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Looking across
the
Palm Desert
townsite
jrom
the
clubhouse
of the
. Shadow Mountain club. San Gorgonio peak, now capped with snow,is
in
the distant background.
•
Something Really
New
Under
the Sun
Palm Desert
is not
just
a
plan
or a
dream
. . . but an
amazing reality
!
Family life, with
all of its
luxuries
and
comforts,
is
being enjoyed daily
at
Palm Desert,
for
alreadythis community
has
beautiful homes, bungalow hotels, stores and shops and
is
constantly going
on.
Although work
was
commenced only
two
years
ago to
convert 1600 acres
of
desert land into
a
planned community, Palm Desert
has 19
miles
of
paved streets
and
graded roads.It has
its
own abundant water supply
...
19 miles
of
water lines
. . .
fire protection
. . .
electricity
. . .
telephones
... its
own postoffice
. . .
full city conveniences
... its new
$211,000 grammar school will
be
operating
by
Fall
of
1949
. . .
and property has been donated
for a
Community Church, where Sunday services
are
held regularly.Palm Desert
has its own
Rotary Club,
Boy
Scouts, Girl Scouts, Drama Society
and its
picturesqueriding club,
The
Desert Raiders.The Desert Magazine
has
built
its
magnificent new home
in
Palm Desert. The building
is of
modi-fied Indian-Pueblo design
and
provides
a
unique desert museum, with
art
gallery where world-notedpainters exhibit their works.Internationally prominent men
and
women already have built
and are
occupying beautiful resi-dences
in
Palm Desert
... to
enjoy
the
ultimate
in
gracious living
. . .
Others have built smallerresidences,
to
live here
all
year round.Palm Desert
is not for the
very wealthy alone.
It is for all
people whose business
and
professionalskills, craftsmanship
and
abilities
are
required
to
fill
the
needs
of
any community.Palm Desert
is for
people who
are
tired
of
living
in the
city with
its
rush
and
noise — people whowish
to
live, work
and
play where
the
true
and
unspoiled desert atmosphere
is
still preserved.Palm Desert
is
located
on
land rising gently from
and
overlooking the floor
of
the Coachella Valley.It
is
sheltered
in a
protected cove
of the
Santa Rosa Mountains.Fronting
on
Highway No.
Ill,
Palm Desert
is
bisected
by the
famous Palms-to-Pines Highway,over which anyone can motor
to
snow sports
in
55 minutes
in
winter,
or
enjoy
the
grandeur
of
pine-cladscenery
in the
mountains
in the
summer.
For information regarding home or business property in Palm Desert community write
to
PALM DESERT CORPORATION
PALM DESERT. CALIFORNIA
Clifford W. Henderson, Founder, PresidentTract Office
on
Property
or
See Your Broker Edith Ward, Tract Agent
THE DESERT MAGAZINE
 
DESERT CALENDAR
March 30-April 2—Thirteenth annualDesert Circus. Palm Springs, Cali-fornia.April
2-3 —
National Giant SlalomMeet, Mount Rose, Nevada.April 2-3—Douglas Rodeo, Douglas,Arizona.April 7—Third annual spring ride
of
the Desert Caballeros
at
Wicken-burg, Arizona.April 8-10—Phoenix Champion
Ro-
deo, Phoenix, Arizona.April 9-May
1 —
Fifteenth annualJunior Arts show
for
Indianschools, Museum
of
Northern
Ari-
zona,
Flagstaff,
Arizona.April 9-16—College
of the
Pacific's13th annual Death Valley expedi-tion. Itinerary includes WalkerPass, Searles Lake, Death Valley,Rhyolite, Hoover
Dam,
OwensValley, Mono Lake
and
Echo
Sum-
mit Pass.April 9-17—Sierra club Easter vaca-tion trip
to Ajo
mountains, OrganPipe National Monument, Arizona.April 9-17—Sierra club Easter vaca-tion outing
to
Havasu canyon,
Ari-
zona.April 10—Yuma Bandellero tour
to
Imperial
Dam.
Starts Yuma,
Ari-
zona,
9:00 a.m.
April 16-17—Hobby show sponsoredby
the
Women's club, Twenty-ninePalms, California.April 16-17—Third annual
Gem and
Mineral display, sponsored
by Im-
perial Valley
Gem
society
and
Lapidary Guild, Junior Collegeauditorium,
El
Centra, California.April 17—Easter Sunrise Services,Oasis
of
Maru, Twenty-nine Palms,California.April 17—Second annual Easter
Pa-
rade.Twenty-nine Palms, Cali-fornia.April
17 —
Easter Sunrise Service,Grand Canyon National Park.
Sun-
rise
5:50 a.m.
April 18-21—Annual "Country LifeConference
of
Arizona Women,"at University
of
Arizona, Tucson.April 22-24—Imperial Valley Round-up,Imperial, California.April
23 —
Annual flower show,Needles, California.April
23 —
Guest lecture: CharlesLarabee showing color movies
of
remote Navajo domain, "Unex-plored Utah Hinterland." PalmSprings Desert Museum
8 p.m.
April 23—All-day auto-caravan
to
Santa Rosa Peak. Meet
at
PalmSprings Desert Museum
9 a.m.
April 23—17th Annual Flower Showsponsored
by the
Barstow Women'sClub, Barstow, California.April 23-24—Sierra club trek
to Bor-
rego desert, Anza state park, Cali-fornia.April 23-24—Lone Pine stampede,parade
and
contests, Lone Pine,California.April 24—Yuma Bandellero tour
to
Martinez Lake, Yuma, Arizona.April 30-May
1—Truck
rodeo
and
convention
of
Arizona MotorTransport association.
Volume
12
APRIL,
1949
Number
6
COVERCALENDARPHOTOGRAPHYMININGWILD FLOWERSINDIAN CRAFTSNATURELOST MINESART
OF
LIVINGFIELD TRIPTRUE
OR
FALSEPOETRYCLOSE-UPSPAGEANTRYHOMESNEWSMININGLETTERSHUMORLAPIDARYHOBBYCOMMENTBOOKS
PENITENTE COUNTRY, Santa Cruz Valley,New Mexico. By Loey Ringquist, Santa Fe,
N.
M.April Events on the desert 3Contest winners in February 4He Prospects for Invisible WealthBy WALTER FORD 5Monthly Forecast for April Blossoms .... 8He Revived the Art of the AncientsBy LUELA M. WADSWORTH 10Lizard With Spots and SpeedBy RICHARD L. CASSEL 14Lost Lead-Silver Mine in NevadaBy L. W. MORGAN 15Sequel to Ghost MountainBy TANYA SOUTH 16Geodes and Palms in the Kofa CountryBy HAROLD O. WEIGHT 17A test of your desert knowledge 22Consolation, and other poems 23About those who write for Desert Magazine . 24Desert Pageantry at Easter 25Desert BuilderBy JOAN F. DAVIES 26From Here and There on the Desert .... 29Current News of Desert Mines 38Comments from Desert's readers 38Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 39Amateur Gem Cutter, By Lelande Quick ... 40Gems and Minerals 41Just Between You and Me, by the Editor ... 46Reviews of Southwest Literature 48
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 ManagerMARION HEWES, Associate Editor MARTIN MORAN, Circulation 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 KATESOne Year
. . .
$3.50
Two
Years
. . .
$8.00Canadian Subscriptions
25c
Extra, Foreign
50c
ExtraSubscription
to
Army Personnel Outside
U. S. A.
Must
Be
Mailed
in
Conformity With
P.
O. D.
Order
No.
19687Address Correspondence
to
Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, California
APRIL,
1949
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