary machines and gadgets will be dem- right here in the desert, of the gems and onstrated. COVINGTON 8" TRIM SAW rocks that have been carried out of the This show will be given in conjunction desert in former years. and motor ai' not While this issue is on the press many pact Festival, taking place down the road about splash. Save blades societies in Southern California will be con- nine miles. The Fair will have a gem and sidering the invitations extended them to and clo thinK will. mineral exhibit too at which all the societies this saw. display a case or two of their top specimens in our own county will be exhibiting for and gems in this show. It is unthinkable prizes. But there will be no prizes or rib- BUILD YOUR OWN LAP that any invited society will decline to co- bons offered for anything here at Palm and SAVE with a COV- operate in an opportunity to bring back to Desert; no one driving home with a lump INGTON 12" or l(i" Lap Ihe desert folks for a few days the best in his heart because of misunderstood Kit. We tarnish every- results of work: on desert stones taken from judging. There is no glory in this for any- here through the years. Many of the stones thing you need. Send one—it is just a cooperative gesture of the fur free catalog. were gathered as the result of published rockhounds who have enriched their lives field trips in this magazine. Most of the with the rocks of the desert. Drive in from invited societies had their genesis in an in- anywhere; it's just a fine day's return trip COVINGTON vitation in this column to submit names for Multi-Feature new organizations on which we personally from nearly all Southern California points. 10" Lap Unit followed through by helping them organize. And if you wish to spend the weekend there Dons are more than 6000 hotel and motel rooms everything It is simple justice that "one good turn de- for you. serves another." Unfortunately all societies within a fifteen mile radius although it would be wise to book accommodations COVINGTON cannot be inv ted because of limited space. 12" II" There will be magnificent displays in our ahead. If you are a rockhound or a would- or l(i" art gallery (7.5 x 36 feet) of cases of fac- be rockhound come and join our party. Power Feed Diamond eted stones ard jewelry, but we are urging Comes now a most important announce- Saws societies to stress the importance of "just ment. This show will wed art and science rocks" ... to bring back the polished flats, in a new form—paintings using crystal forms SAVE the geodes. th;: crystal specimens, the petri- to tell a story. Our gem display will be in BLADES fied wood and polished rocks and not just our art gallery; as lovely a spot as any to bring us a top lapidary display of cabo- gem show has ever graced. To maintain chons and jewelry. the desert atmosphere our great collection of desert paintings will continue to hang on Send lor New Catalog, IT'S FKEE Ultra-Violet Products Co. has promised our walls and will be for sale. But in the to install in our dark room one of the offices of the Desert Magazine and the COVINGTON LAPIDARY SUPPLY finest fluorescent displays ever seen. There Lapidary Journal there will be displayed the Redlands, California will be a special table on which rough rocks paintings by Pasadena artist, Katherine F. will be displayed—rocks that can be handled Clarke. This artist has used mineral crystals and examined by anyone and competent as the themes of her paintings and the work persons will i nswer all questions. will be widely cussed and discussed. It is We believe that the most significant new so unique that it will make many people ALLEN show feature will be a large section at happy; make many mad. All of the pic- JUNIOR which any rockhound from anywhere can tures will be presented in the February is- display his bragging piece. If you have a sue of the Lapidary Journal, out just a few GEM rock you love above all others bring it along days after this appears. A group of beau- CUTTER in your pocket or handbag and just set it tiful tourmaline crystals portrays the "for- on our big tables in the press room, on a tifications." Quartz crystals portray the A Complete Lapidary Shop card that indicates your name and address "city." A fisherman tosses his lasso around and identifies the piece. It will be in good the moon in a picture entitled "I've snared Only S43.50 hands and thousands of others can admire the moon"—all done with rutile in quartz. it while you go about and see the other "Earth the Magician" is a magnificent thing • Ideal for apartment house dwel- Ihings. You can pick it up and go home of ocean waves tossing the amethyst crys- lers. any time you wish. And while you arc tals in a geode. The most unique picture is picking out that nice piece, stuff a hunk of based on the theme of Debussy's "Sub- • Polish rocks into beautiful gems. rough in your pocket to deposit on our merged Cathedral"—with the fish playing « Anyone can learn. Trail Shrine—a pile of rocks that is grow- through the massed quartz crystals. ing bigger every day; a good luck gesture • Instructions included. for your future rock wanderings. And don't forget—while you are here Write for Catalog. 25c Sure—the cealers will be here—as many you can fill in your files of wanted back as we can accommodate and that is hardly issues of both the Desert Magazine and ALLEN LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT more than eighteen or so. Our mail room Lapidary Journal and both Randall Hender- COMPANY — Dept. D and bindery will he given over to a rest son and myself welcome this opportunity area and the dealers' tables. The dealer to renew many friendships and make new 3632 W. Slauson Ave.. Los Angeles 43. Cal. space is the cheapest ever offered for no ones at the most unique "open house" the Phone Axminister 2-6206 one is making any money on this affair. desert has known.

FEBRUARY, 1952 41 J@etuteen you and Ma

By RANDALL HENDERSON ghost towns, cut their initials in the trees in the Palm Canyons, and leave their rubbish beside the historical G THE last month two letters have come to landmarks—but only a few do that. It is my view that my desk expressing criticism of that great fraternity the good purpose we serve in bringing people out into the of hobbyists known as rockhounds. One of these sunshine and clean air of the desert far more than offsets letters is from Edwin J. Wright of Whittier, California. the evil that is done by the few. Generally, the kind of Mr. Wright's criticism also is directed at the editorial people who vandalize the landscape and toss beer cans program of Desert Magazine. Perhaps it will help clarify into the roadside gutters are not the kind of people who the situation if I will publish his letter and my answer. read this type of magazine. You well know that we cru- Mr. Wright wrote: sade constantly against that kind of thing. "Two years ago I got mad at you Desert Magazine "As for the rockhounds, are they any different from people—and in a way. I am still mad. Perhaps I am the prospectors who have been roaming over this desert wrong. But, although I am still upset, I offer constructive land for the last 100 years, seeking precious minerals— criticism. Please take in good faith what I have to say. and mining them whenever and wherever they are found? "I have roamed the desert a lot—for pastime. I love "True, when one of them finds a good field, they all getting out in God's country. What I have found has not rush in to share the good specimens—but haven't miners amounted to much materially, but the pleasure I have been doing that ever since gold first was discovered' in derived is beyond calculating. And I owe it to no one but California? myself. I don't want anyone to tell me where to go or "The main difference is that most of the rockhounds what to see. I find it myself, and reap the full satisfaction. have to earn a living at an occupation which keeps them "Now, why did I get mad at Desert Magazine! on the job five or more days a week. They do not have "Because you are always harping on those rockhounds time and equipment to go out seeking new fields. If they who higrade sites and leave fields looking like bombs had are to get any reward for their desert field trips they must landed there. Often they finish up the job by battering depend on the tips given by their Mineral Societies, by up the road markers, scattering boxes, cans and debris their fellow rockhounds—or by Desert Magazine. about. "There is no one to grub-stake the rock collectors, "Sometimes you criticize their doings, but you con- and so they do their week's work and then in the few tinue to encourage them, giving them all the help you hours that are left they rush out to pick up what they can possibly can by publishing maps with field trip stories. in the mineral fields—and many of them spend their re- "Why not write the stories and forget the maps? Let maining leisure time cutting and polishing these stones general directions suffice, and make the rockhounds hunt into beautiful gems. their own specimens. The true rock lover will derive more "Tramping the desert is good for people—whether they sport from seeking out his own location and gathering his are seeking camera pictures, botanical specimens, or just rocks from unspoiled country. plain rocks. The broad view held by our Desert Magazine '"I am a mechanical and civil engineer. I have been Staff is well expressed by these four lines which came to in California long enough to have earned the title of native my desk this week in a poem by Claude C. Walton of son. There was a time when I could go to the desert and Evanston, Wyoming: be assured of finding natural beauty, and escaping this " 'Here a soul can grow in stature, reaching to the gang that runs all over you. Now, I am not so sure." very stars, And a heart forget the prison of convention's In answer to this letter, I wrote Mr. Wright as follows: rigid bars. "I do not expect to convert you to my way of think- These are things that make me love it, (loci-for- ing, but 1 would like to give you a glimpse at least of a saken though it be— somewhat broader view than is expressed in your letter. Oh barren land, in your domain a man is free— "From the day of its inception it has been the mission is free!' of Desert Magazine to break down old prejudices and "This is a big, big desert. The rockhounds have found fears which your forefathers and mine felt toward this access only to a few tiny corners of it. There will always arid land. We publish maps to bring people out into the remain great expanses of unknown land where prospectors desert country for wholesome recreation, and to help like yourself may go to find your own minerals—and them find their way around. beauty. "Mineral field trips merely are one phase of that "In the meantime I hope it will be possible for you to genera] program. We publish maps showing the way to come out to Palm Desert February 23 or 24—the dates scenic canyons, historical landmarks, ghost mining camps of our Mineral Fair—and see for yourself the beauty and reclamation projects. Perhaps there are a few people these rockhounds have found inside of the rough stones who follow these maps and take purple glass from the they pick up on the desert."

42 DESERT MAGAZINE tory from the days of the Conquista- dores to the arrival of Colonel Doni- phan's army in Santa Fe. The history of the United States contains no more dazzling chapter than that concerned with the parade of plumed and armored Conquistadores, brown-garbed priests, weirdly painted LIFE WITH THE NAVAJO ture. Out of print for several years, Apaches and Comanches, gold-braided IS DELIGHTFUL STORY the book returned to demand, and the governors and their lovely ladies who It was delightful to learn from No co-authors have prepared a revised took part in the thrilling pageant of Dudes Few Women by Elizabeth Ward edition. the Southwest's colonial and prc-colo- that there is another musical term However, in view of the increase of nial days. meaning somewhat the same as ma- known flora in Arizona, the inclusion Drama, intrigue, wars and massa- nana — the Navajo word escantoh — of a wealth of new information and cres; continual strife between mis- "any time after day after tomorrow, the entire revision of most of the sionaries and governors, between maybe later than that." Perhaps ulcer- longer keys, it seems proper to regard missionaries and Indians, between In- ridden Americans could do with a the present book. Arizona Flora, as a dians and colonists characterized this little escantoh! new volume rather than a second edi- epoch. But the discouraged Indians Elizabeth Ward married a cowboy tion of the earlier publication. saw two Spaniards appear for each and during the Depression went to the The main object of the book is iden- one they cut down, and what they be- Navajo reservation to live, where her tification, and keys for families, genera lieved to be the final rout of the colo- husband became a range rider to help and species are provided. Each species nists in the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was enforce stock reduction work as part is located geographically. For most, merely the blowing of seeds in the of the government's revolutionary soil the altitudinal range and time of flower- wind. ing are listed as well. The authors de- conservation program. The Navajos Gleaned from an interesting variety scribe economic uses, toxic or other were over-grazing the reservation and of primary source materials, an illum- properties, and ornamental value of it was inevitable that wide resentment inating discussion of everyday colonial many plants, giving particular atten- should follow the compulsory cutting life richly supplements the history. That tion to the utilization of native plants down of their stock by the government. busy artery of travel, HI Camino Heal, by the large Indian population of the How this young couple met the dan- is described with a realism made state. gers, hardships and trials which they sharper by an admirable foundation of encountered in this, service makes fas- An excellent index of scientific and factual detail. cinating reading. The customs and life common names, a glossary of botanical of the isolated colorful Navajos, their terms and a complete bibliography oc- The book is adequately illustrated traditions and ceremonial Sings arc cupy final sections of the 1032-page with reproductions of drawings and retailed with sparkling zest and gaiety. work. Numerous photographs serve as maps. illustration. Published by Caxton Printers. Ltd., Against the brilliantly painted cliffs 1950. 375 pp. Index. S5.00. of that northern desert country, over Dr. Kearney and Mr. Peebles have the sun baited sands and through the studied the flora and collected plant SALTON SEA* STORY IS deeply eroded arroyos, the proud Nav- specimens in Arizona for a period of TOLD IN NEW BOOKLET ajos still live much of their traditional 25 years. As well, they have examined life, and Elizabeth Ward introduces us thousands of specimens in herbaria and The story of Salton Sea is simply to many of them with understanding botanical collections. Twenty-four told in a little handbook written this and sympalhy. other botanists have assisted with con- year by Helen Burns of Salton Beach, tributed treatments of special groups. and printed at the Desert Magazine The rath..-r meaningless title does not publishing plant. quite prepare one for the warm human Arizona Flora is a monumental sci- Mrs. Burns spent many months of quality of the book. The reader will entific study in localized botany. research in preparing an accurate story learn much about the line Navajo Published by University of California of the formation of the sea during people from this entertaining autobi- Press, 1951, 1032 pp. Index. Halftone 1905-06-07 when the entire flow of ography of the wife of a cowboy who illustrations. $7.50. the Colorado gashed through Imperial looked mu;:h like Gary Cooper, and # Valley and formed the inland lake that talked as little. NEW MEXICO*HISTO RY exists today. Published by The University of New COMPREHENSIVELY TOLD Mexico Press. Albuquerque. 251 pp. New Mexico archives of 1608-1680 Hie little book also includes two $4.50. were destroyed by Indians in the maps drawn by Norton Allen, one of Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The resulting them showing the Imperial basin at SCIENTIFIC VOLUME 72-year gap in New Mexico history the time of the flood, and another of IDENTIFIES ARIZONA FLORA long was referred to by historians as the basin today. Growing uncultivated in Arizona the "silent years." They shied away In addition to the history of the are 3370 species of liowering plants, from publishing accounts of an era of Sea, the author has given summaries ferns and fern-allies. Nearly every which virtually no record existed. What of the sports activities of the area — North American form is represented was written drew largely on popular hunting, fishing, boating, hiking and in this state, where diversity is en- fancies, legends and half-truths. rock hunting. Also included i^ a cal- couraged by a great range in topog- Recently completed research in endar of the important annual events raphy, altitude, soils and climate. Spain and Mexico has filled in the held in the towns of the Salton basin. Flowering Plants and Ferns of Ari- historical chasm. Among the first to Published by the author 32 pp. and zona, by Thomas H. Kearney and make use of this important material paper cover, maps, halftones. 85c. Robert H. Peebles, was issued in 194J was Clevc Hallcnbcck, who in Land o o • as a misce Iancous publication of the of the Conquistadores presents a com- Books reviewed on this page are available at United Stales Department of Agricul- prehensive view of New Mexico his- Desert Crafts Shop, Palm Desert FEBRUARY, 19 5 2 Lost Gold! Ghost Towns! Gem Fields! Over a period of years Desert Magazine has own library by buying the back issues of the maga- brought together the most complete collection of zines in which they appear. stones; ever published about the lost mines, ghost A limited number of these back copies are still towns, gem fields and historical landmarks in the available at less than 17 cents each. These maga- desiert Southwest. Most of these stories are accom- zines also contain many other maps not listed below. panied by accurate, easy-to-follow maps. You may Here is the list of magazines now available for you, have all this information instantly available in your classified for easy reference: MAPS FOR TRAVELER AND EXPLORER . . . MAPS FOR THE ROCK HUNTER . . . Dec. '45—Palms in Pushawalla Canyon. MAP Apr. '46—Beach Stones Along the Colorado. MAP Apr. '46—Palms That Grow in Cat Canyon. MAP May '46—Green jasper, near Lake Mead. Nevada. MAP May '46—By Jalopy Through "The Sweepings of the World." lun. '46—Agate, chalcedony, etc.. Arizona. MAP MAP Aug. '46—Fossils While You Wait. MAP ]un. '46—Hopi Trek to the Land oi Big Water. MAP Sep. '46—Gem onyx iield, near Las Vegas, Nevada. MAP "ul. '46—Palm Hunters in the Inkopah Wastelands. MAP Oct. '46—Augite crystals. Hopi Buttes, Arizona. MAP Freak Rocks in Nature's Wonderland. May '47—Hauser geode beds. Black Hills, Calif. MAP Aug. '46—We Camped at Cantu Palms. MAP lun. '47—Gems From a Hidden Paradise. MAP Sep. '46--We Found the Hidden Shrine of Old Makai. MAP lul. '47—Geodes at Searchlight, Nevada. MAP Oct. '46—Atomic Man in the Haunts of the Ancients. MAP Aug. '47—Agate, chalcedony, Fossil spib.. Arizonc MAP May '47—Day in Grapevine Canyon. MAP Oct. '47—Collecting crystals, Topaz ml., Utah. MAP lun. '47—Palms That Survived in Cloudburst Canyon. MAP Ian. '48—Hunting Rocks in the Calicos. MAP 1'ul. '47—Golden Harvest at Aurora. MAP Apr. '48—Nature's Freaks on Salton Shore. MAP Hug. '47—Mautodons oi Moab. MAP lun. '48—Rock Hunters' Wonderland. MAP Sep. '47—Oasis on Bear Creek. MAP lul. '48—Agale and chalcedony. Turtle mts.. Calif. MAP Oct. '47—Don't Knock at a Hogan Door. MAP Oct. '48—Ancient Beach pebbles, Colorado riv. MAP May '48—Fishing Village on the Gulf. MAP Nov. '48—Blue agate on the Mojave. MAP Inn. '48—Daddy of the Palm Canyons. MAP Dec. '48—Gerr. field in Cady Mts. MAP 1'ul. '48—On Kino's Trail to Pozo Verde. MAP Feb. '49—Kyanite Crystals in Imperial County. MAP Aug. '48—Utah's Incredible Arch of Stone. MAP Mar. '49—Turquoise hun'ers have a iield day. MAP Sep. '48—Haunted Silver. MAP May '49—Geodes, Chalcedony, Southern Arizona. MAP 'Mai. '49—Country of the Standing Rocks. MAP lun. '49—Jasper along Highway 60. MAP 'fun. '49—Ancient Artists Lived on Rattlesnake Peak. MAP lul. '49—Sandspikes on the border. MAP jul. '49—On Hassayampa Trails. MAP Aug. '49—Uranium Strike in Petrified Wood. MAP Aug. '49—Indian Country Trek. MAP Sep. '49—Agate, jasper, on Devil's Highway. MAP Sep. '49—The-r Left Their Story in the Desert Sands. MAP Oct. '49—Fossils in Coyote Mountain. MAP 'Oct. '49—19 Days on Utah Trails. MAP Nov. '49—Apache Tears at Bagdad. MAP Nov. '49—19 Days on Utah Trails. (Cont.) MAP Dec. '49—"Lakeview Diamonds" in Oregon. MAP Dec. '49—Valley of the Cathedrals. MAP Ian. "50—In the Garnet Fields of Ely. MAP Fan. '50—When Stage Coaches Came to Vallecito. MAP Feb. '50—We Followed the Lure of Carnotite. MAP Feb. '50—Desert Playground. MAP Mar. '50—Buckboard Days at Silver Reef. MAP ROCK HUNTER'S SET. 30 magazines . . . $5.00 TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION SET, 30 mags. $5.00 MAPS TO THE GHOST TOWNS . . . FOR THE LOST TREASURE HUNTER . . . lul. '46—Ghost Town of Calico Hills. MAP {6 of these stories include maps) lun. '47—When Rawrrde Roared. MAP Aug. '46—John D. Lee's lost gold mine, Ariz. lul. '47—Gold Harvest at Aurora. MAP May '47—Searching for lost cities of the desert, May '48—Columbus Ghosl Town in Nevada. MAP lun. '47—Lost quartz-silver vein, Calif. MAP Ian. '49—Old Fort Cummings in New Mexico. MAP iiep. '47—His Compass Was a Burro's Tail, Ariz. MAP Aug. '49—They Live in a Ghost Town. MAP Ian. '48—Their Glory Hole Pinched Out. Nov. '49—Ballarat. MAP Mai". '48—Guudalupe gold. Texas Jan. '50—Printer of Old Tuscarora. MAP Apr. '48—Maximilian's Treasure, Feb. '50—Lost Gold of Salt Spring. MAP lun. '48—Tim Cody's lost gold ledge, Nev. GHOST TOWN MAPPED TRIPS, 9 mags. . $1.50 lul. '48—Lost Treasure of del Bac. i5ep. '48—Haunted Silver in Arizona. MAP Oct. '48—New Clues to Pegleg Gold. MAP MAPS TO HISTORICAL PLACES . . . Dec. '48—Emerald Mine in Santa Rosas. fan. '49—Lost Squaw Hollow Gold Ledge. Arizona. May "46—When Hawaiians Came to the Utah Desert. MAP Feb. '49—The Potholes Placer, Utah, May '47—Mormon Crossing at Hole-in-the Rock. MAP lun. '49—There's Placer Gold in the Desert Bajadas. lul. '48—On Kino's Trail to Pozo Verde. MAP Feb. '50—Lost Gold of Salt Spring. MAP Ian. '49—Waterhole at the Crossroads. MAP May '50—Swamper's Gold, lun. '49—He Planned to Change the Desert Climate. MAP lun. '50—On the Trail of Alvord's Gold. MAP Nov. '49—New Gateway to Death Valley. MAP lul. '50—Lost Mine of Coconino. Dec. '49—Panamint Pack Trip. MAP Sep. '50—Silver Mine of the Old Opata Indians. Ian. '50—When Stage Coaches Came to Vallecito. MAP Oct.. '50—Gold Pockets in the Santa Rosas. Mar. '50—Buckboard Days at Silver Reef. MAP LOST TREASURE SET, 21 magazines . . . $3.50 HISTORICAL MAPPED TRIPS, 9 mags. . . $1.50

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