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FEBRUARY, 194935 CENTS
 
WILDFLOWERS ARE NOW
IN
BLOSSOM ALONG THE ROAD THAT LEADS
TO
In California's most picturesque desert setting—alovely cove
at
the base
of
the Santa Rosa Mountains.
• Although this
new
desert community
was
openedto home
and
business investors less than threeyears
ago,
$1,100,000 worth
of
lots already havebeen sold. Private construction totalling $1,250,000is
now
completed
or in
progress, including
a
$200,000 school.• Here
on a
gently sloping bajada .overlooking
the
date gardens
of the
famous Coachella valley
is
the spacious building site
for the
desert home
you
have long dreamed
of
owning.• Here
the
winter days
are
clear
and
sunny,
the air
is crisp
and
clean
and
invigorating.
On the
sandsof this lovely desert cove millions
of
tiny wild-flower plants
are
growing,
and
already
in mid-
winter great beds
of
purple desert verbena
are
in blossom.• Here
you can get
away from
the
crowded trafficand
the
smog
of the
congested coastal areas
and
really live—and here also many business oppor-tunities await those
who
want
to
pioneer
in a
new community.
Two
New
Residential Units
in
Palm Desert
Are Now
Being Opened Where
on
Generous Terms
You May
Buy
. . .
Spacious Homesite Lots
as Low as
'950
For Information Regarding Home or Business Property
in
Palm
Desert Community Write
to
PALM DESERT CORPORATION
PALM DESERT. CALIFORNIA
Clifford
W.
Henderson, Founder, President
Hollywood Office: 8622 Sunset Blvd. Telephone CRestview 55269
Tract Office
on
Property
or See
Your Broker Edith Ward, Tract Agent
TO IDYUWUD
•
HEMIT
.
KIVHSIDE
• «M
THE DESERT MAGAZINE
 
DESERT CALENDAR
Jan. 28-29—Thunderbird
Ski
Carni-
val,
Arizona Sno-Bowl,
Flagstaff,
Arizona.Jan. 29—Searles Lake
Gem and Min-
eral society's Ninth Annual '49erparty, parade, dancing, entertain-ment. Trona club, Trona, Cali-fornia.Jan. 29-30—Annual Palo Verde
Val-
ley rodeo, Blythe, California.
Feb.
2—Candlemas
day,
dance,
San
Felipe pueblo,
New
Mexico.
Feb.
4-5 —
Second annual ArizonaState Square Dance festival, Shrineauditorium, Phoenix, Arizona.
Feb.
5-6—Palm Springs rodeo, PalmSprings, California.
Feb.
6—Eccles
ski cup
race, giant
sla-
lom, Snow Basin, Ogden, Utah.
Feb.
6—Lecture
on
Seri Indians
of
Tiburon island,
by
William NeilSmith, Southwest Museum, High-land Park,
Los
Angeles.
Feb.
6-13—Western Mid-Winter TrapShoot, Jaberwock club, Reno,Nevada.
Feb.
8-9—Convention,
New
MexicoWool Growers association, Albu-querque,
New
Mexico.
Feb.
12-13—Snowshoe ThompsonMemorial cross country race,White Hills, Nevada.
Feb.
12-13—Fourth Annual SilverSpur Rodeo, Yuraa, Arizona.
Feb.
18-20
—
University
of
NevadaIntercollegiate
Ski
Carnival,Mount Rose,' Reno, Nevada.
Feb.
18-22—Riverside County Fairand National Date Festival,County fair grounds, Indio, Cali-fornia.
Feb.
19—Annual rodeo parade, horsesand horse-drawn vehicles, Tucson,Arizona.
Feb.
19-22—Annual rodeo,
La
Fiestade
los
Vaqueros, Tucson, Arizona.
Feb.
19-22—National
ski
jump event,Ecker Hill, Salt Lake City.
Feb.
20—Lecture,
"The
Growth
of
the Folk Song,"
by Mrs.
ErnestThompson Seton, SouthwestMuseum,
Los
Angeles.
Feb.
21-26—Annual AlbuquerqueMarket Week.
Feb.
26—Far Western
Ski
Associa-tion jumping championships, LakeTahoe.
Feb.
26-27—Intermountain downhilland slalom championships, Brigh-ton, Utah.
Feb.
27—The Jaraba dancers, South-west Museum, Highland Park,
Los
Angeles.Through February—Exhibit
at the
Southwest Museum, HighlandPark,
Los
Angeles,
of a
collectionof water colors
by
pupils
of the
United States Indian school
in
Santa
Fe.
Mar.
4-6 —
Annual Desert
Gem and
Mineral show
and
field trips,sponsored
by
Desert
Gem and
Mineral society
of
Blythe, Cali-fornia.
Volume
12
FEBRUARY.
1949
Number
4
COVERCALENDARFIESTAMINING TOWNLOST MINETRUE
OR
FALSEENIGMAWILDFLOWERSFIELD TRIPPOETRYBOTANYPHOTOGRAPHYANCIENT
ART
CONTESTHUMORPEGLEG
DAY
LETTERSCLOSE-UPSNEWSMININGLAPIDARYHOBBYCOMMENTBOOKS
WHITE SANDS OF NEW MEXICO, by HubertA. Lowman. This photo was awarded firstprize in Desert's 1947 cover contest.February events on the desert 3Coachellans Prepare for Annual Date Harvest . 4Randsburg Refuses to Become a Ghost TownBy DON AND BARBARA OLLIS .... 5The "Pothole" PlacersBy JOHN D. MITCHELL 9A check on your desert knowledge 10Mystery Death in the DunesBy ORION M. ZINK 11Fall Rains Bring Early Blooming . . .Rockhound Trail to Indian PassBy HAROLD O. WEIGHT ....The Litter-Lout and other poems . .Junipers on the Desert by MARY BEALContest winners in December . . .1516162324We Found the Cave of Lost ArtBy EDWARD H. DAVIS,Told to JOHN CRIPPEN, JR 25Prizes for photographers 26Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 27Lost Mine Hunt and Liars' Contest 28Comment by Desert readers 29About Desert Writers 30From Here and There on the desert .... 31Current news of desert mines 39Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK . . 40Gems and Minerals 41Just Between You and Me, by the Editor ... 46Reviews of Southwest Literature 47
The Desert Magazine
is
published monthly
by the
Desert Press,
Inc.,
Palm Desert,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,and contents copyrighted
1949 by the
Desert Press,
Inc.
Permission
to
reproduce contentsmust
be
secured from
the
editor
in
writing.RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor BESS STACY Business ManagerUnsolicited manuscripts
and
photographs submitted cannot
be
returned
or
acknowledgedunless full return postage
is
enclosed. Desert Magazine assumes
no
responsibility
for
damage
or
loss
of
manuscripts
or
photographs although
due
care will
be
exercised.
Sub-
scribers should send notice
of
change
of
address
by the
first
of the
month preceding issue.SUBSCRIPTION RATESOne Year
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