• THE M A- G A Z I N E M&P • • K* &*- '' *•-.••* • •••-J-5aSP- ; '-tec ' OCTOBER, 1947 25 CENTS and not by guess! Counting the new models, there They also clean your car from top to for danger signs. Finally, all tires are are over 10,500 different lubrication bottom! They clean all window glass smartly dressed with a shiny coat of rub- points on all the various cars. That's inside and out until it sparkles! They ber dressing and the entire car wiped off why—no matter how many times they empty the ash trays and sweep the floor- with a soft cloth. may lubricate your car—the Union Oil boards. All door hinges are lubricated. Such extra-special service is typi- Minute Men never trust their memory. The choke, throttle and light switches cal of all Minute Man operations. Every Your car is lubricated by reference to its are oiled for easier manipulation, as are step has been carefully and systemati- own individual Stop-Wear Guide Card. the brake, clutch and accelerator pedals. cally planned with you in mind. But you get more than just a good Mechanical points underneath the car Try the Union Oil Minute Men for real lubrication job from the Minute Men. and about the engine are double-checked service! Speed. Courtesy. Cleanliness. Union Oil Minute Man Se*Tvice THE DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT CALENDAR Sept.-Oct.—Arts of the Pacific Coast In- dians, Special exhibit, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California. Sept. 28-Oct. 5—New Mexico state fair, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Oct., first week—Indian fair, arts and crafts market, Shiprock, New Mex- ico. Oct. 3-4—Apache county fair, St. Johns, Arizona. Volume 10 OCTOBER, 1947 Number 12 Oct. 3-4—Sierra club, Desert Peaks sec- tion, climb of Pinto peak and Cerro COVER SENITA, or Old-Man Cactus, photographed near Gordo, Inyo county, California. Arizona-Mexico border. By Chuck Abbott, Oct. 3-4—Gay Nineties celebration, Ridgecrest-Inyokern, California. Tucson, Arizona. Oct. 3-5—Cochise county fair, Douglas, CALENDAR Arizona. October events on the desert 3 Oct. 4—Annual fiesta and elk dance, PHOTOGRAPHY Nambe pueblo, New Mexico. Announcement of August contest winners . 4 Oct. 4—Annual meeting, Southern Ari- PERSONALITY zona Pioneer Cowboy association, Padre of the Desert Mobley ranch, Douglas, Arizona. By MARGARET PHILLIPS 5 Oct. 4—Gila county fair, Young, Ari- zona. INDIAN LORE Don't Knock on a Hogan Door Oct. 8-11—Eastern New Mexico state By RICHARD VAN VALKENBURGH ... 9 fair, Roswell, New Mexico. Oct. 17-18—Greenlee county fair, Dun- HUMOR Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 13 can, Arizona. Oct. 17-19—Luna county fair, Deming, NATURE Its Nose is a Shovel New Mexico. By GLENN E. VARGAS 14 Oct. 24-26—Tombstone Days, Tomb- stone, Arizona. ART OF LIVING Desert Trails, by MARSHAL SOUTH .... 15 Oct. 25-26—Sierra club climb, Toro peak and Martinez mountain, Santa POETRY Little Papoose, and other poems 17 Rosa mountains, California. Oct. 27-29—American Mining congress BOTANY These Plants Sponge Upon Their Neighbors and International Mining days, El By MARY BEAL 18 Paso, Texas. Oct. 29-31—National Reclamation asso- FIELD TRIP Field Day for Topaz Hunters ciation convention, Phoenix, Ari- By HAROLD O. WEIGHT 19 zona. Oct. 31—Nevada Admission day cele- DESERT QUIZ A test of your knowledge of the desert .... 24 bration, Carson City, Nevada. Oct. 31—Mardi Gras, Barstow, Cali- ART Artist of Dos Palmas fornia. By JOHN HILTON 24 Oct. 31—Halloween Mardi Gras, Tuc- son, Arizona. MINING Current news briefs 26 Mid-Oct.—Harvest festival and doll dance, Zuni pueblo, New Mexico. LETTERS Comment from Desert Magazine readers ... 27 CONTEST Announcement of October photo contest ... 28 NEWS Here and There on the Desert 29 Keep your copies of LAPIDARY Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK . 34 HOBBY Gems and Minerals 35 DESERT I IAGAZINE in INDEX Annual index, Volume 10 of Desert Magazine . 42 Loose Leaf Binders! COMMENT Just Between You and Me, by the Editor ... 46 These gold-<embossed binders BOOKS Current reviews of books of the Southwest . 47 are made especially ior Desert readers. Mageizines are quickly The Desert Magazine is published monthly by the Desert Press, Inc., 636 State Street, El Centro, California. Entered as second class matter October 11, 1937, at the post office at inserted, and they open flat for El Centro, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S. easy referencis. Patent Office, and contents copyrighted 1947 by the Desert Press, Inc. 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O/ California OCTOBEREl Cent, r 1947 dl&ie ate tke This picture of Mrs. Tony Yassie and her son, Navajo Indians of Monument valley, won first award in Desert Magazine's August contest. Photograph was taken by Ward W. Howland, Los Angeles, California. Zeiss Ikon Nettar cam- era. 1/25 second at f.22—midday in June, 1947. Subject for Desert's October photographic contest is "Desert Clouds." Cloud effects in the sky should predominate in the picture—and the des- ert offers wonderful possibilities for photograph- ers in this field. See complete rules and prize offer on another page of this issue. Second Navajo boy in Monument valley. Photograph taken by Hubert A. Lowman, South Gate, Cali- fornia. 1/100 second at f.ll. Yellow filter, high speed panchromatic film. THE DESERT MAGAZINE .;mmmBmm& Byron and Walter Jo-Jo Hansen, nephews of Father Crowley, unveiled the monument dedicating Crowley lake in honor of the Desert Padre. would be unseemly to pay such tribute to any individual priest, his friends were given to understand. These friends set about to find other ways to perpetuate for- ever the name and memory of the Padre of the Desert. By MARGARET PHILLIPS LISTS of gold and red aspen leaves When the City of Los Angeles named sailed overhead, thick as early au- in his honor the huge new lake formed by Photographs by Curtis Phillips tumn snowflakes, and a sharp impounding waters in Long valley, it was breeze ruffled the beautiful blue waters a special tribute to a great man from a of the new lake. Two little boys quickly great antagonist. Once the representatives The desert country owes much drew back the veil, revealing the stone of the city had literally shaken a fist in the to its padres—Garces, Kino, Es- monument dedicated to the memory of Padre's face, but he won from them re- calanie, Salvatierra, U g a r t e, the Padre of the Desert. spect and admiration. From his own peo- Font—these are just a few of the If the spirit of the Padre looked down ple he won love. many robed knights of the on the scene, he must have been deeply Probably never before has any man church who blazed trails in the touched, for it was just such a ceremony come to our desert and in the space of a arid Southwest for the trapper, as he himself might have planned. The few years won tremendous love and devo- the gold-seeker and eventually Padre possessed a supreme sense of the tion from a large and widespread group the settlers who came to this re- dramatic and the whimsical, and elements of people. If you try to learn the reason for gion at a later date. But while we of both were to be found in the occasion, this great love, everyone will give you a pay tribute to the Catholic fathers with Catholic, Jew and Gentile joining to different answer, according to his own of the 17th and 18th centuries for do him honor. viewpoint, for Father Crowley possessed the zeal and courage of their When the Very Rev. Monsignor John J. that universality as a person which Shakes- quest for souls, the heroic quali- Crowley was killed in an auto accident peare possessed as a writer. He was always ties they possessed still live in very early in the morning on St. Patrick's sincere, always himself, yet as much at the hearts of succeeding genera- day in 1940, his friends of the desert and home chatting with a blasphemous old tions and of today. Father Crow- mountains proposed to carry through to stonemason in the desert as exchanging ley, Padre of the Desert, who met completion his plans for an All Souls verbal daggers with Dr. Haines, chairman an untimely death in 1940, de- Memorial chapel in Death Valley; but of the department of water and power of serves a niche in the same hall of they wished to dedicate it to the memory the City of Los Angeles. honor as is occupied by those of the Padre of the Desert.