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California residents add 4% State Sales Tax. including Sundays DsAttiL CONTENTS Volume 27 Number 1 JANUARY, 1964 This Month's Cover Photo by Darwin Van Campen taken in Chirichua National Monument in southeastern Arizona along the trail to Heart-of-Rocks. 6 New Books for Desert Readers 8 The Joys of Beast Watching By HARRY C. JAMES 10 Choose a Cholla By JANICE BEATY 12 Trip of the Month By RICHARD C. BAILEY 15 Pancho Villa, Hero or Villain? THESE PIN-UPS OF THE PAST WHICH BROUGHT WARMTH TO AN UNKNOWN PROSPECTOR WERE FOUND BY IRENE J. BRENNAN, ON THE WALL OF AN OLD MINING SHACK NEAR SEARCHLIGHT, By W. THETFORD LE VINESS NEVADA. THE BOULDER CITY, NEVADA PHOTOGRAPHER, WHO WON THE FIRST PRIZE IN DESERT'S DECEMBER PHOTO CONTEST, SEEMS TO CAPTURE THE SPIRIT OF THE DESERT IN HER PICTURES. 18 Siberian Red's Lost Ledge By CARL MACUR THE SOUTHWEST IN JANUARY By JACK PEPPER 21 The Desert SALTON SEA SAGA. Water level of Salton Sea, the Southern Cali- By VIC STOYANOW fornia salt water resort lake, is the highest it has been in 10 years, according to the Coachella Valley County Water District. It rose from 22 Juan Flaco's Fantastic Ride 233.88 to 232.88 feet below sea level during the past 12 months. Be- By GARY ROBERTS cause of the many conflicting and often erroneous reports and rumors concerning Salton Sea, DESERT MAGAZINE is preparing an article 26 Bottles Bottles Everywhere on the area. By GRACE KENDRICK ADVENTUROUS AUTHOR. One of the most interesting authors we have met for some time dropped by the office recently. Dean Hobbs 28 Treasures of Treasure Mountain Blanchard just returned from Madagascar and Mauritius where he By RAYE PRICE gathered material and photographs for another book. His current book, "Ecuador, Crown Jewel of the Andes" tells of his adventures 30 Desert Cookery with his wife and their two-year-old daughter during their two year By LUCILLE I. CARLESON stay in the Andes during which they lived with the natives and even visited the Jivaro head-hunters. The author speaks Spanish, Portu- 32 Jellyfish on the Desert By CHORAL PEPPER DESERT is published monthly by Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, Calif. Second Class I tage paid at Palm Desert, Calif., and at addit 37 Desert Camera offices under Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S. Patent Offic and contents copyrighted 1963 by Desert Mi must be secured from the editor in writing. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $4.50 per es) in the U. S-; $5 elsewhere. Allow five weeks for change By FRANK JENSEN of address, and be sure to send the old as well as new address. 38 Last of the Shastans To subscribe, or to give a DESERT gift subscription, use the coupon on page 5 NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES: By J. O. McKINNEY Arden E. Roney & Associates 580 South San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles 48, California. Phone: 651-3930 NEW YORK-41 E. 42nd St. 986 0625 CHICAGO-35 E. Wacker Dr. 782 7790 39 Survival in the Desert SAN FRANCISCO—149 California St. 981 0848 BOSTON—751 Main St. 889 3475 DETROIT—424 Book Bldg. 961 5240 MIAfVll-208 Almeria Ave. 444 8326 42 Letters from our Readers JACK PEPPER, publisher CHORAL PEPPER, editor AL MERRYMAN, artist Back Cover Address Correspondence To: Photo courtesy Utah Publicity Council. Navajo Lake near Cedar City, Utah. Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, Calii. 92260 Phone: FI 6-8144 NOW IS THE TIME guese, German, French and has a knowledge of Greek and the Mun- to order your durucu Indian tongue in addition to having studied Egyptian heirogly- OATMAH phics, Gaelic and Japanese. "Ecua- dor" is published by Vantage Press. — ARIZONA — BINDER WILDERNESS AREA UPHELD. An SCENIC BEAUTY application to build a ski lift in the Mt. San Gorgonio Wilderness Area FIRE AGATE FIELDS For Desert Magazine's has been rejected by the United States Forest Service. A previous MOVIE SETS VOLUME 27 application in 1957 by another de- Please consider this your invitation to visit this veloper was also turned down. Al- fascinating corner of the West . though San Gorgonio Ski Lifts, Inc. OATMAN - GOIDROADS indicated an appeal may be made, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE a Forest spokesman said the deci- 1964 sion is "final." JANUARY CALENDAR.