By MIRIAM R. ANDERSON San Bernardino, California The glowing golden hearted cactus bloom Whispers to me a haunting desert tune. Revealing clefts, and fastnesses of rocks That reach far up to the horizon's top, And loom protectingly to hold The sunlight in this gallant desert gold. Warm on my heart as sun-washed sand at noon. Poignant as wind songs, through a mesquite lane. Memories of cactus, silvered in the moon, Drift from a desert night, when it is on the wane. • • • - HAUNTED LAND By JACK SPEIRS Camarillo, California The miles of sand, the haunted land Is silvered by the moon. Apache ghosts in endless hosts Are riding through the dunes. It almost seems I hear their screams And warwhoops ring once more. From shimmering waves of phantom braves, Across the desert floor. Ghosts from out of yesterday Appear and fade away. For when at night the sands are white The tribes of ghosts arise To haunt the land, a homeless band, Beneath the desert skies. Through sand and sage the riders rage. They never turn aside. Hedgehog in blossom. Photo by Josef Muench. Their eyes agleam, the warlocks stream Behind them as they ride. DESERT IDYL WISE DESERT RAT By WANDA GUERRERO By AMY VIAU Ghosts from out of yesterday Santa Ana, California At dawn must fade away. The far-flung hills that bind my lonely days He was called by some a desert rat, • • • Within an everlasting solitude, And he wore stout clothes and a wide AN ADOBE HOUSE In recompense for loneliness, bestowed brimmed hat By LUCILLE SANDBERG Unto my hand a tithe of gifts. With these I wrought fulfillment of a dreamer's mood— That shadowed his face, dry as parchment Willows, California A desert idyl off the beaten road. old; Born of the earth, was this house. And he spoke of the different kinds of gold. It stands now, seasoned well A wide oak's verdure canopies the sun With all the things most precious known: One kind, he said, was the gold from ore Love and devotion and a family grown. Where cobbled path and rock-laid portal Which a man might have and still be poor, meet; Unless it were mixed with a gold within Through the window picture frames, Wild four o'clocks, their purple petals blown. Which he'd gleaned from—maybe some- Flaunt brilliant banners at the open gate. The gold of morning sun steals in where he'd been. To greet the one who rests within; Or just at dusk, against yon hill, Should I desert this rustic heritage Now he had been in the desert with its A tiny moon and evening star will For worldly pelf, for fancied joys that lie golden moods Make but yet another scene. Somewhere beyond the bounds of rim-rock's While wearing its sunrise and sunset hoods. edge, And the wealth was as great upon its sand My heart, in sorrow sealed, would bleed and The muted sounds which cross the court, To be gleaned, when the moon was a full The chattering birds at grey of dawn, die. gold band. Or padded step upon the stone outside— All these are soothing as the music THE ROCK COLLECTOR But the desert's silence, he explained, then Of a symphony. I tell you . . . By WILD A BESSIE TOTTEN Was the gold that made the richest men. Yucca Valley, California From these solid, adobe walls it seems HUT IN THE PALMS A quiet strength flows forth to bring I've a hobby that suits my habitat here— By PAUL WILHELM Peace to those who dwell within. Out in the cactus and sage; Thousand Palms, California It's collecting rocks, exciting and rare, Our palm log hut in this desert grove Be-lichened, and hoary with age. From the noon sun hid by sheltering leaves, Where the children's eyes are glad with love Each new one intrigues me, invites me to As they watch wild birds beneath its eaves. learn By TANYA SOUTH The story that's held in the stone— Long lived in now, these rooms and hall Pressed in by the ages, since aeons ago, And fearless here, our lowly sleep, There still are all the hills, the vales, For me to decipher alone. Secure each hallowed palm log wall, The boundless sky and sea, We pray the homeless rest as deep. And Truth untempered still prevails. My rockery grows, and my knowledge keeps And all eternity pace, We know by the willow smoke gracefully Is still about on every hand. The stories have waited so long; curled Oh, had we eyes and ears, I must read each with haste, arrange them At night above palm trees growing near, And hearts and minds to understand with care. That if peace exists in this wide, wide world All that appears! And sing of them all in my song! A heart that was humble might find it here. DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT CALENDAR April 27—20th Annual Spring Fes- tival, Hi Vista, California. First of May—Continuation, exhibit of paintings of Mojave Desert wild- flowers by Jane S. Pinheiro. An:e- lope Valley Branch, Los Angeles County Library, Lancaster, Califor-

May 1-3—Fourteenth Annual Las Damas Ride, Wickenburg, Arizona. Volume 15 MAY. 1952 Number 5 May 1-31—Navajo and Pueblo water- color paintings and handicrafts. Southwest Museum, Highland Park, Tuna, fruit of the Prickly Pear. By Harry Vroman, Lcs Angeles, California. COVER Anaheim, California May 2-3 — Masque of the Yellow Moon Pageant, Phoenix, Arizona. POETRY Cactus Blossom, and other poems 2 May 2-3—Third Annual Spring Fes- CALENDAR May events in the desert 3 tival, Community Center, Apple Valley, California. EXPLORATION Goblins in Flame-Colored Stone May 3 — Indian fiesta, corn dances By CHARLES KELLY 4 and ceremonial races. Taos Pueblo, Taos, New Mexico. ART He Found Dignity in Art May 3—All-day trip to Toro Peak By JOHN HILTON 8 near Santa Rosa Peak. Desert DESERT QUIZ Museum, Palm Springs, California. A test of your desert knowledge 10 FIELD TRIP May 3-4—San Diego Chapter, Sierra There's Beauty Inside Those Ancient Pebbles Club, rock-climbing trip to Joshua Tree National Monument, Califor- By HAROLD WEIGHT 11 DESERT LIFE Hopi Girl. By PHYLLIS W. HEALD 16 May 3-4 — Seventh Annual Turtle INDIANS Races, Joshua Tree, California. When White Hat Returned to the Land of the Witch May 4-5—Annual Fiesta de Mayo, MINING Woman. By RICHARD VAN VALKENBURGH 17 Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. PHOTOGRAPHY Current news of desert mines 20 May 8—Song Festival, Encanto Band Shell, Phoenix, Arizona. HISTORY Pictures of the Month 21 May 9-11—Lone Pine Stampede — LETTERS In Memory of the desert's pioneers 22 rodeo, celebration, western dances. Lone Pine, California. CLOSE-UPS Comment from Desert's readers 24 May 10-25 — 26th Annual Julian FICTION About those who write for Desert 26 Wildflower Show, Community Hall, Julian, California. WILDFLOWERS Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 26 May 12—Founder's Day Celebration, CONTEST Desert's forecast for May 27 Chandler, Arizona. May 15—San Isidro Fiesta and Bless- NEWS Prize announcement for photographers ... 28 ing of Fields, Los Cordovas, near Taos, New Mexico. WATER From here and there on the desert 29 May 15-18 — Elk's Helldorado and HOBBY Forecast of Colorado River flood discharge . . 34 Rodeo, Las Vegas, Nevada. LAPIDARY Gems and Minerals 35 May 17-18 — Desert Peaks Section, Southern California Chapter, Si- COMMENT Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK . . 41 erra Club, hike to Telescope Peak and Wildrose Peak, near Trona, BOOKS Just Between You and Me, by the Editor ... 42 California. Reviews of current Southwestern literature . . 43 May 17-18—Spring Rodeo, Winne- 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 post office at Palm Desert, mucca, Nevada. California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S. Patent Office, and contents copyrighted 1952 by the Desert Press, Inc. Permission to reproduce contents May 27-28 — Uintah Basin Junior must be secured from the editor in writing. Livestock show and sale. Vernal, RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor MARGARET GERKE, Associate Editor Utah. BESS STACY, Business Manager MARTIN MORAN, Circulation Manager May 30-June 1—Desert Peaks Sec- Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs submitted cannot be returned or acknowledged unless full return postage is enclosed. Desert Magazine assumes no responsibility for tion, Southern California Chapter, damage or loss of manuscripts or photographs although due care will be exercised. Sub- Sierra Club, hike to San Francisco scribers should send notice of change of address by the first of the month preceding issue. Peaks, near Flagstaff, Arizona. SUBSCRIPTION RATES May 31 — Early California Spanish One Year $3.50 Two Years $6.00 Fiesta, Morongo Valley, California. 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. 19687 Address Correspondence to Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, California MAY, 1952 Goblins in Flame-Colored Stone By CHARLES KELLY not contain the color and artistic Mother Nature must have been beauty of Grand Canyon or Bryce Photographs by P. W. Tompkins in an impish mood when, with Map by Norton Allen Canyon, it does have a unique fascina- the tools of erosion, she carved tion of its own. F Dante had visited Goblin Valley, the thousands of fantastic forms It seems odd that such an interesting Utah's latest scenic discovery, he discovered in recent years in a area has remained so long unknown; would have found in stone all the remote sector of southern Utah. but Utah is still full of scenic surprises. grotesque forms needed to illustrate Here is a fantastic land awaiting An old road from Hanksville to Green- his Inferno. There, within the space further exploration—a veritable river, Utah, passed within a mile of the of a few hundred acres he would have dreamland for photographers. place, and of course cowboys have been face to face with a fantastic array been visiting it occasionally for many of goblins, monsters and demons—sur- years; yet its value as a scenic area was rounded by the faces of tortured souls cartoon characters, well known animals not discovered until 1949, when Ar- —all petrified in flame-colored rock. and historic faces. Those who have thur Chaffin, Worthen Jackson and All sense of reality is lost as one photographed these strange results of Perry Jackson guided P. W. Tompkins wanders among the thousands of erosion come away with the impres- to the valley to make the first photo- strangely eroded formations where no sion of having spent a day in some graphs. Their unanimous choice of a imagination is required to see shapes mythical underworld inhabited by all name was Goblin Valley. Tompkins, resembling mythical beasts, dragons, the strange beasts and goblins of an- a well known photographer of Utah prehistoric monsters, giants, dwarfs, cient legend. While Goblin Valley does scenery, returned again in 1950 for more pictures. Few photographers have visited the place and much of it is still unexplored. With a penciled map furnished by Perry Jackson I visited Goblin Valley in the spring of 1950, starting from Capitol Reef National Monument and driving 45 miles east to Hanksville. From the Fremont river bridge I then drove north 24 miles on the Hanksville- Greenriver road to the Temple Moun- tain turnoff, marked by a rusty mail- box and weathered wooden sign. Two miles west on this road is Garvin's ranch. Continuing west toward Temple Mountain, a prominent peak in the San Rafael Swell, and taking every lefthand turn at road junctions, I found a dim road at 5Vz miles from the mail- box and turned south toward Wild Horse Butte, a prominent landmark. At 12 miles there was another dim trail turning left, which is the Goblin Valley turnoff and passes just east of Wild Horse Butte. Half a mile north

DESERT MAGAZINE of the butte a large sand dune has been To GREENRIVER blown across the road which under usual conditions can be negotiated only by jeep. Continuing a short distance to a sculptured cliff, the road turns east one mile to a camping place—the end of the road. Total distance: 14 miles from Temple Mountain turnoff. Most of this distance is rough going, but can be driven in an ordinary car with care, as far as the sand dune. After reaching the end of the road it is necessary to walk half a mile east over a series of rolling clay hills. At the top of the last rise a view of Gob- lin Valley makes one catch his breath and wonder if he has accidentally lost his way and wandered into the nether regions. On the nearly flat floor of the valley stand thousands upon thou- sands of grotesque forms, each on its own pedestal like statuary in a mu- seum, singly, in groups, and in col- umns. In the background a sculptured cliff forms the eastern boundary of the valley. Geologically, the desert surface sur- rounding Goblin Valley is of the Car- mel formation. A remnant of the En- trada, from which the valley is carved, stands boldly upon this surface, with a few other isolated remnants to the north. Wild Horse butte is composed of Entrada at the base, Morrison in the middle and Summerville on top. In the great San Rafael Swell, just to the west, of which Temple Mountain is the highest point, Navajo sandstone can be seen dipping sharply under- ground all along its eastern flank. To- ward the east, beyond the Flattops which mark the location of Robbers' Roost, all these formations run out, to be replaced in the Standing Rocks country along Green river by other colorful rocks of the same general com- position, but bearing different names. The section of Goblin Valley first seen is about two miles long and from one-half to a mile wide. Days could be spent in that one area without see- ing all it contains. But two miles far- ther south, following a dry drainage channel, brings one to a larger and more spectacular area in the same for- mation, filled with hundreds of pinna- cles and spires besides thousands of goblin shapes. From a high point above these can be seen several other areas equally promising but as yet unex- plored. During the summer of 1950 visitors began applying names to the various formations: the King's Men, Queen Victoria, Brigham Young, the Fat Lady, Mickey Mouse, Pluto, the Fly- ing Turtles, Seal Beach, Minarets of Bagdad, the Chess Board, the Dino- saurs, Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Petrified Sheep, Woodchuck Confer- ence, Twin Toadstools, Donald Duck, Grandpa, Hoodoo Heaven, Goofy Gulch, and so on; but the possibilities are limitless and each new visitor has the opportunity to apply any new names that strike his fancy. To those who anticipate visiting this new discovery I suggest that they plan their trip to arrive at the campground by 3:00 p.m. Then walk over the hills into the valley, do some exploring, and wait for the late afternoon light and long shadows, since lighting is too flat during the middle of the day. Stay over night and go back again for early morn- ing pictures. You will find many fan- tastic forms you missed the previous day. If time permits walk south about two miles to the second big area which is more interesting than the first. There is no water in Goblin Valley, so a sufficient supply should be car- ried. In case of emergency water can be found in the canyon just west of Wild Horse Butte. While Goblin Valley is not connected with Capitol Reef National Monument, it is in the same general vicinity, and many of those who visit the Reef will want to extend their trip to cover this new scenic attraction. A log of the route can be obtained from the monu- ment superintendent. After wandering among the unnum- bered formations of Goblin Valley for a few hours the visitor will be over- whelmed by their number and variety, and will realize the impossibility of ever photographing all the interesting subjects. My advice is to shoot, shoot, and keep shooting as long as your film lasts; the results will be better than expected. Goblin Valley can be reached from either Hanksville or Greenriver over a desert road which is sometimes good but frequently rough. There are lunch room, gas station and limited accom-

DESERT MAGAZINE modations in Hanksville. The best a shovel and plenty of water. The and unspoiled, and for those who want way to travel is by jeep, but ordinary Jackson brothers, of Fremont, Utah, something new and startling in pictures, cars can get within about two miles will conduct jeep trips on request. a trip to Goblin Valley will more than before encountering heavy sand. Carry For those who like their desert wild repay the effort involved. Michael Malloy with one of his recent desert paintings "The Barranca." He found Dignity in Art

By JOHN W. HILTON you won in the end. That's what's im- Michael Malloy was a tra- portant, Mike, you won. We all gits HE SCENE was in Kid Howard's peze performer in a circus, a knocked down in this game sooner or Arcade in Chicago, the year professional prize-fighter, a law later, but we gits up and goes on. 7 1925. A big man had just en- student—and then he found the Tain't nuthin to be 'shamed of." tered the gymnasium and was being thing he really wanted to do, "But 1 don't like it," the big man greeted by the veteran trainer Jack and for many years he has replied. "Look at the clumsy pose the Blackburn. been a painter of the desert photographer caught as I was going "Well, Mike," he drawled "1 s'pose landscape. Here is the story of down. Look at the expression on my you-all's sort of big stuff now that you a successful western artist face. I tell you, Jack, it isn't dignified won a fight in Madison Square Gar- whose home is at Twentynine and I'm going to quit. I think I'll try den. I s'pose there's no stoppin' you Palms, California. to make something of myself as a now." painter." It was a gentle voice that answered Jack studied him a moment through —entirely too gentle to fit the great have put up the fight I did if I had not half closed eyes and then his face broke physique of a heavyweight boxer. "No, been matched with a man who thought into a wide smile. "Well, you all surely Jack, you're wrong—quite wrong. I'm this would be his chance for an easy did pick on somethin' dignified, Mr. not going on to be a fighter. I have de- knock-out. I don't think the game is Mike—mighty dignified. 1 saw some cided to quit the game. I like sports. for me, Jack. I've had enough pro- of the things you draw and they're That is why I took up boxing. You fessional fights to know. This is the mighty pretty, so you jist go on bein' know as I do, it was an accident that third in the Garden. Just look at this dignified an' come in and see me got me into it professionally. You picture." sometime." know well enough that if the taxi door Jack Blackburn scrutinized the news- They shook hands and Michael Mal- had not slammed on Jumping Joey paper photo the other man took out loy walked out of the Gym into a new McCann's hand and broken some fin- of his pocket, then looked at his friend life—the life of an artist. gers, I would never have gone into and smiled. "You sure was knocked There had been other things before that preliminary bout. I would not down in that third round all right but this fight game had claimed him. For

8 DESERT MAGAZINE a while, he had been with Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey's Circus, where he had met and made friends with Charlie Ringling and Lillian Liet- zel, the great aerialist. It was through the influence of the latter that Michael became a man on the flying trapeze. This lasted until he had a fall and was injured. After that he worked with the elephants and whatever he could do around the circus. All this time he had been drawing and paint- ing a bit, and studying when he could. Michael Malloy found, as others be- fore him had discovered, that being an artist was a good deal more than just starting in and painting. There were years of study and uncertainty—years in which he wondered at times if it was really worth it. Even dignity might have too high a price. He studied with the famous Paul Evans and Romero Hansus in Chicago. He wandered West and at one time decided to quit painting and take up law. Near the end of the second year of his law studies, he became ill and his doctor advised that he get out into the open. Malloy's painting of the sandstone country in northern Arizona "Off the His doctor knew a retired medical Beaten Path." man in Sonora, Mexico, who had a gold mine and he suggested that remove some of the logs and drive on, Handing it back to Michael, his face Michael and another patient should but as they got out of their car they showed no change of expression. In team up and go down to visit his were confronted with a circle of rifles the same calm conversational tone, he friend and perhaps do a bit of prospect- and saw the glint of others coming out warned. "Eet ees not good to take ing. of the heavy brush. peectures here — not healthy," and The pair arrived at the border, only Soon they were in a Yaqui camp rode away. to learn that an uprising was in prog- where they were questioned, but Needless to say, Michael kept his ress among the Yaqui Indians. They treated well. The next morning, Mi- camera out of sight and decided to let spent several days trying to get across chael remembered seeing a pair of Fed- his newspaper friend take his own war and finally had the luck to meet a eral soldiers hanging by their necks pictures. A few hours later they were Mexican citizen in one of the govern- from a nearby railroad trestle. This politely released when a sort of chief ment offices who knew the medical was an opportunity, he thought, to get appeared and found that they were man they wanted to visit. Finally, they a picture for a newspaper friend. friends of El Doctor and were going crossed the border with a paper which to see him. Michael prizes to this day. It stated There was a camera in the car. They that he and his partner could cross appeared to have free run of the camp, The rest of their trip was more or the border for a period of thirty days. so he strolled nonchalantly toward the less uneventful, at least compared to grizzly sight under the trestle and when the Yaqui interlude, but the only gold "But, Senor," Michael had expos- he was within good photographic dis- they found was in the hearts of some tulated, "we want to stay much longer tance opened the camera and snapped of the Mexican friends they made. than thirty days—we might want to several shots. Michael came back to the states with stay six months." Just then a very large Yaqui Indian a great admiration for the Mexican The new found benefactor smiled on horseback came up behind him. people and a decision to drop his law suavely. "But look at the paper more He could speak some English. "Eet studies and paint—paint out of doors closely. You will notice it is not dated, ees a good camera that you carry where it's healthy. my friends. It is very official looking, senor, no?" senores, and I am sure no one will It was his western landscapes that question it. Dates—" he shrugged his "Yes, it's a pretty good camera, all eventually paid off and in Pasadena, shoulders and smiled again. "We can- right," answered Michael, trying to California, where he had a beautiful not be bothered with dates. Have a keep his voice steady. studio, his first real recognition came. good trip and find much gold." "Let me see eet, please," said the From then on, he painted with greater Yaqui and stooped over to take it from and greater facility and appreciation Against the advice of every Ameri- Michael's hand. Then he opened it as of nature around him. can in Nogales, they crossed the border carefully as if he knew all the mech- with their old car loaded with provi- anisms of good cameras and removed His painting led Michael Malloy up sions, mining tools and even a case of the spool of film with equal care. Very the coast to Alaska, down to Monterey dynamite. It was a nice load to carry deliberately, he unrolled the film and to paint cypress, and many points in into the teeth of a brewing revolution. held it up to the sun. Then, with great between. Soon, however, his prefer- Two days later things really started deliberation, he rolled it up and put it ence became desert subjects and his happening. They ran into a road block back into the camera and carefully canvases reflected the glories of the of logs and, seeing no one, decided to closed its back. Navajo country, the Grand Canyon

MAY, 1952 and other outstanding sections of the are George Sturtevant of Trona, Capt. Desert, Paul B. Hubbard and James desert. R. A. Gibson of Palm Springs, T. R. Nosser of Johannesburg, Sidney Smith The war interrupted his painting Goodwin and Charles A. Scholl of of Glendale, Frank Latta of Bakers- for a while. He served in the Coast Death Valley, W. R. Harriman of field and Maury L. Sorrells of Sho- Guard with the rank of lieutenant, but Hemet, Randall Henderson of Palm shone.—Los Angeles Times. with the war over, he came back to his real love. Trips to the desert to sketch finally Here's another lesson in the School of the interested him in Twentynine Palms, Desert Rat. Questions in this list call for a and it is there today that he lives with Desert Quiz wide range of knowledge, all pertaining to the his wife Helen. Now, nearly all of Great American Desert. To make a perfect score you should know a little Michael's paintings are desert scenes. about desert history, mineralogy, geography, botany, and the Indian He has learned to love every little part tribesmen. But if you do not already know the answers, this is a good time of it. His appreciation of the tiny to learn them. A score of 12 to 14 is fair, 15 to 17 is good, 18 or over is plants around him is shown in the excellent. The answers are on page 26. painstaking detail to be found in the foreground and mid-distance of a Mal- 1—Coolest clothing to wear in the desert's summer heat is—Green loy painting. White Olive Drab Yellow Where the Malloys live, on the top 2—Highest mountain visible from the desert is in—Arizona New of a high hill in the desert, Michael Mexico Utah California watches every bush and tiny plant that 3—Author of the famous stories about the frog that never learned to is about to come into blossom. He has swim was—Isaac Walton Frank Dobie Harry Oliver made friends with the animals too, and Dick Wick Hall puts water and food out nightly for his 4—Ancestral home of the Chemehuevi Indians was—Along the Colorado little neighbors. There are several kan- River In the Cocopah Mountains In Salt River Valley garoo rats that have become very tame On the shores of Pyramid Lake and one, called "Hopalong," eats out 5—Palm Springs is at the base of—Mt. Whitney Catalina Moun- of Michael's hand. A kit fox is almost tains Wasatch Range San Jacinto Mountains a nightly visitor and at times the coy- otes come into the yard for a drink or 6—The stream which Major Powell called the Dirty Devil River is now a snack. known as—Fremont Creek Bright Angel Creek Virgin River Little Colorado River Malloy paintings now hang in most of the better western galleries, featur- 7—The squash blossom hair dress is worn by Hopi Indian girls—Only ing desert landscapes. They show a at the annual snake dance When they are married As sincerity and attention to detail that evidence they are ready to marry When in mourning appeals to many, and are to be found 8—The state which lies northwest of the famous "Four Corners" is— on the walls of fine homes in cities and Utah Colorado New Mexico Arizona the desert itself. If Michael's old 9—Going by the most direct paved road from Indio, California, to trainer could see him now, wearing his Wickenburg, Arizona, you would cross the Colorado River at— beret and flowing tie to the opening Yuma Parker Topoc Ehrenberg of an art gallery or a one-man show, 10—The postoffice of Tonalea, Arizona, is sometimes known as—Red he would agree that his friend at last Lake Inscription House Kaibito Dinnehotso had found a way of life that is "mighty dignified." 11—Among the native trees of the Southwest the best for shade purposes • • • is the—Palm Joshua Tree Smoke tree Mesquite DEATH VALLEY 49ERS ELECT 12—Obsidian is — Metamorphic rock Igneous rock Sedi- ARDIS WALKER PRESIDENT mentary rock Conglomerate TRONA—Ardis M. Walker, Kern 13—Hank Monk was a famous—Bandit Mountain Man Stage County supervisor and descendent of driver Indian scout gold rush pioneers, was elected presi- 14—To enter scenic Oak Creek Canyon from the north you would leave dent of Death Valley 49ers, Inc., at Highway 66 at—Winslow Flagstaff Williams Ash- the annual meeting in Trona, Califor- fork nia. Walker, who lives in Kernville, is the author of several books on Cali- 15—In firing their pottery the pueblo women of the Southwest prefer to fornia. His family discovered Yosem- use—Dry aspen wood Cedar wood Coal Dry ite Valley and led the first expedition manure across the Sierra. 16—Mature fruit of the most common species of prickly pear cactus is— Other officers elected are John An- Green Red Indigo Lemon yellow son Ford of Hollywood, vice-president; Arthur W. Walker of San Bernardino, 17—Carlsbad Caverns are in—Arizona Texas Colorado treasurer, and Joe Micciche of Los New Mexico Angeles, secretary. 18—If you started down the Colorado River from Blythe in a boat, the New directors include John Hilton first dam you would encounter would be—Davis dam Laguna of Twentynine Palms, Lt. Gov. Cliff dam Imperial dam Coolidge dam Jones of Nevada, Harry E. Lee of 19—The Grand Canyon book titled Listen, Bright Angel, was written by— Lone Pine, Seth Droubay of Inyo George Wharton James Edwin Corle Oren Arnold . County, R. R. Henderson of Ontario, W. A. Chalfant Mrs. George Palmer Putnam of Death Valley, Dave Olmsted of Long Beach 20—Only one of the following towns was never the capital of Arizona— and Floyd B. Evans of Pasadena. Yuma Prescott Tucson Phoenix Re-elected to the board of directors

10 DESERT MAGAZINE This photograph of a polished section of moss agate was taken by E. J. Sexton of Helena, Montana, and exhibited in the Chicago Museum of Natural History. There's Beauty Inside Those Ancient Pebbles

For many years the ancient terraces of smooth-rounded beach up a strange little phantom of Time's pebbles found on the mesas and slopes bordering both sides of the kindergarten days—the skeletal impres- lower Colorado River have been yielding prize specimens to rock col- sion of a trilobite, a relic that dates lectors. These pebbles include many kinds of fossil material, petrified back millions of years. wood, jasper, chalcedony, agate and moss agate—but the beauty of A fascinating story of geological his- these stones is seldom revealed on their surfaces, and it is only through tory was disclosed in that palm-sized trial and error in the lapidary that the collector eventually learns to pebble—a story with many missing distinguish the good cutting material from the ordinary rock. Here is chapters. We can only guess that this the story of a field which has an inexhaustible supply of cabochon fragile little crustacean—one of a great material close by a paved highway. and varied family which swarmed in the oceans of all the Paleozoic ages— By HAROLD WEIGHT died and settled to the bottom, to be Map by Norton Allen buried in clay and calcium carbonate and sea slime. There the little beast Y SISTER, Viola, made the Colorado River opposite Needles, Cali- itself vanished, but its external skeleton prize discovery on our collect- fornia. survived, though perhaps altered to ing trip to the ancient beach Among the hard smooth-worn rocks limestone, until the clay packed around terraces on the Arizona side of the that compose these terraces she picked it became claystone and until percolat-

MAY, 1952 11 inTH^H — — ...rv." ., - •:, ••< way, walk a few feet and hunt out

••"•:•, ;', choice specimens, fine cutting material. 'i- '•' jj11 , - w v But the very fact that it is alongside the highway delayed our exploration 1 • •••• •;•••" ^SiH for a long time. We were always com- ing or going to or from somewhere— and in a hurry! Then last fall my mother and sister , •- yW. moved to Needles, where my sister is •;<\^~ >' teaching in the high school. The easily accessible pebble terraces lie almost directly across the Colorado from u•* -•'.. Needles, and we knew that with a ! ** i headquarters so close, we were going *£, • ?* <; •• '"* • '"•' •• to be able to enjoy some rock hunting. --,1(7- ,• • »*r- "J?< •'•"••• The first hunt took place after the Thanksgiving turkey had settled suf- (.**•• ' • •" *»; ^_ • bfl ficiently, though it looked for a while as though we would have to take a

; rain check. There was a heavy fall - "• • - • i • during the night and dark clouds con- H Sp» .'- *••• ,j(^ cealed the Black Mountains across the river, and came down almost to ',... • >'s*&rh the river itself. But when the clouds • •:••' •>•%,>•;#> ;;• ^./ iA^ lifted and the sun shafted through, we set out. /'•

DESERT MAGAZINE under the protection of their fellow troopers. California miners with Carleton's forces soon found good prospects on Silver Creek, about four miles north of present Oatman, and beside the waterholes there they established the first settlement in the area. F. L. Ran- some, investigating the geology of the district for the Geological Survey in 1923 found the walls of 12 stone cab- ins still standing. When I first visited Silver Creek in 1946, I could locate only three. When this settlement was founded, it was in Dona Ana County, Territory of New Mexico. The Terri- tory of Arizona was not created until 1864. The gold rush into the area started in 1863 or 1864, after John Moss lo- cated the Moss vein, north of Silver Creek. According to some stories, a friendly Indian led him to the spot where he found reddish-brown quartz covered with flakes, incrustations and beads of gold up to the size of a hazel- nut. It is said that he took $240,000 from a hole ten feet square and ten feet deep on the outcropping. Some of the ore, sent to San Francisco, re- portedly netted $57,000 a ton. In the early days the ore there had to be rich. Some was worked in little stamp mills by the Colorado. But most of it was packed by burro to the river, shipped by river steamer to Puerta Isabel near the mouth of the Colorado, and thence to San Francisco. From there it might go to Wales for treat- ment. Supplies from San Francisco to Camp Mohave, by river boat, cost

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MAY, 1952 13 pedition, had commented upon them. And his description of some found farther down the Colorado also fits those in the Mohave Valley: "The gravel beds are made up of material of two different classes: First, angular fragments of granite, trap, porphyry, etc., brought down from the neighboring hills and forming long slopes about their bases; second, rolled and rounded pebbles of various sizes, composed of all forms of erupted rock, with silicified wood, jasper, chalcedony, and occasionally chert containing cor- als and crinoidal stems; the latter de- rived, as I subsequently ascertained, from the Carboniferous limestone many hundred miles above." Then, early in 1910, it looked as if the pebble deposits might prove com- mercially valuable. At that time the mills at Oatman and Gold Road were in constant operation. Most of these This impression of the skeleton of a trilobite has been preserved in almost reduction plants used what were known imperishable stone millions of years. Actual pebble size is 23A by IV2 as tube mills in their processes. These inches. Harold Weight photo. were revolving metal cylinders half filled with flint pebbles and often lined with the same kind of pebbles set in $77.50 a ton in 1868. Ore going back man. It is partly due to the coming cement. The tube mills were used for on the empty boats was carried for completion of the highway cut-off, and the fine grinding of ores, which were $15 a ton. partly to the fact that the operators of fed into the upper end, mixed with Mining continued through the 1870s, the Tom Reed are auctioning off the water. '80s, and '90s, but the first big pro- mine equipment, killing hopes of early These mills used five tons of the ducer which created Oatman was the reactivation there. But I doubt if Oat- flint pebbles at a loading, and the peb- Tom Reed. This ledge, then called man will become a ghost. Too many bles were constantly wearing away. the Blue Ridge, was struck about 1901. people like the little camp in its spec- Until 1910 all of these pebbles, which The community which grew up around tacular mountain setting for it to be were carefully selected for uniformity it also was called Blue Ridge. Its name completely abandoned. And there al- of size were shipped from the Scan- was changed to Oatman on January 1, ways is the hope that a change in dinavian countries where, reportedly, 1909, in memory of Olive Oatman United States economic conditions will they were collected upon the sea coasts. who, with her younger sister, was held permit a revival of Western mining. In April of that year Bob Zuver of captive in the vicinity by the Mohave After leaving Topock, where we Oatman and Henry Lovin, who had Indians after the famous Oatman mas- zeroed the speedometer, we made our stores in several mining camps and sacre of 1851. The Indian village first stop to investigate the river peb- was known as the "Merchant King of where they were held reportedly was bles on the west side of the highway Mohave County," reported they had on the site of the Tom Reed pumping at three miles; we stopped again at discovered flint pebbles along the Colo- station. four miles, on the east, and at a little rado, only a few miles away. In 1910, a bar of bullion weighing less than six miles and at seven miles on the west. There are many other The Colorado River flints were 364V2 ounces and valued at $75,000 tested at the Gold Road and Tom represented one month's production at spots where the river terraces are ex- posed or where they can be reached. Reed mills and declared to be superior the Tom Reed. By 1931 it had pro- to the ones shipped from such a great duced $13,053,400 and it continued At the last mentioned mileage there is the remnant of an old road branch- distance at much expense. These mills as a leading Arizona mine almost until reportedly let contracts for hundreds its closing in 1939. The United East- ing back to the southwest which will permit the rockhunter to get some dis- of tons of the river pebbles. "As they ern, discovered in 1915, brought the are found along nearly its entire boom to Oatman all over again. It tance off the highway in dry weather, and close to a ridge where the exposed length," the Salt Lake Mining Review closed in 1924 with a gross of over declared, "the supply is sufficient for $14,000,000. The Gold Road, dis- pebbles are still cemented in their con- glomerate. But in wet weather, when general usage throughout the country covered by Joe Jeneres in 1902, pro- and a new industry seems assured." duced more than $6,000,000 before it we tried it, it proved to be the most closed in 1931. It came to life when slippery surface imaginable. Great gobs So far as we have been able to de- gold was upped to $35 an ounce and of the red-brown clay collected on our termine, the new industry did not de- reportedly produced even more before shoes, and it took the four-wheel drive velop to any extent. Perhaps it was it was forced to shut down in World to enable the car to regain the high- found that the percentage of flint peb- War II. way. bles of the right size was too small to Since the war, the camps in this We were not the first ones to show make their collection possible. Or pos- district have been able to show but interest in the Colorado River pebbles sibly the shift from pebble mills to little activity and none of the big mines in this area. Way back in 1858, J. S. those using metal balls or bars de- has reopened. In the past few months Newberry, the geologist with Lieut. J. stroyed the market. there has been a new exodus from Oat- C. Ives' Colorado River exploring ex- But if the Colorado River terraces

14 DESERT MAGAZINE Looking across the Colorado River into Arizona near Topock bridge. The terraces and hills between the mountains and the river are largely composed of pebbles and pebble conglomerate carrying agate, jasper, chalcedony and fossil wood. Harold Weight photo. did not prove a commercial bonanza, of a 'collectable' rock. For the beauty I feel there is some ultimate truth in they will prove a treasure land for of the river pebbles is disguised—and this queer messenger from across the rockhounds, as those along other sec- you can't expect them to introduce vastness of Time—if I could but com- tions of the river have in the past. themselves. What looks like a rough prehend it. Is it that the world is and Beautiful cutting material can be ob- quartz pebble at a quick glance might always has been a testing place for tained by those who are willing to hunt be a fine agate!" life forms? That any species which for it, although it will not be found in Or what looks like a worthless bit cannot cure its internal weaknesses, large pieces or in quantity of any par- of brownish chert might prove to be defeat its external enemies and adapt ticular kind. We found good rocks at another ghost trilobite. itself to an environment which might each of the areas we checked, and that I hold that small miracle in my change radically, will in time become without going far from the pavement hands now, and as I try to imagine no more—and perhaps even less—than —and the supply is virtually inexhaus- the steps by which it reached those a skeletal impression in a weathered tible. hands, my mind balks as if it senses the pebble on a rock midden beside a Of course, there is a pebble collect- brink of an unexplainable abyss. Yet desert river. ing technique, just as there is a tech- nique for collecting most materials. I think Lucile has summed it up rather lite Sfant 0iedit well in her notes on our Thanksgiving "You can't expect anybody to give the custody of officials who are respon- hunt: you a loan unless you are doing some- sible for lending it to individuals under "Just by watching our own party I thing which will enable you to pay it certain rules and regulations. can understand how many could walk back." These words of an old Ute Because of the trust status of the through such a pebble area and say, tribal leader express his people's atti- Indians' property, and the misguided disappointed, 'I don't see a thing.' tude toward the new million-dollar Ute belief that the Indians are wards of the credit plan recently put into operation. government with no legal responsibility "It is surprising to discover what for their actions, it often is difficult for The Utes, by collective action, have beautiful moss and other patterns lie them to obtain credit through ordinary invested $1,000,000 in a credit pro- just under the often pitted, 'crazed' or channels. otherwise weathered surface of a river gram for use of their members who wish to finance business undertakings. Interest rate on loans is established pebble (they've had a hard time!). A at four percent, the rate at which the good way to do this kind of collecting Indian Agency officials emphasize money would otherwise draw interest is just to sit down—if you wish, have that the fund is not a private till for with the U. S. Treasury. One excep- a hooked stick or a little rake— and Utes who wish to draw money for no tion is educational loans, which bear bring the rocks to you. Your eyes take special purpose. Money invested in it the old interest rate of three percent. time to become adjusted to the signs belongs to the Ute tribe, and is under —Vernal Express.

MAY, 1 952 15 Hopi Girl By PHYLLIS W. HEALD This true story was one of the prize-winning manuscripts in Desert Magazine's "Life on the Desert" contest in 1951. MET HER in Flagstaff last summer during the if they have come back at all, they have returned as Indian Pow-wow. She was not attending the Pow- strangers. Hot dogs, juke boxes and automobiles have wow, she was taking an English course at the altered their standards of living to such a degree that college there. But it was an appropriate time to meet they never can be satisfied again with such simple food her as she is a full blooded Hopi Indian. as maize and meal, or Indian chants and horse-drawn I shall call her "Mary" in this story because some- wagons. how, in the quiet beauty of her face; the deep fathom- It is true that Mary came back changed also. No less sorrow in her eyes; the soft, appealing quality of one with intelligence and imagination can rub shoulders her voice which plays upon the English language like with a great civilization and not see some good in it, a flute; and her calm, ageless dignity, she is a modern not gain some benefits and not show the result of such Madonna—symbol of a new life for the American contacts. But when Mary came back the Hopis could Indian; a new outlook; a new place in their country's not distinguish the wheat from the chaff, to them she history. was just another Indian girl who had deserted her Mary is not young, possibly 40, and she teaches people, her family, her friends. That she returned was the Hopi children of her native village. She told me not important—she would always be different. She the story of her life. It is not exciting in the modern would always be "not quite all Indian" ever again. sense of the word, but it is filled with an inner struggle And the wonder of it is Mary understands this to learn, to understand, to help. viewpoint. She is sympathetic to it but she is realistic As a young girl she left her home to go out into the enough to know their thinking can't be changed. So Christian world and get an education so as to try and she does not waste her time trying to overcome the comprehend the strange and fantastic ideas, the good handicap and get completely back into their good graces. and evil, the white man was teaching her people. She Between her arduous tasks of teaching and helping had heard Indian children speak disrespectfully to their with all community problems, Mary is writing. Charm- elders, forgetting their rearing, their gods, their beliefs, ing true stories, told mostly for children, for Mary is as the white man's mode of thinking filtered into, and convinced that if the young people of two races can confused, their own thoughts. And worst of all, she learn to understand and respect each other, the others had seen the lore, the legends, the history, the very follow suit. So her Indian tales are of the Rain Gods, essence of Indian life fading into oblivion through in- of seed planting time, of family love, of an Indian difference and the tendency of youth to forget the past child's thoughts. Thus with the rare combination of an and think only of the future. ability to tell her story in English yet retain the authen- No wonder Mary's eyes were sad as she told me tic Indian flavor, Mary is doing something beautiful these things! and worthwhile. "So I went out into the world," she continued We sat together that evening in Flagstaff and listened gently. "I gave up my birthright to try and understand to Miss Erna Fergusson give a stimulating talk on what was happening to my people and find a way to "Writing of the Southwest." One statement of Miss help them. My mother never completely forgave me. Fergusson's was especially new and stimulating, at least She is a very, very old woman now and in her heart to me. She said, "The great novel of the Southwest has and head are stored wonderful Indian stories, prophe- not been written as yet and it is very possible that it will cies and legends that will die with her generation, but be done by an Indian." she will not tell them to me for she is convinced I am As Miss Fergusson spoke I could visualize a whole not pure enough to know them. I cannot make her new concept of the West. Its greatness and its glory understand that I want to preserve them, to write them seen though the eyes of its native people and told with down so they won't be forgotten." She was silent for the wisdom of their inherent understanding. a second then continued, "In another generation the After the lecture I said to Mary. "There's your Indian may not even know his own language. The life work, Mary." youngsters are bored with the idea of sitting at their But Mary shook her head. "No. That is not for elder's knee and learning history by word of mouth." me to do. Possibly its author has been born but if so Mary explained that she went to a denominational he is a very little boy as yet. It will take another gen- school and college in Los Angeles. She studied Chris- eration at least, to prepare the Indian mind for such a tianity with all the intensity that her eager young mind task. The blending of the two civilizations must be could absorb. perfect, and the understanding of both ways of life "But I had to give it up," she admitted ruefully. "I complete." could find no way to connect the teachings of Christ "But you have that!" I exclaimed enthusiastically. with modern civilization. Christianity is a beautiful "That's what's so wonderful!" concept, but the Christians of today have no concep- "No. I am too much Indian underneath and too tion of it. So I returned to my people, not to bring much pale face on the surface. The ingredients are Christianity to them but to help try and preserve the here," and she touched her heart, "but the blend is not richness and beauty of our own culture." quite right." And for once her eyes lighted with true It is ironical that in Mary's effort to help her race happiness as she added. "But Miss Fergusson is cor- she has somewhat lost face with them. So many young rect. The story must be told, and some day an Indian Indians have gone out into the white man's world and, will tell it."

16 DESERT MAGAZINE When White Hat Returned to the Land of the Witch Woman

Faith in their ancient customs By RICHARD VAN VALKENBURGH and traditions still runs strong among the Navajo Indians—and woe be to the white man who FTER A month's study of an- Little did we suspect as we traveled trespasses too iar into the strange cient Indian burials in the wild across the Navajo reservation that we world of tribal religion. Here is rincons of the Canon Blanco were heading into one of the most un- one of the most amazing stories in northwestern New Mexico, Dr. John usual adventures that we were to ex- ever to come out of the Navajo P. Harrington of the Smithsonian In- perience in our many years with the country—written by a man who stitution and I were glad to shake the Indian tribes of the Southwest. When spent many years among these cave dust off our clothing and head for it was all over, we agreed with Trader Indians as archeologist and In- the comforts of home at Fort Defiance, Mike Kirk's statement, "Anything can dian Service employe. Arizona. happen in the Navajo country."

This primitive drawing, made soon after White Hat's funeral, is the work of Ayoonalnezhi, the Very Tall Chanter. The owl, omen of bad luck, was included in the picture and the symbol in the lower right corner is the Hadjinah, through which all Navajo spirits pass downward into the Underworld. The Navajo do not permit photographs of a burial.

MAY, 1952 17 knives. Benjo, the elder son, called for Ayoonalnezhi, the Very Tall Chan- ter from Woodrat Spring. "After looking at the stars, Ayoonal- nezhi knew that demons were causing the trouble in White Hat's back. Benjo sent for Hastin Dijoli, the Round Man from Sunrise Springs, to hold the Devil Driving ceremony. "For four days and nights Hastin Dijoli sang over White Hat. Using powerful songs and blackening medi- cine he worked hard to drive out the demons. Ayoonalnezhi helped and friends came from all over the moun- tain. But the medicine was not strong enough, and old uncle got worse. "Hoping that the white doctors might help with their kind of medicine, Benjo got his papa on a wagon and came down off the mountain. They reached here yesterday. The White doctors looked at old uncle. They shook their heads and said that he was so sick that they would have to cut him open." As White Hat's folks were old friends, and had given me, as well as my guests, including Randall Hender- son of Desert Magazine, the hospitality of their hogans, we made them as com- fortable as possible. While Ruth, my wife, prepared supper, John and I went over to check with the hospital. It was the old story of what medical men have faced for many years on the Navajo reservation. When the medi- cine men had given up all hope, the patient had been sent to the hospital. The diagnosis was a ruptured kidney, and White Hat's only chance for life was an operation. Next morning White Hat went on the operating table. The surgeons did everything they could. But — before the operation was over, the spirit of the old Navajo had left this world, and had started downward toward the Na- vajo Land of the Dead—into the realm of the Witch Woman. With this grim turn of events I For White Hat's last resting place Benjo, the elder son, selected a rock knew that we were in for an ordeal. crevice hidden in a small clearing in the pines of Nazlini Canyon in For with their great horror of han- northeastern Arizona. dling the dead the Navajo pass off their undertaking jobs to their White broth- ers. From the beginning, this has been When we reached our apartment, Hat. When he spoke of this to Bakaih, one of the services given the Navajo by where warm baths and clean clothes the chanter said that this was an omen understanding government employes, were awaiting us, we found visitors of bad luck—or even death. clergymen and traders. there. Squatting on the floor, with their "In the time of the 'Small Winds' Benjo immediately designated me to blankets wrapped around their heads Bakaih's words began to ride with act as yd iila'i, or chief mourner. It as a gesture of extreme grief, was the White Hat. Chush, the bear, got tired was his wish that his father be removed family of White Hat, an old medicine of eating Chee Dodge's sheep up on from Fort Defiance and buried accord- man from Fluted Rock on the Defi- Sonsola, and came down and started ing to old Navajo custom. Never hav- ance Plateau. on our flocks. He killed many before ing witnessed a primitive Navajo burial It did not take long for Benny, one he was shot by the government stock- John readily agreed to give his assist- of the Indians, to break the bad news: man from Fort Defiance. ance. "Doyachonda! T'is bad hastin. Last "When snow came, Telli, the burro, Our first chore was to go down to summer, while perched on the limb slipped on the ice near Bat Trail and Bill Stagg's trading post and buy White of a tree struck by lightning, Nasjaa, gave old uncle a bad fall. Soon his Hat a complete outfit of new clothing. the owl, hooted four times at White back was full of rough edged flint At noon John and I went over to 18 DESERT MAGAZINE the hospital. Being assured by the nurse in charge that White Hat was ready for burial we went into the morgue. On the table there lay a plain coffin made of pine. The lid was nailed down, and over it was tacked a strip of purple bunting. When we carried the coffin out to my coupe 1 commented, "John—this coffin seems very light. White Hat used to be a heavy man. He must have lost a lot of weight since I saw him last winter helping out at a Night Chant near the Sawmill." The funeral procession formed when we started to wind through the red and buff streaked walls of Canyon Bonito. John and Dot Keur, anthropologists from New York City, followed in their car. Behind them came two pickups spilling over with White Hat's kins- men from Fort Defiance and the Rio Puerco. Slowly the cortege bumped upward over the Chinle Trail finally to reach the pine forest that blankets the De- fiance Plateau. Some miles beyond the rusty-black pinnacles of Fluted Rock, Several months before his death, White Hat and his wife consented to pose Benjo stepped out and signaled us off for this picture beside their winter hogan on the Defiance Plateau in the main trail. Following a dim track northern Arizona. The baby is a grandchild. patterned by alternate patches of light and shadow we traveled toward the head of Nazlini Canyon. who come to steal the grave offerings, Motioning for John to sit tight 1 or take body parts for witch's medi- jumped into my car and tore off For his father's grave Benjo had cine. Good Navajos take the long way through the forest toward the Fluted selected a small clearing that sloped around to avoid a grave. Rock Fire Tower. After reaching the off through the pines into the sunlit "It requires four days for the breath phone I stirred up the doctor in charge cliffs of Nazlini Canyon. I thought as of life to make the journey down of the hospital. In no gentle words I I looked at the place, "No man, what- through Hadjinah, or the Place of told him that he'd better locate White ever his color or position in life, could Emergence into the Underworld. Once Hat pronto—or that there could be ask for a more beautiful resting place there, it joins the spirits of those who some more funerals, and that they than this ..." have passed down. And in this World, might not be Navajo! Nearby, a pretty sorrel pony, fully where the Navajo were created by First bridled and saddled, was nibbling on White Hat's body finally was lo- Man and Woman, everyone takes part cated in one of the mortuary coolers. the grass. It saddened me to realize in the rituals conducted by the Digin that Benjo was following old Navajo In a short time he was in another cof- Dine'eh, or Divine People." fin and really on his way up the moun- custom to the letter. His father's fa- With these words running through vorite pony was to be killed over the tain. Once they were sure that he was my mind I helped John as he rever- there, the Navajo quieted down. Then grave so that he might accompany his ently lifted the coffin from the car. master into the Underworld. —just as the sun sank below the silver Some distance away a crowd of Nav- and turquoise rims of Black Mountain, While the wind of summer played ajos watched. Just before we reached we buried our old friend in the style White Hat's requiem through the pines the crevice, which was to be the grave, befitting a Navajo hathli, or medicine I remembered what my friend Ayoonal- Benjo stopped us with: "I'd like to see man. nezhi, one of the greatest of Navajo my papa once more. I want to be sure When the story leaked out over the philosophers, had said of the Navajo he's dressed good, and has on his best belief of the hereafter. Holding stead- Navajo grapevine there were serious turquoise beads." repercussions. A few days after the fast to the traditions of his forefathers, While I did not relish opening the the Navajo's hereafter is a fitting ex- incident Henry Chee Dodge, the tribal coffin, I got a screwdriver from the leader, came in for a talk. While a tension of his life on this earth. car and started to pry off the lid. "In every living being there are two Navajo orderly had been given the When it loosened I motioned for Benjo blame, some of the tribesmen were not elements—the material part, or body- to come closer. He watched fearfully shell, and the spirit, or breath of life. satisfied with the explanation that as I slowly pried up the creaking lid. White Hat had been mislaid. When the breath of life passes from Then—John and I got the shock of the body-shell through the lips and our lives. The coffin was empty! They suspected Bilakana skuldug- whorls of the hands and feet, that We stood there dumbfounded while gery, and were making demands. Had which is known as death, comes. In the Navajo pulled their blankets around these been met by Chee, and other time, the flesh and bones return to their heads muttering dire threats tribal leaders, the Indian Office would Mother Earth. against the Bilakana tricksters who have had something to conjure with. "The Chindi, or Evil Spirits of the would do such a thing as this. With For — the Navajo were demanding Dead, come when the breath of life the tension as tight as a drawn bow- that all of the coffins in the Fort De- has left the body-shell. They eternally string I knew I must find the answer fiance hospital cemetery be opened to stay with the remains to harass those to this dilemma very quickly. see if they had occupants!

MAY, 1952 19 uranium development were the exten- sion of the tribe's power to negotiate leases with non-Indian miners, and a provision allowing Indians to assign their own permits to white operators. Navajos without capital thus could acquire outside help to get into pro- duction.—San Juan Record. Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . Ely, Nevada . . . Oil and gas lands in the San Juan Plans for developing tungsten prop- Las Vegas, Nevada . . . Basin have brought $4,000,000 profit erty in White Pine County have been Severe storms which crippled Ne- to New Mexico's Jicarilla Apaches. In announced by Herman M. Cooley, vada transportation and mining facili- the last 18 months, 25 major oil com- Winnemucca mining operator, who is ties during January caused sharp de- panies have purchased 10-year oil and assured the location will become a pro- creases in production of copper and gas leases on 288,477 acres of Jicarilla lific producer of high grade ore. Cooley zinc. Copper production dropped 32 lands. If any company strikes oil, the has immediate plans to sink a shaft at percent below the December total and Apaches will receive a 12 percent roy- the Blue Light Mine, on Cherry Creek 28 percent below the monthly rate, alty. The tribe holds 650,000 acres of approximately 50 miles north of Ely, toppling the state from its national land in northwestern New Mexico.— to determine the extent of the deposit. ranking of fourth in 1951 to fifth in Mining Record. Outcroppings indicate it carries a high the month of January. Zinc output was • • • tungsten value. — Battle Mountain 17 percent below the 1951 monthly Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . Scout. rate.—Tonopah Times-Bonanza. Expected to speed up the hunt for • • • underground minerals in the Colorado Ruth, Nevada . . . Grants, New Mexico . . . Plateau, a faster and more accurate Preparations were rushed to dewater Anaconda Copper Mining Company means of detecting deposits of uranium Kennecott Copper Company's Star expects to begin construction immedi- has been developed by Atomic Energy Pointer shaft near Ruth after flooding ately on a uranium processing plant Commission engineers. Mounted on of Kellinske shaft broke through to near Grants, New Mexico. The mill motor vehicles, the "scintillation probe submerge the nine-level pump station. will handle ore from deposits on land and detecting device" is lowered into Water rushed into the Kellinske from of the Santa Fe Railroad Company test drill holes and then gradually a fissure that had been opened up by and from Navajo reservation lands to brought to the surface. It indicates blasting, and pressure forced an open- the northwest. It is estimated the cost on a pen line recorder the presence of ing into the Star Pointer. The flooding will be $2,500,000, and that actual gamma rays, given off by uranium and had no effect on work at the Deep processing operations will begin by radium.—Tucson Daily Citizen. Ruth which is approximately a mile • • • April, 1953.—Aztec Independent-Re- Kanab, Utah . . . northwest of the Kellinske. — Hum- view. Salinas Mining and Smelting Com- boldt Star. pany, which is doing extensive uranium • • • Tucson, Arizona . . . mining in the Orderville Gulch area Tombstone, Arizona . . . Plans for mining a large deposit of east of Zions Canyon, reports discov- Ghost mining towns of Gleeson and low-grade copper ore in the Catalina ery of a number of excellent ore bodies. Courtland a few miles northeast of Mountains have been announced by A company spokesman estimated the Tombstone may be revived. The old officials of the newly-organized Arizona ore would contain as much as .03 per- Tejon Mine at Gleeson has been leased Copper Mines. The mining property, cent uranium. — Kane County Stan- by William Ward and associates from located in the Old Hat mining district, dard. Steve Pryor, sole owner of the prop- lies 20 miles north of Tucson. The • • • erty for the last 10 years. New equip- total ore body is believed to contain Nevada City, California . . . ment is being moved to the copper and at least 100,000,000 tons of low-grade Minona Mining Company, a Minne- zinc mine, which was first developed ore, and is expected to develop into an sota corporation, has obtained title to in 1885. It was abandoned as a large extensive operation.—Humboldt Star. more than 1600 feet of channel be- producer over half a century ago.— San Pedro Valley Times. tween Birchville and French Corral, Fallon, Nevada . . . • • • 14 miles west of Nevada City. The Stressing its need as a mine access Tonopah, Nevada . . . property, 1300 acres in area, yields road, members of Churchill County Basic Refractories, Inc., has acquired a rich bedrock gravel. A dragline plant Chamber of Commerce urged federal the physical assets of Sierra Magnesite is processing 2000 yards daily, and and state highway officials to renew Company of Nevada, which includes the capacity is expected to be increased consideration of a highway north from a considerable number of placer claims to 4000 yards. Almost 20,000,000 Fallon to connect with Highway 40. as well as certain patented claims ad- yards of gravel are available.—Pioche The Kaiser-Aluminum Company, joining Basic's present property. Ac- Record. which will build a reduction mill at cording to H. P. Wells, Jr., president, • • • Fallon, is now seeking information on "the new claims will improve Basic's Aztec, New Mexico . . . all known deposits of fluorspar in the accessibility by low cost open pit meth- Blue Peak Mining Company at Az- area. "We understand there is an ex- ods to ore already developed in areas tec, presently shipping uranium ore to cellent deposit in Pershing County and which it presently leases and loans." the Shiprock, New Mexico, processing good showings of fluorspar to the —Tonopah Times-Bonanza. mill, will deliver to the nearer Ana- north," said Roy Durbin, chamber • • • conda Copper Company plant at president, "and a shorter route than Washington, D. C. . . . Grants as soon as the $2,500,000 via Fernley may be needed for the Sixty uranium claims are expected structure is completed. The Ana- ore haul." Construction of the road- to be filed by Navajos as soon as new conda mill is the eighth to be con- way has been urged for years by Chur- regulations opening operations on the structed in the area within the past chill and the counties to the north and reservation become effective. The two four years. — Aztec Independent-Re- south.—Fallon Standard. view. new principles expected to step up

2C DESERT MAGAZINE Pictures of the Month Indian Boys... What youngster wouldn't trade his Hopalong boots for a headdress like these! The two Paiute Indian boys were photographed at Pyramid, Ne- vada, by Andrew Crofut of Reno, winner of first prize in Desert's Febru- ary contest. The picture was taken at midday with a 4x5 speed graphic camera.

Mission... This composition framing Mission San Xavier del Bac in foreground greenery, won second prize for Hal Strong of Salt Lake City. Strong used a 4x5 speed graphic, Infra Red film and K-2 filter, 1/10 second at F. 11.

21 In observance of Memorial Day this year, Desert is presenting an unusual photo collec- tion of graves and tombstones which mark the burial plots of men and women who were pioneers in the desert country. Some of these frontiersmen of an earlier generation were saints, and some were sin- ners. Most of them came to the desert seek- ing wealth by honest methods, a few were drawn to the frontier for easy money with- The cemetery at Calico, California. (Desert '42) out regard for life or law. All of them passed to their just reward many years ago, and only these weathered tombstones remain as reminders of those days when life on the desert frontier was rugged and only the strong survived.

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Grave of John Hart at Vallecito, California (Desert, Mar. '42)

Long abandoned cemetery at the Tumco mines—formerly Hedges— in the Cargo Mucho Mountains of California. (Desert, Feb. '49)

Where Gus Lederer and Tommy Jones—veteran prospectors of the Chuckawalla Mountains—were buried at Tide Well, California. (Desert, Jan. '45) Ada Giddings mentions in her story, most likely is also an unusual one. It "Goler's Lost Gold" (March Desert). seems impossible to explain them in Harold remembers an amusing an- terms of natural processes. ecdote his father used to tell about Should sand containing a cement- "Crumpy," who Mrs. Giddings re- ing agent cover an area subject to ports was one of the most successful groundwater under pressure, most any miners in Goler Canyon. type of form might be expected to re- Sheds Light on Mystery . . . Crumpy was said to be a very large sult, especially if there were decayed Los Angeles, California and powerful man. One time he roots or channels in the sand for the Desert: hitched up a wagon with two jacks— water to follow. Ages later the top I have more than a passing interest named Brigham and Jackson — and sand would blow away and leave the in Ada Giddings' article, "Goler's Lost set out prospecting. He returned a unusual rock forms. Gold" (March Desert). Old "Slate week later, in the wagon traces pulling Sand spikes might result if the strata Range Jake," mentioned as "Jack Kur- with one of the mules. Brigham had were vertical. litz" (it should have been spelled died on the trip and Crumpy filled in. LESLIE E. BOWSER "Kuhrts") was my grandfather. Mecham related it was a most comical • • • I may be able to shed some light on sight. Rockhounds Within a Week . . . the mystery of where Goler went after KATE J. KLAPP San Gabriel, California disappearing from Los Angeles. Be- • • • Desert: fore he left, he borrowed a clock from Smartest thing I ever did was to pick my grandmother, and when he returned Knows Arrowhead Art . . . Granada Hills, California up a December issue of your maga- with it four years later he said he had zine. been in Death Valley. My grandmother Desert: never saw him again. In the March issue of Desert Maga- We — my husband, our nine-year- old son and I—had just gathered our I still have the clock in my posses- zine, James L. Cooper asked for in- formation about arrowheads. When I first rocks when we stopped for a sion. sandwich at Desert Beach. That beau- G. J. KUHRTS, JR. was 14 years old, I spent some time with the Winnebago Indians and tiful cover picture convinced us we learned the art of chipping arrowheads needed your magazine. "Crumpy" in the Traces . . . and making other types of tools. Since then we have indeed become San Bernardino, California Should Mr. Cooper like to try chip- collectors—of a Mineralight, Fenton's Desert: ping a point, I would suggest he start Rock Book, Zim and Cooper's Min- Harold Mecham, editor of the San with a high quality glass one-fourth erals, a rock hammer and (with the Bernardino Pioneer Society News Bul- to three-eighths of an inch thick, and help of Henry's Gem Trail Journey) letin, is the son of the C. F. Mecham cut or break it into rough triangular about 200 pounds of rocks. The only pieces, then chip. In this way it is pos- ones we can identify as yet are geodes sible to produce heads quite uniform from Wiley's Well. HOTE in size for special displays. We have no acquaintances who are I have seen heads made from col- rock hunters or cutters, nor have we ored glass bottles, and I understand ever seen a stone cut or polished. Nev- some South American tribes will trade ertheless, we boldly bought lapidary valuable hides and handiwork for bot- equipment. My! Do we trust you and tles from which to make weapon tips. Lelande Quick! And are we ever am- I have heard they prefer green glass to ateurs! A splendid location in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles. 555 delight- other colors, but just why I do not This all took place between Febru- ful rooms, all with all know. ary 17 and 25—so you see what can modern hotel facilities. The most difficult operation in ar- happen to a normal family in just one _ , FROM rowhead making is fracturing the stone week! Outstanding Food — so as to get chips and not chunks. ONA FORSBERG Ye Old Oak Tavern; One general misconception I have • • • also popular Sub • Marine found among casual artifact collectors More Than Scrub in Inyos . . . Cocktail Lounge ... is the belief that small arrowheads are Julian, California Garage Adjoining. "bird points." Plains Indians and Desert: 5 minutes from Union woodland tribes who hunted buffalo R. R. Terminal ^t and other large game often used the In his article on the Cerro Gordo smaller tips, rinding they penetrated Mine, which appeared in the March AT THE CENTE better than heads. issue, A. La Vielle Lawbaugh states: OF EVERYTHING "In all the Inyos there is nothing Since leaving Wisconsin, I haven't larger than scrub growth, for they been able to find any good arrow-chip- are a desert mountain range." ping material, and I have grown a bit I covered most of the Inyos two rusty at the art. I should like to find years ago while hunting mountain lion some obsidian chunks somewhere and for the Fish and Game Department. DOWNTOWN make some arrowheads. I find it a There are two kinds of pines there AT PERSHING SQUARE relaxing hobby. which grow to good size. Locally they NAHUM G. HERSON are known as white bark pine and fox • • • tail pine. More Sandspike Ideas . . . When I asked for information on Bairoil, Wyoming the Inyos, I was directed to Harold Desert: Gates of Lone Pine. I found him a The Borrego Badlands concretions very reliable source of information on JOHN T. LOCHHEAD-M. E. MALTBY- M/tNAGING OWNERS (March Desert) being unusual, the all the Owens Valley area. SPECIAL RATES TO SERVICEMEN solution to the puzzle of their origin WILLIAM DYE

24 DESERT MAGAZINE Wildflower Lovers, Unite! . . . Barstow, California Desert: Now that long-awaited Spring is ar- riving and green plant shoots—har- bingers of glorious wildflower color— are beginning to show, it is heartbreak- ing for us who live on and love the desert to see its life disrupted and de- stroyed by flocks of sheep. These ani- mals frighten the wild birds, eat the young plants and trample to death those shoots not yet through. Isn't there something we could do? Perhaps citizens interested in saving our wildflower fields could organize, form a group and collect dues which would comprise a fund to lease gov- ernment grazing lands and preserve the beauty of our deserts. We have a mine 18 miles north of Hinkley, California. We built 14 miles of road into this mine, and we main- tain it until hot weather begins. Every week-end car after car travels across this colorful span of desert, up our little canyon (where the Joshua trees will bloom this year) and through the wildflower fields. It is a joy to know we can share our bit of desert with so many. We would HUNDREDS OF CARS ARE TIED UP IN RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC ON GRAND AVENUE IN like to see it kept clean of tin cans, LOS ANGELES BECAUSE DRIVER IN FOREGROUND DIDN'T FOLLOW 2 SIMPLE RULES. paper cartons and the flocks of sheep which leave nothing but dry dusty earth just ready for the next wind to blow away. These sheepmen use our road to haul water to their flocks. They are ENGINE FAILURE IN TRAFFIC camped just over the hill from us now. More often than not, rush hour traffic jams are caused by someone whose engine MRS. FRED M. WILLIAMS stalled because he didn't follow the two simple rules demonstrated below. If you follow these rules there will be very little chance of an untimely engine failure. And, most important, you'll be getting 100% performance from your car. Hidden Springs Ranch 15 minutes from Palm Springs. Dis- tinctive Residential Colony. All city utilities—gas. Clubhouse, Pool, Din- ing Room, Guest cottages. ACRE LOTS—$1450 6 years to pay Ramon Road out of Palm Springs Thousand Palms, California Telephone 345 RULE NO. 1 for 100% performance: RULE NO. 2: Use the finest motor oil take your car to your car dealer's for HAVE YOUR NAME LETTERED money can buy. Leading car manu- in Oil color on Beautiful California Redwood frequent checkups — at least every facturers specify heavy-duty type oils. %" x 11" x 24" long 2,000 miles. His mechanics are factory- The finest of these is Royal Triton— Distinctive! Different!—No two alike! trained experts. the amazing purple oil. 2 lines of 3" letters — 1 line 5" Choice of end design—carved by hand $14.75 F.O.B. Ventura Royal Triton is available at leading car dealers' in most areas of the United States. UNION OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA Los ANGELES,Union Oil Bldg. • NEW YORK, 4904 RCA Bldg. • CHICAGO, 1612 Bankers C. L. MAGEE Bldg. • NEW ORLEANS, 917 National Bank Peking Street Ventura, California of Commerce Bldg. Prices quoted on larger sizes;

MAY, 1952 25 Route Discovery of the apparently authen- sumed by most students of the emi- tic inscription, "1849," pecked in a grant routes that they probably came Josef Muench of Santa Barbara, rock face in Marble Canyon, very into Death Valley by way of either California, who has supplied many of probably fixes the long-disputed route Daylight or Indian Pass, crossed over the color photographs for Desert Mag- of the Savage-Pinney party through Townes Pass to the Panamint Valley azine's covers in recent months, was Death Valley. The discovery was made and from there by Darwin Wash over scheduled to leave April 18 for West by Mrs. Ralph Emerson Welles, a vis- the Argus Range to the neighborhood Germany and a AV2 -month visit with itor in Death Valley National Monu- of the present town of Keeler. his aged mother whom he has not seen ment. for 24 years. He was accompanied by At that time the main Indian Trail his son, David. The Savage-Pinney party apparently to the Owens Lake country crossed split off from the other companies of Death Valley from Daylight Pass and Muench supplies photographs, both Boundary Canyon to the great Cotton- black and white and in color, for more the "Sand Walking" or "San Joaquin" caravan somewhere in southeast Ne- wood Canyon delta. From Cottonwood than a score of national magazines, Canyon it entered Marble Canyon and and is regarded as one of the outstand- vada, not far from the present Utah boundary. Taking a more northerly ascended to the high plateau of the ing field photographers in this country. Racetrack country, crossing the head His wife, Joyce, will manage the studio course, they were reported to have reached Owens Lake and crossed the of Panamint Valley near Jackass in his absence. Springs, from there closely following • • • Sierra Nevada mountains over Walker Pass, Kern River route to the San Joa- the present State Route 190 to Owens After Weldon and Phyllis Heald sold Lake. their Flying H Ranch and Phyllis no quin Valley. It is believed the party longer had chickens, cattle, pigs and later was set upon by Indians near Later, the same trail was universally rabbits to worry about, she dusted off Chowchilla, and nearly all members used by prospectors and pack trains. her typewriter and started to write. perished. Even today the route is plainly traced, "It's impossible to have an author Details of the Savage-Pinney route except where cloudbursts have washed husband and not become interested in are completely lacking. It has been as- it out or buried it beneath debris. writing," she claims. But what should she write? Weldon house and make kindlin' wood was working on specialized material out of it." on the West—natural beauty, travel, MardKock Shorty "Well, they don't pick up no history, geology, geography. He was houses here, because they ain't covering fact; so Phyllis decided to no houses," Shorty answered. try fiction. She started with short- of "But I've seen 'em move a short stories set against a southwestern whole sand dune in less 'n two background, then tried her hand at a Death minutes. An' one of them sure piece for one of the confession maga- helped out my partner, Pisgah zines. It sold, and now, as she puts it, Bill, one summer. Actually saved she "confesses" several times a year. Valley Bill's life. Happened this way: It was during a two-week visit to "He wuz headin' out across Arizona College in Flagstaff, to attend the dunes one summer when he a Southwest Writers Conference at From the lean-to porch in front got caught in a sandstorm. It which Weldon was a guest artist, that of the Inferno store the dust dev- wuz one o' them blasts that take Phyllis met Mary, the Hopi Indian ils could be seen in the distance, the hair off'n a jackrabbit's back. school teacher. She was fascinated by whirling across the floor of Death Only the rabbits wuz all holded the material, and the Life on the Des- Valley. Occasionally one of them in, an' that's what Bill done. ert story in this issue, "Hopi Girl," is would pick up a tumbleweed and Storm lasted two days an' when the result. carry it spinning into the air it wuz over Bill's burro an' his and it would disappear in the whole pack outfit wuz gone. Had ANSWERS TO QUIZ cloud of dust. no food, no water, no nuthin'. Questions are on page 10 Hard Rock Shorty was dozing "After the wind died down the 1—White clothing. on the much-whittled bench. sun come out blazin' hot—an' 2—Mt. Whitney in California. 3_Dick Wick Hall. "They look like miniature tor- here was Bill with the tempera- 4—Along the Colorado River. nadoes—the kind we have down ture 130 degrees an' the nearest 5—San Jacinto Mountains. in our country," remarked the waterhole 25 miles away. Looked 7—As evidence they are ready to big Texan who was loafing in the like he wuz a goner. marry. 8—Utah. shade of the porch while the In- "Them devils wuz playin' 9—Ehrenberg. ferno mechanic was putting a around over the valley, an' just 10—Red Lake. new fan belt on his car. about the time Bill figgered he's 11—Mesquite tree. "Do they ever get big enough gonna die o' thirst, one of them 12—Igneous rock. 13—Stage driver. to do any damage?" he asked little whirlwinds come along an' 14—Flagstaff. Hard Rock. Shorty woke up dropped a bucket right where he 15—Dry manure. with a start. "Did you say some- wuz sittin'. An five minutes later 16—Red. thin' to me," he asked. another one o' them devils come 17—New Mexico. in loaded with water an' filled the 18—Imperial dam. "Oh, I was just watching those 19—Edwin Corle. little whirlwinds. Down in Texas bucket. "Yep, they saved Bill's 20—Yuma. they sometimes pick up a whole life—that's what they done!"

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With lavender sand verbena and predictions for a wonderful wildflower creamy white blossoms and bring vari- white evening primrose, yellow encelia, year "conservative." "The desert colored flowers to the smaller cacti in orange desert mallow and red pentste- throughout this beautiful country sur- the monument area near Tucson. Sup- mon, Nature wove a brilliant April car- rounding the Superstition Mountains erintendent Samuel A. King noted well- pet for California's Coachella Valley. has blossomed beyond belief," he advanced buds on the hedgehog cactus The peak of verbena and primrose writes, "and we expect a parade of as early as late March and predicted flowering came the last week in March, flowers right through May. There are that chollas would flower through the and hundreds of visitors, many of them whole fields of scarlet mallow, wild month of May. "This year has been with cameras, drove slowly along High- mustard, lupine and desert hyacinth. excellent for wildflowers, particularly way 111 between Palm Desert and In the mountains, Indian paint brush the desert dandelion, spreading daisy, Indio to see one of the best floral dis- is blooming everywhere. Poppies and phacelia, owl clover, bladderpod, des- plays in years. The more ambitious buttercups are profuse, especially on ert poppy, jewel flower, brittlebush, discovered wild canterbury bells and west slopes. All this magnificence in lupine and desert marigold," he said. desert hyacinths in canyons a short spite of a cold, rainy March! Warm hike from the road. Many photogra- Death Valley National Monument— phers concentrated their efforts on des- Mid-March rains started germination ert lilies, which were blooming in pro- of desert flowers in Death Valley, alter- fusion near Mecca. ing the picture considerably since March and changing Superintendent Purple phacelia, commonly called T. R. Goodwin's pessimism into hope wild heliotrope, white desert chicory, for a good 1952 display. "If weather various members of the sunflower clan, does not turn too hot and windy be- later species of primrose and myriads fore Easter," he wrote in late March, of less conspicuous blossoms also ap- "there should be a good display in late peared in March to promise more April April. I am afraid hot spring winds blossoms. will wither and kill the plants at lower By May the massed purples, whites elevations before they can amount to and yellows of lowland annuals will much. However, at elevations above have faded; but many other annuals 4000 feet the display eventually should and most of the perennials in higher be exceptionally fine and run well into elevations will be attaining fullest blos- June." som. These include most varieties of Antelope Valley — "Almost every- cactus, yucca, ocotillo, nolina, agave, where in Antelope Valley are evidences palo verde and smoke tree. of flowers to come," Jane S. Pinheiro, Generally predicting continued color Desert flower correspondent, reported in May, Desert Magazine wildflower March 25. "At the base of each creo- correspondents report from various sote bush, sage brush and desert shrub Southwest areas as follows: is a spot of fresh green. Seedlings of lupine, phacelia, larkspur, brown-eye Lake Mead Recreational Area — primrose, desert candles and mimulus "There is every reason to believe the are to be seen in the Hi Vista area. Lake Mead flower display will continue weather is ahead, and with it will come Dune primrose, yellow primrose and through most of May," Russell K. more and larger flowers." King pre- sand verbena are not in evidence yet, Grater, park naturalist, wrote late in dicted cactus would start in late April but they will be along. Meanwhile, bulbs March. "There should be a good show- with some of the blooms remaining of wild onion, muilla, mariposa, bro- ing of desert mallow, desert marigold, into May. Barrel cactus, cholla and diaea and zygadene are sending up ex- brittle bush, yucca, strawberry cactus, Saguaro are among the later flowerers. ploratory leaves, and the Joshua trees barrel cactus, desert beauty or indigo Casa Grande National Monument— support more blossom spikes than us- bush, sting bush, creosote bush and In Arizona, cool weather and rain ual." Mrs. Pinheiro promises a good four-o'-clock. Likely the beavertail haven't delayed annual flowers. "In display the last of April, through May cactus will still be out as well as the fact," says A. T. Bicknell, superinten- and into June. bear poppy, although the latter may dent of Casa Grande National Monu- come along faster than now indicated. ment, "the flower display seems to be Joshua Tree National Monument— These will be the more showy plants. running a little ahead of schedule." Al- The month of March produced an un- There will also be a wide variety of though most plants will have blossomed usual abundance of flowers along the smaller flowers, like gilia and various by May, that month will be a good road between Cottonwood Spring and types of composites." Grater reminds time to see cactus blossoms. A good Highway 60-70. Viewing Joshua tree, wildflower seekers the Joshua trees display is expected from the compass Mojave yucca and cacti buds the end will be in blossom in May, but pre- cactus, Arizona rainbow cactus and of March, Frank R. Givens, monument dicts the display probably will not the saguaro north of Florence and superintendent, predicted April and match the exceptional flowering of last Sacaton. Iron wood and catsclaw also May would produce outstanding dis- year. should be in full blossom. plays. The large showy blossoms— Mesa, Arizona—Julian M. King of Saguaro National Monument—May Joshua, yucca, nolina and the many Apache Junction labels his previous will crown the giant saguaros with cacti—still will be in evidence in May

MAY, 1 952 27 as will some of the late-blooming an- NEW HOSTS AND TRADERS annual trip into the Indian country nuals of the higher elevations. AT RAINBOW THIS SEASON that Merritt first saw Rainbow Lodge. Visitors to Rainbow Lodge this sea- When he returned home he said to his Mojave Desert — "Everywhere the wife: desert is bursting into bloom—blue son will be greeted by new host and hostess—Merritt and Nona Holloway, "I've found the most wonderful lupine, owl clover, Indian paintbrush, place in the world. It would be heaven bush poppy, brodiaea, desert dande- and perhaps by their three 8, 10 and 13-year-old sons, Tip, Ted and Tom. for you." He was thinking of Nona's lion, poppy, sand verbena, desert star, interest in archeology, for she has been godetia and many others," wrote Clark The Merritts were at June Lake, Cali- fornia last season. a collector of artifacts during her many W. Mills from Trona, California, the years in the Indian country and Rain- last of March. "There are very few Katherine and Bill Wilson, who have bow lodge is surrounded by ancient flowers beside the highways, but myri- managed the lodge for nearly 25 years ruins. Little did they dream at that ads grow in the canyons a short walk will be there part of the season, but time that Rainbow eventually would away. Particularly good fields may be the Wilsons are retiring from active be their home. But the deal was con- seen by driving on Highway 468 be- association with the Rainbow due to sumated this last winter and the Mer- tween Mojave and Kramer's Four Cor- Bill's ill health, and the Holloways ritts were scheduled to take over April are taking over, according to the an- 1. They will conduct pack trips over ners; on Highway 395 from Phelan nouncement of Barry Goldwater, who through Kramer's Four Corners, Red the 14-mile trail to Rainbow Bridge, is a partner in the ownership of the on Navajo Mountain trails, and ar- Mountain, Johannesburg, Inyokern and well known northern Arizona resort. Brown; and on the county road leaving range horseback excursions into Nav- 395 between Red Mountain and Jo- The Holloways have a fine back- ajo Canyon. hannesburg to Searles Valley and ground of experience for their new The lodge building at Rainbow Trona." Dave Adam predicts Wild duties as hosts, wranglers and traders burned last season, but the cabins sur- Rose Canyon will have the most out- at Rainbow. They are natives of north- vived the fire, and temporary lounge standing display of panamint daisies eastern Oregon and have spent many and mess quarters have been estab- years—Nona as a teacher and Merritt and wild roses in 15 years. In the bud lished in the big garage. It is the plan as a cowboy, guide and wrangler—in of the owners to rebuild the lodge be- stage late in March, blossoms will be the desert West. For two years they out the latter part of April and the fore the 1953 season. were at Deep Springs college in a desert The Wilsons will remain at the lodge first of May. Many of the bushes, in- valley 46 miles east of Bishop, Cali- cluding purple sage and rabbit bush, for some time to help the Merritts. fornia, and it was while taking a group Their future plans have not been made will be in bloom. In the more remote of students from the college on their sections, one will find the Mariposa known. lily, night-blooming cereus and a few native California poppies. Buttercup and lady's slippers may be seen in the more sheltered locations, but not in Pictures of the Month . . • Contest great abundance. During the last three months the desert has offered more beauty Mills cautions hikers that warm than usual to those who like to take pictures. The winter rains brought weather has brought out desert reptiles a much better than average growth of desert verdure—and growing as well as desert flowers. Several side- things are always good subjects for photography. But there also are winder rattlesnakes have been reported many other photogenic subjects—shadowed rock formations, wildlife, ghost towns, old mines, sunsets and human interest pictures—all of in Searles Valley. It is wise to be these and many more make the desert a delight to the camera fan. alert when walking through the fields of wildflowers, as snakes coming from Desert Magazine's Picture-of-the-Month contest is designed to se- hibernation are nervous and apt to cure for publication the best of the pictures taken in the desert country strike at any moving object. "Just be each month by both amateur and professional photographers. All careful," he advises. "There is no dan- Desert readers are invited to enter their best work in this contest. ger to anyone who is alert." Entries for the May contest must be in the Desert Magazine Mojave Desert—"I feel confident office. Palm Desert, California, by May 20, and the winning prints will appear in the July issue. Pictures which arrive too late for one April and May will fulfill abundantly contest are held over for the next month. First prize is $10; second the early promise of a beautiful dis- prize $5.00. For non-winning pictures accepted for publication $3.00 play," wrote Mary Beal, desert botanist each will be paid. of Daggett, California. Flowers started to bloom late in March in most Mo- HERE ARE THE RULES jave Desert districts, with particularly 1—Prints ior monthly contests must be black and white. 5x7 or larger, printed good displays around Mt. Pisgah, on on glossy paper. lower slopes of the Ord region, and 2—Each photograph submitted should be fully labeled as to subject, time and place. Also technical data: camera, shutter speed, hour of day. etc. at the base of the Calico Mountains. 3—PRINTS WILL BE RETURNED WHEN RETURN POSTAGE IS ENCLOSED. First to appear were sand verbenas, 4—All entries must be in the Desert Magazine oiiice by the 20th of the contest wooly breeches, Fremont phacelias, month. 5—Contests are open to both amateur and professional photographers. Desert Mojave poppies, mentzelias, desert Magazine requires first publication rights only of prize winning pictures. dandelion, coreopsis and several spe- 6—Time and place of photograph are immaterial, except that it must be from the cies of evening primrose. "Later there desert Southwest. will be quantities of desert sunflowers, 7—Judges will be selected from Desert's editorial staff, and awards will be made immediately after the close of the contest each month. marigolds, gilias and numerous 'small fry'," promises Miss Beal. "Desert Address All Entries to Photo Editor lilies will come later, after the annuals PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA have reached their prime." 'Decent 7?Caya$iite

DESERT MAGAZINE Santa Fe ARIZONA Sidewinder Joins Zoo . . . Less Than Half to Go ... TUCSON—First live specimen pre- a P5 FLAGSTAFF — Now more than sented to the Arizona Desert Zoological half completed, the Black Canyon and Botanical Gardens is a sidewinder highway from Flagstaff to Phoenix via rattlesnake captured near Tucson. It llbu start to feel the the Verde Valley will be the shortest, is the first reptile of this type to be most feasible route connecting north- found so far east; the sidewinder's ern and southern Arizona. It follows natural home is southern California, Arizona's oldest intra-state route and southern Nevada, southwestern Utah Enchantment will cut 77 miles from the present and western Arizona. The snake, some- Flagstaff to Phoenix distance. The times called the horned rattlesnake, is highway is finished from Phoenix to cream colored and has a line of white Cordes Junction. To celebrate com- dots along the spine. It gained its the pletion of a second leg in the Cordes to name from its strange method of loco- Flagstaff section, state dignitaries met motion. It winds across loose sand, early in March near Camp Verde for leaving a strange looking trail of par- moment ceremonies and discussion of remain- allel "J" marks behind it. — Tucson ing construction contracts.—Coconino Daily Citizen. you step Sun. • • • • • • Film Praised for Realism . . . WINDOW ROCK—Northern Ari- aboard Last Bid Call Issued . . . zona's Navajo reservation was the set- YUMA—Contracts are expected to ting for the factual motion picture, — on any one of be awarded this spring for construc- Navajo, which is being acclaimed by Santa Fe's five great tion of the remaining eight miles of critics as one of the most realistic por- the Mohawk Canal plus an eight-mile trayals of the American Indian ever trains each way, protective system, according to E. A. attempted. The story centers around each day, between Moritz, director of the Bureau of Rec- a Navajo boy's struggle to overcome lamation's Region No. 3. When com- his fear of the white man. All of the California and Chi- plete, the Wellton-Mohawk irrigation leading roles are played by Indians cago, through the system will provide Colorado River who have never acted before. Canyon water for 75,000 acres of irrigable land de Chelley is the principal locale of colorful Southwest beginning 15 miles east of Yuma and Navajo.—5a// Lake Tribune. extending up both sides of the Gila • • • Indian Country. River for a distance of 40 miles. Con- Compromise on Wetback Curbs . . . struction is expected to be advanced WASHINGTON—Compromise leg- "A far enough to permit farmers to take islation designed to stem the illegal Colorado River water by early sum- flow of Mexicans into the United mer.—Yuma Daily Sun. States in search of jobs has been signed • • • into law by President Truman. The Run-off Kills Drouth Threat . . . measure provides penalties up to $2000 PHOENIX—Estimating 1952 rain- in fines and five years in jail for any- fall so far has been more beneficial one who recruits, transports, conceals than any during the last decade, the or harbors an illegal alien. It also weather bureau promised the drouth gives immigration officers authority which has been threatening Arizona without a warrant to search private cattle, sheep and farming industries is properties, excluding dwellings, within over for this year at least. Reservoirs 25 miles of the border, for illegal im- already were well filled in March, and migrants.—Yuma Daily Sun. gradually warming weather was ex- • • • pected to bring increasing amounts of Reclamation's 50th Year . . . KINGMAN — During a four-day water down Salt and Verde river trib- visit in Arizona, leaders in agriculture, utaries and into the lakes.—Tucson industry and government will view Daily Citizen. projects which pioneered the develop- • • • ment of the West from raw desert land Okay Campsite Program . . . to one of the world's most productive The Chief PHOENIX — An appropriation of agriculture empires. The occasion is $40,000 to develop new campsites in the golden anniversary of the U. S. ElCapitan the Oak Creek Canyon area was in- Reclamation Act. Arizona will take cluded in the 1952 budget bill adopted a starring role in the celebration, be- TheGrandCanyon by the Arizona legislature. The appro- ginning in Kingman April 29 and ex- priation will cover new over-night tending through May 4 when final California Limited camping areas at Santa Fe flat, Chavez ceremonies will be held in Phoenix. C. C. Thompson crossing and Baldwin crossing as well Visiting officials will be taken on ex- |y, Passenger Traffic Mgr. as numerous roadside picnic parking tensive tours of the state.—Graham ->% Los Angeles 14 spots.—Verde Independent. County Guardian.

MAY, 1952 29 CALIFORNIA Rising Sea Damages Land . . . THE DESERT TRADMG POST INDIO—Claims totaling $220,000 were filed against the Coachella Valley Classified Advertising in This Section Costs 8c a Word, $1.00 Minimum Per Issue County Water District, Coachella, and the Imperial Irrigation District, El Centro, after rising waters caused seri- INDIAN GOODS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ous damage to lands along the north WE SEARCH UNCEASINGLY for old and rare FABULOUS EARNINGS — Fascinating pastime. shore of Salton Sea. Claimants, Des- Indian Artifacts, but seldom accumulate a Growing Genuine, living miniature (Ming) large assortment. Collectors seem as eager to Trees. New Sensational Business or Hobby. ert Beach Corporation and Ralvert possess them as their original owners. To Astounding information FREE. Dwarf Gar- those who like real Indian things, a hearty dens, Box 355N, Briggs Station, Los Angeles and Company, said the sea rose be- welcome. You too may find here something 48, California. cause of water turned into it through you have long desired. We are continually increasing our stock with the finest in Navajo MODEL DESERT HOME $9850. Large living district wasteways and the Whitewater rugs, Indian baskets, and hand-made jewelry. room with fireplace and view windows. Bed- Daniels Trading Post, 401 W. Foothill Blvd., room and sleeping lanai. Carport and view Storm Drain. Rising waters have par- Fontana, California. lot. Ideal for desert living. Carl Henderson, tially inundated the Desert Beach re- Realtor, box 201, Palm Desert, California. FOUR PERFECT AND FINE Indian Arrowheads 73-941 Highway 111. sort area, they assert, and have im- $1.00. 2 large arrowheads $1.00; extra fine pregnated agricultural soil with salt.— stone tomahawk $2.00; 4 beautiful bird ar- WILL LEASE for Gem and Mineral shop, old rowheads $1.00; 2 flint knives SI.00; fine attractive building with sleeping quarters. Coachella Valley Sun. effigy peace pipe $8.00; bone fish hook $2.00; Electricity and water available. Facilities 6" or over spearhead $5.00, thin and perfect. easily expanded. Part of new-unusual year • • • List Free. Lear's, Glenwood, Arkansas. round resort on Hiway 80. Excellent pos- sibilities for good business. Inquire or write 50,000 Sheep Enter Desert . . . Desert View Tower, Boulder Park, Jacumba California. INDIO — Excellent grazing condi- BOOKS — MAGAZINES tions have brought 50,000 sheep to HOOKS FOUND: Any subject, any author. Fast the desert area between Indio and service. Send wants—no obligation. Interna- tional Bookfinders. Box 3003-D, Beverly Hills, MISCELLANEOUS Blythe. Winter rains produced the first California. LEATHERCRAFT SUPPLIES: Make your own good growth the desert has had in bags, wallets, belts etc. Free instructions at store. Mail orders promptly filled. Bill several years, and sheep men in Mon- REAL ESTATE White's, 102 W. State St., Redlands, California. tana and other northern states are tak- WILL SELL 5-acre patented Jaekrabbit Home- stead 15 miles from Palm Springs, 4 miles DESERT TEA. One pound one dollar postpaid. ing advantage of the good pasture by from Palm Desert, 2 miles from Palms-to- Greasewood Greenhouses, Lenwood, Barstow, shipping in sheep from places where Pines Highway in Section 36. Elevation about California 1000 feet. Has good 22-foot house trailer on feed is scarce. Harry Oliver and Desert cement block foundation. Two double beds. On hillside overlooking lower Cat canyon. No SILVERY DESERT HOLLY PLANTS: One dollar Steve Ragsdale, California desert rats, electricity, necessary to haul water. $1600 each postpaid. Greasewood Greenhouses, Len- have violently protested importation terms. Discount for cash. Address Owner, wood, Barstow, California. Box HR, c/o Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, of the sheep, claiming the animals in- California. PEN AND INK sketch of your own house or other subject on your personal stationery. troduce noxious weeds and eat wild- NEWBERRY, California. Lapidaries (rock- Samples 10c credited on order. Tifft, 411 flower plants.—Riverside Enterprise. hounds) Desert hobbyists. This is coming Tifft Road, Dover, New Hampshire. valley of southern California. Good loca- • • • tions available. Write Chamber of Commerce, PROSPECTORS AND ROCKHOUNDS WANTED. Newberry. To join the newly incorporated United Pros- Canal Control Transferred . . . pectors Organization. If you are experienced or beginners the articles in our magazine are WASHINGTON—Secretary of In- LARGE BUILDING LOTS for winter homes. bound to help you enjoy your hobby and the terior Oscar L. Chapman has signed Close to highway 60-70. Excellent soft water outdoors. Send your name for our new bro- available. L. C. Hockett, Box 276, Salome chure and literature. United Prospectors, Box the supplemental Ail-American Canal Arizona. 729, Lodi, California. contract which transfers control of the FOR SALE: New two story house, complete canal to the Imperial Irrigation Dis- Lapidary Shop, ten lots, shade, water. Rea- FIND YOUR OWN beautiful Gold nuggets! It's sonable. Box 555, Goldfield, Nevada. fun! Beginners illustrated instruction book trict. The new contract also gives the $1.00. Gold pan, $2.00. Where to go? Gold placer maps, Southern California, Nevada, district full right to go ahead with BEAUTIFUL large lot 105x180, includes water Arizona, $1.00 each state. All three maps and all utilities, and irrevocable membership power installations at Pilot Knob.— for entire family in natural hot mineral water $2.00. Desert Jim, Box 604 Stockton, Calif. community swimming pool. Only $1200. Easy Imperial Valley Weekly. terms. Nine miles northeast of Palm Springs. PANNING GOLD — Another hobby for Rock See R. H. McDonald for information on this Hounds and Desert Roamers. A new booklet, • • • and other choice desert acreage. Desert Hot "What the Beginner Needs to Know," 36 pages Springs, California, Phone 143. of instructions; also catalogue of mining books "Barnacle" Continues as "Sun" . . . and prospectors' supplies, maps of where to go and blue prints of hand machines you can COACHELLA — Coachella Valley build. Mailed postpaid 25c, coin or stamps. Sun is the new name of Coachella Val- Old Prospector, Box 729, Desk 5, Lodi, Calif. ley's pioneer newspaper, first published COLOR SLIDES: Photomicrographs of rare in 1901 as the Coachella Valley Sub- Genuine Navajo Rugs types of Agate. World Travelogs; Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest Yosemite, Carlsbad marine. Now published by Ward Grant Ideal for Desert, Beach and Carverns, White Sands," Indian Ruins, Big Bend, Bryce, Zion, Wild Flowers, cacti, rep- the paper was founded by S. F. Free- Mountain Homes tiles. Four samples 2x2 or stereo and litera- man, who named it the Submarine be- ture, $1.00. Dave Harris, 2401 Pittsburg, El Full Line of Lapidary Paso, Texas. cause it was published below sea level. For many years the masthead carried Equipment and Supplies LADY GODIVA "The World's Finest Beautifier." For women who wish to become beautiful, for the line, "The Most Low Down Paper Mineral Specimens women who wish to remain beautiful. An outstanding desert cream. For information, on Earth." It was renamed the Desert write or call Lola Barnes, 963 N. Oakland, Barnacle in 1946.—Coachella Valley Catalogue 50c which will be credited Pasadena 6, Calif, or phone SYcamore 4-2378. on the iirst purchase amounting to $5.00 Sun. or more. LARGE WESTERN COLLECTION For Sale: • • • Hearses, cabs, buggies, carriages, surreys, huge logging wheels. All kinds large and Discover Rich Fossil Bed . . . Open House Tuesday Evening small music boxes. Thousands of items and historical relics, pictures, documents. A com- EL CENTRO—Imperial Valley des- Till 10:00 P.M. plete museum collected over many years. Largest of its kind in the west. Owners can ert lands, once the floor of an inland no longer care for it. Will make a fortune in sea, give promise of being a rich hunt- right spot or in connection with some other COMPTON ROCK SHOP tourist or highway business. Price $20,000. ing ground for ancient fossils and early Write Box FG. Desert Magazine. Indian relics. Newly discovered beds 1409 S. Long Beach Blvd. SAVE 50% on New Binoculars! Free catalog. in the desert have yielded bones of Compton, Calif. Free book, "How to Select Binoculars." Write today! Bushnell's 43-D 35, 43 E. Green Street, ancient mammals and a number of Pasadena 1, California. large oyster shells.—Yuma Daily Sun. 30 DESERT MAGAZINE Traffic Entries Tabulated . . . Plan Desert Marine Center . . . then put to steady work producing DAGGETT—According to figures TWENTYNINE PALMS — Con- power for Southern Nevada. The gen- released by the California Department struction of a $15,000,000 Marine erator is the first to be owned by the of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Quar- Corps artillery and antiaircraft center state of Nevada.—Pioche Record. antine, a total of 152,697 automobiles, 8 miles from Twentynine Palms was • • • 23,890 trucks and 444,074 passengers expected to begin in mid-April. The Jackrabbits Take Toll . . . entered the state in February. Yermo 400-square-mile base is bordered on EUREKA — Nevada grain fields, was largest portal of entry, registering the north by Highway 66 and includes stack yards and alfalfa fields have 36,263 vehicles and 83,516 passengers. much of the Bullion and Lead Moun- undergone serious damage this year as Other totals for southern ports were: tains. Plans call for accommodation a result of the heavy jackrabbit popula- Blythe, 25,801 cars, 5,057 trucks and of 7200 officers and men.—Los Ange- tion. To abate the destruction, exten- 77,512 passengers; Daggett, 11,077 les Times. sive poisoning campaigns are being cars, 844 trucks and 34,608 passen- • • • conducted. Frank E. Morrow, Depart- gers; Fort Yuma, 27,523 cars, 4,532 Harvest Almost $16,000,000 . . . ment of Agriculture extension agent in trucks and 83,283 passengers; Parker, BLYTHE—Almost doubling 1950 White Pine and Eureka counties, urged 7,948 cars, 827 trucks and 21,170 harvest totals, Palo Verde Valley crop all ranchers to cooperate, pointing out passengers. returns for 1951 climbed to $15,985,- that a partial kill would be of little • • • 491. Cotton, at $5,155,304, lettuce, value.—Battle Mountain Scout. Mark Historic Birthplace . . . cantaloupes, alfalfa and watermelons BORREGO SPRINGS — Marking led production in that order. A total the place where the first white child of 62,036 acres were under cultivation. was born in California on Christmas —Palo Verde Valley Times. EXPLORATION! Eve, 1775, a monument was formally • • • dedicated April 5 during the Fourth NEVADA SAFE ADVENTURE! Annual de Anza Jeep Caravan from Hemet to Borrego Springs. The Roads Caution Lake Mead Fishers . . . SCENIC BEAUTY! to Romance Association erected the BOULDER CITY—Anglers fishing monument and bronze plaque in Coy- in Lake Mead, Lake Mojave or Colo- ote Canyon several years ago, The rado River areas bounded by Nevada April ceremony marked its presenta- and Arizona are warned they must tion to Riverside County.—Riverside have a license from one of the states Enterprise. and a $2 use permit from the other. • • • Presumably an angler who remains on Okay Land Development . . . the bank of either state would need PALM SPRINGS—Agua Caliente only a license for his state.-—Los An- tribal leaders have approved a modi- geles Times. fied federal plan for zoning and street • • • improvements on reservation lands in New Dam Generator Installed . . . Palm Springs. Only question remain- BOULDER CITY—A-9, the next ing at issue is whether to route Indian to last generator to be installed in the Avenue around the Agua Caliente Hoover Dam powerhouse, whirred into baths or to set the historic hot springs test action March 4. The 50,000-kilo- building back several hundred feet.— watt capacity machine was to be tested SAN JUAN and COLORADO Desert Sun. for a period of from five to 10 days, RIVER EXPEDITIONS Seven-day voyage through the scenic ASK YOUR CONTRACTOR ABOUT "PRECISION BUILT' canyon wonderland oi Utah and Arizona. Boats leaving Mexican Hat, Utah, May 1, May 11, May 26, June 4, June 16, June 26. RED CINDER BLOCKS Trips end at Lee's Ferry. One post-season run between Hite, Utah and Lee's Ferry, You'll have year Arizona. around comfort Fare: $200 ior one person. $175 each for with two. Larger group prices, also rates ior "Precision Built" other trips given on request. " . . . A flight on the magic carpet of RED CINDER OR adventure into a canyon wilderness of PUMICE BLOCKS indescribable beauty and grandeur." wrote Randall Henderson in the Desert Homes of Distinction Magazine. are built with For detailed information write to— PLANS AVAILABLE I. Frank Wright, Blanding, Utah, or More DESERT CINDER BLOCKS FOR House DESERT HOMES Mexican Hat Expeditions For (Successors to NevilU Expeditious, world- TRANSIT MIXED CONCRETE CO. famous River exploration trips) Your 3464 E. Foothill Blvd.. Pasadena 8 Money RYAN 1-6329 or Corona Phone 1340 P. O. BLUFF. UTAH

MAY, 1952 31 Name Boulder City Manager . . . technical knowledge to develop them. BOULDER CITY—Boulder City's Sam Akeah, chief of the Navajo Tri- first city manager under the new regu- bal Council, said 60 Navajos have rich lations set up last summer for admin- samples of uranium ore taken from istration of the dam community, will discoveries they have made but kept be Harold N. Corbin of Porterville, secret until they could be protected by California. It was expected that Cor- permits assuring royalties to both in- bin would be confirmed by Secretary dividual and tribe. The new regulation of Interior Oscar L. Chapman and that will permit the Indians to lease their Palm Desert he would take over his duties by the mining permits to non-Indian opera- first of April. — Las Vegas Review- tors.—Gallup Independent. VIEW LOTS Journal. • • • • • • Indian Project Begun . . . $1100.00 First Bighorn Hunt Set . . . GALLUP—Living quarters, a clinic, Just above Art Gallery- LAS VEGAS — Southern Nevada check room, snack bar and recreational East of Shadow Mountain Club has one of the largest herds of bighorns facilities are included in plans for a in the West, but the animals have been Near School, Church, Shops new Indian Center in Gallup. Ground protected from hunters for many years. has been cleared and leveled and con- Paved Streets, Water, Electricity. Now, to remove 50 of the older rams struction has begun. In addition to a Gas. Many homes already built. from the herd, a select group of hunters federal appropriation of $185,000, Overlooking Coachella was authorized to shoot the mountain citizens of Gallup donated $30,000 to Valley Date Gardens sheep, one of the country's finest game the project. The rambling one-story for Information write animals, in a special season April 12- building will be of concrete block con- 29. Fifty tags were awarded at draw- CARL HENDERSON struction.—Gallup Independent. ings in Las Vegas. No independent • • • Pioneer Realtor hunting is permitted; each tag holder New Water Sources Needed . . . PALM DESERT. CALIFORNIA must be accompanied by an experi- WASHINGTON—"The Southwest enced guide.—Battle Mountain Scout. must find new sources of water or its • • • future economy will be in jeopardy," warned Secretary of Interior Oscar L. 'EVERYTHING FOR THE HIKER" Times-Bonanza Sold . . . TONOPAH—Bob Crandall, former Chapman in a report entitled The Drouth in Southwestern United States. SLEEPING BAGS owner and publisher of the Goldfield News and Beatty Bulletin and more The paper said the 10-year water short- AIR MATTRESSES recently of the Boulder City Citizen, is age which has harrassed the area is one SMALL TENTS new owner of the Tonopah Times- of the eight most severe since the 13th Bonanza. The sale was announced by century. "In the absence of abundant and many other items Don and Starle Terrell, who have been rain, dependable relief will be assured publishers since the death of their only through early importation of water VAN DEGRIFT'S HIKE HUT father, Clyde S. Terrell, in 1950. Cran- from available sources in other areas 717 West Seventh Street dall also plans eventually to resume or through additional storage on LOS ANGELES 14. CALIFORNIA publication of the News-Bulletin, print- streams which now are wasting water ing it in the Times plant.—Tonopah to the ocean." According to the re- Times-Bonanza. port, the best source appears to be the coastal streams of the Pacific North- • • • west and Northern California and the Rest and play in Ample Water Supply Assured . . . THE VALLEY OF SKY-HI ocean itself.—Yuma Daily Sun. ENCHANTMENT C BAR H RENO—For the first time in 15 • • • Write direct to any of ?.°UBLE J years, virtually every section of Ne- the Four Guest Ranches ?r.1|y,1V'?,_11.1T.... vada will have an ample water supply Bomb Crater Monument . . . for Information. MUFFIN MOUNTAIN ALAMOGORDO—A bill to estab- Illustrated folders MOTEL this summer, reported the Nevada Co- Address: Lucerne Valley, California operative Snow Surveys committee. lish "Trinity National Monument" at Basing their forecast on results of the the site of the first atomic bomb ex- annual March 1 snow survey, the com- plosion has been introduced in Con- mittee said water content on all 15 gress. The historic explosion occurred HAVASU CANYON "GEM OF THE GRAND CANYON" water courses is far above normal. July 16, 1945, at Trinity, New Mex- Land of the Havasupai Indians—the natural wil- "Not only is there enough water in ico, 60 miles northwest of Alamogordo. derness beauty of an enchanting land—off the beaten track. Mixed parties being organized prospect," a spokesman said, "but in Rep. A. M. Fernandez of New Mexico now for Spring. some places there will be too much introduced the bill to prevent the Minimum Trip, 8 days, Including Transportation From $115 water. There are some dangerously Atomic Energy Commission from fill- Write for literature, details & reservations deep snow packs in the Sierras and in ing in the bomb crater with earth. — WAMPLER TRAIL TRIPS 1940 Hearst Ave. Berkeley 9, California eastern Nevada."—Las Vegas Review- Alamogordo News. Journal. • • • • • • Urge Better Tourist Plan . . . TAOS—Although the 1950 census NEW MEXICO -"-••|H](|. listed 747 "resorts" in the state of New 1000 TRAVEL SCENES Navajos Allow Ore Search . . . Mexico, a recent survey conducted by COLOR SLIDES WASHINGTON—Regulations have the National Resort Association was \ FOR YOUR VACATION RECORD been approved which will open up the able to uncover only 73 which quali- I Navaio reservation to full scale ura- fied. "The greatest potential for the Y~Z~ nu LIST ^LfSAMPLES 30c WRITE TODAY nium mining. Mining has been held state's tourist business lies in the Taos ^ KELLY D. CHODA back because Navaio discoverers of area," said J. W. Johnson, president BOX 5 LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEX. uranium deposits lacked capital and of the National Resort Association.

3? DESERT MAGAZINE "but you can't hold people who come Picnic Areas in Peril . . . to the open season for either sex, tried through here without greatly improved SALT LAKE CITY—Dollars which in Utah last year for the first time. The and expanded facilities." Johnson cited do not go as far when spent, and in- hunt was considered highly successful publicity and a well-rounded public creasing patronage of forest picnic from a game management standpoint, relations program as being vital to grounds have posed major problems but the effects of the additional harvest proper expansion of the tourist busi- for U. S. Forest Service administrators are yet to be studied during the spring ness.—El Crepusculo. hopeful of continuing operation of counts.—Vernal Express. • • • Utah recreational areas. Without in- • • • Game Season Dates Set . . . creased 1952 appropriations, which Indians Predict Late Spring . . . SANTA ROSA—New Mexico State seem unlikely, there are three alterna- FT. DUCHESNE—Officially speak- Game commissioners juggled the dates tives to successful management: 1. ing, spring arrived March 20. But the of the 1952 big game season so that Giving control of suitable areas to Indians who live in Utah's wilds — hunters will have two full week-ends private operators under special per- after reading Nature's signs—say there during the 11 Vi day period. The sea- mits; 2. Additional assistance from lo- will be little or no spring this year. son will run from noon, November 8 cal governments; 3. As a last resort, The same Indians, members of the Ute- to sunset, November 19. Big game bag closing some of the areas. Continued Ouray tribe, read the signs last No- limits remain as before: one deer, one operation of recreational areas with vember and predicted a hard winter. turkey and one bear for the year. Elk, inadequate supervisory personnel, in- By March 20 the snow drifts still were antelope, special deer and game bird adequate sanitary and safety facilities deep on reservation lands.—Salt Lake seasons will be set in August.—Santa involves risks to lives and personal Tribune. Rosa News. property and creates sanitary problems • • • affecting thousands of acres of water- shed lands which drain into municipal UTAH water supply systems, it was pointed Spectacular Asks $2,000,000 Fund . . . out.—Salt Lake Tribune. WASHINGTON — An appeal for Rainbow Bridge the federal outlay of $2,000,000 for i Take the thrilling ride reseeding range lands of national for- Plan New Oil Line . . . on horseback into the SALT LAKE CITY—Construction scenic desert wilderness ests in the West was made by Rep. of southern Utah — to Walter K. Granger of Utah when he will start this year on an $8,000,000 5/ America's greatest nat- testified before the agriculture subcom- petroleum products line from Salt Lake i j ural bridge. Comfortable mittee of the House Appropriations City to Boise, Idaho. The 330-mile, lodging. Good food. Committee. The Utahan asked the eight-inch diameter facility will paral- For rates and information write to lel existing facilities of the Salt Lake committee to appropriate $1,245,000 RAINBOW LODGE. TONALEA. ARIZONA in addition to the $750,000 requested Pipe Line Company, an affiliate of in the President's budget for reseeding Standard Oil Company of California. Season opens April 1 under the 15-year program authorized "Completion of the line will boost under the Anderson-Mansfield Act of transportation capacity along this route VACATION 1949.—Vernal Express. from 22,000 barrels to 39,500 barrels in • • • daily," announced a company spokes- WAYNE WONDERLAND Zion. Bryce Chief Named . . . man.—Salt Lake Tribune. with WASHINGTON—Secretary of In- JACKSON'S SCENIC TOURS terior Oscar L. Chapman has an- Sightseeing, picture taking, rock hunting, Largest Hunt in History . . . camping and deer hunting in October. nounced appointment of Paul R. VERNAL — Utah hunters killed Regular weekly tours over Thousand Lake Franke as superintendent of Zion and Mt. to Cathedral Valley, Painted Desert, 101,947 deer during the 1951 hunts, I'into Hills, Dirty Devil R., Land of the Bryce National Parks, succeeding according to figures released by the Goblins, and San Rafael Swell or Capitol Charles J. (White Mountain) Smith. Reef. Utah Fish and Game Department. The Spl. Tours—Standing Rock Basin, Colo. In addition to running Zion and Bryce, totals indicate an 83.8 percent kill, River or anywhere in Scenic Southern Utah. Franke will be co-ordinating superin- the best hunt in the state's history, and For information or reservations write to: tendent of Capitol Reef, Cedar Breaks, 28,551 animals greater than the 1950 J. WORTHEN JACKSON Timpanogos Cave and Zion National toll. The sharp increase was attributed Fremont, Utah Monuments in Utah and Pipe Spring National Monument in Arizona. — Salt Lake Tribune. • • • Utah Grazes Record Herd . . . VERNAL—According to the an- nual report issued by the Bureau of 2 LITTLE INDIAN MADES! Right out of an Indian Maid's wardrobe comes Agricultural Economics, the number this authentically designed DUO! of cattle on Utah farms and rangelands MOCCASIN'S ... the lovely "INDIAN PRIX- CESS." There's barefoot comfort in these soft, reached an all-time high on January 1, washable, hand beaded, hand laced, cowhide 1952. The total of 679,000 head re- moccasins in Palomino Gold, White and Indian Red. A springy layer of airfoam innersoles ported was 11 percent higher than a will give your feet a lift. Sizes 4-9 $5.95 . . . Just the thing for Square Dancing! year ago and the largest number ever INDIAN BEADED BELT ... to go with every- reported in the state's history. Most thing, jeans to dress-up! 1" wide. Gayly-colored beads set in traditional Indian symbols and of the cattle are of the beefsteak va- mounted on the finest quality cowhide. No two alike! Give belt size and choice of riety, but milk cows have increased white or navy blue background $2.05 three percent over the 1951 count. The tax & post. incl. Sat. Guar. No CO'D's report also indicated horses, stock sheep and lambs have been decreasing steadily, but hogs and pigs are up ten percent over a year ago.—Vernal Ex- press. MAY, 1952 33 Utes to Get Better Lands . . . dians. Work has already begun to FT. DUCHESNE—Since Ute Indi- clear 1000 acres of virgin land which ans are primarily stockmen and are will be used for livestock purposes.— not particularly suited to farming, more Vernal Express. and more of them are investing their • • • share of Colorado judgment money in Tunnel Completion Near . . . cattle. This demands an increase in KAMAS—With sufficient appropri- grazing and pasture acreage, for pres- ation from Congress, the Duchesne ent range limitations hold each Indian Tunnel, which holed through late in to but four and a half head. To move 1951, could be completed by 1953. tribal ranchers closer to their ranges The tunnel connects the Colorado and to supplement present grazing River Basin with Salt Lake Valley. A Mother Lode Map — Plus Gold Nuggets Gold nuggets panned from streams in Cali- areas with irrigated pastures, a long request for $2,310,000 to complete fornia and Old Hank's colorful, unusual story range land program has been an- the tunnel and continue other work map — "The Golden Trail of the Mother Lode." Stories of the '49ers, ghost towns, nounced. Approximately 8000 acres on the Provo River Project was con- over 45 pictures and illustrations. Explore this amazing trail taken by the early gold of tribally-owned land, presently under tained in President Truman's budget seekers in their search for treasure. The lease to white residents of the area, submitted to Congress for the 1953 map is $1.00. One gold nugget and map, $2.00; four gold nuggets and map, $3.00. will gradually be relocated to the In- fiscal year.—Salt Lake Tribune. Postpaid prices. A "different" gift from the West. Bend order to— OLD HANK P. O. Box 2462, San Francisco 20, California fiolvuida A must on the Desert Lover's Book Shelf February precipitation was much be- sheds where monthly amounts were LOAFING ALONG low normal over the entire Lower less than 20 percent of normal. More Colorado and most of the Upper Colo- encouraging, however, was the storm DEATH VALLEY TRAILS rado Basins, causing a downward re- of March 1-2 which brought consid- vision in the U. S. Weather Bureau's Before you visit the Big Sink at the erable moisture to the Salt and Verde Bottom of America, by all means read this water supply forecasts for the South- River Basins. In spite of the light pre- book. western United States. The outlook in cipitation, the water supply outlook March, though less promising than in remains encouraging. Reservoir stor- IT'S A MAN'S BOOK BUT WOMEN BUY MORE COPIES early February, still indicated above- age is above average, and soil moisture average run-off. conditions are excellent. The outlook Authentic, factual, human interest stories of colorful characters who lived, loved and Reports from the various drainage for the main stem of the Gila River is lied one day at a time. sheds are given as follows: for flows slightly less than the ten-year Stories of fortunes made or lost over- Colorado River above Cisco: The average but greatly exceeding the low night. Daring men. Girls "beautiful but flows of the past two years. damned." Romance and revelry. Ghost outlook for the Taylor River and the towns. Lost mines. Delightful rascals and Colorado and its tributaries above the tall tales of far horizons. Cameo remains excellent. Less prom- RATTLE DOES NOT TELL ising are reports from the Dolores and AN OUTSTANDING GIFT BOOK AGE OF A RATTLESNAKE At better book stores everywhere. $3.85. Uncompahgre Rivers where median California buyers add 11 cents sales tax. forecasts predict below-average flows. The persistent story that the age of Published by Green River Basin: The water sup- a rattlesnake can be told by the num- THE DESERT MAGAZINE PRESS ply outlook for the Utah tributaries ber of segments or joints in its rattle Palm Desert, California and for the Yampa and White Rivers is false for several reasons. is very good. However, for the upper The first time a baby rattler sheds Green River the prospects are for flows its skin, usually within a week or two less than the 10-year average; for this after birth, it acquires the button which basin to attain normal run-off the is the first segment of a rattle. There- Keep your Back March-June precipitation must ap- after another segment is added each Copies of Desert proach the maximum of record. time the skin is shed, three or more San Juan River Basin: As a result times a year and not just once. The for Quick Reference of the light February precipitation, button is displaced farther and farther Attractive loose-leaf binders water supply forecasts for the San Juan from the tip of the tail. in Spanish grain leather, gold- Basin are three to 10 percent lower If a rattlesnake retained all the seg- embossed, are available for than those last issued. Slightly above ments that were added to its rattle, in those Desert readers who want average flows are still expected for the a few years it would be carrying around to keep their back copies for the basin if precipitation for the balance an enormous string of a dozen and a maps and travel information of the season is near normal. half or two dozen segments. Such they contain. Each binder holds Little Colorado River Basin: Al- phenomenal rattles are never seen in 12 issues. Easy to insert, and though forecasts for the Little Colo- nature. Segments are continually lost they open flat. rado River Basin are considerably through wear and breakage. An adult Mailed postpaid for lower than those issued in February, rattlesnake with a perfect string—that $2.00 the outlook remains excellent. is, with the original button present at Gila River Basin: February precipi- the tip—is very unusual. Captured HE tation was much below normal. The rattlers usually have from five to nine greatest deficiencies were noted in the segments in their strings. Occasionally PALM DESERT. CALIFORNIA upper Gila and upper Verde water- one is reported with as many as 15.

34 DESERT MAGAZINE E-10 —TABLE MODEL OUTSTANDING GOLD DISPLAY SOUTHWESTERN MINERALS Complete with 8-in. Felker Dia- PLANNED AT ANGELS CAMP FEATURE OF GLENDALE SHOW mond saw, IVi-in. 100-grit and 220- Grinding out gold ore and making recov- Emphasizing minerals from the desert grit grinding wheels, leather covered eries on amalgamation plates, a complete Southwest, the Glendale Lapidary and Gem buff, sanding disc and vise with water-powered stamp mill will be in opera- Society will hold its Fifth Annual Exhibi- 1^-in. cross-feed. tion at the 1952 convention and show of tion May 17 and 18 in Glendale Civic Complete (without motor)... $135.00 the California Federation of Mineralogical Auditorium. On special display will be a 500-carat aquamarine, largest cut aquama- 1/3 h.p. motor 18.54 Societies, June 20-22 at Angels Camp, Cali- Crating charge 3.00 fornia. Calaveras Gem and Mineral So- rine of its color to come out of Brazil; one ciety will be host. of the largest carved amethysts in the world; Shipping weight about 120 pounds. an outstanding oriental jade collection; ame- This is perfect economy machine An outstanding gold display is planned. thyst geodes from Uruguay; pink rhodo- for sawing, grinding, sanding and The world's largest drill core will be shown, chrosite from Brazil and flat sections of polishing. Built for long trouble-free a section of rock 4Vi feet in diameter and petrified trees from Wyoming and Utah. service. almost 6 feet long. Value of ore and nugget One exhibit will illustrate various stages specimens is expected to exceed $100,000. in cutting and polishing a cabochon, a heart The Calaveras Society invites all gem and a cross from rough material. Also and mineral collectors to attend the three- shown will be three carved opals, one rep- day show. Dormitory, camping and trailer resenting the Aztec sun god set in a gold facilities will be available on the convention ring of Aztec design. ground; motel and hotel accommodations Glendale Society's show last year drew for 500 persons are being arranged in An- an attendance of more than 10,000 persons. gels Camp and the immediate vicinity, and To better accommodate visitors this year, additional accommodations lie within a the group has rented the entire second floor short drive of the convention site. of Glendale Civic Auditorium. Doors will • • • be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and I Members of Everett Rock and Gem So- from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. 1 ciety, Everett, Washington, were urged to • e • bring their most photogenic rocks to the "Various Phases of Agate" was the subject April meeting. Paul Alley, scheduled guest of Mr. and Mrs. K. O. Stewart, speakers at 1 speaker, promised to set up complete equip- a regular meeting of Wasatch Gem Society ment and demonstrate techniques of photo- of Salt Lake City. Mr. Stewart is a past graphing mineral specimens. president of the group. E-12 — STAND MODEL Same specifications as E-10, but with steel 34-inch high stand. Price complete with all accessories, stand and motor, ready to plug in $179.00 Plan to Cone to Crating charge 5.00 COLORFUL COLORADO Shipping weight about 220 pounds. for the DOUBLE-HEADER

CONVENTION MODEL E-20 Designed for the lapidary artist who wants an economical, easy-to- operate unit — compact, quiet run- CAAioi? CITY ning and sturdy. Will give years of satisfactory service. Complete with 6-in. Felker Dia- mond Saw, 1-in. 100-grit and 220-grit grinding wheels, sanding disc and leather-covered buff. Complete (without motor).... $85.00 1/3 h.p. motor 18.54 Crating charge 3.00 Shipping weight about 90 pounds. All above prices are f.o.b. South Pasadena, California AMERICAN AND ROCKY MOUNTAIN FEDERATIONS Write for free literature OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES (And mention Desert Magazine) HIGHLAND PARK Canon City, Colorado — June 26-27-28-29 LAPIDARY & SUPPLY CO. For further information write — 1009 Mission Street F. C. KESSLER, Canon City, Colorado South Pasadena, California PY 1-2022

MAY, 1952 35 AMONG THE ADVERTISING RATE G E m m A R T8c a Word . . . Minimum $1.00 ROCK HUNTERS

ATTENTION ROCK COLLECTORS. It will pay FLUORESCENT MINERALS: Complete line of Colored slides illustrated Ray Kepner's you to visit the Ken-Dor Rock Roost. We buy, the fluorescent and rare minerals from the "Outline of New Mining Developments in sell, or exchange mineral specimens. Visitors famous Franklin, N. J. mines. Complete line San Diego County" for San Diego Mineral are always welcome. Ken-Dor Rock Roost, of Mineralights, $12.50 up. Set of 10 fluores- 419 Sutter, Modesto, California. cent minerals, mounted in Styrofoam, labeled and Gem Society. Kepner is affiliated with Specify wave length, $2.50. SPECIAL: 5 bril- the San Diego County Division of Natural STOP—LOOK—BUY—Specimens slabs — rough, liant specimens of Willemite and Calcite (2x2) from A. L. Jarvis, Route 2, Box 125, Watson- $4.00. Fred W. Morris, 200 Red Maple Drive, Resources. ville, California. On Salinas Highway State Levittown, New York. No. 1, 3 miles South of Watsonville. Roland Andreau, who as a young chem- PEANUT PITCHSTONE (Alamasite) — Mexico's "DON'T MISS" Fine rough gems, Minerals, Sil- oddest semi-precious stone, for polishing or ver and Lapidary supplies at Superior Gems & ist assisted the Curies in their Paris labora- collecting, 3-lb. chunk $5 postpaid. Or, Rock- Minerals, 4665 Park Blvd. San Diego 16, tory, told San Gorgonio Mineral and Gem hound special, 1-lb. fragments $1. Also Flor California. (Sorry, no lists.) Society of his work with radium and ura- de Amapa (pink crystalized edidote) rare. Same prices. Alberto E. Maas, Alamos So- RADIOACTIVE ORE COLLECTION: 6 wonder- nium. Andreau explained how, through the nora, Mexico. Send checks only. ful different specimens in neat Redwood chest, use of chemical analyses and spectroscopes, $2.00. Pretty Gold nugget, $1.00, four nug- scientists can determine the composition of FANCY PALM ROOT 25c to $1.00 per sq. inch. gets, $2.00, choice collection 12 nuggets, $5.00 In slabs, prices vary according to quality Uranium Prospectors, Box 604, Stockton, Calif. minerals and the mineral content of ores. Uncut root from $1.00 to $3.00 per lb. Also Society members brought samples of rock some fancy Lavic Agate. Edw. Lang, 2110 TITANIA GEMS $5.00 per carat for stones over to be tested by Andreau's blue light. Walnut Ave., Venice, California, EXbrk 66622. 3 carats. Also mounted in 14K gold rings • • • BEAUTIFUL PINK Taffy Rhodocrosite from All precious gems at lowest prices. Ace Patagonia, 60c a sq. in. in slices or $4 50 a Lapidary Co., Box 67, Jamaica, New York. Pegmatite Formations in San Diego lb. in chunks, including 20 r'r excise tax. Eden County by Dr. Richard Jahns is the first Valley limbs 35c up. 20 % excise tax extra, FIFTY MINERAL SPECIMENS, %-in. or over, boxed, identified, described, mounted. Post- book in the technical library of Twenty- add California sales tax and postage. Eldon paid $4.00. Old Prospector, Box 729 Lodi, E. Soper 433 So. Central, Glendale 4, Calif. California. nine Palms Gem and Mineral Society. A FOR SALE: Most of the private personal col- book a month will be purchased by the so- lection of the late Chas. A. Swisher. Pol- VARIEGATED AGATES mined at the Arizona ciety, from funds collected at each meeting's ished Agates, Crystals, Petrified woods, Min- Agate mines contain many beautiful colors grab bag sale. erals, some remaining caboehon sets for rings and the world's most unusual blends Come or bracelets. Mrs. C. A. Swisher, 4719 So. in Royal Flowers, Fern, Plume, Moss and • • • Hoover, Los Angeles 37, California. many other designs. No orders please. Charles E. Hill, of the Arizona Agate Mines Cave As preliminary ground work for a field Creek, Arizona. COME AND GET IT you Rockhounds! Six tons excursion, Verne Byrne recounted for Santa of Agate, Jasper and Jasp Agate, good cutting Fe Gem and Mineral Club "The Historical gem rock at 25c per lb on orders of 10 lbs WRITE FOR DESCRIPTION—Rocks and Peri- or more. Top grades Horse Canyon Agate, dots. Box 101, Pima, Arizona. Background and Current Mining Activities No. 1. $1.75, No. 2, $1.00, No. 3, 75c per lb in the Cerrillos Hills." Byrne has lived in Death Valley Jasper and Agate No. 1, $1 75 IF YOU ARE A ROCKHOUND you need the these hills most of his life, and presently No. 2, $1.00 per lb. Last Chance Canyon Lapidary Journal. Tells how to cut and polish owns and operates the Pennsylvania Mine Jasper and Agate, No. 1, $1.75, No. 2, $i 00 rocks, gives news of all mineral-gem groups. per lb. Spider Web Howlite, No. 1 75c No 2 Tells how to make Jewelry, carries ads of and other mining properties in the area. 50c per lb. Silver Travertine No. 1 75c dealers in supplies, equipment, gems, minerals No. 2 50c per 11). Death Valley Onyx, No 1 from all over the world. Well illustrated, • • • 75c per lb. Geodes from the Chuckawallas beautifully printed. Subscription $2.00 a year 50c per lb. Petrified Palm, Black Fig and —back numbers 50c. Sample Copy 25c if you Ogden Scoville will serve as president of Osage Orange, No. 1, $1.75, No. 2, $1.00 have never subscribed or been sampled. Humboldt Gem and Mineral Society of Sawed slabs of the top grades $1 00 sq in LELANDE QUICK, Editor, Palm Desert Eureka, California, in 1952. On his board All prices plus postage, A. Hugh Dials, Studio California. of Lapidary Arts, 7417 Jamieson Ave., Reseda are W. R. Lamb, vice-president; George A. California. WANTED: old mining and oil stock certificates Morgan, secretary-treasurer, and Ella Glines, Books, letters, papers, pictures of the West librarian. DESERT GEM AND MINERAL SHOP. 16 nice and Southwest, Exploration, mining, survey- specimens in box $1.00 and postage, Wyoming ing, etc. Will trade Franklin, N. J. fluores- • • • jade, olive green 75c per sq. in. Slabs, nod- cent minerals, or pay cash. Send description ules, geodes, cabs and large mineral speci- and price. Fred W. Morris, 200 Red Maple Beginning with the March meeting, a gem mens. Two miles west of Salome (where she Drive. Levittown, New York. show is planned each month by Searles Lake danced) Arizona. L. C. Hockett, Box 276 Salome, Arizona. Gem and Mineral Society, Trona, California. FLUORITE CRYSTAL ORE from an Old Mex- A panel of judges will be chosen from the ico mine in clear or beautiful colors. Mine SALT LAKE SELENITE Crystals: 1" and 2" run rough in 4 inch pieces or larger. 5 lbs. membership, and awards will be made. sizes, both for 25c postpaid. Frey, Box 9350 $1.50 or 10 lbs. $2.50 plus postage. Also have Reno, Nevada. Smoky Quartz and Calcite. Please remit by • • • Post Office order. C. P. Hiebert, Box 814, March field trip of the Mineralogical So- 7 LARGE BEAUTIFUL mineral Specimens $8.00. Fort Stockton, Texas. Ask for list of cutting types, fluorescents and ciety of Southern California was to Tick crystal groups. Jack The Rock Hound P O Canyon, California. According to Grant Box 86, Carbondale, Colorado. LARGE STOCK of rocks, relics, antiques, re- leased for sale. 5 miles east of Banning, Cali- Ostergard, field trip chairman, howlite, zeo- CYCADS (PARTIALLY AGATIZED) $1 25 per fornia on highway 99, Cabazon, California. lite, agate and borate minerals are to be slice, 5 sq. in. up, postpaid. Floyd L. Man- found at the site. gum, 780 W 4 N., Orem Utah. SELLING OUT—fine large rock and mineral collection. Located one mile from Jamestown, • • • FROM THE CAVES of New Mexico—Polished California, on Hwys 49 and 108 at the Wig- Rich colors of agate were displayed in pieces of cave rock suitable for paper weights wam. Forced to sell out as the highway left colored slides viewed by members of Yava- $1.00 each. Cut and Polished book ends— me. Twin Pines Trailer Court, Box 78, James- $4.00 up per pair. T. B. Perschbacher, 303 N. town, California. pai Gem and Mineral Society at a meeting Mesa, Carlsbad, New Mexico. Dealer inquiries' in Prescott, Arizona. The slides, taken by invited. FOR SALE: Beautiful purple Petrified Wood Dave Harris of El Paso, Texas, were photo- with Uranium, Pyrolusite, Manganite. Nice MINERAL SETS: 24 Colorful Minerals (identi- sample $1.00. Postage. Maggie Baker, Wen- micrographic pictures of thin agate sections fied) in lxl compartments, $3.25 postpaid den, Arizona. submerged in water. PROSPECTOR'S SET — 50 minerals (identi- fied) in lxl compartments in cloth reinforced • • • sturdy cartons, $5.50 postpaid. Elliott Gem BERYL CRYSTALS, Columbite, Tantalite, Pur- Emett Soule of Chappell, Nebraska, is Shop, 235 East Seaside Blvd. Long Beach 2 purite, Andalusite Crystals, Rose Quartz, Hell's California. Canyon Agates. Mac-Mich Minerals Co., Cus- new president of Western Nebraska Mineral ter, So. Dakota. Society. E. P. Chipman of Sidney is vice- WE HAVE at all times a fine selection of cut- president, and Mrs. Walter Peck of Chappell ting material and specimens. Specializing in "TUNGSTEN PROSPECTORS," Fluorescent Col- Australian cutting fire opal. West Coast Min- lectors. Mineralights at Superior Gems & is secretary-treasurer. Newly elected mem- eral Co., 1400 Hacienda Blvd. (highway 39) Minerals, 4665 Park Blvd., San Diego 16, Calif. ber of the board is Paul Bergstrom of Chap- La Habra Heights, California Write for free literature. pell. MINERAL SPECIMENS and cutting material of ROCK COLLECTORS ATTENTION! Back in all kinds. Gold and Silver jewelry made to desert for winter—new rocks—new Trailer 500 IMMITATION STONES removed from jew- order. Your stones or ours. 5 lbs. good cut- Rock Store, The Rockologist, Box 181, Cathe- elry $5.00. Fifty genuine and synthetic stones ting material $4.00 or $1.00 per lb. J. L. $12. B. Lowe, Holland Bldg., St. Louis 1, Mo. James, Battle Mountain, Nevada. dral City, California. 20 ASSORTED COLORFUL 2x3 cabinet speci- QUARTZ CRYSTALS: Singles 114" 25c, 3" 50c. McSHAN'S GEM SHOP—open part time, or find mens. Good for a beginner or to add to your Crystal groups, 2" 50c, 4" $1.00. With Actino- us by directions on door. Cholla Cactus Wood present collection. This beautiful selection Hte inclusions 1" 25c. 2" 50c. Everything a specialty, write for prices. 1 mile west on only $8.00 postpaid. L. M. Jones. Box 56, postpaid Frey Minerals, Box 9350, Reno, U. S. 66. Needles, California, Box 22. Bell Gardens, California. Nevada, Phone 2-0231.

36 DESERT MAGAZINE It was suggested at a meeting of El Paso Experts in the fields of mineralogy, lapi- Elected by the Gem Cutters Guild of Los Mineral and Gem Society that an informed dary and gemology answered questions at Angeles at a recent election meeting were geologist be invited on all club field trips to a quiz meeting of the Gem and Mineral E. H. Rauls, regent; R. E. Nowak, marquis; explain ages and formations of different Society of San Mateo County, California. Mariana Nowak, tablet; Helen Gustafson, locations. Specimens secured at the site Questions were asked first by a panel com- cuvette, and Adrian McClure, baguette. would be examined at the next meeting, posed of Howell Lovell, Francis Marshall classified and identified by a trained miner- and Beth Olop and then from the floor. Dr. alogist. C. M. Swinney of Stanford University was AliTA INDUSTRIES mineralogy expert and Francis J. Sperisen New Address: • • • Box 19, Lareen Stage, Phoenix, Arizona Dr. William E. Powers of Northwestern of San Francisco, author of The Art of New Location: University, scheduled speaker for the March Lapidary handled lapidary queries. South 19th Aw., >:. Mile North of Base Line LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT meeting of the Earth Science Club of North- • • • Lapidary Equipment Manufacture & Design ern Illinois, chose as his topic, "The Eski- Describing the process of wax casting 16-18 inch Power Feed Slabbing Saw mos of Greenland and Labrador." He dis- from beginning to finished product, Carl T. Belt Sanders & Trim Saws cussed not only the native inhabitants of Wood was March speaker for the Los An- (Send Postal for free literature) these northern countries but also the geol- geles Lapidary Society. Wood is a dental ogy and physiography of the area. technician. He illustrated his lecture with • • • blackboard drawing and displayed materials Looking for antigorite specimens, Cala- and tools used, the casting machine, firing veras Gem and Mineral Society staged a oven, wax mold and finished mold. field trip to Tuolumne County, California. • • • • • • Kenneth McKenzie, certified gemologist Herb Coney of Santa Rosa, California, and member of the American Gem Society, told members of Redwood Gem and Mineral was featured speaker at a recent meeting Society tales of early gold mining days in of Shadow Mountain Gem and Mineral Alaska. The speaker displayed samples of Society, Palm Desert, California. McKenzie gold from the northern territory and from is an expert in gem identification and often California rivers. is called upon by the government to make • • • appraisals. News in verse is sent each month to mem- bers of Fresno Gem and Mineral Society whose bulletin, Chips is written in sextains by Pat Michaelis, rhyming editor. FOR SALE-DEALERS ONLY • • • Don't read this ad unless you are Professor Grant Steele of the University a dealer. of Washington gave an illustrated lecture All kinds of NUGGET GEMS in on "Gem Locations in Utah" at a gsneral irregular shapes and sizes up to V4 meeting of the Gem Collectors Club of ounce each. Seattle. GEMS ARE HIGHLY POLISHED • • • These NUGGET GEMS have be- Outlining non-chemical methods employed come a nation wide fad for making in the identification of mineral specimens. unique jewelry. Sold in 100 to 1000 Professor Paul H. Keating, Colorado School pieces per lot. of Mines, was guest speaker for Colorado Dealers—write for prices Mineral Society. Crystallization, cleavage, W. S. SHIREY luster, specific gravity, hardness, magnetism, 7927V4 Santa Monica Blvd. HILLQUIST taste, color and texture were included in Phone Hillside 0694 — Hollywood 48, Calif. Keating's list of basic qualities to observe. • Put the Hillquist Gemmaster beside any lapidary machine — cheaper, flimsy "gadgets" or units that sell at twice the price. Compare construction! Com- pare ease of operation! Compare how much you MINERAUGHT get for your money and you'll say, "I'll take the SL2537 U Gemmaster!" FIND STRATEGIC MINERALS, HIDDEN WEALTH Here is a worthy companion for our larger and more expensive Hillquist Compact Lapidary Unit. WITH ULTRA-VIOLET Tho smaller in size, the Hillquist Gemmaster has many of the same features. It's all-metal with spun AH purpose lamp, operates on aluminum tub. You get a rugged, double-action rock 110V AC, weighs only 1 lb., $39.50 MINERALIGHT! clamp, not a puny little pebble pincher. You get a full 3" babbitt sleeve bearing and ball thrust bear- MINERALIGHT instantly locates, identifies vital ing. You get a big 7" Super Speed diamond saw minerals, saves hours of fruitless search. and all the equipment you need to go right to work. 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MAY, 1952 37 Intricate workings of the electron micro- ANNUAL MEETING. SHOW scope were explained by Jack L. Taylor of SLATED FOR FORT WORTH GEIGER COUNTERS the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory at a meeting of Pa- Annual meeting and show of the State cific Mineral Society. Photographic studies Mineral Society of Texas will be held May METAL DETECTORS of vanadium pentoxide, magnesium oxide 2 to 4 at Pioneer Palace in Fort Worth, and diatomaceous earth—from 7000 to 50,- Texas. Exhibits will be open from 9:30 MINERALIGHTS 000 times natural size — revealed crystal a.m. to 9:30 p.m. all three days. Swap habits and molecular structure. time will begin May 4 at 1:00 p.m. and will Detectron carries a complete • • • continue until the end of the show. line of these and other fine News Letter, bulletin of the Georgia • • • electronic detecting instruments. Mineral Society, for several months has been SAN MATEO SOCIETY running an illustrated series of articles on We have a quality model to fit "Caves of Georgia." Directions to the caves, ANNOUNCES SHOW DATES your pocketbook. The famous as well as history, size and structure, are Third annual show of the Gem and Min- Model DG-2 Geiger Counter is given. eral Society of San Mateq County will be widely used by prospectors and • • • held May 3 and 4 in conjunction with the Installed at recent ceremonies were new geology department of San Mateo Junior by the U. S. Atomic Energy officers of Whittier Gem and Mineral So- College. The college gymnasium will house Commission. ciety: Kenneth W. Tnarp, president; George exhibits, reports Walter Reinhardt, general Write Dept. 21 for full details Cyrog, vice-president; Olin Armstrong, sec- chairman. ond vice-president; Eleanor Tharp, secre- • • • The DETECTRON Co. tary, and Mary Frances Berkholz, treasurer. New directors are Colin Mayhew, Bill Mc- DOWNEY DELVERS PLAN Mjgs. of Electronic Detectors Ininch and James Kirker. Francis P. Croft, SECOND SHOW MAY 3-4 5631 Cahuenga Boulevard retiring president, is the federation director. Delvers Gem and Mineral Society of North Hollywood. California • * • Downey, California, has announced May 3 Two motion pictures on diamond mining and 4 as dates for its second annual show, were shown on a recent program of the to be held in the Simms Park Community Mineralogical Society of Arizona. One film Building, Bellflower. Among attractions will showed the mining and processing of gem- be scenic plumes cut and polished from Agate Jewelry bearing material from the Kimberly Mine Priday Ranch nodules; Texas calcite roses, in South Africa. The other described allu- some of them as large as two feet in diam- Wholesale vial diamond mining in the Minas Geraes eter; mineral displays in rough, cut, pol- Rings — Pendants — Tie Chains district of Brazil. ished and fluorescent specimens; faceted Brooches — Ear Rings • • • gems and exhibits of lapidary machinery Bracelets — Matched Sets Clarence Chittenden commented upon col- and equipment. —Send stamp for price list No. 1— ored slides of agate specimens—moss, plume, iris and scenic varieties—projected for mem- • • • Blank Mountings bers of Pasadena Lapidary Society. The Three talks were scheduled for one eve- agates were collected in Texas, New Mexico, ning program of Compton Gem and Min- Rings — Ear Wires — Tie Chains Mexico and Oregon and photographed by eral Club. Bob Benefiel spoke on "Syn- Cuff Links — Neck Chains Dave Harris of El Paso, Texas. thetic Stones"; Veryle Carnahan discussed Bezel — devices — Shanks fluorescents, demonstrating different types Solder — Findings with the use of lights; and G. S. Kennedy —Send stamp for price list No. 2— offered a chalk talk on "Point Carving of Stones." O. R. JUNKINS & SON 440 N.W. Beach St. Led by Dr. Keith Young of the field trip Newport, Oregon COMPLETE Find a fortune in uranium with thij committee and E. A. King, president, mem- new, super-sensitive Geiger Counter. bers of the Austin Gem and Mineral Society Get one for atom bomb defense. So small it fits in the palm of the hand or in the hip pocket, and yet more sensitive than many collected selenite Xls and fossils in the targe, expensive instruments. Weighs only 1 YA lbs. Uses flash- Bastrop-Smithville area of Texas. NEW CATALOGS AVAILABLE light battery. 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Colonel Keirstead will lead activities of San Diego Lapidary Society this year. On President Keirstead's executive board are Lee Weatherbie, first vice-president; Fred Grunner, second vice-president; Ruth Weath- tyou've 'Seen ^.oo&iKf *?

38 DESERT MAGAZINE "Catlinite," or pipestone, was described by "Geology of the North Shore of Lake Carl Swartzlow of the National Park Serv- Superior" was the subject of Dr. George ice when he spoke before members of Ne- Thiel, chairman of the geology department ALLEN braska Mineral and Gem Club, Omaha. of the University of Minnesota when he JUNIOR Catlinite is found only in Pipestone County, spoke before the Minnesota Mineral Club. Minnesota. According to Indian legend, it The Northwestern section of Minnesota is GEM was formed from the congealed blood of part of the Laurentian Shield which, accord- CUTTER dying warriors. ing to Dr. Thiel, contains the oldest rocks • • • in this continent. "In fact, the oldest known A Complete Lapidary Shop Rain storms couldn't stop rockhounds of rock on earth, the 'Ely greenstone', believed Only $43.50 Convair Recreational Association, Sen Di- to be more than 2,000,000,000 years old, ego, California, from a camping trip to was found in this area." • Ideal for apartment house dwel- Escondido. Sunday they searched for clear • • • and smoky quartz crystal, garnet, tourma- Members of the Chicago Rocks and Min- lers. line and beryl. erals Society learned about mastodons when • Polish rocks into beautiful gems. • • • Dr. Clarence H. Smith spoke at a general Fifty cabochons were collected by San session. Plans for a field trip to the areas • Anyone can learn. Antonio Rock and Lapidary Socie:y for where mastodon fossils have been found • Instructions included. distribution to patients at Brooke Army were discussed. Hospital. Write ior Catalog. 25c • • • Find of the day on a recent San Diego ALLEN LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT Lapidary Society field trip was a 25-pound Coast Gems and Minerals COMPANY — Dept. D piece of salmon colored petrified palm root. 3632 W. Slauson Ave.. Los Angeles 43. Cal. The lucky lapidary was "Dee" Dietrich. • • • SPECIALS Phone Axminister 2-6206 The gemstone discovered in 1945 by (Rutile)—Top Quality Count Taaffe is known as Taaffeite (pro- TITANIA Guaranteed—per carat $8.00 nounced Tarfite), reports the news bulletin JASPER JUNCTION LAPIDARY of San Diego Lapidary Society. Taaffeite is MEXICAN OPAL V* lb. Honey & Cherry—No fire 1.00 490914 Eagle Rock Blvd. — CL. 6-2021 the only known substance where a mineral Vi lb. Honey & Cherry—with fire 4.00 Los Angeles 41, California contains essential beryllium and magnesium Vi lb. Opal in Matrix—with fire 1.00 together. I'KECIOUS ROUGH FACETING MAT. WORK SHOP • • • Vt lb. Precious Topaz, mine run 1.50 Vi lb. Amethyst (for cabs.), Mex 1.00 1112 Neola St. — CL. 6-7197 Outlining mining developments in San Vi lb. Amethyst (for faceting), Mex... 5.00 Los Angeles 41, California Diego County, California, Roy Kepner was Vi lb. Peridot, mine run (Ariz.) 3.00 guest speaker at a meeting of San Diego Vi lb. Kunzite, mine run (Pala, Cal.).. 1.50 WE SPECIALIZE IN CUTTING BOOKENDS Mineral and Gem Society. He illustrated PRECIOUS CUT STONES (State Shape) Custom sawing and polishing—24" saw (Genuine) Priced per carat Slabs, bulk stone, Mineral Specimens his remarks with colored slides. Tourmaline (Pala—(State Colors) $5.00 Polished Specimens & Cabochons • • • Amethyst (Mex.)—very fine 1.50 Machinery & Supplies Golden Topaz (Mex.)—very fine 6.00 We rent polishing machinery by the hour To complete Coachella Valley Mineral Garnet Cabs.—Excellent Red Color... 1.00 Society's community kitchen outfit, Martha (Synthetic) priced per carat INSTRUCTION AT NO EXTRA COST Danner made aprons, chef's hats, hotpad Alexandrite (Corun.) good color change 2.00 Call CL. 6-7197 for Appointment mats, dish towels and crocheted dish cloths (Write for prices of other stones) and presented them to the club. 105 DIFF. MINERAL SPECIMENS $4.50 Carefully selected. Is a valuable aid • • • in helping identify and classify your Quicksilver minerals from Knoxville Mine findings or makes a wonderful gift. "You'll love" Boxed and labeled. 70 different 3.00 and banded silica onyx from Manhattan 35 different 1.50 CONLEY MOUNTINGS Mine, both near Oakland, California, were Beautiful, enduring, easy setting gathered on a recent field trip of East Bay SLABS —5c per square inch. Write for FREE catalog Mineral Society. The area also yields my- Consists of a mixed lot of 10 or more WHOLESALE & RETAIL DISTRIBUTORS rickite and fluorescent calcite. different types, a few of which are SUPERIOR GEMS & MINERALS Jade, Tigereye, Lapis, Palm, Sagenite, • • • Wood, Agate, Jasper and others. 4665 Park Blvd. San Diego 16, California Intricate designs of agate sections, as re- Minimum order—40 sq. inches 2.00 vealed through microscopic photography, MIXED CUTTING MATERIAL, per lb... .25 were viewed by the Victor Valley Gem and FAMOUS TEXAS PLUMES Mineral Club. Speaker of the evening was SEND FOR OUR CIRCULAR TODAY Red Plume, Pom Pom and many other types Please add postage to all orders. If not a of agate. 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MAY, 1952 39 Rem Heater, president; Bob Follett, vice- CLARK COUNTY COLLECTORS EASTERN FEDERATION president; Yancey Winans, secretary, and SCHEDULES OCTOBER MEET Mrs. Henry Ewing, treasurer, comprise the PLAN SHOW IN NOVEMBER new board of Marcus Whitman Gem and Clark County Gem Collectors have se- Newark Mineralogical Society, Newark Mineral Society, Walla Walla, Washington. lected November 8 and 9 as dates for their Lapidary Society and North Jersey Minera- • • • 1952 show. Exhibits will be arranged in logical Society will be hosts for the second Although the common variety is a rather the War Memorial Building and City Hall, annual convention of the Eastern Federa- important rock-forming mineral, about the Las Vegas, Nevada. Last year's show at- tion of Mineralogical and Lapidary Societies only use for tourmaline is for gems. The tracted 3000 visitors. Paul Mercer, show October 9 to 11. Club and commercial ex- less brittle crystals make excellent radio fre- chairman, hopes to triple that number this hibits are planned, as well as a giant field quency control crystals. However, an ex- year. trip to Franklin, New Jersey. treme scarcity of good material in large • • • • • • enough pieces sharply limits this use. Tour- Dr. W. E. Carter, whose hobby is collect- Galena, zinc, turquoise and chalcedony maline's optical properties were long em- ing and polishing marble, spoke to members were sought by Santa Fe Gem and Mineral ployed for producing polarized light in lab- of the Northern California Mineral Society Club when Verne Byrne led members on oratories, but synthetic substitutes now are at a meeting in San Francisco. His marble a field trip to the Cerrillos Hills. made at much less expense.—Sooner Rock- slabs, which come from all over the world, • • • ologist. range in color from purest white through all Raymond Addison demonstrated silver • • • the intermediary grays to intense black. Silver was the subject of April discussions soldering when he spoke on jewelry tech- • • • niques at a meeting of San Jose Lapidary of the mineral resources division of San Society. Diego Mineral and Gem Society. Lyle Hunt "Jade carving should be done with a spe- spoke on "Silver of the Panamint." cific artistic design in mind," G. S. Kennedy • • • advised the Hollywood Lapidary Society, A. C. Gustafson demonstrated faceting "and frequent sketches, both on paper and and polishing of soft materials with a new on the stone itself, should be made while sapphire polishing head at the March meet- WRITS work is in progress." Kennedy, who has ing of the Gem Cutters Guild of Los An- executed many carvings in jade, gave his geles. Gustafson cut a piece of optical glass listeners specific instructions for undertak- with No. 95 carborundum, then polished FOR DETAILS ing this phase of the lapidary art. with No. 400 Burgundy pitch mixed with beeswax and paraffin. Water and Barnsite were used as polishing agent. Four speakers discussed agate at the • • • NUBIAN March meeting of Dona Ana County Rock- Mastodon bones found in Marl deposits hound Club, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Ruth in a post-glacial lake in Aurora, Illinois, TURQUOISE Kilgore described different varieties of agate, were described by Prof. Clarence Smith, showing examples of each; Jesse Patty listed head of the physics department at Aurora P. 0. BOX 11 geological formations in which agate might College, for the Chicago Rocks and Min- be expected to occur; J. T. Kilgore explained erals Society. The bones were found by PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA nature's processes in forming agate; and workers digging a lake for a public park. Mary Brookreson discussed commercial The skeletons, though incomplete, were value and marketing of the stone. in an excellent state of preservation, due to the large amount of lime in the Marl. MOTEL CALICO Is located in the center of the rockhounds' and photographers' rendezvous 9 miles E. of Barstow, California on Hi. 91 at Daggett Road. 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40 DESERT MAGAZINE zine were collecting data all over the coun- try for their article published last Novem- ber on rockhounding. When they reached the Los Angeles area a group from a strictly mineral society took them in tow and off they went on location. Members of the Los Angeles Lapidary Society heard where they went and, not knowing it was another so- ciety's affair, they reached the collecting spot By LELANDE QUICK, Editor of The Lapidary Journal a few hours later and identified themselves. They were told by the mineral group that they just were not wanted because "this is Just about the time that we were privately feature the things in which our groups are to be a story about rockhounds, and lapi- puzzling about using the wrong word at the interested and refer to the "natural science" daries are not rockhounds." Somewhat wrong time and wondering what to do about or the "natural history" clubs. They are amazed at this turn of affairs, and about- it, along comes a fine article by the editors better terms. face attitude on rockhounds, our friends of the Pick and Dop Stick, official bulletin In 1854 Thomas Huxley wrote an essay left. But look at the article—and see all of the Chicago Rocks and Minerals Society. entitled On the Educational Value of the the pictures relating to the lapidaries and Entitled "Nomenclature—A Problem of the Natural History Sciences. He made a state- their beautiful work. Societies," it discusses the use of the term ment that has impressed us very much since Right words? Natural history or natural rockhound, the misuse of such words as we read it. He said—"to a person unin- science rather than earth science; mineral "earth science." It even chides us a little for structed in natural history, his country or instead of mineralogical; rockhound rather suggesting that earth science groups empha- seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery than rock hunter or mineralogist and, of sizing lapidary activities join the new Lapi- filled with wonderful works of art, nine course—lapidary rather than lapidarist or dary Association. The article chides an- tenths of which have their faces turned to lapidist; two terms that never at any time other writer for referring to their society as the wall." appear in any good magazine. a lapidary club. However one could rightly And isn't that true? So many of our call the Chicago Rocks and Minerals So- hobby interests are akin that the rockhound ciety, with the official title for its bulletin of in the strictly lapidary club who goes after DIAMOND BLADES the Pick and Dop Stick, a lapidary club with agate, with no knowledge whatever of ge- as much correctness as calling it a mineral ology, is just as guilty of looking at the club. "pictures turned to the wall' as the moss- Huv»-0uly Siper- To be absolutely correct, only clubs de- back mineral collector who goes after gar- Sw-Ckfd. CUrgd CklilMI 8" $ $ 8.60 $ 7.60 voted to the study of geology and the earth's net specimens with no idea of gemology in 8" 10.05 9.95 minerals are earth science clubs. The dic- his head. 10" 14.50 13.35 tionary's definition of the word geology says 12" 21.20 17.65 We repeat that the mineralogical (pom- 14" 27.95 24.45 it is "the science which treats of the history pous word!) society needs a talk now and 16" 31.20 27.70 of the earth and its life as recorded in the then on gem cutting just as much as the 18" 62.50 41.25 34.40 rocks." Since lapidary clubs not only study lapidary society needs a talk on geology 20" 74.25 49.50 37.95 lapidary procedure but also gemology, the 24" 88.80 62.60 48.95 and mineralogy. We still think that the 30" 142.50 119.75 State science of gem minerals or precious rocks, name "gem and mineral society" is the best 36" 215.30 179.10 Arbor they are really more nearly earth science descriptive name for our natural history sales tax in California. Size groups than are fossil collectors. Some clubs unless they very definitely intend to Allow lor Postage and Insurance groups are definitely not in the earth science study nothing but geology (Geological So- classification at all. Collectors of Indian ciety of Minnesota) or rock polishing (Los Covington Ball Bearing Grinder pots, fashioners of silver bracelets and pho- Angeles Lapidary Society). A study of the tographers of vacation scenes are not earth and shields are names of the many societies organized in furnished in 4 science students. Disturbing some old In- the last three years indicates that almost dian's bones isn't as close to earth science sizes and price ten out of ten groups style themselves as ranges to suit as a speleologist crawling in dark caves gem and mineral societies or vice versa. among the stalactites. your require- Now and then a club will choose a really ments. Water and We used to have a good friend who al- meaningless name like the Rock Cruisers grit proof. ways dismissed any serious problem in the or Delapidary Club. Several societies have club by saying "we're only in it for fun." changed their names from the use of the This is a good idea but it has been carried awkward word mineralogical to the com- COVINGTON 8" TRIM SAW bination of the words gem and mineral and too far and the whole earth science move- and motor are com- ment could be vastly improved if one mem- the name serves to define them more prop- erly. pact and do not ber in each society had the courage to get splash. Save blades on his feet and say. "I joined this club to Any name should tell what kind of a and clothing with get information through study and lectures club it is and where it is located, such as this saw. to help me understand my fun and not for the Los Angeles Lapidary Society or the the coffee and doughnuts." Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore. We par- BUILD YOUR OWN LAP Most societies today have a bulletin of ticularly like the letterhead of one of the and SAVE with a COV- some kind. Most of them cross our desk. oldest societies in the country—Gem Col- INGTON 12" or 16" Lap They are a lot better than they used to be lectors' Club, Inc. of Seattle. Under their Kit. We furnish every- and they give much information. However name appears a sentence that tells the whole thing you need. Send sometimes we have to look thoroughly to story — "friendly non-profit organization for free catalog. see what the program was at the last meet- interested in gem cutting, geology and min- ing or will be at the next and rarely is there eralogy." anything to tell what was said. There is COVINGTON As for the word rockhound—we never Multi-Feature very little "science" to some of them. But liked it but we have accepted it. The old 16" Lap Unit this is not intended to call down upon our lady of the publishing world, the staid Na- Does heads again, as we did once before, the tional Geographic Magazine, recently used everything wrath of the editors of the good bulletins it right in the title of a big article, but they for you. (editors of the bad ones keep quiet)) but set it off in quotes. So many people know COVINGTON 12" 14" just to make the point once more that too what the word means that it has become or 16" many societies, regardless of their names, accepted into our language as a word mean- Power Feed have no science in their meetings or their ing a collector of rocks. It was about 1940 Diamond publications—just too much fun. that we first saw the word on a card used Saws by a member of the Seattle Gem Collectors' And so we have come to the conclusion SAVE that there just is no one word that takes in Club on which was portrayed a dog licking the complex groups today in every commun- a real rock glued to the card. At that time BLADES ity who are interested in studying minerals the "mineralogical" boys used the term for or gem minerals in particular, in geology, ignorant hammer-happy crystal smashers as paleontology, silvercraft, book-ending or a term of contempt. And yet it is a fine Send for New Catalog, IT'S FREE doughnuts. We agree that the term "earth example of how the term has come to be science" is not good and henceforth we are accepted in another sense when we cite the COVINGTON LAPIDARY SUPPLY not going to use it. We shall take our cue following story. In the Fall of 1950 per- Redlands, California from the names of the great museums that sonnel of the National Geographic Maga-

MAY, 1952 41 Qu5t jSetween 1/ou and. Me

By RANDALL HENDERSON

NE DAY last fall a man and wife came to my office I have always felt that one of the most worthwhile to ask advice about camping equipment. They had measures adopted during the depression years of the '30s never camped out, and they wanted to know about was the organization of the Civilian Conservation Corps. sleeping bags, air mattresses, camp stoves and utensils. It would be hard to over-estimate the good work done They were courteous people and very sincere, and I gave by the boys of the CCC during the years they were build- them what help I could. ing trails, campsites, soil conservation works, working at More recently, on a camping trip, I met them again. reforestation, and protecting waterholes and landmarks. They were lugging in wood for their campfire—they and And while they were carrying out their program for the their two daughters, aged six and twelve. They had gotten benefit of all the citizens, they were acquiring training together a good outfit, and were having a grand time. and knowledge of untold value to themselves. And then I learned their story. Their home is in the It is unfortunate, I think, that a project so worth while Los Angeles area, and their children attend the city should have been regarded merely as a depression relief schools. They have sufficient income to provide well for measure, and dropped when the emergency had passed. their daughters—but they know that it requires something In the new president's cabinet that is formed after this besides money to raise wholesome youngsters. They year's elections I hope there will be at least one voice to know the demoralizing effect that luxury-without-effort speak up in behalf of the restoration of a young men's has on the character of youth. They want their children to program patterned after the CCC model—a plan designed learn the virtue of simplicity, to be natural and genuine for the conservation of both youth and the natural re- —not sophisticated and snobbish. In the artificial environ- sources of our land. We need such a program in good ment of the city and in a home of more-than-average times no less than in depression years—not merely to income they realize that they have a critical problem. provide work for young people, but rather as an oppor- They are very intelligent people—and out of their tunity for teen-age boys reared in the artificial environ- deliberations came the decision to turn to the outdoors ment of the city to gain a first hand knowledge of the for their solution. Not just the kind of outdoor life that natural world in which they live. consists of long motor tours on paved roads. That kind Living and working in the outdoors far removed from of activity—or lack of activity—can become very tedious paved roads and the pampering services of urban life to energetic young people. They would camp out and develop a degree of independence and a sense of security make a grand adventure of the chores of cooking over an unknown to youngsters who are born and raised in the open fire, sleeping on the ground, and exploring the can- metropolitan areas today. yons and mountains. * * * In order to have companions qualified to help and Here on the floor of the Colorado desert the wild- instruct them they joined the Sierra Club, whose mem- flowers are at their best as this is written early in April— bers camp in the mountains or on the desert almost every and this is one of the most gorgeous displays we have weekend of the year. seen in many years. Our desert wildflowers are a source To middle-aged people who have never slept on the of constant amazement to visitors. They come from ground in their lives, the first few nights may not be too places where it requires months of careful planting and comfortable. There are some problems in camping that fertilizing and cultivating to produce colorful flower dis- can be solved only by the trial and error method. But plays. Their gardens are prim and orderly. Our desert humans who have kept their adaptive functions active can species grow in haphazard arrangement all over the land- soon adjust to the experience. scape, attended only by the wind and rain and sun. They When I met this family on a camping trip they were are rugged little wildlings—but they are no less beautiful enjoying every minute of it—and I am not sure which than their more civilized cousins. members were having the most fun, the girls, or their par- There is so much in Nature that we do not under- ents. stand. Why do the verbenas seek the dunes for their As the young ladies grow older, their boy friends will habitat, the phacelias the shade of a rock or shrub, the be invited to come along on these trips. At least, that is encelia the rocky hillsides? We do not know the answers the plan, and if they are normal young people it will work. —but it doesn't matter. In a few days the winds will be With few exceptions, youngsters like camping and explor- distributing the seeds far and wide—to remain dormant ing—and I can think of no more wholesome environment in the sand for years perhaps until moisture and tempera- for them than evenings around the campfire and days tures are right for another flowering season. Every lovely spent in close association with the natural things of this blossom on the desert holds the promise of more exquisite earth. flowers in the years ahead, for you and me and for our children. It's a grand place to live—this old earth!

42 DESERT MAGAZINE in the tale told by dark schists, varicol- ored strata, brick-red ledges and sheer, deep walls. The story of the Grand Canyon— how it was carved by Nature in a mere 2,000,000 years—is no secret. It is recorded in the cliffs and ledges for all to see. Yet it went unread until 1869 NEW. IMPROVED EDITION In no sense an exhaustive study of when the first explorers guided bat- OF NEVADA SCENIC GUIDE any one area or culture, Hibben's book tered boats through the treacherous Scenic Guide to Nevada was the first rather captures the spirit of different waters of the Colorado River. publication in the Scenic Guides series. ways of life in ancient America. The The Fentons' Giants of Geology at- Its success has led to similar reports amateur archeologist will find it fas- tempts to explain the mystery of the on other western states and now, six cinating reading. earth's formation in a very human way years after its first printing, to a new Published by J. B. Lippincott Com- — through a series of biographical edition of the Nevada booklet. Writ- pany, 311 pages, 17 halftone illustra- sketches of the great men of earth sci- ten by Weldon F. Heald and illustrated tions, index. $5.00. ence, from early Greece to modern with color and black-and-white half- times. tone pictures, the second edition in- STORY OF GEOLOGY TOLD They tell of Aristotle, the famous corporates several improvements over IN BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES the first. Greek philosopher who interpreted the When a geologist stands on the rim affairs of the earth in terms of natural Nevada is primarily a mining state, of the Grand Canyon and looks down causes instead of magic and folk gods; and its ghost towns, old mining camps into that magnificent chasm, the and of Steno, an early Danish scientist and present-day mine sites are fascinat- thoughts and impressions that pass who wrote the first geologic history of ing places to visit. But the Sagebrush through his mind are likely to be quite any area. Abraham Werner, James State offers much more to the tourist different from those of the average Hutton, Louis Agassiz, James Dwight —the wild beauties of mountain and tourist. Dana, Major Powell and others—all plain, weird rock formations in Valley To Carroll Lane Fenton and Mil- the famous names of geology are in- of Fire state park, Pyramid Lake, dred Adams Fenton, though for them cluded. Hoover Dam, Lehman Caves National also the changes of light and scene hold Published by Doubleday and Com- Monument, Lake Mead, the cosmo- beauty and drama, the fascination of pany, Inc. 335 pages. Index, bibliog- politan cities of Reno and Las Vegas, the canyon is contained in the solid raphy, halftone illustrations, line dia- the history-chocked towns of Austin, meaning of the Inner Gorge itself— grams and maps. $3.50. Winnemucca and Virginia City, "Queen of the Comstock Lode." Towns and places are listed alpha- betically, with cross references, index, maps and pictures. The 80-page book- commRB let falls open to reveal a large map of Nevada on the center pages. Published by H. C. Johnson. $1.50.

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MAY, 1952 43 To Lost Treasure areas, to Ghost towns, to Gem and Mineral Fields, to MAPS Historical Landmarks, to forgotten trails, and the newest roads For 15 years the Desert Magazine staff has been guides you can obtain to a thousand interesting places. mapping the desert areas. Over 300 of these maps Here is a listing of back issues now available, car- have appeared in past issues of Desert, and most of rying the maps indicated, and also many other maps these maps are still available for those who plan to not mentioned in this list, which has been classified travel the desert country. They are the most accurate for easy reference:

FOR THE LOST TREASURE HUNTER . . . MAPS TO HISTORICAL PLACES . . . ((i of these stories include maps) Apr. '4(i—Long Walk of the Xavajo to Ft. Sunnier. MAP Aug. '4(i—.John I), jpie's lost gold mine, Ariz. May '46—When Hawaiians Came to the Utah Desert. Nov. '46—Lost Pegfiefe gold not a myth, Calif. MAP MAP I),.,.. '4(;—Treasure Hunt on the Salt Desert, Utah. MAP Jan. '49—Waterhole at the Crossroads. MAP Sep. '47—His Compass Was a Burro's Tail, Ariz. MAP May '49—Great Salt Lake. MAP Sep. '48—Haunted Silver in Arizona. MAP ,jUI1. <4<)_He Planned to Change the Desert Climate. MAP Dec. '48—Emerald Mine in Santa Rosas. Mar. '50—Bnckboard Days at Silver Reef. MAP Jan. '4!)—Lost Squaw, Hollow Gold Ledge, Ariz. Jun. '50—Tribesmen of Tiizigoot. MAP Apr. '49—Lost Lead-Silver Mine in Nevada. Sep. '50—Escalante River Trip. MA P Jim. '49—There's Plafcg&GoId in the Desert Bajadas. Oct. '50—Forgotten Trails of the Old West MAP Feb. '50—Lost Gold o£i|ult Spring. MAP May '50—Swamper's Gold. HISTORICAL MAPPED TRIPS, 9 Magazines $1.50 .lun. '50—On the Trail :#s||vorrf's Gold. MAP Jul. '50—Lost Mine of ^^iisetijiino. MAPS FOR THE ROCK HUNTER . . . Sep. '50—Silver Mine o'ftSe Old Opata Indians. Oct '50—Gold Pockets in the Santa Rosas. Apr. '46—Beach Stones Along the Colorado. MAP Nov. '50—Lost Silver Mine of the Jesuits. May '46—Green jasper, near Lake Mead, Xevada. MAP Dec. '50—Lost Silver in Monument Valley. Jun. '46—Agate, chalcedony, etc., Arizona. MAP Feb. '51—Black Nuggets in Phantom Buttes. jul. '4(j—Minerals at Calico. MAP Aug. '46—Fossils While You Wait. MAP Sep. '46—Gem onyx field, near Las Vegas, Nev. MAP LOST TREASURE SET, 18 magazines . . . $3.00 Oct. '46—Augite crystals at Hopi Buttes, Arizona. MAP Aug. '47—Agate, chalcedony, Fossil sprs., Arizona. MAP MAPS FOR TRAVELER AND EXPLORER . . . Oct. '47—Collecting crystals, Topaz int., Utah. MAP Dec. '48—Gem field in Cady Mts. MAP Dec. '45—Palms in Pushawalla Canyon. MAP Apr. '49—Geodes in the Kofa Country. MAP Apr. '46—Palms That Grow in Cat Canyon. MAP May '49—Geodes, Chalcedony, Southern Arizona. MAP May '46—By Jalopy Through "The Sweepings of the Jun. '49—.Jasper along Highway 60. MAP World." MAP Jul. '49—Sandspikes on the border. MAP ,ji,,,. '4(j—Hopi Trek to the Land of Big Water. MAP Aug. '49—Uranium Strike in Petrified Wood. MAP Jul. '46—Palm Hunters in the Inkopah Wastelands. MAP Freak Bocks in Nature's Wonderland. Sep. '49—Agate, jasper, on Devil's Highway. MAP Aug. '46—We Camped at Cantu Palms. MAP Oct. '49—Fossils in Coyote Mountain. MAP Sep. '46—We Found the Hidden Shrine of Old Makai. Nov. '49—Apache Tears at Bagdad. MAP MAP Dec. '49—"Lakeview Diamonds" in Oregon. MAP Oct. '46—Atomic Man in the Haunts of the Ancients. MAP Feb. '50—We Followed the Lure of Carnotite. MAP Aug. '47—Mastodons of Moah. MAP Mar. '50—Fossil Wood in Utah. MAP Sep. '47—Oasis on Bear Creek. MAP Apr. '50—Dinosaur Bones in Colorado. MAP Oct. '47—Don't Knock at a Hogan Door. MAP May '50—Wonderstones in Nevada. MAP Aug. '48—Utah's Incredible Arch of Stone. MAP Jul. '50—Agate Hill in Utah. MAP Sep. '48—Haunted Silver. MAP Aug. '50—Gem Field Near 29 Palms. MAP May '49—Great Salt Lake. MAP Sep. '50—Apache Tears in Nevada. MAP Jun. '49—Ancient Artists Lived on Rattlesnake Peak. Oct. '50—Crystal Calcite in California. MAP MAP Nov. '50—Agate Hunters in California. MAP Jul. '49—On Hassayampa Trails. MAP Dec. '50—Gold on Garces Trail. MAP Aug. '49—Indian Country Trek. MAP Jan. '51—Xevada Invited the Rockhounds. MAP Sep. '49—They Left Their Story in the Desert Sands. Map Oct. '49—19 Days on Utah Trails. MAP ROCK HUNTER'S SET, 30 magazines . . . $5.00 Nov. '49—19 Days on Utah Trails. (Cont.) MAP Dec. '49—Valley of the Cathedrals. MAP Apr. '50—Painted Canyon in Mecca Hills. MAP MAPS TO THE GHOST TOWNS . . . Jul. '50—La Mora Canyon in Baja California. MAP May '46—When Hawaiians Came to Utah. MAP Sep. '50—Escalante River Trip. MAP Jul. '46—Ghost Town of Calico Hills. MAP Oct. '50—Forgotten Trails of the Old West. MAP Jan. '49—Old Fort Cummings in Xew Mexico. MAP Nov. '50—Sacred Mountain of the Tribesmen. MAP Aug. '49—Waterhole at the Crossroads. MAP Dec. '50—Gold and Rose on Garces Trail. MAP Jan. '50—Printer of Old Tusearora. MAP TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION SET, 27 mags. $4.50 Mar. '50—Buckboard Days at Silver Reef. MAP GHOST TOWN MAPPED TRIPS, 6 magazines ORDER AS MANY ISSUES AS YOU WISH Magazines may be ordered by specifying month One Copy 25c; Six for $1.00; 12 for $2.00 and year only, or by sets The entire set of 38 different magazines for $6.00 LOOSE LEAF BINDERS FOR PERMANENT THE j^4fi&i%lf° mfiGflZine FILING WILL BE SUPPLIED FOR $2.00 EACH Each binder has space for 12 copies Palm Desert, California