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. $1.00 doz.Ster. Silver Bails
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DESERT MAGAZINE
 
DESERT CALENDAR
Feb.
1—Annual
Gold Rush
Day and
Dons Club Trek, Wickenburg, Ariz.
Feb.
6-7 —
Annual Square DanceFestival
and
Fiddlers Jamboree.Phoenix. Arizona.
Feb.
6-8 —
Imperial Valley CarrotCarnival, Holtville, California.
Feb.
8 —
Dons Club travelcade
to
Cave Creek, from Phoenix, Ariz.
Feb.
7—Desert Museum field trip
to
Thousand Palms Oasis
and
WillisPalms. From Palm Springs,
Calif.
Feb.
7-8 —
Winter Rodeo. PalmSprings. California.
Feb.
7-8—Desert hiking, Odessa
Can-
yon, Calico
Mts.
Southern Cali-fornia Chapter, Sierra Club.
Feb.
8—Annual AH-Western Stam-pede, Arizona State Fairgrounds,Phoenix.
Feb.
8—Desert
Sun
Ranchers Rodeo.Remuda Ranch, Wickenburg, Ariz.
Feb.
14—Desert Museum field tripto Chuckawalla Mountains, sidetrip
to
historic Granite Wells
on
the
old
Bradshaw Stage route. FromPalm Springs, California.
Feb.
14-15—Junior Chamber
of Com-
merce Rodej, Yuma, Arizona.
Feb.
15—Calf roping. Western
Sad-
dle Club, Squaw Peak Arena,Phoenix, Arizona.
Feb.
15—Dors Club travelcade
to
Montezuma Castle
and
TuzigootRuins, from Phoenix, Arizona.
Feb.
18-23—Riverside County Fairand National Date Festival, Fair-grounds, Indio, California.
Feb.
21-22 —
Desert Museum over-night trip
to
Hole-in-the-Rock
in
Providence
Mts.
Side trip
to pic-
tographs
in Old
Woman
Mts.
FromPalm Springs, California.
Feb.
21-22 —
Desert Peaks section.Southern California Chapter. SierraClub hike
in
Whipple
Mts.,
nearParker
Dam,
California. Joint
out-
ing with
San
Diego Chapter.
Feb.
21-23—Hike
to
Bear Palm Oasis,near
La
Quinta, California. South-ern California Chapter, Sierra Club.
Feb.
22—Desert
Sun
Ranchers Rodeo.Rancho
de Los
Caballeros, Wick-enburg, Arizona.
Feb.
22—Bandollero tour
to
YumaTest Station, Yuma, Arizona.
Feb.
22—Dons Club travelcade
to
St. Johns Mission, from Phoenix,Arizona.
Feb.
22-Marcr
1—Fifth
Annual
Cac-
tus Show, Desert Botanical
Gar-
dens, Phoerix, Arizona.
Feb.
23—Annual Miniature Paradein connection with MaricopaCounty Fair, Mesa, Arizona.
Feb.
24—Twenty-fifth annual meet-ing
of
members
of the
Museum
of
Arizona,
Flagstaff,
Arizona.
Feb.
28—Gymkhana, Western SaddleClub, Squav/ Peak Arena. Phoenix,Arizona.
Feb.
2-8—Desert Museum field trip
to
calcite mine west
of
Salton
Sea in
California's Coachella Valley. FromPalm Springs, California.
Feb.
28-March 8—California
Mid-
Winter Fair. Imperial, California.
Volume
16
FEBRUARY.
1953
Number
2
COVERCALENDARPHOTOGRAPHYGHOST TOWNCONTESTEXPLORATIONADVENTUREEXPERIENCELOST MINEDESERT QUIZPOETRYMININGLETTERSFICTIONWILDFLOWERSCLOSE-UPSNEWSLAPIDARYHOBBYCOMMENTBOOKS
Desert Lily, by Harry Vroman of Anaheim, CaliforniaFebruary events on the desert 3Pictures of the Month 4Ghost Fortress in New MexicoBy NELL MURBARGER 5Prizes for photographers 10Boat Trip in Mo-jave CanyonBy CLINTON R. HULL 11Bed and Grub in a KnapsackBy WELDON F. HEALD 16Life on the DesertBy LOUISE SWITZER THOMPSON ... 21Quest for the Peralta GoldBy ROBERT L. ©ARMAN 22A test of your desert knowledge 24The Ship Rock, and other poems 25Current news of desert mines 26Comment from Desert's readers 27Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 29Desert's forecast for 1953 29About those who write for Desert 29From Here and There on the Desert . . . . 31Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK . . 36Gems and Minerals 37Just Between You and Me, by the Editor ... 42Reviews of Southwestern literature 43
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
1953 by the
Desert Press,
Inc.
Permission
to
reproduce contentsmust
be
secured from
the
editor
in
writing.RANDALL HENDERSON, EditorBESS STACY, Business ManagerMARGARET GERKE, Associate EditorMARTIN 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 RATESOne Year $3.50
Two
Years $6.00Canadian Subscriptions
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50c
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Desert Magazine,
Palm Desert, California
FEBRUARY,
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