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December 1-30—Special exhibit, In- dian beadwork and porcupine quill work. Southwest Museum, High- land Park, Los Angeles, California. December 5-6—Dons Club Trek to Flagstaff, Sunset Crater and Walnut Canyon. From Phoenix, Arizona. December 10-12 — Pilgrimage and celebration by Tortugas Indians, Las Cruces, New Mexico. December 11-12—Annual Utah Tur- key Show, Salt Lake City. Volume 16 DECEMBER, 1953 Number 12 December 12 — Matachines, Indian ceremonial. Jemez Pueblo, New COVER Vernon Bricker of the Texas Big Bend country Mexico. and his burros. Photo by Josef Muench of December 12—Feast Day of Nuestra Santa Barbara, California. Senora de Guadalupe. Celebrated CALENDAR December events on the desert 3 on eve (Dec. 11) in Taos, Santa Fe and smaller New Mexican vil- POETRY The Desert is Willing to Wait, and other poems . 4 lages. CONSERVATION Graveyard of the Dinosaurs December 13—Dons Club Trek to Wickenburg. From Phoenix, Ari- By RANDALL HENDERSON 5 zona. FICTION Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley .'.... 9 December 13—Desert Sun Ranchers Rodeo, Wickenburg, Arizona. HISTORY Johnny Shoshone of Death Valley By A. B. CHRISTMAN 10 December 16-24 — Posadas, nightly pageant-processions depicting search GHOST TOWN When the Troopers Came to Nevada for lodgings by Mary and Joseph By NELL MURBARGER 12 in Jerusalem. Mesilla, New Mexico. DESERT QUIZ A test of your desert knowledge 16 December 20—Dons Club Trek to Fort McDowell. From Phoenix, PHOTOGRAPHY Pictures of the Month 17 Arizona. LOST MINE Lost Desert Queen Mine, by W. R. HILLERY . . 18 December 20-January 1 — Nativity scene in Climax Canyon, near LIARS CONTEST Woman's Whopper Wins Prize 18 Raton, New Mexico. FIELD TRIP Gem Stones in the Peloncillos December 24 — Christmas Eve in Spanish villages in New Mexico. By FENTON TAYLOR 19 Bonfires for El Santo Nino, The CLOSE-UPS About those who write for Desert 22 Christ Child, lighted before houses, in streets and before candle-lit Na- PERSONALITY Last of the Mountain Men cimientos, Nativity scenes. By GASTON BURRIDGE 23 December 24 — Ceremonial dance, CHRISTMAS Life on the Desert San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico. By MARJORIE FRANK 25 December 24—Night procession with cedar torches, San Felipe, Laguna LETTERS Comment from Desert's readers 26 and Isleta pueblos, New Mexico. NEWS From Here and There on the Desert 28 Ceremonial dances after midnight mass in mission churches. MINING Current news of desert mines 33 December 25 — Deer Dance, Taos HOBBY Gems and Minerals 34 Pueblo, New Mexico. LAPIDARY Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK . . 41 December 25-28—Ceremonial dances, Jemez, Santo Domingo, Tesuque, INDEX Contents of Desert for 1953 42 Santa Clara and other New Mexi- can pueblos. COMMENT Just Between You and Me, by the Editor ... 46 BOOKS Reviews of Southwestern literature 47 December 26 — Turtle Dance, San The Desert Magazine is published monthly by the Desert Press, Inc., Palm Desen, Juan Pueblo, New Mexico. California. Re-entered as second class matter July 17, 1948, at the post office at Palm Desert, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S. Patent Office, December 27—Desert Sun Ranchers and contents copyrighted 1953 by the Desert Press, Inc. Permission to reproduce contents Rodeo, Wickenburg, Arizona. must be secured from the editor in writing. RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor MARGARET GERKE, Associate Editor December 31—Deer Dance, Sandia BESS STACY, Business Manager EVONNE RIDDELL, Circulation Manager Pueblo, New Mexico. Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs submitted cannot be returned or acknowledged unless full return postage is enclosed. Desert Magazine assumes no responsibility for December 31—Annual Pegleg Smith damage or loss of manuscripts or photographs although due care will be exercised. Sub- Liars Contest, Borrego Valley, Cal. scribers should send notice of change of address by the first of the month preceding issue. January 1-3 — Desert Peaks Section, SUBSCRIPTION RATES Southern California Sierra Club One Year S3.50 Two Years $6.00 climb of Rabbit Peak in Santa Rosa Canadian Subscriptions 25c Extra, Foreign 50c Extra Mountains, California. Rendezvous Subscriptions to Army Personnel Outside U. S. A. Must Be Mailed in Conformity With at Borrego Springs. P. O. D. Order No. 18687 Address Correspondence to Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, California

DECEMBER, 1953 All-American canal, Imperial Valley, California. Photo courtesy U.S. Reclamation Bureau. AUTUMN RAIN LONGING By MARGARET HORMELL By MRS. MARY PERDEW North Palm Springs, California Santa Ana, California The wind has brought the desert rain For peace of long, quiet days And left the mountain tops in snow! TVcUt Sun kissed and restful, Superbly does the sunlight stain Sweep of the morning breeze By ALICE N. THORNTON Tangy and zestful, Those chastened spots where chaff has Burbank, California lain Brilliance of moonlit nights Like bolts of calico. The desert is waiting beyond the canal, Stardust and silver, Yet, on my roof the rain's diffuse; As the water is changing the scene Scent of mesquite and sage I do not pray for it to cease, Converting mirages to orchards and fields Wind off the river, Nor make of weather an excuse, And to gardens, productive and green. Marvel of springtime bloom Or ample reason, to induce All the land glowing, My seeking sheltered peace. The greasewood and juniper, cactus and Gay colored blossom tide I could retire into a nook, sage, Fragrantly flowing, Or curl beside my cozy fire With the dust, and the glare, and the heat, Call of wild geese at night And read a rare and cherished book, The desert's own allies are biding their time Homesick and yearning— Or savory beans and bacon cook In a strategy hard to defeat. As desert hearts who roam Much to my heart's desire; The desert is waiting to take back its own, Long for returning. But, time enough to seek my lair. And it doesn't need much of a chance To read my book, or dreams revive; If water, and men, and machinery fail Wind, rain, and sun and snow, you're To consolidate every advance. SMOKE TREE there! Though wider and greener the fields seem I feel you in my eyes and hair, By ELWOOD CRITTENDEN And thank God I'm alive! to spread, As the water runs early and late, Twentynine Palms, California The desert has all of the time that there is Oh! strange gray bush of sandy space And the desert is willing to wait. With bright and spiney smoky lace, TEMPTATION Why did God plant you 'way out there By MILDRED BREEDLOVE To waste your beauty on desert air? Las Vegas, Nevada ABORIGINES Is it for those brave souls who wander By GRACE BARKER WILSON Seeking health and peace out yonder, Don't tempt me with those bare bewitching Kirtland, New Mexico hills Or because in this vast wasteland That change their colors with the time of The moon shines white along the desert We need a touch of the Master hand? day. road, My heart belongs where frogs and whip- And all the far horizon is a mist poorwills Of shadows, dusky blue. In the star-kissed Same Find pools and moss and willows when they Long distances the night time has bestowed play. A few earth scattered lights to mark the By TANYA SOUTH Don't tell me that they wear a purple dress abode Before the sun has found its way to noon, Of Indian desert-dwellers, who exist The same Power guiding you and me Nor say their pinks and mauves and browns In place so remote white men have missed Is growing apples on a tree, express The strength that from their lonely lives And making mountains, mice and The desert's moods from July until June. has flowed. bears, I like my hills to wear a cloak of green, Yet through the times of want and drouth And rolling tumbleweed and hares. And I prefer my meadows clothed with hay; and heat, With brooks and creeks and rivers in be- The Redmen eke their solitary way And one thing else, I'll have you tween; Untouched by modern science. Magic breeds know, A countryside where birds and squirrels For them the spell of desert still complete. This Power is doing here below: play. They to their ancient gods at moon-time It's drawing us, through heart and My heart might yield with one more desert pray mind, scene, With dance and song for their few daily Toward greater love for all mankind. And when I leave, it might decide to stay. needs. DESERT MAGAZINE /?c/?o Pa/& a/ f/ie junction of the Green and Yampa Rivers. A section of Steamboat Rock is at the left. If Echo Park Dam is built all this natural park will be submerged. Graveyard of the Dinosaurs Since 1872 when, the first National Park was established at Yellowstone, the Park and Monument areas of the United States have been held inviolate against the encroachment of commercial enterprise, with the exception of such concessions as are necessary to accommodcrte the visitors to these recre- ational areas. But today the pressure of minority groups who would break down this precedent has become so great that a former Secretary of Interior gave tentative approval to a project which would put two huge dams in the Dinosaur National Monument. Fortunately, the final decision has not yet been made, and private citizens and conservation groups are waging a vigorous fight against the commercialization of the Monument. Here is a brief report on the factors involved in this controversy. • By RANDALL HENDERSON Map by Norton Allen

>^NE EVENING in mid-August this Jensen, 52 miles away. Echo Park is this delightful spot. Major John Wes- \y year Cyria and I camped in a within the Monument. ley Powell and his Colorado River ex- plorers spent three days here in June, lovely natural park where the There was an ample supply of dead- Green River meets the Yampa River wood here and in many years of camp- 1869. It was they who gave this place in northeastern Utah. It was late after- ing I have never cooked an open-fire its name. Major Powell wrote: noon when we arrived, but the desert meal in a place of such complete seren- "At the point where the Bear, or sun was still above the horizon and ity. Towering walls of rock rose to a we welcomed the shade of the spread- with greater correctness, the Yampa height of several hundred feet all around River enters the Green, the river runs ing boxelder trees which grow profusely us. We were the only occupants of in this little meadow known as Echo along a rock about 700 feet high and this remote little park in the heart of a mile long . . . The river has worn Park — or to the local residents, as the Colorado desert wilderness, and the Pat's Hole. out hollow domes in this sandstone world and its conflicts seemed so far rock, and standing opposite, your We had driven down in pur Jeep away they belonged to another planet. words are repeated with a strange clear- station wagon over a rather tortuous Here were peace and beauty, undis- ness but softened, mellow tone. Con- road from the headquarters of the turbed by men or machines. versation in a loud key is transformed Dinosaur National Monument near We were not the first to camp in into magical music. You can hardly

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DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT believe 'tis the echo of your own ing in Washington in April, 1950. Rep- ness Society, the Wildlife Management voice ..." resentatives from Utah, proponents of Institute and the National Parks Asso- Of course Cyria and I, from under the dam, took the position that since ciation, gave testimony in behalf of the boxelders across the river began the Colorado River Compact of 1922 their contention that the nation needs talking to the big rock — Steamboat had allotted 7,500,000 acre feet of more national parks for recreation Rock it is called. Never have I heard stream flow in the Colorado River and rather than less, and that the Green echoes come back so clearly. We could its tributaries to the upper basin states and Yampa river country in the Dino- repeat a sentence of six or seven words, of Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New saur National Monument has great and immediately the great block of Mexico, it was necessary that a series scenic and recreational values • which sandstone gave us back our words with of dams be erected to utilize the water should not be lost. a mellowness that was flattering to our for power and irrigation purposes. Major General U. S. Grant III, for own vocal chords. Reclamation Bureau engineers pre- 42 years an officer of the U. S. Army's Just three miles downstream from sented tentative plans for 10 reservoirs corps of engineers, aligned himself Steamboat Rock is the site where the in the upper basin states which eventu- with the opponents of the project and Reclamation Bureau proposes to build ally would solve the problem of water presented figures in support of his as- a great dam. When former Secretary storage. These projects were at Echo sertion that dams could be built else- of Interior Oscar L. Chapman gave his Park, Flaming Gorge, Curecanti, Mar- where at lower cost and greater effici- tentative approval to the Echo Park tinez, Glen Canyon, Gray Canyon, ency than at Echo Park. dam in 1950, there was a storm of Bridgeport, Crystal, Split Mountain and There the matter stands today. Utah protest from conservation groups all Cross Mountain. Echo Park was interests are expected to press dili- over the nation. The lake behind the named as one of the first to be built. gently for the construction of the Echo dam would extend 63 miles upstream Newton Drury, then Director of the Park dam, but Congress has taken no in the Green River and 46 miles up National Park Service, opposed the action and there is now a new Secre- the Yampa. Steamboat rock would be construction on the broad ground that tary of Interior in Washington. The half submerged. Congress from 1872 until the present final decision is yet to be made. It was because of the controversy time has consistently adhered to the Cyria and I spent the night on the which centers around this reclamation policy that the national parks be bank of the stream opposite Steamboat proposal that we made the Dinosaur held inviolate against the invasion of rock, and the next morning motored National Monument the goal of our commercial enterprise which would de- to a high point known as Harper's 1953 summer camping trip. I wanted stroy their recreational and cultural Corner from which we could look to become better acquainted with the values. down on the Park and the surrounding factors involved in the dam project. Other opponents of the project, in- region from above. The arguments for and against the cluding the Sierra Club of California, If it is true, as General Grant testi- dam were presented at a public hear- the Isaak Walton League, The Wilder- fied, that the needs of the upper basin DESERT MAGAZINE states can be adequately served by dams elsewhere in the Colorado and its tributaries, it would be a tragic thing to bring in hordes of bulldozers and drilling teams to start slashing and mutilating this lovely region, and clut- tering it with power lines and private concessions. Juniper trees bordered the road as we followed the ridge route to Har- per's Corner. The primitive character of this region was illustrated as we drove along the road when a mountain lion emerged from a sheltering cove and bounded up through the boulders and trees that covered the slope not over 50 feet from our car. Several times during the morning, sage chick- ens meandered across the road ahead of us. A forest ranger later told us that lions are quite common in this area. We returned that afternoon to Mon- ument headquarters in a little canyon six miles from Jensen. From Jess Lom- bard, superintendent of the Monument since 1944, and from the studies of Wm. Lee Stokes whose booklet Dino- saur National Monument, Past and Present has been published by the U. S. Printing Office, I learned the story of the unusual deposit of fossil- ized dinosaur skeletons found in this place. Stokes' story, based on the research of geologists, goes back to the Jurassic period of earth history—a period which according to the best estimates of sci- entists occupied the interval from 127 to 152 million years ago. At that time the region of the present Rock Moun- tains was a vast unbroken plain which reached from central Utah to where the Mississippi now flows. The climate was mild and moist and the lush vege- tation made it the grazing area both for the huge vegetarians of the prehis- toric monster world, and the carnivor- ous animals which preyed on the vegetable-eaters. Superintendent Jess Lombard, for JO years the custodian of Dinosaur National Monument. At one time, for reasons which re- main a complete mystery, some de- that process of cell replacement known excavating for the Carnegie Museum structive element brought death to a as petrification began. of Pittsburgh, uncovered what devel- large number of these prehistoric It is estimated that at some time oped into the main deposit of fossils. beasts in one locality. It may have during the intervening millions of years Under his direction prior to 1922 a been a sudden flood due to a river the deposits of sediment and the wrink- score of almost complete skeletons changing its course, or they may have ling and folding of the earth's crust were recovered and sent to the Carne- died from suffocation due to clouds of buried these skeletons thousands of gie Museum. In 1923 and 1924 the volcanic dust, or perhaps they were feet beneath the surface of the ground. University of Utah continued the ex- the victims of a bacterial plague. No Later the forces of erosion set in, and ploration and recovered the complete one knows. at about the time these skeletons or partial skeletons of several more But whatever the cause, there was emerged from their ancient tombs some dinosaurs. a period of wholesale destruction. The curious white men came along and dis- In the meantime, in October, 1915, carcasses of the beasts fell or were covered bits of fossilized bone exposed President Woodrow Wilson issued a washed into a large stream and eventu- on the slopes above the Green River. proclamation setting aside 80 acres as ally lodged on sandbars or shallow The original discoverer of the fossil the Dinosaur National Monument. In banks. Mud, sand and gravel soon bones will probably remain unknown, July, 1938, upon the petition of the submerged them, and in the bones en- but O. A. Peterson reported them, in people of Utah and elsewhere, Presi- tombed in water-saturated sediments, 1892, and in 1909 Dr. Earl Douglass, dent Franklin D. Roosevelt enlarged

DECEMBER, 1953 ing exhibit in the temporary museum at their headquarters, and have built a half mile of trail to the main dinosaur graveyard where fossil bones may be seen in the exposed walls of the dino- saur quarry. The deposit of fossilized dinosaur bones is just one of many unusual and interesting features of the Dinosaur Monument as enlarged by former President Roosevelt. Upstream along the Yampa River is another of those delightful natural parks similar to Echo Park. Known as Castle Park, it is the ranch home of Mr. and Mrs. Charley Mantle. In this area acheolo- gists have found a rich field for re- search into the lives of the prehistoric Indians who occupied this region. With the cooperation of the Mantles and under authority of the National Park Service the University of Colo- rado made extensive excavations here during the 'forties, and the results were published under the title The Arche- ology of Castle Park, Dinosaur Na- tional Monument. (Desert Magazine, April '48.) Lodore Canyon, in the Green River above its junction with the Yampa was described in the various diaries of the Powell expedition as a gorgeous sector of rapids and whirlpools. It was at Disaster Falls in Lodore that the first Powell expedition in 1869 lost one of its boats, the No Name. Also in this canyon is the Hell's Half Mile where the Powell voyagers had to make the "worst and roughest portage" of their journey. Improved boats today have made the running of these rapids much safer than in Powell's Day. Bus and Don Hatch of Vernal and Salt Lake City make chartered boat trips through Lo- dore Canyon and down the Yampa every summer. Last summer 190 men, Above—Headquarters of the Dinosaur National Monument near Jensen, women and children made boat runs Utah, where a temporary museum has been installed. through these canyons under the spon- Below—At the dinosaur quarry where a temporary building has been sorship of the Sierra Club of California, erected to protect a 40-foot dinosaur skeleton which will be fully exposed and plans are in the making for another expedition next summer. in place as a permanent exhibit when the project is completed. The Lodore Canyon voyage is for the Monument to 203,885 acres, in- along a rock face where a 40-foot those who like the thrill of riding cas- cluding the Echo Park site. skeleton is partly exposed. According cading water and an occasional duck- The graveyard of the dinosaurs is to Jess Lombard it is planned eventu- ing. The Yampa Canyon run is a at a much higher elevation than the ally to have a museum at this place, fascinating ride through the heart of proposed Echo Park dam, hence the with a partly exposed cross-section of the Dinosaur National Monument preservation of the fossil remains is a prehistoric dinosaur skeleton in place without undue hazards. not a factor in the Echo Park Dam in its sedimentary matrix as the central controversy. feature of the exhibit. Both of these rivers are bordered by It is not known how many skeletal Only two or three thousand visitors fantastic rock formations. It is a pho- remains are yet to be excavated as registered annually at the Monument tographer's paradise. It is one of the little work has been done in the way headquarters before 1952, but the few remaining recreational areas in the of recovery since 1925. However, an controversy over the Echo Park dam West which have not yet become over- appropriation of $12,000 was made project stimulated much interest, as evi- crowded with tourist and picnic parties. by the last Congress to resume some denced by the 12,318 registrations dur- Much of both the scenic and recre- activity there. ing the fiscal year which ended June ational value in this region would be In the meantime the Park Service 30 this year. lost if huge dams were installed at has erected a large sheet-iron building The Park rangers have an interest- Echo Park, and farther down stream

8 DESERT MAGAZINE In Dinosaur National Monument where one road leads A scenic road leads down the canyon to Pat's Hole, down to the river level at Pat's Hole, and the other is a named for Pat Lynch who lived there for many years scenic drive to Harper's Point overlooking the Green during the last century. The Hole actually is a grassy and Yampa Rivers. meadow shaded with boxelder trees. within the Monument at Split Moun- and more recreational areas—and the should be retained in its unspoiled tain. Dinosaur National Monument extend- natural beauty both for this and for The act of Congress which created ing across the Utah-Colorado state line future generations. the National Park Service defined its duties as "to conserve the scenery and the natural and historical objects and the wildlife therein, and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such a manner and by such means as will OF DEATH VALLEY leave them unimpaired for the enjoy- Death Valley was having one ment of future generations." of its periodic wind storms when That mandate is quite clear. The the tourists drove up in front of Park rangers work zealously to carry Inferno store to have their gas Got together a little pile o' wood out their directive—and in doing so tank filled. an' finally got the coffee to boilin'. they are protecting the rights of all Hard Rock Shorty was seated Then I set it on a rock to cool American citizens. on the bench under the lean-to while I fried the eggs. porch with his hat pulled down "About that time one of them The time may come when the to his ears to keep it from blow- blasts o' wind come along and American continent will be so over- ing away. blowed the fire right out from populated and the food supply so scarce "Have many of these wind under the fryin' pan. Blowed 'er that it will seem necessary to break storms?" one of the dudes asked. away all in one heap so I kept down the precedent which until now "Shucks, man, this ain't no after it tryin' to keep that fryin' has protected the parks from commer- pan over the fire tu git my supper cial encroachment. But that day is far wind storm. Jest a little breeze cooked. distant. Over-production rather than like we have nearly every day. under-production is the economic prob- Yu have to go up in Windy Pass "I usually like my eggs over lem that plagues the federal adminis- in the Panamints to find out what easy, but by the time 1 got one tration today. a real wind is like. side done I wuz all tired out so "Three-four years ago I wuz I let 'er go at that. Had to walk In the meantime, as population in- up there doin' some prospectin'. four miles back to the coffee pot." creases, there will be need for more

DECEMBER, 1953 With the death of Johnny Shoshone on Oc- tober 20, Death Valley lost another of those colorful pioneers whose characters were as Johnny Shoshone rugged as the land in which they made their homes. Here is the story of an Indian who witnessed the transition of his desert home- land from a place once shunned by white of Death Valley men to a popular winter mecca for travelers —and who adapted himself very gracefully to the change. By A. B. CHRISTMAN usually walked with a cane, occasion- later located and that he did make his ACCORDING TO Johnny Sho- ally found crutches necessary. "mark" that transferred his rights to 4*£ shone, he was born "in valley prospector Bob Montgomery. Accord- When he met old friends Johnny ing to the most popular version Johnny in hole," that is, in a cave at might give them a friendly nod, or he the base of the Panamints. His birth received a few dollars and a pair of might turn his back and walk away. overalls. Better authority has it that apparently occurred in the winter since Why? No one but Johnny knew the his tribe of Indians, part of the Pana- he received a wagon, a suit of clothes, answer to that question. He only and $100 for his rights to the mine mint Indians of the Shoshone nation, talked when he felt like it—and to spent their summers in the high coun- that Montgomery later sold for three him there was no discourtesy in being millions. try gathering pinyons and stalking big- indifferent toward long-time friends. horn sheep, and their winters in Death In general his indifference was directed Bob Montgomery once promised Valley. more to women than men; one of his that as long as he lived Johnny would Johnny lived to witness most of the most common remarks was, "white never have to worry about money. remarkable changes that have tran- squaw talk too much!" Years later things were not going well for Johnny so he went to Montgomery spired in the turbulent history of Death Johnny's thinking was to the point, Valley. He saw, among other things, and reminded him of the promise, hence his comments were not dulled whereupon, Johnny was given a job. the first borax moved in the 1880s by by social censorships. During the years the 20-mule teams. He has known all His relatives heard he was working and of CCC work in Death Valley, he moved in on him in mass. Shortly the famous prospectors of the valley, philosophically observed the changed and indeed did some successful pros- thereafter, Johnny resigned his job, social life of the area, the friendships explaining, "No work, broke and hun- pecting himself, discovering an area between Indian girls and the CCC that produced millions in gold—but gry. Work, broke and hungry! No workers. Years later when a visitor saw work!" not for its discoverer. a red-headed Indian, she inquired, But the real story of Johnny Sho- "Halfbreed?" Answered Johnny, "No! Johnny tackled many different jobs, shone is not in what he saw and Half-CCC." usually just long enough to fill the im- achieved, but rather in his unique per- mediate money problem. He generally Johnny's attitude toward work could trusted the white men to give him what sonality and simple philosophy which best be understood in terms of his an- make him a distinct individualist—a a job was worth. On one occasion a cestory. There were no middlemen temporary employer became concerned man who flaunted present standards; among early Death Valley Indians; took without thanks what he needed some months afterward about the what was needed was taken directly. wages he had paid Johnny so he yet ignored what he could not use; a They followed the line of least resis- man who was proud but not arrogant; forwarded $10 by a mutual friend. In tance: to the mountains in the summer, the meantime, Johnny had found it who was loved by the people of Death the Valley in the winter. The Pana- Valley for his simplicity. necessary to seek work from his Cou- mint Shoshones were hearty, rugged sin George, the famous George Hansen It is estimated that Johnny was born people, yet they were peaceful in that who until his death about 7 years ago around I860, for he remembered help- they elected to eke out a living in a at an estimated 106 years was the old- ing his mother wash dishes for workers barren area rather than fight other est Valley Indian. As a boy he wit- at the charcoal kilns of Wildrose can- Indians in order to hold more produc- nessed the first crossing of Death Val- yon. These kilns (still standing) pro- tive soils. In substance, the late elder ley by white men. Stories of Johnny duced charcoal for the Modoc mine of the Indians lived by the same phi- and George Hansen are frequently in the late '60s. Originally named losophy. His needs were filled from mixed and it is suspected Johnny en- Tumbusi, it was probably at the kilns the easiest sources. He gave no thanks couraged this confusion. After much that he acquired the name Johnny. to other men for nature's gifts to all pleading on Johnny's part, his cousin Since there were other "Johnnys" he men. He found food yesterday and gave him a job shearing sheep on the also became known as Shoshone today so he did not worry about to- condition that Johnny would stick with Johnny. Still later when he needed a morrow. This attitude partly explains the job to completion. Everything name for his children the name was why Johnny was not concerned about went fine until the overdue $10 arrived. reversed to Johnny Shoshone. his million-dollar give away. Johnny immediately left his cousin On almost any winter day you could There are various versions of the and a half-sheared sheep. see Johnny lounging in the shade of story of how Johnny gave away his the Furnace Creek Ranch of Death rights to the Shoshone-Montgomery But having money in his pocket has Valley curiously watching camera- mine near Rhyolite. The truth is hard not been the only reason Johnny would toting visitors. Although it is comfort- to determine largely because Johnny leave a job. Once while digging ditches ably warm there in the winter, Johnny would nod in agreement to practically for the Furnace Creek date farm, one regularly wore two pairs of trousers, anything that sounded like a good of the leading executives of the Borax both hung low. A beat-up hat and a story about him. It is known that company was being taken on a tour vest completed his typical dress. Fol- around the turn of the century Johnny of the establishment. As the foreman lowing a stroke several years ago, he located the area where the mine was escorted the executive through the gar-

10 DESERT MAGAZINE dens the slow-motion tempo of Johnny's work was noticed by the ex- ecutive, much to the embarrassment of the foreman. Hoping Johnny would assume a more workmanlike posture, the foreman jumped into the ditch and took Johnny's shovel, saying he would demonstrate to Johnny how it should be done. At this Johnny walked in- dignantly from the scene saying in a matter-of-fact tone, "You do it good!" For many years, Johnny and the other Indians of the Valley would mi- grate in summer to a camp back of the Wildrose charcoal kilns as their ancestors had. In contrast to their forefathers, they were largely depend- ent on white friends for food. In ac- cepting gifts from benefactors, Johnny would place himself in a conspicuous place where he would watch, never help, the benefactors unload the sup- plies. Unless watched himself, he would take for his own use the candy sent for the children. Especially ir- ritating to him were the cans of un- labeled food donated by Trona mer- chants. Seeing these, he would cry, "Where the picture? Where the pic- ture? Want tomatoes; get peaches! Why no picture?" Before the penetration of cars into Indian life, Johnny and his group of about 40 Indians made their annual journey up the Panamints with burros, of which about 30 belonged to Johnny. These he would turn loose near the home of one of his benefactors, whose sleep was disturbed by bells on the donkeys. The friend asked Johnny the reason of the bells. Johnny ex- plained, "So we hear 'em, find 'em!" "But why," asked the friend, "do you herd them to my place?" Johnny's fac- tual answer, "Ding dong all night no good for Johnny's sleep!" The same benefactor once jokingly spoke to Johnny in terms intended to gain an impression of what would happen if the tables were turned. He told Johnny his luck had turned, he had no money, Johnny Shoshone, late patriarch of Death Valley Indians no friends other than Johnny, nothing and a favorite character of winter tourists. to eat. Johnny looked at him coldly and pointed to the ground, "Grass important strikes: the old-age pension denly monopolized the trade, Johnny pretty high!" and tourists with cameras. He was one went into action. After some medita- of the most photographed of American tion he rushed from the doors of the Around 1936, Johnny traded his Indians. This is a bit strange since Furnace Creek Ranch store with a burros for a 1910 Packard. However, his "color" was in his language, philos- Hollywood war whoop and dressed with once having been top burro man he ophy, and manners rather than in his long feather headdress. The spectacle felt he had a special interest in all appearance. His commercial interest burros. He continued to claim all bur- put him back in business. After mak- in photography started quite inno- ing enough to meet his immediate ros running loose and some that cently. A visitor inquired if he would weren't. A photographer once showed needs, Johnny reverted to his usual mind posing. Johnny blinked a bit as conservative dress. Johnny his picture to see what his re- if surprised at the request, then action would be on seeing his own im- sounded off, "Ya, ya, oui, oui, si, si, Johnny is not the last of the Death age on paper. The reaction was vio- sure, two bits (later, four bits)." The Valley Tribe of Shoshone Indians, nor lent. Stormed Johnny, pointing at his comment put him in business. will his passing erase the memory of own image and the image of burros those hardy pioneers who, like Shorty in the picture, "That man steal my Ordinarily he made no bid for the Harris, have given color and virility burros!" posing business. However, when a to that great arid waste known as the In his late years, Johnny had two prospector with burros and cart sud- Mojave Desert.

DECEMBER, 1953 11 Fort Churchill, Nevada, from the northeast. Buildings, left to right, are the camp hospital, subsistence store, quartermaster's store and commandant's office and telegraph station. Soldiers' barracks in rear. To protect wagon trains traveling the old Simpson Trail, main emigrant route across Territorial Nevada, an When the Troopers adobe fort was built on the banks of the Carson River and commissioned in 1860. Its parade grounds long silent and its neglected buildings re- Came to Nevada turning to dust, old Fort Churchill is now a ghost. But Nell Murbarger makes it live again in this story, By NELL MURBARGER It was a chance meeting with recalling the past glory of one of Photos by the author Charles Stewart, San Francisco attor- the main garrisons in Uncle Sam's Map by Norton Allen ney and a son of Col. Joseph Stewart, bulwark against the Indians. THE warm breeze of a builder and first commander of Fort July evening riffling through Churchill, that first stirred my interest 20, 1860, the answer to a need for the sage and fanning the coals in the old garrison and started me protection made obvious by the events of my dying supper fire, I leaned back delving into its scattered history—a of the several years preceding. against the old adobe wall and let my quest I have now pursued for nearly Beginning in 1848 and continuing eyes stray over the silent flat around 15 years. into the 1850s, goldseekers by tens of me. Like other frontier Army posts thousands had passed through Utah It was incredibly still. Now and where so much of the history of the Territory en route to California. By then, the glowing embers of the fire West lies buried, much of Churchill's the middle '50s, a few settlers were would crackle feebly and send forth a story was recorded only in the smoke beginning to collect in fertile valleys little shower of bright sparks, and a of lonely campfires and the dust of the at the eastern base of the Sierra Ne- few grains of dry sand would loosen old parade ground. The sons of the vada. These first comers lived in gen- their hold on the old walls and rattle men who served there are now grown eral harmony with the Indians. It was downward. Otherwise, there was not old, and every year finds their ranks not until the great rush to the Corn- stock in 1859-60 that tribes of Western a whisper in all the great soft darkness, thinning. Even the War Department from the old graveyard on the hill to Utah Territory realized their hunting has on file no returns of the post for the weather-beaten guardhouse where grounds and homeland were being I was camped. The old Army garri- the years 1863 to 1865; nor is there systematically torn from their grasp by son of Fort Churchill slept—a crum- any known record that the creation of these white interlopers. bling skeleton of what had been the Fort Churchill military reserve was That their protest should have been military headquarters of Territorial ever confirmed by executive order. registered in the form of violence was Nevada. Fort Churchill was established July inevitable.

12 DESERT MAGAZINE Sporadic attacks had been made on wagon trains and isolated settlements; but the chain of events leading to Churchill's founding, had stemmed from the burning of Williams Station. Situated on the old emigrant trail, about ten miles northeast of the pres- ent site of the fort, was a prosperous trading post operated by three broth- ers from Maine—-James, Oscar and David Williams. Early in May, 1860, the elder brother—James—was called away on business. During his absence, the young men remaining at the station are said to have kidnapped two Indian girls and to have held them captive for several days. Seething in resentment at this indig- nity, warriors of the girls' tribe at- tacked the station. Before their de- parture, all occupants—including Os- car and David Williams, Sam Sullivan, James Fleming, and a man listed only as Dutch Phil—lay dead; and the sta- tion had been burned to the ground. Word of the massacre spread rapidly through the Carson Valley and to Vir- ginia City. On May 9, at the Buckland ranch on the Carson, there was or- ganized a volunteer posse of 105 men who set forth in pursuit of the raiders. Of the bravery and good intentions of this volunteer force there can be no question; nor can there be any doubt that their military strategy was tragic- ally bad. Having pursued their quarry to a point on the Truckee River, near Pyra- mid Lake, the entire party of volun- teers—heads up and flags flying—rode boldly into a trap. Fort Churchill cemetery. Bodies of 50 soldiers were removed in 1880 for How many whites were slain is a reburial at Carson Citv and San Francisco. point on which existing records are worth, Nevada, more than 750 men. teers returned in triumph to Virginia not in agreement. Figures quoted Included were eight companies of in- City. range from a low of 45 men to a high fantry and six companies of cavalry, of 66, including Major William In filing his report with the War Nevada volunteers under Col. Jack Department, Colonel Hays recom- Ormsby, leader of the expedition. The Hays, and a detachment of United extent of Indian losses is unknown. mended the establishing of a perman- States infantry and artillery comprising ent fort on the main emigrant route, In all that area between the Rockies 207 men under Capt. Joseph Stewart, and the Sierra Nevada, this was the the Simpson Trail. As feasible loca- of California. Due to previous experi- tion for such a post, he suggested a first major conflict between white men ence as an Indian fighter, Colonel Hays and Indians, and news of the battle point on the Carson River, near Sam was named commander of the expedi- Buckland's ranch, approximately 20 threw panic into the residents of West- tion. ern Utah Territory. Women and chil- miles east of Virginia City. dren hastily gathered in stout buildings Two days later, near the scene of Authorization for such a post was for protection against the wholesale at- Major Ormsby's earlier defeat, this immediately forthcoming. Colonel tack that was believed imminent. well-disciplined force met an army of Hays' suggestion was followed in re- Guards were posted; volunteer militia 300 mounted braves. Despite vicious gard to location, and on July 20, 1860, groups were organized in every fledg- fighting, losses were held to a minimum Capt. Stewart established the new gar- ling settlement, and urgent appeals for —only three soldiers being slain in the rison, naming it in honor of his friend, military support were dispatched to engagement. Capt. Charles C. Churchill, of the General Clark at Alcatraz, then com- With the Indian forces dispersed Fourth U. S. Artillery. mander of the Army's Pacific Coast and the uprising apparently quelled. Fort Churchill had been born. division. Captain Stewart and his regulars es- The location seemed fortuitous. Help from this source was quickly tablished along the Truckee River a From the heart of a desert valley lying forthcoming. On May 31, 1860, there temporary earthworks known as Fort at 4250 feet elevation and surrounded assembled at the present site of Wads- Haven. Colonel Hays and his volun- by higher mountains had been carved

DECEMBER, 1953 13 By autumn of 1860, Fort Churchill comprised 58 buildings located in the form of a hollow square, a quarter of a mile across, and centered by the parade ground. Included among the buildings were half a dozen two-story dwellings for the officers, six large bar- racks buildings, three large mess halls, quartermaster's store, subsistence store, bakery, commandant's office, telegraph office, hospital, warehouse and maga- zine, guardhouse, blacksmith shop, and laundry. Outside the fort proper, were located the horse corrals and quarters for the laundresses. Although planned originally to ac- commodate 1000 troops, it is unlikely that Fort Churchill's strength ever ex- ceeded 800 men at a single time, with the average number around 250 to 350. To them was given the stagger- ing task of preserving peace in a ter- ritory larger than any state east of the Ruins of the former guardhouse, showing the manner in which buildings Mississippi River! of the ghost fort are deteriorating, the adobe bricks weathering away from Specifically charged with escorting the mortar and returning their dust to the Nevada desert. and guarding the United States mails a military reservation of 1384 acres. son of considerable extent, and—de- and protecting "wagon trains on the Meandering through this field was the spite the use of local materials — a main emigrant routes, the fort also Carson River, cottonwood bordered costly one. All buildings were con- spread its protective wing over all the and cool, and within 35 miles of the structed of adobe obtained from the fledgling mining camps and outlying selected site was concentrated virtu- river bottom near the fort. Local ranches in its huge area. Not originally ally all the population between Salt stone was used for the foundations, assigned to it was the responsibility of Lake City and the crest of the Sierra. and lumber for joists and interior fin- serving as a telegraphic relay station, Carson City, future capital of the state, ishing was wagon freighted from mills but in this capacity lay one of its most was then but a year old, and Reno was in the Sierra Nevada. One hundred colorful phases. yet unborn. mules, in teams of six each, were em- Of all the telegraphic news relayed Upon this chosen site rose a garri- ployed in construction of the post. through Churchill, none was of greater

14 DESERT MAGAZINE moment than the Lincoln-Douglas presi- dential election of 1860. "Lincoln's elected," newspaper boys shouted in the streets of Sacramento and San Francisco—only seven days after bal- lots were tabulated. By virtue of the Pony Express, Fred Bee's little tele- graph line and a magic instrument in the commandant's office at a remote miiltary outpost, an astounding new speed record had been established in long-distance communication. The need for more rapid communi- cation soon became imperative, and work on transcontinental lines was spurred. In the record time of 110 days, Pacific Telegraph Company set poles and stretched line over the hun- dreds of miles of desert and mountains between Fort Kearny and Salt Lake City. Meanwhile, Overland Telegraph was moving east from Fort Churchill across the Great Basin to Salt Lake, where the two lines joined. The first transcontinental message was trans- mitted in the autumn of 1861. With this event, the Pony Express bowed out of the picture forever, and a thrilling phase of Fort Churchill's career came to a close. Soon after outbreak of the Civil war, the fort on the Carson was enlarged —both in facilities and personnel. It now became a recruiting station for Union forces and a prison camp for Southern sympathizers. When Col. Patrick E. Connor assumed command of the military district of Nevada, in August, 1862, Fort Churchill was de- signated by him as military headquar- ters of the Territory. In this capacity the desert garrison continued to func- tion throughout the war. In 1869 the nation was binding its The Carson River, bordered by cottonwoods and willows, bisects the old wounds. The day of Indian troubles military reservation and flows within a few hundred yards of Fort Churchill. seemed largely past. Completion of the Pacific Railroad, that spring, had With the organization of Nevada Ter- doors—even the huge circular stair- retired the horse-drawn stages of the ritory, in 1861, it had become the first cases in the officers' quarters—were Overland Mail. Even the empire build- seat of Churchill County, a capacity removed for sale and re-use. ing emigrant was turning from covered in which it had served for two years. Deprived of their protecting roofs, wagons to the greater speed and com- The fort, to meet military requirements, the old adobes began to yield to the fort of the rails. had been established "one mile and elements. Snow and wind and rain A magnificent era was drawing to one rod" from the ranch; but through- and frost took their toll. Weakened a close—and with it would end the out the life of the garrison, Buckland's walls collapsed, adobe bricks disinte- colorful career of the greatest military had provided the safety valve for the grated and returned their dust to the fort in Nevada's history. troops, supplying such refreshments desert. And, at last, only ruins re- On September 29, 1869, the last as Uncle Sam's reservation denied mained. company of troops took leave of Fort them. Churchill. Early in 1871, the garri- Even the old burial ground on the son's buildings were ordered sold at And now that Fort Churchill was hill was robbed of its dead, the bodies auction to the highest bidder. officially abandoned, Sam Buckland being exhumed in 1880 for re-inter- And what more natural than this bought its assorted improvements — ment at Carson City and San Fran- bidder should be Sam Buckland? several hundred thousand dollars' cisco. Only the weed-grown graves of worth in original cost—for the sum a few civilians were left in the lonely Long before commissioning of the little Valhalla. fort, Sam Buckland's ranch had been of $750! an institution in Utah Territory. It Buildings were systematically stripped With the removal of her military had been a popular stop on the emi- of their salvageable material. Timbers dead, Fort Churchill became a place of grant trail, a Pony Express station. and roofs, windows and floors and neglect. From the War Department,

DECEMBER, 1953 15 the land passed to the General Land plot beside the old pioneer, lies his Shed not for her the bitter tear, Office, and on to the State of Nevada. wife, Eliza, and five of their children Nor give thy heart to vain regret; Nevada, in turn, gave it to Sagebrush —all of whom preceded him in death. 'Tis but the casket that Hex here, Chapter, Daughters of the American On the old-fashioned stone marker The gem that filled it, sparkles yet. Revolution. at the head of Eliza's grave, appear The same lines might serve as an these lines: epitaph for Old Fort Churchill, herself. In 1935, the Civilian Conservation Corps was given the task of clearing away tons of accumulated litter and The monthly class in desert history, geog- fallen adobe. Buildings still standing raphy, botany, Indians and general lore will were repaired, insofar as practicable, Desert Quiz now come to order. This month's questions and there was erected a new structure cover nearly every phase of desert interest—information that the well- intended for eventual use by a resident informed desert reader or traveler should know. A score of 12 to 14 is custodian, and as a museum to house fair, 15 to 17 good, 18 or over excellent. The answers are on page 24. historical relics. Camping and picnick- 1—The gem stone most commonly used by the Navajo silversmiths in ing facilities were installed along the making their jewelry is—Agate . Garnet . Turquoise river and a swimming pool provided. Jasper . With completion of this program of 2—The first name of Pegleg Smith for whom a famous legendary lost rehabilitation, Fort Churchill was mine was named was — Thomas . Jedediah . John turned over to Nevada State Park Com- Hiram. mission for future administration and 3—The flower of the rabbit bush is—Pink . Red . White care. Later, the old shrine was desig- Yellow nated officially as a state park. 4—Two of the following dams are not in the Colorado River—Elephant Butte _ . Roosevelt . . Davis _ . Hoover In Nevada, unfortunately, the grant- 5—When a Navajo Indian refers to a Bilakana he is speaking of—A ing of state park status bestows title white American . An Indian trader . A balky horse alone, and little in the way of improve- A pack saddle ment or protection. This is not the 6—In fencing the range country of the Southwest, the cattlemen most fault of the State Park Commission. commonly use—Two strands of barbed wire . Three strands From the day of its inception in 1935, Four strands . Five strands _ this board has been served by men of 7—Keams Canyon Indian agency is Indian Bureau headquarters for the highest calibre; but state legislators— —Zunis . Hopis ... . Utes . Hualpais... . one session after another—have con- 8—Ubehebe Crater is in—Yellowstone National Park . The lava sistently pared the park budget to the country of New Mexico . Death Valley . The shore of bone. Pyramid Lake . Denied funds for even the barest 9- Bill Williams Mountain is located in—Arizona . New Mex- needs of operation, the park board has ICO .. Utah ._ . California _. . been forced to stand idly by while 10- -The Indian Chief, Palma, who befriended Juan Bautista de Anza and park areas of the state succumb to de- his first colony of California settlers was a—Mojave Indian _ . terioration and neglect. Nowhere is Yuma .... . Papago . Apache ... . this unfortunate situation more obvi- 11—The first camel train was brought across the Great American Desert ous than at Churchill, where a com- by Lieut. W. F. Beale . Jacob Hamblin . Kit Carson plete absence of maintenance and re- Gen. Kearny . pair, together with vandalism, have left 12—Going from Flagstaff to Jerome, Arizona, the most direct paved the fine old garrison tottering on the route would be through — Sedona . Showlow . Apache brink of oblivion. Junction . . Cameron _ .. 13—Tombstone, Arizona, at the height of its mining boom, produced With each year the walls of the mostly—Gold... .Copper . Silver . Cinnabar . dying fort are a little more crumbled, 14—The Penitentes are a—Religious sect in New Mexico... An Indian the sage on the parade grounds grown tribe in Utah A prehistoric tribe of sun-worshippers . The a little higher. Now and then, night- occupants of a monastery in California fall brings to the old garrison some lonely wayfarer, like myself. He 15—Pumice stone is often used for desert building because of its—Light spreads his bedroll and cooks his sup- weight Abundance in the desert region . Unusual color- per beside one of the old buildings; ing . Insulation value and perhaps he spends the last hour of 16—Tinajas Altas is the name of a historic watering place on the—Camino daylight ranging over the parade del Diablo in Southern Arizona Santa Fe Trail . Butter- ground, seeking mementos of that field stage route Mormon Trail to Utah long-ago occupation; bits of old har- 17—The tallest tree native to the Southern California desert is—the ness leather and metal buttons, broken Mesquite ... .. Joshua Tree . Ironwood ____. Washingtonia crockery and square nails, and broken palm dreams. 18—If you were looking northeast toward the Sangre de Cristo Mountains In the old graveyard on the hill, a you would most likely be in—Tucson . Santa Fe . Las shattered marble slab marks the last Vegas, Nevada . Salt Lake City resting place of Samuel Sanford Buck- 19—If a Hopi Indian gave you some piki you would—Eat it. .... Wear land, now 70 years in his grave—Sam it around your neck as a souvenir . Plant it in the flower gar- Buckland, who emigrated west from den _. Hang it in your home as a wall decoration . . Ohio and established a ranch on the 20—Ruth, Nevada, is famous for its—Production of gold Open pit Carson River when Nevada Territory copper mine Mineral springs .. High grade silver ore was yet unborn. In the little fenced 16 DESERT MAGAZINE PICTURES OF THE MONTH .

(pint. Sunbeam Chism, Nevada Indian girl, posed on her horse for Andrew Crofut of Reno to help him win first prize in Desert Magazine's October photo con- test. Crofut used a 4x5 Speed Graphic camera, super XX film, 1/100 second at f. 16.

In March, A. Wiederseder of Altadena, California, hiked up Palm Canyon, near Palm Springs, and found this idyllic spot. The picture, taken with a -5x7 Cycle Graphic camera on panchromatic film, was awarded second prize by Desert's Picture of the Month judges.

17 LOST DESERT QUEEN MINE The New Yorker had dug rich Valley cabin. While repairs were being values from his Desert Queen made, the stranger and Hicks chatted. Mine in Cathedral Canyon, Eventually the conversation ran to near Cathedral City, California. mountains and mines, and the stranger But when the lost claim was re- produced a map which, he said, his located 40 years later, the gold father had received from a relative on was gone. The only value left his deathbed. He repeated to Hicks in the peacock ore on the aban- the story of the lost Desert Queen. doned dump was its beauty— and many specimens still gar- Weary months of search followed in nish the rock gardens and which Hicks joined. But the map was cactus beds of Cathedral City so sketchy that the stranger gave up homes. and returned to his home in the east By W. R. HILLERY without finding any clue to the lost mine in Cathedral Canyon. 1889, a young New Yorker outfitted in San Ber- When Hicks, in the course of his nardino, California, for a pros- PALMS'10 AITS. story, mentioned the folding pick and pecting trip. Following the mountains wheelbarrow, Slim jumped into action, remembering the prospect hole he and down to the desert, he spent many One day in 1928, shortly after the months on both sides of the upper his companion had stumbled on a few founding of Cathedral City, two vil- years before. Coachella Valley, searching the can- lagers, Wilbur "Slim" Larrison and yons and draws of the San Bemardinos, Charley Cruncleton, were riding horse- Excitedly, he told Hicks his suspi- the San Jacintos and the Santa Rosas. back up the canyon when one of them cion that the chance-found claim and Finally, in the Santa Rosa range, he noticed a faint trail leading up the east the lost Desert Queen were one and found a promising outcrop of ore and wall. Having sure-footed horses, they the same. The two men struck camp staked his claim to the "Desert Queen." decided to follow the almost obliter- and, visions of wealth before them, He needed supplies to work his mine ated path and suddenly came upon the hurried across the valley to Cathedral and these he procured at Banning, a long unvisited Desert Queen. They City and on to the long lost mine. small community in the San Gorgonio had seen numerous prospect holes be- Pass, about 40 miles distant. fore and, after casually inspecting the They found it without any difficulty mining implements and wandering and took samples to be assayed. But It took the New Yorker and his about for a few minutes, they re- the ore proved to be quite ordinary— supply-laden burros three days to wind mounted their horses and headed back not rich enough to warrant any de- down out of the pass to the sandy road for Cathedral City. The incident was velopment at all. Hicks and Larrison, that snaked its way among the few soon forgotten. their dreams of riches gone, returned scattered shacks comprising Palm disappointed to Cathedral City. Springs, then on about six miles far- Several years passed. One evening ther southeast to Cathedral Canyon, Slim sat in camp in the Devils Garden A group of Indians later relocated at the present site of Cathedral City. area, listening to an old prospector, the claim and worked it briefly as the Up the canyon his switchback trail led G. R. Hicks, tell the story of a lost Eloisa. Some beautiful peacock ore along the east wall several miles to his mine. He gave only casual interest as lies on the abandoned dump, but the claim. Hicks told of the easterner who a few only use made of it is to garnish cactus years before had developed car trouble beds and potted patio plants in Cathe- The Desert Queen was never offici- just as he was passing Hicks' Morongo dral City homes. ally recorded. To do so would have meant a trip to the county seat then at San Diego, a hard, long trek over the mountains to the coast. Riverside County had not yet been created. 4 TV&oftfeet The young prospector worked hard, BORREGO SPRINGS—More than elated to rest, until one night he sighted and a sizeable dump had accumulated 200 male liars were put to shame this a campfire on the top of a hill. It was by the time personal obligations com- year, when a San Diego woman walked cool and damp and hordes of huge pelled him to return east. Just what off with first place honors in the Sev- mosquitos attacked him, until by the these obligations were is not known, enth Annual Pegleg Smith Liars Con- time he staggered into the stranger's but they held the claim holder in the test held at Borrego Springs in October. camp he was near collapse. east the rest of his life, and he never Mrs. Roxie Bane is the first woman "The stranger revived him and Peg- was able to return to his rich Desert to win the event. Her whopper con- leg decided to show his rescuer the Queen. cerned a fabulous blood red ruby found wonderful ruby. But when he drew On his deathbed, the New Yorker by Pegleg Smith during his search for the huge stone from his knapsack, his passed on to a relative a crude map the black nugget gold deposit he had heart sank—it was only a rose quartz and the story of his rich mine in Cali- discovered and lost. rock of no value. fornia. Inside the tunnel, he said, "Clutching the immense ruby, Peg- "Closer inspection revealed the holes would be found a folding pick, a leg headed back for civilization in high left by the mosquitos' beaks where wooden wheelbarrow with a wooden excitement," Mrs. Bane related. "For they had sucked the blood from the wheel and various other items. days he trudged on, dead tired but too once-fabulous gem."

18 DESERT MAGAZINE Gem Stones in the Peloncillos

By FENTON TAYLOR Over a wide area on the slopes of the Peloncillo Range in eastern Photos by the Author Arizona Fenton Taylor has found many varieties of the stones that are Map by Norton Allen sought by collectors. While chalcedony is most prevalent, there are geodes, obsidian nodules and several members of the agate family. S THE Gila River crosses the For those who prefer a scenic landscape for their field trip outings, this New Mexico border into Ari- is a trip worth while. zona, it is already turning northward to circle around the Pelon- cillo Mountains, a barrier of uptossed peaks, buttes, and hills. Entering the gorge it dug between the Peloncillo and the Gila Ranges, the river turns southwest to roar be- tween steep basalt walls until it flows into the peaceful Gila Valley, whose fertile lands its harnessed waters have made productive farms. This area of mountains and hills held within the bow of the river oc- cupies a special place in my heart, for here one spring afternoon a few years ago, I picked up a piece of "petrified wax." Delving into the secret of this strange rock eventually turned me into an avid rockhound. I had driven the family out that way to see if many poppies were blooming, but the flowers were as scarce as the rains had been that season. We were roaming the hills, the children eagerly hunting rocks, for they were enthusi- astic rockhounds long before their Dad. Suddenly I spied beneath a small mesquite an odd white stone half buried in the soil. Never before had I noticed anything like this. Dragging it from its resting place, I held in my hand a fan-shaped rock nearly the size of my palm. The smooth swirls and convolutions of translucent substance forming the stone were of a highly waxy luster. I was astonished at its This is the piece of "petrified wax"—actually a chalcedony rose—which luminescent beauty. lured the author into the hobby of rock collecting. This was found in the "This looks like paraffin wax," I field described in this story. thought and tried cutting it with my already been over that hill. You won't draws for chalcedony, some of it the knife to no avail. I took my piece of find anything there." precious fire type, agates of great va- "petrified wax," home for closer study. Having had experience in following riety, and black obsidian nodules. Thus was a new rockhound born! others before, 1 knew he was mis- The broad new pavement leaves Later, after I had studied about the taken. No single individual can find Highway 70 about 10 miles east of quartz family minerals and had ascer- everything. I have retraced my own Safford. Leading to the northeast, it tained the true identity of my unusual steps and found wonderful specimens is a straight stretch of road for the piece of chalcedony, I discovered that that I missed the first time over. On first few miles as it points to the upper it fluoresced a beautiful light green up the hill I went to find three small end of the Peloncillo Mountains. under the short wave lamp, making it agates of excellent cutting quality and Highway 666 now follows the route an even more valuable specimen for they all made fine cabochons. of an old toll road built in 1899 by my embryo collection. The bow area with its variety of gem Francisco Montes and three friends, Many times since then I have gone materials is easily accessible, for the Victoriano Corrasco, Andres Serna, chalcedony hunting in the "bow area" newly completed segment of Highway and Emilo Lopera. as I call it. It is a wonderful place for 666 from the Gila Valley to the Clif- Montes came to Arizona from the the rockhound. ton-Morenci district runs almost di- Rio Grande country in 1873 and set- One time while on a field trip with rectly through the center of the collect- tled in the small town of San Jose, a group of mineral club members, I ing area. From Safford, the business situated at the head of the Gila Valley. started toward a small hill. A com- center of the valley, it is just a short Because it was built near the ruins of panion asked which way I was going. drive until a person can start looking an Indian village, San Jose is some- After I told him, he assured me, "I've up and down the hills and in the times called Pueblo Viejo.

DECEMBER, 1953 19 scarcely more than a trail around the hillsides and up the grade toward Thumb Butte, a tiny knoll that is a m prominent landmark close to the sum- mit of the climb. Using scrap lumber and tin, they built a toll station on a hill that gave them a good view of the road in both directions. Mexican folks gave it the name of La Grita. Toll charges were 50 cents for each team and 10 cents for each horse with a rider. At the end of the first day of operation, the new station keeper and the receipts disappeared, undoubt- edly heading for the Mexican border. After this incident, Montes operated the station himself. Not long after the road was opened, the price for teams was lowered to 30 cents. Operations went along smoothly. Finally, after a series of trades, Montes lost his original partners and gained a new one, Jose Gonzales. One of the tasks of the station keeper was to watch the road for toll dodgers. Montes used a telescope to look for approaching riders or teams. If he saw a rider begin to circle the toll station, he would mount his horse, head off the rider, and collect the fee. After about three or four years Montes sold his share of the road to Luther Green who opened stage serv- ice over the route. Green soon sold out to Morg Merrill and Ben Clark. The toll road was in use until 1919 when the new Safford-Clifton highway was completed by means of convict labor under the direction of Lamar Cobb, the state engineer. Built chiefly as a scenic road, the new highway consisted mostly of narrow dugway winding through the canyons and Above—Going east from Safford, Highway 666 follows an old toll road around the northern slopes of the through the Peloncillo Mountains—making an easy access route to the col- Peloncillos. Many people labeled this lecting field. There is fair hunting on both sides of this highway for many road "Cobb's Folly" for it sacrificed miles. The Peloncillos are in the background. convenience for beauty. Below—Edith and Melvin, the author's children, in an area where the Collecting along Highway 66 can ground is strewn with bits of white chalcedony. begin at almost any place a person Shortly after reaching his new home, On the third day they followed the wishes to stop. Good agate and chal- Montes helped build the San Jose river to Guthrie, labored up an arroyo cedony specimens are scattered far and canal to divert river water to the farms. for a few miles, and finally angled wide along its length up to the moun- He and his neighbors began raising over a steep mountain to strike the tains. many crops, and soon they had a sur- San Francisco River at Ward Canyon All this material is float, of course, plus of hay, grain, corn and pumpkins. just below Clifton. having been washed in and deposited At that time, Clifton was a boom- To save such a round-about trip by the Gila River as it carved canyons ing mining town. Top prices were of- home, the freighters discovered they and countless gullies. Hiking off the fered for garden produce. The farmers could cross the river at Guthrie and road a few hundred yards in a big of San Jose loaded their wagons and climb the steep slope past Guthrie semi-circle will usually net the best took their surplus to this top paying Peak. It was a tough pull, but when results. I've never made such a circle market. they reached the summit, they had and returned to the car empty handed. Then it was a three-day journey to down-hill grade the rest of the way Early morning or late afternoon is Clifton, for the many sharp canyons home, saving both time and miles. the best time to hunt agates and chal- of the Peloncillo Mountains made a As Montes was making this trip, cedony, for the slanting rays of the direct route difficult. The first day's he conceived the idea of a toll road. sun are caught up in a distinctive glow travel took the wagons to Ash Spring. With his three friends, axes, shovels, by these quartz stones to make them Over the hills to Sheldon and the Gila and pickaxes, they carved a road stand out in sharp contrast to their River was the second day's journey. through the mountains that was neighbors.

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DECEMBER, 1953 obsidian nodules known as Apache Service to accept a position with the tears. Appearing dead black, most of Albuquerque city school system. these pieces are translucent to trans- • • • parent, and when cut and polished ex- Gaston Burridge, author of "Last hibit a lustrous dark beauty that of the Mountain Men," the story of catches the light in a deep, ripe-olive Ben Lilly which appears in this issue, sheen. was born February 24, 1906, in south- Four miles beyond this area, as the Marjorie Frank used her Life-on- ern Michigan, in the little Indian town highway winds in ascent up the moun- the-Desert prize check from Desert of Tecumseh on the banks of the Rai- tain slope, a pipe and wire gate admits Magazine to send a Happy Easter— sin River. a seldom traveled road through the "complete with chocolate bunnies"— Burridge early learned to love the fence to the north. This is the en- to her Navajo friends of the ta chii nii outdoors, and he spent many boyhood trance to the big. chalcedony field. clan. Miss Frank's winning story, hours roaming the woods, canoeing which appears in this issue, tells of a down the Raisin, exploring the wilder- For a mile and six-tenths the road Christmas vacation spent with the In- ness areas near his home. winds over the hills, through a wash dian family in their hogan in Steamboat He came to Southern California in finally to top a sloping hill immediately Canyon, Arizona. 1927 and went into business with his beneath a basalt ledge. Here is chal- It was in 1945, on a visit with her father. In 1951, the business was sold, cedony galore — chalcedony of all and Burridge returned to his hobby, shapes, sizes, color; huge white chunks, parents from Buffalo, New York, that Marjorie first came to know the West. painting and writing, for a living. He waxy delicate pieces, thumb sized car- lives in Downey, California. nelian nodules, and red fragments. She was fascinated with the country and, after graduation from a California • • • Tiny chalcedony roses are widely college, returned to the Navajo reser- Robert N. Carlile, who recounted scattered. Finding matching pairs of vation as a teacher. his homesteading troubles with the these roses for earrings is a painstak- government in his Life on the Desert ing task but most rewarding for the She came to know her Navajo pupils story (October, 1953), reports he has woman who wishes to add some unique and to love them. "They came from received some compensation for the pieces to her jewelry box. all parts of the reservation to accept loss of his Mojave Desert tract. "In the privilege of attending school," she Prize of the field is the occasional early September," he writes, "I re- remembers. She chaperoned some of ceived a check compensating me for piece of fire chalcedony which careful the youngsters home at vacation time, study and cutting will turn into a cabo- returning all rights to the homestead met their families and knew the warm to the United States government. The chon nearly rivaling the opal for color hospitality of their simple hogans. play. One stone that 1 cut from this amount of the check just covered my material shows red, lavender, gold, In 1950, Miss Frank left the Indian cash investment." bronze, and satin green color as it is turned in the light. On these expeditions my children never fail to rout out a horned toad. The desert in Winter... On our last trip they found one that was exactly the same shade of reddish Whipped white clouds marching across a vivid blue sky, color brown as the rocks among which it and form bold and true in the clear air, desert flora lush after a rain lived. or stark against a blanket of snow—in winter the desert landscape is A person can easily spend a full day perfect for the photographer. Any amateur who is familiar with his in this one location, but back on the camera and knows the elementary rules of good composition can get highway toward Thumb Butte it crosses a good picture—and possibly win a prize in Desert Magazine's Picture- to the right side, rounding a hill spotted of-the-Month contest. with cedars. This is nodule and geode Entries for the December contest must be in the Desert Magazine country, not large specimens but con- office. Palm Desert, California, by December 20, and the winning taining interesting crystals and exhibit- prints will appear in the February issue. Pictures which arrive too ing, in some cases, a pale apricot fluor- late for one contest are held over for the next month. First prize is $10; escence. second prize $5.00. For non-winning pictures accepted for publication Just beyond this point the road $3.00 each will be paid. reaches the summit. Here, to the left again, is another chalcedony deposit, HERE ARE THE RULES not so good as the first one, but offer- 1—Prints for monthly contests must be black and white. 5x7 or larger, printed ing fine material to the diligent on glossy paper. 2—Each photograph submitted should be fully labeled as to subject, time and searcher. place. Also technical data: camera, shutter speed, hour oi day, etc. Then the paved way dips down the 3—PRINTS WILL BE RETURNED WHEN RETURN POSTAGE IS ENCLOSED. grade up which Francisco Montes and 4—All entries must be in the Desert Magazine ofiice by the 20th oi the contest his comrades labored their wagons. In month. sweeping curves it drops to the new 5—Contests are open to both amateur and professional photographers. Desert bridge spanning the Gila River and Magazine requires first publication rights only of prize winning pictures. joins State Highway 75. In the dis- 6—Time and place of photograph are immaterial, except that it must be from the tance a white smoke plume marks the desert Southwest. 7—Judges will be selected from Desert's editorial staff, and awards will be made tall smelter chimney of Morenci. immediately after the close of the contest each month. Yes, the bow area is dear to my Address All Entries to Photo Editor heart. It has a variety of gem stones and beautiful scenery. I've never spent Veunt 7H*$*fiH* PALM DESERT. CALIFORNIA a day there that I have not gone home with my heart as full as my knapsack.

22 DESERT MAGAZINE Last of the Mountain Men

Ben Lilly was a Mountain Man —one of those rugged frontiersmen who trapped and hunted the South- west mountain country for preda- tors and game. Lilly's prey were lions and bears, the "varmints" he believed he was "appointed by God" to exterminate. Here is the story of a master trailsman and hunter whose name has become legend in the Blue River country of Arizona and New Mexico. By GASTON BURRIDGE Portrait Sketch by the Author

F BEN LILLY had lived 100 years earlier, had been one of the Southwest's first Mountain Men instead of its last, by now he would be as famous at Kit Carson, Bill Wil- liams, Jim Bridger or Uncle Dick Wooton. Ben Lilly had what it took. Some say he was the greatest hunter America ever produced. He hunted the Blue River country of Arizona and New Mexico, and in the foothills of New Mexico's Mogollon Moun- tains is a monument to his memory. A greater monument lies in the mem- ories of several men still living who knew him, old-timers from Needles to Denver, from Sonora to Idaho. Five years before Lilly came to the Gila River watershed in 1912, he guided Teddy Roosevelt on a Louisi- ana hunting trip. Roosevelt extolled his abilities in an account of that trip. Lilly's achievements also are recorded in several books and technical works on mountain lions and bears. His bi- ographer is J. Frank Dobie in The Ben Lilly Legend. Even before manhood, hunting had become a way of life with Lilly. He claimed he was "appointed by God" to rid the lands he hunted of "var- mints." He was employed as a preda- tory animal hunter several times and for extended periods by the U. S. Biological Survey, but most of the Ben Lilly, last of the Mountain Men. Sketch after a time he hunted on his own, collecting photograph by John Strickrott. bounties from counties and states. Benjamin Vernon Lilly was born only begun when 1 became aware of Bounty rewards accumulated and it December 31, 1856, in Wilcox County, has been reliably reported that when the fact that all who wrote or talked Alabama. He came to Arizona in 1912, to me about him referred to "Mr. Lilly died in 1936, despite the bank headquartering first at Tommy Cos- failures of the 1930s he still possessed Lilly," never "Old Man Lilly," "Old per's ranch on Blue River, just below Ben," or even "Ben." almost $15,000 in savings. Others, "The Box," where the Blue has also claiming to have known Lilly well, I asked Mark Musgrave, who prob- gnawed a 700-foot gash down through ably knew Lilly as well as any man, dispute this, arguing he was nearly the Mogollon Rim. The next 15 penniless when he passed away. It is about it. Musgrave said there was just years of cougar and bear hunting were something about Lilly that required a known that, toward the end of his the happiest and most productive of days, Lilly's mind began to wander, mister. Ben was soft spoken, with a Lilly's life, according to his own ac- decided Southern accent. His eyes and he could not remember in which count. banks his funds lay. were very blue, deep-set and steady. My investigations of Ben Lilly had Under six feet tall, he was stocky and DECEMBER, 1953 23 strong. His cheeks were full, round Once, following his lead hound to owed less to heredity than to the de- and rosy beneath a rich golden tan. the pack, Lilly was pulled over a cliff sire for a knife he could not buy. Most his beard full and wavey, his carriage by the excited animal. In the canyon of the blades were forged from cast- dignified. Despite his rough exterior, below he found the dog uninjured, but off horseshoers' rasps, worn-out or he presented a distinguished appear- himself with a broken leg. Calmly. broken heavy saw blades, old auto ance. Ben never smoked, never swore Lilly set his own leg, reached for a springs, hay rake teeth. Double-edged, nor drank; but all who knew him saw- fallen limb as a splint, bound the leg his knives had a backward sweep he he was every inch a man, and those in place with strips of his shirt, then liked to call "the Lilly hook." He had who didn't know him soon guessed it. crawled on all fours back to his camp. definite reasons for this shape, deter- I asked Musgrave how he rated There he remained, alone, the several mined by many years of using knives Lilly, who hunted the Blue country days necessary for his leg to set enough at close quarters. Some of his blades after the hostile Indians had gone, with to allow a burro-back ride to better were 18 inches long. earlier Mountain Men. Musgrave's facilities. There are a great many stories about answer was unqualified and immediate: Lilly never hunted on Sunday. Hunt- Ben Lilly and his exploits. Every old- "Unquestionably as good as any of ing was his way of life, but it was a time Southwesterner has at least one them." six-days-a-week proposition with him. Lilly anecdote. In the bear stories Ben Lilly was without fear. This Even though he was close to a lion there appears some confusion as to he proved time and time again in hand- on Saturday night, he would call off which kind of bear goes with which to-paw combat with bears. And his his dogs until Monday morning. He story — black bear or grizzly. The stamina matched his courage. His never hunted on Sunday unless he for- black or brown or cinnamon bear still body was a set of steel-trap springs, got to keep track of the days, inad- lumbers about many parts of the South- tough, resilient, fatigueless. He could, vertently letting a Sabbath slip by west, The grizzly is gone—and Ben and did, go days with nothing more without proper respects. In such cases, Lilly helped vanquish it. than a bit of cornmeal while on a fresh when he discovered his error, he took It is virtually impossible to prove trail. Lilly would trail an animal to the next day off, asking the Lord's or disprove even a small number of the end, literally wearing out his prey, forgiveness with prayers and medita- these tales now. It is believed, how- before he would give up. Only such tion. ever, that anything Ben Lilly wrote a man could have bagged 650 moun- Throughout his life, the Bible was was as near the truth as he could tain lions and bears in 15 years after Lilly's constant companion. He would make it, though, in a crowd, he could the once-abundant game had been read it for hours while in camp, and "draw the long bow" pretty far. thinned out by others. he often carried a copy in his slim pack Ben Lilly died December 17, 1936, Ben Lilly knew lions and bears. He while on the trail. He not only read in Buckhorn, New Mexico, at the age would not be on the trail of a lion long and studied the Good Book, but he of nearly 80. He wished to spend his before he could tell its sex, its approxi- quoted from it often and aptly. Such last days among those pined moun- mate age, whether it was on its regular quotations lent to his speech a quaint tains and picturesque canyons he had beat or was new to the vicinity, and folksy quality. grown to love so well. He wanted to whether it was hungry and looking for Along with devotions, Sunday was meet death there, some night beneath food or was just out for a stroll. If it also wash day for clothes and person. a dusky cedar, some day along a sun- happened to be a female, he could tell In freezing winter weather Lilly would flecked trail. But Ben Lilly had too whether she carried kittens and, if so, leave his campfire, strip off his cloth- many friends thoughtful of his com- about when the young were due. He ing, and, ax in hand, walk to the pool fort. So he died in bed, at the Grant read these facts from tracks examined or stream near his camp. Breaking County Farm. minutely, from stray hairs caught on the ice, he would plunge in. Often he Legend, like the silvery threads of bushes, from beds of the animals, took snow baths by sitting naked in a a cobweb, is already weaving its pat- scratch marks left on trees and snow bank and rubbing himself clean tern across Ben Lilly's name. In a "scratch-piles" or "lion markers." with handfuls of snow. few more years all who knew him Lilly was a master trailer whose ability Lilly slept outdoors all year around personally will have gone, and only the was exceeded by none and equalled —and on the ground. He said a house legend will remain of this last of the by few. smelled "rancid" and that he'd catch Mountain Men of the great Southwest. Everywhere Lilly went, he walked. cold if he slept inside. Musgrave told It was said he could out-walk a horse. me he met Lilly one afternoon at one In a country of sheer 100-foot leaps of the latter's camps. To show Mus- ANSWERS TO DESERT QUIZ of red sandstone, of yawning slits with grave how good he felt, Ben ran to the Questions are on page 16 brush clinging to their vertical sides, top of a high hill 100 yards away and 1—Turquoise. back again. He was then past 70. 2—Thomas. of heavy stands of agave and pine, it 3—Yellow. is not difficult to understand why he There have been claims that Ben 4—Roosevelt and Elephant Butte chose to travel afoot. He said a horse Lilly was an artist. I have seen repro- dams are not in the Colorado. would only be in his way. ductions of his work, and I don't think 5—A white American. so. I don't think he thought so either. 6—Four strands. Early in middle life Lilly became 7—Hopi Indian agency. deaf—so deaf he could not hear his He did have a unique way of signing 8—Death Valley. hounds bark "treed." Deafness ordin- his checks, often written on bark, 9—Arizona. arily would mean the end of a man's paper bag scraps or newspaper mar- 10—Yuma Indian. gins. These strange checks were al- I I—Lieut. W. F. Bealc. hunting days. But Ben Lilly was no 12—Sedona. ordinary man. He overcame his han- ways honored, for their signature was 13—Silver. dicap by tying a lead hound to his unmistakable. It consisted of a draw- 14—A religious sect in New Mexico. belt and letting the dog take him to ing of a honey bee followed by the 15—Insulation value. the others that had treed or cornered letter "V" and a drawing of a lily— 16—Camino del Diablo. B. V. Lilly. 17—Washingtonia Palm. his prey. Lilly's hounds were trained 18—Santa Fe. to stay with the game until he came, Ben Lilly's hobby was making 19—Piki is Hopi bread. no matter how long that might be— knives. His ancestors were iron work- 20—Open pit copper mine. five hours or five days! ers, but his knife-making probably

24 DESERT MAGAZINE When Marjorie Frank and her companion accepted an invitation to spend Christmas on the Navajo reservation, LIFE ON THE DESERT they decided to bring some of their own yuletide tradi- tions to their Indian friends. Here is a gay, heartwarming By MARJORIE FRANK story of a bi-cultural American Christmas. A FELLOW university '"Many many moons ago," relates Ordinarily the Navajo does not cele- student, and I had accepted Navajo legend, "the animal people brate Christmas. But Annie and I had the invitation of a family of lived in this world as humans. One decided to bring some of our Christ- the ta chii nii clan to spend Christmas lean year, when the streams were dry mas traditions and holiday cheer to our week with them in their isolated hogan and the pinyon trees bare, the animal friends. in Steamboat Canyon, Arizona. people were directed by their gods to News of our planned Christmas Eve We spent busy days making cookies travel eastward where food would be party spread rapidly. Throughout the and decorating them with gay colored plentiful. When the people reached day, visitors arrived from all sections icings. Dolls, wagons, ear muffs and naa a clii canyon, one of them, Big- of Steamboat Canyon. The women other toys were added to our Christ- Dragon, went into a cave. He never mas shopping list, along with oranges, wore full skirts of bright satin or vel- was seen again. Next night they apples and cheese. We had heard that vet, most of them trimmed with the Navajos were fond of cheese, and camped at shash bi to, or Bear Spring. brightly colored bands. Since this was later were glad we had added it to our During the night, Bear disappeared. a festive occasion, they wore their tur- gifts when we saw the delight with Though they never saw him again, the quoise and leather belts handsomely which shitrta sani, old grandmother, animal people followed his muddy foot- buckled. sampled each variety. prints to the spring. At the next night's All day long, wagons arrived and Christmas parcels, food, sleeping stop, Little Dragon was lost. To this the women set up camp. By sunset, bags, blankets, oil and other necessities day, a spring that never runs dry marks pots of mutton stew were cooking on packed, our holiday adventure began. the spot of his disappearance." open fires. Through Grants, New Mexico, Gallup, The Navajos still believe that sheep Within the hogan, Annie and I were and Window Rock, Arizona, we trav- and goats disappear at ho yeeh, the busily trimming the Christmas tree, eled to Steamboat Canyon. Just be- "spooky" spring. hanging assorted cookies, popcorn yond the trading post, our car skidded That night we slept on several thick- strands and wisps of sheep wool on its into a deep snowdrift. Try as we nesses of sheepskins and found it to might, we couldn't extricate it, and we green branches. Near us, some of the be a soft and comfortable bed. We decided to walk the seven miles to the women were cooking mutton, others hogan of our friend, Denet Tsosic arose early next morning to begin our were frying bread in large skillets while Begay. hunt for a Christmas tree. We found still others prepared blue corn meal a small fir, about four feet tall, and stew. As protection from frostbite, we dragged it back to the hogan. Annie and I watched with apprehen- bound our feet with heavy cloths. The make-shift galoshes slowed our pace, Hogan of Denet Tsosie Begay, medicine man of the ta chii nii clan, where but they did help to insulate against the author and her friend spent the Christmas holiday the cold. Later our friends told us she writes about in this story. that, according to Navajo legend, "if one is seen walking in the summer sun with feet bound as ours, the lizards will laugh." With the approach of daylight, a thin streak of smoke became visible, and we knew that food and rest and a warm fire were near. The family dogs already had seen us coming—al- though we were yet two miles from camp—and their wild barks aroused the entire household. A burlap sack draped the entrance to the hogan. We entered and met Juanita Begay, wife of one of the medi- cine men of the ta chii nii clan. She wore a scarlet velvet blouse and a skirt of green silk. In the far corner of the hogan lay two cradle boards. Seven months earlier, Juanita had been blessed with the birth of twins. That day we became better ac- quainted with our hosts, and that eve- ning we heard the Navajo legend of Steamboat Canyon. Steamboat Canyon's English name comes from a huge boat-shaped rock formation at its entrance. The Navajos call the canyon ho yeeh, which means "a very spooky place."

DECEMBER, 1953 25 sion the preparation of the latter. Cedar read and no companion, 1 had entered leaves were placed in a basket and the saloon. On my right was a bar burned over an open fire, their ashes presided over by a bald, one-eyed saved and carefully placed in a small character of European extraction who container. Meanwhile, dried yellow responded to the name "Smitty." In corn was ground on the metate into a front of the bar was a card table and umnsCrossing the Border . . . a half dozen chairs, reinforced with fine meal. The cedar ashes then were slowly sprinkled into a bowl of boiling Ajo, Arizona bailing wire, which were occupied by water to be poured over the corn meal. Desert: players deeply intent on the game. The Upon stirring, the once yellowish mix- August Desert Magazine reported, room was lighted by several smoky kerosene lamps. Standing under one ture took on a blue-green color. The on page 31: "A tourist card good for six months and costing $5.00 now of these, reading a newspaper, was a paste formed was rolled into small man whose bearing, as well as his dress, round balls approximately an inch in may be used for as many visits to Mexico as the tourist desires. In the set him apart from the others. He diameter, and these "dumplings" were wore a kind of military uniform, with placed in a kettle of water and cooked past, each separate entry called for a new card." a stetson hat and riding boots. At until a blue broth was formed. And in "Mexican Tour for Motor- once I knew him to be the Deputy Annie and I didn't relish the idea of ists" in the October issue, Randall Sheriff. eating blue broth, but we found to our Henderson says an American can go I walked up to the card game and surprise that it was quite tasty. We also as far as San Felipe—100 miles into stood looking over the shoulder of one enjoyed the mutton stew and fried Mexico—for 72 hours without charge. of the players. For several minutes bread. I live at Ajo, Arizona, and fre- the game proceeded in silence. Then After supper, our Christmas cele- quently drive to Puerto Penasco — I felt a gentle hand on my shoulder. bration began. Rocky Point—only 60 miles from the Turning, I looked into the steel-blue First, the Navajo men sang. Two border at Sonoyta. Yet each entry eyes and kindly smile of the Deputy teams were matched against each other. costs me $3.00, and I must relinquish Sheriff. Motioning me over to a cor- The group which could sing louder my card upon re-entering the United ner of the room, he said, "Lad, I want and longer won the prize—a large bag States. The border officials seem to to speak to you." of oranges. know nothing about a $5.00 card or And what he said was this: "Lad, any free trip. After the Navajo songs, Annie and you are not a poker player. You never Are Mexicali and Tijuana the only can be. You are not the type. Get I told the story of the Christ Child in ports where such special entry might English, waiting while each sentence out of the game and stay out, and be made? never take a hand! If you will take my was translated into Navajo. We an- NEAL CARTER swered our Navajo friends' questions advice, the day will come when you The tourist set-up in the customs will be glad you did." about the Christian way of celebrating district in Arizona differs from that Christmas and sang Christmas carols— along the California border — and Then with a kindly smile on his •'Silent Night," "O Come All Ye Faith- the charges are higher in the Ari- firm jaw, he set his stetson on his ful" and others. Some of the children zona district. Mexicali and Tijuana head and said, "Lad, remember! — who had learned the words in govern- are designated "free zones" by the and goodnight." He stepped quickly ment school joined their voices to ours. Mexican government and get a num- out into the windy darkness. Soon I Then we watched while the men ber of special concessions from the heard the retreating hoofbeats of his played a favorite winter game, the customs department — mainly be- horse. "Shoe Game."' Four empty shoes faced cause of the heavy traffic and large Several times in the years since then each team. Hiding its actions with a sums of money spent by American I have had occasion to pass through blanket, one team placed a small ball tourists in Baja California.—R.H. a smudgy room in a mining camp in the toe of one shoe. Their oppon- • • • where a game of poker was in progress ents had to guess in which shoe it lay. The Deputy Sheriff's Advice . . . and have paused a moment to look Wagers—from bridles, saddle blankets on. Each time I have felt again the and turquoise to hatbands and scarves Whittier. California hand on my shoulder, looked again —were placed on the play, and gam- Desert: into kindly eyes and heard the words: bling songs sung. Score was kept by Early in the century, when I was a "Remember, lad, never take a hand." yucca strands. When one team had young man, my search for employment And I never did. took me into an isolated mining camp lost its 51 strands, the game was ended. PAUL J. LINSLEY in Inyo County, California. Throughout the game, jokes and • • • buffoonery kept us laughing. Although The camp still retained the lusty at- Wonderful Wyoming . . . mosphere of the Old West. There we could not understand much of what weren't many houses. The miners Lynwood, California was said, Annie and I enjoyed the either lived in the bunkhouse or de- Desert: wild antics and stunts which took vised makeshift shelters from scrap ma- You've done it! Reached into old place. terial. The camp had no entertainment Wyoming to bring us South Pass City. After our Christmas Eve celebration except as provided in the dilapidated There's a heap of historical interest had ended, we crawled into our sleep- saloon, relic of a still earlier period, in the South Pass area — and Fred ing bags in the hogan. The twigs of to which the men resorted every eve- Stratton could relate most of it. He cedar still crackled in the fire, and ning to drink, play poker or swap was born and reared in Lander, near through the smoke hole opening we stories around the stove in an atmos- South Pass City, and knows the coun- could see a portion of the winter sky's phere heavy with tobacco smoke and try well. myriad of stars. the odor of stale beer. Thanks for taking us back to won- We went to sleep happy, filled with In that old barroom I met an unfor- derful Wyoming. Please, some more? the warmth of Christmas cheer and the gettable character who gave me a bit CHRIS MALATIN friendliness and hospitality of our In- of advice I have followed to this day. M. C. WALLING dian friends. With time on my hands, nothing to LOTTIE BEATTIE

26 DESERT MAGAZINE Olla in a Yucca Ring . . . Chuia Vista, California Desert: Everyone in my family — to our youngest, three-year-old Paul — is a desert fan, and we frequently pack up our camping equipment and head across the mountains for a weekend outing. Last May we took one of our reg- ular trips into the Pinyon Mountain range a few miles east of Julian. It is a favorite destination of ours; it isn't too far to travel, and the boys have found several arrowheads and many pottery sherds in the vicinity. On this particular trip, we had won- derful weather, and the morning land- scape was magnificent! Yuccas were in full bloom, and the wild bees were having a field day gathering pollen. Returning to camp Sunday, after a pre-breakfast hike, my oldest son and I came upon an unusually fine stand of yuccas. Five plants were grouped in a circle, and their flower stalks Lois Ann and Paul Barnlmrt with ancient Indian olla found in a clump of were immense. We hurried back to vuccas in the Pinyon range east of Earthquake Valley camp to get our cameras, and the rest in San Diego County, California. of the family returned with us to see F. E. McMinn in his Illustrated My husband was night man in the the yucca group. Manual of California Shrubs lists Ade- cyanide plant at the Harquahala. The My daughter, Lois Ann, wanted a nostoma fasciculatum as "chamise or tailings Nwere treated with cyanide to snapshot of me standing next to the greasewood" and calls it "one of the recover the gold. flowering plants. Thinking to play a most common shrubs of the California joke on her, I slipped inside the yucca chaparral." I remember Tom Murphy, the super- circle while her back was turned. Francis Fultz in The Elfin Forest intendent; Charley Curtis, Sabin Seece, It was I who was surprised! Inside says "greasewood or chamise, Adenos- Appleby, Parks, Butler, Molthrup and the clump of yuccas, as good as the toma fasciculatum, forms more than others. 1 would like to hear from some day it was placed there more than 100 one-third of the elfin forest cover." of the old crowd, if they are still years ago, lay an Indian olla. A little This, then, is what I have with some around. desert mouse had made his home in- assurance been calling "greasewood.'" MRS. E. J. HOWARD side, and it was filled with nut shells Now I am confused. and refuse. ALICE C. SHELDON We all were thrilled. On the way Although no botanist I know lists home, we took turns holding the olla Larrea divaricata as greasewood, to gently on our laps, so that it wouldn't most desert dwellers greasewood it risk injury from a chuckhole or bump. is—and few of them know it by any The olla stands 18 inches high and other name. Edmund Jaeger's L. has a 12-inch diameter. We took it to divaricata is listed in his Desert Wild the San Diego Museum of Man and Flowers only as creosote bush. The were told it was between 150 and 200 plant he lists as greasewood or cat- years old, made by an expert crafts- erpillar greasewood or black grease- man of the Diegueno tribe. wood is Sarcobatus vermiculatus, We found the olla in the area 4.3 which in California appears only in WHAT EVERY MAN WANTS: miles south of Scissors Crossing on Death Valley. The botanists are in- This clever Map, Blue-print Reader State Highway 78 and approximately clined to discourage, the use of measures all distances o n any flat 5 miles east. There are any number of greasewood as a common name for surface . . . has dozens of uses . . . grinding stones and pottery fragments L. divaricata, preferring that it be Tax and Postpaid $2.75 in the vicinity. called Larrea. But I am afraid they MAKSHUTZ OPTICAL, CO. REY BARNHART are fighting a losing battle. Common 331 So. Olive St. Est. 1887 Los Angeles 0 • • usage on the desert generally takes Greasewood Confusion . . . precedence over the textbooks. SAN JUAN and COLORADO Temple City, California —R.H. RIVER EXPEDITIONS • • • Desert: Enjoy exploration, safe adventure and I have made some study of Cali- She Remembers Harquahala . . . scenic beauty in the gorgeous canyons of fornia native shrubs and was puzzled Camarillo, California Utah and Arizona. Staunch boats, experi- by the editorial in September's Desert Desert: enced rivermen. For 1954 summer schedule Magazine in which creosote bush is or charter trips anytime write to— I was much interested in the May I. FRANK WRIGHT called "greasewood." I also have no- issue, with Jay Ransom's story on the ticed creosote thus nicknamed in other MEXICAN HAT EXPEDITIONS old Harquahala Mine in Arizona. We Blanding. Utah Desert stories. lived there in 1896.

DECEMBER, 1953 27 Here and There on the desert

ARIZONA Rustlers in Hopiland . . . FLAGSTAFF—Cattle rustlers are Quacks on the Reservation . . . active in the Hopi area. Willie Coin, w WINDOW ROCK—Navajo tribes- Hopi Indian employed at the Museum 10MLASTIM BEAUTY men are concerned over the alleged of Northern Arizona, reported the practice of fake medicine men who are rustling centers around the Dennebito to your pool with protect^ incorporating plains Indian tribal cere- area. He urged all cattle buyers and IHERTOL RAMUCEHAMEU monials into Navajo religious rites. meat buyers to report to the Hopi Some Navajo families have paid money Agency at Keams Canyon any H6 Looks like—feels like tile. Waterproof, rub- for signs that proved only slightly re- ber base, true sun-fast colors. Not affected branded cattle offered to them for sale. by lime, resistant to heat and cold. Won't lated to ancient tribal religious prac- —Coconino Sun. crack or peel. Lasts far longer, looks far bet- tices. Howard Gorman, councilman • • • ter than ordinary swimming pool paints. from Ganado, cited one example of a Plan Gadsden Purchase Fete . . . Write for colorful literature on pmnting of woman who used ventriloquism in a swimming pools. Include your name, address TUCSON — One hundredth anni- AND size of your pool. Dept. I feather dance to make her audience believe the feathers were dictating a versary of the Gadsden Purchase, INERTOL CO., INC. cure for an illness. The tribal council which added most of Southern Arizona 27 SOUTH PARK . SAN FRANCISCO 7 has voted to prosecute makers of bad and part of New Mexico to the United medicine.—Phoenix Gazette. States, will be celebrated early in spring by four Arizona cities—Tucson, • • • Yuma, Gila Bend and Douglas. Spe- Seek Park Site Land . . . cial commemorative stamps will be FURNACE issued December 15 in Tucson also to PHOENIX—Phoenix city adminis- mark the centennial. The Gadsden CREEK INN tration officials have made application AMERICAN PLAN Purchase was negotiated by James for title to two parcels of Phoenix In- Gadsden of South Carolina, a railroad FURNACE CREEK dian School land which have been of- tycoon who envisioned a line to the fered for sale by the federal govern- Pacific Coast through what was then RANCH ment. They hope to trade city-owned partly Mexican territory. — Phoenix V EUROPEAN PLAN A' land on which Luke Air Base is situ- ated for the school property, which Gazette. would be developed as municipal rec- • • • reation areas. The two tracts—one 22 "Keep Arizona Green" Pays Off . . . acres and the other 11 acres—are lo- FLAGSTAFF—The "Keep Arizona Enjoy this luxurious desert oasis cated on the south bank of Phoenix's Green" forest fire prevention program for rest, quiet, recreation : golf, Grand Canal.—Phoenix Gazette. sponsored by the state's lumbering in- tennis, riding, swimming, tour- dustry, is paying off in reduction of ing, and exploring. Sunny days, • • • man-caused fires, according to Free- cool nights. Excellent highways. For folders and reservations Chapel in Desert Opens . . . man Schultz, chairman of the Keep write 5310 Death Valley Hotel America Green Association. The Keep Co., Death Valley, Calif. Or COOLIDGE—Hopes and plans of many years were realized by Rev. Earl Green program has been underway in phone Furnace Creek Inn at Arizona a little more than two years. Death Valley. Or call your local M. Ward and Mrs. Ward when the travel agencies. sptcial diuount Desert Chapel at the "End of the During that time, Schultz said, the 'ov. 22 la Die. 19 Trail" opened in October. End of the number of man-caused forest fires has declined materially despite unusually •JcL Trail is the Wards' homestead 12 miles east of Coolidge. They first conceived hazardous conditions due to lack of the idea of a chapel when they came rainfall. The Association has centered to Arizona in 1930; foundations were its main efforts on an education pro- laid 12 years ago. Besides the chapel, gram, pointing out the necessity for there are picnic grounds and a dining visitors entering the forests to exercise 1000 TRAVEL SCENES hall. Although Rev. Mr. Ward is pas- extreme caution with fire at all times. tor of the Coolidge Community —Coconino Sun. Church, the Desert Chapel project is • • • not identified with any particular de- Book on First Arizonans . . . HHf list. nomination. All churches and congre- AJO—Publication of First Inhabi- rSAMPLES 30c WRITE TODAY tants of Arizona and the Southwest by SPECIAL OFFER gations in the area are invited to make use of its facilities.—Phoenix Gazette. Dr. Byron Cummings marked the 93rd To introduce readers of DESERT to our birthday of the patriarch of Southwest- 2"x2" COLOR SLIDES for home projec- ern archeologists. The volume is the tion, we are offering a FREE 20 page catalog and a FREE sample color slide. DESERT HOME culmination of more than 50 years of Our color pictures are on many subjects, AND INCOME scientific research and field work done such as Travel, Science, Nature, Na- by Dr. Cummings while he was pro- tional Parks and the southwest. Write 10 acres, spring water, with 3 furn. fessor of archeology at the universities today to- — cottages. 3300 ft. elevation, dry healthful climate, neighbors, growing of Utah and Arizona. First Inhabitants KELLY D. CHODA community. Near famous Apple Val- is illustrated with 100 pages of black BOX 588 STANFORD, CALIF. ley Ranchos. Price $10,000, terms. and white photographs and 29 color We'll send your Free slide and plates. It is the second volume to be catalog promptly WE K. MILLER, owner (»14 No. Lemon Azusa, California published by Dr. Cummings in the past year.—A jo Copper News. 28 DESERT MAGAZINE Heads Indian Bureau Survey . . . WASHINGTON — Arizona banker Walter R. Bimson has been named SOUTHWEST SHOPPING GUIDE chairman of a six-man committee to make a survey of proposed reorganiza- tion of the U. S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Announcement of the ap- pointment came from Raymond Davis, an assistant to Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay, who said Bimson was chosen because "we wanted a sound, business-minded look at the bureau." The group, composed of three busi- ness executives and three Interior De- partment administrators, began an in- tensive study of the Indian Bureau SALAD All) SET & WAUL RACK GIFTS WITH A LIFT October 15.—Yuma Daily Sun. A most helpful aid to Salad Tossers, such a decorative wall piece! Rack made of Artist Gerard Curtis Delano has faithfully CALIFORNIA imported Beechwood 14" high. Hand dec- captured the brilliant beauty of the richly orated ceramic combination Oil & Vinegar romantic desert country of the Southwest Canyon Open to Public . . . Cruet, Ceramic Funnel and Ceramic Han- in his famed paintings of the Navajo. Now. PALM SPRINGS—Palm and An- dled Imported Beechwood Fork & Spoon. authentic full-color prints beautifully repro- dreas Canyons were officially opened Choice of Rooster or Grape Pattern. An duced from the $10,000 originals. Mounted ideal gift—send your gift cards and we mail in read-to-frame 23"xl9" mats, postpaid $5. to the public for the 1953-54 season for you. This entire set priced at only $4.00 No. C.O.D.s please. Shown above, "Navajo October 15 and will be open daily from postage and tax included — PAPPY'S Shepherdess." Folder with other gift items 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Many improvements COUNTRY STORE — Palm Springs 2, free. DELANO STUDIOS, Suite D-2, 31 have been completed in the canyons, California. E. 18th Ave., Denver 2, Colorado. and several more are underway. The road to Andreas Canyon has been re- paired and underbrush has been cleared away to create new recreational areas. The parking area on Hermit's Bench in Palm Canyon is being cleared and improved and trees damaged in the 1938 fire are being removed. Plans for moving the toll gate to the road l'ork leading to the two canyons have been completed and construction was scheduled to start immediately. Mrs. ELECTRIC LAWN EDGEK AND DELICACIES FROM CALIFORNIA Maria Trujillo has been hired as gate HEDGE CLIPPER Luscious gifts from the heart of California! keeper for the Agua Caliente tribe, on Still the most practical lightweight electric Three pounds of hand picked walnut-stuffed whose reservation the scenic canyon hedge clipper for gardeners, homeowners, Calimyrna figs; apricots; peaches; dates — area lies.—Desert Sun. caretakers. Will trim any hedge, bush or decorated with genuine glace cherries, pine- will prune trees. Ideally suited for edging apple, grapefruit strips or tangerines. Comes • • • lawns or trimming under trees, bushes, in durable plastic Lazy Susan (illustrated) Famed Fireman Retires . . . fences, in and around flower beds, rocks, or genuine Redwood Nutbowl with Mallet. DEATH VALLEY—After 55 years etc. Does away with all scissor jobs. Guar. We gift-wrap, enclose gift card and mail Finest const. Home type, $19.95. Heavy- anywhere in U.S. for only $5.95. Rush gift of service, R. P. Hinze, 69, last work- duty $27.95. (Plus taxes if any.) See your list, choice of container, check or M.O. Offer ing survivor of Death Valley Scotty's dealer or write APEX MFG. Laboratories, closes Dec. 15. DAVELLI'S, Dept 60, P.O. record-breaking Santa Fe train ride 964 Mission St., So. Pasadena, California. Box 1572, Fresno 16, California. from Los Angeles to Chicago in 1905, has retired. Hinze was fireman on the "Coyote Special" on the Raton, New Parks Pending Border Decision . . . No-Hunting Rule Stands . . . Mexico, to La Junta, Colorado, leg of BLYTHE—The fact that there is BORREGO SPRINGS—The State Scotty's trip. The train held for 30 no boundary line between California Parks Commission has rejected appeals years its Los Angeles-Chicago record and Arizona is complicating the Cali- by sportsmen groups to relax its tra- of 44 hours and 54 minutes, broken fornia State Division of Beaches and ditional no-hunting rule in parks. only with the advent of diesel locomo- Parks plan to establish four new state "Parks are wildlife refuges," the com- tives.—Las Vegas Review-Journal. parks along the Colorado River. The mission stated, "where all living things two states are separated by the ser- • • • are preserved for the enjoyment of the pentining Colorado River, which con- public through observation. Preserva- Johnny Shoshone Is Dead . . . tinually is cutting new channels for it- tion of the parks attracts millions of FURNACE CREEK—Johnny Sho- self. The State Lands Commission has visitors annually and allowance of urged that nothing be done about the shone, famed Death Valley Indian, hunting in state parks would create a parks until the recently-created Cali- died at Furnace Creek October 21 difficult policing problem." Turned fornia-Arizona Boundary Commission from effects of a stroke suffered a week down specifically was a request to per- earlier. His age was estimated at 90 decides where the division line runs. mit hunting in the 400,000-acre Anza years. He was well known to visitors The parks proposal has met violent Desert State Park. The commission at Furnace Creek Inn and Ranch and opposition from California sportsmen had been on hand to greet them daily who face loss of a large area of hunt- did, however, agree to further studies in recent years. He was buried in the ing ground if the no-hunting recrea- to determine whether the park is too old Indian cemetery just below the tional areas are established.—Los An- large, as sportsmen argue.—Los An- Inn.—Los Angeles Times. geles Times. ' geles Times.

DECEMBER, 1953 29 WANTED—Partner to prospect in Alaska next summer, share expenses. Prefer single man aged 35 to 45. Write Rene Delval. 386 N. 20th St., Battle Creek. THE DESERT TRADING POST Michigan. Classified Advertising in This Section Costs 10c a Word, $1.50 Minimum Per Issue MISCELLANEOUS PAN GOLD: 75 spots in 25 California BOOKS — MAGAZINES HERE IS YOUR DESERT dream home! counties for placer gold. Township, range, Lovely, 2-bedroom homes surrounded by elevation, geological formation. Possible BOOKS FOUND—Any title! Free world- blossoming and fruitful citrus trees. health, happiness, hideaway, hunt, hike, wide book search service. Any book, $12,500. Close to desert and mountains. fish, camp. Pan and tweezer pick yellow new or old. Western Americana a spe- Write or call. Phone 76-4702, P.O. Box golden nuggets. $1.00, Box 42132 Los cialty. Lowest price. Send wants today! 33, Palm Desert, California. House of Angeles, California. Also panning pans International Bookfinders, Box 3003-D, Roy, Lois & George Merrill Roy, Realtors. $2.25, $2.75. Nugget tweezer $1.00. Beverly Hills, California. Leather dust poke $1.00. SKI IN DEATH VALLEY: Did you know BOOKS ON GEMS — Rare, old, out-of- you could buy a private piece of property GOLD PROSPECTING CATALOG—List- print books in many languages. Stamp in Death Valley Monument? Fine skiing ing, placer and lode maps, steel gold pans, for list. Willems, Box 1515, Chicago 90. possibilities. 160 acres. 7000 ft. eleva- mining and mineral books, books on lost tion. Spring water. Marvelous site on MAGAZINES—Back issues and out of print mines, pocket magnifying glasses, min- summit for lodge. See Badwater and eral collection sets, blueprints of dry books. Cherokee Bookshop, 1656 Chero- Mt. McKinley from there. Write or kee, Hollywood 28, California. washers and wet washers you can build phone: MacDonald Realty Company, yourself. Catalog and Gold Panning Les- FOR SALE: Desert Magazines. Several Realtors, 900 Brundage Lane. Phone son — Free. Old Prospector, Box 729. complete years. Some single copies. Write 5-2456, Bakersfield, California. Desk 5, Lodi, California. for further information. Mrs. Carrie E. Sackriter, P. O. Box 52, Meadow Vista, FOR SALE: Mobilgas Station, Garage, FOR THE VACATION EXPERIENCE of California. Cafe, air conditioned; 5 rental units, going a lifetime, it's a Desert Adventure. Write business. Ocotillo Wells, San Diego for further information and schedule. County, Route 78. Also want partner to Gritzner's, Mesa 3, Arizona. INDIAN GOODS promote new town. Ocotillo Wells Inn, RENDEZVOUS FOR COLLECTORS of Star Route, Borrego Springs, California. DESERT TEA. One pound one dollar old Indian Artifacts as well as the finest postpaid. Greasewood Greenhouses. Len- of new rugs, blankets, jewelry, pottery NEW FOUR ROOM HOME: Furnished, wood, Barstow, California. and ceremonial things. 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Beautiful $2.00. Fine grooved stone tomahawk gets! It's fun! Beginners' illustrated in- landscaped home built on a rare sand struction book! $1.00. Gold pan, $2.00. $3.00. Grooved granite war club $2.00. dune surrounded by ten acres young Ruby Perfect peace pipe $5.00. 6 fine bird ar- Where to go? Gold placer maps. South- Blush grapefruit trees. Price $47,000. ern California, Nevada, Arizona, $1.00 rows $2.00. 2 flint knives $1.00, 6" to 7". Cattle Ranch, house, well, fences, load- Perfect spearhead $7.00. All offers each state. All three maps $2.00. Desert ing chute, more than 150 acres rich, heavy Jim, Box 604, Stockton, California. $20.00. List Free. Lear's, Glenwood, ground. Owner forced to abandon this Arkansas. place, will sell at less than $250 per acre. REQUEST OUR LATEST LIST of irresisti- INDIAN ANTIQUES—The nation's largest Diversified 200 acres, view of Salton Sea, ble quality minerals, books, magazines, exclusive Indian handicraft stock. 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30 DESERT MAGAZINE Damages Rise Faster than Sea . . . Nevada to Ask More Water . . . pull, but we're gradually beginning to INDIO—Suits filed against Imperial CARSON CITY—In its impending produce crops—and if they'll let us Irrigation District and Coachella Val- intervention in the California-Arizona alone, the day will come when we ley County Water District, claiming battle over Colorado River water, Ne- will have many acres under cultiva- property damage from rising waters of vada is expected to ask that between tion."—Tonopah Times-Bonanza. the Salton Sea, totaled $640,500 with 500,000 and 600,000 acre feet of river filing of a $200,000 suit by George H. water be allocated for the state's use. NEW MEXICO Crosby. The latest suit seeks $100,000 Nevada presently is receiving only Indian Tribes Ban Liquor . . . for current damages by inundation and 300,000 acre feet annually. Senator ALBUQUERQUE—In September, an additional $100,000 for "antici- George Malone of Nevada has intro- voters of New Mexico approved a pro- pated" damages. District engineers duced a bill asking 900,000 annual posed amendment to the state consti- hold that they are not responsible for acre feet for his state, but the Nevada tution doing away with the ban on sell- rises in the Salton Sea, which is the Colorado River Commission is not ex- ing liquor to Indians. But tribal chiefs sump hole of a large enclosed basin. pected to seek that much water. — are not so prone to allow "fire water" Pioche Record. on their reservations. "A man should drink good water to live a long time NEVADA Fish Information, Please . . . and not other things which make him LAS VEGAS—Nevada State Fish a maniac wanting to fight," said lead- Few Pine Nuts This Year . . . and Game Commission has issued a ers of Taos Pueblo as they turned AUSTIN—An extremely dry sum- request to anglers in the Lake Mead thumbs down on selling or possessing mer has left a poor crop of pine nuts and Lake Mojave area to report all liquor on their reservation. "Repeal for Nevada gatherers. The cones are tagged or fin-clipped fish. Coopera- of the law does not automatically teach spotty and cores only partly filled. tion of the sportsmen is needed in a people how to drink moderately," However, in a few places, where the survey to determine growth, move- added Merle Garcia of Acoma Pueblo trees grow close to a spring or stream, ments and survival of game fish. In- as his people, too, banished reserva- some good nuts are available.—Reese formation wanted includes species, tag tion drinking.—New Mexican. River Reveille. number (found on either upper or lower jaw) or missing fin if fin-clipped, Charges Indian Crisis . . . total length of fish and location and SANTA FE — "A sudden end of The Desert Trading Post date caught. Reports should be given federal safeguards that protect Indian to boat landing attendants or mailed self-government and ancient home- to the Nevada Fish and Game Com- lands can neither enlarge Indian citi- NEW CALIFORNIA State Topographic mission, P. O. Box 678, Reno, Nevada. Map 64x90", $2.50. Lost mines of 10 zenry nor remedy widespread Indian Southwestern states, with map, $1.75. —Las Vegas Review-Journal. poverty, ill health and ignorance," Sectionized County maps: San Bernar- Continue Sheep Death Probe . . . Oliver La Farge of Santa Fe, president dino, Riverside, $1.00 each. Inyo, Mono, of the Association of American Indians Kern, Los Angeles, 75 cents each. Im- LAS VEGAS — Atomic Energy said in flailing Congress for its Indian perial, San Diego, 50c each. Westwide Commission experts have failed to Maps Co., 114'/2 W. Third St., Los An- policy. La Farge asserted the most reach a decision on the exact cause of geles, California. acute crisis the Indian has ever faced death of a large number of sheep from has been created by abrupt revocation A NEW RAZOR BLADE—of surgical steel, a strange malady last spring and are of federal protections and services in out-performs all. Cheap. Free sample. continuing their investigation. The R. S. Hanson, Box 283, Savanna, Illinois. an attempt to solve the Indian problem. sheep had been grazed near the atomic He said this "abandonment of legal GOLDAK MINERAL DETECTOR ($145 proving grounds and it has been feared responsibility" brought about by a new) and Army Mine Detector. Both that their deaths may have resulted $135. Seghers, 920 Jefferson Ave., Red- "profound misunderstanding" of the from atomic radiations. This has not wood City, California. true needs of the Indian, threatens to yet been proved or refuted. Tissues destroy the tribesmen's rights, property TRADERS-DEALERS: Specialized, quick from the victims are being studied. mimeograph service. Send copy, quota- and hopes for progress. tion submitted. Prices reasonable. Arrow Service, Box 14, Bonner Springs, Kansas. Fish Lake Valley Survey . . . TONOPAH—Legal title to the land RANCHERO Vivid-Colored Coasters. Adds warmth and rainbow-tinted cheer to ban- they have been occupying and tilling Enjoy the West in quet, dinner and snack tables. Skillfully may be in sight for Fish Lake Valley Your Own Home/ handicrafted. 1 doz. for $3.75 ppd. Also, settlers. A federal survey of the with beautiful 2x2 Ranchero matted oval-shaped trays in southern end of the valley was begun flattering colors to match. Handwoven. in October. The settlers are confident KODACHROME SLIDES $3.75 each ppd. Spanish Spur Trading These professionally photographed Post, Box 111, Mesilla, New Mexico. that the ground will be classified as slides truly capture the natural scenic suitable for agriculture, since they have beauty of our Western Wonderland. Their superb detail, composition, and SEND FOR: List of dried floral materials already proved in practice that a wide color reproduction are unequalled any- for arrangements, home decorating. Mel where in the world, yet are offered to Capper, Box 70, Palm Springs, California. variety of crops can be grown on it. you at lowest prices for slides They were served eviction notices last on Kodachrome film. Determine the quality of GHOST TOWN ITEMS: Sun-colored glass, summer after being accused of tres- West-View slides before pur- amethyst to royal purple; ghost railroads chasing by simply sending for material, tickets; limited odd items from passing on government lands, to which a Western "Slide Tour" (18 E. L. Cord, wealthy rancher, held slides and text) ox APPROVAL. camps of the '60s. Write your interest— indicating which Western Na- Box 64-D, Smith, Nevada. grazing rights. Unofficial reports in- tional Park you would bo most interested in seeing. dicate the Bureau of Land Manage- No minimum purchase. SPANISH AMOLE ROOTS — Ideal for Among the "Slide Tours" currently being offered: ment has reversed its previous stand Death Valley, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Zion, shampooing hair, leaving it silky, fluffy Arches Nat'l Monument, Petrified Forest, and Monu- and soft. For centuries, during Spanish and is willing to grant land entries to mont Valley. colonial times, chic senoritas used it to the homesteaders. "Before we came bring out the natural gloss, and add charm here," one settler, a veteran, explained, FIRST APPROVAL SET AND FREE SLIDE CATALOG and romance to their hairdo. Two pounds, including directions—$3.75. Spanish Spur "the land was barren except for worth- WEST-VIEW Trading Post, Box 111, Mesilla, N. M. less desert brush. It's been a. long hard 1518 Montana Dept. D Santa Monica, Cal.

DECEMBER, 1953 31 Navajo Bears Hunted . . . lapai tribes of Arizona. He was the Asks Dinosaur Protection . . . GALLUP — A Navajo seldom will author of Handbook of Federal Indian WASHINGTON—Director Conrad kill a bear, believing the animal con- Law, recognized as the standard text L. Wirth of the National Park Service tains the spirit of his dead grand- in that field. has announced he "believes firmly" mother. Only in extreme cases, for • • • that the Utah Echo Park Dam should instance when a bear is molesting his UTAH not be built, and he has sent a recom- sheep, will the Indian consider killing Indians on Easy Street . . . mendation to Secretary of Interior it. Then he usually asks a white man FORT DUCHESNE — Oil in the Douglas McKay to that effect. Wirth to do the shooting. If he assists in last seven years has meant $4,722,000 said he was hopeful that a satisfactory the removal of the animal and acci- to members of the Ute Indian tribe, alternative dam site could be found, dentally touches the bear, a special the Fort Duchesne agency has figured. so that Utah could get its reclamation ceremony must be performed to Nearly half that amount, $2,156,000 project and still preserve Dinosaur cleanse him. Because of this belief, was received by the Utes during fiscal National Monument and open up more bears have increased on the reserva- 1953; proceeds to the tribes and indi- of its wonders to the public. The Park tion, particularly in the Choiska Moun- vidual Indian families on allotted lands Service claims that construction of tains and the Washington Pass area on totaled $1,141,000 during fiscal 1952. Echo Park Dam would flood a portion the Arizona-New Mexico border. To The Utes had 109,017 acres of their of Dinosaur and possibly open the thin them out, an October bear hunt- reservations under lease as of October door for future invasion of federal ing season was opened on the reserva- 1. The funds which the Indians have parks and monuments areas. — Salt tion, New Mexico and Arizona hunters received represent payment of bonus Lake Tribune. paying $10 each for special licenses.— money for right to lease, rentals at Phoenix Gazette. • • • $1.25 an acre annually and HV2 per- Porcupines Threaten Trees . . . • • • cent royalties from oil production. — CEDAR CITY—Utah's porcupine Traders Face Rent Hikes . . . Salt Lake Tribune. population is again getting out of hand. GALLUP — Operators of trading • • • The quilled rodents are being seen in posts on the Navajo Indian reservation Need New Arches Entrance . . . greater numbers than ever before along in New Mexico and Arizona may have MOAB—Increased travel to Arches the lowlands and in the forested areas their rent raised. The Navajo Tribal National Monument is making impera- of the state. Fish and Game Depart- Council is considering a proposal to tive construction of a new entrance ment officials and other land manage- increase the rental charged traders road. Surveys for the additional en- ment agencies urge hunters to destroy from the present one-quarter of one trance were made in 1947 and in 1951, the timber and browse damagers, point- percent per sale to two percent of but construction was never authorized. ing out that, contrary to popular belief, gross sales. The proposal also would The proposed road would extend from they are not protected by game laws. give the tribe title to buildings and monument headquarters into the "win- An over-population of porcupines improvements on sites occupied by dow" section which includes two of means serious damage to future timber traders and limit the number of trad- the area's most spectacular natural supplies and range lands. One of the ing posts owned by one person or wonders, Turret Arch and Double rodents can ruin many young trees, company to three.—New Mexican. Arch. Approximately 27,514 visitors circling the main trunk and cutting the • • • registered at the monument between bark.—Iron County Record. WASHINGTON—Felix Cohen, 46, January 1 and September 25, 1953.— • • • attorney who specialized in represent- Moab Times-Independent. Water Flows in Tunnel . . . ing Indian tribes, died October 19 in • • • SALT LAKE CITY — Bringing Washington. Among his clients were Misses Welfare Checks . . . water from the Colorado Basin into the All-Pueblo Council of New Mexico GRANTS — A Navajo woman in Salt Lake Valley, the $9 million Du- and the San Carlos, Apache and Hua- the Grants area has become uranium chesne Tunnel was opened late in Oc- rich but pension poor. She collected tober. The six-mile tunnel brings water Looking for a PUBLISHER? approximately $18,000 during the past from the North Fork of the Duchesne Do you have a book-length manuscript you two years from ore taken from her River into Provo River which carries would like to have published? Learn about claim. She complained bitterly, how- it into Deer Creek Reservoir, Salt Lake our unusual plan whereby your book can be published, promoted and distributed on a ever, when she noticed her relief City's greatest reserve supply. The professional basis. We consider all types of work—fiction, biography, poetry, scholarly checks had stopped coming in. new facility assures Salt Lake of an and religious books, etc. New authors wel- • e • adequate water supply, even during come. For more information, write for valu- able booklet D. It's free. Turkey Industry Revolution . . . long dry spells. Sufficient water will VANTAGE PRESS, INC. «:!3C Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood 28, Calif. SALT LAKE CITY — America's be allowed to continue down the nat- Main Office: New York 1, N. V. turkey industry is experiencing its ural course of the North Fork past the greatest revolution since the broad- diversion point to support fish in the breasted bronze became the popular stream.—Salt Lake Tribune. 'EVERYTHING FOR THE HIKER" turkey a few years ago, members of • • • the Norbest Turkey Growers' Associa- White-on-Green for Utah Cars . . . SLEEPING BAGS tion heard at their annual convention SALT LAKE CITY — Production here. New processing methods are has started in the new Utah State AIR MATTRESSES lowering operating costs, making a Prison plant of Utah's white-on-green SMALL TENTS product that is more acceptable to the 1954 automobile license plates. Ex- consumer, giving a better grade turkey cept for color, the plates are similar and many other items with -d better yield at lower processing to their 1953 predecessors, except that expense. Herbert Beyers, Norbest the state and year are now below the VAN DEGRIFT'S HIKE HUT general manager, also noted a strong numbers instead of above. The new trend toward "oven-ready" turkeys and 717 West Seventh Street plant at Point-of-the-Mountain has a small "fryer-roaster" turkeys. — Salt capacity of 2000 sets a day.—Salt Lake LOS ANGELES 14. CALIFORNIA Lake Tribune. Tribune.

32 DESERT MAGAZINE Monticello, Utah . . . The Atomic Energy Commission has extended to March 31, 1962, the ex- MINES and Ml HI NO piration date of the guaranteed mini- mum price schedule for Colorado Pla- Grand Junction, Colorado . . . Albuquerque, New Mexico . . . teau uranium ores and to February 28, Domestic uranium mining is grow- Discovery of another source of co- 1957, the time during which initial ing faster than mills can handle the lumbite, used for tips on mine drilling production of uranium ore from new ore, according to Sheldon P. Wimp- bits, has been reported near Petaca in mines will be eligible for bonus pay- fen, manager of the Atomic Energy Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. A ments. Bonuses are made to new Commission's operations office at new firm, Tungsten Consolidated, be- mining properties on each pound of Grand Junction. More than 500 min- gan mining operations in June and uranium oxide in acceptable ores de- ing properties currently are shipping has shipped several thousand pounds livered to mills or commission buying uranium ore to market in the western of the ore to Pennsylvania for process- stations up to 10,000 pounds. The part of the United States alone. About ing.—Mining Record. price schedule provides guaranteed 475 of these are private operations, » » » minimum base prices for the uranium Wimpfen said, and the remainder are Nevada City, California . . . oxide content of carnotite-type and operated under lease from the AEC. Irelan Yuba Mines, Inc., one of the roscoelite-type ores of the Colorado A recent survey conducted by the AEC, oldest gold producers in the Alleghany Plateau area. The time extensions Wimpfen added, showed that uranium area, is expected to return to produc- were made to continue encouragement mining profits range from $5 to $29 tion soon. The mine, which has a of domestic uranium production. — a ton, but that uranium mining costs history dating back to 1860, was range from $8 to $28 a ton, making San Juan Record. closed at the beginning of World War • • • continued bonus payment plans neces- II. It has produced more than $350,- sary if high production of the atomic 000 in gold. Virgil Church, superin- Shiprock, New Mexico . . . material is to be continued.—San Juan tendent, reports new mine rails, pipe Thomas Clani and John M. Yazzi, Record. and a compressor were moved in re- Navajo Indians of the Shiprock area, • • • cently, and the properties, located two have shipped sufficient uranium ore to Panguitch, Utah . . . miles east of Alleghany, soon would win the Atomic Energy Commission Irven Bates of Tonopah, Nevada, be completely electrified. — Battle bonus of $26,000 for bringing in a high grade tonnage producer. Their has leased the extensive deposits of Mountain Scout. claim is in Monument Valley, Arizona. diatomaceous earth filed on by a group • • • of ten men from Panguitch and Hatch. —Moab Times-Independent. Brawley, California . . . o • • Bates plans immediate exploration to Lloyd Pitchford and Grover Bur- determine commercial possibilities of goyne of Brawley have located a large Ely, Nevada . . . the deposits, located near Hillside, be- deposit of high grade amphibole as- Kennecott Copper Corporation is tween Hatch and Panguitch.—Garfield bestos and plan immediate develop- pressing development of the Veteran County News. ment. The property is located between copper deposit near the old townsite of e • • Niland and Mecca north of Brawley. Ruth, with full production scheduled San Manuel, Arizona . . . • • • in 1954. The ore body is 600 feet A new railroad is expected to be in Austin, Nevada . . . wide and 1400 feet long, located in operation by 1955 to serve the San The Kingston gold-silver mine in the old Veteran mine, idle since 1914. Manuel copper mining development in Kingston Canyon and its new mill, Operations will be conducted by the Southern Arizona. Frank Sarver, both inactive for two years, will be open-pit method.—Mining Record. Magma Copper Company general man- put into operation again. Gordon • • • ager, said the San Manuel Arizona Sheckler and associates have taken a Railroad will extend 23 miles from Gabbs, Nevada . . . lease on the property.—Battle Moun- Standard Slag Company, owner of Hayden to the mine site near Tiger. tain Scout. It will branch off the Arizona Eastern the Stokes iron mine in the Gabbs • • • district, now is developing the property line owned by Southern Pacific, fol- Tonopah, Nevada . . . lowing the San Pedro River to Mam- to determine the extent of the ore body. Summit King's quest for ore at the The ore is high grade. The mine has moth. The town of San Manuel is 550-foot level paid off in October being built around the huge copper been in operation since March, 1950, when the 100-foot diagonal crosscut presently under the general manager- mining development. The first com- burst through the footwall of what mercial stores in the community were ship of R. O. Jones of Gabbs. F. W. Superintendent Frank Kennicott pre- Reinmiller is superintendent. — Cali- scheduled to open November 1. — dicts will prove "a good sized vein." Yuma Daily Sun. fornia Mining Journal. Running 100 parts silver to one part • • • • • • gold, the vein is a continuation of the Moab, Utah . . . one hit earlier this year at the 300-foot Winnemucca, Nevada . . . Big Indian Mines, Inc., has an- level. The strike is in virgin territory, Electric pumping equipment is be- nounced the proving by diamond drill- an encouraging sign to miners.—To- ing installed at the Nevada Uranium ing operations of the ore body first nopah Times-Bonanza. Company mine in Rocky Canyon, high discovered on its Maimie Claim. • • • in the Humboldt range. Ed Bottom- Twenty holes have been dug, all show- Monticello, Utah . . . ley, manager and treasurer of Nevada ing ore, with varying thickness and More than 17,000 uranium mining Uranium, announced installations will composite assays running from .13 to claims have been filed to date in San include a 15-kilowatt generator and a .22 uranium oxide. The average depth Juan County, according to Mrs. Ar- 10-horsepower centrifugal pump. The of ore from the surface is 300 feet, villa Warren, county clerk. The 17,000 new equipment is expected to over- and approximately 375,000 tons of claims would cover roughly two-thirds come a flooding condition that has commercial ore has been outlined.— of a million acres of land. — Moab brought production to a standstill. — Moab Times-Independent. Times-Independent. Territorial Enterprise. DECEMBER, 1953 33 item. DIAMOND BLADES

Ikny-lhrty Saptr StlrtlH GEMS <">« MINERALS Sacr-Ct(d Ckirirt Ckind $ $ 9.03 $ 7.98 11.50 10.44 GOOD CAMPING FACILITIES OHIO CLUB ENTERS SECOND 15.23 14.02 FOR 1954 CONVENTION GOERS YEAR WITH NEW OFFICERS 22.26 18.53 29.40 25.6' "This will be a 'camping' show," com- Its first year completed under the leader- 32.7(5 29.0b mittee members of Coachella Valley Min- ship of President R. W. Downey, the Miami B5.60 43.20 36.12 Valley Mineral and Gem Club, Fairborn, 77.05 51.97 39.84 eral Society and San Gorgonio Mineral and 93.24 65.73 51.40 Gem Society promise visitors to the 1954 Ohio, entered its second year of activity 149.02 125.73 State convention of the California Federation of with a new slate of officers. Robert J. Wen- 226.06 188.05 Arbor Size Mineralogical Societies, to be held in Indio, ing of Dayton is president; William C. sales tax in California. California, March 26 to 28. The two Downey of Springfield, vice-president; Mrs. Allow for Postage and Insurance Southern California societies will be co- James W. Riley of Springfield, secretary; hosts. Mrs. Joe Garner of Dayton, assistant sec- Covington Ball Bearing Grinder More than 25 acres of free camping area retary; Mrs. Harold St. John of Fairborn, and shields are have been reserved at the Riverside Na- treasurer, and Joe Garner, curator and dis- furnished in 4 tional Date Festival fairgrounds, where the play chairman. The club draws members sizes and price convention will be held. Campsites will be from Columbus, Springfield, Piqua, Dayton, ranges to suit available under date palms and within easy Cincinnati and Fairborn. Mrs. Riley reports your require- walking distance of exhibit halls. Camping plans for the year include field trips to Flint ments. Water and reservations, indicating number of people Ridge for chalcedony and jaspagate and to grit proof. and space required, should be made with Clay Center for calcite, celestite and fluorite Clifton Carney, P.O. Box 411, Desert Cen- crystals. COVINGTON 8" TRIM SAW ter, California. Motels and hotels are • • • and motor are com- handy for those who do not wish to camp. GEMOLOGIST CONDUCTS CLASS part and do not Entertainment will include a pit barbecue splash. Save blades FOR COLORADO ROCKHOUNDS and clothing witfc instead of the customary banquet, exhibits, Richard M. Pearl, certified gemologist, is (his saw. campfire programs, movies and seminars. Field trips will be conducted to the Hauser conducting a class in "Precious Stones in Beds for geodes, Coon Hollow for fire ag- Colorado" for Colorado rockhounds. The BUILD YOUR OWN LAP ate, Crystal Hill for quartz crystals and class is being sponsored by Colorado Min- Mid SAVE with a COV- eral Society and coordinated by its president, other localities. James Hurlbut. The eight-session series of INGTON 12" or lfi" Lap • • • Kit. We furnish every- lectures and demonstrations will cover phys- thing you need. Send SECOND ROCKHOUND POWWOW ical properties of gem stones, tests for for free catalog. AT BOULDER BEACH PLANNED physical properties, occurrence and economic Clark County Gem Collectors of Las importance of gem stones and cutting and Vegas, Nevada, are making plans for another mounting stones into jewelry. First class A COVINGTON was October 5. ^Mulli-Fealnre four-day rockhound powwow at Boulder l(i" Lap Cull Beach the latter part of April, 1954. Twelve Does NEW OFFICERS ELECTED everything hundred rock fanciers from all over the for you. country registered for the first powwow, BY ORANGE COAST SOCIETY held two years ago, and the Clark County At the first fall meeting of Orange Coast hosts hope to have 1500 visitors next spring. Mineral and Lapidary Society, Costa Mesa, UOVINGTON A new field will be explored. 12" 14" * California, officers were elected to serve dur- or 1«" W ing the coming year. Harold St. Johns is Tower Feed president; Don Eggleston, vice-president; Diamond WHOLESALERS, IMPORTERS AND RETAILERS Saws of fine mineral specimens, geras and gem Mildred Snokelburg, secretary; and Jennie materials. Represent Highland Park Mfg. Silkwood, treasurer. C. A. Terry was Co. and other leading manufacturers. Whole- SAVE sale distributor for The Carborundum Co. speaker at the election meeting. His topic BLADES We maintain the most complete stock of was "Micromounts." mineral specimens, gems and gem materials in the country, and at the most reasonable • • • Send for New Catalog, IT'S FRISK prices. Visitors always welcome. Open week Two speakers were on the opening fall days 9 to 5. program of Orange Belt Mineralogical So- COVINGTON LAPIDARY SUPPLY SOUTHERN GEM & MINERAL CO. ciety, San Bernardino, California. William Redlands, California 2307 North Mesa (Highways 80 & 85) Smith of Riverside told of his summer col- Phone 2-2160 El Paso, Texas lecting trip through Washington and Oregon. He showed one "bragging rock" from each stop on his itinerary. Second speaker was Col. W. J. Mills, owner of one of the most extensive carnelian fire agate collections and an authority on collecting, polishing and P-—.^^— displaying fire agate. He emphasized the Seen importance of keeping the stone cool while Petrified Wood, Moss Agate. Chrysocolla working it. to keep the fire. 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See MINERALIGHT in Action! /our Dealer Has It! Hare U a partial list of the more than 500 Ultra-Violet MINERALIGHT dealers ready to serve you—coast to coast ALASKA Los Angeles Plummer's Minerals LOUISIANA NEW MEXICO Nixon Blue Print Co. Mineral Equip. Sales & Black Light Corp. of 1720 Point Loma Ave. Ri ley's New Mexico Minerals Wilson Tower. Research Los AriKCles Superior Gems & Minerals 423 Crockett St.. Shrevepurt U003 Central N.E., Corpus Christ i Box 1442, Fairbanks 5403 Santa Monica Blvd. 4665 Park Blvd. Albuquerque Greene Brothers, Inc. The Bradleys 1S12 Griinn. Dallas MASSACHUSETTS Adobe Crafters ARIZONA 4639 Crenshaw Blvd. San Francisco Sehortmann's Minerals Don A. Cariwntcr Co. Leo Kaufmann Rt. 2, Box 341. Santa Fe Gritzner's Minerals Engineers Syndicate. Ltd. 729 Harrison St. C> McKlnley Ave., P.O. Box 1741, El Paso 135 N. Slrrine St., Mesa 5011 Hollywood Blvd. Easthamplon Bell Reproduction Company A. v. Herr Laboratory San Gabriel !)(>7 Throekmorton. 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Wright 71(56 Sta. Monica Blvd. 3840 26th Ave. S.>., East Texas Photocopy Co. COLORADO 30 Cochise Row. Warren Napa Minneapolis 308 N. Broadway St., Tyler Brandt's Rock & Gem Shop 'fhc Gem Exchange 1034-A Sonoma Hlway Gem Village, Bayfleld ARKANSAS Black Lij-'ht Corp. of MISSOURI Akron Lapidary o>. UTAH House of Hobbies, Rt. -1 Needles Colorado Asterley O/ark shop 1095ChalkerSt., Akr Dr. H. T. Plumb Hot Springs Nat'l. Park McShan's Gem Shop U.S. Hwy 6l-t»7, DeSoto 2400 Sunnysule Ave., Highway 66 209 Johnson Bld*r.. Denver Ftlley's Reproduction Craven's Diamond Shop Co. Salt Lake City Orange Cove 1540 Glenarm Place, Denver 2008 Bryant Bide.. CALIFORNIA Wm. M. CHngan, shelden's Minerals Agency Kansas City The Rock Market Berkeley Clinsan's Jet. WASHINGTON .".07 14th St., Denver Cy Miller R. 1. Box 225, Eagle Point Minerals Unlimited Highway 180 110 E. 13th St.. Kansas City Fulmer's A«ate Shop 1721 University Ave. Palo Alto Eckert Mineral Research The House of Guns :-212 Rainier Ave., Seattle Fisher Research Labor., Inc. 112 E. Main St., Florence 111 Washington St.. Big Pine MONTANA Garibaldi Prospector's Equipment Co. Bedell's Mercantile 1961 University Ave. Palmer'a Lapidary & 2022 Third Ave.. Seattle Fixit Shop Yellowstone Agate Shop 118 N. Main SI. Box 4. Hlway si'. Livingston Hodi-o Podge Agate & Pasadena 1503 N. College, Fl. Collins Supply Shop C. M. Fassett Co.. Bishop Grleger's Bernstein Brothers W. "Trent Ave., Spokane Bishop Hardware & Sup. Co. 1683 E. Walnut St. NEBRASKA 322Hlway 99 S.. Grants Pass :«G X. Main St. 164 X. Mechanic St.. Pueblo Wrightway Gemcrafters Tacoma Lapidary Sup. Co. Paso Robles Hastings Typewriter Co. ii.;i St. Helens Ave., Tacoma Buena Park Coast Counties Pump & D. C—Washington Ms w. 3rd St., Hastings P.O. Box 4. Hauser Smith's Fluorescents Ghost Town Rock & Elec. Co. Gem Lapidary Book Shop 1240% Park St. NEVADA Km. 311-220 S.W. Alder. 200(1 Florida Ave. N.W.. WISCONSIN Knott's Berry Farm Placerville Washington, D.C. Tolyabe Supply Company Portland Dorothy's Gift Shop C-C Distributing Company Canoga Park Enterprises Unlimited FLORIDA Gnbbs 3104 W. VlirtSt., Milwaukee Warren C. Bicber Rt. .'J, Box 143 Woodfords Cash Store. 4639 N. Stephens. Roseburs Rock & Shell Shop The House of Hobbies 7229 Remmet Ave. Randsburg & Ridgecrest Woodfords. Calif.. White's Furniture 2OI53 Red Road 721 W. Wisconsin, Milwaukee Castro Valley W. A. Hankammer Coral Gables P.O. Gardncrville, New 121S M St.. Sweet Home The Sterling Shop. The Stones Throw Rock Shop Redlands GEORGIA Arthur C. Terrill 8679 Castro Valley Blvd. Covlngton Lapidary 15 Water St.. Henderson 221 S. Main St., Walworth Eninneerinc O.von Hoffman PENNSYLVANIA Compton Rock Hollow, Compton Rock Shop 1st & Hlway 99 N. Alexander.Ave., Lost Cave Mineral Shop 1109 S. Long Beach Blvd. Washington Last Frontier Village Lost Cave. Hellertown CANADA Las Vegas Riley's Reproductions Ltd. Fresno Riverside IDAHO Pacific Mill & Mine Sup. Co. Hurrle's Gem Shop The Sawtooth Company Commercial Hardware Co. 630 8th Ave. W.. 530 Van Ness Ave. 3825 7th St. 1115 Grove St., Boise 500 E. 4th St., Reno TENNESSEE Calgary, Alia. s. V. Hieley Nevada Gem Shop Technical Products Company Milburns Gem Shop Giendole Sacramento 15) N. Dunlap. Memphis Pascoes MacClanahan & Son 171S Albion Ave.. Burley 335 East 4th. Reno 1605 Trans-Canada Hwy., New Westminster. B.C. 1414 w. Glenoaks 3481 2nd Ave. ILLINOIS Nevada Mineral Laboratories Lodi Ivan Ogiien Tom Roberts Rock Shop 336Morrill Ave., Reno TEXAS Cave & Company Ltd. Armstrong's 520 56th St. iuo(i s. Michigan Ave., 0 & B Engineering Co. inc. .">*i7 Hornby St.. Kt. 2, Box r>lti Chicago Tonopab studio L310S. 1 itii St.. Abilene Vancouver, B.C. Son Bernardino P.O. Box 331. Tonopah Sharpe Instruments Ltd. Long Beach Greenwood's Ret R. Latta Lapidary Equii (Mom's Elliott Gem & Mineral Shop 155 Third St. 254 Pearl Ave.. Loves Park 6038 Yonpe St.. 235 E. Seaside Blvd. NEW JERSEY Star Kt A. Box 32-C. Austin Newtonbrook. Toronto, Out. Gordon's Gem & Mineral San Carlos KENTUCKY Para Laboratory Sup. Co. Supplies Lloyd Underwood, IWi E. Clement 221 N. Hermitage Ave., .1027 E. San Carlos Ave. 1850 E. Pac. Coast Hwy. Marion Trenton ULTRA-VIOLET PRODUCTS, INC. Mohave Salts, Inc. San Diego Ancient Buried City Wostfield Lapidary & Sup. O 145 Pasadena Ave.. South Pasadena, Calif. 1768 Atlantic; Ave. Gem Arts, 4286 Marlborough Wickliffe 309 Hyslip Ave., Westfield

DECEMBER, 1953 35 GENUINE TURQUOISE: Natural color, blue and bluish green, cut and polished ADVERTISING RATE cabochons—25 carats (5 to 10 stones 10c a word . . . Minimum SI.50 according to size) $3.50 including tax, GEfll fllART postpaid in U.S.A. Package 50 carats (10 to 20 cabochons) $6.15 including tax, postpaid in U.S.A. Elliott Gem & ATTENTION ROCK COLLECTORS. It WANTED: Chalk grade Turquoise. Write Mineral Shop, 235 E. Seaside Blvd., Long will pay you to visit the Ken-Dor Rock complete details as to quality and price. Beach 2, California. Roost. We buy, sell, or exchange min- P.O. Box 5171, Phoenix, Arizona. eral specimens. Visitors are always wel- GRITZNER'S GEODE—"The friendly little come. Ken-Dor Rock Roost, 419 Slit- PETRIFIED OYSTER SHELLS — Yuha mineral publication" is only $1.00 a year. Badlands, California, $1.00 each. Apache Gritzner's, Mesa 3, Arizona. ter, Modesto, California. tears, Superior, Arizona, small to walnut OPALS AND SAPPHIRES rough, direct size, $2.00 per pint. Postpaid, Thelma RADIOACTIVE ORE Collection: 6 won- from Australia. Cutting opal, 1 ounce Villar, 124 S. Santa Anita. San Gabriel. derful different specimens in neat Red- California. wood chest, $2.00. Pretty Gold nugget. $5, $10, $20, $30 and $60. Blue sap- $1.00. four nuggets, $2.00, choice col- phires, 1 ounce $10, $30, and $60. Star IRON WOOD ROCK SHOP: Now open at lection 12 nuggets, $5.00. Uranium sapphires, 12 stones $10, $20, and $30, Nicholl's Warm Springs, 7 miles west of Prospector, Box 604, Stockton, Calif. etc. Post free and insured. Send inter- Blythe on Highway 60-70. The Beleals. national money order, bank draft. Aus- NEW MEXICO'S finest red Calcite for sale. tralian Gem Trading Co., 49 Elizabeth CHRISTMAS?—3 emeralds (genuine Ural Fluoresces strawberry red under short St., Melbourne, Australia. Free list of Mountains). Cabochon cut, approximately wave lamp. Rattlesnake Calcite, fluor- all Australian stones rough and cut, 16 pp. 6 carats total. 1 matched set only. $25 esces pink and phosphoresces blue under postpaid, insured. Frey Mineral Enter- short wave lamp. $1.20 lb. postpaid or GET YOUR COPY of "A Mineral Collec- prises, Box 7. Richvale, California. $75.00 per 100 lbs., freight paid. Satis- tor's Guide to Wonderful Wyoming." 25c. faction guaranteed or money refunded. Gritzner's, Mesa 3, Arizona. BEAUTIFUL ARAGON1TE specimens — Tom Ellis, Rt. 2, Box 492, Waco, Texas. Banded $2.00, $5.00 each. Ask for list EXCHANGE VALUABLE STONES, plants of many new types of rocks etc. now in PONY BUTTE Thundereggs from the or- and seeds for rough or polished stones. E. stock. Jack The Rockhound, P. O. Box iginal Priday Ranch in Central Oregon. G. Benedict, Horticulturist, P.O. Box 128, 245, Carbondale, Colorado. $1.25 per pound and 5 pounds for $5.00. V.A. Branch, Los Angeles 25, California. Hastings Typewriter Co., Hastings, Neb. ROCKHOUND PARADISE. Stop and see ROCK SHOP: 24226 Hwy. 60, Sunnymead, our display. Agates rough and slabs. No BOOKS: Beginners to advanced. Gemology, California. Green glass with white balls junk. Minerals, fluorescent minerals. Sat- mineralogy, geology, etc.. Write today 50c lb. Montana Agate 50c and $1.00 lb. isfaction guaranteed. Write for prices. for free price list. Gem Finders, 859 Jaspers 25c lb. Oregon Obsidian 25c lb. P. G. Nichols, Prop., Sun Valley Trailer North Ramona, Hawthorne, California. ROCK COLLECTORS — Attention! The Park. 3922 No. Oracle Road, Tucson, Arizona. FOR SALE: Beautiful purple petrified Trailer Rock Store is back. Same place, wood with uranium, pyrolusite, manga- between Palm Springs and Palm Desert. WIRE GOLD on green Andesite. Oling- nite. Nice sample $1.00. Postage. Maggie Crystallized minerals my specialty. The house, Nevada. Inch specimens $3 and Baker, Cameron, Arizona. Rockologist (Chuckawalla Slim). Box $5 each. Others $10 and $12. Specify 181, Cathedral City, California. quartz or Andesite matrix. Postpaid. McSHAN'S GEM SHOP—open part time, FAIRBURN AGATES, field run $2.00 lb. Frey Minerals, Box 7, Richvale, Calif. or find us by directions on door. Cholla cactus wood a specialty, write for prices. No. 1 grade priced individually $3.50 to ROCK CORRAL—Stop at our Rock Cor- $25.00. Sent on approval if requested. I mile west on U. S. 66. Needles, Cali- ral and select your own material from fornia, Box 22. Also Teepee Canyon banded agates rough one of the largest Rock and Mineral 60c lb. Slabs $1.50 to $5.00. The Rock collections in the Southwest. Mail orders AUSTRALIAN cutting fire opal, specimens, House, Custer, South Dakota. promptly filled, satisfaction guaranteed. cutting material. H. A. Ivers, 1400 Ha- 8 lbs. of selected top grade cutting ma- cienda Blvd., La Habra, California. terial sent postpaid for $6.00. 50 sq. inches of selected gemstone slabs for $10 MINERAL SPECIMENS, cabochons and postpaid. Try our approval plan. We will cutting material of all kinds, western Pinon Incense... send you postpaid 50 square inches of jewelry. Beautiful travertine for book selected gemstone slabs, you keep all for ends, paper weights, spheres etc. Write Bring the delightful fragrance $10 or return part with 25c per inch for for prices. Eighteen miles south of Battle of the Pinyon Forest into your what you keep. We carry Ultra-Violet Mountain at Copper Canyon, John L. home or office. The burner is a Mineralights, Geiger Counters, Lapidary James, Box 495, Battle Mountain, Nev. Machinery, Polishing Powders, Crystolon miniature model of the outdoor Grits, sanding cloth, Templates, Cement. TONOPAH, Nevada, is where C. C. Boak baking ovens used by prehis- Dopping Wax, Books, etc. Write for price lives, with his outstanding, scientific, toric Indians, and still in use in list. San Fernando Valley Rock Shop, world-wide collection of Mineral, Gem New Mexico pueblos. When 6329 Lindley Ave., Reseda, California. and semi-Gemstone species—spectacular crystal groups, etc. Visitors welcome. C. the little cones of genuine pin- C. Boak, 511 Ellis St., Tonopah, Nevada. yon pine are burned in this tiny oven the aroma is a breath of Agate Jewelry ONYX BLANKS, unpolished, black 25c the outdoor Southwest. each; red, green, blue 35c each. Perfect Wholesale cut titanium. Fine cutting and polishing Kills kitchen and bathroom at reasonable prices. Prompt attention to odors and removes the smell of Rings — Pendants — Tie Chains mail orders. Juchem Bros., 315 West 5th Brooches — Ear Rings St., Los Angeles 13, California. stale tobacco. Pueblo Indians Bracelets — Matched Sets burn pinyon for nasal and. — Send stamp for price list No. 1 — FIFTY MINERAL Specimens, %-in. or bronchid ailments. over, boxed, identified, described, mounted. Blank Mountings Postpaid $4.00. Old Prospector, Box 729, Burner and 15 cones .$1.50 Lodi, California. Burner and 54 cones.... 2.70 Rings — Ear Wires — Tie Chains Exira cones. GS for 1.25 Cuff Links — Neck Chains DENDRITIC OPAL, Kansas, good polish- Bezel — devices — Shanks ing stone, only $1.25 a pound. Hastings Postpaid to You Solder — Findings Typewriter Cq., Hastings, Nebraska. — Send stamp for price list No. 2 — SEND $2.00 for Surprise Package of 10 DESERT CRAFTS SHOP O. R. JUNKINS & SON western specimens. Visit us at Western Palm Dessrt, California 440 N.W. Beach St. Minerals Rock Shop, 548 Nevada High- NEWPORT. OREGON way, Boulder City. Nevada. Boxes and cards wholesale to dealers.

36 DESERT MAGAZINE Members of Southwest Mineralogists Dolomite, quartz and barite crystals were AMONG THE were asked to bring their bragging rocks to found by rockhounds from Delver's Gem the October meeting in Los Angeles, Cali- and Mineral Society, Downey, California, fornia. Informal discussion of the rocks on a field trip to Livingston quarry. Some ROCK HUNTERS would form the evening's program. members also discovered specimens of curly • • • and fuzzy gypsum, agate and marcasite. Old mines on the island of Cyprus, many Each month. Rock Rustler's News, organ of which were operated by the Phoenicians of Minnesota Mineral Club, features a dif- in 1500 B.C., were described for the Min- ferent gem or mineral. Opal was stone-of- eralogical Society of Southern California at the-month in October and appeared in a a meeting in Pasadena. Speaker was James tinted sketch on the bulletin's masthead. L. Bruce, vice president and consulting en- Tolson Radloff described it in a feature gineer for Cyprus Mines, Inc. He showed story. slides of the island and of mining opera- • • 4 tions. The mines produce gold, copper con- That members and guests might observe centrates, silver and iron pyrite. the lapidary process from rough stone to •. • • polished gem, several gemcutters from Pasa- Gold panning was one of the entertain- ALLEN dena Lapidary Society set up equipment and ment features at the potluck picnic of Santa JUNIOR GEM CUTTER demonstrated techniques at a recent meet- Barbara Mineralogical Society at Manning ing. Park. Mrs. Phil Orr brought ore and A Complete Lapidary Shop • • • equipment, and members took turns trying Only $43.50 The geology of Utah, in lecture and slides, their luck. Afterward. Gordon Bowser con- • Ideal for apartment house dwellers. was given by Norman Anderson, geology ducted a silent auction. • Polish rocks into beautiful gems. professor, at a meeting of Tacoma Agate • a • • Anyone can learn. Club, Tacoma, Washington. Displays fea- First fall meeting of El Paso Mineral and • Instructions included. Gem Society presented an extemporaneous tured Utah material. Write for Catalog, 25c • • • talk by L. G. Howie on "Plant Life in Rela- tion to Minerals." ALLEN LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT March was the sixth anniversary issue of • • • the El Paso Mineral Society bulletin. The Judging rules for competitive display and COMPANY — Dept. D Voice of the El Paso Rockhounds. H. L. tips on improving exhibit arrangements were 3632 W. Slauson Ave., Los Angeles 43, Cal. Zollars has been editor since August, 1949, given Glendale Lapidary and Gem Society Phono Axminster 2-6206 when he assumed the responsibility from by Mrs. Adolphe Dosse of San Bernardino. J. W. Redding, first editor. The bulletin has The Glendale group had six cases of min- grown from three pages to the present 16- erals and lapidary work in the recent Los to 18-page issues. Circulation is 175 Angeles County fair at Pomona, California. monthly. 9 e • e • • Laura Tuteur showed slides from Canada HOBBIES ARE FUN Some new uses for cabochons and polished at the October meeting of San Fernando slabs were suggested by Col. Powell in the Valley Mineral and Gem Society, North Start Yours Today October issue of Rocks and Gems, bulletin Hollywood, California. (NOTICE—All our prices now include of San Fernando Valley Mineral and Gem Tax and Postage) Society, North Hollywood, California. He MINERAL CATALOG AVAILABLE For the Gem Cutter suggested using cones, discs and tear drops 40 to 50 sq. in. assorted slabs $3.00 as pulls on blind cords or door or cupboard SOIKI 5c, cost of handling 8 lbs. assorted chunk material 3.75 If you want Fine and Rare Minerals, Ores, Burnite—(azurite, malachite & copper) handles; cut and polished house numbers Fluorescents, Geiger Counters, Mineralights, Top grade, per lb 6.50 or place names; polished slabs as finger Books, Ring Mounts, or advice, write to— Lower grade, some cutting, lb 1.25 plates mounted on doors or set in the edges MINERALS UNLIMITED Slabs, top quality, per sq. in 50 of tables or chairs; transparent slabs set in Jade—(Alaska), >/2 lb 6.25 1724 University Ave., Berkeley 3, California Slabs, per sq. inch 96 lamp shades. Red Plume Agate (very beautiful), lb...12.00 Slabs (minimum 4"), per inch 1.50 • • • Mexican Agate, per lb 3.50 Sal Strohmeyer was named sweepstakes Slabs (minimum 4"), per inch 30 winner in Compton Gem and Mineral Club's PIIIE OPAL MEXICO Tigereye—Golden, per lb 2.40 Slabs, per inch 30 photo contest. He also won the prize for Fine minerals, Aztec agate and other Amazonite (good color), per lb 5.00 the best individual shot. Other winners were Slabs, per inch 50 Emily Henninger, most pictures; May Rose CHOICE cutting materials Template, sizes marked for standard cuts 2.10 Backus, best group; and Mary Kilts, most REQUEST FREE PRICE LIST (Mounting catalog sent upon request) humorous. They were awarded jewelry RALPH E. MUELLER & SON Rough Faceting Material made and donated by club members. Vi-lb. Sunstone ,...$2.60 10Q0 E, Camelback Phoenix. Arizona Vi-lb. Peridot, (small xls.) - 5.00 Vi-lb. Kunzite 3.80 V4-lb. Amethyst (very good color) 6.20 PANCHO THE ROCKHOUND •A-ll). Smoky quartz 3.80 Vi-lb. Topaz (small xls.) 2.90 says, "Write for our list of "OVERLOOKED FORTUNES" Vi-lb. Apatite (golden) 6.20 Gems, Minerals, and Cutting •A-lb. Garnet 5.00 Materials. Also books on lapi- In the Rarer Minerals Benitoite XI. (rare gem), each 4.70 dary and equipment." Find war minerals! Here are a few of the 40 or more strategic rarer minerals which For the Jewelry Maker LAS PALMAS ANTIQUE SHOP you may be overlooking in the hills or in and Collector 818 Ft. Stockton Dr. that mine or prospect hole: columbium, tan- 6 different ring stones $3.70 San Diego 3. California 6 different brooch & pendant stones 7.30 talum, uranium, vanadium, tungsten, nickel, 6 different genuine faceted gems 7.30 cobalt, bismuth, palladium, iridium, osmi- 6 different gen. faceted gems (larger) 12.00 TRE A SURE HUNTERS um, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, titan- CHRISTMAS SPECIALS New type metals detector. Distinguishes ium, tin, molybdenum, selenium, germanium, Faceted hearts, gen. amethyst or topaz melais from black magnetic sands. Ideal for manganese, cadmium, thallium, antimony, citrine drilled and including studs, locating gold nuggets, placer deposits. De- mercury, chromium, etc. Prices booming; each $2.00 tecis metals under salt water. Locates Pendant with chain, gold filled or s. sil- coins, jewelry many much more valuable than a gold ver with amethyst or topaz citrine on beaches. mine: cassiterite now $1000 a ton; bismuth hearts 3.75 Free from $1500 a ton; columbite $2500 a ton; tanta- Earrings to match, gold filled or s. false detec- silver for pierced or non-pierced ears.. 5.25 ,? tions. Each lite or microlite $5000 a ton; tungsten $3 t Agate marbles, genuine—large size 1.50 re ijt-cc* •*-***>1g unit supplied pound; platinum $90 ounce, etc. Now you Small to medium sizes 1.00 ^^, ' I • with two dif- can learn what they are, how to find, iden- Specimen boxes with 35 diff. minerals.. 1.90 ... ferent search with 70 diff. minerals 3.90 coils. Ask for tify and cash in upon them. Send for tree Bulk assortment of $10.00 worth of min- ,'" ••;——mjj. • free 1 i t e r a - copy "overlooked fortunes"—it may lead eral specimens, our choice for 6.75 J~'- ture. to knowledge which may make you rich! -v -. -''-~- ' GARDINER (Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded) i... ; ELECTRONICS A postcard will do. DEALERS PRICE LIST AVAILABLE X' ' CO., DEPT. DM Duke's Research Laboratory ^fta^^fe 2018 N. DAYTON COAST GEMS ^•W^ PHOENIX, ARIZ. Box 666, Dept. B, Hot Springs, New Mexico ll(i(i» Ferris Road El Monte, California

DECEMBER, 1953 37 EARLY NOTICE GIVEN A trip through Anza Valley and the San OF SAN MATEO SHOW Diego mountain country was scheduled for PRECISION RADIATION October by Shadow Mountain Gem and Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo Mineral Society, Palm Desert, California. INSTRUMENTS County, California, has already set the Members would search for tourmaline, beryl TAKES PRIDE IN spring dates for its 1954 show. The show and kunzite. will be held May 8 and 9 at the Fiesta ANNOUNCING THE • • • Building, 25th Avenue and Pacific Boule- An armchair tour of Southwestern des- vard. San Mateo. erts was enjoyed by members of Hollywood • • • Lapidary and Mineral Society when Glenn "SCINTILLATOR"* The geode-cracking table at the Earth and Dolly Elsfelder showed their collection Science Club of Northern Illinois annual of colored slides. Glenn is president of the •Patent Ponding Fall Festival was one of the most popular group. demonstrations. Geodes from Mississippi • • • River areas and nodules from the Coal City, Gerald Backus, field trip chairman of Illinois, coal fields were split apart and the Compton, California, Gem and Mineral MODEL 111 interesting halves given to those onlookers Club, announced an October trip to Tick Portable who wanted them. Canyon and hinted the November outing • • • would be to Niporno. Scintillation Pasadena Lapidary Society invited Ruth • • • Counter Simpson of Southwest Museum to speak on its October program. Miss Simpson selected Nick Gessler was invited to speak on as her subject, "Prehistoric Rockhounds of Inca metal and lapidary work at the October the Western Desert." meeting of Long Beach Mineral and Gem • • • Society. That month's field trip was planned Marie Almand showed her mineral slides to Kern Dry Lakes where members would to fellow members of Santa Fe Gem and search for petrified wood, palm root and • Made in the U. S. A. by Precision • 100 crawfordite. times the sensitivity of the best Geiger Mineral Club, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Other Counter • Suitable for aerial surveys or club photographers showed slides taken on • • e surveys from moving vehicles • Accuracy recent field trips. A joint trip by the rockhound group from within 5% of % full scale reading • Uses Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake. latest type KCA 6199 photomultiplicr tube • • • • Uses newest simplified circuit • Used Agate was the object of a Minnesota Min- California, and the San Jacinto-Hemet Rock- by U. S. Geological Survey and the Atomic eral Club field trip to a gravel pit near hounds to the Cahuilla Mountains netted Energy Commission • Waterproof and specimens of rose quartz, tourmaline and tropicalized probe • Weight only 6 V* lbs. Taylors Falls, northeast of St. Paul, Minne- Probe 2 lbs. • Only two simple controls sota. Nate Stuvetro, tour director, said this garnet. • Long battery life • Ranges .025, .05, .25, would be the last outing before winter snows • • • 1, 5 and 25 MR/HK. force all club activities indoors. Raymond Addison of San Jose, Califor- Price Complete only $495.00 • • • nia, considers commercial casting sand too Write for free catalog on the "Scintillator" "Gem Evaluation" was Dr. Asher Haven- coarse, so he prepares his own for his sand and our complete line of Geiger Counters hill's topic when he addressed a meeting of casting work. He gave the recipe to the and metal locators. Fresno Gem and Mineral Society. He dis- Gem and Mineral Society of San Mateo DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED cussed sizes and qualities of precious and County when he addressed a meeting in semiprecious gems, emphasizing shape, color Burlingame, California. The recipe calls for PRECISION RADIATION INSTRUMENTS and cutting. "Aquamarine and pink anda- one gallon of ordinary friable garden soil 2235DS South La Brea Ave. lusite are two lively yet inexpensive gems," sifted fine by tossing against (not shaking Los Angeles 16, California he pointed out. "and nice star sapphires, through) window screening; 4 or 5 ounces rubies and alexandrite may be bought at castor oil, 4 or 5 ounces of 30-weight ma- modest cost." chine oil and a small amount of lamp black FAMOUS TEXAS PLUMES • • • added to gasoline to make two cups. Stir Red Plume, Pom Pom and many other types Douglas R. Brown brought a series of gasoline mixture with sand, set afire, stir of agate. Slabs on approval. Rough agate, colored slides to the recent Sacramento Min- and burn until sand will stand up when 8 lb. mixture postpaid, $5.00. Price list on eral Society meeting at which he appeared squeezed. When the process is completed, request. as guest speaker. Brown, geologist for the the sand should be dry enough to keep its WOODWARD RANCH California State Department of Highways, shape but not oily enough to explode. 17 miles So. on Hwy 118 spoke on "Travels in the Philippines." • • • Box 453. Alpine, Texas • • • Memories of field trips to the Boron dry San Gabriel Valley Lapidary Society lakes, to Horse Canyon, Opal Mountain gathered in Rosemead, California, to hear and Willow Creek entertained members of # Specializing in • A. G. Ostergard's discussion of "Collecting Delvers Gem and Mineral Society, Downey, Minerals in Mexico." The speaker illustrated California, as they viewed field trip slides FINE FOREIGN GEMS his remarks with colored slides. AND MINERALS of Ed Flutot. He also showed slides of Bryce Canyon. Lapidary Equipment and Supplies • • • Gem drills—Jewelry tools—Sterling GEM STON ES The Sphere, organ of Hollywood Lapidary Jewelry Mountings—Books—Mineralights Clean cabochoii quality. 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38 DESERT MAGAZINE Colored slides of a society trip to Leh- The popular Pala region of San Diego Forest E. Layton recorded on colored man Caves were shown members of Clark County, California, was selected by Coa- slides the highlights of his trips to the Arctic County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas, Nevada, chella Valley Mineral Society for its Oc- with the Arctic Section of the U. S. Weather on their recently-acquired screen and pro- tober field trip. The group planned to visit Bureau. He showed the pictures to Chicago jector. the Stewart Lithia and Mission mines for Rocks and Minerals Society when he ap- • • • lepidolite and various types of tourmaline. peared as guest speaker. He also displayed Minnie La Roche, field trip chairman of Eskimo artifacts. Fresno Gem and Mineral Society, Fresno. California, announced the November out- Mapping the places he visited on a black- THIS MONTH ing would be to San Simeon. Frank Glass board, John Hufford related for Nebraska No. 75 BAROQUE CAF was named trip leader. Mineral and Gem Club, Omaha, highlights 8 for $1.00 Sterling silver—tax paid. of his trip to Yellowstone Park. Is cone shaped cap. Cement over • • • baroque stones. Cement for 60c. A Mineral Collector's Guide to Wonder- Free 814x11" illust. catalog other findings and mountings for asking. ful Wyoming, the "Jade State" is the latest Georgia Mineral Society and Southern Gritzner Geode publication. It tells where Appalachian Mineral Society staged a joint DOCKSTADER'S i,a Crescenta, Calif. to collect minerals, unusual rocks and semi- field trip to Cowee Creek near Franklin. precious stones; describes national monu- Georgia. Working with screens in the creek, ments, scenic areas and points of interest members found rubies, corundum crystals, and offers information for the sportsman, rhodolite garnet, flashing mica, quartz and traveler and rockhound. kyanite. Approximately 200 rockhounds • • • joined the party, and presidents Nelson Mrs. Claire Schroeder told fellow mem- Severinghaus of Georgia Mineral Society bers of Los Angeles Lapidary Society about and Col. Orville M. Hewitt of the Appala- her summer trip to Alaska. She showed chian club termed it a complete success. colored slides of points of interest. • • • WANT TO COLLECT MINERALS? Three-quarters of the cost of San Diego Mineral Collectors Guide, 36-page illustrated Lapidary Society's 1953 Christmas party booklet, explains how to go about it, prin- ciples of identification, mineralogical tests, was netted in rock sales at the recent pot- how to set up and maintain your collection. luck supper meeting. $1.00 postpaid. • • • Mineral Identification Aid A reference set of 110 accurately identified A swap session followed informal vaca- thumbnail size mineral specimens. Collec- tion talks by members at the opening fall tion MC 102, $7.50 (list, Rochester). Embed Small Specimens in Clear Plastic meeting of Colorado Mineral Society, Den- Liquid plastic hardens to crystal-clear solid. ver. This year the group has six new glass- Plastic kit contains materials, instructions, top, table type display cases made by mem- sample mineral and other specimens. Com- plete kit Bl'm 19, $7.50 postpaid. bers Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Simmons, Fern Free Catalogs: FM6d Mineral Specimens— and Olin Brown, Verna and Ernest Parshall, 352d Geological Collections—MS2d Geological Helen and Cecil Louthan, Betty Wilklow Supplies. and Jim Hurlbut. The cases were first used Ward's Natural Science Establishment. Inc. for society exhibits at the Denver Hobby P.O. Box 24, Beechnood Station Exposition in September. Rochester 9, New York HILLQUIST

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DECEMBER, 1953 39 The California Bureau of Mines movie. "The lost wax process was perfected by place into an electric oven, preheated to "Wind and Sand," was shown at an evening Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith, in the 800 or 900 degrees to eliminate wax mold meeting of Dona Ana County Rockhound 16th century," Robert W. Fine of Arlington and set the investment, and then increased Club, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Ft ex- Heights, Illinois, told members of Chicago to 1300 degrees for casting. The metal is plained how glass was made. Rocks and Minerals Society. • Guest Speaker brought to flowing heat for casting and the Fine demonstrated the construction of a flask assembled in a centrifuge, forcing the model in wax, mounting of the sprue pins, metal into the mold. In the October issue of Earth Science painting the model with a plaster investment News, bulletin of the Earth Science Club to eliminate possible air pockets and setting of Northern Illinois, Dr. F. L. Fleener the model into a fireclay flask containing Major project this year for Shadow Moun- writes about "Hardness" in the bulletin's plaster investment material. In two hours tain Gem and Mineral Society, Palm Desert, series on "Mineral Identity." the investment would be firm enough to California, will be the assembling of an educational display of rough and polished specimens of some one large mineral group. "Such a display," said President Byron S. Phillips, "would be a living, growing, evolv- New Low Prices On Earwires ing property of the society, starting with No. 101D—Sterling Silver... l()c per pair, $1.50 doz. what we have available but subject to con- Christmas Gift Special—SI.00 do/,., 3 doz. for $2.50 stant improvement and refinement over the No. 4D—Sterling Silver 10c per pair, $1.50 doz. years as we contribute of our private stocks and plan field trips to procure the type of Christmas Gift Special—$1.25 doz., 3 doz. for $2.50 specimens most needed to fill in the weak No. 50L—Sterling Silver or Gold Filled spots." 70c per pair, $2.50 doz. Christmas Gift Special, :} do/., for $5.05 • • • No. MF—Sterling Silver only Jim and Alice Moore, members of San 70c per pair, $2.50 doz. Diego Lapidary Society, told the group Christmas Gift Special, 3 doz. tot $5.95 about their trek across Columbia, retracing 50-F No. 5A—Shell Front, Sterling Silver or Gold Fiiled, the old trail of Balboa from San Miguel $1.00 per pair, $4.00 doz. Bay on the Pacific to Santa Maria L'Antigua Christinas Gift Special, 3 doz. for $9.43 on the Atlantic. The Indians of the jungle No. 5A—Shell Front. 14 karat yellow gold country through which they passed are hos- $4.00 paii. $18.00 doz. tile and never before had allowed white No. 10A—Half Bail Sterling Silver or Gold Filled— men to traverse the trail. They were so this is a very heavy, well built earwii e impressed with Mrs. Moore, who was the &S-) h10-A ' SI.00 per pair, $4.50 doz. first white woman they had ever seen, that SKILL F«O«T Half Ball Christinas Gift Special, :? doz. for $10.65 they renamed the trail from Camino del Sur No. GA-14B—Ball. Sterling Silver or Gold Filled to Camino del Alica in her honor, and all $1.25 pair, $5.50 doz. topographic maps now mark the trail by Christmas Gift Special, 3 doz. for $12.95 that name. No. C-100—Sterling Silver or Gold Filled 50c per pair, §1.50 doz. Christmas Gift Special, 3 doz. for $3.55 No. F-100—Sterling Silver or Gold Filled NW-Sensaiional! GEIGER COUNTER c-ioo 50c per pair, $2.00 doz. Christmas Gift Special, 3 doz. for $4.65 "The SNOOPER' No. 2-AS—Pad, Sterling Silver or Gold Filled LOW PRICE 80c per pair, $3.50 doz. Christmas Gift Special, 3 doz. for $7.95 COMPLETE No. 2—Pad, Sterling Silver or Gold Filled Iff Find a fortune in uranium with this 50c per pair, $2.50 doz. *" new, super-sensitive Geiper Counter. Get one for atom bomb defense. So small it fiis in the palm of Christmas Gift Special, 3 doz. for $5.95 the hand or in the hip pocket, and yet more sensitive than many large, expensive instruments. Weighs only 1 V\ lbs. Uses flash- No. 2—Pad, 14 karat Yellow Gold light battery. Low price includes earphone, radio active sample, $2.30 per pair, $10.20 doz. instructions. Sold with ironclad moncyback guarantee. No. 2—Pad and Peg, Sterling Silver or Gold Filled ORDER YOURS TODAY — Send $5 with order or payment in full 60c pair, $2.75 doz. to save C.O.D. Write, for free catalog on larger, more elaborate Christmas Gift Special, 3 doz. for $6.55 Geiger Counters, metal locators and our Scintillator Counter. No. 2—Pad and Peg, 14 karat Yellow Gold Dealer Inquiries PRECISION RADIATION INSTRUMENTS 2-P»d 2-Pad A Pe9 $2.55 pair, $11.50 doz. Invited 2235D So. La Brea Ave., L. A. 16, Calif. No. 32—Ster. Sil. $1.00 pr. CUFF LINK BACKS $5.50 doz. pieces Christmas Gift Special 3 doz. for $12.95 No. 5904—Ster. Sil. $1.00 pair, $5.00 doz. pieces Christmas Gift Special WOOL 908 11 mm 3 doz. for $11.95 SOCKS Acetate Disc No. 5903—Ster. Sil. $1.25 pair, for Pasting $6.00 doz. pieces Christmas Gift Special 3 doz. for $13.95 No. Cuffmaster, Type H. ...$1.00 pair, $4.50 doz. pcs. Christmas Gift Special, 3 doz. for $11.85 BELL CAPS—Sterling Silver $1.50 dozen Christmas Gift Special, 3 doz. for $3.55 BELL CAPS—Gold Filled $1.75 dozen Christmas Gift Special, 3 doz. for $4.15 "GROSS LOT PRICES ON REQUEST" SEND FOR OUR COMPLETE CHRISTMAS BARGAIN BULLETIN All prices F.O.B. Pasadena. Add 20% Fed. Tax to above prices. Add 3% Sales Tax if you live in California GRIEGER'S • 1633 E. WALNUT ST. • PASADENA 4, CALIFORNIA Open Friday and Saturday only from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. PASADENA 99 E.COLORADO-SY 3-8157- RIVERSIDE 4023 MAIN 40 DESERT MAGAZINE AMATEUR OEM CUTTER By LELANDE QUICK, Editor of The Lapidary Journal As this appears the Christmas season will worker. The Gem Cutters Guild of Bal- be coming upon us and we would like to timore is supplying Rachel Garner with a use these columns to climb upon our soap portable gem cutting outfit that she can box for a cause. The cause concerns our take from camp to camp and the in- favorite hobby of gem-cutting, the Christ- terest is so wide that she could use mas spirit, the generosity of American several more outfits. We applaud the ges- hearts and international goodwill and ties ture of the Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore them all into a neat package. and we toss the idea into the Board meet- ings of all of the 600 gem and mineral We think that most readers are acquainted clubs all over America. Across our desk with the wonderful work that is done all in the month of December will come the over the world by the Society of Friends. bulletins from many of these clubs. The That is the official name of the settlers of bulletins, almost without exception, will say our native state—the Quakers. Another "a formal program was dispensed with be- Pennsylvania religious sect, not so well cause of our annual Christmas party with known, is the Brethren. The Brethren are turkey and all the fixin's etc." Now that's the world's best farmers. While the won- all very good. It's very, very good indeed derful unselfish and practical work of the and we don't want any reader to get any Quakers is often detailed in the press we idea that we are opposed to the good old have never read of the similar work of the American custom of breaking bread to- I ere at last is a guide to Brethren. Information comes to us that gether at Christmas time and getting our rocks and minerals illustrated the Brethren are sending whole boatloads feet under a common table that bears the in full color and black and of heifers to Germany and other countries "groaning board" in greater proportion than white and complete enough for to replace the valuable dairy herds that anywhere else on earth. But everyone knows were destroyed during the war or used as that nothing helps in having a good time so both amateur and professional, needed food. Trained young men accom- much as the knowledge that you have also usable anywhere in the world, pany the herds on the cattle boats and stay helped some others have a good time too; and yet compact enough (like with them at their destination for a full usually people who would not have a good year to help the farmers who receive them time at all if someone else did not provide the other famous Peterson Field free to start their new herds. it. Guides) to carry with you on field trips. The Brethren have established a training It has never been intended that :he gem school at New Windsor, Maryland, called and mineral clubs of America had any the Brethren Social Service Center. Here need to help anyone. They were never or- come the young folks as volunteers for two ganized for that purpose. The only "cause" you'll jUtd: year's service in domestic and foreign fields. they support is the promotion of knowledge • 254 photographs, 72 in full These young people are not missionaries in about their own interests among their own the same sense as the missionaries who go members. Now we know, from the infor- color into the four corners of the earth to save the mation we receive in club bulletins, that heathen. These young people are just trying • a simplified approach empha- many of these clubs have lots of money in sizing identification in the field to help other people in the true Christian their treasuries that isn't working. We spirit to rehabilitate themselves. know of one club that actually has more • chemical and blow-pipe testing Now it happens that their work came to than $5,000 in a savings account drawing procedures, plus new ones such the attention of James Anderson of Balti- interest. Wouldn't it be a good idea, friends, as ultraviolet light more, founder of the Gem Cutters Guild of to cast some bread upon the waters at Baltimore. An old friend of ours, and the or- Christmas time by either giving Rachel • chapters on crystallography and iginator of silverware with agate handles, Garner some cash contribution or even mineral environments donating some portable gem cutting outfits Mr. Anderson is well known to all who have • crystal drawings and end-paper followed this page through the years and for use abroad? These outfits will be sent to the thousands who have seen his master- by our Government freight free to any part diagrams crafted silverwork at various shows. of the world. • glossary of geological terms Last year Mr. Anderson taught 50 young If the idea meets with favor anywhere workers at the Brethren Social Center to we will be happy to spearhead the distri- do gem cutting. These 50 youngsters are bution of donations into the proper chan- going to take the idea all over the world. nels. Take this column to your next Board Why? The Brethren are smart enough to meeting and see if you can get your club know that among the people they visit, the to enter into this practical and unselfish greatest need is not food and clothing but Christmas program. To indicate our own Field Guide something that will give them a new interest sincerity in plumping for the idea we will in life. Gemcutting is not the answer but do this—we will make a cash contribution it is recognized as one of the answers. of $10.00 each toward the purchase of any gem cutting outfit donated to the Brethren to Rocks and Anything that will encourage people to by any Club regardless of the price of the practice an art form and do something with outfit but it must be a complete outfit of their hands, that will encourage them to some kind. We necessarily limit this offer study the world about them and even ex- to the first 15 clubs to write us that they Minerals plore it with greater attention, is indeed an will buy an outfit. In that way we feel that answer to the problem of starvation of we will be donating a complete outfit if as another kind. The gem cutting hobby is many as 15 clubs respond to the idea. If FREDERICK H. POUGH a perfect answer to such a requirement. Do the donation of an outfit is too rich for the you think, it will do any harm anywhere in blood of some clubs then a cash contribu- Published Nov. 30 the world for anyone to learn, with surprise tion will be welcome indeed to be used for perhaps, that Americans are not grubbing supplies to go along with the outfits that $3.75 at your lapidary for money all their waking hours, that they are donated. Under no circumstances will have more fun than the people of any other we recommend any particular equipment. supply house or bookstore, nation on earth, that an estimated three Each club is to buy what they will and we or from million of them have their fun playing with will advise you where to have it shipped. rocks? All donations will be acknowledged in these Houghton Mifflin Co. The leader of the group at New Windsor, columns and we hope that the list will be 2 Park St., Boston 7, Mass. Maryland, is Rachel Garner, a graduate of long. Mail may be addressed to us at Palm Cornell University and a trained social Desert, California.

DECEMBER, 1953 41 DESERT MAGAZINE JANUARY TO PALM DESERT, CALIF. SIXTEENTH VOLUME INDEX DECEMBER, 1953

Beal, Mary, Author of— Valleys: An Illustrated Guide ... Jul p43 Desert Cousins of Candytuft Swan, Howard, Abbott, Chuck, Co-author of— and Cauliflower Jul p27 Music in the Southwest... ._ Mar p43 Papago Well of Sacrifice Jul p22 Beal, Mary ... Mar pll U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, The Mesquite Adams, Jeff, Author of— Belmont, Nev Oct pll Problem on Southern Arizona Roving Reporter of the Desert—Jill pll Big Bend National Park, Texas Jul p4 Ranges ...... Apr p43 Agate—Jun pl5, Oct pl9, Nov. ppl3, 23, Big Bug Creek, Ariz Apr p5 Weight, Harold and Lucile, Rhyolite: Dec pl9 Bighorn sheep _. May p9 Ghost City of Golden Dreams May p43 Agave ... Sep pl4 Birds—Blackbirds. Feb p33; Condors, Feb Wolle, Muriel Sibell. All-American Canal Dec p4 p33, Apr p29 The Bonanza Trail Oct p4l Allen, Ernest K., Author of— Blue Gem Mine, Nev... _ Jan p4 Booth, John... .. Feb pll Life on the Desert Apr pl7 Blue River. Ariz. Dec p23 Borax mining. Death Valley Apr pl7 Allen, Ernest K. {Close-ups) Apr p33 Bodie, Cal...... Feb p27 Borrego State Park. Calif. Aug p26 Ammobroma Apr p22 Book Reviews— Botany— Animal life— Bailey, Paul, Sam Brannan and the Agave . Sep pl4 Bighorn sheep __ May p9 California Mormons ... Aug p43 Ammobroma Apr p22 Buffalo Jun p29 Barker, Elliott, Candelilla .... Jul p8 Burro, ...Jan p29. Mar pp32, 42, Jul p42 Beatty's Cabin . Sep. p41 Creosote bush Dec p27 Coyote Jun p27 Brininstool, E. A., Desert parsley Jul p27 Packrat _ Feb p21 A Trooper With Custer...... Mar p43 Desert star cactus Aug p24 Porcupine Dec p32 Fighting Indian Warriors... Dec p47 Desert wallflower ...... Jul p27 Wild horses Jun p31 Broderick, Harold J., Desert willow ..." „...... Jun p42 Anza Desert State Park, California Agatized Rainbows .... .Jan p43 Giant dagger ..Jul p7 ...Jan p33; Feb p33; Aug p26 Caruthers, William, Loafing Along Greasewood Dec p27 Applegate Trail, Ore Jan p23 Death Valley Trails Aug p43 Ipo .... Jan p23 Aravaipa Canyon, Ariz Feb pl7 China Lake AAUW, Indian Wells Juniper .... Mar p34 Archeology - Jun pl3 Valley Handbook ... Dec p47 Night blooming cereus Mar p4 Arches Nat. Mon. Dec p32 Corle, Edwin, Nolina Mar plO, Sep pl3 Arrastre Mar pl7 Billy the Kid Sep p41 Pinyon pine .Jan p30 Arroyo Grande, Baja California Apr plO Dobie, J. Frank, Guide to the Life and Sotol Sep pl3 Artifacts Dec p27 Literature of the Southwest Mar p43 Turpentine broom .... Mar pll Artillery Peak, Ariz Mar p7 Doolittle, Rosalie, Wildflowers—Jan p42, Feb p29. Mar p26, Aurora, Nev. May p25 Southwest Gardening Apr p43 Apr pl6, May p20 Dunne, Peter Masten, Black Robes in Yampah Jan p23 B Lower California .... _ Nov p43 Yucca Feb p31, Sep pl5 Backpacking Jan pll, Feb pl6, May p5 Dykes, J. C, Billy the Kid, Brethren (religious sect) .Dec p41 Baja California ..Jan pll, Apr plO, Oct p5 The Bibliography of a Legend.... Jun p43 Buckland Ranch, Nev Dec pi3 Bane, Mrs. Roxie Dec pl8 Ewing, Belle C., Buckland, Sam. Dec pl5 Baroque gems Feb p36, Mar p41 When California Was Young May p43 Buffalo .....Jun p29 Farquhar, Francis P., The Colorado River Bumblebee, Ariz Apr p7 and the Grand Canyon .... Jun p43 Burridge, Gaston, Author of— Gregg, Kate L., Last of the Mountain Men Dec p23 The Road to Santa Fe Feb p43 Burridge, Gaston (Close-ups) Dec p22 PAINTINGS Haley, Earl, Burro Jan p29, Mar pp32, 42, Jul p42 Revolt on the Painted Desert Feb p43 Hancock, Ralph, Baja California Dec p47 c t&e cU&ent &ce*te Hanna, Phil Townsend, Marked Historical Calico, Calif. Jul pl4 Sites of California (Map) Jan p43 Candelilla .....Jul p8 Again this year, Director Higbie, Hamilton A. and An L., Canned water. ...May p25 Harriet A. Day of the Desert Pictorial Guide to Nevada.... Feb p43 Hinds, Norman E. A., Evolution of the Cantu, Estaban Oct p6 Magazine Art Gallery has ar- California Landscape .... Nov p43 Cantu Grade, Baja Calif Oct p7 ranged a number of special ex- Jaeger, Ellsworth, Canyon de Chelly, Ariz Nov plO hibits of desert oil paintings by Woodsmoke _ .Oct p41 Carlile, Robert N., Author of— foremost Southwestern artists. Kelly, William H., Life on the Desert Oct p22, Dec p22 Indians of the Southwest Aug p43 Carlile, Robert N. (Close-ups) Oct p30, Dec p22 Jan 14-29— Klinck, Richard, Land of Room Enough and Time Enough Oct. p41 Carson, Kit Nov p20 Freda Marshall. Bill Bender Long, Dr. Margaret, Castle Hot Springs, Ariz.. Oct. pl7 Castle Park, Colo Dec p8 Jan31-Feb. 15— Shadow of the Arrow .....Aprp43 Miller, Joseph, Cedar City, Utah ..May pll Olaf Wieghorst The Arizona Story Jan p43 Chalcedony Dec pl9 Chimayo, New Mexico Aug pl2 Feb. 16-Mar. 1— O'Kane, Walter Collins, The Hopis: Portrait of a Desert People. ..May p43 Chiricahua National Mon., Ariz Jun p9 John Hilton, Marjorie Reed Ostroth, Vera E., Chisos Mountains, Texas Jul p4 Christman, A. B., Author of—Johnny Mar. 15-Apr. 1— Colorful California .....Dec p47 Paine, Swift, Eilley Orrum, Shoshone of Death Valley Dec plO Burt Procter Queen of the Comstock Jul p43 Churchill, Capt. Charles C Dec pl3 Parsons, John E. and John S. du Mont, Clifton, Ariz _ ...Dec p20 Desert readers are cordially Firearms and the Custer Battle-Now. p43 Clyde, Norman ...Jan pll invited to see these special Pillsbury, Dorothy, Coachella Valley, Calif Jan p35 shows as well as other indi- Adobe Doorways Jan p43 Cobb, Lamar ....Dec p20 vidual paintings. The Desert Richardson, Margaret Stimson, Cochise -.Jun pll A Handful of Nuggets May p43 Coke, Larry and Lucille Jul pl7 Magazine Pueblo is located on Schneider, Herman and Nina, Rocks, Coleman, W. T Apr pl8 Highway 111, 12 miles east of Rivers and the Changing Earth....Apr p43 Colorado Fuel & Iron Co ...May pll Palm Springs and 10 miles west Smith, Watson, A rcheological Colorado River—Jan p35, Feb. pll, May of Indio. The Art Gallery and Excavations at Awatovi, Arizona Jun p43 p24, Jun p21 Roylance, Ward J., Columbia Iron Mining Co May pll Book and Craft Shop are open Connor, Col. Patrick ...Dec pl5 daily, including Saturday and Rainbow Roads to Romance.... Sep p41 Cooke, Clair V Jun plO Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Shirley, Glenn, Copper Basin, Nev Jan p4 Toughest of Them All Oct p41 Coxcomb Mountains, Calif May p5 Steere, Collis H.. Coachella and Imperial Coyote ...Jun p27

42 DESERT MAGAZINE Creosote bush _. Dec p27 Rawhide, Ariz. Mar p5 Hell's Half Mile Dec p8 Crystals Sep p9 Giant dagger Jul p7 Helm, James P., Author of—Did They Find Cudahy, John Apr plO Gifford, Rich, Author of— the Lost Breyfogle Mine? Sep pl7 Cummings, Dr. Byron Dec p28 Life on the Desert Aug pl9 Helm, James P. (Close-ups) Sep p24 Custer, Gen. Geo. A Mar p43. May p25 Gifford, Rich (Close-ups) —Aug pl6 Henderson, Bill May p5 Gillette Stage St., Ariz Apr p6 Henderson, Esther, Co-author of— D Gleeson, Ariz. Apr p7 Papago Well of Sacrifice Jul p22 Daggett, California— _ .Jun p20 Gold panning.-.. Apr p5 Henderson, Randall, Author of— Davis Dam, California Jan p33, Feb p34 Goldwater, Barry Jan p42, Mar p29 We Climbed El Diablo from the Death Valley, Calif Apr pl7. May pl9 Gonzales, Don Manuel.-. Jan p27 Desert Side Jan pll Nov. p6, Dec plO Goodwin, T. R .....Mar p32 The Ancients Were Here ..Apr plO Death Valley Encampment Jan p2, Nov p33 Gorin, Jim ...Sep p5 Field Day in Muggins Hills Jun pl5 Death Valley '49ers Mar pl8, Nov p33 Gould, Jay __ Aug pll Boat Ride on the Big Bend. ..-Jul p4 Desert agriculture Jan p32 Grant, Maj. Gen. U. S. Ill Dec p6 Miracle in Parker Valley -Aug p6 Desert parsley Jul p27 Grape Valley Lodge, Baja Cal Oct p7 Seldom Seen Canyon in the Desert star cactus Aug p24 Gray, Col. Asa B Apr p22 San Jacintos Sep p4 Desert wallflower.. ...Jul p27 Greasewood _ Dec p27 Mexican Tour for Motorists Oct p5 Desert willow Jun p42 Greene, Art Jun cover, pi3 Trader at Canyon de Chelly Nov plO Devil's Elbow, Calif Feb pl4 Green River Dec p5 Graveyard of the Dinosaurs Dec p5 Dinosaur Nat. Mon Dec p5 Henderson, W. T Nov p6 Dinosaurs Nov. p23, Dec p7 H Hickok, Kenneth E., Author of— Lost Lode of Sierra Sombrera....Jun p25 Disaster Falls, Colo Dec p8 Hand, Lee Jan p4 Dodge, Natt N., Author of— Highway and roads—Tijuana to San Luis, Hansen, George Dec plO Baja Cal. Oct p5 Confusing Quartet of the Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley Plant World Sep pl3 Highways & roads, litter along Feb p27, 28 each issue Higley, Ariz. Feb p31 Douglass, Dr. Earl Dec p7 Harmony Borax Works, Dowd, M. J Jan p35 Hiking ...Feb pl6 Death Valley Apr pl8 Hillery, W. R., Author of— Drury, Newton Dec p6 Harpers Corner, Colo Dec p6 Duchesne Tunnel, Utah _. Dec p32 Lost Desert Queen Mine ..Dec pl8 Harquahala Bonanza Mine, Ariz.....May pl5 Homesteading Oct p22 Duncan, Lloyd E., Author of— Harquahala Mts., Ariz ..May pi5 Death Valley Caricatures Jan p25 Horses - ....Jun p31 Hassayampa R., Ariz _...... Apr p7 Horton, Harry _ Jan pll E Hatch, Bus and Don _. Dec p8 Hough, I. M. "Dad" Apr pi7, Jun p27 Haury, Dr. Emil Mar p29 Eagle Mt. Aqueduct Sta., Cal._ ...May p6 Hovenweep Nat. Mon., Utah—Apr pl7, Hawk, Gregory, Author of— Jun p]3 Earthquake Valley, Cal ...Dec p27 Crisis in Taos -Nov p20 Echo Park, Colo Dec p5 Hays, Col. Jack Dec pl3 Huey, Malcolm Jan pll Echo Park Dam (proposed) Dec p6 Hazen, Guy Jun pi5 Hull, Clinton, Author of— El Mayor, Baja Calif Apr pll Heald, Weldon F., Author of— Boat Trip in Mojave Canyon Feb pll El Picacho del Diablo, Baja Cal....Jan pll. Bed and Grub in a Knapsack Feb pl6 Hull, Clinton R. (Close-ups) Feb p29 Mar p27 Heald, Weldon Feb p42, Jul p24 Humbug Creek, Ariz Apr p8 Enchanted Mesa, N. M Mar p27 Heald, Weldon and Phyllis, Authors of— Hungry Bill ..Mar pl5 Essene School of Health Culture.-Oct. p7 A Day in Chiricahua (un p9 Hunt, Jefferson May pl2 F Fewkes, Dr. Jesse Walter.. Jun pl3 Fish Spring, Calif ...Jan p29 Ft. Churchill, Nev Dec p.12 Ft. Huachuca, Ariz Jun p29 Ft. Union, N. M Feb p5 «Christinas Fossils Jan p37, Feb p32 Four Corners Jun pi 3 Frank, Marjorie, Author of— tfaitled Life on the Desert Dec p25 Frank, Marjorie (Close-ups)...._ Dec p22 French Creek, Ariz.._. Apr p8 G MINES Gem and Minerals (Collecting Areas)— Bouse, Ariz. Nov pi3 £ WED TREASURES Bradshaw Mts., Ariz Oct pl7 ALONG THE OLD Muggins Hills, Ariz Jun pi5 Peloncillo Mts., Ariz.. ..Dec pl9 Friends of Desert readers are friends Pinto Mt., Baja Cal...... Jul p40 Quartzsite, Ariz. Sep p9 of ours—and we'd suggest for every one of them who enjoys Rawhide, Ariz. Mar p5 following outdoor trails a copy of this fascinating, map-packed, Gems and Minerals (Specimens)— Agate—Jun pl5 Oct pl9, Nov ppl3, 23. mystery jammed book by John D. Mitchell, dean of Southwestern Dec pl9 lost mine authorities. We know your friends will love these legends Chalcedony Dec pl9 Crystals Sep p9 and stories (fun for campfire reading aloud) and be itching to Geodes . Dec pl9 pack their camp gear and follow the maps on the bonanza trail. Gold Apr p5 Jaspagate Mar p8 Limonite cubes Sep p9 SEND US YOUR GIFT LIST TODAY! Obsidian Dec pl9 Petrified wood Feb p27 Quartz _ Mar p8, Oct pl7 Turquoise Jan p4 Detent Geodes Dec pi9 Ghost towns— Palm Desert, California Aurora, Nev *. May p25 Belmont, Nev. ....Oct pll Bodie, Calif. Feb p27 (We'll be happy to Christmas wrap gift books, mail them either Calico, Calif ...Jul pl4 to you for under the Christmas tree or directly to your friends. Copper Basin, Nev. ....Jan p4 Indicate instructions on order.) Johnnie, Nev. Sep pl8 Panamint, Calif Mar pi6

DECEMBER, 1953 43 I Kirk, Ruth E.. Author of— Martinez, Julian —Mar p27 Imperial Valley, Calif._ Jan p35 Where Hungry Bill Once Lived Mar pl5 Massai Point Ariz Jun plO Indians— Klotho Temple, Ariz.- Jun pi5 Maxwell, Dr. Ross A. Jul p5 Agriculture _. Aug p6 Knapsack __ :.Feb pl8 McKenney, Wilson .. -.Jan pl4 Arts and crafts Aug pl2 Knott, Walter Jul pl4 McKenzie, Ollie — Aug pl4 Administration of — Jan pp9, 34; Feb Koch, Peter .... Jul p7 McLeod, Edith Rutenic, Author of— pp32, 33 Kolb, Emery _ Jan p31 Where Indians Dug for Ipos Jan p23 Ceremonials — Hopi Snake Dance, Oct McLeod, Edith Rutenic (Close-ups) Jan p21 p42; Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonials, Gal- L McSparron, L. H. "Cozy" Nov plO McWilliams, Monty Oct pl7 lup, Aug p4; Shalako, Jan p29; Smoki Lajitas, Texas Jul p7 Mesa, Arizona Mar p29 Snake Dance, Oct p42 Lake Havasu Feb pll Mesa Cabresta, N. M Jan pl8 Education Jan p34 La Paz, Ariz. _. Apr p7 Meteors Sep p42; Nov p23 Food Jan p23, Apr p22, Dec p26 Lapidary— Metropolitan Aqueduct May p6 Amateur Gem Cutter, Games Dec p26 Mineral Mts., Utah Jun p6 Legends—Lichii, the Red Horse, Jan pl7; by Lelande Quick each issue Minersville, Utah Jun p4 Enchanted Mesa, Mar p27; ho yeeh spring, Sanding __ —Apr p40 Mining—Iron, May p!4; Turquoise, Jan p4 Dec. p25; Papago Well of Sacrifice, Jul Tumbling ...Feb p36, Mar p41, May p35 Mining news each issue 22 Larson, Gustive O., Author of— P Mission San Ysabel, Baja Cal Jan pl3 Where Mormons Found a Mountain Medicine Jul p27 Mitchell, John D., Author of— Petroglyphs—Jan pl7, Apr p 13, Jun pl9, of Iron May pll Lost Treasure of Carreta Canyon Jan p27 Oct p20 Larson, Gustive O. (Close-ups) May p28 Lost Treasure of Sonoyta.. Apr p25 Prehistoric Apr pit), Jun pl3 Layton, Alvin ...Jan p5 Lost Mine of the Blond Mayo -..May p22 Tribes—Agua Caliente, Mar p42; Cheme- Lee Vining, Calif .....Jun p31 Lost Blue Bucket Gold.... Aug pi7 huevi, Feb pl2, Aug p6; Cahuilla, Sep p5; Lee, Wally and Martha.__._ -Jan p8 Modoc Mine, Death Valley Dec plO Colorado River, Aug p6; Hopi, Oct p42; Lewis and Clark Jan p23 Mojave Canyon, Cal ... Feb pi I Klamath, Jan p23; Modoc, Jan p23; Lewis, W. Scott Jan p42 Mojave Rock _ _... —Feb pl4 Mojave, Feb pi2, Aug p6; Navajo, Jan Lichii, the red horse ._. .Jan pl7 pl7, Nov pplO, 18, Dec p25; Paiute, Jan Montes, Francisco Dec pl9 Life on the Desert (1953 contest winners) Montgomery, Bob Dec plO p34; Papago, Apr p22. May p29, Jul p22; Jul p32 Monument Valley - Mar p20 Smoki, Oct pp29. 42; Shoshone, Mar pl7. Lila C. Borax Mine. Death Valley Apr p20 Moore, Dewey (Close-ups) . Apr p33 Dec plO Lilly, Ben -Dec p23 Morgan's Wash, Ariz Apr p6 Lincoln Mine, Utah— Jun p4 Welfare Jan pp33, 35; May pp29, 33 Mormons— _ May pll, Jun p4 Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonials, Gallup Little Kimball Mine, Ariz. Mar p5 Mountaineering Jan pll, Feb pi6 Aug p4 Lodore Canyon, Colo. Dec p8 Muggins Mts., Ariz. __ Jun pl5 Ipo ._ Jan p23 Logan, Richard F., Author of— Murbarger, Nell, Author of— Lilies of Kingston Pass Mar plO Iron Mountain, Utah May pll Turquoise Miner in Nevada.. Jan p4 Irrigation Aug pit) Logan, Richard F. (Close-ups)..... May p28 Ghost Fortress in New Mexico... Feb p5 Lombard, Jess Dec p7 Ives, Lt. J. C..... Feb pi 1 Forgotten Mine of the Mormon Lost mines— Pioneers Jun p4 J Gold Behind a Waterfall .Mar p22 Silver Strike at Belmont Oct pi 1 Jaeger, Edmund _ Jan p32 Lost Blue Bucket Mine Aug pl7 When the Troopers Came to Janish, Jeanne {Close-ups) Sep p24 Lost Breyfogle Mine Sep pl7 Nevada Dec pl2 Jaspagate Mar p8 Lost Desert Queen Mine Dec pl8 Murbarger, Nell Jul pll Jayhawkers Nov p6 Lost Ebner Mine Nov p21 Musgrave, Mark Dec p23 Jerome, Ariz ...Jul pi8; Oct p29 Lost Lode of Sierra Sombrera Jun p25 Johnnie, Nev Sep pl8 Museum of Northern Arizona May p29 Lost Mine of the Blond Mayo.... May p22 Myers, Mr. and Mrs. Moroni. Jun p4 Johnson Canyon, Death Valley Lost Treasure of Carreta Canyon Jan p27 Mar pi5, Jun p28 Lost Treasure of Sonoyta Apr p25 N Johnson, Mrs. Rose Long May pl8 Peralta Gold Ledge _. ...Feb p22 National Parks and Monuments, new fee Jolliff, Henry Apr pi 3 Lumholtz, Carl _. Apr p22 Juniper _. Mar p34 Lynx Creek, Ariz. ._. Apr p8 schedule Aug p34 Needles, The, Calif Feb pl2 K M Newby, Edith O., Author of— Kerley, Joe, Author of— Life on the Desert... _ Mar p20 His Own Horse to Ride in the Happy MacClary, John Stewart... Jun pl3 Newby, Edith O. (Close-ups) Mar p26 Hunting Grounds -Nov p 18 Manly, Wm. Lewis Mar pl6 Night blooming cereus... Mar p4 Kerley, Joe (Close-ups) ._. Nov p33 Mantle, Mr. and Mrs. Charley Dec p8 Nolina Mar plO, Sep pl3 Kingston Pass, Cal Mar plO Maps— Noller, Calico Fred ...Jul pl6 Arizona—Arivaca, May p23; Bouse, Nov North. Arthur W '. Apr plO pi4; Canyon de Chelly, Nov pll; Castle Hot Springs, Oct pl8; Coolidge Dam, Jul o Keep Your Back p20; Colorado River Indian Reservation, Obsidian —Dec pl9 Aug p8; Harquahala Mts.. May pl6; Mug- Old Spanish Mine, Utah Jun p7 Copies of Desert gins Hills near Wellton, Jun pl5; Pelon- Oliver, Harry Jan p2 cillo Mts., Dec p21; Placer mining sites, Oregon Trail . Aug p20 for Quick Reference Apr p6; Quartzsite, Sep. plO, Rawhide. Overland Telegraph Co. Dec pi5 Mar p6; Southern-central, Apr p6 Attractive loose-leaf binders Baja California — Picacho del Diablo, P in Spanish grain leather, gold- Jan pll; Mexicali-San Felipe, Apr pll; Pacific Telegraph Co.. ._ Dec pl5 embossed, are available for Tijuana-San Luis Hwy., Oct p6 Packrat Feb p21 those Desert readers who want California—Calico Ghost Town, Jul pl5; Palm Canyon, Calif _ Sep p4 Colorado River near Needles, Feb pl2; Palmer, Dr. Edw.... Apr p22 to keep their back copies for the Death Valley, Mar pl6; Coxcomb Mts., Palmer, Paul Mar pl8 maps and travel information May p8; Kingston Pass near Baker, Mar Palomar Canyon, Calif ._.. ..Jun p42 they contain. Each binder holds p 13; Palm Canyon. Sep p6 Panamint City, Calif Mar p16 12 issues. Easy to insert, and Nevada—Belmont, Oct pl2; Congress and Panamint George Nov p7 they open flat. Johnnie mines, Sep pi7; Copper Basin Parker Dam. Calif Mar p31 near Battle Mt.. Jan p6; Ft. Churchill Pat's Hole, Colo Dec p5 Mailed postpaid for Dec pl4 Patton State Park, Calif, (proposed) Jan p32 S2.00 New Mexico—Fort Union, Feb p6; Trail Pegleg Smith Liars Contest — Dec pl8 to Sign of the Red Horse, Jan p 19 Peloncillo Mts., Ariz... -Dec pl9 Texas—Big Bend Nat. Park, Jul plO Pensoneau, Clyde Aug p7 THE Utah—Cedar City, May pi3; Minersville, Peralta, Pedro — Feb p22 Jun p6 Peshlacai, Elanor ..Mar p26 Utah-Colorado — Dinosaur Nat. Mon.. Petrified Forest Nat. Mon..- .— Jan p43 PALM DESERT. 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44 DESERT MAGAZINE Photography (contest winners)— Sidewinders Aug p31 Topock Bay, Ariz Feb pll Susie Reilly, Paul E. Black Jan p22 Sierra Club of Southern California Tortoise ...Jun p27 Warren K. Smith, Dr. J. Robert Lindsay May p5, Sep p4, Nov p4 Townsend, Everett E Jul p5 Febp4 Sign of the Red Horse, N. M Jan pl7 Travel, Mexico....Aug p31, Oct p5, Dec p26 Richard Randall, Frank Meitz_ ..Mar pl4 Silverlock, C. H Feb p22 Turkey Mts., N.M. Feb p6 Barbara Bixby, Hetty Cooper Apr p4 Simpson Trail, Nev.- Dec pl2 Turpentine broom ....Mar pll Clair Stone, A. La Vielle Lawbaugh Six Springs Canyon, Death Valley Jun p28 Turquoise Jan p4 May p21 Smith, Francis M. "Borax" Apr pl9 Twenty-mule borax teams Apr pl7 Dr. J. Robert Lindsay, Hetty Cooper Smith, George A May pl2 U Jun p23 Smith, Olga Wright, Author of— Andrew Crofut, Adrian Atwater.Jul p23 Life on the Desert Jul p20 U. S. Department of Interior Jan p42 R. Van Nostrand, Adrian Atwater Aug p5 Smith, Olga Wright (Close-ups)..... Jul p24 U. S. Indian Bureau Jan p9 Bill McLemore, Nell Murbarger.Sep p23 Smith, W. E. "Doc" Jul pl7 V Clyde B. Smith, Dr. J. Robert Lindsay Snakebite, treatment of Sep p24 Van Dyke, Judge Dix Mar plO Oct p4 Sotol Sep p 13 Van Valkenburgh, Richard Jan pl7 Paul E. Black, Art Miller Nov p9 South Pass, Wyoming. ...Aug p20 Vulture Mine, Ariz Apr p8 Andrew Crofut, A. Wiederseder..Dec pl7 Spell, Leslie D Jan p2 W Photography (covers)— Stanton, Robert Brewster. Aug p25, Oct p26 Walter, Rose and Jack Oct pl4 Thousand Palms Oasis, Josef Muench Jan Steamboat Canyon, Ariz Dec p25 Warner, Monte Jul p4 Desert Lily, Harry Vroman Feb Steamboat Rock, Colo Dec p6 Watrous, N. M. Feb p5 Inhospitable Land, Chuck Abbott Mar Stewart, Col. Jos Dec pl2 Watson, "Long Tom".. Mar p22 Nolina, Josef Muench Apr Stokes, Wm. Lee Dec p7 Weavers Needle, Ariz.. Feb p23 Goodbye Death Valley, sculpture by Cyria Stratton, Fred Aug p20 Weight, Harold, Author of— Henderson, photo by Josef Muench May Superstition Mts., Ariz Feb p22 Man Who Bought a Ghost Town.Jnl pl4 Art Greene, Josef Muench Jun Szekely, Dr. Edmund Oct p6 Wells, Ina M., Author of— Summer Fun, Esther Henderson Jul Life on the Desert May p27, Sep p20 Jemez Harvest Dance, Ray Manley Aug Wells, Ina M. (Close-ups) May p28 Bryce Canyon, John Blackford Sep Tanner Trail, Grand Can., Ariz.....Mar p22 Werner, Louise, Author of— The Lighthouse, Josef Muench Oct Tarantula Mar pl4 We Climbed Rabbit Peak May p5 Reflection, Palm Canyon, Hubert Low- Tate, Earl E. Mar p5 We Climbed Telescope Peak Nov p4 man Nov Taylor, Fenton, Author of— West Fork, Palm Canyon Sep p4 Big Bend Prospector and his Burros, Gem Stones in the Peloncillos—Dnc pl9 White, James Aug p25, Oct p26 Josef Muench Dec. Telescope Peak, Death Valley Nov p4 White, Seward, Author of— Pillsbury, Dorothy, Author of— Thackery, Franklin A., Author of— Life on the Desert Nov p21 Weavers of Chimayo Aug pl2 Sand Food of the Papagos Apr p22 Wildflowers—Jan p42, Feb p29, Mar p26, Pinyon pine Jan p30 Thackery, Franklin A. (Close-ups). Apr p33 Apr pi6, May p20 Placer mining Apr p5 Thompson, Louise Switzer, Author of— Williams, James, Oscar, David Dec pl3 Porcupine Dec p32 Life on the Desert Feb p21 Williams Station, Nev Dec pl3 Powell, Maj. John Wesley Dec p5 Thoroman, E. C, Author of— Wolfe, Irene Jul pl7 Pratt, Parley P May pl2 There's Still Color in the Old Prospecting Mar p35 Placer Fields Apr p5 Y Providencia Canyon, Baja Calif Jan pl2 Thoroman, E. C. (Close-ups) Apr p33 Yampah Jan p23 Thousand Palms Oasis, Cal Jan cover Yampa River Dec p5 Q Toledo, Jose Jan pl7 Young, Brigham May pl2 Quartz Oct pl7 Tonopah & Tidewater RR Apr p20 Yucca Feb p31, Sep pl5 Quick, Lelande, Author of— Amateur Gem Cutter. each issue

Rainmaking—Feb p31, Apr p21, Aug pl9 Ransom, Jay Ellis, Author of— A New Edition of Reg Manning's Ghost Town Prospector Mar p5 Harquahala Bonanza May pl5 Historic Pass in the Wind River Country Augp20 WHAT KINDA CACTUS IZZAT? Crystal Field at Quartzsite Sep p9 Gem Stones in the Bradshaws Oct pl7 Who's Who of Strange Plants of the Great American Desert Agate-seamed Butte at Bouse Nov pl3 Rattlesnakes June p28, Nov p23 "You'll love the desert if you don't get stuck on it," promises Rawhide, Ariz Mar p5 Cartoonist Reg Manning. In his famous cartoon guide, now in its Reed, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Nov pl5 second printing, he describes the "stickingest" of the botanical Reptiles— denizens of the desert land. Desert tortoise Jun p27 Rattlesnakes Jun p28, Nov p23 "Fortunately for you, we ain't educated enough to regale you Sidewinders Aug p31 Richardson, Gladwell, Author of— with the scientific classifications of desert plants," Reg apologizes Gold Behind a Waterfall Mar p22 —but with his clever pen this famous Southwestern cartoonist Rich Gulch, Ariz Apr p5 creates animated caricatures of the cactus family and with de- Riley, Mat Jan p29 lightful humor describes their forms, blooming habits, range—and Rodriguez, Gen. Abelardo Oct p7 their threats to the unwary. Ruess, Everett May pl9 s Sal ton Sea State Park Jan p33 San Felipe, Baja Calif Jan pl3 Hilarious - Informative San Jose, Ariz. Dec pl9 San Juan R Mar p33 . . . after laughing through 106 humor-choked pages, you'll San Manuel, Ariz. Jun p35 be surprised how much you've learned from Manning's cactus San Pedro Martir Mts., Baja Cal..Jan pll critters. Santa Elena Canyon, Texas Jul p7 Santa Fe Trail Feb pp7, 43 $2.25 postpaid Schiele, Lewis F Feb plO Scorpions Apr p27 California buyers add 3% tax Scotty, Death Valley Jul p25 Selvas, Carita, Author of— Life on the Desert Jun p20 'Decent Shiprock, N. M Feb p25 PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA Shoshone, Johnny Dec pplO, 29 Sibley, Gen. H. H Feb p9

DECEMBER, 1953 45 y-u.it Between Ifou and. Me

By RANDALL HENDERSON

HE OTHER DAY I was looking back through an of them every month—but aside from that I do like my old notebook—the book in which 18 years ago I job. 7 compiled numerous charts and tables of figures in * * * an effort to determine whether or not the publishing of a Desert Magazine would be a paying venture. Storm clouds are hovering over the San Jacinto range today. On the coastal side of the range it is rain- One of the tables was a compilation of population ing. On this side, a hundred miles from the coast, the figures for the American desert — the states of New sun is playing hide-and-seek in a deep blue sky flecked Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and the desert drainage with wandering clouds. of California. I used the 1930 census reports. The San Jacinto range plays a tremendous role in the And now I have before me the 1950 census report, and making of our climate. This is desert because those here are the comparative figures of desert population for mountains are a barrier which keep the sea breezes and 1930 and 1950: the rain clouds bottled up on the other side. But they 1930 1950 also keep the Los Angeles fog and smog away from us —and for that we are grateful. Most of the time our air Arizona (entire state) 435,573 749,587 is clear and dry, and the late afternoon sun forms fan- California (desert sector) .__ 110,400 295,522 tastic shadow patterns on the Little San Bernardino range Nevada (entire state) 91,058 160,083 which is visible from every north window in Palm Desert. New Mexico (entire state) 423,317 681,187 Utah (entire state) 507,847 688,862 Every geographical location has its disadvantages. Ours, of course, is the summer heat. But the most of us Totals 1,568,195 2,575,241 who live on the desert side of the mountains prefer the high summer temperatures to the eye-smarting smog which So, our desert has been gaining—more than a million seems to be increasing in density on the coastal side of people in 20 years. That is a very fair showing for a land the range. which our forefathers once feared and shunned. They American genius has been able to conquer the thought it was a place only for jackrabbits, lizards and heat insofar as our homes and stores are concerned. But Indians—and now their descendants are finding that it the scientific men on the other side of the range haven't is a place where folks may go and add years to their lives. even been able to agree as to the main source of the smog Some of my neighbors are complaining now that —whether it is factories, automobiles or incinerators. people are becoming too thick out here on the desert. They do not want this to become crowded like the metro- politan areas. I don't like too much fencing myself, but I The first Christmas was on the desert—a very humble am not worrying about this desert becoming over-crowded. Christmas in a land of arid horizons and lowly home-lov- ing people. The central character in that first Christmas It is true that many new subdivisions are springing scene was a Child, whom we Christians now regard as up along the desert highways where unimaginative real the greatest Teacher of all time. estate men are crowding houses together on 60-foot lots. And so, to those of us whose homes are on the desert, But that merely is human folly. There is no need for it. Christmas has a special significance. There are many For those who still have a bit of the pioneering spirit homes and hogans in this desert land where there will be in them, there are millions of acres where humans can no Christmas tree, no gorgeously wrapped packages, no find health and happiness—and such freedom as is possi- tinsel or electric lights, and no radio to bring sweet Christ- ble only for those who are willing to forego some of the mas carols. But there were none in the stable when luxuries of a pampering civilzation. Christ was born—nor did He ever know the glamor of Yes, as you may have guessed, I decided after look- such a Christmas. ing over those 1930 census figures that the desert country His messages: "And on earth peace, good will toward had population enough to make the publishing of a Desert all men," and "Whatsoever ye would that men should do Magazine a sound adventure—and I am glad to report to you, do ye even so to them"—these are words which that it was the best business decision I ever made. I express the true spirit of Christmas. And they are just as confess I do get a little out of patience with the poets true and significant for the occupants of a lonely shack in sometimes—I have to say no to two or three hundred a treeless land as for those who dwell in palaces.

46 DESERT MAGAZINE foolhardiness, treachery — all are blended in these tales of the winning of the West. All who read it will un- derstand better the tragedy of the red men who tried vainly to stop the march IILLUSTRATED HANDBOOK an authentic guide book for the motor- of progress. OF INDIAN WELLS VALLEY ist in this region that Ralph Hancock, Published by The Telegraph Press, Native residents of Indian Wells the author, and his sportsman friends, Harrisburg, Pa. 353 pp. 45 photo- Valley, the northwest portion of Cali- Ray Holler, Mike McMahan and Frank graphs, sketches and maps. $5.00. fornia's Mojave Desert, are few. The Alvarado, journeyed the length of the • • • peninsula in a specially equipped car. population is comprised of former citi- YOUNG CALIFORNIANS' zens of every state in the Union and In fact, Hancock has made several trips into the region. GUIDE TO THEIR STATE several foreign countries, most of them Travel can be enjoyable and educa- employed at the Naval Ordnance Test And now the book, Baja California, tional too, the Johns family found when Station at China Lake. with map and many photographs, is they moved to California and decided The desert is strange to most of these off the press in Los Angeles. to get acquainted with their new state. newcomers. To help them become ac- The narrative is a day-by-day story Colorful California is Vera E. Ost- quainted with their new surroundings, of what the travelers encountered along roth's story of Ginger and Jack and the China Lake Branch of the Ameri- the way—the conditions of the roads, their mother and the weekend trips can Association of University Women the availability of supplies, food and they took. Included are two chapters several years ago undertook to publish accommodations, the interesting side- on the desert: "Desert Holiday," a handbook of the area. A revision of trips to be made. There is much hu- which tells of their visit to the date the first Indian Wells Valley Hand- man interest in the book—glimpses of gardens and the National Date Festival book, published in 1948, has just been the natives who operate the onyx mines at Indio, California; and "Springtime issued—and an excellent guide it is for at Marmol, the copper miners at Santa in Death Valley." Other sections de- valley visitors. Rosalia, the truck drivers along the scribe Yosemite National Park, the road, dwellers in the peaceful pearl Mother Lode country, Santa Catalina "Sightseeing" by Mrs. C. E. Paulsen fishing community of La Paz. describes the area's many points of in- Island, Southern California, San Fran- terest, from Death Valley National Ralph Hancock is a very observing cisco and farming and recreational Monument to Calico, Ballarat and reporter, and has given more life and areas elsewhere in the state. Panamint City ghost towns, Rand color to that rocky Baja California ter- Written for children, published by Mining District, Fossil Waterfall, the rain than one usually finds in a guide Academy Publishers. 118 pages, 17 Devil's Postpile, Darwin Falls, Coso book. For those who dream of a trip halftone illustrations. $2.00. Hot Springs, Aguerreberry Point and down the peninsula Baja California is • • • essential reading. Books reviewed on this page are available at the many scenic canyons and mountain Desert Crafts Shop, Palm Desert ranges. Other chapters tell of the Published by Academy Publishers, area's history, geology, climate, botany, Los Angeles. 180 pp. Map, photos, wildlife, birds and communities. A index. $5.00. final chapter is devoted to desert first • • a BAJA CflLIFORNIfl aid. EPISODES IN THE Hunting, Fishing and Travel in Eighty-nine pages, photographs, map, CONQUEST OF THE WEST sketches of wildlife and botany. $ 1.00, Half a century of research and the Lower California, Mexico including sales tax. writing of scores of western history by • • • magazine articles, books and pamphlets dealing with Indian wars and the In- RALPH HANCOCK GUIDE FOR MOTORIST. dians have undoubtedly made E. A. with SPORTSMAN, EXPLORER Brininstool an authority on his subject. Ray Haller, Mike McMahan From Tijuana on the California His latest book, Fighting Indian War- border to San Lucas at the tip of the riors, contains true and stirring ac- and Frank Alvarado Lower California peninsula it is 1150 counts of some of the most famous miles—with atrocious roads most of Indian battles such as "Fetterman's SPORTSMEN: This is the guide to Lower California you asked for. the way. Fifty to 100 miles is an Folly," "The Wagon Box Fight," "The Nearly 200 pages, 155 photographs, average day's travel over much of the Modoc Indian War of 1873." four-color jacket, end sheet maps, distance. In his preface the author states imitation leather bound and packed But as a reward to the venturesome full of the kind of information you frankly that his sympathies are with have long wished for. explorer who undertakes this journey the Red Man. The Indians fought for there is the thrill of penetrating one their homes and their lands — lands THE AUTHORS: Hancock is an of the most primitive areas on the ceded to them by solemn treaty with authority and well-known writer on Mexico; Haller, McMahan and Alva- North American continent. The bot- the United States Government. The rado are sportsmen of repute and anist will find many strange forms of tidal wave of whites which overflowed experience. This is the writing team plant life. The historian will recreate the wild frontier country advanced that guarantees that this is a book from scores of ruins along the way civilization—but in too many instances you will enjoy reading or want to the mission life of Jesuit, Dominican irrespective of the rights of the Indian keep in your travel kit. and Franciscan padres who first and without regard to his future. $5.00 postpaid brought Christianity to the peninsular Author Brininstool's tales are stir- (California buyers add 3% sales tax) Indians 256 years ago. For the sports- ring reading with history and facts so man there is abundant game and some interwoven that there can be little Academy Publishers of the finest fishing in the world. And doubt of their accuracy. Famous In- 5299 Los Angeles while the population is sparse, the na- dian chiefs, brave white officers and Fountain 29 tives are most hospitable. troops, renowned scouts and trappers Ave. California It was for the purpose of writing march through the pages. Heroism,

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ORDER WITH THIS COUPON SEND TO: or send us your gift list with remittance and necessary information SENDER'S NAME RIPPLE ADDRESS DATE GARDENS My check (or money order) for $ enclosed. DEPT. D — P. O. BOX 3 Please send Size Group No PALM DESERT TO CALIFORNIA ADDRESS GROWERS—For more than 20 years