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THE DESERT MAGAZINE
 
DESERTCALENDAR
July 1-4—Annual fiesta and devil dan«,Mescalero Apache reservation, NewMexico.July
1-6—Hopi
arts and crafts exhibitfrom museum collections, Museumof Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Ari-zona.July 3-6—Annual Frontier Days celebra-tion and rodeo, Prescott, Arizona.July 3-5—2nd annual Bit and Spur clubrodeo, Tooefe, Utah.July 3-4—Round Valley rodeo, Springer-ville,Arizona.July 4-5—Western Motorboat champion-ships, Pineview lake, Ogden, Utah.July 4-5—Amateur rodeo, Willcox, Ari-zona.July 4-6—All-Indian Pow-wow and ro-
deo,
Flagstaff, Arizona.July 4-6—Pioneer days fiesta, parade,barbecue, Banning, California.July 4-6—Reno rodeo, Reno, Nevada.July 4-6—Gallup Rodeo, Gallup, NewMexico.July
4-6
—State golf tournament, Albu-querque, New Mexico.July 6—Concert, Salt Lake City Taber-nacle choir, Tabernacle, Salt LakeCity, Utah.July 6—Walker lake outboard motor re-gatta. Sanctioned races with 200 en-tries. Hawthorne, Nevada.July 8-12—Ute Stampede and rodeo,Nephi, Utah.July 13-18—National Governor's confer-ence, Salt Lake City, Utah.July 14—Annual fiesta and corn dance,Cochiti Pueblo, New Mexico. Pho-tography prohibited.July 14-19—Days of '47 championshiprodeo, State fairgrounds, Salt LakeCity, Utah.July 16-19—Heber City Rodeo, HeberCity, Utah.July 17-19—Raton Rodeo, Raton, NewMexico.July 18-24—Ogden Rodeo, Ogden, Utah.July 19-20 — Mineral show, YavapaiGem and Mineral society, officesArizona Power company, Prescoti:,Arizona.July 20-24—Field meeting of Society ofVertebrate Paleontology in northernArizona, starting July 20 at St.Johns and ending at Grand Canyonor Cameron, July 24. Professor Ed-win D. McKee in charge of accom-modations.July 21-August 10—
The Promised Val-ley,
Music-Drama, University ofUtah stadium, Salt Lake City, Utah.July 23-24—Centennial parades, SaltLake City and elsewhere in Utah.July 24—Dedication of "This Is thePlace" monument, mouth of Emi-gration canyon, Salt Lake City,Utah.July 25-26 — Taos fiesta, Taos, NewMexico.July 26—Annual fiesta and green corndance, old Santa Ana pueblo. NewMexico. Photography prohibited.July 27-August 6—Carbon County Cen-tennial program, Price, Utah.July 31-August
1-2—11th
Annual Rob-bers" Roost Roundup, Price, Utah.
Volume
10
COVERCALENDARHEALTHHUMORPOETRYGHOST TOWNPERSONALITY
ART OF
LIVINGPLANT LIFEFIELD TRIPBOTANYPHOTOGRAPHYCONTESTLETTERSMINING
i
NEWS
;
LAPIDARYHOBBYTRUE
OR
FALSECOMMENTBOOKS
JULY. 1947
Number
9
CARLSBAD CAVERNS
in New Mexico. Photo-
graph, courtesy
New
Mexico State TouristBureau.July events
on the
desert
3
Healing Waters
of
Agua Caliente
By
MARSHAL SOUTH
4
Hard Rock Shorty,
by EVA
WILSON
.... 8
This Grand Canyon
By
CHARLES ARTHUR PORTER
.... 9
Golden Harvest
at
Aurora
By JAY
ELLIS RANSOM
10
Tsianina Speaks
for the
Indians
By
HOPE GILBERT
14
They Made
the
Desert Blossom—with Gladiolas
By EDA S.
JOHNSTONE
17
Pigmies
of the
Plant World
By
JERRY LAUDERMILK
20
Geode Hunters
of
Searchlight
By
HAROLD
O.
WEIGHT
23
Golden Desert
Poppies, by
MARY BEAL
... 27
Winners
of 1947
Cover. Contest
28
Announcement
of
July photographic contest
. . 28
Comment from Desert Magazine readers
... 29
Current News Briefs
30
Here
and
There
on the
Desert
31
Amateur
Gem
Cutter,
by
LELANDE QUICK
. . 36
Gems
and Minerals,
edited
by
Arthur
L.
Eaton
. 37A
test
of
your desert knowledge
45
Just Between
You and Me, by the
Editor
... 46
Current reviews
of
Southwest books
47
The 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 atEl Centro, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No. 358865 in U. S.Patent Office, and contents copyrighted 1947 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 50c extra.Subscriptions to Army personnel outside U.S.A. must be mailed in conformity withP.O.D. Order No. 19687.I Address correspondence to Desert Magazine, 636 State Street, El Centro, California.
JULY,
1947
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