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WHY
DOES TRITON IAST
SO
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DOES ITMATTER IFTHE OIL SETS
WHXi?
NO.
WITH TRITON ^ OIRTy OH MEANS A CLEANER/MOTOR! TRITON CONTAINS A SPECIAL 0STER6ENTCOMPDUMD THAT ACTUALLY CLEANS YOUR ENGINE AS•SOU DRIVE. LOOSENED CARBON AND CURT ARE HELDHARMLESSLY IN SUSPENSION
BY
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SO
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8.
SLUDGIN6. DURING THEWAR, UNION OIL SCIENTISTS DEVELOPED SPECIALCOMPOUNDS TO RESIST THESE EVILS. THESE^COMPOUNDS ARE INCLUDED INNEW TRITON.
WHAT/F
YOU
SEVEN IF YOU DRIVE
TWICE
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purple
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Royal Triton —and its amaz-ing 30,000-mile endurance
record,
the equivalent of 3yean normal driving withoutan oil change!
UNION OIL
OF CAtlPOMtA
THE DESERT MAGAZINE
 
Desert Calendar
Jan. 28-Feb. 3—Open golf tournament,Tucson, Arizona.Jan. 31-Feb.
1—Sierra
club official hike,Rabbit peak, Santa Rosa mountains.Meet at Borrego, California. BillHenderson, leader.Jan. 31-Feb.
1—Second
annual Thunder-bird Ski meet, Arizona Snow bowl,
Flagstaff,
Arizona.
Feb.
6-7—First annual Carrot Festival ofImperial Valley, Holtville,
Calif.
Feb.
7-8—Sierra club, All-American ca-nal camp and desert hike in Oro-copia - Chocolate mountains area.Camp in desert wash about fourmiles from Mecca. Jim Gorin andRussell Hubbard, leaders.
Feb.
8—Snow Basin giant Slalom, SnowBasin, Utah.
Feb.
9—Intermountain jumping cham-pionships, Ecker Hill, Utah.
Feb.
10-15—Livestock show, Tucson,Arizona.
Feb.
11-15—Riverside County Fair andDate Festival, Indio, California.
Feb.
11-15—Pima County fair, Tucson,Arizona.
Feb.
14-15—Third annual championshipSilver Spur rodeo, sponsored byJunior chamber of commerce, Tu-cson, Arizona.
Feb.
15—Intermountain invitational gi-ant slalom, Ephraim canyon, Eph-raim, Utah.
Feb.
20-22—Annual Ski Carnival, Ari-zona Snow Bowl,
Flagstaff,
Ariz.
Feb.
20-23—23rd annual Fiesta de LosVaqueros, Tucson, Arizona.
Feb.
21-22—University of Nevada Win-ter Carnival and Pacific NorthwestIntercollegiate meet, Mt. Rose, Nev.
Feb.
22—Lecture, "National Parks andMonuments of the Southwest" byFrank A. Schilling, Southwest mu-seum, Highland Park, Los Angeles,California.
Feb.
22—Intermountain cross - countrychampionships at Brighton, Utah.
Feb.
28-29—Four-way invitational win-ter sports meet, Provo, Utah.
Feb.
28-March 7—Imperial County fair.County fair grounds, Imperial, Cali-fornia.
Feb.
29—Annual Dons club Trek to Su-perstition Mountains, from Phoenix,Arizona.
Feb.
29—"The Jarabe Dancers," lecture,Southwest Museum, Highland Park,Los Angeles, California.Each Saturday until June 1 — PalmSprings Desert Breakfast rides, withguests of all Palm Springs, Cali-fornia, hotels participating.Each Saturday until June 1 — PalmSprings Sunfun hikes to study plantlife and geology of Colorado desertand mountain canyons. Desert Mu-seum naturalists give explanatorytalks. Palm Springs, California.
Volume
11
FEBRUARY.
1948
Number
4
COVERCALENDAREXPLORATIONBOTANYADVENTUREDESERT QUIZHISTORYCONTESTARTISTPHOTOGRAPHYMININGNATURENEWSLETTERSPOETRYLAPIDARYHOBBYCOMMENTBOOKS
DESERT DAISIES. Photo taken
by Don
Ollis,Santa Barbara, California.February events
on the
desert
3
Operation Underground!ByJOHNPRISER
4
Oak Trees
on
Desert MountainsBy MARY BEAL
8
Grand Canyon VoyageBy RANDALL HENDERSON
9
A test
of
your knowledge
of the
desert
. . . . 16
He Guards
the
Secret
of
Turquoise ShrineBy TONEY RICHARDSON
17
Prize announcement
for
photographers
.... 20
Paul Coze—Friend
of the
TribesmenBy HOPE GILBERT
21
December prize photographs
25
Current news
of
desert mines
26
Cactus CampmatesBy IRENE OLIN
27
From here
and
there
on the
desert
29
Comment from Desert's readers
37
Miracle Hour
and
other poems
39
Amateur
Gem
Cutter,
by
LELANDE QUICK
. . 40
Gems
and
Minerals
41
Just Between
You and Me, by the
Editor
... 46
Reviews
of
current Southwest literature
... 47
he Desert Magazine is published monthly by the Desert Press, Inc., 636 State Street,El Centro, California. Entered as second class matter October 11, 1937, at the post office
at
El Centro, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S.Patent Office, and contents copyrighted 1948 by the Desert Press, Inc. Permission to reproducecontents must be secured from the editor in writing.RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor. BESS STACY, Business Manager.HAROLD and LUCILE WEIGHT, Associate Editors.Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs submitted cannot be returned or acknowledgedunless full return postage is enclosed. Desert Magazine assumes no responsibility for damageor loss of manuscripts or photographs although due care will be exercised. Subscribers shouldsend notice of change of address by the first of the month preceding issue. If address is un-certain by that date, notify circulation department to hold copies.
SUBSCRIPTION RATESOne Year . . . $3.00 Two Years . . . $5.00Canadian subscriptions
25c
extra, foreign SOc extra.
Subscriptions to Army personnel outside U.S.A. must be mailed in conformity withP.O.D. Order
No.
19687.
Address correspondence to Desert Magazine, 636 State Street, El Centro, California.
FEBRUARY, 1948
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spiderpeggy

Love the article on peppersauce cave. I went there last weekend but main flashlight went out. will go back this weekend. Map is helpful.

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