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Desert Magazine 1953 April NEW FREE 56 PAGE 1953 MIDYEAR PRICE LIST This catalog is the same as our 1952 Fall Catalog. It is Bails, Locket Loops, Chain by the foot, Bezel Wire, etc. 8V6"xll" in size and it is profusely illustrated. Your Field Trip Books and Books of all kinds on Minerals, shopping will be made easy — order by mail or visit Gems, Jewelry Making, Prospecting, Uranium, etc. our shop to select your gifts. This catalog lists Gem Fluorescent Lamps, Fluorescent Minerals, Geiger Count- Cutting Equipment, Grinding Wheels, Diamond Blades, ers, Uranium Samples, Magnifiers, Scales, Templates, etc. Sanding Cloth, and Polishing Powders, Jewelry Making Services Offered to You Are: Expert Gem Stone Cutting, Tools, Sterling Silver Sheet and Wire, Blank Ring Custom Jewelry Making and Kepair. Mountings, Jewelry Findings such as Earwires, Dealers please ask for wholesale discount sheets POLY ARBORS AT NEW LOW PRICES illustration at right shows 1—POLY D12 Arbor $19.95 1—Dresser Rest 2.25 2—Cast Splash Shields 15.00 1—Jig Block DIAMOND 1—100 Grit Wheel 8"xlV4" 7.25 DRESSER 10.90 1—220 Grit Wheel 8"xiya" 8.25 2—Galvanized Splash Pans. 5.50 TOTAL VALUE $69.10 SPECIAL COMBINATION PRICE $62.00 YOU WILL BE WEARING RAINBOWS When you wear jewelry set with TITANIA. Gems of synthetic TITANIA have five times more ability than the diamond to break light into its component colors producing a magnificent rainbow effect. These magnificent gems can be set in mount- ings you may now have from which you have lost the ihan the Diamond] original stone. Visit Our Shop and See Ladies' and Men's Rings Set with Titania. A Larcje Stock of Titania Earwires Is Also Available. FREE LAPIDARY LESSONS With the purchase of cabochon or facet cutting equipment having a value of $85.00 or more, an experienced lapidary will give you a lesson in gemstone cutting in his own shop. Model E-10 Gem Stone Cutter—$139.75 F.O.B. Pasadena Add $3.00 crating for out-of-town shipments Note: Trim saw has a vise (not illustrated) with lateral adjustment for slabbing. This unit and other HIGHLAND PARK EQUIPMENT is fully described in our 56 page free catalog. 1 TIN OXIDE AGAIN GETTING MARRIED: LET'S GET ACQUAINTED OFFER GENUINE DIAMOND ENGAGEMENT 18" Rhodium Plated Sterling Silver or NOW ONLY $2.50 LB. AND WEDDING RINGS yellow Gold Filled Neck chains. AT SUBSTANTIAL SAVZ1GS Cerium Oxide $3.00 11) 2 for $1.00 or $4.50 per doz. Chrome Oxidt- $1.00 Il> FACET CUT ROCK CRYSTAL STARS plus 20% Fed. E. Tax. Zirconium Oxide $1.25 lb FOR PENDANTS AND EARWIRES NEW BOOK OFFERS ESTWING ALL STEEL INDIAN SILVERSMITHING ROCKHOUND PICKS by Ben Hunt $4.75 Gift Model—Polished $4.10 GEM TRAIL JOURNAL Regular Black Finish $3.85 2nd Edition—by Henry $2.00 Wood Handled Stanley THE 1st BOOK OP STONES, Cormack Prospectors Picks $3.10 For the 7-11 year olds $1.75 Allow 3 lbs. Shipping weight. LOOSE STARS—one point ilrillet 1" size—S2.00 or 3 for S 1.50 Synthetic ALEXANDRITES W size—SI.50 or 3 for $:i.:!5 S.S. or Gold Filled Bails fr>r stars each....$ .50 Visit our shop to see these remarkable INTRODUCTORY BARGAINS IN S.S. or Gold Filled Chains, each $1.00 color changing gems. Round and oval PKNDANT OR STUD EARWIRES $11.00 pair. faceted gems as loose stones or set in JEWELRY FINDINGS FACETED JADE STABS lovely rings. Ster. Silver Earwires $1.00 doz. EXPECTED ABOUT DECEMBER 1 1" size—S4.00 y2" size—$2.00 Ster. Silver Spring Rings.. .$1.00 doz TIGER EYE & GREEN AVENTURINE STARS LINDE SYNTHETIC STAK RUBIES Ster. Silver Bails or Loops.$1.00 doz 1" size—$2.50 '/2" size—SI.50 AND SAPPHIRES Above prices plus 20% Fed. E. Tax. All plus 20% Fed. Tax. ALL PRICES F.O.B. PASADENA Visit our shop to see these gems GRIEGER'S • 1633 E. WALNUT ST. • PASADENA 4, CALIFORNIA OUR STORE IS OPEN EVERY DAY 8:30 A.M. UNTIL 5 00 P.M. — CLOSED ALL DAY SUNDAY , PHONE: SY.« 6-6423 ' ' DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT CALENDAR April—Exhibit of paintings by Orpha Klinker of historical landmarks in California. Southwest Museum, Highland Park, Los Angeles, Calif. April 1-4—Final Easter ceremonies of Yaqui Indians, Pascua Village, near Tucson, Arizona. April 3—Passion play of Penitente Brotherhood, Rancho de Taos and St. Francis Mission, Taos, New Mexico. April 4 — All-day auto caravan to Pioneertown and Indian Cove Volume 16 APRIL. 1953 Number 4 in Joshua Tree National Monu- ment. From Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California. COVER Yucca, by ESTHER HENDERSON, Tucson, Arizona April 5—Easter sunrise services on horseback. Wickenburg, Arizona. CALENDAR April events on the desert 3 April 5 — Easter sunrise services, PHOTOGRAPHY Pictures of the Month 4 Grand Canyon, Arizona. FIELD TRIP There's Still Color in the Old Placer Fields April 5—Easter sunrise services at Desert Christ Monument, Yucca By E. C. THOROMAN 5 Valley, California. POETRY The Des€;rt Blooms Again, and other poems . 9 April 5 — Easter Sunrise Services, Yermo, California. EXPLORATION The Ancients Were Here April 5 — Rodeo, Rancho de Los By RANDALL HENDERSON 10 Caballeros, Wickenburg, Arizona. PRIZES April contest for photographers 14 April 6-10—Desert Caballeros Annual WILDFLOWERS Ride, Wickenburg, Arizona. Forecast for April 16 April 8-19—Tucson Festival, Tucson, EXPERIENCE Arizona. Life on the Desert April 10-11—All-Indian Show, Ari- LETTERS By ERNEST K. ALLEN 17 zona State College, Flagstaff. April 11-12 — Bandollero Tour to NATURE Comment from Desert's readers 21 Rocky Point, Sonora, Mexico, from Yuma, Arizona. Sand Food of the Papagos April 11-12—Annual De Anza Jeep DESERT QUIZ By FRANKLIN A. THACKERY 22 Cavalcade, Hemet to Calexico, California. LOST MINE A true-false test of your desert knowledge . 24 April 12 — Annual Chuck Wagon breakfast, to welcome De Anza Lost Treasure of Sonoyta jeep riders from Hemet. Calexico, FICTION By JOHN D. MITCHELL 25 California. NEWS April 12—Dons Club Trek to Boyce Hard Ro=k Shorty of Death Valley 26 Thompson Aboretum, Superior, WATER Arizona. From Phoenix. From Here and There on the Desert .... 27 CLOSE-UPS April 18-19—Annual Grubstake Days, Predictions of Colorado River Run-off .... 32 Yucca Valley, California. CONTEST April 18-19—Sierra Club, Southern About those who write for Desert 33 California Chapter, exploratory HOBBY hike up west fork of Palm Canyon, Prize Announcement for Writers 33 near Palm Springs, California. LAPIDARY April 25 — All-day auto caravan Gems and Minerals 34 through Joshua Tree National MINING Monument. From Desert Museum, Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK . 40 Palm Springs, California. Stops at COMMENT Wonderland of Rocks, Salton View, Current news of desert mines 41 Jumbled Rocks and Twentynine BOOKS Palms Oasis. Just Between You and Me, by the Editor ... 42 April 25-26 — Natural Science Sec- The Desert MagazinReviewe is publishes ofd Southwestermonthly by thne Deserliteraturt Presse , Inc., Palm Desert43, California. Re-entered as second class matter July 17, 1948, at the post office at Palm Desert, tion, Southern California Chapter California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S. Patent Office, Sierra Club trip to Joshua Tree and contents copyrighted 1953 by the Desert Press, Inc. Permission to reproduce contents National Monument, California. must be secured from the editor in writing. Overnight camp at Jumbled Rocks, RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor MARGARET GERKE, Associate Editor hike to Stubby Springs. BESS STACY, Business Manager MARTIN MORAN, Circulation Manager April 25-26 — Desert Peaks Section, Southern California Chapter Sierra Club climb of Telescope Peak, Death Valley, California. SUBSCRIPTION RATES April 26 — Annual Spring Festival One Year $3.50 Two Years $6.00 and wildflower show, Hi Vista, near Lancaster, California. Canadian Subscriptions 25c Extra, Foreign 50c Extra Subscriptions to Army Personnel Outside U. S. A. Must Be Mailed in Conformity With F. O. D. Order No. 19687 Address Correspondence to Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, California APRIL, 1953 r PICTURES of the MONTH.. in Mother reaches for a tender leaf while Junior pauses for some diges- tive thought. Hetty Cooper of Flag- staff caught these two burros graz- ing near Coolidge Dam, Arizona, and took a prize-winning picture, awarded first place in Desert's Feb- ruary photo contest. Miss Cooper used a Rolleiflex camera, super XX film, K2 filter, 1/100 second at f. 8. Snip, in Blue Valley Barbara Bixby of Santa Maria, California, photographed this ship rock off Highway 95 near Hanksville in Southern Utah. The picture, taken with a Ciro-flex camera, plus X film, 4 m 1/50 second at f. 22, won second prize in February's contest. The author pans gold in Black Canyon Creek, from an old bench placer located about a mile above Black Canyon's junction with Bumblebee Creek. There's Still Color in the Old Placer Fields The old-timers—the first-comers—got most of the Southwest gold. of color in nearly every pan. Later 1 But there still are some values left in the old placer fields, at least camped along the creek for three enough color to show in the bottom of the pan for spare-time prospectors weeks. The gravel is not large, bed- like E. C. Thoromcm. Here is an unusual story—Thoroman's log of rock is fairly close to the surface and twenty old placer diggings in Arizona. With Norton Allen's map. it no serious mining problems were in- will guide Desert Magazine readers along desert trails to another volved.
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