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Desert Magazine 1954 June R HELD GUIDE TO ROCKS ft ill) mMERRLS By FREDERICK H. POUGH, Former Curator of Minerals, American Museum of Natural History YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS BOOK — has ever been printed for the rockhound and gem Contains 234 photographs, 72 in full color, and a hunter. Available now. Order your copy today. If simplified Field Guide to identification. Every min- you are interested in rocks, gems or minerals, this eral the Rockhound is likely to encounter is described book is a must for your library shelf. in detail. This is the most important new book that S3.75 POSTAGE PFiEPAID t> SCUD FOR fR€€ 56 PRG6 PRIC6 LIST <0 This catalog is the same as our 1952 Fall Catalog. It is Bails, Locket Loops, Chain by the foot, Bezel Wire, etc. 8V£"xll" in size and it is profusely illustrated. Your Field Trip Books and Books of all kinds on Minerals, shopping will be made easy — order by mail or visit Gems, Jewelry Making, Prospecting, Uranium, etc. our shop to select your gifts. This catalog lists Gem Fluorescent Lamps, Fluorescent Minerals, Geiger Count- Cutting Equipment, Grinding Wheels, Diamond Blades, ers, Uranium Samples, Magnifiers, Scales, Templates, etc. Sanding Cloth, and Polishing Powders, Jewelry Making Services Offered to You Are: Expert Gem Stone Cutting, Tools, Sterling Silver Sheet and Wire, Blank King Custom Jewelry Making and Repair. Mountings, Jewelry Findings such as Earwires, Dealers please ask for wholesale discount sheets POLY ARBORS AT NEW LOW PRICES illustration at right shows 1—POLY D12 Arbor $19.95 1—Dresser Rest 2.25 2—Cast Splash Shields 15.00 1—Jig Block DIAMOND 1—100 Grit Wheel 8"xlV2" 7.50 DRESSER 10.90 1—200 Grit Wheel V'xlW 8.25 2—Galvanized Splash Pans... 6.00 TOTAL VALUE $69.85 SPECIAL COMBINATION PRICE $62.00 YOU WILL BE WEARING RAINBOWS When you wear jewelry set with TITANIA. Gems of synthetic TITANIA have five times more ability than the diamond to (D break light into its component colors producing a magniiicent. rainbow effect. These magnificent gems can be set in mount- (K/otiiite,- ings you may now have from which you have lost the than the DiamondJ original stone. Visit Our Shop and See Ladies' and Men's Rings Set with Titania. A Large Stock of Titania Earwires Is Also Available. FREE LAPIDARY LESSONS With the purchase of cabochon or facet cutting equipment having a value of $85.00 or more, an experienced lapidary will give you a lesson in gemstone cutting in his own shop. Model E-10 Gem Stone Cutter—$139.75 F.O.B. Pasadena Add $4.00 crating for out-of-town shipments Note: Trim saw has a vise (not illustrated) with lateral adjustment for slabbing. This unit and other HIGHLAND PARK EQUIPMENT is fully described in our 56 page free catalog. LET'S GET ACQUAINTED OFFER With every retail purchase of $5.00 worth of merchandise you 18" Rhodium Plated Sterling Silver or receive 4 tumble polished gems or baroque gems worth at least 25c yellow Gold Filled Neck chains 2 for $1.00 or S4.50 per doz. each. With a $25.00 purchase you receive 20 tumble polished gems, plus 20% Fed. E. Tax with a $50.00 order you receive 40 tumbled gems. WE TUMBLE OUR OWN GEMS. THIS OFFER EXPIRES JUNE 30, 1954 ESTWING ALL STEEL SEND FOR OUR APPROVAL SELECTION OF TUMBLED GEMS. ROCKHOUND PICKS You may select only those you desire or you may keep the entire Gift Model—Polished S4.10 selection at a SENSATIONALLY LOW PRICE. These selections will Regular Black Finished S3.85 contain Tiger Eye, Chrysocolla, Rose Quartz, Beautiful blue, green. Allow 3 lbs. Shipping weight Cornelian, and black Brazilian Agates, etc. GRIEGER'S • 1633 E. WALNUT ST. • PASADENA 4, CALIFORNIA OUR STORE IS OPEN EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY FROM 8:30 TO 5:00. PHONE SY. 6-6423 DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT CALENDAR May 30—Lincoln County Homecom- ing Day. Caliente, Nevada. June 1-30 — Special exhibit, colored reproductions of Southern Califor- nia Indian cave paintings, by Charles La Monk. Southwest Mu- seum. Los Angeles, Calif. June 2-3—Intermountain Junior Fat Stock Show, Salt Lake Union Stock Yards. North Salt Lake City. Utah. June 4-5—Pioneer Days celebration, Clovis, New Mexico. Volume 17 JUNE, 1954 Number 6 June 9-10—Arizona State Cattlegrow- ers Convention, Flagstaff, Arizona. COVER Red Walls, Rushing Water. Color photo taken June 12—Fiesta of the Loma. Pro- cession from chapel after mass, fol- in Oak Creek Canyon, Arizona, lowed by music and fiesta. Taos by ESTHER HENDERSON of Tucson Pueblo, New Mexico. CALENDAR June events on the desert June 12—Feast of San Antonio de Padua celebrated at Cordova and INDIANS They Wouldn't Be Civilized various other northern New Mex- By CLIFFORD L. BURDICK ico rural villages. FICTION Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley June 12-17 — Future Farmers of NATURE On Desert Trails with a Naturalist: III—Giant America Fair, Santa Rosa, New Mexico. Steeples of Lime, by EDMUND C. JAEGER . 10 June 13 — Ceremonial dances, Taos, FIELD TRIP Indian Jasper in the Whipples Sandia and San Ildefonso pueblos. By HAROLD WEIGHT 13 New Mexico. CLOSE-UPS About those who write for Desert 18 June 17-19—Vernal Rodeo. Vernal. Utah. LOST MINE Lost Ledge of Mammoth Mountain 19 June 19-27—Riverside Chapter, Sierra By SHEP SHEPHERD DESERT QUIZ 20 Club of California trip to Monu- A test of your desert knowledge ment Valley. PHOTOGRAPHY 21 Pictures of the Month June 20 — Corpus Christi Sunday, PIONEERS Santa Fe, New Mexico. Long pro- Last Wagon Through the Hole-in-the-Rock cessions march through the streets Life-on-the-Desert story by of the city following mass in St. 22 RAYMOND and ADELL JONES Francis Cathedral and Christo Rey COMMENT 25 Church. Prizes fcr desert photographs POETRY 26 June 23-26 — Rodeo and Roundup, Wild Poppy, and other desert poems .... Lehi, Utah. LETTERS 27 Comment from Desert's readers June 24—Annual Feast Day of St. NEWS 29 John. San Juan Pueblo, New Mex- From Here and There on the desert ico. Ceremonial dances and fiesta. VACATION Pack and Boat Trips Announced for 1954 Season 33 June 24—Corn dances, Taos Pueblo and Acoma, "The Sky City," New MINING by Sierra Club of California 34 Mexico. HOBBY Current news of desert mines 35 June 26-27 — Indian Capital Rodeo, Gems and Minerals Gallup. New Mexico. LAPIDARY 41 Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK . June 27—Procession of La Conquis- COMMENT 42 tadora, commemorating the re- Just Between You and Me, by the Editor . conquest of New Mexico from the BOOKS 43 Indians by De Vargas in 1692. Reviews of Southwestern literature Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Desert Magazine is published monthly by the Desert Press, Inc., Palm Desert, California. Re-entered as second class matter July 17, 1948, at the postoffice at Palm Desert, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S. Patent Office, and contents copyrighted 1954 by the Desert Press, Inc. Permission to reproduce contents must be secured from the editor in writing. RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor MARGARET GERKE, Associate Editor BESS STACY, Business Manager EVONNE RIDDELL, Circulation Manager Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs submitted cannot be returned or acknowledged unless full return postage is enclosed. Desert Magazine assumes no responsibility for damage or loss of manuscripts or photographs although due care will be exercised. Sub- scribers should send notice of change of address by the first of the month preceding issue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year $3.50 Two Years $(i.00 Canadian Subscriptions 25c Extra, Foreign 50c Extra Subscriptions to Army Personnel Outside U. S. A. Must Be Mailed in Conformity With P. O. D. Order No. 196S7 Address Correspondence to Desert Magazine, Pnlm Desert, California UNE, 1954 Two of the Seri men, showing their long hair, and a girl Manuela and her brother. They were faithful helpers with facial paint. They have no jewelry. while the author was living with the Seri Indians. They Wouldn't Be Civilized Hostile and impoverished, the Seri Indians of Tiburon Island in the Gulf of California have resisted all efforts of both church and state to bring civilization to their arid island fortress. But despite their evil reputation they are human beings who can be friendly—as this author discovered during his sojourn of several weeks with them. By CLIFFORD L. BURDICK Photos by the Author Map by Norton Allen HAD BEEN sent on a private many Seris also spoke. 1 was properly over poor dirt roads for 150 miles be- mission to get acquainted with outfitted with a four-wheel drive car fore reaching Desemboque, the main- the Seri Indian tribe, living on which I loaded with provisions at Tuc- land stronghold of the Indians. The the west coast of Sonora, Mexico, and son, along with old clothes which are first 100 miles was through sparsely on their ancestral island, Tiburon always welcome with needy Indians. settled ranch country. As we ap- (shark), largest island in the Gulf of Other essentials were an outboard proached the coast, the country became California. motor, a tent, sleeping bags, blankets, more and more arid, and it was evi- The Seris had been reported as be- cameras, binoculars, picks, shovels, dent that farming as an occupation ing one of the fiercest, most uncivilized and compasses. for the Seri Indians would be out of tribes of Indians left on the North Mr. Johnson had often flown over the question, at least until such time American continent. My sponsor was Tiburon Island on his air trips from as our scientists discover a cheap the late Albert M.
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