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Even who came to Minersville 85 years ago, and his wife, who was born before gaining the attention of Ameri- there, remember the Lincoln lead mine at the height of its production cans, this rich lead deposit in the and recall much about life in the early Mormon settlement. Nell Mur- Mineral Mountains is supposed to barger tells their story—and the story of the Lincoln, once an important have been systematically worked, either link in 's chain of empire and believed by some to be by Spaniards or Mexicans. At an un- the first mine discovered in Utah. known time, and for an unknown rea- son, the mine was apparently aban- By NELL MURBARGER doned, and even its site was eventually Photographs by the author lost to man's knowledge. Map by Norton Allen In the early 1850s, the loyal fol- lowers of Brigham Young swarmed AGE AND juniper of South- mining camp, it was not because I over Utah, prospecting every dim cor- Utah have spread their expected to find there any man who ner for natural resources which might S mantle over trails deep-etched had shared in those long-ago boom contribute to their progress. With by the wheels of forgotten wagons. days. At that time, I had never heard idolatry of material wealth condemned Gray lizards warm themselves on sun- of Moroni Myers, so it seemed a little by their church, these Mormons had toasted sills and crumbling stone walls; presumptuous even to hope that I little interest in the superficial glitter and over the venerable streets of might locate someone who could show of gold and silver. Rather, they were Minersville, Time has laid that engulf- me the site of the old Lincoln mine. seeking potential farm land, water and ing peace common to old towns which History of the Lincoln had fascin- timber and building stone—any useful have had their day and sung their song. ated me for a number of years. This element which might be turned to the When I turned my car off Utah interest was attributable, in part, to upbuilding of a raw and rugged land. State Route 21 and headed down the the important role played by the mine No desert canyon had been left un- main street of this old Beaver County in development of a pioneer empire; explored, no mountain range had gone

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Moroni Myers, resident of Minersville for 85 years, stands at the headframe and incline shaft of the old Lincoln Mine, discovered and worked by the Mormons in their early empire building days.

JUNE, 1953 '-•& i To ;' Society at Salt Lake City. But the flesh-and-blood story of the Lincoln and the town it fathered was something I hoped to learn through a personal visit to Minersville. Halting at the small general store, which seemed to comprise the main business section of the town, I asked r if there was some old timer who might be able to show me the site of the old Monderfield mine and give me a little authentic information concerning the early days of the town. "See Moroni Myers!" was the quick answer. "If Moroni can't give you the help you need, there's no one who can!" When the same question, put to another of the town's inhabitants, pro- duced virtually the same response, I was satisfied that Moroni was the man Minersville rv^i^ifw; to see. Following directions given, I soon drew up before an old adobe brick house set down in a mass of old-fash- ioned flowers and vines. A man work- ing in the garden laid down his hoe and came up the path to meet me. Although so lightly built that one gust of wind might have whisked him away, Moroni Myers was strong and hardy. His bright old eyes held a wealth of good humor, and, I imag- ined, a trace of deviltry. As for being UTAH the town's historical oracle Moroni 9 ,s='''!,v5" - '•'•'•• . flatly disclaimed any such distinction. "How could I know anything about ?.%- : ...•••,,,|...... -- the early days at Minersville?" he blustered. "Heck! I'm just a Beaver boy. Didn't even move to this fool town till 85 years ago!" 1 ,'.'.'/;•? ?s^S"'" i'»> ! "%'•-/';""' ••; "Eighty-five years!" I repeated in- To CEDAR CITY a credulously. "Then you can remem- ST. GEORGE ber when the Lincoln Mine was oper- ating?" unvisited. Coal ledges and deposits establish a settlement near the mine "The Lincoln?" he exclaimed. "I of native iron ore had been discovered, and develop the vein. In addition to should remember when it was operat- and smelters established at Cedar City the four discoverers—each of whom ing. I worked there!" and Iron City had become the first mills received a 200-foot claim when the It had been a long while since he in the Western United States where location was finally recorded on De- had been over the old freight road to raw ore was transformed into the vital cember 7, 1870—the founders of the the mine, but he believed it still might iron of commerce. Cast in local foun- town of Minersville included John and be traveled. dries and shaped on the anvils of Samuel Lewis, John Blackburn, Ed- frontier blacksmiths, this iron had win Bingham and James H. Rollins. "Had some hard storms last winter, gone into use as gears for flour mills and the road may be washed out in During the first year of its revived places," he warned. "Even when it's and saw mills, as plow-shares and operation, the Beaver county lead pro- in good condition, it's rough, and a wagon tires and ox shoes. ducer functioned under the name of little steep . . ." With the iron industry barely "Spanish Mine" or "Old Spanish launched in Southern Utah, the fledg- Mine." In April, 1860, when James When I assured him that my faith- ling settlement of Great Salt Lake City Rollins became bishop of the Miners- ful old car thrived on rough, steep had been electrified by the news of a ville ward, the mine was renamed roads, and that I was thoroughly ex- rich lead discovery in the Mineral "The Rollins." Not until 1870, when perienced with washouts and the busi- range, 18 miles west of Beaver. This it was first recorded, did the mine as- ness end of a shovel, he went into the was in the autumn of 1858; the dis- sume the name of a martyred war house to fetch "Mama," and the three coverers were Isaac Grundy, Jesse N. president, a name it has continued to of us were on our way. Smith, Tarlton Lewis and William Bar- bear for 82 years. Mrs. Myers—Moroni's wife for 64 ton, all of Parowan. This, and other skeletal information, years — proved to be comfortably When samples of the ore were I had gleaned from general sources— plump and completely likeable; and, shown to Brigham Young, the Mormon from old newspaper files, court records like her husband, came equipped with leader immediately became enthused and biographical manuscripts in pos- a built-in sense of humor. and directed that a company of men session of the Utah State Historical As I eased the car over the rutted

DESERT MAGAZINE trail that pushed ever higher and deeper into the rocky hills to the north of Minersville, my hosts told of their youthful days in the old mining camp. "Don't believe anything this woman tells you about the early days here," Moroni said, with a broad wink. "She's nothing but a Johnny-come-lately. Only been here a measly 80 years!" "Well, at least," retorted Mrs. Myers, "I was born here. I didn't have to sneak in from Beaver!" "Yeah," said Moroni succinctly. "She was born in a cellar!" Mrs. Myers explained that her par- ents and brothers, who were natives of England, had emigrated to Utah after their conversion to the Mormon faith. "Reaching America, the folks came directly to Minersville, and Father and the boys immediately set to work making a big cellar or dug-out for the family to live in. "It was roofed with cotton wood poles and willow brush and capped with sod," she continued. "Father made all our furniture from cotton- wood limbs. Even the bed I was born in was built of cottonwood poles with rope woven back and forth across them to support the mattress. "Sometimes when I tell city folks how we lived here when I was a girl, they seem to think that it must have been a terrible sort of life. But I don't know," she laughed. "I seem to re- member • the fun we had much more Mr. and Mrs. Moroni Myers who have resided in the old camp of Miners- clearly than I remember the hardships! ville, Utahr for a total of 165 years. (He for 85 years; she for 80 years.) "My brothers were very musical. They had brought with them from A gaunt, weathered headframe stood Moroni and I fitted our backs to the England a concertina and a fiddle. silhouetted against the sky. On a short sun-warmed timbers of the old head- 'Most every evening a bunch of young length of rusty track stood a lone ore frame and discussed what we knew of folks would gather at our cellar home car. It was only mid-morning, but those long ago days when this dark for a dance. No matter how hard the heat waves already were beginning to silent hole in the earth had been the boys had worked during the day, or rise from the roof of a small tin shed Big Mine of the Minersville district. how early they had to rise the next that drooped against the dun-colored morning, they were always ready and For the first two or three years after hillside. In the brush, somewhere be- re-discovery of the Old Spanish Mine willing to provide dance music for the hind the shed, a quail was calling. crowd." in 1858, extraction of the lead bullion "There you are," said Moroni. from the rich ore had been accom- Like Mrs. Myers' family, Moroni's "That's the Lincoln mine—what's left plished by means of a primitive Mexi- father and grandparents had emigrated of it!" can-type furnace. Later, said Moroni, to Utah from England — his father That this common-looking incline a larger smelter had been erected at stopping for a while at Cincinnati and shaft could be the Old Spanish Mine, Minersville and while it, too, had been later moving to Beaver, where Moroni whose history so long had fascinated a crude affair, it had proven surpris- was born. Less than a year later, the me, seemed incredible! Here was a ingly effective. Placed in a large "cup" family moved to Minersville where mine whose known story had spanned over the firebox, the ore had been Moroni's grandfather and grandmother virtually the entire Anglo-American subjected to extreme heat. As the had located earlier. occupation of Utah; a mine whose ore molten metal formed in the cup, a "Father and grandfather spent most had supplied the bullets which brought drain in its bottom could be opened, of their time prospecting the canyons to frontier settlements a measure of thus enabling the pure lead to be run or working in the Lincoln mine, which freedom from hunger and protection into molds. was always the big producer of the against marauding Indians. In Heart Throbs of the West, Vol- region," said Moroni. And yet, to look at it in a super- ume VI, published by Daughters of We had reached the end of the old ficial way, was to see the counterpart Utah Pioneers, I had read a brief paper road, about five miles north of Miners- of a thousand other shafts which- have dealing with the history of the Lincoln; ville. We parked the car in the junipers pierced the mountains and deserts of and from it, I knew that this soft, . and walked the last hundred yards up the West! gray, vitally-needed metal had come a steep rocky trail. Scarring the moun- As Mrs. Myers wandered over the to Utah's struggling colonists like a tainside ahead of us was a bleak dump. hillside in search of stray ore samples, gift from the gods.

JUNE, 1953 figured I'd be able to pay for my new wagon with the first load or two of goods that I hauled from the railroad to Silver Reef. "Well, the first load I carried was a big shipment of dress goods and gro- ceries consigned to one of the general merchandisers at The Reef. Included in the load was a five gallon can of coal oil. "The roads, at that time, were rough as a 30 cent washboard, and full of chucks and ruts. I was young and in a hurry, and the load bounced and rattled around until that pesky can of coil oil managed to upset and spill itself over all the other stuff! "I didn't know anything had hap- pened, of course, until I got to The Reef—but when that merchant found his shipment completely saturated with coal oil, he was so mad he made me freight for him without pay until I had worked out the value of that en- . "•• tire load of goods. And then," said Old brick schoolhouse at Minersville, attended by both Mr. and Mrs. Moroni, "he was still mad!" Moroni Myers almost three-quarters of a century ago. We were back in town now, driving through the quiet tree-shaded streets "After the mine had been opened was closed — and closed it remains which these two old folks have known up and sufficient ore mined, the lead today. during all the days of their long lives. was taken to Salt Lake City by wagon As we made our way back down " 'Roney and I went to school in and team," Mrs. M. D. Zabuskie and the twisting road leading from the that old brick building, yonder," said Melassie Lee, both early settlers of the mine to the valley, Moroni Myers di- Mrs. Myers. "Classes, in those days, district, recorded in the paper. "Henry rected me to halt the car at the point were divided by readers instead of Rollins, the bishop of Minersville, took where we emerged from the canyon grades, and the highest it was possible one load to Salt Lake and traded the and could look out over the thousands to go without leaving Minersville was same for groceries which were hauled of acres of desert hills spreading away the fifth reader—about the same as back to Minersville by team and dis- to the south and west of Minersville. the eighth grade today. We had only tributed among the poor in the town. "See that old trail winding through one teacher for about 80 pupils," she The first shoes made available for the the hills, yonder?" His pointing finger laughed. "You can imagine how much inhabitants of Minersville were brought indicated a faint gray scar on the gray- individual attention we got!" in at this time." brown breast of the desert, far to the While Minersville never gained any Melassie Lee, daughter of Bishop south. "That used to be the main road special note as a wild and wooley boom Rollins, often recalled that when she to St. George. Went by way of Rush camp, the town was not devoid of its was a girl of eight or ten years, she Valley. I worked on that road nearly rougher element. There was consid- had helped day after day to mold the 70 years ago—back in the days when erable drinking and gambling among lead bullion into bullets for the settlers it was still being traveled' by stage the lead miners and the smelter men, to use in defending themselves against coaches and covered wagons, and a and Moroni recalls that the midnight the Indians. The bullion also was cast wheelbarrow was the most complicated darkness was occasionally disturbed by and used as money, "which," the man- piece of roadworking machinery that the noise of fighting and the staccato uscript naively stated, "was quite a we had!" of gunfire. curiosity in those days." When I asked if he ever had driven After production had increased to stage, he shook his head. "No," he But today finds all this activity far such an extent that the little smelter said. "I never drove stage:; but I did in the past, and deeply buried. at Minersville no longer could handle do lots of freighting." The Lincoln mine and scores of the output of the mine, the ore was During the mining boom days at other mines and prospect holes all lie freighted to Milford for smelting. Silver Reef, Utah, and Pioche, Nevada, idle on the hillsides, forgotten and At last, after many years of success- he explained, there was great demand forlorn. The smelter has vanished like ful operation, water flooded the Lin- for teamsters and freighters. Since he the smoke of last summer's campfires. coln in such volume that it could not preferred an outdoor life to work in Wheels of freight wagon and stage- be brought under control by any the mine or smelter, he had followed coach have been silent for many a method then available. Work accord- this occupation for a number of years. year, and towering sage has swallowed ingly ceased and the Lincoln lay idle Generally speaking, it was a business the trails over which they turned. until about 1900. Taken over by Eng- that paid well; but like any other Only for the name it bears, and a lish capitalists, the old mine then was business, said Moroni, there were few old timers like the Myerses who subjected to complete renovation; a times when things went wrong. still "remember when," no one would new shaft was sunk and costly pump- "One time I bought a fancy new guess that the peaceful old village of ing equipment installed. After several wagon. Pretty as a picture on a bank Minersville, Utah, once had seethed years of intermittent and desultory calendar!" the old man chuckled. with the shining dreams and lusty life operation, however, the Lincoln again "Freight rates were sky-high, and I of a frontier mining camp.

DESERT MAGAZINE Stone spires and pinnacles rise several hundred feei high above the green forested glen of Echo Canyon, Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona. A Day in Chiricahua . . . "Carlsbad Cavern without a roof!" That is the way the Chiricahua nified manner than by their official National Monument in southeastern Arizona sometimes is described. names. Their size and grandeur pre- Deep in the heart of the country, the Wonderland of Rocks, as vent any familiarity. But that is as it it is known to local people, is the home of one of the weirdest collec- should be, for kings must remain kings tions of natural stone figures in the West. Here is an intimate glimpse to all the people. of a scenic area which is never over-crowded with visitors. However, the Wonderland of Rocks is different. It becomes a friend im- By WELDON and PHYLLIS HEALD mediately. In fact, you have to know Photographs by Weldon Heald it well to remember its official title— Map by Norton Allen Chiricahua National Monument. The area was set aside by President Cool- VERY TIME we drive the other little people of this amazing smooth, black-topped road into world of stone. idge in 1924 and so named because 5 the Wonderland of Rocks we We never walk through the monu- its 17 square miles lie on the west have a feeling of elation. There is a ment without finding new flowers, rare slope of Cheer-ee'-cow-ah, the "Big delightful intimacy about this gem of plants, or birds we never saw before. Mountain" of the . But to a national monument situated 'way It is a veritable paradise for students us who love it and return again and down in Arizona's southeastern corner of geology, botany, ornithology and again, the monument will always be that makes revisiting it like coming all the other -ologies, with exhibits in just the Wonderland of Rocks. home. their particular subject neatly displayed All visitors register at monument Yet, along with its ever-present and ready to be observed and classi- headquarters, and 17,435 people from charm of the familiar, there is always fied. every state in the union did so in 1951. something new to see. It may be Possibly one of the reasons this Here, beside Rhyolite Creek, in a some grotesque, unbelievable rock or monument gives such a friendly, homey great wooded amphitheater rimmed some startling scenic effect — as in impression is that it is small enough with rock is the administration build- summer when great flashing thunder- and informal enough to possess a nick- ing and museum. heads build up strong and fierce to name. You simply can't imagine re- All structures in the monument are threaten "China Boy," "Punch and ferring to giant Yellowstone, the Grand solidly built of native fieldstone and Judy," "Donald Duck" and all the Canyon or Yosemite in any less dig- blend unobtrusively with their sur-

JUNE, 1953 were quickly established. We learned that Mr. Goeller was a speleologist. Now to save time and trouble, let us state immediately that this means a cave scientist—not a cave man, nor even an amateur "Spelunker," but one who seriously studies limestone cav- erns. And Mr. Goeller is considered one of America's top cave authorities. William Knowlton admitted only to being a sincere and enthusiastic out- doors lover, but that in itself is a high recommendation. As this was their first visit to Chiri- cahua, we suggested that they drive with us up to Point and from there walk the four-mile loop trail through Echo Canyon, then bring our car back while we would be making the longer eight-mile hike by Heart-of- Rocks down to headquarters. They were delighted with the plan, although Mr. Goeller was slightly depressed when he learned there were no caves in the rocks along the way. The gray-brown rhyolite and basalt formations at Chiricahua have been carved by centuries of rain and melt- ing snow from an ancient lava field of the Tertiary Period. Some 12 to 15 million years ago, so geologists say, ponderous flows of red-hot, molten lava spewed from the earth, covering the country to a depth of several hun- dred feet. Later the whole field was lifted bodily and tilted by the growing Chiricahua Mountains until it covered the west slope from the crest almost to the base. And what is left of it today still clings to canyon and moun- tainside, startling one with some of the most fantastic and outlandish rock At Chiricahua National Monument you are greeted by Superintendent Clair sculpture ever carved by Nature. V. Cooke—the Keeper of the Rocks. The six-mile drive up to Massai roundings. They are a heritage from where hustle and bustle are out of Point is a revelation—an experience the days of the hard-working CCC place and all visitors are encouraged in fantasy. You can sense how Alice boys, who were also responsible for to take their time, drive leisurely, walk in Wonderland must have felt. On the road, the 14 miles of wide, well- slowly, and absorb the atmosphere as both sides of the road through Bonita graded trail, and the commodious im- well as the wonders. Canyon rise huge stone toadstools, up- proved campgrounds. At headquar- If Superintendent Cooke is away, ended cigars, picket-topped cliffs, tow- ters you will be greeted by one of the you will be met by Robert L. Barrel, ers, spires, needles, balanced rocks rangers or by Clair V. Cooke—the new ranger at Chiricahua. On our last and overhanging ledges defying the Keeper of the Rocks. visit, it was Ranger Al Henson, re- laws of gravity. If your imagination Superintendent Cooke is a quiet- cently transferred from the Wonder- is in good working order you can spoken, gray-haired man, handsome in land of Rocks, who served as guide. find China Boy, with his square Ori- Park Service uniform. A true West- We saw Ranger Henson and two young ental Hat, the mitred Bishop, Praying erner, he was born on a Wyoming men measuring the stalk of a newly- Padre, the Boxing Glove, the Ugly ranch. Starting with the Forest Serv- sprouted agave with a long pole. Duckling, and Cathedral Rock. ice in the Black Hills of South Dakota, "Playing Jack and the Beanstalk?" Then, on the windswept ridge of Clair transferred to the Park Service. we asked. Al Henson lowered the the Chiricahuas that leads to the Point, Carlsbad Caverns to Casa Grande to pole and laughed. new vistas open. To the east is a Sequoia was the route he took to "Not quite. I've been keeping a glimpse of San Simon Valley, backed become superintendent of Chiricahua record of this agave. It's grown as by blue New Mexican ranges; and on in 1944. He has a thorough knowl- much as three feet a day. Slowing up the west spread the vast level grass- edge, understanding and appreciation now though to around 10 inches every lands of Sulphur Spring Valley to the of his monument and is happy to tell 24 hours." He introduced us to his distant granite peaks of the Dragoon you about it or to guide you along the assistants. "This is Mr. Goeller of Mountains, once the impregnable trails, if he can spare the time. In fact, Hollywood and Mr. Knowlton of North stronghold of the battling Apaches. Clair's quiet good humor seems the Hollywood." Most spectacular from Massai keynote of this little secluded world Cordial relations with the visitors Point is Head, rising four

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CHIRICAHUA NATIONAL MONUMENT ' miles northeast to an elevation of 8100 foot Massai, a wild and furtive savage natural corridors among the soaring feet. This colossal granite profile, with who became almost a legend. For five rocks barely wide enough to pass domed forehead, jutting nose and a years he fought Americans, Mexicans, through in some places. We mean- hundred-foot pine tree for an eyelash, and tame reservation Indians single while climbed out of Rhyolite Canyon, looks serenely up to the blue South- handed, kidnapping squaws, raiding passed the huge, unbelievable Balanced western sky and is a fitting memorial ranches, rustling cattle and horses. Rock, then took the loop path through to a great and wise chief who once Massai's huge footprints were last seen Heart-of-Rocks, the most concentrated ruled these wild mountains and out- in Bonita Canyon in 1890 and it is and extensive collection of bizarre nat- spread valleys. probable that he died in the area— ural sculpture in the monument. Greatest of the Chiricahua Apaches another proud, unconquered Apache. Perpetually-quarrelling Punch and was Cochise. Originally friendly to Parking at the end of the road on Judy and regal Queen Victoria posed the pushing Yankees, he held his sav- Massai Point, 6850 feet elevation, we stonily for their pictures, and we saw age, warlike braves in check until the wished we had brought a sandwich or two birds new to us—but, of course, forked tongues and double dealing of two with us. Picnic tables are scat- we had forgotten the bird book. One the white man turned him into an im- tered among stunted cypresses, pinyons hundred and seventy of the 650 birds placable and relentless foe. For almost and junipers which have the pictur- that breed in the United States nest 12 years—from 1861 to 1872—Co- esque outlines of Japanese prints. within a radius of a hundred miles of chise and his braves swept down from Here you can lunch with the Wonder- the monument, and 507 species of their mountain fastnesses like devas- land of Rocks spread out below—a plants, representing 80 botanical fam- tating tornadoes — pillaging, burning, maze of chimneys, columns, steeples ilies, have been collected there. torturing and killing. No white man, and dizzily-perched rocks bristling in Animals, birds and plants vary from woman or child was safe from the bewildering .confusion from every can- the Upper Sonoran Life Zone in the wrath of this avenging Apache and yon, slope and crest. We know of no valleys to Hudsonian atop the highest even the United States army was more inspiring picnic area anywhere. Chiricahua peaks at nearly 10,000 feet powerless against him. So he died Sandwichless, the four of us started and they present a scrambled mixture unconquered, a great American and down the path together. But in half of Rocky Mountain, Pacific Coast one of the world's foremost military a mile we branched left, while our and Mexican forms, mingled with not generals. new friends continued ahead, to make a few which are found only in this However, the Apaches were finally the circle through Echo Canyon back area. The magnificent Central Ameri- vanquished, with the surrender of to Massai Point. They would follow can coppery-tailed trogon is sometimes in 1886. But among these up the canyon's green, forested glen seen, as are thick-billed parrots, rare twisted, labyrinthine rocks one lone between stone spires and pinnacles visitors from south of the border. You bronco Apache lived on. He was Big- several hundred feet high, then thread may meet on Chiricahua trails the

JUNE, 1953 11 Mazes of chimneys, columns, steeples and balanced Ranger AI Henson measures the growth of an agave rocks rise from every canyon, slope and crest in Chiri- stalk while Tom Goeller and Bill Knowlton look on. cahua National Monument. Cochise Head, with its The botanical list for the Monument names 507 species great stone profile in background. representing 80 plant families. weird, synthetic-looking coati mundi, But somehow the satiny walnut chests WELL KNOWN DESERT RAT with pointed snout and long, upright of drawers, four-poster beds, tables, IS FEATURED ON COVER tail, or a bristling, pig-like collared rockers and cane-seated chairs seem In the great desert Southwest there peccary. But you can walk secure in fitting and at home amid their strange are both desert rats and river rats, and the knowledge that the last jaguar was far western surroundings. Probably Art Greene, the subject of this month's killed in these mountains more than this is because they share the adapta- cover on Desert Magazine, enjoys the 40 years ago. bility of their owner who has happily distinction of belonging to both fra- accepted these great mountains, can- Mrs. Clair Cooke, Elinor to her ternities. friends, has made a study of the nat- yons and valleys as her own. ural history of the area and, while From the Heart-of-Rocks we de- Art and his wife, Ethel, with mem- she does not claim to be an authority scended the shady Sara Deming Trail bers of their family, operate the Cliff on the birds, animals and plants of to headquarters where we found the Dwellers Lodge on U. S. Highway 89 the monument, she loves to talk about others waiting for us. The shadows at the base of the famous Vermillion them with the constant stream of or- were deepening among the rocks above Cliffs near the Colorado River's Nav- nithologists, zoologists, botanists, bird- and we had 20 miles of corkscrewing ajo bridge. Associated with the Greenes ers, and specialists on flowers, ferns, mountain road between us and home. are their daughters Ruth and Irene, and the latters' husbands Vern Baker snakes, moss and even ants, who have "Where are you headed for?" we found the Chiricahuas to be a happy and Earl Johnson. The Greenes' mail asked as we got into the car. address is Cameron, Arizona. hunting ground. "We had expected to spend about Elinor's and Clair's was a romance an hour here, then go on to Tucson," In addition to operating the lodge, of the Wonderland of Rocks. For, as said Bill Knowlton. "But we've sort dining room and service station, the a visitor in 1946 at the Silver Spur of fallen for your monument and are Green family conducts charter motor- Guest Ranch within the monument, going to stay at the campgrounds to- boat trips from Lee's Ferry up the she met the superintendent and be- night and see some more of it tomor- Colorado River to Rainbow Bridge in came his wife. Born in Virginia and row." the airplane propellor driven craft raised in Illinois, Elinor has brought So the Wonderland of Rocks had shown in the picture. It is a 3-day a touch of the East to this Arizona made two more friends. motorboat trip with a six-mile hike to wilderness. Their charming home, "It reminds me of Carlsbad Caverns the Bridge. also stoutly stone-built by the CCC, without a roof," said Tom Goeller. The name of the boat, Tseh Na-ni- is furnished with colonial pieces that This, you must admit, is high praise ah-go Atin, is for "Trail to the remind one of white, elm-shaded from a cave man—we mean speleolo- Rock That Goes Over," meaning Rain- houses in quiet New England towns. gist. bow Bridge.

12 DESERT MAGAZINE One of the square stone towers in Hovenweep National Carefully shoveling away the dirt of centuries, archeol- Monument in Southeastern Utah. Why the towers were ogists uncover crude Stone Age walls at a site 15 miles built in the depths of a canyon has perplexed explorers northwest of Hovenweep. Note occasional overlapping and scientists ever since they were first reported by courses—one brick supported by two. There is none Fathers Escalante and Dominguez in 1776. The most of this at Mesa Verde, but it is well developed in Chaco reasonable guess is that they were prehistoric astronomi- Canyon, perhaps indicating the direction of the Hoven- cal observatories or temples for the worship of the sun. weep people's migration. Ancient Towers of Mystery A tower on a hilltop may be explained as a watchtower or a signal the mythical Sipapu. The massive station—but a tower on the floor of a canyon is a mystery. John Stewart pueblos of Chaco Canyon, the Cliff MacClary was one of the earliest visitors to Hovenweep National [Monu- dwellings of Mesa Verde and the ment, in the Four Corners region of Southeastern Utah. Here is the mysterious habitations of Canyon de story of his explorations of the strange structures he found there, and Tsay (Chelly) are within this region. his theories about the primitive tribe which built them. The adjoining areas of southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah are By JOHN STEWART MacCLARY dotted with interesting relics of a Photographs by the author people that has disappeared, and al- IS only one locality in cally speaking, in the Union, for taking most everywhere one turns are mon- the Union where four States it as a center, a circle drawn from it umental indications of a pre-Colum- come together at a common 100 miles in diameter includes some bian civilization antedating the advent point. That locality is known as Four of the largest and most attractive ruins of white men and reaching back to a Corners, and the four States that ad- of pre-Columbian United States. Four time before documentary history be- join are Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Corners is situated geographically gan." and Arizona. It is situated in one of nearest the heart of that area from In 1923 these dramatic statements the most instructive areas, archeologi- which the pueblos sprang, the: land of were published by the late Dr. Jesse

JUNE, 1953 13 Walter Fewkes, famed American ar- Where did these people go? Archeolo- the builders. Or, it might have re- cheologist and ethnologist. In that gists suggest that, as the group grew sulted from the addition of a more same year President Harding had set in size, arable lands may have given enlightened builder to the ranks of aside as Hovenweep National Monu- out, and communities thai: depended the Stone Age masons. ment an area of 286 acres. The greater on them were forced to migrate south- While Hovenweep Monument is part of this reservation lies in South- ward. open all year, it is most frequently eastern Utah; the remainder is in The name Hovenweep is an Indian visited between early May and late southwestern Colorado. The land is term meaning "deserted valley." This October. No ranger was present at waterless desert, but the ruins there might indicate Navajo, Ute or Paiute; the time of my first visit. The only preserved are unique. all three groups include the expres- guide I had was curiosity. A brochure Numerous towers, built on the floors sion in their language, and all three has since been published, first in 1938, of shallow canyons, stand there today are familiar with the region. But none discussing the ruins and giving direc- as they have stood through uncounted claims the Hovenweep people as an- tions to the monument. I believe these centuries. Seeing them, one is imme- cestors. are distributed by the Southwestern diately mystified: Who were the build- Why should towers have been built Monuments Association, Globe, Ari- ers? What prehistoric emergency by a people whose chief concerns evi- zona. caused selection of these sites and dently regarded agricultural problems? The Four Corners is a lonely region, this peculiar type of architecture? And why should such towers have and roads into it are poor. If you are What became of the ancient stone- been placed in deep canyon recesses? one who must depend on filling sta- masons? Many answers have been offered tion or garage help in an emergency, Construction was not limited to to these questions. Since the Hoven- you had better choose to visit the Na- towers on the floors of canyons. weep people seem to have been chiefly tional Parks and Monuments where Buildings which may have been watch- interested in harvesting abundant—at such services are lying in wait for the towers crowned a few commanding least adequate—crops, it seems logical traveler—but not Hovenweep. With points. One large communal group is to me to suppose that most of the every mile you will feel more remote of a size which prompted Dr. Fewkes towers were erected as astronomical from your kind. Trees become scarcer to name it Hovenweep Castle. observatories, from which planting and scraggier. The sunlight is an un- The ruins first were reported by time was determined by priestly ob- relieved glare. The wind is perpetual. Spanish New Mexicans. In 1776, servation of sun, moon and stars. As It dries your skin and parches your while exploring a feasible route for a in the bottom of a well, confusing lips. Your thirst increases. Dust cov- trail to connect Santa Fe with Cali- glares from the horizon were shut out ers you and sifts into your belongings. fornia, Fathers Escalante and Domin- by the canyon and the walls of the Progress is slow and jolting. You guez reported having seen the mysteri- tower, and it was possible to observe wonder if the vehicle will hold up; if ous towers which even then lacked the heavens at all times of day. Or you are really following the right road; tenants. Evidently the padres spent perhaps they were temples for the if the ruins are still there at all. The no time investigating the structures, practice of sun worship. mesa stretches flat and monotonous for only the briefest mention was ac- During my explorations of Hoven- except for one weird mountain, the corded them in their diaries. weep, I was particularly interested in Sleeping Ute, along the Utah State line. Later American settlers of the re- numerous ruins about 15 miles north- But if you do persist and advance; gion were not so casual in the atten- west of the Hovenweep group. Whether if you can ignore the absence of the tion which they gave the ancient or not they were erected by the same hundred gadgets Americans call nec- buildings. They wondered who the wandering tribesmen has not been essities; and if you can conjure with inhabitants had been and, prompted determined. The observatory type of imagination until you make vivid to by curiosity rather than by scientific tower is lacking, although numerous yourself the bands of human beings interest, they gathered every piece of mounds have been found to contain who knew no other world—go to foundations of towers. These watch- pottery they could find. Dr. Fewkes Hovenweep. found a sizable collection of sherds tower sites—if indeed that is what from Hovenweep in Dolores, Colo- they were—are situated on elevated Its piled stones from which the mud rado. His trained eyes identified the points. The terrain at this location chinking has long since gone, will make ware as resembling that found in the also is higher. With more elevation you marvel. Its grouped rooms will Mesa Verde ruins—and he immedi- to begin with, the ancient stonemason suggest the tasks and crafts performed ately wondered whether the inhabitants need not build his tower so high. For there. You will find yourself searching might possibly have been fugitives a people who had not learned the ele- for objects that are relics of the old from whatever caused the desertion of mentary principle of lapping the joints days. But few, if any, are to be found. those cliff dwellings. in courses of masonry—whose struc- Even the archeologists have moved to tural skill seemed limited to stacking other and richer fields. Sun and wind The people of Hovenweep were piles of stones—this was an important alone continue to work upon the site. skilled farmers, and remains of check advantage. Once communties of men, women dams and irrigation ditches are found near their cornfields. Small storage At the time of my first visit to Ho- and children lived and toiled, laughed cists were built beneath projecting venweep, a field party from the Colo- and suffered in the light of the sun brows of cliffs. Too small to have rado Historical Society under Paul S. that shines over Hovenweep towers. served as dwellings, and lacking win- Martin—later to become Dr. Paul S. Archeology can piece together enough dows, these tiny rooms resemble those Martin of the Field Museum of Nat- of the fragments to trace general out- found at other ruins, where they con- ural History in Chicago—had moved lines of what the picture was. But tained large sealed jars filled with into this Hovenweep suburb for the when I stood on the mesa's rim look- grain. purpose of excavating and studying ing upon the ruined houses and towers The number of dwellings at Hoven- its ruins. One kiva was cleared of of the "deserted valley" archeology weep indicates a large population— earth to reveal several examples of was forgotten and there was only an perhaps more people than there are lapped masonry. This might indicate overwhelming sensation of emptiness, today in Utah's entire San Juan county. a cultural change in the technique of isolation and mystery.

14 DESERT MAGAZINE portion of the field where red andesite carries seams and pockets of plume and moss agate. Fine specimens of gypsum satin spar were found in the white deposit on the left. Field Day in Muggins Hills When Guy Hazen found seams By RANDALL HENDERSON several miles away some white deposits of plume agate in the andesite float Map by Norton Allen which aroused his interest. White ma- at the base of the Muggins Moun- terial in such a location as this could tains in Arizona, he did what any N 1937 Guy Hazen was roaming be the sedimentary deposit of an an- veteran prospector would do under the desert Southwest as a field cient lake or stream—and fossil bones the circumstances — he followed paleontologist for the American frequently are found in such deposits. the float to its source. And that Museum of Natural History, seeking Hazen drove his desert car across is how the agate field, mapped fossil deposits which would help the the dry bed of the Gila River and out and described in the accompany- scientists piece together the story of into the hills for a closer examination. ing story, was discovered. This prehistoric life on this earth. Just as he had suspected, the whitish field trip for Desert readers goes Looking northwest from the little outcrop was sediment of lake origin. into an area where there is much town of Wellton on Highway 80 in A lake had existed here millions of of interest for historian and arche- southern Arizona, Guy could see in years ago and eventually its dry bed ologist as well as rock collector. the foothills of the Muggins Mountains had been up-tilted and broken by

Stone cabin erected in Muggins foothills by placer miners. The gold played out and the cabin has been abandoned. Klotho Temple in the left background.

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JUNE, 1953 15 my knowledge of this field with Des- ert Magazine readers." The trip was arranged, and we left Indio early in the morning of March 17 in Desert's new jeep sta- tion wagon. At Winterhaven on the Colorado River we were joined by Hugh and Dorothy Proctor of Oasis, California, and Henry Beekly of Long Beach. We crossed into Arizona and fol- lowed Highway 80 through Telegraph Pass in the Gila Mountains. This is the only place in the United States where Elephant trees of Sonoran or- igin may be seen from a paved high- way—and I always scan the mountain- side to see how many of them I can identify as I go through the pass. Just east of the Gila Range is the little service station settlement of Li- gurta and four miles beyond Ligurta (approximately 5 miles west of Well- ton) we turned left off the pavement on a dusty silt road that crosses the Gila River Valley. The U. S. Reclama- tion Bureau is now bringing Colorado River water to 75,000 acres in the Gila Valley, known as the Wellton- Mohawk project, and our road con- tinued along the edge of lands being cleared and leveled for farming. Our course was due north, and at three miles from the highway our road ended where the gravel banks of the Muggins foothills meet the silt soil of the Gila Valley floor. The spot is marked by a little cluster of trees and an abandoned shack—once known as the Johnson ranch. A pump was once installed near here to irrigate a large acreage of river bottom land. But the pump was long ago discarded, and the lands are now being brought back into use with Colorado River water for irrigation. At the old Johnson ranch we turned to our right on a historic old trail that follows along the north side of the Guy Hazen, paleontologist and prospector. His sharp eyes have found Gila. The Gila Valley has always many fields of fossil and gem material in the Southwest. been a natural route for east and west travel across southern Arizona, and this trail was used by the prehis- those powerful forces which down agate and sagenite and black and yel- toric Indians and more recently by through the ages have brought con- low geodes. successive caravans of white men— stant change to the crust of the earth. Hazen displayed some slabs of the the padres of Father Kino's day, Juan Hazen found no fossils worth men- agate from this field at Coachella Val- Bautista de Anza and his colony of tioning, but the trip into the Muggins ley's gem and mineral show at Indio, California settlers, the Mountain Men, foothills yielded some other discover- California, in March this year, and Kearny's Army of the West, the Mor- ies which are of interest to rock col- invited some of the other exhibitors mon battalion, the Butterfield stages lectors and archeologists. and myself to visit the field with him. and Mexican settlers bound for the One of the by-products of his ex- West Coast. "There is more material in two cursion into the Muggins foothills was Today, the Gila River below Cool- the discovery that a considerable area square miles of that area than all the idge dam is dry except where an oc- is underlaid with red andesite tuff and rockhounds in the Southwest will be casional seepage spring moistens the rhyolite containing stringers of agate able to take out in the next 100 years," ground for a short distance. But until —much of it gem material. Guy explained. "A few collectors the white man dammed the river in And so Hazen has been going back have been going in there by car and 1928 there was a little stream of water from time to time to bring out samples airplane already, and since the ma- in the channel most of the year, and of golden, green plume and moss terial is so plentiful I am glad to share at times it swelled to flood proportions

16 DESERT MAGAZINE when heavy rains occurred in the up- miles along this route. Lieut, William headed back into the foothills. At 1.3 per basin. H. Emory whose record of Gen. miles from this junction we passed an The trail we followed, at the toe of Kearny's march provides a vivid pic- old bentonite mine, now abandoned. the Muggins foothills, has been used ture of this trail as it appeared over From this point our guiding landmark little in recent years, and it was rough 100 years ago, mentioned these glyphs was Klotho Temple, the most con- and crooked. But it is still passable. and sketched some of them for the spicuous peak in the Muggins range On the gravel ridges along the upper Report of a Military Reconnoissance —twin peaks to be exact. We fol- side of this old road are scores of which he prepared for the U. S. Sen- lowed old jeep tracks across arroyos boulders in which are incised the ate after the historic trek of Kearny's and along gravel ridges, always head- glyphs of ancient tribesmen—the Ho- Army of the West. ing toward Klotho when we could hokam, perhaps, and the Pimas and We continued along this old road see the twin peaks in the distance. Maricopas and Yumas. These petro- about three miles and then turned left At about 2V2 miles from the ben- glyph-covered boulders extend for on one of the gravel tongues and tonite mine we came to a section cor- This rock circle, similar to those found in many places in the Southwest, is a relic of prehistoric Indian occupation—but no one can say for certain what its use may have been.

JUNE, 1953 17 ner which marks the extent of the caught a glimpse of one of them. They over a ridge to the south he had found agate field on the north. The iron are wary animals. black geodes. survey post is at the corners of Sec- During the morning after our ar- This is a mineral field where the tions 15, 16, 21 and 22 in Township rival we spent several hours explor- casual rockhound who seeks only such 8 South, Range 19 West. The main ing the field and gathering small sacks pretty specimens as may be found agate field extends over Sections 16 of material. But in that limited time lying on top of the ground will be dis- and 21. It occurs in the arroyos as we covered only a small part of the appointed. The agate occurs only in float and underlays much of the loose terrain where agate is found. Hazen, seams or in pockets in the adesite, material on the hillsides. who over a period of years has cov- and it is necessary to pack out about The last three miles of the route we ered the field thoroughly, told us that 10 pounds of matrix for every pound took to get into this field is strictly a jeep trail, but it is possible for agate 4fc • Here's another lesson for those who are en- collectors to hike into the field by a r0 lecl m more direct route in less than half of Ull 12' ' ftewt Magazine's- School lor that distance, from the point at which Desert Rats. The tenderfoot may find some standard cars should be parked a half of the questions rather difficult, but there is no penalty for making a mile below the bentonite mine. mistake. And you'll know better next time. A score of 12 to 14 is fair, 15 to 17 is good, 18 or over is superior. The answers are on page 41. Two hours of daylight remained when we had selected our overnight 1—An arrastre is—An old Spanish mill to grind corn . A primitive campsite along an arroyo where there weapon for killing rabbits A Spanish term for the measurement was an ample supply of dead ironwood, of land A device for grinding ore and we scouted a small sector of the 2—According to legend the Lost Dutchman mine in Arizona is in— field. The Superstition Mountains _ Castle Dome Mountains We found the arroyos strewn with Harquahala Mountains._.... . Catalina Mountains . boulders carrying stringers and pock- 3—If you owned a cinnabar mine with a mill for processing the ore you ets of agate. A hand-pick is neces- would ship your product to market in—Ingots Flasks sary to break the boulders to discover Bags . Bales the agate they contain. A small sledge 4—Traveling through Arizona on Highway 66 you would not pass would be even more effective, especi- through one of these towns—Flagstaff . Wickenburg . Hol- ally on the sidehills where agate bear- brook Ashfork ing andesite is in place. 5—Boyce Thompson Arboretum is located in—New Mexico . Cali- There are many shades and forms fornia Utah . Arizona. of agate here—plume in both golden 6—The Colorado River tributary which Powell named "The Dirty and green, moss, picture and sagenite. Devil" is now generally known as—Virgin River . Fremont Much of it, Guy Hazen told us, will River Hassayampa River Verde River fluoresce. At one place I found a 7—"Mescal Pits" of the ancient tribesmen of Southern California were camp where miners evidently had used for—Storing grain Roasting agave . Ceremonial pur- spent several days mining geodes in poses Burying the dead a loose gravel formation. But they 8 The pinnacle known as Weaver's Needle is associated with stories had scarcely touched the potentiali- of—The Lost Pegleg gold Lost Breyfogle Mine Lost ties of the field. Dutchman Mine Lost Arch Mine At one point where the light colored 9—Sevier Lake is in—Utah-—. . New Mexico Arizona . material of the ancient lake sediments Nevada was exposed, Henry Beekly took out 10—The book Death Valley in '49, was written by—George Wharton some lovely specimens of white satin James William Lewis Manly . W. A. Chalfant . J. spar of gypsum. It has much the same Smeaton Chase.- . texture as asbestos, and is a highly 11—The blossom of the larrea or creosote bush is—Pink, .White perishable form of material. Yellow . Lavender 12—The Spanish spelling of Arizona's state flower is—Saguaro While the gypsum specimens were Sawhero Suguaro Saguero pretty, the field for the most part yields 13—The home of the Acoma Indians is in—Arizona Nevada only cutting material. There are no Utah New Mexico nice cabinet specimens of agate scat- \A—Most of the land in southern Arizona was acquired by the United tered over the surface to be picked up States through—Conquest Treaty with the Apache Indians by casual collectors. The agate is in Gadsden Purchase . Seizure by Kearny's Army of the West a matrix that must be broken or sawed 15—One crosses the Algodones Sandhills while traveling in California before the beauty of the gemstone is on—Highway 99 . Highway 80 . Highway 60 ..... High- revealed. way 66 There is little vegetation over the 16—One of the following is a contemporary artist—Edwin Corle hills where the agate is located. A Barry Goldwater Clyde Forsythe Oren Arnold scattered growth of creosote bush and 17—Tahquitz is the name of one of the gods of the—Yuma Indians an occasional saguaro, ocotillo and Mojave Indians Indians . Indians encelia are all that have gained root 18—The Escalante River is a tributary of the—Great Salt Lake on the hills. In the arroyos are iron- Gila River San Pedro River . Colorado River wood and palo verde, with plenty of 19—Davis Dam in the Colorado River was named in honor of a former— deadwood for campfires. Nevada senator . Director of the Reclamation Bureau We saw much evidence of wild Secretary of Interior Governor of Arizona burros. In some instances their tracks 20—Indians of San Ildefonso pueblo in New Mexico are best known for were imprinted over the treadmarks their — Pottery Beadwork Rug weaving Silver- of our own tires, indicating the close smithing proximity of the animals. But we never

18 DESERT MAGAZINE of agate that is recovered. The ma- terial will have little beauty until it is slabbed and polished. However, there is a wide range of material in this field and for the collector who has his own lapidary equipment, it offers the opportunity to acquire some exceptionally fine gem rock. Leaving the field the next afternoon we stopped along the old Gila Valley road to take pictures of some of the petroglyphs which are so plentiful on the gravel mesas. I saw several of the stone circles which are rather com- mon in the Southwest—rock rings evi- dently put there long ago by Indians. These circles—in this instance about eight feet in diameter—may have been the foundations of wickiup huts, or they may have been put there for ceremonial purposes. The archeolo- gists have never given a conclusive answer to this question. For many years I have wanted to climb the imposing rock tower in the Muggins Mountains marked on the maps as Klotho Temple or Klotho Peak. I believe this also is the pin- nacle marked on some maps as Cor- onation Peak because of the fancied resemblance to a crown. Guy Hazen offered to show me a route to the base of the mountain— and since I may go back there some day and attempt to go to the summit, we took time out to follow an old prospector's road which ends at an unoccupied rock cabin within three- quarters of a mile of the base. Klotho is not high. Will C. Barnes in Ari- zona Place Names, now out of print, lists it at 1422 feet. Its sidewalls are IMP** very precipitous, but I am confident a route can be found to the top. Norton Allen's map, accompany- ing this article, shows the roads we followed going into the agate field in March this year. But the roads across . .* /, Gila Valley are changing from month to month, due to the vast program of land development now taking place there. Where the trails once wound through mesquite and willow on the floor of the valley, bulldozers are now blocking the area out in rectangular farms, with road rights-of-way only along section and quarter section lines. But the agate in Muggins foothills is not hard to find. It covers a huge area, and the old reliable method used by miners for hundreds of years —find the float and follow it to its source—eventually will lead any rock- hound into the heart of the field.

These boulders, incised with the glyphs of prehistoric tribesmen, are found along the base of the Mug- gins foothills for many miles. The meaning of these symbols is not known.

JUNE, 1953 19 This is another of the winning manuscripts in Desert Magazine's 1952 Life-on-the-Desert contest. Winners LIFE ON THE DESERT of the 1953 contest which closed May 1 will be an- nounced in a future issue. By CARITA SELVAS

S A CHILD I lived for a short their painted and tattooed faces, and One exceedingly hot day—hot even time at Daggett, a little railroad the little greasy, beady-eyed papooses for the desert — we were trying to and mining center on the strapped upon their backs. The young maintain some slight degree of comfort Mojave desert. From Daggett were Mojave girls were quite trim and pretty by means of fans and cooling drinks. shipped, by the Santa Fe railroad, all but, when older, they grew fat and Suddenly we heard the rumble of an the vast mineral riches of the nearby unkempt. approaching train and soon after, the Calico Mountains. and Death Valley. Although I had been taught both well known cry, "The Mojaves are It was then miles from civilization. to fear their anger and respect the coming!" Barstow, then a tiny railroad junc- rights of the Mojaves, I liked to ob- Yes, the Mojaves certainly were tion, was about nine miles west. Two serve them from a safe distance. They coming! In the clear desert distance or three miles east was the station, were so unconscious of their sur- we could discern the slow moving section house, and railroad water tank roundings, so delightfully unconven- freight train, far up the track toward of Newberry. The roaring mining tional in dress and manner. They bore Newberry. On top of the cars, swarm- camp of Calico lay a few miles to the themselves with such a proudly su- ing like insects, were the gaudy red north. This was our world—a happy, perior air that the little town looked and yellow decked forms of the Mo- contented world, though a strange one. upon them with mingled respect and jave women and the tall, dark ones of The sights I was wont to behold at fear. their men. Daggett never lost interest to me. There The Mojaves enjoyed almost un- Accustomed as was every dweller in were huge mines and rough miners, limited freedom among us. No one the desert to such sights, we never- and great roaring silver stamp mills, dared to tamper with them or excite theless watched with great interest where the ore was crushed and made their revengeful anger. One look from while the train drew up at the station into bullion for shipment. There were those fiery, eagle eyes was enough and the crowds of strange dark people the 20-mule team borax wagons and to overawe one of only ordinary cour- descended from their lofty perch. True their trailers, driven with a single jerk age. Even the Santa Fe Railroad offi- to their Indian nature, they uttered line by extremely rough and ready cials, fearing their treachery, made never a word, but deposited their teamsters. And there were heavily friends of these "children of the des- gaudy blanket rolls, their only encum- laden pack trains of little mouse col- ert" by allowing them to ride free at brance, upon the sand near the tracks ored, long-eared burros to excite my their own sweet will on top of, or and there, under that broiling midday wonder. Many of these half wild little inside the empty freight cars. And sun, evidently wearied by their long creatures wandered freely about the they were not slow about using this journey, one after another dropped off town. They had been set free by their privilege, but kept up an almost con- into heavy sleep. former owners who had deserted this stant journeying back and forth be- But to one fat, wrinkled old squaw dry country. Happy the child who tween the little desert towns scattered this hard couch on the hot sand was was able to corral one for a slow, and along the railroad. Sometimes, when evidently distasteful. After trying usually short ride! Never shall I for- the mesquite beans were plentiful there, vainly to make herself comfortable get the rude awakening I had and the they camped in the dry river bed near with the rest, she gathered up a dirty stars I saw when I tried to ride one. Daggett for weeks at a time, building old sack and, without further ado, He objected! rude shelters of brush and sticks. crossed the street, deliberately opened But best of all, were the fine people, My family lived in a large com- our latched front gate, and walked in. kind hearts, and sincere friendships to fortable old adobe house, with a wide Mother watched her approach from be found at Daggett. veranda along its two sides. It was behind the locked screen door with On the other side of the tracks was bordered by a row of tall shiny green some uneasiness, for she judged, from the business section—grocery stores, cottonwood trees. These were kept past experience, that she would ask many saloons, and a dance hall open alive in summer by a stream of water for, or help herself, to anything she all night. There, too, was all the vice from the faucet. might fancy, from an ice cold drink which usually went with a wide open This cozy desert home had been to our best Sunday bonnets. western town. Out the far corner of built by an old time saloon keeper But it was soon evident that this my eye I often caught glimpses of who had grown affluent, and had woman wanted only a quiet nap. She painted, flashily dressed women, who sought fairer fields of endeavor. It marched straight up the steps to the seemed apart from the desert town. was located on the right side of the shady veranda and, depositing her But my straight-laced New England tracks, for the railroad ran through dirty sack before the front door with- mother, not long from her Boston the middle of the town, with a very out so much as "by your leave," threw home, always hurried me on with wide sandy street on either side. Its herself down upon it and went to sleep. averted eyes. former owner had surrounded the There she lay, obstructing the door- Among all these strange new sights, place with a tight foundation, topped way for hours, while no one dared to nothing filled me with greater wonder with a high white picket fence. This disturb her slumber. than the bands of Mojave Indians who was to keep out rattlesnakes and side- At last we were led by a mighty roamed at will over the desert. Their winders, we were told. This informa- grunt to believe that she had awak- home was on the Fort Mojave Indian tion did not add much to my tender- ened, and the belief was soon con- reservation, just over the border in foot mother's comfort, and occasion- firmed when a dishevelled form ap- Arizona. I never failed to welcome ally these unwanted visitors did slither peared before the locked screen and the arrival of these strange roving across our yard. We children were a dirty hand shook it until it trembled people—unusually tall handsome men, taught to be on guard against them, on its hinges. with long black hair and flashing eyes, as well as against scorpions, centipedes "Ugh," she grunted, "heap hot, you and their fat, squatty women with and tarantulas. get dinner?"

20 DESERT MAGAZINE "No," mother answered politely, This was too much! When we chil- tended to cook and eat our puppies. but fearfully, taking courage from the dren discovered our cataclysmic loss, But we never really knew whether it locked screen. "No dinner today. You we set up a loud wailing. Even mother, was hunger, or malicious mischief, go now? Goodbye." inclined to temporize with all Indians, which, in return for our inhospitality And then, such a look of rage and was roused to action. She notified the prompted them. After a few days the disgust crossed that squaw's face. town constable and with a small posse whole band left town and we never Doubling up her grimy fist, she shook he rode out to the Indian camp and again saw our uninvited guests. But it before our faces, and muttered omi- recovered our pets. we took warning from these experi- nously, while her wild black eyes We were told by an old desert rat ences and never again so rudely re- never left ours. that the Mojaves undoubtedly had in- fused the request of a Mojave Indian. "White squaw, no good. Kill white squaw—burn house!" And giving the door a parting kick, she took up her bed and departed, all the while threat- ening us with her angry eyes and muttering curses. As if this were not enough excite- ment for one day, that night there An erratic pattern of precipitation tated slight downward revisions in appeared on the scene, we knew not was recorded over the Colorado River forecasts issued April 1. Current fore- from whence, a character who I be- Basin in March, with percentage val- casts for the basin call for flows rang- lieve has long since disappeared from ues ranging from 50 percent to 164 ing from 45 percent of average for the western life—a grizzled itinerant lead- percent of normal. Average precipi- San Juan near Bluff, Utah, to 60 per- ing his dancing bear. All the populace, tation, according to water supply fore- cent of average for the Los Pinos near including the visiting Mojaves, gath- casts of the U. S. Weather Bureau and Bayfield, Colorado. ered in the wide moonlit street to watch Soil Conservation Service, v/as only Little Colorado River Basin—March the bear perform. 67 percent of normal, and the overall precipitation over the Little Colorado The master holding the chain, which water picture remains unfavorable. River Basin was not sufficient to im- was fastened to the animal's steel The picture is brighter—but still prove the poor water-supply outlook muzzle, brought him slowly up on his not good—for the Salt and upper Gila for the basin. November-June run- hind legs. Then to his master's rhyth- River basins, which experienced above- off for the Little Colorado at Woodruff mic chanting, "De, da, de,—de, da, normal precipitation for the first month is still expected to be only 30 percent de,—de, da, de, de," the great bear since November. Precipitation for of average. cavorted about in a clumsy sort of March averaged 200 percent of normal Gila River Basin — Although the dance. and brought some relief to the area. heavy March precipitation over the The Mojave braves holding the Precipitation amounts of slightly above upper Gila and Salt River basins was center of the stage with the bear and normal were reported for the upper effective in increasing this month's his master, burst into shouts of de- Little Colorado River and for the forecasts by 8 to 13 percent over those lighted laughter. One huge young In- Tonto Creek basins. Over the Verde of the month previous, the outlook for dian seized another by his long black River and the lower Little Colorado these basins is still not good. The hair and pulled him about in laugh- all precipitation totals for the month November-June flow of the Gila River able imitation of the dancing bear, were below normal. at Solomon is forecast to be only 37 meanwhile chanting "de, da, de,—de, Reports from the various watersheds percent of the 10-year average. Some- da, de,—de, da, de, de." This was are as follows: what more promising are predictions the first indication of Mojave humor Colorado River above Cisco — Al- for the Salt River and Tonto Creek that any of us had ever seen, and it though some increases are noted in near Roosevelt; nearly 60 percent of was really funny. the current forecasts, the outlook for average run-off is in prospect for these Next day, the Mojaves still lingered this portion of the basin still is not two streams. The forecast for the in Daggett. Mother, still a little fearful, favorable. Median forecasts for the Verde River is little changed from the insisted that we children stay close at main stream and its tributaries above March 1 report; 4 percent of average home. She was trying to amuse us by Cameo and for the upper Gunnison flow is expected if precipitation for reading a story, when suddenly the River Basin call for 62 to 84 percent the rest of the season is near normal. great black faces of two Mojave men of the 10-year average run-off, less The one bright feature of the out- were pressed close against the window than any one season since 1940. The look for the Salt and Verde basins is pane. Hands shading their eyes, they outlook for the Dolores and Uncom- the high carry-over of storage in the calmly surveyed the interior of our big pahgre River basins is even less prom- Salt-Verde reservoir system. As of living room. Out of sheer fright and ising. Current forecasts for these March 15 stored water in San Carlos nervousness, I began to giggle. streams call for streamfiows of ap- Reservoir was approximately 150 per- "Don't laugh. Don't notice them," proximately half of the 10-year aver- cent of normal. On the other hand, warned mother in an undertone. But age. the March 15 stored water in San the hand that held her book trembled. Green River Basin—Forecasts for Carlos Reservoir was only seven per- After a few minutes, which seemed streams in Utah are lower than those cent of normal. hours, evidently having seen all they issued March 1. The current water- • • • cared to see of the white man's civili- supply outlook is for run-off of 77 Elsewhere in the Southwest, water' zation, they passed on toward their percent of average for Huntington supply forecasts were as discouraging desert camp. But on the way out they Creek and Price River, and flows of as in the Colorado Basin. Snow run- nonchalantly helped themselves to only 55 percent of the norm are ex- off was below normal almost every- our cherished pets — four adorable, pected for the Duchesne River at where, and low in water content. little fat puppies, which we had placed My ton. Again, large reservoir supplies were in a box, with their mother, on the San Juan River Basin — Below- one bright spot in an otherwise gloomy cool side of the house. normal March precipitation necessi- water picture.

JUNE, 1953 21 By ELLA LOUISE HEATLY Long Beach, California A lonely cabin hugs the hill. Half hidden in a fringe of firs; Rough hewn, square-built and obdurate, Defying winter's icy spurs. Within, a man—his book, his pipe, And near his chair a sleeping dog; Lamp shadows flicker merrily, Sparks burst from brightly burning log. The man? He, too, is rugged, gnarled, Deep lines crisscross his leathered face, His thinning hair is streaked with white— Time's ruthless hand has left its trace! Vicissitudes and joys are met By stoic silence on his part; Without, a calm severity; Within, a warmly glowing heart. O man and cabin, king and throne, Remain steadfast, through time and weather! Your outward scars hide inner grace; Stand firm! Share destiny together! • • • ITINERANTS By GRACE BARKER WILSON Kirtland, New Mexico Storms are itinerants, following the wind- ways, Over the mesas and down deep ravines; Constantly moving, and changing forever, And flickering across the gray desert screens. • • • ROAD LURE By GRACE STILLMAN MINCK Anacortes, Washington The little old road says, "Come, I know HOMESTEAD DESERT STREAM Where pine trees greet the dawn; Ten Years After Where, over polished rocks, the flow By MYRTLE A. KRAUSE Of mountain streams runs on—" By R. WAYNE CHATTERTON Glendale, California But all I answer is, "On your way! Caldwell, Idaho Just a never ending trickle, I have work to do today." This place has been ordained to desolation, Now you see it, now it's gone, And I have watched it year by year. Then the little old road smiles in the sun, Desert waters are so fickle, Replies, "O.K., but I will wind These man-made works are doomed to dese- Uncertainly they move along. cration, Over desert sands and often run Horizon distances, and find For all alone, so bare and sear, Far in the hills, down through can- They fall, expire, become a barrenness. Where sunsets heap their surplus gold; yons gleaming Where stars are rarest gems and—" When I first came, these hills wore desert The . streamlets form like silver dress, "Hold!" Which fence and cabin could not dispossess. strands; I cry, rebellious, "take my hand— So now the sand, with grim determination. When they reach the place with the Show me this world of desertland." Creeps back on all that I constructed here. heat waves teeming They hide unseen beneath the sands. DESERT GRATITUDE The structures rot away with mold forma- When clouds obscure the distant By RACHAEL DUNAVEN YOCOM tion, New York City, New York A wistful end, a false career. mountains, Here age and dust will be the termination. And rain pours down from troubled When I first saw the desolate terrain, While nature gives to death a bier skies; The bleak, unending vistas of the sage, Of stone and sage and endless emptiness. These little streams become like My heart grew sick with longing for the I should have known when I first came, fountains rain, unless, And rushing torrents quickly rise. To quench the thirst of this dry foliage. Perhaps, the desert had with guilefulness I looked again and could not but admire, Contrived to hide its great determination. The sturdiness With which the heat was And its intent to conquer all that's here! faced; • • • And marveled at its courage to aspire, BEYOND THE ROAD This grim, forbidding, barren land to By TANYA SOUTH grace. By CONSTANCE WALKER And as I rode o'er rolling hills, I'd see, Los Angeles, California There is a bond between each one Green valleys nestling at their feet, and Green chaparral beyond the road With all the rest, then— Surrounds a quiet place However each has lived, or done I knew each blade of grass, each lovely Where mesquite shelter has bestowed His worst or best. tree, Stood as a living monument to men. A sanctuary—grace. And be he calm, or full of strife, In faith or doubt, Wind-rippled sand leads in an aisle Each spring the desert's gratitude is He'll still be one with all of life, shown, To candled Yucca plant— Within and out. And there is peace on earth awhile In color, saying: "Carry on! You're not Where winging choirs chant. alone!"

22 DESERT MAGAZINE Pictures of the Month

Suspecting mischief, the little white kid sniffs his Navajo playmate's hand for a hidden treat. The Indian youngsters and their pet were photographed at Kayenta, at the entrance to Monument Valley, by Dr. J. Robert Lindsay of Ganado, Arizona. Dr. Lindsay used a Busch Pressman camera, Super XX film, Wallensak Rap tar lens, 1/100 second at f. 16 for the photograph, first prize-winner in Desert's April contest.

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Second prize for April went to Hetty Cooper of Flagstaff, Arizona, who took this picture at the Hopi mesa village of Mishongovi in Northern Arizona. The ladder in the fore- ground leads down into a sacred underground ceremonial ITT room, the kiva. Mrs. Cooper used a Rolleiflex camera, K2 filter, Super XX film, 1/100 second at f. 16.

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23 COUNTY M A PS object from the camp they al- Many New Issues ways put something in its place. Utmost details—for offices, realtors, Luni- MardKock Shorty bermen, sportsmen, Miners, etc With Twn- "Isn't that true, Mr. Hard slips, rug, Sec. Mines, all roads, trails( strms. Rock?" the teacher turned to B.R., Elevations, Ntl. Frsts. etc. Alameda .20x30 $1.00 Shorty for confirmation. Alpine .17x23 1.00 Amador .20x30 1.00 "Yep, an' they're smart little Rutte _ _ .29x33 1.00 Calaveras 21x31 1.00 rascals, too," was Shorty's an- Colusa .24x25 1.00 swer. "Out here on the desert Contra Costa 19x28 1.00 Del Norte 24x25 1.00 we call 'em trade rats, an' they're Eldorado .24x39 1.00 smart traders, too. They gener- Fresno .28x50 2.50 Fresno ..42x75 5.00 ally git the best o' the deal. Glenn .18x33 1.00 Humboldt .20x36 1.00 By L. C. DeSelrn "Remember one winter up on Humboldt 30x56 2.50 Imperial .31x51 2.00 Hard Rock Shorty was dozing Eight Ball crick when I wuz Inyo, East and West Half, ea. 7.50 helping Pisgah Bill do the assess- Kern ..38x78 5.00 on the bench under the lean-to ___ Kern .26x58 2.50 ment work on his gold mine. One Kings .27x29 1.00 porch in front of the Inferno store Lake .24x36 1.00 when a bus loaded with Easter night one o' them little beggers Lassen - .26x36 1.00 lugged in a sample o' lead ore Lassen 38x55 3.00 vacation tourists stopped for cold Los Angeles .42x44 3.00 drinks. an' left it in place of Bill's watch. Los Angeles .33x35 1.00 Madera 23x50 1.50 "Bill'd no way o' keepin' time Marin 23x24 1,00 Obviously it was a group of Mariposa - - .29x33 1.00 school youngsters being con- after that, so me 'an him jest Mendocino .36x48 2.50 worked frum sunup to sundown. Merced .34x36 1.00 ducted on a tour of Death Val- Modoc .34x41 1.50 Wuz three months later when Modoc 28x24 1.00 ley by a man and his wife who Mono 23x67 3.00 presumably were teachers. While that pack rat got tired o' the Monterev .42x52 3.00 Napa .20x28 1.00 the bus was being serviced the watch an' brought it back one Nevada .22x38 1.00 night and lugged off a poke o' Orange 23x24 1.00 group sought the shade of the Placer .26x46 1.50 building, and the conversation gold nuggets Bill'd been savin' Placer .30x17 1.00 fer two years. Plumas .33x40 1.50 turned to packrats. Plumas 27x22 1.00 Riverside 27x98 5 00 "They are little desert ro- "An that watch wuz still a Riverside ...18x66 2.50 mnnin'. The little rascal had Sacramento ...26x32 1.00 dents," one of the teachers was San Benito 10x38 1.00 explaining. "They live near the kept it wound up. Only the watch San Bernardino, No. y or So. \l-i 7.50 San Bernardino—N.W. a'A 3.75 camps of prospectors where there wuz an hour slow. But yu can't San Bernardino—S.W. 'A 3.75 blame the packrat fer that. It San Bernardino—N.E. V* 3.75 are crumbs of food to be found. San Bernardino—S.E. »/4 3.75 Generally they do their foraging didn't know nothing about this ...38x49 2.50 San Diego 26x34 1.00 at night, and when they take an daylight savin'." .36x40 1.00 San Joaquin ,22x34 1.00 San Luis Oblspo .35x56 3.00 San Luis Obispo .38x24 1.00 San Mateo 20x32 1 00 Santa Barbara .36x38 1.50 Santa Barbara .33x23 1.00 Santa Clara ...25x33 1.00 fa* Itttutucd Santa Cruz . .19x24 1.00 Shasta . .34x49 3.00 Shasta . .33x24 1.00 Probably no region on earth offers as favorable conditions for Sierra .16x31 1.00 taking pictures, or as wide a range of subjects, as the desert South- Siskiyou 39x62 4.00 __Siskiyou ...26x43 2.00 west. Two essentials for good black and white outdoor pictures are Siskiyou 20x32 1 00 ___Solano . .22x25 1.00 sunlight and shadows—and the desert has a generous quota of both Sonoma ...29x36 1.00 of them. In order to secure the best of the photos of desert subjects, Stanislaus .. 34x36 1.00 Sutter . 21x24 1.00 Desert Magazine each month offers cash prizes in its Picture-of-the- Tehama ...26x48 2.00 Tehama . .17x32 1.00 Month contest. Subjects must be essentially of the desert, and of Trinity ...33x52 3.00 course the more unusual the subject the better the chance for prizes. Trinity ...23x34 1.00 Tulare 38x49 2.00 Tuolumne ...31x43 1.50 Entries for the June contest must be in the Desert Magazine office. Ventura .27x34 1.00 Palm Desert, California, by June 20, and the winning prints will ap- Yolo .25x28 1.00 Yuba ...22x29 1.00 pear in the August issue. Pictures which arrive too late for one contest Most maps are drawn to scale of !/2 inch to are held over for the next month. First prize is $10; second prize $5.00. the mile. Maps obtainable flat or folded. WORLD'S MINERALS For non-winning pictures accepted for publication $3.00 each will be 2417 San Pablo Ave., Oakland 12, Calif. paid. 1—Prints for monthly contests must be black and white, 5x7 or larger, printed on glossy paper. "EVERYTHING FOR THE HIKER" 2—Each photograph submitted should be fully labeled as to subject, time and place. Also technical data: camera, shutter speed, hour oi day, etc. 3—PRINTS WILL BE RETURNED WHEN RETURN POSTAGE IS ENCLOSED. SLEEPING BAGS 4—All entries must be in the Desert Magazine office by the 20th of the contest AIR MATTRESSES month. 5—Contests are open to both amateur and professional photographers. Desert SMALL TENTS Magazine requires first publication rights only of prize winning pictures. 6—Time and place of photograph are immaterial, except that it must be from the desert Southwest. and many other items 7—Judges will be selected from Desert's editorial staff, and awards will be made immediately after the close of the contest each month. 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24 DESERT MAGAZINE Lost Lode of Sierra Sombrera According to the author, this story in substance was told by the widow of the man who found the tungsten mine—a woman who is still living in southern Arizona. In order to save her from undue an- noyance from lost mine hunters, her name and that of her husband OtABEND have been changed. She still has the map—but is unwilling to make it public because "some of Cap's friends are still looking for that mine."

By KENNETH E. HICKOK Map by Margaret Gerke T THE time of World War I, Cap Linger was a handsome, young fellow. He did not fit the popular conception of the Old SOMGRE&A Prospector. He had no long straggly beard, and he did his traveling by Model T Ford, rather than by burro. However, a mine accident had left him with a slight limp and the army said "no" when he tried to enlist. So, he was doing his bit by holding down a job in the big copper mine at Ajo, Arizona. A few years previous, the New Cor- nelia Company had extensively pros- pected the Ajo area and after con- solidating all the small mines into one group, had started production. Before the consolidation Ajo had been a sleepy little village, but now it was Ata/ticqaa, ca; a booming camp. The name Ajo was derived from the wild garlic, which grew in the valley near the mines. Cap Linger was as patriotic as any- body but he loved to prospect. Some- times he would follow a stringer and forget to report back to the mine in time to go to work on his shift. This habit led to some heated debates, with RESERVATION the mine boss doing the talking and Cap listening. These one-sided de- bates in no wise lessened Cap's love of prospecting, nor did they change his habits for more than a day or two. Tungsten is one of the most im- portant hardening agents used in mak- ing steel. In wartime it is essential, 3uMcrGafd0Z hence of great value. At one time its scarcity caused buyers to quote it at so many dollars per pound. Of all the metals, Cap considered tungsten to be king, so he was really prospecting for the ores of this vital metal. He would GUNSIGHT not have scoffed at a vein of copper or lead, especially if they carried high values in gold or silver, but primarily he was after tungsten. He was aware that the hills adjacent to Ajo had been almost continuously

JUNE, 1953 25 prospected, from the time of the early great detail and drew her a map show- Start your child out right Spanish explorers. So, he concluded ing the exact location, so she could with these wonderful that the Pozo Redondo Range east of find it if anything should happen to town offered a much better field or at him. stories of earth and sky least one that had not been so thor- Cap's wife knew nothing of the ter- oughly combed. By CARROLL LANE FENTON rain around Sierra Sombrera, so to her A good place to start. Cap figured, the map was just a jumble of lines. and MILDRED ADAMS FENTON was at Burro Gap about eight miles Further, she knew nothing of mines east of town and several miles north or mining, so the minute description of the old Gunsight Mine. From Burro of the lode and its surroundings meant RICHES FROM Gap he could prospect north to the nothing to her. But, being a dutiful Gila River without getting into crowded wife she tried to show an interest in THE EARTH territory. Crowded territory was a what Cap was saying, and he thought We even eat and drink things region where you might see one human she understood everything. that come from rocks—our life a week. The fact that the one human It was only a short time after Cap depends on them. This book ex- probably was a cowboy, in no manner made his strike that the war in Europe plains both the rare and every- lessened the crowding. ended in an Armistice. With the ces- day riches found in the ground; Every time he could wangle a day sation of hostilities came a drop in the what they look like, their history, off Cap would head for the Pozo Re- price of metals. Mine payrolls were what makes some of them rare, dondos. Slowly he worked northward. drastically cut. One of the first to go and all about new supplies and In spite of his persistence he: found no was Cap. His frequent absences had substitutes. For everyone curious values worth locating. made his job insecure, and the boss about the world we live in, After months of prospecting Cap was glad to get his name off the pay- RICHES FROM THE EARTH roll. will be rewarding reading. 44 il- had worked north from the Pozo Re- lustrations. Ages 9 up. $2.75. dondos into the Sauceda Range. On For several years Cap and his wife the map they are two separate and drifted from mining camp to camp, distinct ranges. On the ground the wherever a job offered. They had no demarcation is anything but distinct, capital to develop the tungsten mine. WORLDS IN THE SKY and is further scrambled by the en- Their problem was to earn food and A simple, exciting book about croachment of the Batamote Hills. Cap lodging from day to day. astronomy that is really up-to- was now driving his Model T halfway Finally they drifted back East where date. "This offers a fundamental to Gila Bend before turning off the Cap's wife had grown up. During the introduction to the "why" of all main road directly west of Sierra Som- cold damp winter Cap caught pneu- heavenly bodies, including the brera. monia and died. earth." — N. Y. Herald Tribune Sierra Sombrera now commonly His wife in going over Cap's effects, Rook Review. While it is in- and familiarly known as Hat Moun- found a handful of carefully wrapped tended primarily for boys and tain, is a hat shaped promontory half- rocks. The rocks appeared very com- girls, readers of all ages will be way between Gila Bend and Ajo. It mon but they were heavy. As a sen- fascinated. Beautifully illustrated. stands six miles east of the present timental gesture she included the rocks $2.50. black-top highway, and the present in her baggage and rejoined her mother highway follows the old wagon road in Ajo. between the two towns. Its summit is A few years later another World and these favorites by high above the surrounding hills and War had set civilization aflame. With CARROLL LANE FENTON its appearance is so distinctive that it the war came skyrocketing metal prices. can be seen and recognized for miles One day while looking through an old LIFE LONG AGO in all directions. trunk Cap's wife ran across the care- The farther Cap's prospecting took fully wrapped rocks. She took them The Story of Fossils him from Ajo, the more flexible be- to one of Cap's friends to see if they The dramatic autobiographies came his working hours in the com- showed any values. left in prehistoric rock by living pany mine. He was consiantly em- They did—highgrade tungsten! organisms are translated into broiled with his boss and only the More searching turned up the map simple and entertaining terms. shortage of miners kept him from Cap had drawn. Armed with the map, Illustrated in color and black- being fired. Cap's friends set out to find the rich and-white. Ages 8-12. $6.00. After many days prospecting in the tungsten lode. They were gone sev- vicinity of Sierra Sombrera, Cap re- eral days and finally were picked up turned one day much earlier than usual. on the highway south of Gila Bend, EARTH'S ADVENTURES He confided to his wife that he had miles northwest of Sierra Sombrera, struck it rich. All that remained was The tale of our planet's adven- the supposed area of the lode. They to enlist the aid of a small amount of had become lost in the tangle of can- tures since it was pulled out of capital to build a road and get a little the sun 3,000,000,000 years ago. yons. mining machinery. Then they would Ages 8-12. $4.00. Since that time many people, with be producing tungsten ore which and without benefit of the map, on All Illustrated by the Author would strengthen the sinews of war foot, in jeeps, and in airplanes, have and at the same time furnish a profit sought the Lost Tungsten Lode of At all bookstores or from that would make them rich. Sierra Sombrera, but to this day its Cap showed his wife a handful of exact location remains unknown. THE IOHN DAY COMPANY rocks. They were not unusual as far From what Cap told his wife, the Sales Office: as she could tell, but they were very lode is big enough and rich enough to 210 Madison Avenue, New York heavy. He said it was highgrade tung- make the finder immensely wealthy. sten ore. He described the strike in But where is the lost lode?

DESERT MAGAZINE brother and I explored much of the The Coyote's Sweet Tooth . . . old Dale area east of Twentynine Lone Pine, California Palms on foot and did not see: a living Desert: tortoise. Twenty years ago Jack Meek, Excuse a tenderfoot's question, but a prospector in the Dale district, told on page 17 of March Desert Magazine, me they were quite plentiful out his Author Ruth Kirk writes that most of way. What has become of them? And He Can't Run Away . . . the fruit harvest at abandoned Hun- Unlike some desert reptiles the tor- gry Bill's Ranch in Death Valley "falls San Diego, California toise is above reproach from anyone. to the ground to provide a feast for Desert: Utterly harmless and without offense the coyotes." Another desert dweller, besides the it is entirely herbivorous, feeding prin- When did coyotes turn vegetarians? wild burro, who needs protection is cipally on galleta grass and such dry Testudo Gopherus — the desert tor- fodder as the desert washes afford. M. D. QUINLEY toise. The law affords this harmless Those who find and carry away the "The coyote's favorite food is little reptile absolutely no practical tortoise expose it to worry from dogs anything he can chew," writes J'. protection, and nothing at present and unthinking children. Ifhey are Frank Dobie in "Voice of the Coy- stands in the way of its ultimate de- seldom able to provide it with its nat- ote." Although by preference car- struction. ural food. If not well penned it will nivorous, he has a sweet tooth too, Driving from Las Vegas to Baker escape and wander to its destruction and delights in eating tuna (the fruit about 15 years ago we encountered upon the streets. There is no sensible of the prickly pear), ripe watermel- a number of these little creatures after reason for molesting the tortoise, and ons, chapotes (Mexican persim- a desert shower. Two were purchased mons) and other fruits and berries. from a truck driver who was taking No doubt Hungry Bill's ranch would them to friends as "souvenirs." We provide a feast when the apricots, carried them well off into the desert pears, peaches, figs and apples ri- and set them free. Several times we pened.—R.H. stopped the car to rescue the slow • • • moving things from the busy highway, freeing them well away from danger The "Old-timer Named Huff" . . . of spinning wheels and souvenir hun- Mentone, California ters. Desert: With reference to the "Life on the I discovered to my dismay that Desert" story by Ernest K. Allen in Testudo Gopherus had been over- the April issue, I note in your Desert looked in earlier and successful efforts Close-ups (page 33) that the piece to protect desert flora and fauna. Back concerned "an old man named Huff home in San Diego I contacted our from the agricultural implement de- Senator Ed Fletcher, Assemblymen partment of the old E. M. Cope Com- Charles Stream and Paul Richie. I mercial Company of Redlands." also enlisted the cooperation of Clin- ton G. Abbott, then curator of San The name was I. M. Hough, but he Diego Natural History Museum. These was better known as Dad Hough to gentlemen all agreed that the desert the many customers who have reason tortoise should be protected, and they to be grateful for his interest in their assured us that the necessary statute . . . and he can't run away. ranch machinery problems. would be enacted in the next legisla- You say in your column that the tive session. every reason why it should be per- author "doubts whether he is alive The law as passed and given to the mitted to go its harmless way. today." Dad Hough lies buried in Fish and Game Commission to en- A clearly worded protective law is beautiful Hillside Cemetery of Red- force contains 11 words: "It shall be needed, and soon. The one on the lands, California. My husband, Law- unlawful to sell or purchase any des- statute books is a fraud and a farce. rence H. Ikerman, and his partner, ert tortoise." The needs of museums and other ac- Luther T. Holden, of the Luther and This ridiculous law, when first an- credited institutions for specimens Larry Paint Store in Redlands, were nounced, had a few good effects. One should be recognized. If this isn't pallbearers at his funeral. I was among San Diego man, upon hearing the done we stand to lose one of the des- the friends at the funeral who paused tortoise was to be protected, volun- ert's most interesting inhabitants. to give thanks for his enduring friend- tarily turned over to the zoo a num- VOLLIE TRIPP ship. ber of tortoises he had kept as pets • • • I had worked as switchboard oper- in his back yard. But such negative Litterbugging Coyote . . . ator on my first job in the store where means no longer can be relied upon Desert Hot Springs he was department head. He used to if an interesting and curious desert Desert: put his shirt sleeves on the ledge by dweller is to escape oblivion. The in- I wholeheartedly approve of all ef- the switchboard and talk to me about adequate law in no way forbids pos- forts to keep the desert clean and free his days on the desert. Even then I session, molestation or transportation from rubbish. wanted to write, but it was to take me from its desert habitat; these are key Recently I took my trash, dug a years to learn that the best story of all protective words in any statute hon- hole 18 inches deep and buried it with- is always right before your eyes, and estly designed to safeguard natural out trace. Passing the spot next day, you do not learn to write until you wildlife. I found that the coyotes had dug up first learn to recognize that story. Within the past 18 months I have my garbage, and the wind had scat- I salute Ernest Allen's tribute to that traveled more than 2000 miles through tered it. grand old man who lives again in the the desert by car without seeing a Then what? Yes, I buried it again. Life on the Desert article. single desert tortoise. A year ago my PAUL J. LINSLEY RUTH C. IKERMAN

JUNE, 1953 27 Coyote in Sheep's Clothing . . . ing of natural beauty and an apprecia- There was a rattler coiled on top of Camp Roberts, California tion of birds and anim£;l life. It the tarp which covered my bedding. Desert: grieves me that the Boy Scouts—a fine f threw the covers over the snake and We are no longer surprised at any- youth organization—cannot think of hit the ground in a hurry. thing we find when we unload sheep a better feature for their jamboree, After eating breakfast we began to shipped by the Imperial Land and one more related to the Boy Scout break camp. I was folding my blankets Cattle Company. code than this. when a big black tarantula crawled First it was a coyote who descended I am an eagle scout and was for out from under the covers. with the sheep from the truck. Then many years a scout leader. Under the As far as I am concerned that grass it was a wetback who had sneaked in older system of scouting, we were rope story is just a myth. with the load near the border and was schooled to behave ourselves in the M. M. SANFORD hiding among the sheep. out-of-doors. • • • We have quite a number of wetbacks G. G. Clue to Buried Treasure . . . here on the post. They sneak by the According to Carl N. Helmick, Border Patrol and they sneak by the scout executive of the Riverside Escondido, California M.P.s The army isn't doing anything County Council, trading will be one Desert: about it. of the big features of the scout jam- I have in my possession a log and C. E. ROY boree to be held in Riverside in map of treasure and mines given to • • • July, as it was in 1950 at the Sec- me by a friend, an old Mexican now Mystery of the Canyons . . . ond National Jamboree at Valley passed on, and taken from the archives Ajo, Arizona Forge. Here scouts traded items of the Jesuits. Desert: from all over the world. "Some I am seeking some group of mining In editing my story, "Where Hun- scouts from Nebraska brought people or some individual who might gry Bill Once Lived," for the March cockleburs and called them porcu- be interested in such a log and map. issue, Desert's editors added an er- pine eggs and traded them to un- The log is in formal English, but the roneous bit of information — that suspecting scouts who had never map measurements are in Spanish Johnson Canyon in Death Valley was seen them. The scouts from Texas terms. The treasure alone, without the once known as Six Springs Canyon. and other desert points specialized five mines located, is said to be worth They are not the same. Six Springs in horned toads." Trading was on $40,000,000. is a distinct canyon south of Johnson. an informal basis and not a sched- My husband sought and found some Your readers may be interested in uled event.—R.H. of the log guideposts during a short knowing that the road to Hungry Bill's, • • • stay in the area described by the map. or I should say the road leading up Uranium-rich Plateau . . . HAZEL E. M. LINDAMAN Johnson Canyon toward the ranch, re- cently was greatly improved by a Los Angeles, California There are so many forged or mining company. Desert: fraudulent treasure maps in circula- RUTH E. KIRK In a recent Here and There news tion, it is difficult to spot an authen- • • • item, it is reported a prospector found tic one. Many of the faked maps The Redundant River . . . a rich strike of uranium near La Sal, are so cleverly executed that they Grants Pass, Oregon Utah, "in uranium rich San Juan look quite genuine. Mrs. Lindaman Desert: County." Does this mean the country may have the real thing. Any treas- I have been a reader of Desert Mag- is loaded with uranium or the strike ure hunters interested?—R.H. made the county uranium rich? azine for quite a few years, and dur- • • • JAMES W. MORRIS ing that time I have never criticized Beware the Rattlesnake . . . any part of it. However, looking The , stretching through the March issue, I again found over parts of New Mexico, Colo- Crown Point, Indiana the mistake that has grated on my rado, Utah and Arizona, is the Desert: nerves for a long, long time. United States' chief domestic source Some friends and myself took a va- cation several years ago and did some In the Desert Quiz, question No. 2 of uranium.—R.H. prospecting for gold. We enjoyed it lists " River" as a possible • • • so much that we would like to try it answer. Rio is Spanish for "river," so The Grass Rope Myth . . . again this year, about the first of July. "Rio Grande" is sufficient. Otherwise, Leucadia, California On our previous trip, we saw two translated, one would be saying "Grand Desert: River River." live rattlesnakes. We would like in- Many years ago when I was pros- formation as to the best method of E. E. WILSON pecting and mule-skinning in the Death destroying them and protecting our- • • • Valley region the other prospectors selves, also if a prospector may carry Protests Lizard Exchange . . . told me how to protect myself against a gun. Tustin, California rattlesnakes when I was sleeping on Desert: the ground. CHARLES D. MANDLY It shocked me recently to learn that "Just coil a grass rope around your Actually, the danger of being bit- the Boy Scouts of America were plan- bedroll," they would say, "and neither ten by a rattlesnake in the desert ning a horned lizard exchange at their a rattler nor a tarantula will cross it." country is greatly exaggerated. You California Jamboree. Then one night I was camped at may camp for years on the desert This suggestion can only mean that Emigrant Springs where we killed two mesas without seeing a snake. Rat- thousands of these harmless little deni- rattlers before rolling out our beds on tlesnakes cannot stand the direct zens of the wastelands will be hunted the ground. I coiled a grass rope rays of the summer sun, hence they out and removed from their natural around my bed and went to sleep, remain in the shade or come out at habitat for eventual destruction and secure in the thought that no snake night. Best protection against them death. would cross that rope. is alertness. There is no law against I have spent most of my life of 50 I slept late next morning and when carrying unconcealed weapons in years trying to teach youth the mean- I awakened I heard a familiar sound. western states.—R.H.

28 DESERT MAGAZINE New Colorado River Bridge . . . YUMA—The highway departments of Arizona and California have started exploratory work on a new Colorado River bridge. The bridge is planned as a continuation of Yuma's Fourth ARIZONA Huachuca Buffalo Rustling . . . Avenue and would carry most of the Sheep Sale Tests Law . . . TUCSON—Rustlers apparently are through traffic, thus relieving the pres- at work among the buffalo herd at Fort ent bridge. California is handling ex- GANADO—Sheriff John T. Crosby ploration for abutment footings on the of Apache County auctioned 19 sheep Huachuca. Dr. Guy Gillman, mem- ber of the board of directors of the north side of the river, while Arizona and four goats seized under court or- probes shorelines on the south side.- ders to pay a Navajo Indian couple's Cochise County Sportsmen, is con- debt to a trader. The sale brought vinced that at least 40 of the spring • • • $272. The auction of the property of crop of buffalo yearlings are missing. Poetry Day in Arizona . . . Paul and Lorena Williams was another Other evidence — damaged fences, PHOENIX—In a verse proclama- step in a case testing power of the state empty cartridge shells near a wounded tion, Governor Howard Pyle pro- of Arizona and the Arizona courts to buffalo — supported Dr. Gillman's claimed April 9 "Poetry Day in Ari- enforce state laws on Indian reserva- suspicions, and he urged a thorough zona." The date marks the death of tions. Williams had reduced the or- investigation. Two hundred fifty of Sharlot Hall, Arizona pioneer and iginal debt of $300 to less than $100 the animals were killed legally by poet laureate of the state. when Lee went to court and had the hunters in January.—Phoenix Gazette. flock seized. Court costs and main- • • • tenance of the stock cost Williams ap- Yuma Rejects Indian Roads . . . EXPLORATION! proximately $200. He will appeal the YUMA—Yuma County board of case.—Arizona Republic. supervisors has advised representatives SAFE ADVENTURE! • • • of the U. S. Indian Service that the Bronco Bill Rests at Boothill . . . county isn't interested in taking over SCENIC BEAUTY! 140 miles of Indian roads until the TOMBSTONE — Bronco Bill was Indians attain full citizenship rights. placed to rest at Boothill Cemetery, The county will be duty bound to care March 27, at funeral rites attended for the roads and for 20 miles of trails by a few dry-eyed spectators who when the Indians become citizens and never knew Glen "Bronco Bill" Will. the land which has formerly been with- Will's ashes had arrived at the Tomb- held from the tax rolls becomes tax- stone Chamber of Commerce offices able.—Phoenix Gazette. a few days earlier, shipped C.O.D. from Oakland, California. In a tele- • • • phone conversation with Mrs. Edna Propose Phoenix Zoo . . . Landin, the old timer's son explained PHOENIX—"There is a large va- that his father had wanted to visit riety of animals indigenous to Arizona Tombstone this spring, so when he which are not on display anywhere died he just shipped the ashes. Will, in Phoenix," pointed out J. Robert 82, visited Tombstone only once — Burns, director of publicity for the SAN JUAN and COLORADO when he was 14 years old.—Tomb- Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, in stone Epitaph. urging a zoo be established in the city. RIVER EXPEDITIONS • • • Burns suggested the zoo be a part of Seven-day voyage through the scenic Indians on Warpath . . . either South Mountain Park or Pa- canyon wonderland oi Utah and Arizona. TUCSON — The Indians of the pago Park and that it be maintained by a non-profit zoological society.— Boats leaving Mexican Hat, Utah, May Southwest are on the warpath again 4, May 14, May 25 (9-day trip), June 8, —but this time the common enemies Arizona Republic. • • • June 18. Trips end at Lee's Ferry. Two are poverty, disease and ignorance. post season runs between Hite, Utah After almost a century of spatial and Historic Fort Demobilized ., . . and Lee's Ferry, Arizona. social isolation, they are rising up on FORT HUACHUCA — Fort Hua- their reservations to take an active chuca, the old scout of army installa- Rates — 7-day trips: 1 person $200; part in the management of their own tions which has feasted and famished party of 2 or 3, $175 each; party of 4 or affairs and to develop tribal enter- through 76 years of congressional ap- more. $160 each. 9-day trip. $200 each. prises and resources that will mean a propriations, is again taking up the " . . . A flight on the magic carpet better way of life for their people. This slack in its webb belt. The Depart- of adventure into a canyon wilderness is the major finding of the first annual ment of the Army has ordered that of indescribable beauty and grandeur." report of the University of Arizona's the fort be placed on a stand-by basis, wrote Randall Henderson in the Des- Bureau of Ethnic Research, which has which means that only a small detach- ert Magazine. just been published under the title, ment of housekeeping troops and fire For detailed information write to— Indians of the Southwest. The report guards will remain after July 1. The I. Frank Wright, Blanding. Utah, or presents the first comprehensive sum- installations at Fort Huachuca recently mary of all available information re- were renovated and improved, and a lating to Indian tribes and Indian ad- new landing strip was dedicated last Mexican Hat Expeditions ministration in Arizona — where an December. The fort will continue to (Successors to Nevills Expeditions, world- Indian population of 70,000 gives the be used for summer encampments of famous River exploration trips) state the largest concentration of Indi- national guard units. — Phoenix Ga- P. O., BLUFF, UTAH ans in the country.—Yuma Daily Sun. zette.

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30 DESERT MAGAZINE CALIFORNIA Claims Rise With Sea . . . the claims were on federally withdrawn land. Under the proposed bill, all per- Death Valley Improvements . . . MECCA —A second $50,000 suit against the Coachella Valley County sons who have filed previously would TRONA—From 152,000 in 1948, Water District and Imperial Irrigation be permitted to re-establish their visitors to Death Valley National Mon- claims.—Battle Mountain Scout. ument have increased to 296,310 in District for damages caused by en- croaching waters of the rising Salton • • • 1952. Added facilities are needed to Plans Desert Development . . . take care of these tourists, Acting Sea has been filed by Ralvert and Company. Ralvert's second suit brings LAS VEGAS—A farming industry Superintendent E. E. Ogston told that will reap $10,000,000 yearly is members of the Death Valley 49ers to $622,500 the claims against the two predicted for Nevada's Sandy Valley at a meeting in Trona. Accordingly, districts for water intrusion on lands the 49ers passed resolutions recom- adjoining the sea. Supplemental claims by L. C. Houk, land developer who mending that comfort stations be es- also have been filed by the Desert built the vast San Joaquin Valley farm- tablished at ranger headquarters; that Beach Corporation. The sea rose an- ing empire in California. Houk has public officials be notified of the need other eight inches from January 2 to bought 30,000 acres of land in Sandy for a multiple use vehicle and first aid March 23 of this year.—Date Palm. Valley, on the western edge of Pah- training for Death Valley rangers; and rump Valley, 50 miles from the heart that a program to preserve desert holly PALM SPRING^ — Lloyd Mason of Las Vegas. Part of the tract al- and desert rocks be launched. A final Smith, who resigned his position as di- ready is under cultivation, watered by motion set the dates of the 1953 49er rector of the Desert Museum in Palm 14 newly dug wells. A total of 120 Encampment at Death Valley for No- Springs after five years of service there, wells is planned. Houk also is rebuild- vember 15-16.—Trona Argonaut. left May 15 to assume a place as sum- ing the ghost town of Goodsprings as • • • mer ranger in the Park Service at the a shopping and recreation center for It's Official—Lee Vining . . . Petrified Forest National Monument farmers.—Las Vegas Review-Journal. • • • LEE VINING—A letter from the in Arizona. postmaster general's office in Wash- • • • Protect Wild Horses . . . ington, D. C, has made it official. Remnant of the Past . . . CARSON CITY—Wild horse herds From now on this Mono community's LONE PINE—Paleontologists have on the Comstock would be protected name will be spelled Lee Vining, a identified a tusk found in a clay pit by a bill recently approved by the change from the former one-word near Lone Pine as that of an Imperial Nevada assembly. The measure pro- designation, Leevining. The town was Mammoth that lived 15,000 to 20,000 hibits harrassment of any bird, animal named for Lee Vining who settled years ago. The tusk, found by Los or other creature from aircraft, and is there in the early 1860s after a har- Angeles Department of Water and aimed primarily to prevent drives on rowing trip through Bloody Canyon. Power employes working in Owens the few remaining bands of wild horses. The new spelling, chamber of com- Valley, will be placed in a museum at —Reno Evening Gazette. merce officials hope, will eliminate Lone Pine.—Inyo Independent. • • • many of the mispronunciations used • • • CARSON CITY — Nevada State in the past.—Inyo Register. New Water Techniques . . . Park Commission, created in 1953, • • • WASHINGTON — New techniques has been reactivated by Governor Mark Pioneer Site . . . for measuring water evaporation have Charles H. Russell. Two early achieve- INDIAN WELLS—In honor of the been perfected by government scien- ments of the newly reborn group are early Cahuilla Indians who dug the tists. Four separate methods of calcu- the winning of funds for the Nevada original Indian well and of the pioneer lating water loss through evaporation State Museum at Overton in Moapa settlers, prospectors and stage line were tested by the U. S. Geological Valley and for the Old Genoa Fort in passengers who camped later at the Survey, and information was gained Douglas County. county well nearby, a stone monument which may prove "of high practical was placed at Indian Wells, six miles value in creating adequate water sup- west of Indio. The marker was erected plies for the nation." Accurate cal- and dedicated by the Coachella Valley culations are needed so that water sup- Pioneer and Historical Society.—Coa- plies can be managed efficiently. They chella Valley Sun. permit engineers to know precisely • • • how many dams on a river will give Buy More Duck Lands . . . the largest water supply. Too many dams, scientists point out, actually can INDIO — The California Wildlife cut the total water supply through Conservation Board has decided to evaporation on overextended water purchase additional acreage to replace leased lands now flooded in the state's surfaces. WHAT EVERY MAN WANTS: present Imperial Valley Waterfowl • • • This clever Map, Blue-print Reader Management Area on the shores of NEVADA measures all distances on any flat Salton Sea. The 400-acre parcel of surface . . . has dozens of uses . . . developed and raw shorelands, of- May Open 165,794 Acres . . . Tax and Postpaid $2.75 fered the state in willing sale by Im- WASHINGTON—A bill to open MARSHUTZ OPTICAL, CO. perial ranchers, will give Southern public lands withdrawn for the devel- 418 W. 6th Est. 1887 Los Angeles California sportsmen nearly 10,000 opment of power projects has been acres of prime waterfowl hunting area approved by the house interior sub- and good upland game hunting committee on mines and mining and GOLD . . . The Easy Way! awaits congressional approval. The Take Along DADTA UrtUrtVV f°r sluicing grounds when integrated and devel- A Folding "«K I \J-OVJA.-OVJA. gravel oped. The waterfowl area was de- bill would apply to 165,79^- acres in Slings Over Shoulder—Wt. 4 lb. creased when Salton Sea waters rose Nevada, much of which has been with- Ten Times as Fast as Panning last year and flooded the shores. — drawn for a period of 43 years. Dur- CREATIVE RESEARCH, INC. Indio News. ing that time, many persons have filed 513 Knight Way, La Canada, California mining claims only to find later that JUNE, 1953 31 Comstock Museum . . . Indians Under the State . . . Water Prospects Poor . . . VIRGINIA CITY—The Comstock WASHINGTON — Congressman SANTA FE—Water prospects for will have a new museum if plans of Cliff Young of Nevada has introduced New Mexico's four main river basins Versel McBride are carried out. Mc- a bill to give the state of Nevada juris- have declined sharply because of little Bride has bought the King Mansion, diction over offenses committed by or or no precipitation during March. A one of the show places of boom-town against Incians on Indian reservations. joint study by the U. S. Weather Bu- Virginia City, and plans to spend $40,- Under the provisions of the bill, the reau and the Soil Conservation Serv- 000 on its restoration. He expects to Secretary of the Interior would be ice issued April 1 showed even more open it as a museum in the spring of authorized to enter into agreements discouraging water supplies than the 1954. The mansion was built by with the state and counties to help meager forecasts indicated earlier. Cur- Homer S. King in 1863 at an esti- defray expenses of the enforcement of rent predictions for the Rio Grande mated cost of $150,000—Territorial criminal laws on the reservations. — Valley are for 40 to 50 percent of Enterprise. Pioche Record. average run-off for lower tributaries; • • • • • • 60 percent for upper tributaries; but Lahontan Spillage Starts . . . only 30 percent of normal inflow for FALLON—Dumping of water from Suggests Hoover Dam Coin . . . BOULDER CITY—At the request Elephant Butte Reservoir on the lower Lahonton reservoir down the Carson river. Expected flows for the San Juan River to the Pelican Island area was of the Bou der City Chamber of Com- merce, Senator George W. Malone in- Basin are 45 to 60 percent of normal; begun April 15. The lake was above for the Basin, 21 to 53 its natural crest and backing up against troduced a bill in the U. S. Senate, suggesting :hat the U. S. mint turn out percent; for the Canadian River Basin, flash boards, holding 280,128 acre- 36 percent of the 10-year average.— feet of a capacity 290,000. Daily gains 50-cent pieces imprinted with the like- of 500 or more acre-feet would have ness of Hoover Dam. It was while New Mexican. put the reservoir over the top of the Senator Malone was Nevada state en- • • • boards about April 25. According to gineer that the dam was started. The School on Wheels . . . Watermaster Harry Richards, this is bill was referred to the Senate com- GALLUP—Elmer Anderson's pu- too early, so spillage was started at mittee on banking and currency. — pils can't come to him, so he takes the rate of 500 second-feet to balance Las Vegas Review-Journal. school to them in a stainless steel house the intake from the Carson.—Fallon • • • trailer. The school, one of five set Standard. Drivers Note Birthdates . . . up recently on the Navajo reservation, CARSON CITY—According to the is designed to give Navajo children a new driver's license law in Nevada, working knowledge of English, so they Vacation at all operators' licenses will expire on will be prepared for later studies at Pyramid Lake Guest Ranch the birthdate of the applicant every established boarding schools. Actu- GOOD KOCK AND STOXK AREA two years. All applicants whose birth- ally the whole school plant consists of on the Painte Reservation • 35 miles from dates fall between January 1 and June five trailers, one the home of Ander- RENO • hunt for arrowheads • unusual rock formations • mountain, desert, lake 30 may renew their licenses now for son, his wife and two children, an- area • horseback riding • pack trips • tile swimming pool • ranch living • ranch 1953. Applicants whose birthdates other a lunchroom-kitchen, another cooked meals • modern individual cabins fall between July 1 and December 31 the living quarters of a cook-house- American Plan starts at $60 a week will renew on their birthdays. The fee keeper and the fourth a washroom INQUIRE ABOUT WEEKEND KATES for operators' licenses remains the where Anderson's pupils can wash and FOR INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS Write: same, $ 1.00.—Caliente Herald. take showers. He teaches 24 Indian PYRAMID LAKE GUEST RANCH • • • children, ranging in age from 6 to 12 RENO, NEVADA years, none of whom have had any Phone: Pyramid Lake No. 1 NEW MEXICO previous formal education. — New Dry by Mid-June . . . Mexican. ALBUQUERQUE — Middle Rio • • • MAPS Grande farmers, already hard hit by May Delay Navajo Agua . . . San Bernardino County, $1.00; River- frosts which killed an estimated 50 side County, $1.00; San Diego County, ALBUQUERQUE — A Bureau of 50c; Imperial County, 50c; other percent of fruit blossoms, face the Reclamation personnel reduction order counties $1.00 each; (add 10c for prospect of no irrigation water by issued by Secretary of Interior Doug- postage). We carry all topographic June. Hub;rt Ball, engineer for the las McKay may delay groundwork on quadrangle maps in California and Middle Rio Grande Conservancy Dis- other western states and Alaska. If the San Juan diversion and Navajo it's maps, write or see Westwide trict, says re expects the Rio Grande irrigation project. The bureau is con- Maps Co., 1141/2 W. 3rd St., Los to be "practically dry" by mid-June, ducting surveys of water needs in both Angeles 13, California. judging by present water supply fore- the San Juan Valley and the Rio casts.—Springer Tribune. Grande Valley as the first step in They lived, loved and laughed one day at a time in Death Valley. You asking Congress for authorization of will enjoy the humor, romance and tall tales in the most talked about book the controversial development program. of the year. The payroll order may cut field per- LOAFING ALONG DEATH VALLEY TRAILS sonnel 25 percent. By WILLIAM CARUTHER;3 As planned, the project would in- A factual, personal narrative. Colorful characters. Ghost towns. Lost clude cutting a trans-mountain canal mines. Romantic rascals. Girls "beautiful but damned." Overnight fortunes, to divert water from the San Juan to famous and infamous. the Rio Grande, construction of the Not one dull moment from cover to cover. A perfect gift for anyone, Navajo Dam and of Shiprock and San anytime. A must for the tourist. Juan irrigation projects. Residents of A man's book but women buy more copies. San Juan County have bitterly, and At Better Book Stores from Coast to Coast $4.25 so far futilely, protested the diversion Add 26 cents sales tax and postage of water from their river to the Rio DEATH VALLEY PUBLISHING CO. — Box 124, Ontario, California Grande.—New Mexican.

32 DESERT MAGAZINE Buffalo Skin Art ... Deer Forage Critical . . . on natural flow rights will experience SANTA FE—A religious painting MONTICELLO—Range rides un- definite shortages if continued sub- on tanned buffalo skins was presented dertaken by representatives of the normal precipitation prevails. But to the Museum of New Mexico at Utah State Fish and Game Department users in central and northern Utah Easter time, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. indicated poor forage conditions for having storage rights will have ample John Gaw Meem. With this acquisi- deer. The Shay Mesa and Cottonwood water during the irrigation season," tion, entitled "Christ Washing the Feet Wash areas northwest of Monticello the report concluded. — Salt Lake of the Deciples," the museum owns 11 appeared to be the most critical areas Tribune. of the 30 such paintings known to examined. The majority of forage • • • exist. It is 8 feet 7 inches wide by 4 shrubs used by the deer are dead or Explore New Cave . . . feet 6 inches long. The generally ac- severely injured by overuse. Much of ST. GEORGE—At the request of cepted theory of these paintings on the area is too inaccessible to be the Department of the Interior, Utah's tanned buck, elk or buffalo skins is hunted on foot, and so the deer herds Dixie Grotto of the National Speleo- that they were the work of Franciscan were not sufficiently harvested to pro- logical Society will explore a cave dis- fathers who wanted to provide religi- tect forage for the remaining animals. covered by a forest ranger last fall. ous pictures for their wards at a time It is hoped that more access roads can The underground party will be when more conventional art materials be constructed into this area in the equipped with field telephones and were not available.—New Mexican. near future.—Dove Creek Press. mapping equipment, emergency ra- tions and various kinds of safety Deer Creek Given Axe . . . Rare Otter Caught . . . equipment for a complete exploration MOGOLLON — A rare aquatic WASHINGTON—One Utah proj- of the cave, said to be quite extensive mammal was accidentally caught by ect was killed, another threatened by and of rare beauty. State Game Department Trapper T. J. a $54,000,000 slash in the Bureau of Lyons recently in one of his beaver Reclamation budget. Eliminated from traps along the Gila River. Quick- the administration's proposed program frozen, the animal was rushed to the for the next fiscal year was $148,000 department's Santa Fe office where for the first phase of Deer Creek power biologists identified it as an Arizona plant in Utah. Threatened was the otter, first one of its type seen since Weber Basin project, in a group of 1886. In recent years, experts believed projects from which $16,000,000 was the animal had become extinct. The still to be cut. The Deer Creek power otter's body was shipped to the Mu- plant has long been under considera- CALIFORNIA (AH BK1>—Front seat folds tion by the bureau. Total estimated to level double bed. seum of Natural History in Washing- CUSTOM CRUISING SKAT—Luxurious twin ton, D. C, for study. The pelt is cost was $900,000 of which $188,000 front seats. Reclining; automatic bed level- was scheduled for the next fiscal year ing features. Transferable to next car. being mounted and will be added to Come in for Demonstration by the department's permanent collection under earlier budget requests. — Salt of New Mexico wildlife.—Aztec Prin- Lake Tribune. O. R. REUTER ter-Review. 2801 W. SlaUSOll AX. 0888 Spring Snow No Help . . . liOK Angeles, California Citizenship for Indians . . . SALT LAKE CITY — A spring snow storm, local in scope and con- Looking for a PUBLISHER? TAOS—Full citizenship for all In- Do you have a book-length manuscript you taining a relatively low water content, would like to have published? Learn about dians and repeal of discriminatory did not alleviate the poor overall water our unusual plan whereby your book can be laws are advocated by Secretary of the published, promoted and distributed on a supply outlook for Utah, reported the professional basis. We consider all types of Interior Douglas McKay. "We must work—fiction, biography, poetry, scholarly U. S. Weather Bureau and Soil Con- and religious books, etc. New authors wel- put the Indians on the same basis as come. For more information, write for valu- servation Service. The one bright spot able booklet I). It's free. all other citizens," McKay commented in the water picture is the large carry- recently. "We must cut out the ward- VANTAGE PRESS, INC. over storage held in most of the state's 6350 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif. ships and let them go to work. If reservoirs. "Water users depending Main Office: New York 1, N. Y. they are wards of the government, they have no value to the government." The secretary said his department is II CUM m~i Perfect for starting a program to restore the In- Clff i A TJ^ Jfe. ROCKHOUNDS dians' full citizenship. One of the PROSPECTORS first steps, he said, is to get all of the DUAL PURPOSE HIKERS. MOTORISTS Indian children into public schools.- WILDFLOWER VISITORS In short, the "Air-Way" is UTAH the answer to your needs, at last, {or a practical, sensible Upper Colorado Senators Unite . . . auto compass. WASHINGTON—In united action, LOWEST PRICED auto compass yet—beautiful to see. senators of Upper Colorado River DUAL PURPOSE—reduces to pocket size (2x2) with removal of one Basin states joined in sponsoring bills screw. to authorize five big dams for the ACCURATE, DEPENDABLE—fully compensating type instrument proposed billion-dollar Upper Colo- —a product of famous Sherrill Corp.—GUARANTEED! rado Project. Included are the Echo SIMPLICITY—light-weight, tough plastic—mounts instantly any- Park and Flamingo Gorge dams and where with rubber suction cup. the already authorized Central Utah Reclamation Project, key units of the AIR-WAY CORP. vast multiple purpose undertaking. Service Stations, — 2900 LOS FELIZ $# (III POSTPAIO Identical bills were introduced simul- or order direct LOS »NGELES 39, CALIF. ffeiVV TAX INCLUDED taneously in the House. from distributor: NORMANDY 1-9363 (DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED)

JUNE, 1953 33 Mountain City, Nevada . . . Garnet Tungsten Mine Company has taken a lease and option to pur- chase the Knowles Brothers-Price Montrose tungsten property 18 miles east of Mountain City. Garnet Tung- sten has been working on the prop- erty since July, and extensive diamond Tonopah, Nevada . . . Humboldt, Nevada . . . drilling and other surface work has Summit King Mines, Ltd., is sink- Discovery of uranium ore 35 miles been done. Early construction of a ing a winze on the 300-foot level of northwest of Orovada has resulted in mill is planned.—Humboldt Star. its new orebody about two miles north a careful study of the terrain by the • • • of Tonopah. A large body of good Atomic Energy Commission and filing Reno, Nevada . . . ore, showing the characteristics of the of scores of claims in the vicinity. old Tonopah mines, has been outlined. Humboldt County Recorder Joe L. Construction is in progress on a new The winze is expected to strike it at Germain reported that more than 100 mill to process manganese in the Steam- greater depth, when plans will be made claims have been filed on land through- boat Springs area west of Highway for future development of the silver- out the area in the vicinity of the dis- 395. The work is being done by the gold ores encountered. — Tonopah covery of three Winnemucca men, Jess Nevada Ore Refining Company, which Times-Bonanza. Nachiando, Ervin Sweeney and James has acquired control of four mangan- • • • Murdock. AEC geologists from Salt ese deposits 12 miles southeast of Car- Lake City are exploring the region by son City. For the past several months, Kayenta, Arizona . . . the company has been producing ore Watched closely as possibly Ari- plane with a scintillomeler. — Battle Mountain Scout. and stockpiling it. Operations pres- zona's first oil or gas well is the Texas ently are by stripping, but may go un- Company exploration in Navajo • • • derground later. — Territorial Enter- County, north of Kayenta and 3300 Wenden, Arizona . . . prise. feet south of the Utah state line. The The federal government's mangan- • • • drilling, on leases pooled by Stanzona ese sampling plant and purchasing de- Petroleum Corporation, Texas, Skelly Yuma, Arizona . . . pot at Wenden, opened in February, is The mine in Yuma and Sinclair, is in Black Mesa Basin already the largest in the nation. After west of Monument Valley. The leases County, idle for 64 years, is preparing but 40 days of operation, the plant, for an extensive diamond drilling pro- are within the 83,000-square-mile Four located on U. S. Highway 60-70, had Corners area geologized by General gram. Yuma Metals Company also received 191,000 long dry-ton units of plans a drifting program as well as Petroleum Company and regarded as manganese and had paid producers favorable for discovery of oil.—Ari- installation of a 100-ton pilot flota- more than $200,000. That total is tion mill. The mine is standing in fine zona Republic. greater than the government's similar • • • shape without timbering. It is said that depot at Deming, New Mexico which approximately $1,000,000 in high- Reno, Nevada . . . has been operating more than a year. Another rich undeveloped mineral grade silver ore was taken out by the The Wenden supply is from 46 ship- early miners, who left 50,000 tons of area in Nevada has been taken over pers representing 51 mines.—Arizona by a major mineral company. Kenne- highgrade milling ore in place in the Republic. stopes and on the dumps. When an- cott Copper Corporation's wholly • • • owned subsidiary, Bear Creek Mining other 50,000 tons of ore is developed, Morysville, Utah . . . Company, has taken an option for the pilot mill will be installed.—Min- $600,000 on 18 patented mining claims An 850-foot air shaft has been sunk ing Record. in Nevada's Jumbo district. The com- to the farthest workings of the ex- • • • pany plans a diamond drilling program tensive Deer Trail Mines near Marys- Bishop, California . . . to determine the extent and grade of ville. The shaft was found necessary U. S. Vanadium Corporation, the scheelite mineralization with the hope to get powder smoke away from the nation's largest tungsten producer, is of developing sufficient ore tonnage to working face of the 4950-foot tunnel. operating its Pine Creek mine and mill warrant large-scale mining and milling When the air shaft is completed, the at capacity of scheelite daily. The operations.—Mining Record. tunnel will extend to 6864 feet. Deer company has been buying lowgrade • • • Trail ore contains a variety of selenium, tungsten ores from independent pro- Virginia City, Nevada . . . mercury and zinc compounds as well ducers since July, 1951, providing a as a little gold. — Garfield County Some of the glamor and excitement market for many small operators in News. of boom-day Virginia City returned Inyo County. Substantial amounts of with the discovery of a rich orebody • • • copper and molybdenum are recovered near here. Fred Hess, long-time resi- Tucson, Arizona . . . as by-products in treatment of the dent of Gold Hill, made the strike in Bids are out for construction of a scheelite ore.—Pioche Record. the upper or western section of the $20,000,000 town at the San Manuel • • • old California segment of the famous Copper Mine between Oracle and Globe, Arizona . . . Comstock Lode, in a parallel vein to Mammoth. The Del E. Webb Con- Uranium-bearing ore has been dis- the bold croppings which can be struction Company of Phoenix had covered by Melvin Stockton in the traced by the eye from the north to signed a contract with Magma Copper Sierra Ancha district, near Young in the south end of the city when looking Company for construction of the com- Gila County. The ore body extends to the west. A temporary shaft has munity; but, since the site is desig- beneath an asbestos deposit adjoining been sunk, and about four tons of ore nated a critical defense housing area, property of the American Asbestos already removed. The ore is expected the contract must be awarded on the Cement Corporation.. Assays show to run from three to four hundred dol- basis of competitive selection, said uranophane, uranium oxide and meta- lars a ton at the Selby smelter. — Richard S. Hare, FHA director for torbernite, another uranium-like min- Pioche Record. Arizona.—Yuma Daily Sun. eral.—Yuma Daily Sun.

34 DESERT MAGAZINE By LELANDE QUICK, Editor of The Lapidary Journal

Every time we say anything about the We hope that those in charge have; some scarcity of good mineral specimens we al- understanding of the value of the speci- ways get a few letters trying to prove that mens and that some plan will be devised we are wrong. But the fact remains that to recover and market the specimens that with all the gem and mineral shows going will inevitably be brought to the surface. on we rarely find satisfactory specimens to The day has gone when mineral collecting add to our growing crystal collection — is done by seeking out some poor old growing more slowly than we like. miner at death's door through starvation In the old mines that are still being who has some "purty rocks" he brought up worked not many crystal specimens are out of the mine 40 years ago. We've heard brought out by the miners because they are that story so often we doubt if it ever generally working far below the area where happened even once. However it is true good specimens are usually found. We that many a miner in the old days did lug still say that "there's more in the earth home some beautiful specimens he didn't than has ever been taken out" but that is have the heart to throw on the ore cars. an empty phrase unless some new mines Almost every copper mine in Arizona HILLQUIST are developed. has had some distinctive and superlative copper mineral specimens—the azurite from COMPARE! We are therefore thrilled at the recent the Copper Queen, chrysocolla from Miami, • Put the Hillquist Gemmaster beside any lapidary news of the new copper deposit at San dioptase from Tiger, etc. What beautiful machine — cheaper, flimsy "gadgets" or units that Manuel, Arizona, and the new nickel de- thing will come out of San Manuel? sell at twice the price. Compcire construction! Com- posit in Cuba. This is wonderful news and But maybe they know for it is reported pare ease of operation! Compare how much you holds a great deal of promise both for the that 40 miners are now drilling and bring- get for your money and you'll say, "I'll take the present mineral collector and the new gen- ing to the surface ore from a depth of Gemmaster!" eration coming along, for it seems inevita- 2000 feet. Surely there must have been Here is a worthy companion for our larger and ble that new copper minerals will come some "ohs" and "ahs" already. We offer more expensive Hillquist Compact Lapidary Unit. from San Manuel and spectacular nickel Tho smaller in size, the Hillquist Gemmaster has the hope that whatever the mine manage- many of the same features. It's all-metal with spun specimens from Cuba. We just hope that ment does that they make the specimens some agate occurs in the nickel mine so aluminum tub. You get a rugged, double-action rock available to all dealers on an equal basis clamp, not a puny little pebble pincher. You get a that we can once again get some good and not allow anyone to establish a monop- full 3" babbitt sleeve bearing and ball thrust bear- apple green chrysoprase, a gem that is now oly. Perhaps if enough dealers write to ing. You get a big 7" Super Speed diamond saw scarcer than chlorophyll at the stockyards. them and say so it may guide their think- and all the equipment you need to go right to work. But we'll have to wait a while, for the ing. Wesley Goss is vice president and USES ALL ACCESSORIES operators of what is claimed as the world's general manager of the San Manuel Copper You can use all the regular Hillquist accessories largest copper deposit will not be mining corporation. with the Gemmaster: The Hillquist Facetor, Sphere copper in quantity at the new mine until The new nickel deposit in Cuba was dis- Cutters, Laps, Drum and Disc Sanders, etc. 1956. The copper lies in a 700-foot thick covered by the Freeport Sulphur company WRITE FOR FREE CATALOG cushion of rolling hills in a proven mineral of which John Hay Whitney is board chair- deposit 45 miles northeast of Tucson. The man. Extensive exploration has established ! COMPLETEREAW old mining towns of Mammoth, Oracle and the existence of at least 40 million tons of Tiger are near by. Tiger has long been nickel ore in the vicinity of Moa Eay, 500 noted for its fine copper mineral specimens. miles east of Havana. Except for a few But things are different today than when Canadian deposits this is supposed to be the old time prospectors arrived and threw the largest nickel deposit in the free world. down their bedrolls and started to dig. The Here again we hope that the company con- operators of the new mine have a $20,000,- trolling the deposit will give due attention w 000 town on the drawing boards and they to the recovery of the tons of magnificent BIG 7" Diamond Saw * 6" x 1 " Gr Wheel • 6" Fell Buff • 6" Backing Wheel are going to build the town first and then crystal specimens that will come from this 6" Disc Sander • Double-action Rock go after the copper under the town. San mine. Our information about this deposit Clamp • Oil Feed Cup • Water Feed is meager but we believe that dealers can Hose & Clamp . Dop Sticks & Dop Wax* Manuel will be no roaring mining camp Polish, Compound, Etc. but a town complete with high school and obtain more information by addressing the BUILT FOR LONG SERVICE! Freeport Sulphur company at Freeport, No other low-co ;t lap unit neon signs. gives you full 3" sleeve Systematic operations began nine years Texas, from which point correspondence bearing, ball thrust bearing ago with the churn drilling of more than can be directed to headquarters, probably and pressure lubrication. 120 holes over a 1500-acre site. The holes in New York. ranged from 300 to 3000 feet in depth. The name of this company takes us away back in memory for we remember afk4

JUNE, 1953 35 DIAMOND BLADES

jm A Huvy-Duty Sim- SUM Ira sm A swam ttoitti Charted S 9.03 $ 7.98 • 8" 11.50 10.44 Wlf a M in" 15.23 14.02 22.26 18.53 ROCKHOUNDS DISCOVER 1 Am* i4" 29.40 25.67 SAN DIEGO LAPIDARIES 32.76 29.08 URANIUM ORE IN NEVADA ^* W IS" 65.60 43.20 36.12 SUGGEST CLEAN-UP PROGRAM JH; ,J^ 20" 77.nr> 51.97 39.84 Commercial grade uranium has been "It isn't a pleasant task, to bury trash KJH 24" 93.24 65.73 51.40 « 30" 149.62 125.73 State discovered in Nevada by three members of and cans left by selfish others," observed ^^ V 36" 226.Ofi 188.05 Arbor Fallon Gem and Mineral Society. A. L. Helen Pegram in the April issue of Shop •--W^^ sales tax in California. Size Robinson led Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Enge- Notes and News, bulletin of San Diego Allow for Postage and Insurance bretson to a petrified wood location he had Lapidary Society. She suggested that the discovered 40 years ago, and while the trio San Diegans launch a clean-up program Covington Ball Bearing Grinder collected specimens they were attracted by among rockhound groups. Cited particularly and shields are /m^f a yellow opalite wood which, upon being as heavily littered areas were the Coon furnished in 'j4>f" : tested later, fluoresced yellowish green—a Hollow and Horse Canyon sites. sizes and price^P% \ uranium color. The Engebretsons, thinking "What a lovely place our desert would ranges to suit the material might be carno:ite, checked it once again be if only all campers and rock- your require- rP with a geiger counter and gol a strong posi- hounds would adopt the creed of young ments. Water and I1 tive reaction. Everett Ruess, late poet of the desert, who txi'it proof. •- 1 Samples of the ore assayed in Salt Lake wrote 'Where I go I leave no sign'," Re- City by the U. S. Bureau of Mines showed porter Pegram concluded her editorial. COVINGTON 8" TRIM SAW two types of uranium ore running .368 • • • and .445 percent. Government agents de- ~ ^MM[9 and motor are com- R. E, NOWAK REGENT ^fr '^W^«i •"" SB7 pact and do not clared the ore to be commercial grade 4F --.-.,. _S'' splash. Save blades uranium and of importance to the govern- OF GEM CUTTERS GUILD W^i, v and clothing with ment. Development work is planned. i. .. j-- - * this !saw. New officers recently elected by the Gem • • • Cutters Guild, Los Angeles, are R. E. No- wak, regent; R. Jester, marquis; M. Terry, BUILD YOUR OWN LAP NORTHERN CALIFORNIA tablet; G. Saling, cuvette, and A. Hadley, and SAVE with a COV- SHOW DUE IN OCTOBER baguette. At the March meeting, Rex Pag- INGTON 12" or 16" Lap ent. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Rogers, Ernest Kit. We furnish every- Northern California Mineral Society plans Pauls and A. C. Gustafson presented a dis- thing J'on need. Send an exhibit of lapidary, jewelry and mineral play of jewelry, rare gems, cabochons and for free catalog collections of its members October 17 and hearts and colored glass arrowheads. A 18 at the Scottish Rite Hall, Van Ness and different group of members displays each Sutter Streets, San Francisco. month. A COVINGTON • Multi-Feature • • • 16" Lap Unit Does MINERAL SOCIETY everything PRECISION RADIATION HOST TO STATE CONVENTION for you. INSTRUMENTS Cheyenne Mineral and Gem Society will be host this year to the Wyoming State TAKES PRIDE IN COVINGTON Convention of Mineral and Gem Societies. 12" 14" ^ ANNOUNCING THE or 16" W The event is scheduled June 5 and 6 in Power Feed Cheyenne, Wyoming. Displays will come Diamond from mineral groups throughout the state Saws "SCINTILLATOR"* and will feature Wyoming jade, Eden Val- ley wood and Wyoming agates and crystals. SAVE Dealers are invited to write W. H. Sigler, BLADES "Patent Pending 420 West First Avenue, Cheyenne, to re- Send for New Catalog, IT'S FREK serve space. • • • COVINGTON LAPIDARY SUPPLY MODEL 111 SHOW IN SOUTHERN OREGON Redlands, California Portable SCHEDULED FOR MID-JUNE Scintillation Rogue Gem and Mineral Society of Grants Pass, Oregon, has announced June Counter 13 and 14 as dates for its Southern Oregon Gem and Mineral Show. Dealer and club displays will be arranged in buildings on the Grants Pass Fairgrounds. Demonstra- tions of silversmithing and lapidary equip- ment will be special features, and field trips • Made in the V. S. A. by Precision • 100 are being arranged for visitors to nearby times the sensitivity of the best Geiger Counter • Suitable for aerial surveys or mineral areas. surveys from moving vehicles • Accuracy • • • ALLEN within 5% of *i full scale reading • Uses latest type RCA 619!) photomultiplier tube NEW MINNESOTA OFFICERS JUNIOR GEM CUTTER • Uses newest simplified circuit • Used by U. S. Geological Survey and the Atomic ASSUME DUTIES APRIL 1 A Complete Lapidary Shop Energy Commission • Waterproof and tropicalized probe • Weight only 6],4 lbs. New officers assumed executive duties of Only $43.50 Probe 2 lbs. • Only two simple controls Minnesota Mineral Club April 1. LeRoy • Ideal for apartment house dwellers. • Long battery life • Ranges .025, .05, .25, Peterson is president; Cedric Erickson, vice- • Polish rocks into beautiful gems. 1, 5 and 25 MR/HR. president; Mrs. Veronica Barich, secretary; • Anyone can learn. Price Complete only $495.00 B. G. Dahlberg, treasurer; Jack Griffin, • Instructions included. Write for free catalog on the "Scintillator" program director; Nathan Stuvetro, tour Write for Catalog, 25c and our complete line of Geiger Counters director, and Ray Lulling, publicity director. and metal locators. • • • ALLEN LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED Breakfast at the Spanish Stirrup Guest COMPANY — Dept. D RECISION RADIATION INSTRUMENTS Ranch was a feature of the recent field trip of Dona Ana County Rockhound Club to 3632 W. Slauson Ave., Los Angeles 43, Cal. 2235DS South La Brea Ave. Phone Axminster 2-6206 Los Angeles 16, California the Little Floridas. Trip leaders were J. C. Patty and J. T. Kilgore.

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38 DESERT MAGAZINE Early American geologists and geological Tulare County Rockhound Club held a AMONG THE surveyors formed lecture material lor James gem exhibit in May. O. Montague of the Wisconsin Geological • • • Society when he spoke before the Marquette Tacoma Agate Club is assembling equip- ROCK HUNTERS Geologists Association in Chicago. Mon- ment for its proposed lapidary classes. Al- tague has made an intensive study of these ready in the workshop are a grinder, sander, early Americans and has a large library on polisher and trim saw. A few more pieces Ralph Botter outlined the history of the the subject. of machinery are necessary before classes Rio Grande River for El Paso Mineral and can begin. Gem Society. He discussed the geology of • • • the country through which it passes, from A silent auction for the benefit of the headwaters in Colorado to El Paso. The club treasury was one of the planned fea- JADE Rio Grande is an old stream, said Botter, tures of the Colorado Mineral Society an- Top Jade from Alaska. Very fine condition nual banquet, scheduled May 15 in Denver. •/2 lb $6.00 and its course has been changed many times Slabs, per square inch 80 by uplifts and great volcanism; scientists find • • • Polished cabs, 18x13 mm., each 2.00 it interesting to trace some of its former Past presidents of Tacoma Agate Club planned the March 16 program. Dr. D. BURNITE river beds. Beautiful azurite, malachite & cuprite (Nev.) • • • M. Pifer of the University of Washington Vi lb., top grade $3.00 A 121-carat green peridot from St. Johns School of Mines spoke on diamonds and Slabs, per square inch 40 Island in the Red Sea, an Oriental ruby diamond mining in Africa. For several Polished cabs, 18x25, each 2.50 Special Polish Powder, Vt lb 1.00 brilliantly cut and over 7 carats in size, and years Dr. Pifer was manager of the De- Specimen grade with some cabbing, a sinhalite of 158 carats were among the Beers diamond mine in Africa. He showed 1 lb 1.00 moving pictures of the mining operations gemstones displayed by William E. Phil- SLABS AND CHUNKS lips when he appeared as guest speaker for there. Slabs—Assortment of color and variety. Southwest Mineralogists, Los Angeles, Cali- • • • 40 to 50 sq. inches $2.00 fornia. A surprise program entertained Minne- Idaho Plume Agate, per lb 2.50 sota Mineral Club at a recent meeting in Pet. Palm Root, per lb 50 • • • Chunk Material—Assorted varieties 8 Mineralogical Society of Southern Cali- Minneapolis. Members, one for each letter lbs. minimum order for 2.00 fornia scheduled a field trip to Winchester of the alphabet, were asked to give short impromptu speeches on some phase of the POLISHED CABS AND FACETED GEMS to collect andalusite crystals. 6 different cabs, polished $3.00 • • • mineral collecting hobby. Discourses ranged 4 diff. genuine Tourmaline, 8 to 10 mm. 4.90 Dr. William E. Powers, geographer at from "Dos and Don'ts of Rockhunting in 4 genuine amethyst, round brilliant, the Black Hills of South Dakota' to "The faceted, 4 to 5 mm... 1.90 Northwestern University, spoke at the April Fun I've Had as a Member of Minnesota 4 amethyst, 5 to 7 mm 3.00 meeting of Chicago Rocks and Minerals 4 gen. Peridot, 3 to 5 mm. round 3.90 Society. Dr. Powers was one of the leaders Mineral Club" and a description of the 4 gen. Aquamarine, 5 to 7 mm 3.90 proposed directory of the Midwest Federa- Genuine Amethyst faceted hearts, of an international group of geographers tion of Mineralogical Societies. drilled for studs, 10 to 12 mm. each ... 1.50 and geomorphologists on an 8000-mile trip Gen. Brazil Agate Marbles, medium size .70 • • • large size 1.00 through the United States. He showed col- H. W. Boblet projected thin sections of ored slides taken on the trip. polished rock on a screen for members of TURQUOISE NUGGETS (POLISHED. • • • San Fernando Valley Mineral and Gem Drilled (Approx. size) Non-drilled A guided tour of the old Rawhide ghost 40c 12 mm 10c Society. 60c 15 mm.. 15c town and mining district was taken by 35 • • • 80c 18 mm 25c members of the Mineral County, Nevada, Fred Salfisberg spoke on the unusual Rockhound Club. A printed itinerary was ROUGH FACETING MATERIAL formations of crystal in the geology of the Vi lb. Sunstone (Feldspar) $2.50 furnished each member by the field trip Eocene period when he appeared before '/i lb. Garnet (deep rich color) 4.00 committee. Cheyenne Mineral and Gem Society as Y* lb. Peridot (small) - 4.00 • • • V\ lb. Kunzite from Pala, Cal 3.00 guest speaker. He displayed choice pieces Vi lb. Amethyst (dark colors) 4.00 "Minerals of San Diego County" formed from his collection of Eden Valley woods. Vi lb. Smoky Qtz. (deep golden brown.. 4.00 the April program for San Diego Mineral • • • 'A lb. Mexican Topaz 2.25 and Gem Society. Members of Washoe Gem and Mineral Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded • • • Society, Reno, Nevada, heard a talk on (Please add postage to all orders, 20% Fed. At the April meeting of the Western opals by Keith Hodson, owner and oper- Tax to slabs, rough facet material and pol- Mining Council, Fritz Wart, a past presi- ator of the Rainbow Ridge mine in Virgin ished stones, 3% sales tax for Calif, pur- dent of the San Diego Mineral and Gem chasers.) Valley, Nevada. Hodson owns the world's Dealers write for prices on letterhead Society, described and demonstrated the largest fire opal, and he brought it for the use of the blowpipe for mineral identifica- Washoe club to see. tion. President Jess Hume, of the San • • • NOTICE Diego chapter of the council, demonstrated Fred Gruner, chairman of San Diego Our store will be closed the month of Au- a portable homemade furnace that can be Lapidary Society's membership committee, gust. No mail orders filled during that time. used to heat drills or picks for sharpening. has announced a membership contest. To A blow torch is used to furnish the heat. each new member and the old member who • • • sponsors him, will be presented a polished Martin Pollock told members of Santa cabochon. At the end of six weeks, a draw- Coast Gems and Minerals Fe Gem and Mineral Club about the his- ing will be held, the winning member and tory and mineral deposits of San Pedro his newcomer each receiving a cabochon area of the Big Ortiz mine grant near Santa set in silver. 11669 Ferris Ril. — El Monte, California Fe. After the program, plans were dis- • • • cussed for a trip to the area. To advertise its April show, Fresno Gem • • • and Mineral Society arranged displays in "Diamonds With a Past" was Don shop windows in Fresno, California. Agate Jewelry Trone's topic when he appeared as guest speaker for Wasatch Gem Society, Salt Lake FIRE OPAL -MEXICO Wholesale City, Utah. Trone is diamond expert for Rings — Pendants — Tie Chains Daynes Jewelry Company. Fine minerals, Aztec agate ami other • • • Brooches — Ear Rings Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo CHOICE cutting material!! Bracelets — Matched Sets County, California, planned to visit Mor- REQUEST FREE PRICE LIST —Send stamp for price list No. 1 — gan Hill and search for the area's famous RALPH E. MUELLER & SON jasper and cinnabar in agate. 1000 E. Camelback Phoenix, Arizona Blank Mountings • • • Rings — Ear Wires — Tie Chains "The Earth's Rocky Crust," a sound Cuff Links — Neck Chains movie, described the formation of the earth, ALTA INDUSTRIES Bezel — devices — Shanks the contraction and expansion of its crust, Mailing Address: Solder — Findings for members of Delvers Gem and Mineral Box 19, Laveen Stage, Phoenix, Arizona — Send stamp for price list No. 2 — Society, Downey, California. "Geysers and Location—7006 So. 19th Avenae Hot Springs," a second film, explained the LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT action of geysers and hot springs as part Lapidary Equipment Manufacture & Design O. R. JUNKINS & SON of the process of volcanism. Animated 16-18 inch Power Feed Slabbing Saw 440 N.W. Beach St. Belt Sanders & Trim Sawa NEWPORT. OREGON charts of geyser eruption were particularly (Send Postal for free literature) informative.

JUNE, 1953 39 A special seventh birthday cake—decor- NEW ROCKHOUND OFFICERS Junior rockhounds of Coachella Valley ated with Indian symbols—was enjoyed by NAMED BY TUCSON SOCIETY Mineral Society came home from the Chicago Rocks and Minerals Society at a Hauser Geode Beds with an assortment birthday celebration. The cake was the Hughes Rockhounds of Tucson Hughes Aircraft Plant have elected Bill Chesney of geodes. Several week-ends later, a field handiwork of Frank Kerling. trip to the gravel pits near Blythe, Cali- • • • to serve as president this year. Other new officers are Ed Van Seise, vice-president; fornia, netted petrified wood, fossils and Mrs. Edna Nichols, president, and Kath- agates of varied hues. rine Kelly, past secretary of Hemet-San Mrs. William Chesney, secretary, and Mr. Scott, treasurer. • • • Jacinto Rockhounds, have been elected Calaveras Gem and Mineral Society, delegates to the state convention in San • • • First in a series of three movies entitled Angels Camp, California, invited Contra Diego in July. Costa Mineral Society on an overnight field • • • "Beginning of History" was shown at the April meeting of the Oklahoma Mineral and trip to Angels Camp. The groups visited Genuine "rockhounds" are the lapidary mineral locations in the area. specialty of Tommy McDowell of the Ne- Gem Society. These films portray the activ- ities and development of prehistoric man • • • braska Mineral and Gem Club. He cuts Design and construction of display cases agates in the shapes of dogs, polishes and from the Stone Age 4000 years ago through the succeeding Bronze Age and Iron Age. were discussed by Northern California mounts them as pins or tie clasps. Mineral Society members at a meeting in • • • The latter two films will be shown at future meetings. San Francisco. The club is looking forward Gus Brown in News Nuggets, the Central to displays at the California Federation ex- Iowa Mineral Society bulletin, gives the • • • following formula for removing rust spots Slides of the Harvard collection of minerals hibit in San Diego in July and at its own from geodes and crystals: one part sodium were shown by Mrs. A. H. Murchison at show, tentatively scheduled for October. gluconate, one part ammonia water (36%), an evening meeting of Tucson Gem and • • • one part sodium citrate; add seven to ten Mineral Society. One of the club's recent "The Magic of Black Light" was the parts water and soak specimen in it. topic at the April meeting of the Minera- field trips was to the Helvetia mining camp logical Society of Southern California. A where specimens of copper and associated representative of Ultra-Violet Products New Revised Edition . . . minerals were obtained. • • • Company demonstrated the uses of black Death Valley was the destination of light in mineral collecting. Searles Lake Gem and Mineral Society on • • • an April outing. Eddie Redenbach was With colored slides and a printed lecture. field trip leader and pointed out interesting Dr. J. Daniel Willems of Chicago tells the mineralogical and historical features of the "Story of Gems." The package program valley. was procured for the second meeting of TRAILS • • • new Evansville Lapidary Society. After- MAPS • MILEAGE LOGS A topic of interest to lapidary and min- wards, an auction sale was held to collect eral collector alike, "The Lapidary Method funds for the purchase of equipment for MINERAL LOCALITIES of Metallic Ore Identification" was discussed the Evansville Y.W.C.A. craft room, where ROCKHOUND INFORMATION by W. K. Buhn at a meeting of East Bay the group meets. Mineralogical Society, Oakland, California. • • • . . . takes the reader on an extensive • • • Maps of the Red Cloud Mine and Castle gem-collecting tour of the state, re- A field trip to the Jacumba area of Cali- Dome area between Quartzsite and Yuma, vealing the places where Nature has fornia was planned by the mineralogy di- Arizona, charted the April field trip of stored her treasures. vision of San Diego Mineral and Gem So- Coachella Valley Mineral Society, Indio, ciety. Members would visit the Sherry Ann California. Red Cloud Mine offers good $2.25 postpaid Mine, a rhodonite deposit with quartz, wulfenite specimens; fluorite, barite, galena grossularite garnet and minor amounts of and vanadinite may be found at Castle tremolite and wollastonite. Black oxides Dome. The group planned to camp along of manganese, chiefly pyrolusite, also are the Colorado River. common in the area. • • • • • • Slonaker's Museum at Smilk Ranch was PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA Many agates and some attractive jasper visited recently by Everett Rock and Gem pebbles were gathered from Pescadero Club, Everett, Washington. Beach by East Bay Mineral Society on a • • • FAMOUS TEXAS PLUMES spring field trip. Archeological interest group of the Earth Red Plume, Pom Pom and many other types • • • Science Club of Northern Illinois plans a of agate. Slabs on approval. Rough agate, 8 lb. mixture postpaid, $5.00. Price list on Erna Clark brought her lecture, "Iris series of lectures to acquaint members with request. Agate and Its Treatment" to Palm Desert, the different prehistoric peoples of Illinois. WOODWARD RANCH California, for the April meeting of Shadow Artifacts and colored slides will be used 17 miles So. on Hwy. 118 Mountain Gem and Mineral Society. She to illustrate various archeological periods. Box 453, Alpine, Texas showed choice pieces from her iris agate collection as illustration. NEW-Sensafionof? GEIGER COUNTER /4

40 DESERT MAGAZINE Result of several months of photographic ..Inspiration Consolidated Copper Com- work was shown to San Antonio Rock and j" my's open pit mine at Inspiration, Ari- Lapidary Society at a recent meeting. Herb By HARRY ZOLLARS, Editor zona, was visited by a field trip group from Ohms and Joe Murphy projected slides Voice of the El Paso Rockhounds the Mineralogical Society of Arizona. Mem- they had taken of mineral specimens. De- bers of the company staff directed the group scription of each specimen was shown si- Goodbye, Old Pal, how I regret to and through the open pit, explaining multaneously on an adjoining screen. To pen these words! I can't forget operations and answering questions. Spe- • • • The happy hours together spent cial blasts had been set off the day before Cleavage is discussed in the technical Rockhounding to our hearts' content, to loosen specimen material, and the rock- department of the April issue of Rock- Afield, or with our spinning laps, hounds gathered minerals characteristic of hounds Call, bulletin of Compton, Califor- On pleasing projects, in which perhaps the area. nia, Gem and Mineral Club. Earl Williams We'd vie to see who'd do the best, conducts the department, and Don McClain Nor cared who won—dear friendship's illustrates theories with line sketches. test. N.O.T.S. Rockhounds of China Lake, • • • Now, on the trail I'll go alone, California, scheduled an April field trip to Humboldt Gem and Mineral Society, Alone I'll search for gem-like stone; Calico. R. R. Van Pelt would lead a tour Eureka, California, is assembling specimens All by myself I'll carry on through the area, directing members to for mineral displays at the Redwood Acre With sphere and flat and cabochon! "So long" Old Pal, with sad regret choice travertine, petrified palm wood and Fair in June and the Humboldt County sagenite agate sites'. Chosen campsite was Fair in August. Members also contribute I hear you've bought a TV set. • • • Tin Can Alley. A trip was planned to the display pieces to the Eureka Museum. They Lavic jasper area on Sunday. hoped to find more cutting material on an Herbert C. Monlux of Los Angeles, who agate-hunting field trip to the beaches of has had 25 years' experience polishing lenses • • • Crescent City and Smith River in April. and rocks, promised to give Pasadena Lapi- dary Society members some tips at the April At its April meeting, Gem Cutters Guild • • • meeting. Monlux assisted in polishing the of Los Angeles enjoyed a movie, "Crystal "Bring chisels and heavy hammers if you huge lens for Palomar Observatory. Clear," presented by the Pacific Telephone want good travertine," Field Trip Leader • • • and Telegraph Company. Afterwards, Sam- Bill Maurer advised fellow members of Colorado Mineral Society craftsmen are uel Sklarew of San Fernando Valley Gem Delvers Gem and Mineral Society, Downey, busy at their work benches, finishing jew- and Mineral Society discussed the culture California. The society planned an April elry for display at the Denver Hobby Expo- of rutile crystals and synthetic quartz crys- field trip to Mule Canyon, near Yermo, sition in September. tals. California. Agate, sagenite and petrified • • • palm also are found here. Winter snows melted, the Earth Science • • • Club of Northern Illinois began planning Pasadena Lapidary Society has plans for field trips again. First one scheduled was GEIGER COUNTERS shooting a short movie film on the tech- to the Cave of the Mounds, located at Blue niques of cabochon making. Mound, 25 miles west of Madison, Wis- METAL DETECTORS • • • consin. Guided tours are conducted through Mineralogical Society of Arizona found the cave. MINERALIGHTS so many good specimens on their first trip • • • to the Silver Reef Mine south of Casa Four Peaks, Arizona, yields some of the Detectron carries a complete Grande, Arizona, that they decided to re- most beautiful amethyst ever found. Bob line of these and other fine turn. The area yields secondary lead ma- Dye, who worked at the Four Peaks Ame- electronic detecting instruments. terials, and amethyst is found not far from thyst Mine for several years, told fellow the main workings. Although not spectac- members of San Diego Mineral and Gem We have a quality model to fit ular, the crystals are interesting, often being Society's mineral resources division about your pocketbook. The famous coated with minute crystals of vanadinite his experiences there. Model DG-2 Geiger Counter is or wulfenite. • • • widely used by prospectors and • • • Nick and Bunny Gessler recently returned by the U. S. Atomic Energy Third annual photo contest of Compton to California after living in Peru for nine Commission. Gem and Mineral Club was announced in years. Both are collectors, not only of April. Judges will select winners from pic- stones but also of jewelry, textiles and Pe- Write DepL 21 for full details tures of field trips, mineral specimens and ruvian artifacts. They told about their ex- club personalities. periences in the South American country THE DETECTRON CO. • • • and showed pictures and items from their Mfgs. of Electronic Detectors A favorite collecting area, California's collection at the April meeting of Holly- 5631 Cahuenqa Boulevard Chuckawalla Springs, was visited in April wood Lapidary Society. North Hollywood. California by Long Beach Mineral and Gem Society. • • • Members looked for snowflake nodules and Mt. San Antonio College, Pomona, Cali- iris agate. fornia, has announced an advanced miner- alogy course on the summer program. The NEW CATALOGS AVAILABLE class, in the extended day program and If you want Choice Cutting Material, Fine & ANSWERS TO DESERT QUIZ Rare Materials, Geiger Counters, Minera- open only to those with some previous lights. Books, Trim Saws, Fluorescents, Questions are on page 18 training in geology or mineralogy, will be Ores, Gems, Ring Mounts, or advice, write 1—A device for grinding ore. taught by Darold J. Henry. Hours are to ... 2—The Superstition Mountains. from 7 to 10 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. MINERALS UNLIMITED 3—Flasks. Cinnabar is an ore of Inquiries should be directed to the college's 1724 University Are., Berkeley S, California mercury, a liquid. 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MANY years one of my favorite camping For the information of those Desert readers who have grounds was the Arizona desert region north of the opportunity occasionally to visit the fine art exhibit Yuma between the Colorado River and the Yuma- in our Desert Magazine pueblo in Palm Desert, a 5'/2-day Quartzsite road. More recently this road has been paved, schedule will be in effect through the summer, until making the region more accessible than formerly. October 15. And now, I have learned that the armed forces have During the winter months we keep the gallery open moved in and have appropriated a considerable part of seven days a week, and have more visitors on Saturday this huge area for target practice, and have posted it and Sunday than during the other five days combined. against trespassers. The summer schedule is from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Apparently the generals and the admirals have dis- Monday through Friday, and until 12:00 noon Saturday. covered they can obtain jurisdiction over great areas of desert terrain merely by issuing a requisition for it. And Visitors are always welcome here, and there is no they are making the most of it. While it is very difficult charge for admission. to get exact information, I am told that more desert ter- * * * rain is now off limits to civilians than at any time during In Arizona the state legislature has passed laws which World Wars I and II. make it a misdemeanor to paint signs or inscriptions of We Americans have always been ready to make what- any kind on the native rocks along the highways. I am ever sacrifice was needed in time of national emergency sure most readers of Desert Magazine will share my —but if the big brass is going on the assumption that opinion that these are good laws. desert terrain is worthless terrain and that they can de- Much of the pleasure of travel is in the enjoyment of clare a permanent national emergency which will entitle the landscape along the roadside. I have little tolerance them to seize it at will, then it is time for you and me for those unimaginative persons who despoil the scene to start writing letters to our congressmen. by daubing paint on the rocks. Sometimes it is commer- * * * cial advertising, sometimes the names or initials of little Recently I spent a weekend in Baja California seeking people with big egos—exhibitionists, they are called. Still a canyon in the Sierra Juarez which has been reported to another group includes those fanatics who would reform have a very fine stand of wild palm trees. the world by splashing in big letters the admonition to I never found the canyon for which I was looking, but "REPENT," or the announcement that "JESUS SAVES." I spent several hours in Palomar Canyon (Desert, Feb. I hope the good Lord will have mercy on the misguided '47). The desert willow, which really is a catalpa, was soul of one who is guilty of such desecration. in flower—also the palo verde and ocotillo. Vegetation * * * grows luxuriantly in Palomar, and the landscape was a riot of color, such as one would find only in a desert Spring weather on the desert has been delightful this canyon. year, but there are hot days coming. And that is the way it should be. This wouldn't be much of a desert if we The botany books will tell you that the flower of the didn't have a blistering sun pouring down on us for three desert willow is pink. Actually, the blossoms range in or four months of the year. shade from white to a deep lavender, and there must be a generous helping of honey in each bloom for the trees If this arid Southwest had a perfect all-year climate were swarming with wild bees. it would become too crowded with human beings. There In another month the yellow blossom of the palo would be a resort in every canyon and a cocktail bar at verde, the red of the ocotillo and the white-pink-lavender every waterhole. And so we should thank heaven for the of the willow will give way to the deep blue of the smoke heat. tree. Of the eight native trees in this desert land—palo verde, smoke tree, ironwood, mesquite, wild apricot, Those who can afford to do so, and have the time, palm, Joshua tree and willow, all except the mesquite will go to the coast or the mountains when school is out. have very conspicuous and lovely blossoms. It seems And the rest of us—the majority—will stay home and to be part of Nature's scheme of things that this land of cuss the heat and with few exceptions be just as happy little rainfall should compensate in beauty for what it as we would elsewhere. Hot weather is not a serious lacks in the volume of its plant life. annoyance to people with good health and active minds.

42 DESERT MAGAZINE ticularly the Spanish-Americans, like to tell their children stories of , "a good boy who was misunder- stood by some and made a scapegoat by others." Billy was killed by Sheriff Pat Gar- rett in 1881; but he still lives on in Of particular interest to artists are books, magazines, ballads and folklore. COLORADO RIVER VOLUMES the nine color plates, done in serigraph Billy the Kid has become a legend. LISTED IN BIBLIOGRAPHY (silk screen) by Louie Ewing. In a new publication of the Univer- More than a century ago the first Published by the Peabody Museum, sity of New Mexico Press, J. C. Dykes Americans to come to the West found 348 pages, 64 halftone figures, 9 color presents a bibliography of this legend. the Colorado River and its tributaries plates, 28 line illustrations in the text. Billy the Kid, the result of years of an important source of beaver furs. Index. $7.50 paperbound; $10.00 research and compilation, not only Since that period the great Colorado bound in cloth. gives complete facts in all versions but system of waterways has played an is a valuable reference catalogue for increasingly important part in the de- BIBLIOGRAPHY ANALYZES the historian, collector and student of velopment of the Southwest. LEGEND OF BILLY THE KID Southwest Americana. Many volumes have been written In the New Mexico range country Published by the University of New about the river, its history, geology, where he lived, fought, killed and died, Mexico Press, 186 pages, index. $3.50. navigation, wildlife, resources and de- William Bonny is regarded today as a • • • velopment, and a selective listing of kind of Robin Hood of the Southwest. Books reviewed on this page are available at these books has been compiled by Lincoln County New Mexicans, par- Desert Crafts Shop, Palm Desert Francis P. Farquhar of Berkeley in a little bibliography under the double title, The Colorado River and The Grand Canyon. t&e ifcxMctcuf Sieata? Included in the bibliography are 125 titles classified under nine gen- eral headings and dedicated to Harold If the Mexican needed an ex- C. Bryant, superintendent of Grand cuse for his after-dinner siesta, Canyon National Park and Otis Mar- he might well blame overeat- ston, canyoneer and river chronicler. ing. Anyone who knows the The list of books is designed to gustatory delight of tacos, en- furnish within certain limits a com- chiladas, frijoles, chile con prehensive view of the Colorado River basin and its human history. Sixteen came, tamale pastel and other titles, for instance, are devoted to the succulent Mexican dishes utilization of the waters for power and would understand. irrigation. There are 31 titles cover- ing the early history, seven books re- lating to Mormons on the Colorado Here are recipes which will help the modem cook bring River, 20 volumes on the navigation, these age-old Mexican dishes to her family table—recipes which 12 on geological studies. have been adapted to the average American kitchen yet still Limited edition published by Glen retain their authentic flavor. Those who have been unable to Dawson of Dawson Book Store in serve Mexican-style dinners because there was no adequate Los Angeles. 75 pp. Index. $5.00. guide or who desire to serve a greater variety will find these • • • books indispensable. MUSEUM REPORT ON KIVA MEXICAN COOKBOOK, by Erna Fergusson—More than 100 MURAL PAINTING OF ANCIENTS recipes with step-by-step preparation notes, gathered by a native New Mexican and well-known Southwestern author. Though highly technical, the Pea- 120 pages $2.00 body Museum's latest report on its THE GOOD LIFE: NEW MEXICAN FOOD, by Fabiola Cabeza excavations on Antelope Mesa in de Baca Gilbert—Delightful stories of New Mexican customs northeastern Arizona is fascinating ma- and folklore preface recipes from soup to after-dinner Cafe terial for artists and archeologists. The con Leche. 94 pages $3.50 report is a discussion of kiva mural SPANISH-MEXICAN COOKBOOK, by Don Carlos—Authentic decorations at Awatovi, at nearby recipes of every dish popular in the Southwest and Mexico Kawaika-a and at other pueblos in today. 147 pages $2.00 the Southwest. And, though it has nothing to do with siestas, Bill Magee's After a background discussion of Western Barbecue Cookbook by Ed Ainsworth is another ex- the Awatovi site and of Indian cere- cellent guide to typically Southwestern good eating. Take the monial practices in general, Author guesswork out of barbecuing with recipes gathered by a master Watson Smith describes the paintings, barbecuer in 55 years of cooking at the pit. 225 pages $3.00 their layout, designs, colors and cere- monial meanings, the techniques and Californic: Buyers Add 3% Sales Tax materials used by the Indian artists. The reader also learns the field meth- ods employed by the archeologists in excavating, preserving and reproducing PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA the murals.

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