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BAD WATER

279.6 FEET
BELOW SEA LEVEL
LOWEST POINT IN THE
WESTERNHEMISPHERE
Desolation Canyon in Death Valley. Scene of the first annual encampment
program held two years ago.

Thousands Plan Trek to Death Valley


SSEMBL1NG TO honor the memory of early lights of the Saturday evening program on the outdoor
Western pioneers, thousands of families will at- pavilion of Furnace Creek ranch.
tend the third annual Death Valley Encampment Several exhibits are planned for both days. Gem and
December 1 and 2 at famous Furnace Creek, California. mineral societies will show their best specimens from the
Overnight camping under the stars is fun looked for- four counties represented in the encampment — Los
ward to by many who have made the trek before. Out- Angeles, Kern, Inyo and San Bernardino. The Death
door clothes, duffels, cooking utensils, dishes and food Valley area is one of the most amazing geological regions
are included on a camping list published by the Death in the world and has yielded many interesting mineralogi-
Valley '49ers, non-profit sponsors of the annual pioneer cal specimens.
observance. Water is available and fire wood will be sold A fine collection of paintings, picturing scenes of
at Furnace Creek ranch. southwest desert and mountain regions, has been as-
Sunday morning, campers will arise at dawn for a sembled by John W. Hilton and his committee. Floyd D.
four-mile trek to Desolation canyon, for sunrise religious Evans has arranged a photographic exhibit which will
services in this beautiful natural sanctuary. open December 1 and continue for two weeks in the
Rededication of the Death Valley marker at Furnace lounge of Furnace Creek Inn.
Creek will follow the Authors' Outdoor Barbecue Break- The '49ers extend an invitation to everyone interested
fast at Furnace Creek golf course. Guests of honor, 12 in the West. John Anson Ford, president, especially urges
celebrated writers of Western lore and fiction, are sched- families to take advantage of the outdoor camping op-
uled speakers. portunity. The week-end program is designed to appeal
Square dancing and community singing are high- to all ages.

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DESERT CALENDAR
November 22-25—Southern California
Chapter of the Sierra Club plans
Thanksgiving at Furnace Creek
Camp Ground, Death Valley.
November 23-25—Sierra Club's Des-
ert Peaks Section field trip to Mount
Picacho and Castle Dome, north of
Yuma in Arizona.
November 24-25—Brawley Gem and
Mineral society show, Brawley
Union High School, Brawley, Cali-
fornia.
December 1 — "Shalako" celebration
and house dances, Zuni Pueblo.
New Mexico. Volume 14 DECEMBER, 1951 Number 14
December 1—International Children's
Xmas Parade, Calexico, California.
December 1-2 — Death Valley En- COVER DEATH VALLEY IN WINTER, Kodachrome picture
campment, Airport, near Furnace t a k e n b y Josef Muench, S a n t a Barbara, California
Creek, Death Valley, California.
December 1-31 — Special Exhibit, PAGEANTRY Dsath Valley E n c a m p m e n t 2
Archeological Collection from the
Highlands of Mexico. Southwest CALENDAR December events on the desert 3
Museum, Los Angeles, California.
EXPLORATION Golden Treasure of Tule C a n y o n
December 2—Sierra Club, Southern
California Chapter, trip to Kitch- 4
By NELL MURBARGER
ing Peak, southwest peak in the
San Bernardino range. POETRY 10
Sentinels of the Desert a n d other p o e m s . .
December 3—Palm Springs National FIELD TRIP
Dog Show, Polo Grounds, Palm Opalite en the Road to Cibola
Springs, California. 11
By HAROLD O. WEIGHT
December 8-9—Sierra Club's Desert EDUCATION Forgotten Children of the Great White Father
Peaks Section climb to Rabbit Peak, By LOUISE GERDTS 16
Santa Rosa Mountains.
December 10-12 — Pilgrimage and FICTION Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley . . . . 19
celebration by Tagua Indians, Las
Cruces, New Mexico. CLOSE-UPS About those w h o write for Desert 19
December 11—Eve of Feast Day of
Nuestro Senora de Guadalupe. LETTERS Comment from Desert's r e a d e r s 20
Celebrated in Taos and Santa Fe,
New Mexico. INDIANS Turtles for T e w a q u a p t e w a
December 15-16 — Overnight Field By HARRY JAMES . . . . . . . . 22
Trip to Parker Dam and Havasu
Lake. Palm Springs Desert Mu- MINING Current n e w s of desert mines 24
seum, Palm Springs. California.
December 16—Don's Club trek to NEWS From Here a n d There on the Desert . . . . 25
Fort McDowell, Phoenix, Arizona. CONTEST 30
December 16-31 — Nightly pageant A n n o u n c e m e n t for p h o t o g r a p h e r s . . . .
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ert." Palm Springs Desert Mu-
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DECEMBER, 195 1
From Goldpoint, the road to Tide canyon crosses I Ada valley, a wide, flat, unin-
habited expanse dotted with Joshua trees.

No one knows when gold first

Golden Treasure was discovered in Nevada's


Tule Canyon. The Indians prob-
ably were there before the white
men came — at least some of

of Tule Canyon their ancient artifacts have been


unearthed. Today, after a cen-
tury of known mining activity, a
few prospectors still work the
old placer ground, and occasion-
By NELL MURBARGER ally they find sizeable nuggets
which survived the gold rush of
Photographs by the author an earlier period.
Map by Norton Allen
California-Nevada state line into the
NDER THE hot blanket of mid- founding of this once-important min- north end of Death Valley, just north-
day, the old Nevada mining ing center, he has shared every phase east of Sand Springs. Its chief interest
camp of Goldpoint lay napping of its shifting fortune for nearly 50 lies in the fact that it is one of the
on its sun-seared mountain. Neither years. And now, with the old camp earliest placer mining centers in Ne-
dog, nor burro, nor human being — tottering on the brink of oblivion, with vada.
not even a stray breath of air — ap- barely a dozen inhabitants remaining,
"No man living," he continued, "can
peared to be stirring; and but for my it is Harry who stays on to operate its
remember when Tule wasn't being
own car, not a wheel disturbed the surviving store and service station. In
mined, either by Indians, Chinese,
silence of Main street. addition, his store houses the post-
whites, or Mexicans. Official mining
Parking in the thin shade of a lone office—managed by Mrs. Wiley—and reports have suggested the possibility
Joshua tree in front of the general Harry is perenially reelected to the that mining may have been carried on
store, I brushed the accumulated dust office of state senator. here before the big California gold
from my levis and crossed the splin- Following the usual comments con- rush of 1849; and when old timers,
tered porch to the open door. The cerning health, weather, and condition like Bill Scott and Alexander Palm,
room that lay beyond was small and of roads, I steered the conversation came to Tule in 1872, the canyon sides
crowded and dark; but in the cordial around to the reason for my visit. were already studded wi.th abandoned
greeting and friendly handclasp of its "This place you mentioned in your mines, and there were ruins of old
proprietor lay a welcome as big and letter," I asked, "this Tule Canyon . . . stone walls laid so many years before
sincere as all outdoors. just what is the nature of it?" that no one had any idea who their
To Goldpoint, Harry Wiley is sort "You'll like it!" declared Harry with builders might have been.
of an institution; an unofficial mayor, conviction. "It's a deep wide canyon "What's more important," he added,
information bureau, and Rotary club 15 miles long. Mainly it lies in Ne- warming to the subject, "there's still
all rolled into one. Present at the vada, but its delta stretches across the gold at Tule . . . and men are still

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Harold Strom and the dry-washer with which he works the placer deposits
of Tide canyon. In the pan are some of the larger nuggets he has recovered
in recent months, ranging in value from $5 to $15 each.

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you want a story about Tule and can
spare a couple of days, why don't you
come along? We'll see that you get
plenty to eat and a shack to sleep in,
and tomorrow we'll take the jeep and
explore the canyon from one end to
the other. What do you say?"
Thirty minutes later we had taken
our leave of Harry Wiley and the
sheriff, and my car was bumping across
the Nevada desert in the wake of Fred
Green's jeep.
From Goldpoint, our road dropped
down the mountainside to the wide,
semi-barrenness of Lida Valley. After
boring into the west for 10 miles, we
came to the brink of a rocky ravine,
nosed down its side in a short, steep
pitch, and turned into the sandy wash
that floored the cut from wall to wall.
This was Tule Canyon. Here were
old mine workings without end —
mountainous piles of tailings and scat-
tered prospect holes, an occasional
hillside tunnel; now and then a long-
abandoned dug-out, or the tumbled
ruins of an old stone cabin. Even from
the moving car it was obvious that a
great deal of mining activity had been
carried on here over a long period of
years—a span which possibly bridged
completely the West's great saga of
gold.
Modern prospectors oj Tule canyon claims, Raymond (left) and Oscar Five miles down the wash, Fred's
Williams sit before their desert cabin and recall with Fred Green (right) jeep came to a halt at Roosevelt Well,
the history of this ancient mining area. an unfailing source of water named
half a century ago when Rough Rider
mining it! A fellow dry-washing on knowledge of Tule extends for a con- Teddy was prominent in the nation's
my claim last spring, took out an $80 siderable distance back into history. news. Turning industriously in the up-
nugget and a jarful of coarse gold rang- As the afternoon wore on and the canyon draft, a windmill sent its spurt-
ing from the size of turnip seed to nug- sun dropped lower over the rocky ing stream of water through a two-
gets worth five and ten dollars each. range to the west, Harry and Fred and inch pipe into a wooden tank, the over-
"Well," he interrupted himself, "how the sheriff regaled me with tales of the flow of which was quickly reclaimed
does it sound?"' canyon; anecdotes of its early days by the thirsty sands of the wash.
"It sounds," I replied, "like more! and the men and women who had lived On a low bench to the southwest
A lot more!" there, and died there. stood a group of wooden shacks and
"Tell you what," suggested the Sen- Mostly they talked of "Honest Tom" the ruins of a mill—remnants of a
ator, "let's go talk with Fred Green. Jaggers, an incredible character, who small mining camp that was estab-
He and the Williams boys hold most had drifted into Tule in the middle lished here years ago by Harry Stimler,
of the placer ground in the area, my 1890's, his belongings packed on a one of two partners who made the
claims being a notable exception, and very small and very skinny burro. original strike at Goldfield. Unlike the
Fred's dug up a lot of Tule's early "He always wore a Prince Albert Goldfield development, Stimler's ef-
history." coat and a tall silk hat," recalled Harry. forts at Roosevelt were not marked by
Leaving the store and postofh'ce to The sheriff nodded, and grinned. any great success and the camp was
their own devices, we ambled down "Yeah . . . and a holster with two short-lived. About five years ago, its
the street to Fred Green's place. A big guns in it! He claimed to be a right abandoned buildings had become the
lifelong miner, himself, and the son bad hombre, too; said he had killed headquarters of Fred Green and the
and grandson of miners, Fred was more than one man and wouldn't stand Williams brothers, a pair of veteran
born in Grass Valley, California—the for any damned foolishness. I don't desert miners from the vicinity of
world's greatest cradle of gold-mining know . . . We always fgured it was Florence, Arizona.
lore. After a boyhood spent there and just likker talk." Our unexpected arrival in camp
in the wild and woolly boom camp of "Tom had a mine he called the 'Dark found the Williams boys already at
Bodie, he made the rounds of the min- Secret'," put in Fred Green. "The supper; and of all strange sights to
ing country—up and down, over and shaft's about a mile below our camp. encounter in an all-bachelor mining
across — until the dream of reviving The arrastre where he crushed his ore camp, they were eating on a green-
Tule came to possess him. is still there, too; but the rock cabin and-white checked tablecloth, spot-
Greetings had barely been exchanged where he lived is mostly in ruins. lessly clean and beautifully ironed!
before our impromptu conference was "Look," Fred continued. "I'm going Extra places were quickly laid for Fred
joined by Sheriff Ed Kitchen, of Es- over to the canyon tonight to see my and me, and Oscar's good cooking
meralda c o u n t y , whose first-hand partners, Oscar and Ray Williams. If found a readv market.

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By the time we had finished supper, a dinner plate, lay ten Indian artifacts, two remaining relics consisted of a
dusk was creeping down the canyon. eight of which would seem to have no broken spearhead and a long pointed
Every pocket and ravine in the Slate other use than as possible digging or pebble, with man-made grooves en-
range to the east held its dark pool of scraping tools. All expertly chipped, circling either end. Over the entire
shadows. Ten miles to the west, the they are flatly-oval in shape, and about collection lay a light accumulation of
9400-foot summit of Last Chance three by five inches in breadth. The earth, possibly blown there by the
range was silhouetted blackly against Indian artifacts found in ancient mine workings at Tule canyon. The tools,
the lingering flame of sunset. Ubehebe evidently used for digging or scraping, indicate early exploitation of the
crater loomed as a dark blotch on the area's resources.
mountainside, a little way to the south;
and beyond, lay all the terrifying maj-
esty of Death Valley—now peaceful
and mysterious in the soft glow of the
rising moon.
During the two days that followed,
mining activities came to a halt while
Fred and the Williams boys introduced
me to the canyon.
As Harry Wiley had said, the early
history of Tule is largely lost; and
when, or by whom, its gold deposits
were first discovered is something that
no man seems to know. The govern-
ment-sponsored Wheeler Survey of
1871 reported only two men then
working "in the once-famous Tule Can-
yon;" the inference being that this
period of fame had occurred many
years previously.
While examining an old open-cut
operation, the Williams boys recently
made an interesting discovery having
possible bearing on some of the can-
yon's earliest activities. Near the cen-
ter of this cut, in an area the size of

DECEMBER, 1951
wind, or caved down from the bank formerly a Chinese hotel. With com- the gulch toward the top of the ridge,
above. pletion of the Pacific Railroad in 1869, I could see that nearly every foot of
If these pieces actually were used in Chinese laborers had fanned out over the way was marked by signs of past
mining—as their presence in the cut Nevada and into every mining camp mining activity — prospect holes and
would seem to indicate—then Tide's whose occupants would tolerate their small tailing piles, broken shovels and
production must have had its begin- presence. Some of these wandering square-cut nails and fragments of des-
ning during prehistoric Stone Age Celestials had found their way to Tule. ert-purpled glass.
times. "When the Robinsons came to Tule Just before topping the skyline, Har-
in the early '90s," said Fred, "there old halted at a spot quite similar to a
Traveling up-canyon in the jeep, our were 45 or 50 Chinese living in the
first stop was at Rachford (or Rad- dozen spots passed previously, and
canyon. According to Doug, they were said it was here that the old Mexican
ford) Spring, one of the area's more natural placer miners. They never
famous landmarks. Pouring into an miner had found his famous $900 nug-
worked virgin ground—probably never get.
ancient barrel from a two-inch pipe, were permitted that advantage. In-
an endless stream of cold sparkling stead, they bought worked-out and "From what I've heard, this Mara-
water overflows the container, spreads abandoned claims from the whites; jilda must have been quite a miner,"
across a few square yards of ground, and even in such unpromising ground, said Fred. "He worked in Tule Can-
and is greedily absorbed by the wash. they occasionally hit rich pockets. One yon through the 1870s and '80s, gen-
Watercress and other tender plants claim, that had been mined and re- erally selling his gold at the Harris &
carpet the oasis; and a thicket of wil- mined by the whites, was purchased Rhine store in Independence, Cali-
lows, grown up around the spring, pro- by a Chinese named Sing Kee. In only fornia. This $900 piece was cashed
vides cool haven for a galaxy of birds a few weeks time he had taken out there in 1873."
and four-footed creatures of the des- $1400! About 60 years ago, according to
ert night. my informants, Old Marajilda came
East of the spring stands a dilapi- " 'They stayed much to themselves,' to an unhappy end.
dated wooden barn and a small stone Doug says. 'Even had their own The winter of 1889-90 was extrem-
cabin—all that remains of the one-time stores and observed their own national ely severe in Tule Canyon, which lies
way station known as Rachford's. holidays. On Chinese New Year they between 3500 and 7000 feet elevation.
Tule Canyon never had a business always celebrated with firecrackers and After many days of sub-zero tempera-
district of any great extent, but for a big feast. They cooked on oven-like tures and deep snows, not even pack
quite a few years it supported a school, stoves, made of baked mud; and when trains could get through the mountains
and postoffice and at least one store— they decided to move they traveled to outlying camps; and Marajilda be-
this establishment changing location as light, packing all their belongings in came one of many miners whose food
it changed ownership. At one period two baskets suspended from a pole supply was eventually exhausted.
in the canyon's history, it seemed, this carried on their shoulders'."
Floundering through the mountain-
center of commercialism had been at Continuing through the canyon, our ous snowdrifts, the old man finally had
Rachford's. At a still earlier time, route never strayed far from the old made his way over the range to Lida.
when the store had been owned by "Piper Toll Road," built in the early There he reprovisioned and began the
"Dutch Chris" Senner, both town and 1870's by Sam Piper, pioneer rancher return trip to Tule, carrying on his
postoffice went by his name. of Fish Lake Valley. In the peaceful back a 50-pound sack of flour and
loneliness of that summer morning, it assorted groceries. By the time he
Although the Senner postoffice was was difficult to visualize this rutted,
officially established by Uncle Sam, reached the junction of Water Canyon
brush-grown trail, as a one-time artery and Tule, he was close to exhaustion,
and all the forms and supplies neces- of commerce linking the busy mining
sary to its operation were sent, no and sat down for a rest.
centers of Palmetto, Tule Canyon, and
contract was ever let for mail delivery Gold Mountain. Long-line teams and Several days later a passing party
between that isolated office and the ponderous freight wagons; shouting, of miners found him still sitting there,
outside world. swearing 'skinners, and toll gates and frozen to death. With great difficulty
As a result of this never-corrected activity, all belonged to a period far too a grave was chipped from the frozen
oversight, patrons of the Senner post- remote to be readily recaptured. ground and the dead man lowered into
office received their mail only when it in a sitting position, the body being
some public-spirited citizen volunteered Turning off the road, Fred sent the frozen too rigidly to be straightened.
his free service as a mail carrier. For jeep down a rough side trail leading Back at the cabin Harold reached
years this was done regularly, accord- to a tar-papered cabin on the mining into a secret repository and brought
ing to Douglas Robinson of Bishop, claim of Harry Wiley. Operating a forth two containers, one of them
California. Mr. Robinson, whose father dry-washer in the front yard was a holding several ounces of coarse gold.
owned and operated the Senner store middle-aged man whom my host intro- In the other lay six magnificent nug-
from 1891 until 1897, recalls making duced as Harold Strom—a former en- gets, the largest a beautifully-shaped
scores of horseback trips to meet the graver and printer who had long before buttery-yellow piece worth more than
mail stage at Palmetto, and later at exchanged his city job for a gold-pan $80! The entire lot, he said, had been
Lida. and pick. recovered by him in recent months
"As you can see," sdd Fred, "he using a dry-washer and working within
Leaving Rachford's, we continued to hasn't missed many meals! Nell's a few hundred yards of the Wiley
climb through the canyon, making our writing a story about Tule Canyon," cabin.
way between great heaps of placer he went on to explain. "I told her To forestall any ill-advised gold-rush
tailings and past the ruins of old stone you'd show her where Marajilda got it should be mentioned that, despite
and log cabins, and rock foundations. his big nugget." the evidence of Harold's success, Tule
For the most part they were virtually Only a few rods southwest of the Canyon is no longer the answer to a
obliterated, both time and cloudbursts cabin, Harold led us into the mouth wandering prospector's dream. Every
having claimed heavy toll. of Big Nugget Gulch, a sharply-inclined foot of ground in the area is already
One of the more extensive stone ravine in the canyon's south wall. As claimed; and, even if open ground were
ruins, according to local legend, was we scrambled up the rocky bottom of available, it still takes a vast amount

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of patience and know-how to reap a ery process is built into a floating unit project will also make its contribution
living from a dry-washer. Particularly that moves its pond by excavating toward the nation's defense."
from ground which has been mined from the front side and refilling the So there you have the story of fa-
and re-mined by succeeding genera- rear. By utilizing both the canyon's mous old Tule Canyon—a story still
tion of resourceful and determined considerable sub-surface flow and the incomplete, both in its beginning and
men. issue from all available springs, Fred ending.
All logical and geological reason- and the Williamses feel confident that After three days spent with Fred
ing seems to indicate that the bulk of sufficient water may be impounded in and the Williams boys, I bade them
Tide's remaining wealth is not con- the canyon to float a dredge of 6000- goodbye and headed my car back up
tained in her tributary gulches, but in yards-daily capacity. By working the the wash toward Goldpoint and home.
her great central trough and adjacent ground on this scale, they believe that Driving past the great mounds of
deltas, where wash sands and gravel the vast yardage of low-pay near-sur- tailings and tumbled ruins, the aban-
have been deposited to considerable face gravel may be handled cheaply doned shafts and tunnels and brush-
depths. enough to enable a profitable working grown trails, it was impossible not to
of the material from 10 to 15 feet
To the Williams boys and Fred above bedrock, in which is generally realize that men's hopes have a per-
Green, who control most of the ground concentrated the bulk of the gold and sistent way of slipping their halters.
in the canyon and nearby valleys, as water. On the other hand, every great mining
camp the world has ever known, once
well as the main water rights, Tule has
While Tule's entire background is was only that shimmering stuff of which
never appeared as a poor man's para-
based on gold, the possibility of re- dreams are made.
dise, but as a dredging prospect seemed covering other values is not beinj over-
As I halted on the rim of the can-
to hold definite promise. Today, after looked, Oscar Williams pointed out. yon for one last look down its sinuous
five years devoted to preliminary test- The Tule area is known to contain length, I knew that if the vision and
ing and development work, the part- certain useful and rare earth elements faith and plain sweat-and-blood labor
ners are more than ever convinced that that may be added to its productive of three desert miners can swing it,
this is the only answer to the canyon's possibilities. this rocky old treasure chest on the
successful exploitation.
"As some of these minerals are of lip of Death Valley will one day find
In the dredging method of opera- strategic importance," Oscar added, itself coming back in a rousing Twen-
tion, the combined mining and recov- "we are hopeful that our gold mining tieth century encore.
Big Nugget Gulch, tributary of Tule Canyon, where much placer mining has been
done, as evidenced by the gravel dumps on the hillside.

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SentitteU o( t&e 'Detent
(To the Giant Cactus)
By ETHEL MICHELLE
Phoenix, Arizona
Tall and straight on burning sand
Sentinels of the desert stand;
With arms upraised and heads unbent.
Reaching toward the firmament.
They rise in attitude of prayer
And humbly ask the Father there
For guidance in their vast command
O'er all that grows on desert land.
God made them tall so they could see
Afar out o'er His Monarchy;
He gave them arms to safely hold
All desert life within their fold.
Not time nor wind nor sun imparts
A faltering within their hearts;
They know their duties to perform
In face of elements and storm.
Stately, staunch, on burning sand.
Sentinels of the desert stand
Undaunted in their destiny
To lead their kind by God's decree:
Faithful to their high estate,
They stand in humbleness and wait
For outstretched arms that seek their
own
For guidance through the Great
Unknown.
CHRISTMAS ON THE RANGE
By THELMA BLACK
Whittier, California
There's never the sound of Christmas bells.
Nor the gleam of new fallen snow.
The only chimes are jingling spurs
Or cowbells far and low.
And a glistening flat of alkali
Spreading beneath the sun,
The snow of the range white and clean.
Unnoticed and unsung.
But no where else is the Star so close
Or mirage so clear in the night
Of camels and their riders three
Facing the beckoning light.
A cactus may be a Christmas tree.
To some it may look strange
And reindeers may be wild mustangs
When it's Christmas on the range.
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DESERT SMOKE
By ORA LEE PARTHESIUS
Photograph by Josef Mnench Salt Lake City, Utah
I saw a violet puff of smoke
THE PROSPECTOR I'm monarch of this lonely w:ld! Swirl in the bright dry air
By E. A. BRININSTOOL I bow the knee to God alore! And hurried along the sandy wash—
Los Angeles, California To these vast deeps I'm reconciled— To find no dwelling there,
My cabin walls are rough and rude. The mountains are my kingly throne!
My bed is hard; my fare is coarse. Only grey growing in the sand,
And yet I love this solitude, Its branching dignity
And every stream, from mouth to source. Softened with purple flowering—
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT Smoke shaped to a living tree.
All day I delve for hidden gold, By MARGARET BALLOUGH Perhaps a pioneer cabin's fire
The object of my heart's desire. Albion, Michigan Kindled by faith's warm glow,
And when the day is growing old. Left its pungent purple smoke
J smoke beside my friendly fire. Across the night of Human Will
God caused His Star to glow— Behind to root and grow.
And, basking in its cheery blaze, Bequest to earth His, "Peace, be still. . ."
I watch the leaping flames, and dream For all the world to know.
Of old-time friends, and other days, 'Twas then in form of Babe so small,
When eyes of love in mine did gleam. His Word on earth to te;.ch,
That humanly, to touch us all, By TANYA SOUTH
Within the firelight's ruddy cheer. Christ came within our reach. There is purpose for our sorrow,
The voices of the night are all How right, in form of Child so Pure There is purpose for each tear
The sounds which greet my tired ear, That God should send His Truth That we weep, for thus we borrow
Or penetrate my cabin wall. To earth in heart unfettered, sure Strength to overcome our fear,
Of welcome for this Youth Faith to lean on Higher Powers,
And when I seek my humble bed, Sublime in Spirit. From that hour Love to kindle for the rest,
And wrapped in gentle slumber lie, Of understanding, Truth and Right, Truth to light our darkest hours,
The night-winds sing about my head (Reflecting His Divine Pov/er), And the will to do our best.
Their low-crooned, soothing lullaby. Grew. Then—out of darkness—Light!

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Two specimens of the material from Opalite hill. That on the left is cut from one
of the small nodules and is orange-red, white and taffy in color. The piece on the
right might at first be mistaken for opal wood—brown shades with white in the
brecciated area.

OpaliteontheRoadtoCibola
In the Arizona valley of Cibola rises a gently-sloping hill generously Cabin on the west. This stone ruin
sprinkled with opalite. Lucile Weight had glimpsed the opal field and has been a landmark for travelers since
determined to return for thorough exploration. Her husband writes of the first settlers came through, and no
their trip and tells the history of a now-dead desert town. one knows when it was built or by
By HAROLD O. WEIGHT whom. Bill Keiser, of Quartzsite, be-
lieves it was constructed by forgotten
Photographs by the author French miners who long ago worked
Map by Norton Allen lead-silver deposits near the Colorado.
On this trip we found that a service
station had been built at Stone Cabin
T LAST I have visited Cibola. establish a town in that wild land, since we had last been that way.
Not, of course, the fabulous more than half a century ago, and
seven golden cities of Cibola why? What had happened to this The turnoff to Cibola valley lies 5.4
for which Francisco Vasquez de Coro- dream of Cibola? miles north of Stone Cabin, .2 of a
nado searched in 1540—those cities Lucile also had a special interest in mile beyond one of the danger signs
of Cibola turned out to be the mud this portion of Arizona. In November, erected by the Army to warn of pos-
and stone pueblos of the Zuni. This 1946, she had made a field trip into sible unexp'oded shells left from the
Cibola which 1 visited is a valley along the nearby Chocolate Mountains, with training days of World War II. At the
the lush bottomlands of the Colorado the Imperial Valley Gem and Mineral time we were there last, the only mark-
river in Arizona. society, hunting chalcedony roses. Be- ing on the turnoff was a "Jim's Boat
Once it had a city—or at least a cause of the rough trail into the col- Landing" sign. We turned left on the
village—of Cibola, too. In fact, you'll lecting field, the r o c k h u n t e r s had dirt road and followed it up the ba-
find it marked on most current road headed north when leaving it. Just be- jada, across the old dirt Yuma-Quartz^
maps—a neat round circle at the end fore they reached the Cibola road, site road, and to the base of the South
of an unimproved dirt road. Accord- they had come upon a little hill gen- Trigo Peaks. Just before reaching them
ing to the mapmakers, that circle indi- erously sprinkled with colorful, high- we crossed the worst bit of trail on
cates a population of "under 1000." grade opalite. There had been little the entire trip—a little "sink" area
Well, as far back as 1920, Cibola had time to explore the field, and ever which is deep, soft dust when dry and
only 19 residents. Today there is only since, Lucile had wanted to return. which would be impossible when wet.
a scattering of ranchers and river fish- So, in April, with Eva Wilson, who As it reaches the ragged buttes at
ing camps in the valley, and the visitor also had been on the original field trip, the base of the Peaks, the road swings
who depends upon supplies and ac- we left El Centro, crossed the dunes sharply to the right. We took a little
commodations at the "town" of Cibola and the river to Yuma, and neaded travelled trail which swung as sharply
will be doing well if he can determine north on the Quartzsite highway. Al- to the left, and which circles a small
even where the town once stood. though Cibola is less than 50 miles butte close to the road. This butte
Arizona's Cibola had fascinated me from Yuma on a direct line, it is carries the opalite on its northwestern
since I first saw the name on a map. nearly 100 miles by road. In fact, in sides, but those who wish to camp in
Why should this spot on the Colorado, the early days, the accepted route from the area should continue, as we did,
about 45 air-miles north of Yuma and Yuma was across the river into Cali- around the butte. On its south and
20 south of Blythe, have been named fornia, up to Picacho, then across again west are innumerable campsites, as
for the legendary land that brought by ferry. perfect as any that will be found on
the first large European expedition into On Highway 95, 56.4 miles from the desert. The whole area is firmly
the Southwest? Who had attempted to Yuma, we passed the historic Stone paved with small, dark, desert-var-

DECEMBER, 195 11
forms—chunks that may come from
ledges, and peculiar reddish-coated
nodules which are flatish or built up
into conical (and comical) little
domes. The nodules range upward
from two inches to about a foot. They
offer the finest, most waxy and unusual
cutting material. But the chunks offer
more variety in pattern and may be
obtained in larger pieces. One we dug
out was too large to carry to the pickup,
so we left it for a more ambitious col-
lector.
With a wide variety of specimens,
we broke camp before noon and
headed for Cibola. In less than half
a mile, we came upon a blooming sa-
guaro beside the trail which offered
an urgent photographic challenge. None
of us, at that time, had taken any real
closeups of the giant cactus blooms.
Here I could pull the truck right up
beneath one fine blossom, and we
could practically shoot down its throat,
using the back of the truck as a cam-
era perch. After we had taken turns
saying "Look pleasant, please," which
the creamy blossom did, and Lucile
had counted 49 buds besides the single
bloom, we continued.
The trail to Cibola. in this season,
proved an unforgettable Sonoran des-
ert trip, as the road wound through
the ragged volcanic buttes. across
broad washes, and always among col-
author and Mrs. Weight inspect a huge piece of opal, fallen from a orful blooming trees and shrubs. At
ledge and too large to carry away. last we came out into the great river
valley. Below we could see the giant
nished rocks over which a car can be And the temperature was ideal. silver snake of the Colorado, looping
driven almost anywhere. Spotted over When at last we went to bed. we slept through the cottonwoods and mes-
the paving are lines and clumps of between blankets while occasional gen- quites. Across, on the California shore,
saguaro, palo verdc, ironwood, oco- tle breezes kept the air in motion. The we could pick out the familiar shapes
tillo, creosote, Bigelow and deerhorn heat of the day was forgotten. Even of the Palo Verdes, the Mule Moun-
cholla. And there is plenty of dead it had not been too bad—certainly a tains, Double Butte, the Chuckawallas
wood scattered everywhere. It is quite small price to pay for the wonderful and the Black Hills—all familiar rock-
a populated area, too—we found the display of flowering shrubs and trees hunting grounds. All the way down we
nests of many packrats in untidy, that we had seen. had been following the "Jim's Boat
cholla-protected heaps among the veg- Landing" signs. Now, not far above
etation, and the neat holes of the wood- Early in the morning we started our
rockhunt, and almost immediately we the river, we came to a main divide.
peckers—some of them usurped by The right branch headed up the river
elf owls—in the saguaros. found the opalitc. 1 call it opalite for
want of a better name—but it most to come out, finally, on Highway 60
It was almost dusk when we arrived, closely resembled the pastelite of the and 70, east of Ehrenberg. This was
and we did no rockhunting that night. Black Hills of Imperial county, Cali-
But a great moon—one of those desert fornia. The patterns are less striking
moons by whose light it literally is pos- — but there is a greater variety of
sible to read newsprint—made the set- TRIGO OPALITE ROAD LOG
colors, and the mixture of colors and 00.0 Turn west from Highway 95 onto
ting up of camp an easy job. And our the quality is equal to that of the pas- dirt Cibola Lake road. Turnoff
late dinner—eaten at nine p.m.—was telite. The predominating shades are is 61.6 miles north of Yuma (5.4
enjoyed by the combined light of the rose and pinks in varying intensities, miles north of Stone Cabin sta-
moon and a campfire of ironwood and tion) and 22.5 miles south of
some reaching red. But we also found Quartzsite.
dead palo verde. specimens of white, dark translucent,
We sat late around the fire. It was 00.8 Cross dirt road and continue
flesh tints and pale orange. west.
too beautiful a night to waste in sleep-
The opalite hill is comparatively 03.4 Short stretch of dust and chuck-
ing. The magnificent, park-like land holes, bad in wet weather.
was visible for a great distance under small, and the other buttes in the im-
mediate vicinity, which we checked. 04.2 Turn left from Cibola road on
the moonlight. The harsh mountains faint tracks which follow south
were softened by black pockets of did not seem to carry any of the same and west around base of reddish
shadow. The dark pavement glittered. material. However, it is quite abun- butte. Opalite will be found on
The palo verdes, ironwoods and sagu- dant on the one hill, and still more can north and west sides of this butte;
good desert pavement camping
aros—all in bloom—were the vege- be dug out when the surface float is areas on west of it.
tation of another world. exhausted. It occurs in two distinct

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the road most frequently used by Ci-
bola valley inhabitants, as Blythe, Cali-
fornia, is their postoffice and nearest To WICKENBURG
trading center. We took the left road, BLYTHC
To /NO/0
continuing down the valley.
About 10 miles farther we crossed
familiar-appearing gravel and pebble
mesas. Stopping to check, we found
that these, indeed, were Colorado river :• SC' ff. Vmao'' -i'--i
deposits and that bits of chalcedony,
jasper, agate, chert and petrified wood
may be found in the gravels.
Never having been to Cibola before,
we did not know what to expect,
whether the town still existed, whether
the valley was under cultivation. The
answer soon came, as we passed num-
erous collapsed houses, ramadas, and POLARIS";'^v,;^:
foundations. At last, seeing a wind-
mill and hearing the sound of a pump,
we left the main road and headed
right, toward the river and evidences
of habitation. At the pump, we met
R. H. (Bob) Bishop.
Bob could tell us about Cibola. He
had been there—had lived in the val-
ley—since 1899. His father and older
brother had come in 1898, at the be-
ginning of the Cibola boom, by wagon
from San Diego across Imperial Val-
ley—"It was nothing but desert then."
They had started right away, with other
settlers, to build a canal to bring water
into the valley which would irrigate
crops.
Later, I found an old newspaper ac-
count of the attempt to make Cibola
valley bloom. The story which ap-

Sorne of the variety of opal-rock,


which equals in quality and is
similar in appearance to the pas-
telite of Imperial county.

DECEMBER, 195 1
13
peared in the Yuma Sun in 1899, there would be "water flowing the would have and did produce good
makes interesting reading today. length of the valley, seeds and trees crops—is "just a swamp behind Im-
"Cibola valley — so called by the springing into life and prosperous perial dam." And part of it is Cibola
original projectors of the enterprise homes inaugurated." It later specified Lake, where patrons of Jim's Boat
now nearing consummation, after the that two miles of the canal was actually Landing, farther down the river, go
name of the Zuni villages of the six- complete. fishing.
teenth century—contains 20,000 acres The colonization scheme was origi- Today Bob Bishop runs cattle and
of as fertile irrigable land as there is nated, according to the account, by raises bees. These are still—and al-
under the sun, 5000 acres susceptible Judge George U. Holcomb and C. O. ways have been the most successful
to annual overflow from the silt-laden McCarroil. Others listed as incorpo- crops of Cibola Valley. He told us
Colorado, and 5000 acres too high to rators of the Cibola Canal company— about the especially fine white mes-
be watered by gravity, making 30,000 quite honey which his bees produce.
capitalized at $25,000 which had been
acres in all, the major portion of which Bert Hart, of Quartzsite, who also owns
will very soon blossom under the in- divided into 500 shares with $50 par
value — were M. Morris, and E. G. a ranch in Cibola Valley, told us that
fluence of the application of water and when he first came—when his mother
all of which will at no distant day feel Morris. Pool, Ferguson, Baker, Jacobs
and Draper were stockholders who had ran a way station with food and lodg-
the skill of the farmer's hand." ing for travelers between Picacho and
settled in the valley.
So said the Sun half a century ago. Ehrenberg—there were never less than
It also declared that the canal which Bob Bishop had little to say about 3000 head of cattle in the valley.
would bring water to this garden-to-be, what happened to that splendid irriga-
a canal 16 miles long, 12 feet wide at tion scheme or why the canal had not As the population of the valley
the bottom and four feet deep, on the been completed. But th; dream of shrank, the troubles of the remaining
irrigable land, was nearly half com- agriculture is gone and today one-third inhabitants increased. "First they
pleted. Within a matter of months, stopped the mail service," Bob told
of the valley—the low portion which
us, "and we have to go into Blythe
for that. But we mark our mail ad-
Bob Bishop, who has lived in Cibola valley jor more than 50 years. The dress Cibola, Arizona, via General De-
slot in the door identifies this building, now become a cowboy's shack, as livery, Blythe. We put that Arizona
the former Cibola postoffice. on for we don't feel so friendly toward
California over here.
"Then they cut us off on elections
and we've had to go into Quartzsite to
vote. Now, however, they say we can
vote by absentee ballot."
Bob and a number of other Ari-
zonans also let us know that the cor-
rect pronunciation of the name is Si-
BO-la and not SEE-bo-la, as Corona-
do's cities are pronounced.
Looking at the long picture of his-
tory, it is rather odd that this spot on
the Colorado river should finally be
named Cibola. Because more than 400
years ago a Spaniard came up the
Colorado river—if not to this spot, at
least nearly to it—looking for Cibola.
His name was Hernando de Alarcon,
and his expedition reveals the utter
misconception of Western geography
from which the Spaniards suffered at
that time.
For Alarcon's job was to bring sup-
plies to Coronado by sea. In fact, all
the heavy supplies, additional armor
and arms, much food and other items
—including packages from Coronado's
wife — were loaded aboard Alarcon's
three ships, the San Pedro, San Ga-
briel and Santa Catalina, with the no-
tion that they could be shipped up
the coast and delivered either directly
to Coronado at Cibola, or at least be
brought close to that fabulous province.
Actually, of course, the farther Alar-
con and Coronado went, the farther
apart they were, and Coronado never
did receive his supplies.
But Alarcon made a bold and cour-
agous effort to fulfill his orders. He
sailed up the Gulf of California and
past the shoals where others had turned

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Above—Opalite Hill, seen from the southwest. The colorful opalite specimen and
cutting material is found on the slope (left) and on the other side of the hill.
Below—Camp close to the foot of Opalite Hill. The sharp volcanic buttes in the
background are an extension of the South Trigo Peaks.

back. His ships became stranded on How far he went, we do not know. others of us have elsewhere in more
the sands where the great tidal bore We know he passed Yuma for there prosaically named towns and cities.
in the gulf caught him. "The currents he heard stones from the Indians of It is a strange land, and beautiful,
were so strong that it was impossible Coronado's advance far to the east. We this part of western Arizona, with its
to approach one another," he wrote in know he took a small boat and trav- thousands of blooming trees in the
his official report. "We were in such eled many leagues farther up the Colo- spring, its ruggedly colorful volcanic
danger that many times the deck of rado. mountains shouldering the deep blue
the flagship was under water. Had it So perhaps Alarcon actually reached sky, its great slow river winding from
not been for a miraculous rise of the Cibola — Arizona's Cibola — and did the Grand Canyon to the Gulf. I'm
tide that raised the ship, we should all not know it. It is an interesting thought. sure that those who come to hunt
have drowned." But when the tides And perhaps—although the dream of rocks in it, to photograph it, or just
floated his ships again instead of turn- an agricultural wonderland vanished— to travel its desert trails will be more
ing back to safety, Alarcon pushed on those like Bob Bishop, who have spent satisfied with this Cibola than Coro-
and entered the channel of the Colo- their lives in Cibola Valley found as nado was when he reached the pueblos
rado. much of a promised land there as the of the Zuni.

DECEMBER, 195 15
In the first days of school it is necessary for the teacher to use an interpreter
because many of the young Navajos do not speak English. They are apt pupils,
these Navajo youngsters, and many of them have a natural talent for art. They
make excellent teachers, artisans and farmers.

Forgotten Children of
the Great White Father
There are 25,000 children on By LOUISE GERDTS
the Navajo reservation — and
schools for only 8,000. Uncle Photographs by Joern Gerdts
Sam is trying to correct this situ-
ation and at Brigham City, Utah,
the Indian Service last year ac-
quired the great wartime Bush-
5 HORTLY AFTER the summer
holidays Melvin arid Bessie Be-
gay were packed off to board-
more, although Melvin was 16 years
old and his sister 14, neither of them
had been to school and neither could
nell hospital plant, and has ing school, kit and caboodle. And read nor write. In fact, neither Melvin
converted its 100 buildings into whereas boarding school is exciting nor Bessie could even speak English
housing and classrooms for 2000 enough for the ordinary youngster, for although their ancestors had preceded
Indian children. Here is the story these two it was equivalent to flying to the Mayflower by several centuries.
of the greatest project yet under- the moon. For these were the children For this brother and sister ^vere an
taken in the West for the educa- of a destitute family and their kit and average Navajo Indian boy and girl.
tion of the long-forgotten children caboodle consisted mostly of the The boarding school that Bessie and
of the Indians. clothes they were wearing. Further- Melvin are attending is the new Inter-

16 DESERT MAGAZINE
mountain Indian School, 500 miles
away from their desert reservation
home, at Brigham City, Utah. An ex-
GI, the school was formerly the Army's
huge Bushnell hospital for amputee and
psychiatric patients. All set to be sold
"for one dollar," Dr. George Boyce,
Director of Navajo Education, and
Utah Senator Watkins convinced Con-
gress that Bushnell should be trans-
ferred to the Indian Service. In the
spring of 1949 the bill was passed, and
since then the naked hospital wards
and surgery rooms of this Lilliputian
city have been transformed into homey
un-institutional dorms, colorful mod-
ern classrooms, vocational shops, rec-
reation rooms, dining halls and kitchen.
In January, 1950, with Dr. Boyce
at the helm as superintendent, the In-
termountain Indian School threw open
its doors, and at present 1300 Navajo
boys and girls between the ages of 12
and 18 are enrolled there. The transi-
tion of these teen-agers from a primi-
tive existence and their adjustment to
the most modern of school and living
systems is an amazing testimonial to Because of its isolation Navajoland has been easy to neglect. It's an
the adaptability of the human species- incredible country of 16,000,000 acres pieced out of the rugged wilder-
There are many thousands of chil- nesses of the adjoining states of Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. Yet,
dren on the Navajo reservation eager with a population of about one person to 2.1 square miles it is economic-
to go to school and yet denied the ally more overcrowded than the slums of any eastern industrial city. For
privilege. For the Navajos it has been this "land of enchantment" is also a land of fierce temperament, of flash
a long-accepted fact. In 1864 Kit Car- floods and thirsty mesa, of wind and dust and rough river-carved canyons,
son rounded up the marauding Navajos of beautiful naked space.
with U. S. Army troops, marched them
and their families off to the stockade
at Ft. Sumner, New Mexico, and four vation, the government would provide 000, of which about 25,000 are school-
a school house and teacher for every age children. There are school seats
years later the United States govern-
30 Navajo children "in order to insure for approximately 8000. Over 80 per-
ment and the Navajo tribe entered into cent of the populace not only is illiter-
the civilization of the Indians."
the Treaty of 1868. It was agreed that ate but, like Melvin and Bessie, cannot
Today, 83 years later, the Navajos
if the Indians would stay on the reser- speak English.
have increased from 9000 to over 65,-
Out of funds made available by Congress for Indian for school purposes will include dormitories for students,
purposes, $3,750,000 was allotted to the Intermountain apartments for teachers, classrooms for 2000 pupils,
School at Brigham City. Formerly operated by the medical clinic, gymnasium, tennis and handball courts
army as Bushnell hospital, the plant when remodeled and a huge swimming pool.

KM

nu n
Recreational Advisor Harris and Principal Wihna Victor consult frequently with
Dr. George Boyce, the Chief at the Inter-mountain school. Even though he's won
a victory in getting this school, Dr. Boyce does not stop his fight for the Navajo.
He feels that if Congress and the public should ever lose interest in this educational
crusade the Navajo would truly become a lost people. Dr. Boyce would like to
see six more such schools available for the Indian children of the Southwest.

In 1946 when the plight of the Nav- granted: public health, water and sew- The fact that the Begays are attend-
ajo was widely publicized, public opin- age systems, roads, post offices, librar- ing a boarding school may seem a bit
ion demanded action. As a result, ies, farm agents, enough schools—let incongruous. But because the Navajo
Secretary of the Interior Krug com- alone such luxuries as buses, electricity, family must move often in search of
piled an embarrassingly honest report telephones, banks, drug stores, a toilet, waterholes and new range land for its
and submitted it to Congress with spe- a radio or an ice box. animals, and because there are not
cific recommendations for a long-term enough buses or roads to take the chil-
rehabilitation program. The Krug re- On the brighter side, the Krug Re-
dren to a regular school, the boarding
port revealed that three out of every port also showed that this undeveloped
school is a practical necessity- The
10 Navajo babies die before their first Navajoland holds a potential wealth advantages of the boarding school are
birthday; one in every 10 Navajos has in natural resources, such as coal, min- more than just keeping the students in
active tuberculosis; that there were two erals, oil, uranium, vanadium, timber regular attendance. It literally teaches
dentists for the entire Reservation; that and unirrigated farm lands. But the Indian children how to live and how
one in every six or seven children is greatest wealth lies in the human beings to conduct themselves in the society in
orphaned by one or both parents; that who are now going to waste. which they must eventually take their
the average family's annual income is In 1950 Congress passed an Indian places.
$400; that 100 miles of all-weather bill, based on Krug's Report, for $90,-
roads serve an area four times the size 000,000—25 million of which was to Living began for Melvin and Bessie
of Massachusetts; and that families like be allotted for education. And that's Begay the day they arrived at Inter-
the Begays can expect nothing in the why Melvin and Bessie Begay are going mountain. It is difficult to imagine that
way of public community services to school this year for the first time this American boy and girl had never
which the rest of America takes for in their lives. taken a shower, seen a movie or a

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toilet, had a milkshake, used a fork, gun educating white Americans here superior building material. The own-
slept in a bed, or even eaten a piece of in the West in giving Navajo youth the ers plan to sell the cinders to the
ham—which at first they thought was same opportunity as other Americans building block trade and for cement
raw meat and refused to touch. Besides enjoy. For opportunity, like the con- construction. Shingle manufacturers
teaching them how to speak English stitution and the Gettysburg address, now are experimenting with the Black
and to read and write, Intermountain's has always been an integral part of our Point cinders and expect to use them
teachers show them how to eat, how heritage. And he thinks it's high time in future construction.—Inyo Register.
to take care of their clothes and per- we share it with our forgotten fellow-
sonal grooming, how to use money, Americans, Melvin and Bessie Begay.
how to work—and how to play games • • o
and swim and have fun too.
EXTINCT VOLCANO
The educational program itself is MINED FOR CINDERS
long-range, based on the success of a A new type of mining project is
similar one carried out by the Indian being developed on the north shore of
boarding school at Riverside, Califor- Mono Lake, California, at a spot five
nia. The first two years are devoted to New contributors to Desert this
miles north of Leevining known as month are Joem and Louise Gerdts,
learning English; the third and fourth, "Black Point Cinders." The Black
to education and vocations; the fifth, to who wrote the story and took the pic-
Point is an old extinct volcano, much tures for the Indian school feature at
vocational training and personality older than the famous chain of 21
guidance. It is at the end of the fifth Bingham Canyon, Utah.
Mono craters located three miles from
year that Melvin and Bessie will be the U. S. Highway 395 near Leevining. The Gerdts are a free lance team—
expected to make their adjustment into The claim is made up of small black Louise the writer, and Joern the pho-
the outside world. volcanic cinders. Each cinder is com- tographer — a team that has many
posed of tiny air cells, sealed from things in common with Josef Muench
And whether we realize it or not, and Joyce Muench of Santa Barbara.
Dr. Boyce—Intermountain's energetic each other so no moisture can pene-
director—isn't just educating Melvin trate them. Their lightness and insu- Joern Gerdts came to the United
and Bessie Begay. He has already be- lating qualities make these cinders a States from Germany on the last boat
before United States became involved
in the last war. He began selling pho-
tographic covers to German magazines
at the age of 16 and was regarded as

MardKoek Shorty a genius in the field of photography.


Louise had been working as a typist
in the publicity office of the Yosemite
of Death Valley Park and Curry company.
They met at the ski lodge at Donner
Summit, California and were married
in 1942. Since Joern, because of his
Hanging on the wall in the We've got fish you-all never heard German parentage, was not allowed
tell of. We got fish that hop to possess a camera in 1942, the newly-
general store at Inferno was a
around like toads. We got flyin' weds secured work at a remote hotel
fishing rod and reel. No one on the top of the cliff at Glacier point
around the store could recall that fish and walkin' fish and fish that
have skids on their fins an' use —Joern as chief cook, and Louise as
it had ever been used—but it was waitress and chambermaid. Later they
there, covered with the dust of their tails fer propellors.
were transferred to Badger Pass as
ages. "Yu don't need fishin' poles to managers of the ski lodge there.
One day a station-wagon load ketch the kinda fish we got up
of dudes stopped at the store for here. We got fish that'll come In 1943 they moved to Salt Lake
cold drinks. One of them hap- right into the kitchen an' jump City, and lacking a studio they earned
pened to glance up at the fishing into the fryin' pan. The hotter their way with night club photography.
rod. it is the better they like it. You Although it was profitable work, they
bozos from the city don't know found it a dull way to make a living
"Funny place fer a fishin' rod," and decided to venture into the field
nothing about fish.
he remarked. "I'll bet there isn't of free lance writing and photography.
a pool of water big enough for "Why Ol' Pisgah Bill once
a minnow within a hundred miles had a tame fish that'd foller him It is a highly competitive field and
of here." Some of the others took around wherever he went. Bill the Gerdts worked long and hard to
up the subject and began to wise- kept 'im around the house to gain recognition. Louise writes: "We
crack about the dryness of Death ketch flies and usually took him have now reached the miraculous stage
Valley. along on his prospectin' trips. when we are able to support ourselves
'Twas a bad day fer Ol' Bill free lancing for magazines. Needless
Hard Rock Shorty was helping when that fish met with a acci- to say, we enjoy our work. There is
the clerk that day. He didn't dent. Bill usta put him on the
care much for dudes anyway, and never a dull moment—our subjects in-
dinin' table an' feed 'im crumbs clude lions, governors, snakes, sheep,
when they began to make un- at mealtime. They wuz great pals,
complimentary r e m a r k s about skiers, monks, Indians and uranium
till the day Bill left a pail o' water mines. Most of our work consists of
Death Valley his blood pressure sittin' by the table, and the fish
began to go up. He stood it as slipped an fell into the bucket. photographic assignments from maga-
long as he could. An' before Bill could git him out zines for Joern, and I am sort of a
he wuz dead. Yes, that fish was glorified secretary, doing the research
"Sure we got fish here," he
exclaimed. "All kinds of 'em. drowned." and writing the captions. Occasionally
I sell an article or storv."

DECEMBER, 195 1 19
right hand twists, some left hand, others Search for Fossils . . .
just plain rolls and twists. One large Whittier, California
multiple piece is comprised of a va- Desert:
riety of twists and other strange forms. I heartily approve the method and
Like others who find fascination in purpose of your excellent magazine,
these strange sand structures. 1 cannot especially the field trips. But 1 would
Case of the Rambling Dam . . . but wonder how they were formed. 1 like to see more material about fossil
Victoria, Texas never have heard any plausible ex- areas. My education in that subject
Desert: planation nor can 1 provide one myself. was terribly neglected, but I have seen
I lived in Arizona for 35 years, but It is quite easy to imagine how those what I believe to be excellent hunting
1 have been away from the state for that come from the Kane Springs area grounds.
a little over six months. What on earth were fashioned. They undoubtedly If you know of a young student or
has been happening during my ab- were shaped by caprices of water and expert in this field who would haul me
sence? I find in the September Desert wind. But the sand spikes and "twis- alone. I will be glad to serve as guide.
Magazine that the Verde Independent ties" do not follow this theory. PAUL J. LINSLEY
is quoted as saying that Roosevelt Dam I would be pleased if you or one of • • e
is "approximately 140 miles north of your readers could supply an answer Cowboys First Found Glyphs . . .
Cottonwood." It used to be southeast to the sand spike puzzle. Washington, Pennsylvania
of Cottonwood. Life hasn't been tam- CHAS. S. KNOWLTON Desert:
pering with the state again, has it? Nor have I ever heard a satis- I was very much interested in the
And I resent the statement that factory explanation of these cork- item, "Flagstaff Was Resort in 638
Roosevelt Dam "looks like a minia- screw concretions. Several years A.D.," which appeared on page 27 of
ture of Hoover." It doesn't. It has a ago John Hilton wrote a story for the October issue. It speaks of petro-
broad grin from canyon wall to can- Desert Magazine explaining the glyphs found on the wall of a small
yon wall just like the smile of Roose- other concretion forms—but he canyon by archeologists from the Uni-
velt I. admitted he was stumped when it versity of Illinois and the Museum of
And I was doing fine on the Desert came to the spiral type. This also Northern Arizona.
Quiz until I came to question No. 12 is true of sandspikes.—R.H. Many years ago. when I was riding
indicating that Ramon Hubbel (it • • • for the COBar, I knew that country
should be Roman Hubbel) is dead. Patients Need Cutting Material . . . well and was greatly interested in the
That was quite a shock to me, because Casa Grande. Arizona many ruins scattered over the country
he seemed very much alive when I had Desert: a little east and north of the San Fran-
dinner with him just the evening before I recently visited the Vsteran's Hos- cisco Mountains. These ruins then were
tackling the quiz. pital at Tucson. Arizona, and was de- known as the Black Falls group. They
REV. VICTOR R. STONER lighted to find a lapidary outfit in- were located on what we knew as
• • • stalled since my last visit and a new White Mesa.
class begun in gem cutting and polish- I believe that the petroglyphs men-
Recalls Stage Coach Days . . . ing. Mr. Wilson, volunteer worker in tioned in the article are those in a
Pasadena, California occupational therapy, directs the very small canyon on White Mesa, about
Desert: fine work being done. two miles west of the Little Colorado
In his article, "Agate Trail in Ne- However, since this is a tuberculosis River at the old Tanner Crossing,
vada," Harold Weight mentions the hospital, the patients cannot go rock which is approximately the present lo-
old Pony Express station which he and gem hunting. If any collectors cation of Cameron Bridge. This small
calls "Fort Finley." I have talked to among your readers would be kind canyon ran to Tappan Spring. On a
one of the oldtime stage drivers, and enough to share their rocks with these very smooth section of the canyon a
he tells me the name of that particular boys, I am sure they would be many short distance west of the spring were
depot is "Nevada Station," as referred times repaid in gratitude. a number of interesting petroglyphs.
to in Mark Twain's Roughing It. RUTH DYER HURD As they were the only ones I know of
My brother and I own the land upon • • • in that section, they must be those
which this station rests. Standing in- "Four Corners" Draws Blank . . . referred to.
side the ruins now, tumble-down as Chicago. Illinois However, they were not discovered
they are, we get a distinct feeling of Desert: by the archeologists mentioned. As
identification with the pioneers who I have listened to many vacationists early as 1890 they were known to all
came across the desert and here made who have toured Utah, Colorado, New of the cowboys and sheepmen in that
history. We have hopes of restoring Mexico and Arizona; yet when I ask section. Ben Doney, Jr., a cowboy,
the building as it was in days long if any have seen the Four Corners, I took me to them in the summer of
past, to preserve it as a landmark draw a blank. There seems to be very 1904. His father was an amateur
which others also may visit and enjoy. little said about the only point in the archeologist and had made the first
GEORGE P. BOSSERMAN United States where four states meet. excavations at the Black Falls group.
• • • Surely there is someone who has been In the summer of 1896 he guided Dr.
Sandspikes a Mystery . . . there. Is it possibly material for pic- J. Walter Fewkes to the ruins, and the
Fullerton, California tures or a story? latter conducted extensive excavation.
Desert: HARRIET NARISS Undoubtedly Mr. Doney also directed
Among my special interests in min- The Four Corners region has Dr. Fewkes to the petroglyphs.
eral collecting are odd sand formations. many things of interest, and we The canyon, according to my recol-
I have a number of sand spikes from have printed numerous feature lection, is 20 or 25 feet deep and not
near Signal Mountain, several from stories taken from the area. But more than 15 feet wide. Just below
east of the Salton Sea and some from the actual geographical point, the smooth rock face on which the
Arizona. The oddest of my specimens reached by a bad road, hasn't petroglyphs were carved was a small
I gathered in Palm Wash, near Truck- much except the monument. — shelf on which the prehistoric artist
haven. These are spiral in form, some R.H. stooc1. The glyphs were very dim but

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were cut deep. I tried to photograph moonlight and seemed much closer. It Firing Squad for Vandals . . .
them and was partially successful with slowly circled to the left. Then I Klamath Falls,'Oregon
an old 4x5 plate camera. noticed a second lion, considerably Desert:
A sheepman named Glore ran a smaller than the first. They came to- Your answer in the August issue of
band of sheep near the main Black gether and, finally, moved off through Desert to that fellow who wanted to
Falls ruins in the early 1890's. He the pines. get a piece of the petrified tree trunk
made a corral by walling up one end I grabbed a bucket. Striking it on the Nevada desert, described by
of a small canyon at the ruins with a loudly with the shovel, I banged my Nell Murbarger in the July issue, was
stone fence made of metates. I saw two uninvited guests a good sendoff. not strong enough. People who have
this when at the ruins in 1904. I slept very little that night! no more appreciation of Nature's land-
marks than that ought to be court-
We found an old five-gallon coal When friends joined me several days martialed and shot on the spot.
oil can that Glore had used for water, later, they laughed at the empty cans
and we filled it with arrowheads, stone I had suspended from tree limbs in J. D. HOWARD
• • •
axes and other artifacts. We had but scarecrow fashion. But they changed Arizona's giant cactus, the saguaro,
a pack outfit and, unable to carry the their tune when it came time to turn is the subject of a colorful 27-page
can with us, we buried it, expecting to in. We measured the lion's tracks and handbook titled Meet the Giant Cac-
reclaim it when the roundup wagon estimated his stride was at least two tus, written and published by Elsie
came that way in the fall. But when feet long. He had come within 15 feet Haynes of Denver, Colorado. The
we returned with the wagon we could of my sleeping bag. booklet is illustrated with both half-
not locate the spot. I suppose the can BILLY LAUGHERY tone and line drawings. 50 cents.
is still there, waiting for someone to
discover it and wonder who buried it.
There were enough Indian implements
to stock a small museum.
I might add that the ruins known as
the Black Falls group and those on
OK 'Decent
nearby White Mesa are among the
best preserved pueblo remains in north-
ern Arizona. Everett Ruess dreamed of a wild carefree life in the far places of the
EARLE R. FORREST earth where, unfettered by *:he petty restrictions of civilization, he could
• • • explore the unknown wilderness and paint and write as he roamed.
When a Lion Roars . . . He lived with the Indians, he explored ancient cliff dwellings, dis-
Grand Canyon, Arizona appeared in the desert wilderness for weeks at a time, and each time
Desert:
he returned to the haunts of men he wrote of his experiences.
I have heard from some that the
North American mountain lion or cou-
gar has a cry like a woman in distress.
Others say it utters no sound. These
contradictory claims both were shat-
tered by a mountain lion I met this
fall on a camping trip in the region
between Grand Canyon and Dripping
Springs Trail.
I had returned to camp late one
evening after an all-day hike. I fixed
a bite of supper and, being tired and
a little chilled, crawled into my sleep-
ing bag. A full moon made the night
seem like day. Everything was still,
and I was becoming drowsy.
All of a sudden, from directly be- IN 1934 HE DISAPPEARED
hind my head, came the most fright- In November, 1934, he and his burros headed off into the red sand-
ening roar I have ever heard! Uncon- stone country of Southern Utah—and he has never been seen since
sciously I twisted in my bag and was then, and although there has been a widespread search for him, no
on my knees facing the sound. I saw clue has ever been unearthed to reveal his fate.
a large animal behind a thin bush not
more than 50 feet away. But in his diary, and the letters he wrote, he left a rich legacy for
My thoughts raced! "What is it?" those who would find the peace and beauty in life.
Its roar was similar to those of African All this material together with many of his block prints and sketches
lions I'd heard in zoos — certainly are included in ON DESERT TRAILS WITH EVERETT RUESS.
nothing like what I'd expect from a THIS IS A LIMITED EDITION
mountain lion!
Stunned for a moment, I soon re- Mailed postpaid in U.S.A. for $2.75—California buyers add 8c sales tax
gained my senses and began to shout
and wave my arms. Instead of leap- Published by
ing away, the animal came into the
open, emitting low growls. I thought THE
of the trench shovel against the tree,
grabbed it and faced about. Palm Desert, California
The animal had moved out into full

DECEMBER, 1 95 1 21
Turtles for Tewaquaptewa
Turtle shells, symbolic of wa'.sr, ere used as rattles in Hopi cere- their hands into the water, and feel
monial dances. During a visit 5o Southern California, Chief Tewaquap- around in the thick mats of water
tewa of Oraibi mentioned to a boys' organization that his. village's weeds. Suddenly from a boy at the
supply of shells was dangerously low. The youthful members immedi- head of the group he heard a yell of
ately launched upon a campaign to solve the Indians' dilemma . . . delight, "I've got one! I've got one!"
By HARRY JAMES The object of the exclamation proved
Photographs by the author to be a struggling California mud tur-
tle. The man wondered why the cap-

5 ARLY ONE late spring morning


a fisherman with empty creel
muttered fisherman's oaths as he
watched a group of small boys advance
cautiously among the gigantic boul-
ders of California's Sespe Creek to-
ward his favorite pool. He saw them
sneak up to a shallow place, plunge
ture of such a common animal should
evoke such shouts of triumph. He
continued to wonder as the turtle was
dropped into a gunny sack carried by
Chief Tewaquaptewa of Oraibi holds two live turtles whose shells will one of the older boys.
provide rattles for ceremonial dances of his village. "How many have we now?"
"That's the fourth one. Good hunt-
ing today."
"What are you going to do with
them?" queried the curious fisherman.
"We're gonna send them to the
Hopi Indians over in Arizona," volun-
teered one of the youngsters.
Back of his casual statement lay a
rather interesting story.
Tewaquaptewa, the village chief of
Oraibi, the oldest of all the ancient
villages of the Hopi, had visited for
several days during the previous win-
ter at the headquarters of The Trail-
finders, a boys' organization in South-
ern California. Many times during his
stay he had told the boys of his desire
to secure a number of mud turtle shells
to make into dance rattles.
He explained to them that the Hopi
ceremonial dances are nearly all pray-
ers for rain and for bountiful crops,
so in these ceremonies they use cos-
tumes and accouterment suggestive of
anything pertaining to water; hence,
the choice of turtle shells as the ma-
terial for dance rattles. In the arid
Painted Desert these turtle shells are
hard to find. They are precious things
to be treasured through the years.
Chief Tewaquaptewa had hoped that
he could replenish the supply of shells
on this visit, for there was a serious
shortage of them at Oraibi, despite the
care given to their preservation. Un-
fortunately, California mud turtles were
hibernating during the winter, and the
Chief could not remain until spring
when they could again be found. He
had to plant corn and care for his
sheep and conduct the ceremonies for
his village.
His disappointment spurred the boys
to plan a turtle hunt in May and ship
the whole catch to Oraibi as a surprise
for the old Chief. Now it was May
and the turtle hunt was on.
The search for the turtles was made

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with due care that the supply should
not be fished out entirely. Only good
old specimens at least five inches long
were taken, and only a few of these,
from each of several different streams.
During three or four week-end trips
through the Sespe, the Piru, and the
canyons of the Santa Monica Moun-
tains a dozen husky specimens were
assembled.
A special box was constructed to
hold a quantity of wet moss and to
provide plenty of fresh air. The turtles
were packed and expressed to Winslow.
Arizona. A letter to the Chief pre-
ceded the shipment, and a Hopi boy
was on hand to get the box as soon as
it arrived.
As the express agent handed him
the package, the young Hopi heard
the turtles scratching inside. He knew
what the box contained, but he had
not dreamed that the turtles would be
sent alive! He was thrilled. He drove
the 70-odd miles back to Oraibi and
when his truck refused to climb the
steep road up to the mesa, he seized
the box and scrambled up the trail. As
he neared the top he began singing out
to the Chief and to everyone within
hearing distance that the turtles had
come and that they were alive.
The word was carried quickly from
house to house. By the time he reached
Tewaquaptewa's home nearly half of
the village was there. The important
chiefs and the ceremonial leaders were
allowed to examine the box with Tew-
aquaptewa. One of the chiefs started
to pry oft" a board on top. Tewaquap-
tewa stopped him. "First we must
make prayers for these rain-bringers."
he said.
While a tom-tom was dragged out
on the flat roof of his house, Tewa-
quaptewa disappeared inside the dwel-
ling and emerged a few seconds later
with a tiny bag of sacred corn meal.
A song of thanksgiving was sung, wel- Don Talayesva, another chief of the Pueblo of Oraibi, shared the delight
coming the water creatures to Oraibi. of the other Hopi tribesmen at the arrival of the California turtles.
As more or less sacred animals, they
were asked to bring rain to all the long the people kept returning to the JUDGES NOW SELECTING
Hopi villages, so that the corn might Chief's home to see the strange crea- WINNERS IN STORY CONTEST
flourish and that the sheep might have tures. Among the visitors were the Desert Magazine's "Life on the Des-
plenty of food. Then Tewaquaptewa inhabitants of other Hopi villages— ert" story contest which closed No-
sang a special song to them, praising Hotavilla, Bacavi, and even Mishong- vember 1 brought literally scores of
novi and Shipolovi. manuscripts from writers all over the
the boys in California for catching
them. That night there were further song- Southwest, most of them folks who
prayers in their honor, and a ceremon- make no claim to professional jour-
While he sang he pried open the nalism.
ial smoke by the leader of the Corn
cover of the box and scattered sacred Members of the magazine's staff
Clan. Then the turtles were ceremoni-
corn meal out in a trail from the box. who are serving as judges are putting
ally killed in the chief's kiva. Later in extra hours reading and re-reading
Slowly the turtles tumbled out and the shells were cleaned with the dew the stories for the selection of winners.
crawled across the meal, dampening it claws of sheep or deer and then dried. Results will be announced in the Jan-
with their wet legs and bodies. Then the dance rattles were in readi- uary issue of Desert. Non-winning
Never before had any of these Hopis ness for use in the great Niman Kat- manuscripts will be returned to the
of Oraibi seen a live turtle. All dav china dance of earlv summer. authors if postage was enclosed.

DECEMBER, 195 1 23
in
Tombstone, Arizona . . .

HI
San Francisco, California . . . Elko, Nevada . . .
Old Emerald Mine near Tombstone
is producing again, after lying idle for
more than half a century. The mine,
opened in the early 188O's, is yielding
lead, copper, silver and zinc recoveries,
A new enterprise has been developed announced Freeman Lomelino, head
Pala district of San Diego County, of the Lomelino ore milling interests.
California, which has produced nearly near here which will mine iron ore and
ship it unrefined to Japan. The proj- Attention at present is directed to the
a million dollars worth of minerals, is 500 level drift of the mine, which is in
the subject of a report issued by the ect, announces J. R. Simplot, president
of Simplat Iron Mines, Inc., will be reality 570 feet below the top of the
California State Division of Mines. shaft and not more than 100 feet above
Gem- and Lithium-bearing Pegmatites located on property 26 miles from
Palisade, which is 29 miles west of the top of the water level. All the local
of the Pala District, San Diego County, mines were flooded in the 80's and re-
California is the scientific study of a Elko by rail. From 20 to 30 carloads
of ore leave Palisade daily for Oak- sulting mining inactivity all but made
famous gem-producing district that has a ghost town of Tombstone. The
been providing semi-precious stones, land, where the ore is loaded on ships.
Each carload contains 55 tons. Sim- Lomelinos found the shaft and work-
crystallized mineral specimens and im- ings of the mine property in fair and
portant minerals since the 19th cen- plot said the cargo now enroute to
Japan is a trial shipment. He plans to workable condition.—Tombstone Epi-
tury. The two authors, Richard H. taph.
Jahns of the California Institute of leave for Tokyo within two weeks to
Technology, and Lauren A. Wright of carry on further negotiations with the • • •
the California State Division of Mines, Japanese company contracting for the Tucson, Arizona . . .
spent nearly two years in field and ore.—Pioche Record.
• • • Arizona's total mineral production
laboratory study of the area. Their in 1950 was higher than any year since
report is illustrated by numerous pho- Vernal, Utah . . . World War I, the Arizona Statistical
tographs and maps of the district. Discovery of a great buried basin Review reports in its 1951 edition.
Color plates of crystals and gems also north of the Uintah Mountains has Mineral production last year totaled
are included.—Division of Mines Bul- resulted from work of the University $201,034,000 over $79,000,000 above
letin. of Utah geology department. Eco- the peak production of World War II.
• • • nomic value of the work being done by The 1950 total, however, was short
Washington, D. C. . . . the students almost overshadows its of the $203,572,000 record set in
academic value for it is believed the 1918.—Tucson Daily Citizen.
Thomas H. Miller of Laramie, Wy- area may be another Uintah Basin as
oming, has been appointed acting di- • • •
far as oil production is concerned. The
rector of the Bureau of Mines, to recent developments have stemmed Pioche, Nevada . . .
succeed Dr. James Boyd. Miller, for- from four years' work at the geology A $600,000 tungsten concentrating
mer assistant director of the bureau, field camp some six miles east of Oak- plant with 250-ton daily capacity will
virtually has been running the depart- ley, Utah, on the Upper Weber River. be built near the Lincoln mine at Hiko,
ment for the past several months, The camp, established each summer according to an announcement by of-
while Dr. Boyd has concentrated on for senior and graduate students, is in ficials of Lincoln Mines division of
direction of the Defense Minerals Ad- the center of several thousand square Black Rock Mining corporation. At
ministration. Miller's appointment is miles of all types of geologic and struc- present, about 60 tons of ore are being
on a temporary basis. Another chief ture features. Sediments of all the geo- trucked daily from Hiko to Bishop.
of the division may be named at a later logic eras are present in the area. California, for treatment. — Pioche
date.—Salt Lake Tribune. Detailed stratigraphic mapping got un- Record.
• • • derway during the 1948 field season • • •
Humboldt, Nevada . . . under the direction of Prof. Norman
C. Williams and his staff. Prof. Wil- Los Angeles, California . . .
Successful production of electrolytic liams likened the basin to a huge bowl Fumbling governmental controls and
manganese from the Three Kids Mine covered with a thick blanket of sedi- general confusion in Washington are
in Las Vegas Wash, Clark County, is ments. "Every once in a while we find to blame for shortages of strategic
described in a progress report released a canyon cutting through the blanket metals currently crippling the defense
by the Bureau of Mines. The man- which lets us take a look at the edges program, according to mining men at-
ganese is obtained with purity of 99 of the bowl so that we can get some tending the 1951 Metal and Non-
percent from low-grade ore by use of pretty good ideas on what lies under- metallic Mineral Mining convention
a chloride electrolyte. The report in- neath," he explained. Prof. Williams of the American Mining Congress. To
cludes details of the crushing, grind- says the study eventually will be pub- clear up the confusion in which the
ing, roasting processes, the solution lished, both for its economic and aca- industry finds itself, the group recom-
purification and data pertaining to the demic interests.—Vernal Express. mended that the government adopt a
electrolysis. While no economic com- four-point program. It calls for a re-
parison between the sulfate and chlo- • • • alistic uniform price structure to in-
ride processes is offered, it was indi- Humboldt, Nevada . . . crease incentives; assurance of stable
cated that the latter would be more Making an airplane survey with a metal prices to permit additional pro-
difficult and expensive to operate. A powerful scintillometer. Miles Andrews, duction; constructive administration of
free copy of Report of Investigation consulting geophysicist, located an im- the recent tax law to maintain and
on Electro-winning Manganese from portant atomic ore producing area near extend ore reserves needed for na-
Chloride Electrolytes" may be obtained Meeker. Some of the ore carried one tional security; and consideration of
from the Bureau of Mines, Publications percent uranium. Andrews has sold domestic mines to assure their enjoy-
Distribution Section, 4800 Forbes the property to the Uranium corpora- ment of advantages at least equal to
Street, Pittsburgh 13. Pennsylvania.— tion of California for $50.000.—Hum- those offered foreign properties. —
Humboldt Star. boldt Star. United Press.

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a loan fund. This is inadvisable this
winter, because of economic factors in-
volved. An alternate solution is the
t&e winter movement of livestock to mid-
western areas where feed is available.
—Coconino Sun.
ARIZONA Meat Shortage Met . . . • • •
Painting Locates Old Wall . . . BENSON — Southern Arizona is Woman Leaps from Canyon . . .
TUCSON—There are many disputes short on the traditional meat fare of GRAND CANYON — A woman
concerning the old Tucson city wall, the Navajo. When 70 Navajos arrived identified as Mildred Violet Allen of
almost all of which was destroyed long in the San Pedro Valley to pick cotton, Pasadena was killed in a suicide plunge
ago. Mrs. Mary Navarette Cordova they brought along an unexpected from Maricopa Point 400 feet into the
lives today in a house built 101 years problem in dietetics. Mutton isn't sold Grand Canyon. Her body hurled down
ago by her ancestors within the ancient in San Pedro market places, so several the almost sheer bluff, striking the edge
wall. A painter and historian, she has animals had to be purchased and im- twice and then rolling to a halt a few
just completed a canvas depicting her ported to the area. The Navajo women hundred feet short of the next cliff.
conception of the walled Tucson of butchered the sheep and mutton stew Park Rangers and park service em-
1850, basing its location and struc- soon again was bubbling over evening ployees made their way down to the
ture on personal observations and on campfires.—San Pedro Valley News. ledge and recovered the body. The
data given her by relatives now dead. • • • death was the second from a fall into
She pictures a morning raid by a band Canyon Travel Sets Record . . . the canyon this year.—Tucson Daily
of Apaches and a Spanish father rais- GRAND CANYON — A record Citizen.
ing a crucifix in the hope that the number of persons visited Grand Can-
Indians would respect the Christian yon National Park this year, according
symbol.—Tucson Daily Citizen. LUXURY CLIMATE
to Superintendent H. C. Bryant. Total FOR SALE. Acre and 2 acre homesites, el.
• • • for the year, which ended in October, 3200 in desert foothills, mountain water
piped to lot. Superb views, all year health
Elk Killer Runs Wild . . . was 688,673, compared with 654,348 spot. From $750, $15 mo. up, reas. down
last year. This reveals an increase of payment. Six photos mailed free with info.
FLAGSTAFF—A killer, who shoots WRITE C. C. BATTELLE
game for the malicious fun of destroy- 34,325. The record travel month was Lucerne Valley, San Bernardino Co., Calif.
ing it, has left numerous carcasses of July, when 130,719 persons visited the
elk, turkey and deer to rot in Coco- natural spectacle. This is an average
nino National Forest. Apparently the of more than 4300 per day.—Coconino 'EVERYTHING FOR THE HIKER"
big game animals were wantonly killed, Sun.
as only one had been butchered out.— • • • SLEEPING BAGS
Tucson Daily Citizen. Navajos May Move Stock . . . AIR MATTRESSES
• • • WINDOW ROCK—Since rains dur-
Won't Breed Scorpions in Lab . . . ing the past months have been ade- SMALL TENTS
TUCSON — It takes the deadly quate on only a small fraction of the and many other items
sculpturatus scorpion five years to Navajo Indian reservation, most areas
reach maturity, thus becoming useful are without enough forage or stock
for laboratory experimentation. This water for the coming winter. Solving VAN DEGRIFT'S HIKE HUT
is one reason why Dr. Herbert L. a similar situation last year, the tribal 717 West Seventh Street
Stahnke, director of poisonous animals council assisted stockowncrs by buy- LOS ANGELES 14. CALIFORNIA
research lab at Arizona State College. ing supplemental feed and establishing
Tempe, will not breed his own scor-
pions for preparation of anti-scorpion ASK YOUR CONTRACTOR ABOUT "PRECISION BUILT"
serum. Dr. Stahnke still is short sev-
eral thousand of his goal of 10,000
scorpions. As soon as all hospitals are
supplied with the serum, he will be
RED CINDER BLOCKS
able to build up a reserve supply which You'll have year
would obviate any future full-scale around comfort
scorpion "hunts."—Tucson Daily Citi-
zen. with
• • • "Precision Built"
Sees End of "Wetback" Era . . .
TUCSON — "This year marks the RED CINDER OR
end of the wetback era. The American PUMICE BLOCKS
farmer might just as well face up to
it," said Michael J. Galvin, under- Homes of Distinction
secretary of labor, stopping in Tucson are built with
on his inspection tour of immigration
PLANS AVAILABLE
labor border stations. The undersec-
retary said contract workers, Mexican DESERT CINDER BLOCKS FOR
nationals, were being supplied growers DESERT HOMES
efficiently and promptly through a
new agreement. "Hiring illegal entrants Transit Mixed Concrete Co.
from Mexico no longer is economical 3464 E. Foothill Blvd.. Pasadena 8
nor advisable from any point of view." RYAN 1-6329 or Corona Phone 1340
he observed.—Tucson Dailv Citizen.

DECEMBER, 195 1 'Ab


CALIFORNIA
Chukar Study Planned . . .
THE DESERT TRADMG POST SAN FRANCISCO — One of the
least known of California's game birds,
Classified Advertising in This Section Costs 8c a Word, $1.00 Minimum Per Issue the Chukar Partridge, will be subjected
to a year's field study by the California
Department of Fish and Game. The
state-wide study, headed by Donald
INDIAN GOODS BOOKS — MAGAZINES D. McLean, game biologist, will look
FOUR PERFECT AND FINE Indian Arrowheads BOOKS FOUND: Any subject, any author. Fast
$1.00. 2 large arrowheads SI.00; extra fine service. Send want?—DO obligation. Interna- into the Chukar's range, food, life
stone tomahawk $2.00; 4 beautiful bird ar- tional Bookfinders. Box 3003-D, Beverly Hills, cycle, enemies and competition with
rowheads $1.00; 2 flint knives SI-00; fine California.
effigy peace pipe $8.00; bone fish hook $2.00; PANNING GOLD — Another hobby for Rock other game birds. As well, it will in-
6" or over spearhead $5.00, thin and perfect. Hounds and Desert Roamers. A new booklet.
List Free. Lear's. Glenwood, Arkansas. "What the Beginner Needs to Know," 36 pages
vestigate the possibilities of stocking
WE SEARCH UNCEASINGLY for old and rare
of instructions; also catalogue of mining books new areas. The Chukar was introduced
and prospectors' supplies, maps of where to go
Indian Artifacts, but seldom accumulate a and blue prints of hand machines you can here in 1928 from the orient, where it
large assortment. Collectors seem as eager to build. Mailed postpaid 2ijc, coin or stamps.
possess thorn as their original owners. To Old Prospector, Box 720, Desk ;>, Lodi, Calif. has been hunted for centuries.
those who like real Indian things, a hearty
welcome. You too may find here something • GOLD PANNING FOR PROFIT." Healthy out • • •
doer hobby. Beginners" big illustrated instruc-
you have long desired. We are continually
tion book—Sl-00. Miners' s o d pans, : 2.00 Ramona's Son Dies . . .
increasing our stock with the finest in Navajo
rugs, Indian baskets, and hand-made jewelry. Prospectors' powerful magnify ng glass, SI.50.
Desert Jim, 627 Lillian, Stockton, California.
BANNING — Condino Hopkins,
Daniels Trading Post, 101 W. Foothill Blvd.,
Fontana. California. GOLD NUGGETS panned from streams in Cali
last surviving son of Ramon a, heroine
fornia and Old Hunk's colorful, unu-ual story of Helen Jackson's novel, died in Ban-
FOR THE discriminating collector or museum map, "The Golden Trail of the Mother Lode."
—I have lately obtained 2000 items all museum Stories of the 49'ers, ghost towns, over 45 ning at the age of 65. Services were
pictures and illustrations. Travel this amaz-
pieces—period 1870 to 1900. Medicine bags
ing trail taken by the early gold seekers in conducted at the Torres Indian Reser-
with contents complete. Winter count on
buffalo robe. Full beaded cradles. Buckskin the comfort of your car. Map $!.00; One gold
nugget and map $2.00; Four gold nuggets and
vation, where Hopkins had resided for
squaw dresses. Porcupine moccasins. Indian
items from Little Big Horn and Wounded map $3.00. Send for yours today! Old Hank. 40 years.—Banning Record.
P. O. Box 24G2, San Francisco 20, California
Knee battles. Write your desires—I probably
have it. I'at Head. Indian Trader, Lawrence
• • •
Kansas. Miner Escapes Blast . . .
MISCELLANEOUS BISHOP — If prizes were handed
SELLING MY COLLECTION of ;17 Navajo rugs, CALIFORNIA WILD FLOWER feeds. 20 kinds
Indian jewelry, pottery, baskets and other mixed, 25c pkt. 5 pkts. SI .00. Ivan Settles, out for the luckiest man of the year,
hard to get Indian made material, some very lit. 1, Elsinore, California.
old. H. A. McHenry, 12*2 Summit Ave., Pas;i- Harry Willis, employee of the hanging
TINY CONE TURKEYS: Place cards, sensa-
dena 3, California.
tional, 35c. Box 916, liig Bear Lake, Calif. Valley tungsten mine, would win hands
IR0NW00D BOOKENDS—A nice gift from the down. Willis was trapped in the mine
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES desert, practically indestructible. Guaranteed
to please, only S4.50 pair postpaid. Order
west of Bishop when 50 rounds started
FABULOUS EARNINGS — Fascinating pastime.
Growing Genuine, living miniature (Ming)
early for Christmas delivery. I). Jones, the exploding. He ducked behind timbers
Woodologist. Box 1028, Palm Springs, Calif.
Trees. New Sensational Business or Hobby. and his two partners later rescued him.
Astounding information FREE. Dwarf Gar- SAVE 507r On Xew Binoculars! Free catalog.
dens, Box 355N, Briggs Station, Los Angeles Free book. "How to Select Binoculars." Write He suffered only minor bruises.—Inyo
48, California. today! Bushnell's 43-D 212 Green. Pasadena 1.
California.
Register.
MOTELS — AUTO COURTS, Sales, exchanges, OS*
leases. State your requirements. Pacific LADY GODIVA "The World's Finest Beautifier." Valley Growers Wait . . .
States Motel Exchange, 461 Market St.. San For women who wish to become beautiful, for
Francisco 5, California v omen who wish to remain beautiful. An EL CENTRO—Untouched by har-
outstanding desert cream. For information,
FORTY ACRES: Dates and grapes, nice ranch urite or call Lola Barnes, t;,:! No. Oakland, vester are 20,000 acres of castor beans
home, well, canal water, new tractors, every-
thing in top complete shape. Estimated in-
P&sadena 0, Caiif. or phone SVcamore 4-2378- in the Imperial Valley. Yet while the
come $25,000. Small down payment, easy
terms. Write Box 162, Thermal. California.
STONE FACES OF GOBLIN GLLCH. Six gor
geous color slides of fantastic natural stone
plants are full green and capsules still
Ronald L. Johnson. faces for $1. (See Hay 1941 Desert Magazine.) putting out on stems, the government
Slides bound in glass ready to project with
REAL ESTATE any standard 2x2 projector. Will C. Minor, is calling for double the acreage for
OCOTILLO: Scenic desert Sweeney Pass road
Box 62, Fruita, Colorado. next year. Growers can be guided only
from Highway SO al Ocotillo to Agua Caliente COLOR SLIDES—Travel, Nature, Geology, etc.
Free list (with sample 30c, three for dollar).
by guesswork as to yield and profits.
hot springs, is nearing completion. Over 10,-
000 campers visited the hot springs the past Kelly D. Choda, Los Alamos, New Mexico. Some 1951 growers have not decided
year many of them benefiting greatly from
the treatment. Residential lots with mutual
DESERT TEA. One pound one iollar postpaid. whether they will plant any at all next
Greasewood Greenhouses, Lenu-ood, Barstow,
rights to soft water are still on sale at $250.00. California. year, although the government has set
Opportunity to get on ground floor of busi-
ness in a development with highway and SILVERY DESERT HOLLY PLANTS. One dollar a guarantee of $200 a ton for this
railroad. Send for circular. John C. Chalup- each postpaid. Greasewood Greenhouses, Len- year's crop.—Imperial Valley Weekly.
nik, P.O. Box 792, Alpine, California. wood, Barstow, California.
o o o
FOR SALE: Two fine La Quinta lots. Full club COLOR SLIDES: Photomicrographs of rare
membership. Fuller information furnished. types of Agate. World Travelogs: Grand Fiesta for River Indians . . .
Edgar N. Carter, 1713 Lyndon Street, South
Pasadena, California.
Canyon, Petrified Forest, Yosemite, Carlsbad
Caverns, White Sands, Indian Ruins, Big Bend.
BLYTHE—A thousand pounds of
Brice, Zion, Wild Flowers, cacti, reptiles.
Four samples 2x2 or stereo and literature
barbecued beef were served to several
$1.00. Dave Harris, 2401 Pittsburg, El Paso, hundred Indians on the Colorado River
Texas.
Indian Reservation by the citizens of
LOWER CALIFORNIA PROSPECTORS AND ROCKIiOUNDS WANTED.
Blythe on October 27. In addition to
To Join the newly incorporated United Pros-

MAP pectors Organization. If you are experienced


or beginners the articles in our magazine are
bound to help you enjoy your hobby and the
outdoors. Send your name fo:~ our new bro-
chure and literature. United Prospectors Box
the Mojave and Chemehuevi tribes
who have lived in this Colorado River
valley for countless generations, the
Most complete map yet pub- 72i>. Lodl. California. guests also included over 200 Hopis
lished of Baja California, con- "HONEYBUNCH" gift pack of California's finest
and Navajos who within recent years
native, raw honey. One 'A-lo. jar each of
taining hundreds of the original sag.-!, mesquite, wildflower, and orange blos- have been transplanted from northern
place names. 28x42 inches, in som. Delicious and different. Place holiday
orders now. $2.75 postpaid. Antique model Arizona to the rich bottom lands along
two colors. Published by Arey- kits of frontier covered wagon, chuck wagon,
stagecoach, surrey, horses. Folder 10c. Sam the Colorado and have established
Jones of San Diego. pie buckboard $1.00. Tontz' Country Store, permanent homes here for farming and
Elsinore 1, California.
Postpaid, including tax, $1.00 stock raising. The tribesmen enter-
WANTED TO BUY: Curled date palm, thistles,
DESERT CRAFTS SHOP seed pods, Manzanita, Oxythec.i Ferfoliata, all tained their hosts with their own band
interesting desert growths. I will buy in
Palm Desert, California quantity. Please send description and price and ceremonial dances.—Palo Verde
wanted. Hilo Steiner Studio, 500 Harding Rd
Fair Haven, New Jersey.
Times.

26 DESERT MAGAZINE
higher prices for ore has sparked a
New Agreement Is Complete . . .
EL CENTRO—All phases of the
new program of employing Mexican
revival of the old Bagdad-Chase mill
located in West Barstow. The mill,
Have you a date
nationals as United States farm labor- which has been shut down since about
ers are covered in an agreement pub- 1910 except for a few attempts to
lished recently. There are 40 articles rework the tailings, will be put into
in the pact, which details obligations operation by the Pacific Coast Mining
of worker, employer and agencies of and Milling company. With the in-
the two governments responsible for stallation of modern equipment, a new
administering the program. Some of
the articles have as many as ten sub-
laboratory and the use of flotation
method the company hopes to extract
for the Holidays?
divisions, telling how to proceed at enough gold, copper and silver from
every step beginning with the signing the area to help pay for the project
of the recruits and ending with rules which will cost approximately $50,000.
lor return of the workers to their A new road will be built to the loca-
homes.—Imperial Valley Weekly. tion and new buildings erected. —
9 • • California Mining Journal.
New Desert Newspapers . . . o « »
PALM DESERT—Two new news- NEVADA
papers —• the Cathedral Citizen and Landmark Meets Ignoble End . . .
Palm Desert Progress—made their ap- RENO—Last of the historic Vir-
pearance in the Coachella Valley No- ginia and Truckce Railroad's locomo-
vember 1, with Ernie and Betty Max- tives is being scrapped for junk. Loco-
well, formerly of Idyllwikl, California, motive No. 5, pride of the V and T
as editors and publishers. The new shortline since 1925, is being torn
papers, printed at the plant of the apart by acetylene torches. The loco-
Desert Magazine in Palm Desert, are motive was slated for purchase by
edited "to serve the 2500 permanent Western Pacific Railroad, but officials
residents in the cove communities along said it would be worth more as junk
the base of Santa Rosa mountains in than as rolling stock. The railroad.
Coachella Valley." The newspapers in born during the heydey of the Corn-
their first issue suggested that Highway stock mining boom, was abandoned
111 between Palm Springs and Indio last year after 81 years of continued Thanksgiving . . . Christmas . . . New
be known as Date Garden Drive, as service.—Las Vegas Review-Journal.
several miles of the 24-mile sector are • • • Year's . . . all mean an old-fashioned
lined with Coachella Valley's scenic Goldfield News Moves . . . reunion with the folks back home. Plan
date gardens. Settlements and sub- BOULDER CITY—The Goldfield your trip now, by Union Pacific. Four
divisions where the two papers will News has moved from its old plant in
Goldfield and now is operating at 1500 smooth, Diesel-powered trains daily to
circulate include Smoke Tree Ranch,
Araby, Tramview, Sunair, Cathedral Nevada Highway on the edge of Boul- the East:
City, Wonder Palms, Thunderbird der City.—Goldfield News.
Ranch, Rancho Mirage, Palm Desert
Air Park, Palm Dell, Palm Village,
Palm Desert, Panorama Ranch, Deep
Canyon Ranch, Indian Wells and La
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UNION PACIFIC
DECEMBER, 1951 27
What's In a Name? . . . Partners in Crime, Lost Canteen, Cut the Department of the Interior over
GOLDFIELD—Culled from the list Diamond, Neglected, Goldie, Water protests of some of the ranchers in
of delinquent mining claims are some Fountain, Prospector's Friend, Minne- the area. Only persons actively en-
of the more interesting names—chosen was, Three Sheds, Big Lize, Gold gaged in the livestock business are
for what reason? Who knows? For Locket, Desert Rose, Last Hope, In- eligible for membership on the board.
instance: Henry Clay, Jefferson, Mon- dian Summer, Good Old Summertime, —Hwnboldt Star.
roe and Cracker Jack, Sandstorm; Starlight, Messina, Robert Emmet, • • •
Burnt Hill, White Jacket, Red Boy, Stromboli, Battle Cruiser, Copper Bomb Tests Draw Tourists . . .
Magnolia, Carrie Bell, Duckwater Belle, Snow Storm, Ruby Hill, Black LAS VEGAS—Hope of seeing and
Dam, Christmas Gift, Ham Horse, Side, Tarantula, and Centipede. — feeling the effects of a "baby A-bomb"
Goldfield News. blast has become as great a tourist lure
• • • here as the chance of doubling money
BOULDER CITY —Hidden away at the roulette wheels or dice tables.
in a box canyon on the old Mormon Resort hotels and motels reported an
trail, between St. George and the old unusual influx of visitors who admitted
Pierce Ferry crossing of the Colorado, they came to watch the spectacular
is a tiny replica of Hoover Dam. The atomic fireworks display as much as
little masonry dam, constructed by they did to gamble. Atomic Energy
CCC Boys before World War II, is commission officials, visiting newspa-
remarkably like the great finished permen and the local press have or-
structure. Cattle ranchers find it use- ganized the Ancient and Honorable
ful, in dry weather, as a water supply Society of Atom Bomb Watchers,
storage basin. — Las Vegas Review- which held its first meeting at the
Journal. Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.—Las
• • • Vegas Review-Journal.
New Grazing District Set Up . . . • • •
WINNEMUCCA — An advisory Pine Nuts Tell Weather? . . .
board for the New Nevada grazing FALLON — According to an old
district, embracing most of Lander, Indian belief, this winter will be mild
Eureka and Nye counties, is scheduled, in western Nevada and severe in the
according to the Bureaus of Land eastern sections. Indians believed the
Management. To be known as the abundance of pine nuts indicated an
Central Nevada Grazing District No. especially cold winter ahead. There
6, it embraces approximately 7,500,- is a scarcity of the nuts in Western
000 acres and was set up recently by Nevada, while areas to the east enjoy
an unusual abundancy.—Fallon Stan-
dard.
• • •
Old Church Faces Repairs . . .
5 MINUTES FROM DOWNTOWN AUSTIN—St. Augustine's Catholic

LOS ANGELES
Church, very likely the oldest church
in Nevada, will get a new roof to re-
place the original one, now patched
and worn, which dates back to the
ediface's erection in 1866. Necessary
lesser repairs in replacing broken win-
At the Chelsea, every guest room is a large dow panes and fixing the picket fence
outside room, with its own private bath. All also will be made. For a number of
are beautifully decorated and designed for years, the historic church has had no
comfort. A truly outstanding downtown hotel resident pastor, but has been conducted
perfect for those who wish to be in mid-city, as a mission.—Reese River Reveille.
and yet prefer a quiet home-like atmosphere.
The Chelsea is near-Radio Center, Hunting-
ton Library, Forest Lawn Memorial Park,
China City, Movie Studios, Beaches.
Rates from $3.00.
WANTED...
Beautiful New Coffee Shop Now Open Desert Magazine Staff is
seeking exceptionally color-
ful desert Kodachrome films
for future use as cover pic-
tures.
Only transparencies can be
used and they must be 4x5
or larger—none smaller can
be considered.
Pictures sent on approval
will be accepted or returned
promptly. Forward them to
504 S O U T H B O N N I E BRAE DESERT MAGAZINE
Palm Desert, California

28 DESERT MAGAZINE
NEW MEXICO Bat Flights Discontinue . . .
Ceremonial Receipts Higher . . . ALBUQUERQUE—Cool tempera- FURNACE CREEK I N NAM/.TN'N
GALLUP—Aided by a state appro- tures have caused a southward migra- FURNACE CREEK RANCH CUDOPEAN P U N

priation of $19,000 this year as against tion of the bats that roost within Carls- DEATH VALLEY
$10,000 in 1950, operating receipts of bad Caverns. R. Taylor Hoskins, Luxurious desert oasis. Sunny days . . . cool nights. Riding
the Inter-tribal Indian Ceremonial as- Carlsbad Caverns National Park su- . , . swimming . . . golf . . . tennis . . . exploring. Contact
travel agents or Death Valley Motel Co., Ltd., 510 Weit
sociation showed a gain of $6087 over perintendent, states that a few bats 6th Street, Los Angeles, MAdison 2511.

the previous year, while operating ex- will, undoubtedly, continue to tly each
pense was but slightly higher. The re- evening until frosts drive them further
«* MAP OF LOST GOLD MINES
sult was an operating deficit of $6517 south or force them into hibernation. (T^ —-w^ ' o r Armchair Adventurers
compared with a deficit of $12,091 for However, flights are insufficient for Young and old, siay-at-home and rfal explor-
ers — thrill to (his beautifully lithographed
1950. the evening bat-flight programs, and map giving the romantic history arid reported
• • • they have been discontinued until locations of 2 1 of the Old West's most famous
lost gold mines! A work of an as well as an
School Merger Planned . . . spring.—Penasco Valley News. ^accurate map; ideal for library or wall decoration, in rich

ALBUQUERQUE — A plan to • • • sepia, 22" x 33". Order several jorgifts. Tube mailed. Sl.OOea.
CALICO SLIM Dent. B, Box 671, OSD Sin., Son Diego 10, California
merge the Albuquerque Indian school Industry Grows for Navajos . . .
with the city-county school system is GALLUP—Will Singleton, a wool STOVE PIPE WELLS HOTEL
under consideration. Indian service plant expert from Tennessee, has been in the heart of DEATH VALLEY
officials were authorized last January employed by the Navajo tribe to set A gracious, comfortable resort for discrim-
to look into the possibility of a merger, up a carding and scouring plant in the inating people. Good food . . . mountain
spring; wafer . . . landing strip . . . moder-
Eric T. Hagberg, local director of the old school buildings at Leupp, Ari- ate rates.
Indian bureau, said. The Albuquerque zona, for the purpose of establishing a Phone Los Angeles Vandike 9455
or write direct.
board of education has authorized small industries program for the Nav-
Supt. John Milne to investigate the ajos. Joe Janeway, service engineer,
matter further.—Gallup Independent. has made a recent survey and declares
• • •
Indian Wars Veteran Dies . . .
that the water supply is ample. The
cards will handle 300 pounds of wool Pinon Incense...
GALLUP — Richard M. (Dick) daily. First production has been con- Bring the delightful fragrance
Mattox, veteran civilian scout of the tracted by Indian traders for distribu- of the Pinon Forest into your
Indian wars and for many years a tion among their weavers. — Gallup
home or office. The burner is a
colorful character in Gallup, died two Independent. miniature model of the outdoor
days after reaching his 79th birthday. • • • baking ovens used by prehis-
One of the last links with the frontier Navajos Make Fund Appeal . . . toric Indians, and still in use in
life of the Old West, he had served in GALLUP — Pushed back against New Mexico pueblos. When
the 1889 campaigns against Sitting the wall by the effects of a two-year the little cones of genuine pinon
Bull and the Cheyenne River Sioux drouth, the Navajo tribe has appealed pine are burned in this tiny
and had ridden with the 7th Cavalry at to Congress for an emergency drouth oven the aroma is a breath of
the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1891. relief appropriation of $2,000,000. the outdoor Southwest.
—Gallup Independent. The plea was voiced in a resolution Kills kitchen and bathroom
• • • unanimously approved by the tribal odors and removes the smell of
council after members had voted an- stale tobacco. Pueblo Indians
Will Taos Indians Vote? . . . other $250,000 of dwindling tribal
TAOS — "New Mexico's constitu- funds for drouth relief. The resolu- burn pinon for nasal and bron-
tional provision barring Indians not tion declared that such self-help efforts chial ailments.
taxed from voting is discrimination on probably will be insufficient to carry Burner and 15 cones. $1.50
grounds of race and violates the U. S. the tribe through the winter, although Burner and 54 cones.... 2.70
Constitution." So ruled a 3-judge fed- the length and severity of the season Extra cones. 36 for 1.25
eral court recently. The state attorney will have a direct bearing on the status
general's office says an appeal to the of the emergency. There is desperate Postpaid to You
U. S. Supreme Court is "probable."— need for additional financial assistance
FA Crepusculo. over and above that derived from tri- DESERT CROFTS SHOP
• • • bal funds and the personal efforts of Palm Desert, California
Funds Voted for Wells . . . the tribesmen.—Gallup Independent.
GALLUP — Congress has voted
$250,000 to drill new wells and de-
velop other water sources on the Nav-
ajo-Hopi Indian reservation. The meas-
ure was passed in the closing hours of
the 82nd Congress's first session. —
Gallup Independent.
• • •
Highway Given Nickname . . .
LAS CRUCES — "Treasure Trail" RECREATE YOURSELF
now is the official nickname for High- at this secluded, truly restful desert resort!
way 70. The slogan was adopted at a Call or write for Free Illustrated Folder
meeting of the Arizona and New Mex- Borrego Springs Company
ico divisions of the Highway 70 asso- 6250 WILSHIRE BLVD.
Los ANGELES 4 8
ciation, organized to sell Highway 70 TELEPHONE YORK 7 2 8 6
as "the best transcontinental route for ENJOY YOURSELF at Borrego Springs—"World's Finest Desert Resort Development"
tourists to take."—Las Cruces Citizen.

DECEMBER, 195 1 29
UTAH Access Road Begun . . . average withdrawal was $300. The
MOAB—Work has begun on a mil- Indians are planning their actions
"Porkies" Are Unpopular . . .
lion-dollar access road construction carefully. "Most of them are leaving
VERNAL — Deer hunters in areas program aimed to facilitate hauling of part of their money, including virtually
where porcupine damage to trees is uranium ore out of southeastern Utah. all due the children, in a reserve fund,"
severe are being asked by the U. S. Financed largely by the federal govern- said Forest Stone, superintendent of
Forest Service to shoot the quilled ro- ment, the project will open for tourist the reservation.— Vernal Express.
dents on sight. The Forest Service travel some of the state's wildest and • • •
recognizes the porcupine is a natural most scenic areas. One of the three
part of the forest habitat; however, an Tunnel Nears Completion . . .
access roads will extend from Green
overpopulation results in excessive de- River south along state road 24 to SALT LAKE CITY—Shaft for the
struction of the bark of young trees.— Hanksville, then on to the eastern base $l,000,000-per-mile Duchesne tunnel.
Vernal Express. of the Henry Mountains. Another east of Kamas in the Uintah Range,
project calls for improvement of 80 has been driven more than live miles.
miles of road from Blancing to Hite Completion of the six-mile bore is
on the Colorado River. The third, and scheduled sometime before Christmas.
The tunnel will carry water from the
Let Uncle Sam largest, project will improve state road
47 beginning 14 miles south of Bland- north fork of the Duchesne River six
miles to the east side of the Uintahs.
ing and running west to Mexican Hat
do Your at the Goosenecks of the San Juan
River. Nine miles will be new construc-
where it will run down to Deer Creek
reservoir.—-Salt Lake Tribune.
Xmas Shopping tion and 34 miles improvement of the
present road.—Times-Independent.
• o

Utah Picneer is 103 . . .


There's a way to do your • e e SALT LAKE — it had been 91


Christmas Shopping—or some Utes Paid Half Million . . . years since Mrs. Anne Catherine Jarvis
of it at least — without being VERNAL — Payday came for the Milne first entered Salt Lake Valley
caught in the traffic jams and Ute Indians when 1692 collected through Emigration Canyon. But the
the throngs of buyers who flock checks amounting to $500,000 as re- trail was still familiar to her on a
to the stores at Christmas time. imbursement for lands taken from pleasure trip this autumn. Mrs. Milne,
In the quiet of your own home their tribes in Western Colorado. Each Utah's oldest resident, is now 103 years
you can arrange for one of the of the adult members of the Uintah, old. She is a native of London, Eng-
most pleasing gifts that can go White River and Uncompahgre tribes, land, embarking with her parents for
to any home —a gift that arrives whose annual incomes have averaged Boston at the age of eight.—Salt Lake
fresh and new and enjoyable $800, drew up to $1000 each. The Tribune.
each month t h r o u g h o u t the
year.

No Traffic Problems
You can let Uncle Sam worry
about the traffic and the prob-
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A gift subscription to Desert the higher elevations of desert ranges.
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your gift problems. The older ert. Desert Magazine is anxious to present its readers the best of their
members of the family will ap- efforts, and is offering cash prizes for prints submitted in its January
preciate the maps and travel photo contest. The subject range, though confined to desert areas, is
information. The children will wide—landscapes, plcnt life, mineralogy, Indians, desert characters,
love the wildlife pictures. animals, strange rock formations, clouds and sunsets.
AND DESERT Entries for the January contest must be in the Desert Magazine
COSTS NO MORE THIS YEAR office. Palm Desert, California, by January 20, and the winning prints
The first number will be will appear in the March issue. Pictures which arrive too late for one
mailed in time for Christmas— month's contest are hold over for the next month. First prize is $10;
with a lovely desert gift card second prize $5.00. For non-winning pictures accepted for publication
—and then each month through $3.00 each will be paid.
1952 the gift will be renewed. HERE ARE THE RULES
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30 DESERT MAGAZINE
Record Season Completed . . . it also kills other broad leaf plants, emulsion an eighth of an inch thick.
VERNAL — A record number of will be carried out along highways and The atoms hit the emulsion and leave
persons visited D i n o s a u r National railroads.—Times-Independent. electrified trails, densities of which
Monument during the 1951 tourist • • a identify the atoms.
season, according to official count. A FUTURE SOURDOUGHS MAY Where these space atoms come from
total of 12,424 persons viewed the PROSPECT BY SPACE SHIP is not certain. Evidence that many
area, 132 of them by air and boat, the Future space cadets may take off to come from the sun is advanced by
remainder in passenger cars. August hunt for gold in the upper air. scientists from the University of Chi-
was the peak month, with 2829 visitors They may, that is, if cosmic ray ex- cago. Supporting their findings, R. L.
registered. One of the spots most plorers continue discovering metals 20 Chasson of the University of California
visited was the Pat's Hole country. miles above the earth. reported a decrease in the cosmic atoms
Artifacts are found in the caves of this At that altitude these cosmic explor- during the appearances of a giant sun-
region, including some of Pat Lynch, ers are finding single atoms of heavier spot in May and June this year.
the Civil War Navy veteran for whom metals and chemical elements. Two
the hole was named. Lynch even left The energy of these cosmic atoms
years ago they discovered iron. Today is tremendous. They hit molecules of
his own petroglyphs, one of them a discoveries are reported of tin. cop-
drawing of his battleship.— Vernal Ex- upper air and the impacts set off rays
per and zirconium and also of the which drive all the way down to earth.
press. gases of bromine and krypton. But all —United Press.
the other chemical elements are ex-
pected, and gold and silver should be
Weed War Planned . . . early discoveries. Arizona Gain Highest . . .
MOAB—Anticipating congressional The new heavy elements are found PHOENIX — Arizona led the na-
approval of more than $2,225,000 to by sending photographic plates up in tion last year with a 419 per cent gain
combat halogeton, bureau of land man- large balloons. The plates contain in farm income.—Yuma Dailv Sun.
agement and Indian bureau officials
already have mapped their attack
against the livestock-killing weed. Utah,
Next best thing to a trip out
Idaho and Nevada contain the largest
area of approximately 700,000 acres
of public land where the poisonous
TRUE OR FALSE on the desert is an hour with
Desert Magazine's True or
False. It will take you to many interesting places in the Southwest,
growth has taken hold. Infestations
also have been reported in Wyoming, introduce you to the history, geography, mineralogy, botany and other
Montana and California, but the situ- interesting phases of desert life and lore. Of course few persons know
ation as yet is not serious in those the answers to all these questions. A score of 12 to 14 is fair, 15 to 17
states. Rcseeding of buffer strips is is good, 18 or over is excellent. The answers are on page 41.
planned to halt the plant's spread. 1—A rattlesnake will not crawl over a horsehair riata.
Spraying, a less effective weapon since True . False
2—The Gila River is a tributary of the Colorado River.
True . False
3—Date palm trees were growing on the Great American Desert when
DESERT GRAPEFRUIT the white men first came to this region. True . False .......
30-lb. bag delivered in California 4—Kachina dolls are made by the Navajo Indians. True . False
express prepaid for $2.00. 5—The Santa Fe Trail was in use before the Butterfield stage line was
G. W. CUTSHAW, Grower established. True . False ... .
Brawley, California 6—Desert mistletoe often grows on Joshua trees. True . False
7—Sunset Crater National Monument is located near the base of San
Francisco peaks in Arizona. True . False
8—The famous Bird Cage Theater of boom mining camp days was
KEEP VOUR mflPS . . . located at Virginia City, Nevada. True . False
Every month Desert Magazine 9—Hanksville is the name of a town in Utah. True .. False
carries two or three maps especi- 10—Camino is a Spanish word meaning mountain. True . False
ally prepared for readers who 11—Chief mineral product of the open pit mines at Ruth, Nevada, is iron.
come to the desert fcr recreation True . False
or field trips. 12—Cochiti is the name of an Indian Pueblo in New Mexico.
These maps are bsst retained True . False
for permanent reference by filing 13—A Navajo woman always weaves her rug from the bottom up, never
your copy of Desert Magazine from the top down. True . . False .......
each month in one of the loose- 14—Adolph Bandelier was a famous Mountain Man. True . False . . .
leaf binders supplied by the 15—Nearest town to the Petrified Forest National Monument is Flagstaff.
magazine publishers. True . False .. .
Covered wiih imitation leather 16—The historic Palace of :he Governors may still be seen in Santa Fe,
and gold embossed, each binder New Mexico. True . False
holds 12 copies. They are easy 17—The Salt River valley of Arizona gets its irrigation water from the
to insert and they lie flat when Lake Mead storage reservoir at Hoover dam. True . False
open. 18—Pyramid Lake in Nevada is on the reservation of the Paiute Indians.
MAILED POSTPAID FOR True . False
S2.00 19—The shores of Salton Sea in California are lined with willow trees.
True . False..^ .
THE 20—Encelia, also known as Brittle bush or Incense bush, is a desert
perennial. True . False .
PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA

DECEMBER, 195 1 31
ALLEN
JUNIOR
GEM
CUTTER
AMATEUR OEM CUTTER
• 3y LELANDE QUICK, Editor of The Lapidary Journal-
A Complete Lapidary Shop
Only $43.50 We amused ourself on a recent Saturday letters explaining how to operate saws. He
by spending it reading all the ads for lapi- found that he could not get all the infor-
• Ideal icr apartment house dwel- dary equipment and supplies that have ap- mation he wished to convey into one letter
lers. peared in this magazine since its inception and when he sat down to write the article
fourteen years ago. To read those ads is he found that he could not get all the
• Polish rocks into beautiful gems. to read the history of the growth of the information into one article. We then sug-
• Anyone can learn. hobby and its associated businesses. For gested that he tell the complete story and
• Instructions included. with few exceptions almost the first ad if it was enough to make a book we would
that any manufacturer placed for new publish it for the three million amateur
Write for Catalog. 25c equipment was in the Desert Magazine. gem cutters in America; most of them need-
But we were a little surprised when we lessly wasting money, patience and gem
ALLEN LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT discovered that the magazine had been material, because of a lack in understand-
COMPANY — Dept. D printed for more than a year before any- ing the valuable tool they were using.
thing in the lapidary line was advertised. As time went on we became increasingly
3632 W. Slauson Ave., Los Angeles 43, Cal. The first ad was for the Johns Gem Cut- convinced that few saws were at fault but
Phone Axminister 2-6206 ter, originally made in Missouri and long many sawyers were. Most amateur lapidar-
since gone. Oddly enough, when the wreck- ies were like the seven-year-old boy with his
ers started to tear apart the old building to first watch—not prepared to handle such a
' item. DIAMOND BLADES build the former quarters of the Lapidary valuable machine. Just as they earlier wound
Journal in Hollywood the building was their first watch too tight and broke the
filled with a big collection of ;he Johns Gem spring, they now ruined their first saw blade
Cutter and piles of literature about it. We during the sawing of the first 20 inches of
never did learn the story behind it. rock. We ruined several saws ourself, de-
Then in June 1939 came the ads for the spite the old wives' tale of "breaking in a
Felker RX "complete outfit." Warner and saw by first sawing through a building brick."
Grieger's (now Grieger's) first ad for a saw Even today no manufacturer of diamond
appeared in January 1940 and the next saws offers adequate instructions on the use
month came the organization of the first of his instrument. The result is that dealers
lapidary society in the country—the Los sell saws and then they are besieged with
Angeles Lapidary society. During 1940 trouble and, because they cannot satisfy the
there was a rash of new saws and outfits customer in many instances by going out
Postage and Insurance advertised and Frank. Crawford introduced to his house and sawing a rock for him. the
the first assembly apart from the toy class. purchaser has nothing good to say about the
Covington Ball Bearing Grinder He had substantial equipment that included saw. There are probably thousands of saws
a good saw and arbor, with all the neces- in America today sitting in idleness because
and shields are sary accessories. These wer^; mounted on the owners have quit in disgust. They are
furnished in 4 a metal frame that could be wheeled wher- displeased with the manufacturer of the
sizes and price ever it was wanted. The early gem cutters saw; they have no kind word for the dealers
ranges to s u i t who built their own equipment used to refer who sold them the saw; many are even dis-
y o n r re quire* to Crawford's outfit as a "one-man band." gruntled with us because we will not take
ments. Water and
The most important advance during 1940 the time to save them as they go down for
grit proof.
was the appearance of the diamond saw. the third time. There is nothing adequate in
Wilfred Eyles. the "father of the diamond all the literature to which we can refer
COVINGTON 8" TRIM SAW saw," had taken out a patent in 1935 for a them for there is no book published on
saw he invented the year before and he now lapidary technique that even scratches the
and motor arc com- surface of the operational problems of saws.
pact and do not began marketing the saw to the rockhounds.
splash. Save blades It had been tested by wide use in five di- But now we have published Mr. Eyles'
mill clothing with visions of the government and the retail book, in which every question is answered.
(his saw. price was only $35.00. Vreeland of Port- If every manufacturer of a saw made it
land came out with his saw at the same- possible for every dealer to give every buyer
BUILD YOUR OWN LAP time and it was priced at $39.50. Similar of a saw one of these books free the entire
and SAVE with :t COV- saws of like quality cannot be purchased picture would be changed and much valu-
INGTON 12" or 16" Lap today for three times the price, and we are able time and patience would be saved in
Kit. We furnish every- not writing of "trim saws," a much later several directions. The title of the new
thing you need. Send development. It is interesting to note that book is The Diamond Saw And Its Operation
for free catalog. Eyles' 10 inch blade at that time was ad- and its price is only $1.20 (plus 4c tax in
vertised at $6.50 and Vreco's at $5.00. California.) Published by the Desert Press
Today 10 inch blades are advertised in the (for the Lapidary Journal) it can be pur-
COVINGTON latest ads at from $11.50 to $17.80. Other chased postpaid from the Desert Magazine.
Multi-Feature sizes are in proportion.
Hi" Lap Unit If you own a diamond saw you should
Does Since that lime our mail has been heavy buy this book. A careful reading of it, by
everything
for you. with inquiries about the diamond saw and the experienced cutter as well as the novice,
COVINGTON
its problems. To explain to an inquirer just should make it possible for the reader to
12" 11" why his saw dished, required the investment save many times the price of the book dur-
or 1 fi" of a half hour of valuable time, plus postage ing his next twenty hours of cutting—with
Power Feed
Diamond which was seldom supplied by the corre- 10-inch blades selling at what used to be
Saws spondent. In time we had to discard such the price of a good suit of clothes.
inquiries or refer the writer to the maker
SAVE of his saw by a brief postal. We tried to Of course this book is not the ultima
BLADKS get someone to write an all-comprehensive thule; it will perhaps uncover many un-
article on the many problems of using a answered questions; it may even arouse
diamond saw blade for greatest efficiency. controversy. However here is the most com-
Send for New Catalog, IT'S FREE However anyone with great experience had prehensive information for the user of a
gained it on only one type of saw. Finally diamond saw that has ever been published.
COVINGTON LAPIDARY SUPPLY Mr. Eyles agreed to write such an article
Redlands, California The Diamond Saw And Its Operation by
for he was having the same experience. Wilfred C. Eyles — $1.20 postpaid from
Much of his time was spent in writing long Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, California.
8?
DESERT MAGAZINE
Gems and Minerals
E-10 — TABLE MODEL
DIVISION EXAMINES MOJAVE DESERT STONE Complete with 8-in. Felker Dia-
mond saw, lV2-in. 100-grit and 220-
CALIFORNIA GEOLOGY SUITABLE FOR BUILDING grit grinding wheels, leather covered
The geology of parts of Orange, River- California's Mojave Desert has tremen- mff, sanding disc and vise with
side and San Diego counties, California, is dous deposits of stone which might be used lV'2-in. cross-feed.
the subject of a new bulletin issued by the cither in decoration or structural work. Complete (without motor)...$135.00
California Division of Mines. Possible building uses of several varieties
"Crystalline Rocks of Southwestern Cali- 1 / 3 h.p. motor 18.54
were suggested in a mineralogy exhibit at Crating charge 3.00
fornia," Bulletin No. 159. consists of three the Kern County Fair, reports the Bakers-
related scientific papers by different authors. field Californian. Shipping weight about 120 pounds.
"Crystalline Rocks of the Corona, Elsinore, One example is banded rhyolite. This This is perfect economy machine
and San Luis Rey Quadrangles" by Esper stone is hard enough for building block for sawing, grinding, sanding and
S. Larsen, Jr.. is first of the trio. It deals and may be used as flooring, builders state. polishing. Built for long trouble-free
specifically with the igneous rocks of the Yet it can be cut for trim such as exterior service.
area. Accompanying the text is a color outline or for fireplace construction. Flat
map showing in detail the geologic units chunks of it, when cut and polished, show
discussed. striations that resemble landscapes rendered
Three maps amplify "Geology of the in shades ranging from cream to dark brown.
Cuyamaca Peak Quadrangle. San Diego The stone is available in large quantities
County," by Donald L. Everhart. Two rec- in the Mojave.
ognized mining districts, the Boulder Creek
and the Deer Park, lie within this quad-
rangle. All gold mines in each district are
described in the text. WRITER CITES
Entitled "Groundwater in the Bedrock MINERAL MUSEUM FAULTS
in Western San Diego County, California." "Something must be done to enliven the
and written by Richard C. Merriam, the public interest again in our mineral halls,"
third report discusses principles governing writes David M. Seaman in an article pub-
the movement and collection of ground- lished in Rocks ami Minerals. Seaman, as-
water in bedrock. Recommendations for sociate curator, Harvard Mineralogical Mu-
the location of water wells in bedrock and seum, suggests six faults in mineral museum
the methods for estimating the ground- management which contribute to public ig-
water reserves are two sections of the report norance of minerals. The six are: ( I )
that are of particular significance. inadequate classification and arrangement; E-12 — STAND MODEL
Bulletin No. 159 is available at $3.00 from (2) poor lighting of exhibits; (3) Lack of Same specifications as E-10. but
the California Division of Mines, Ferry any explanation for what a mineral is; (4) with steel 34-inch high stand. Price
Building, San Francisco 11. California. absence of exhibits explaining how minerals complete with all accessories, stand
California residents should add three percent are identified; (5) poor planning of exhibits: and motor, ready to plug in .$179.00
sales tax to the purchase price. (6) lack of originality in exhibits. Crating charge 5.00
• • • Shipping weight about 220 pounds.
Junior Rockhounds of Prescott are pic-
tured in a full-page color illustration in the MOJAVE VALLEY CLUB
November issue of The National Geographic
magazine. The youngsters help to portray SPONSORS HOBBY SHOW
the activities of rockhounds in an article. Members of Mojave Valley Gem and
" 'Rockhounds' Uncover Mineral Beauty," Mineral Club invited all hobbyists to dis-
by George S. Switzer, associate curator of play their collections and handcir.ft wares
mineralogy, U. S. National Museum. The at the group's annual hobby show. Several
junior group was organized in 1946 by John hundred visitors registered at the show,
Butcher and Larry Bender. Present mem- which was held in the local high school MODEL E-20
bership totals 40. auditorium. Designed for the lapidary artist
who wants an economical, easy-to-
operate unit — compact, quiet run-
ning and sturdy. Will give years of
satisfactory service.
Complete with 6-in. Felker Dia-
mond Saw, 1-in. 100-grit and 220-grit
grinding wheels, sanding disc and
Petrified Wood, Moss Agate, Chrysocolla leather-covered buff.
Turquoise, Jade and Jasper Jewelry Complete (without m o t o r ) . . . . $85.00
1/3 h.p. motor 18.54
HAND MADE IN STERLING SILVER Crating charge 3.00
Shipping weight about 90 pounds.
Bracelets, Rings, Necklaces, Earrings
and Brooches All above prices are f.o.b. South Pasadena
California
SPECIALLY SELECTED STONES WITH Write for free literature
CHOICE COLORS AND PICTURES iAnd mention Desert Magazine)
Write for Folder With Prices
HIGHLAND PARK
ELLIOTT'S GEM SHOP
235 East Seaside Blvd. LONG BEACH 2. CALIF. LAPIDARY & SUPPLY CO.
Across from West End of Municipal
Auditorium Grounds 100!) Mission Street
Hours 10 A. M. to 9 P. M. Daily Except Monday South Pasadena, California

DECEMBER, 1 9 5 1 33
AMONG THE

GEm rnnRT A D V E R T I S I N G R A T E
8c a Word . . . Minimum $1.00
ROCK HUNTERS
William E. Phillips traveled around the
FIFTY MINERAL SPECIMENS, 34-in. or over, BERYL CRYSTALS. Columbite. Tantalite, Pur- world searching for specimens to add to his
boxed, identified, described, mounted. Post- purite. Andalusite Crystals, Rose Quartz, Hell's
paid $4.00. Old Prospector, Box 72!) Lodl, Canyon Agates. Mac-Mich Minerals Co.. Cus- gem collection." He told members of Pacific
California. ter, So. Dakota. Mineral society, California, about his trip
IF YOU ARE A ROCKHOUND you need the
105 DIFFERENT MINERAL SPECIMENS—$4.50. and displayed his stones. Included were a
Lapidary Journal. Tells how to cut and polish
Carefully selected; makes a valuable aid in Siberian amethyst of 75 carats, a deep yel-
helping identify and classify your findings or
rocks, gives news of all mineral-gem groups. makes a wonderful gift. Boxed & labeled. low zircon of 120 carats and an opal of
Tells how to make jewelry, carries ads of 70 different S3.00, 35 different $1.50. Coast unusual green coloring.
dealers in supplies, equipment, gems, minerals Gems & Minerals 11669 Ferris Rd., El Monte.
from all over the world. Well illustrated, California.
• e •
beautifully printed. Subscription S2.00 a year Colored slides served as illustration when
—back numbers 50c. Sample Copy 25c if you "TUNGSTEN PROSPECTORS," Fluorescent Col-
have never subscribed or been sampled. lectors. .Mineralights at Superior Gems & A. G. Oslergard of Glendale Lapidary and
LELANDE QUICK, Editor, Palm Desert. Minerals, 4665 Park Blvd.. San Diego 1(1, Calif. Gem society told members of Hollywood
California. Write for free literature. Lapidary society of his trip into Mexico.
MINERAL SETS: 24 Colorful Minerals (iden- ROCK COLLECTORS ATTENTION! Back in Emphasized were gem and mineral sources
tified) in lxl compartments, $.s.00 postpaid. desert for winter—new rocks—new Trailer
PROSPECTOR'S SET — 50 minerals (identi- Rock Store, The Rockologist, Box 181, Cathe-
below the border.
fied) in l x l compartments in cloth reinforced, dral City, California. • • •
sturdy cartons, $5.00 postpaid. ELLIOTT
GEM SHOP, 235 East Seaside Blvd. Long 100 POUNDS OF COPPER & CRYSTAL speci- Ed Peterson, member of San Diego Min-
Beach 2, California. mens $25.00. Iron Oxides, Malachite, Chalco- eral and Gem society, spoke at a recent
TITANIA GEMS $5.00 per carat for stones over
pyrite, Garnet and a variety of Calcites. You
can't go wrong on this selection. L. M. Jones,
general meeting of his group. Peterson's
3 carats. Also mounted in 14K gold rings. Box 307, Bisbee, Arizona. remarks concerned the building of the San
All precious gems at lowest prices. Ace
FOR SALE: Beautiful purple Petrified Wood
Diego. Arizona, and Eastern Railroad
Lapidary Co., Box 67, Jamaica, New York.
with Uranium, Pyroluslte, Manganite. Nice through Cariso Gorge and the Fish Moun-
ATTENTION ROCK COLLECTORS. It will pay sample $1.00. Postage. Maggie Baker, Wen- tains.
you to visit the Ken-Dor Rock Roost. We buy, den, Arizona.
sell, or exchange mineral specimens. Visitors • • •
are always welcome. Ken-Dor Rock Roost, BLACK ONYX blanks 25c each. Red Onyx
blanks 35c each. Green Onyx blanks 35c
Relating his experiences as a member of
419 Sutler, Modesto, California.
each. Prompt service given to mail order Admiral Richard Byrd's first Antarctic ex-
DINOSAURIAN COLLECTION Three 2x3 inch jobs. All kinds of fine cutting. Juchem Bros., pedition, C. A. Diedrich of San Diego,
specimens petrified dinosaur bone. One dozen 315 W. 5th St.. Los Angeles 13. California. California, spoke to the San Jacinto-Hemet
lxl and 1x2 inch petrified dinosaur bone. One
gastrolith (dinosaur gizzard stone). All for
CABOCHON COLLECTORS: Assortment of six Rockhounds club. Diedrich told of sea
different types and colors, slices large enough adventures the three ships encountered en-
$1.25 postpaid. W. C. Minor, Box 62, Fruita, to grind l " x l " a " cabs., S2.00. Other slabs up
Colorado. to 30 sq. in. Cabinet specimen or gem. 2()c route, and described the party's work during
"DON'T MISS" Fine rough gems, Minerals, Sil- per sq. in. Lee Phelps, 1104 Portland, Bend, its two-year stay at the South Pole.
Oregon.
ver and Lapidary supplies at Superior Gems &
.Minerals, 4665 Park Blvd. San Diego 16,
• • •
California. (Sorry, no lists.)
MINERAL SPECIMENS, slabs or material by
the pound for cutting and polishing. Ap-
Equipment necessary for gem identifica-
proval selection sent upon request. You are tion formed one of the exhibits at the first
RADIOACTIVE ORE COLLECTION. Six won welcome. A. L. Jarvis, Rt. 2. Box 125, Wat- show of the Austin Gem and Mineral so-
derful specimens of Euxenite & Monazite, sonville, California, on Salinas Highway'.
Autunite, Uranophane, Carnotite, Samarskite ciety. Faceting techniques were demon-
and Lambertite in neat redwood chest, only MEXICAN FIRE OPAL: 10c to $1.00 per piece. strated.
S2.00 Postpaid! Supply limited—Order now! State whether for specimens or cabochons.
URANIUM PROSPECTORS, Box 604, Stockton, Minimum order $1.00. Satisfaction or refund. • • •
California. Coast Gems & Minerals, 11669 Ferris Rd., El
Monte, California. FO-rest 8-7551.
Specimens collected during summer rock
IF YOU LIKE pretty specimens just say "Jack MINERAL SPECIMENS and cutting material of
hunting were compared by members at the
just send on $6.00 worth and be sure to pick all kinds. Gold and Silver jewelry made to opening meeting of the Earth Science club
them pretty." Yes indeed you will get a order. Your stones or ours. 5 lbs. good cut- of Northern Illinois. Agates found on the
selection that is just that (pretty). Ask for
list of the many beauties now in stock. Jack
ting material S4.00 or SI.00 per lb. J. L. field trip to Bellevue. Iowa, commanded
James, Battle Mountain, Nevada.
The Rockhound, P.O. Box 86, Carbondale, special interest.
Colorado. AGATE MINES CLOSED due to lack of help
the Arizona Agate Mines will be closed. No • • •
SEND $1.00 FOR BEAUTIFUL ROCK BOX with orders please. Watch this section for new Last year the Chicago Lapidary club in-
20 colorful specimens. 20 cabinet size speci- opening date. Charles E. Hill of the Arizona
mens, assorted, for $10.00, will run 15 to 18 Agate Mines, Cave Creek, Arizona. vited various interested groups in the Chi-
pounds. L. M. Jones. Box 307, Bisbee, Ariz. McSHAN'S GEM SHOP—open part time, or find
cago area to join a field trip to the strip
us by directions on door. Cholla Cactus Wood mines at Braidwood, Illinois, where Penn-
WANTED: old mining and oil stock certificates. a specialty, write for prices. 1 mile west tin sylvania fossils are found. By popular de-
Books, letters, papers, pictures of the West U. S. 66. Needles, California. Box 22.
and Southwest, Exploration, mining, survey- mand, the trip became an annual event. It
ing, etc. Will trade Franklin, N. J. fluores- WE DON'T CLAIM to have the largest stockpile was organized this year by the Earth Science
cent minerals, or pay cash. Send description of Franklin. X. J., short wive fluorescent
and price. Fred W. Morris, 200 Red Maple stones, but we do claim to have the best. To club of Northern Illinois. Dr. Ben Hur
Drive, Levittown, New York. prove it we will mail you a collection of the Wilson again led the expedition.
world's finest fluorescents, hard, tough, cabi-
FLUORESCENT MINERALS: Complete line of net size rocks that are pretty even in ordinary • • •
the fluorescent and rare minerals from the light and become beautiful in their brilliant, It was the fifth annual gem and mineral
fluorescent and phosphorescent colors ami
famous Franklin, N. J. mines. Complete line
patterns under the ultra violet lamp. A fifteen show for the Orange Belt Mineralogical
of Mineralights, $12.50 up. Set of 10 fluores- society in November. Exhibits were ar-
cent minerals, mounted in Styrofoam, labeled. pound collection for $8.00. Every stone in-
Specify wave length, $2.50. SPECIAL: 5 bril- dividually wrapped and covered by a money- ranged in the Industrial Building on the
back guarantee. A superb Christmas gift for
liant specimens of Willemite and Calcite (2x2>
your Rockhound friends. Prices quoted on National Orange Show grounds at San
$4.00. Fred W. Morris, 200 Red Maple Drive.
Levittown, New York. lamps. Garden State Minerals, 1034 Bloom Bernardino, California. In addition to in-
field St., Hoboken, New Jersey. dividual and group displays, demonstrations
BEAUTIFUL SPECIMEN of Pectolite, new find, were held in silver craft, faceting and lapi-
sizes run in $2.00, $3.00, $5.00. Add one of
these to your collection. Silky luster and dary.
snow white, fan shaped crystalization. Jack • • •
The Rockhound, P. O. Box 86, Carbondale,
Colorado. Formation and location of Dugway Ge-
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new, super-sensitive Geiger Counter. from Oregon. New Mexico and California. mens, were displayed. To conclude the
Get one for atom bomb defense. So small it fits in the palm of Our shop is 2 miles West of Salome (where study, a field trip was taken to the Dugway
the hand or in the hip pocket, and yet more sensitive than many
large, expensive instruments. Weighs only 1 V\ lbs. Uses flash- she danced) Arizona. L. C. Hockett, Box 276,
Salome, Arizona.
Geode location. At a subsequent meeting,
light battery. Low price includes earphone, radio active sample,
instructions. Sold with ironclad moneyback guarantee. W. T. Rogers spoke on "Obsidian." Mem-
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3
"Gems of Montana," members of the Pasa-
i in. or larger. 10 for S1.00. Ray Schinke,
Aguila, Arizona.
dena (California) Lapidary society viewed
a screened documentary on the "Art of
Lapidary."
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REVIVE ANCIENT PRIZEWINNING
USE OF BLACK OBSIDIAN JEWELRY DISPLAYED
It has been known for many years that Comparing the geology of his native Vir-
black obsidian, one of several kinds of vol- ginia with that of the Midwest, Dr. Bruce
canic glass, was employed by American Lineburg, head of the biology department
Indians as material for arrow points, knives, at Lake Forest College. Illinois, spoke on
and olher weapons and implements. "Continental Glaciation" at a meeting of than the Didmondl
It has reen proven that aborigines had the Chicago Rocks and Minerals society. 1

yet anjther use for obsidian. According to The evening's display table featured prize-
the State of California Mineral Informa- winning jewelry designed and made by Mr.
tion Service, archeological investigators in and Mrs. E. Goff Cooke. Especially note- FACETED ROUND GEMS
Peru and Yucatan have uncovered both worthy was a set fashioned of Belgian OF SYNTHETIC
obsidian and pyrite mirrors, some of single Congo malachite set in silver.
• • •
mineral slabs, others constructed of frag-
ments cemented together in mosaic fashion. From Cairo to Dakar, the African trip TITANIA
Centuries have passed since the Mayas of George Burman was described to mem- have live times more ability than the
made obsidian mirrors. However, only in bers of the Mineralogical society o:: South- Diamond to break light into its component
recent years has interest been renewed in ern California at a meeting held in Pasa- colors producing a magnificent rainbow
utilizing the mineral for reflection. During dena. Colored slides were shown by the effect.
World War II mirrors of obsidian were used mineral collector to illustrate his lecture. SEND FOR A FHEE PRICE LIST describing
for certain naval instruments. Today ob- • • o
sidian mirrors are found in telescopes, spec- Tacoma Agate club met to view a special
trographs and other optical instruments. mineral display arranged by members. The Titania Rainbow Jewelry
• • • exhibit was exclusively of specimens found
Designed to help members discover their in the state of Washington. OTHER SERVICES OFFERED
lapidary mistakes, a "rock clinic" was or- • • • JEWELRY REPAIR SERVICE
ganized at a meeting of the San Jose Lapi- Onyx marble is generally regarded as a
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• • • rock through which the solutions flow. So JEWELRY MAKING TOOLS AND MATERIALS
Some 150 mineral enthusiasts from states J. W. Fisher, president of Southwest MINERAL SPECIMENS
Washington, Idaho, Oregon and California Onyx and Marble company, in an article in FLUORESCENT LAMPS, GEIGER COUNTERS
searched for petrified wood and calcite Mineral Notes and News. It also may take URANIUM SAMPLES, FLUORESCENT MINERALS
crystals at the "All Rockhounds Pow-wow" the form of stalactites, stalagmites and sur-
held near Sunnyside, Washington. A dis- face coatings in limestone caves, in which FIELD TRIP GUIDE BOOKS
cussion of Indian artifacts followed the rock case it is known as cave onyx. ROUGH AUSTRALIAN OPALS
hunting. Members are anxious to establish
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In its first exhibit, the newly-formed
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ond-place honors at the Hemet Festival.
Members' efforts are now directed toward
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ctt
Riverside County Fair and Date Festival.
President George Merrill Roy has an- According to Ray Hcthcrington and Harry Oliver, plans are now
nounced the group is ready to start classes in progress for the fourth annual Pegleg Gold Trek and Liar's contest to
in its Lapidary school. A quonset hut has be held in Borrcgo Valley New Year's eve and the following day.
been leased to house equipment and the
society presented a variety show to raise The evening program is to be staged at the great rock monument
funds for purchase of more tools. Subjects where every gold-hunter is expected to deposit 10 stones before starting
emphasized this first semester will be min- on his quest for the legendary black nuggets made famous nearly 100 years
eralogy, gemology and silvercraft. ago by Pegleg Smith.
Some say Pegleg was a hijacker, others that he high-graded his nug-
gets from the old Fortuna mine—but the legend of his discovery of a hill-
Agate Jewelry top covered with black gold persists, and every year men with burros—
Wholesale and more recently with jeeps—roam the Colorado desert in quest of
Rings — Pendants — Tie Chains
Pegleg's placer discovery.
Brooches — Ear Rings On New Year's eve the annual Liar's contest will be staged at a big
Bracelets — Matched Sets campfire meeting with Harry Oliver acting as master of ceremonies. Both
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men and women will compete for the bronze trophy—a statue of Pegleg
Blank Mountings Smith modeled by Cyria Henderson, and presented annually by Ray
Rings — Ear Wires — Tie Chains
Hetherington who with Harry Oliver first sponsored the annual event.
Cuff Links — Neck Chains Most of those who gather at the New Year's eve contest, camp on the
Bezel — devices — Shanks desert overnight. The Pegleg Trek has become a sort of reunion of the
Solder — Findings old-time prospectors in the Southwest.
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Howard Clark of Yucca Valley, California, writer and prospector,
O. R. JUNKINS & SON was the winner of last year's contest.
440 N.W. Beach St. The committee in charge this year will consist of Oliver, Hetherington,
Newport, Oregon
Harry Woods, Ralph Caine, Desert Steve Ragsdale, Ed. Duval, W. M.
Scott and Randall Henderson.
Residents of Borrego Valley have promised to have an ample wood
POCKET-SIZED supply for the campfire, and to signpost the road for those who have not
previously attended the program. Campers are advised to take plenty of
water as there is none available at the Pegleg Monument.

THREE MAIN TYPES obsidian are examples. The plutonics have


OF ROCKS EXPLAINED cooled much more slowly and at varying
There are three main classes of rocks: depths. Among them are the granites, sy-
igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. enites and peridotites. Sedimentary rocks
The classification, Pick and Dop Slick ex- are formed by the breaking down, through
plains, is based on mode of origin rather weather, of pre-existing rocks. Shale, lime-
than age. There are two main types of ig- stone, chalk and conglomerate may be in-
neous rock, volcanic and plutonic. The vol- cluded. Metamorphic rocks were originally
canics have cooled rapidly from lava flows igneous or sedimentary, but had their char-
which reached the surface. Rhvolite and acteristics changed through great heat and
pressure.
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GEOLOGY'S NEWER A four-day field trip to Colorado desert Lloyd Gigeur, recently returned from a
METHODS DISCUSSED gem areas opened the fifth year of activity trip to the gold mines in South Dakota's
for the Orange Coast Mineral and Lapidary Black Hills, spoke of his experiences before
While some scientists attempt to explain society, California. Several districts were members of San Diego Lapidary society.
the origin of the earth, others try to deter- visited. Material found included fire agate, Gigeur reported that an average of $56,000
mine precisely what the earth consists of desert roses, nodules, geodes, sagenite. agate in gold is processed daily in the Coyote
and what its structure is. In his talk, "Ge- and sard. state.
ology and Its Newer Tools," A. B. Meikle- • • •
john outlined for Los Angeles Mineralogical • • •
society members the various theories of A bulletin of the Rocky Mountain Federa- The highly mineralized and intensively
earth formation and constitution, empha- tion of Mineral societies announces new mined mountain country near Oro Grande.
sizing the scientific methods employed in officers of the Colorado Mineral society. In- New Mexico, was visited by members of
propounding those theories. stalled recently were James Harlhut, presi- El Paso Mineral and Gem society on a
"Even though we have a satisfactory pic- dent; Ernest E. Parshall, first vice-president: recent field trip. The group searched for
ture of the earth's structure, we still are Calvin B. Simmons, second vice-president; garnets near the old iron mine in the area.
faced with the problem of how to locate Mrs. Jeannette Haralson. secretary-treasurer:
minerals and ore bodies." explained Meikle- Mrs. C. R. Williams, corresponding secretary.
john. Since the origin of mineral bearing One of the society's current projects is
bodies is controlled largely by general geo- demonstration of mineral collections with
logic structure, structural geology was one hoth long and short wave lights to patients
in Fitzsimmons Hospital.
of the earliest guides used.
But now many instruments help recog- • • •
nize and analyze fault structures. These Members of Delvers Gem and Mineral
"newer tools" described by the speaker in- society of Downey, California, participated
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magnetometers, s c i n t i l l o m e t e r s , seismo- politick luncheon at Tom Holbert'< work- TUNGSTEN URANIUM
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Another "tool" now in use is Structural his lapidary demonstration. The evening's FIND VITAL
Petrology, the study of space relations of tour ended with a stop at the workshop of
rock minerals and their associated line WAR M E T A L S !
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Shark Tooth Hill, near Bakersfield, Cali- jasper and agate. They plan to gather
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NOVEMBER, 1950
DESERT MAGAZINE
PALM DESERT, CALIF. FOURTEENTH VOLUME lltDEX TO DECEMBER, 1951

A Darrah, William Culp, Desert lily Mar 51 Cover


Powell of the Colorado Nov 51 p41 Fairy Duster Oct 51 p25
Adams, Aries Jan 51 p6, Jun 51 p39 Dodge, Natt N., Goat nut Aug 51 pl4
Adelanto Caves, California Aug 51 p33 Flowers of the Southwest Jul 51 p.37 Greasewood Jan 51 p33
Agriculture, desert ...Aug 51 pl4 Emory, Lt. W. H., Halogeton ... Mar 51 p 36, Dec 51 p30
Agua Caliente Oasis.... Mar 51 pl8 Notes of a Military Horsebrush ... Dec 50 p23
Alarcon, Hernando de Dec 51 pl4 Reconnaissance ... Jun 51 p24 Ironwood tree Nov 50 p4, Jan 51 p6
Albrecht, Freda. Mar 51 p5 Forrest, Earle R.. Jaegerina _.._ Jan 51 pl8
Alvey, Edson.. Sep 51 p6 Arizona's Dark and Bloody Jatropha cuneata . Jan 51 p6
Amateur Gem Cutter Ground .. ... Nov 50 p47 Jojoba . Aug 51 pl4
By Lelande Quick. Each issue Fowler, Harlan D., Joshua tree Nov 50 pi9, May 51 p21
American Mining Congress .. Dec 51 p2 \ Camels to California Apr 51 p37 Juniper ... Jun 51 pl4
Andrews. Agnes .Dec 50 pl5 Gilbert, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca. Locust tree Aug 51 pl4
Apache Pass, Arizona Aug 51 p7 The Good Life Feb. 51 p47 Lupine .... Sep 51 p l l
Archeology. Nov 50 ppl5, 18, 19, 32; Dec Gilpin, Laura, Mescal . Jul 51 p8
50 p36; Jan 51 pl4; Feb 51 pp31, 34, 37; The Rio Grande, River of Mesquite ~ May 51 p22
Jun 51 p4: Jul 51 p5; Sep 51 pp5-ll: Destiny . Aug 51 p.37 Munz Cholla . Jan 51 pl8
Oct 51 pplO, 37; Dec 51 pp7, 20 Hafen, Leroy R., Ocotillo . Oct 51 p23
Life in the Far West Oct 51 p41 Organ Pipe cactus
Arvallo, Ramon . Jul 51 p8 Heizer, Dr. Robt. F., Jan 51 pl4, Apr 51 pl4
Avawatz Mt.. California Aug 51 p20 A Manual of Archeological Palm trees Dec 50 pi5
Field Methods ' Dec 50 p45 Palo Verde tree Nov 50 p23
B Henderson, Randall, Pinion nuts Dec 50 p35
Wild Palms of the California Rock Hibiscus Dec 50 pl2
Baggley, George F. ... Jan 51 p28 Desert Aug 51 p37 Saguaro Jan 51 pi2. Feb 51 Cover
Baker Dam. Aug 51 p29 Holland, Philemon, Dec 51 pplO, 12
Barbary sheep Mar 51 p36 A Roman Book on Precious Sangre-de-drago Jan 51 p6
Bare Mis., Nevada.. .Oct 51 pl2 Stones ... . Dec 50 p43 Sego lily Sep 51 p l l
Bascom, George -Aug 51 p5 Jaeger, Edmund C , Senita Cactus Jan 51 pl3
Batty's pass Sep 51 p7 Our Desert Neighbors Feb 51 p47 Smoke Tree Aug 51 pl5
Beal, Mary, Author of— Jenkins, Minnie Braithwaite, St. John's Bread Aug 51 pl4
They Grow on the Desert Girl from Williamsburg Jul 51 p.37 Tamarisk tree Apr 51 pl4, Jun 51 pl7
Uplands . ... Dec 50 p23 Korns, J. Roderic, Tobacco Aug 51 pl4
Spring Carpet for the Desert Oct 51 p24 West From Fort Bridger Dec 5 I p43 Tree cholla Jan 51 p6
Beatty, Nevada .. Oct 51 p 1 1 Long, Katherine and Samuel Siciliano, White fir tree Mar 51 p6
Yuma from Hell-hole to Wildflowers Mar 51 p28, Apr 51 p39.
Beckwith, Frank, Author of— May 51 p2
Haven . .... . .. Nov 51 p4l
Pedro's Lost Gold Mine ... Apr 5 1 p22 Yucca . ..Apr 51 p21
Major. Mabel and T. M. Pearce,
Beckwith, Frank (obit).. . Sep 51 p30 Boulder Beach, Nevada ...Jan 51 p23
Signature of the Sun Feb 51 p47 Boulder Dam Dec 51 p27
Bee Rock Mesa Jun 51 p4
Begay, Melvin and Bessie Dec 51 pi6 Marshall, W. Taylor, Boyce, Dr. George... Dec 51 ppl7, 18
Behle, William H.. Author of— Arizona's Cactuses .. .. Jul 51 p37 Boyd, Keith Dec 50 p20
Dellenbaugh, 1873. . Feb 51 p20 Martin, Douglas D., Bradt, George M., Author of—
Bell, Laura, Author of— Tombstone's Epitaph Desert Ogres Feb 51 p23
Clues to the Tribesmen Who May 51 p37. Aug 51 p37 Bunch Grass Lizard Jul 51 p4
Lived by the River Jul 51 p.3 New Mexico College of Agriculture, They Like the Sandy Terrain Aug 51 p2
Bell, Laura (Close-ups) Jul 51 p39 Ornamentals for New Mexico, Jan 51 p47 lie Wears a Collar for
Benko, George Oct 51 p30 Identification Oct 51 p22
Niggli. Josephine,
Benson, Anderson Nov 50 p29 Birds of Prey—Do They
Bighorn sheep Jan 51 p l l . Mar 51 pi3 Mexican Village Apr 51 p37 Deserve Extinction? Nov 51 p21
Big Nugget Gulch, Nevada....Dec 51 pp 8, 9 Niningcr, H. H. and Addie D.. Bradt, George M. [Close-ups) Jul 51 p39
Birds of prey ...Nov 51 p21 The Nininger Collection of Brigham City, Utah ... Dec 51 pl6
Bisha Canyon, Utah Oct 51 p6 Meteorites Dec 50 p45 Brocius, Curley Bill Nov 51 p l l
Bishop, R. H. (Bob).__ Dec 51 ppl2, 14 Pillsbury, Dorothy. Brown, Bill... . Jan 51 p23
Black Point, Mono Lake. Calif. Dec 51 pi9 No High Adobe Jan 51 p47 Brown, John S. Nov 50 pp4, 9
Santee, Ross, Brown, W. H. Oct 51 p l l
Black Rock Desert Jul 51 pl5 Bullfrog Hills. Nevada Oct 51 pl2
The Bubbling Spring . Oct. 51 p41
Black Widow spider . Feb 51 p25 Hardrock and Silver Sage Dec 5 1 p43 Bunch Grass lizard Jul 51 p4
Bonita Lake - - A u g 51 p29 Schmedding, Joseph. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Book reviews— ...Nov 50 plO, Feb 51 p26
Cowboy and Indian Trader May 51 p37 Bureau of Reclamation Reservoir
Amsden, Charles Avery, Treat, Florence R..
Prehistoric Southwesterners from report Jan 51 p28
Desert Fables ... Nov 50 p47 Burro Dec 50 p.34
Basket Maker to Pueblo Nov 50 p47
Barker, S. Omar Truett, Velma Stevens, Burrowing owls ...Nov 51 p23
Born to Battle Dec 51 p43 On the Hoof in Nevada Dec 50 p45 Bushnell Hospital, Utah .Dec 51 pl7
Benson. Lyman, Waters, Frank, Butcher Harold, Author of—
Cacti of Arizona Apr 51 p37 Masked Gods . Mar 51 p47 Seven Years with the Hopis Feb 51 pl6
Bolton, Dr. Herbert E., Williams, Jim, Butcher, Harold. Author of—
Pageant in the Wilderness Oct 51 p41 Cowboys Out Our Way Jun 51 p24
Brooks, Juanita, Butterfield stage -Aug 51 p5
Wolle, Muriel Sibell, Butterfield trail, California Mar 51 pl9
The Mountain Meadows Stampede to Timberline Sep 51 p37
Massacre __ Mar 51 p47
Woods, Betty and Clee,
Caine, Ralph L.,
Fifty Trips to Thrills......—. Jan 51 p47 c
Lost Desert Gold Dec 51 p43
Calif. State Division of Mines, Wyllys, Rufus K., Cabeza Prieta game refuge Jan 51 p9
Talc Deposits of Steatite Grade, Arizona, the History of a
Frontier State Jun 51 p24 California mud turtle Dec 51 p22
Inyo County, Calif ..Nov. 51 p26
Border patrol Jan 51 p7 Camels Dec 50 p30
Caruthers, Bill,
Loafing A long Death Valley Border permits, change in .—Feb 51 p33 Cameron, Allen Sep 51 p6
Trails May 51 p37 Borquez, Hector -Aug 51 p8 Cameron, Kelly Sep 51 p5
Chisholm, Joe, Camino del Diablo trail, Arizona. Jan 51 p6
Brewery Gulch Dec 50 p45 Botany—
Buckwheat Oct 51 p25 Camping Jan 51 pl6, Mar 51 pl8
Coe, George W.,
Frontier Fighter Sep 51 p37 Cypress, San Pedro Martir Mar 51 p6 Canyon de Chelly, Arizona.-.Dec 50 pp5, 6

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Canyon Diablo, Baja Calif.... Mar 51 pp4, 6 Dinosaurs... .Mar 51 p38, Jun 51 p l l Goldwater, Barry (Close-ups).-Oct 51 p41
Cargo Muchacho Mts. Calif. ... Dec 50 p8 Helicoprian ...Dec 50 p35 Gorin, Roy Mar 51 p4
Carlsbad Caverns Feb 51 p36 Horse and rhinocerous Nov 50 pl9 Goulding, Harry ... Dec 50 p6
Carson National Forest Dec 50 p36 Fossil wood Feb 51 p l l Grand Canyon, Arizona... Feb 51 p20
Cash Entry mine Mar 51 p l l Four Corners monument.. Dec 51 p20 Grand Canyon Nat'l Park
Cave Lakes Canyon, Utah Feb 51 p20 Furnace Creek, California Dec 51 p2 museum Feb 51 p31
Centipede Feb 51 p25 Grasshoppers Dec 50 p33
Cerrillos Hills ..Mar 51 plO Gray's Well, Arizona Jan 51 plO
Chalchihuitl Turquoise mine Mar 51 plO Green, Fred Dec 51 p6
Chiricahua Mts., Arizona Gadsden Purchase Aug 51 p5 Greenwood, Henry Aug 51 p20
Aug 51 p5, Nov 51 plO Galeyville, Arizona Nov 51 plO Griffin, Delane Sep 51 p7
Chloride electrolytes Dec 51 p24 Garces, Fr. Francisco Dec 50 plO
Chukar partridge Dec 51 p26 Gem and mineral collecting, areas—
Arizona, Hualpai Mts Mar .51 p32 H
Cibola, Arizona Dec 51 p l l
Civilian Conservation Corps Nov 50 pl7 Arizona, Middle Mts. Apr 51 p7 Hamblin, Jacob . Nov 50 pl5
Clark County (Nev.) Gem Arizona, Pipe Springs Nat'l Hamilton, Ezra Moffet . Nov 51 p!5
Collectors Jan 51 p23 Mon. Nov 50 pl7 Hard Rock Shorty of Death
Clear Lake, Utah..... Aug 51 p30 Arizona, Tule Wells Jan 51 plO Valley Each issue
Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. California, Black Hills Nov 50 p8 Hart, Bert Dec 51 pl4
George W Jan 51 plO California, Bullion Mts Dec 50 p39 Hassell, Sandy, Author of—
Cockerell, Prof. T. D. A Dec 50 pl8 California, Palo Verde Mts.... Nov 50 p4 Navajo Justice . Jan 51 p2l
Coffey, Frank Mar 51 p22 California, Picacho Dec 50 pl2 When Wealth Came to Hosteen
Colbert, Frederick J., Author of— Nevada, Beatty... ....Oct 51 pl2 Little-whiskers Feb 51 p28
Mary's Store at Agua Caliente Nevada, Cibola Valley Dec 51 p l l Attaki Spends His Poker
Oasis Mar 51 pl8 Nevada, Lake Lahontan Sep 51 p 15 Winnings Apr 51 pl7
Colbert, Frederick J. (Close-ups) Nevada, Lake Mead J a n 51 p23 When Little Whiskers' Pension
....Mar 51 p28 Nevada, Tonopah ..May 51 pl3 Check Came ..... . J u n 51 p22
Collard lizard Oct 51 p22 Nevada, Yerington Feb 51 pl2 Mrs. Onegoat Weaves a Rug Jul 51 p23
Colorado River, Dec 50 ppl4, 34; May 51 p4 New Mexico, Cerrillo Hills Mar 51 pl2 /)<; A h Shon Goes to the
Cordova, Mary Navarette Dec 51 p25 New Mexico, Cochita County Nov 50 p43 Trading Post Sep 51 p21
Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de Utah, Woodside Jun 51 p l l When Visitors Came to the
Dec 51 p p l l , 14 Gem and mineral collecting, specimens— Hogan Oct 51 pl7
Cory, Kate T. Nov 50 p31, Feb 51 ppl6, 17 Agate Nov 50 p4, Dec 50 pi2, Apr 51 p7 Big Talks 'Borrows' the Trader's
Cottonwood Springs, Calif. Dec 50 pl6 Aragonite ...Nov 51 p5 Ax Nov 51 pl9
Cowles, Dr. Raymond S. Aug 51 pl4 Benitoite Jan 51 p43
Chalcedony ... Nov 50 p9, Dec 50 pi2, Hassell, Sandy (Close-ups) Jan 51 p31
Craik, Jesse Nov 51 p2 Hatfield, Riley Aug 51 p!3
Crater Elegante Jan 51, pp5, 11, 12; Jan 51 plO, May 51 pl5, Jun 51 p l l
Chrysocolla Dec 50 p39 Hawkeye Natural Bridge, Ariz.... Oct 51 p4
Feb 51 p38 Haworth, Al, Author of—
Crook, Gen. George ...Aug 51 p6 Corundum Aug 51 p31
Nevada Invited the
Fire opal Nov 50 p43
Flower agate Jan 51 p23 Rockhounds J a n 51 p23
Garnet Dec 50 p39 Haworth, Al (Close-ups) .. Mar 51 p28
Davis Dam ..Mar 51 p35, Jul 51 p6 Haworlh, Al and Dorothy
Dead Indian Canyon, Calif Mar 51 pl3 Geodes. ...Nov 50 pp4, 17; Apr 51 p7
Oct 51 p l l (Close-ups) Dec 50 p30
Death Valley Encampment Hcald, Weldon, Author of—
Jun 51 p2, Sep 51 p39, Nov 51 p25 Jade Jan 51 p40, Feb 51 p40, Oct 51 p35
Jasper Dec 50 pl2, Jun 51 p l l Buried Treasure of the
Dec 51 p2 Chiricahuas ... .... ....Nov 51 plO
Death Valley Scotty Nov 51 p28 Nephrite Jan 51 p40, Oct 51 p35
Obsidian nodules May 51 pi3 Heaton, Charles Nov 50 pl5
Delamar, Nevada Oct 51 p32 Henderson, Cyria Feb 51 p8
Dellenbaugh, Frederick S ......Feb 51 p20 Opalite Dec 51 p l l
Pastelite May 51 pl5 Henderson, Randall, Author of—
Desert Kangaroo rat Apr 51 p l 5 Navajo Gods Guard the Silver
Desert Magazine trail shrine Peanut Pitchstone Apr 51 pl9
Petrified wood Nov 50 pl7, Feb 51 pl2, of Pish-la-ki Dec 50 p5
.....Apr 51 p20, May 51 p39, Oct 51 p43 We Found the Way Into
Desolation Canyon, California... Dec 51 p2 Jul 51 pl7
Serpentine Jan 51 p43 Elegante . J a n51 p 5
Devil's Highway massacre Jan 51 p9 We Camped with the
Devil's Kitchen. N. M Nov 51 p 13 Smithsonite Mar 51 p32
Spherulite Feb 51 p41 Pai-Pais ...Jul 51 p8
Devil's Road Apr 51 p5 Mescal Roast in Baja Calif. Aug 51 p8
Dinosaur Nat'l Monument Mar 51 p37 Tobernite Nov 50 pl7
Turquoise Mar 51 pl2 We Camped on Kaiparowits. Sep 51 p5
Dos Cabezas Mts., Arizona Aug 51 p5
Dos Palmas Oasis, Calif Mar 51 p22 Geology Nov 50 p20, Jan 51 pplO, 13, 26; Hendryx, Burnett . . . . Sep 51 p6
Dredging method of mining.... Dec 51 p9 Jun 51 p l l , Nov 51 p8, Dec 51 pp9, 37 Hess, Marty . .... Nov 50 p27
Drury, Paul Jan 51 p23 Gerbracht, Delia Nov 50 pl9 Hibernating Poor-will .... Jan 51 pl9
Dry washer Dec 51 p5 Gerdts, Louise, Author of— Highways and roads—
Duchesne tunnel Dec 51 p30 Forgotten Children of the Gila Bend, Ariz, to Rocky Pt.,
Great White Father Dec 51 pl6 Gulf of Calif Jan 51 p l l
Gerdts, Louise and Joern Indio to Cottonwood Springs,
(Close-ups) Dec 51 pl9 California Dec 50 pl6
Eads, Fred, Author of— Geronimo . . J u n 51 p9, Aug 51 p6 Lake Mead to Lake Mojave . Feb 51 p32
Lost Gold in Mono Lake May 51 pl9 Geronimo's Chair Nov 51 pl2 Niland to Blythe road, Calif. Apr 51 pl9
Elegante Crater, Mexico Jan 51 pl3 Ghost towns— North Shore road, Salton Sea,
El Picacho del Diablo M t , Delamar, Nevada Oct 51 p32 California Feb 51 p33
California Mar 51 p4 Gilbert, Nevada May 51 pl3 Salton View road, Calif Jan 51 p34
Escalante, Fr Oct 51 p41 Goldpoint, Nevada May 51 p l l Santa Fe to Mina del Tiro mine,
Escalante, Utah Sep 51 p7 Leadville, California Nov 51 p4 New Mexico. Mar 51 p l l
Evans, Arthur and family Feb 51 p9 Oriental, Nevada May 51 pl2 Wilson Canyon road, Nev.... Feb 51 pl4
Eyles, Wilfred C Dec 51 p32 Picacho, California Dec 50 p8 Winnemucca-to-the-Sea
Eytel, Carl Jan 51 pl7 Randsburg, California Oct 51 p29 highway, Nevada Nov 50 p35
Gila Monster Dec 50 pl9, Jan 51 p34 Hilton, John W Feb 51 p8, Jun 51 p39
Gist, Evalyn Slack, Author of— Himalaya Turquoise mine Aug 51 p l l
Fishing, Nov 50 p37, Dec 50 p37, Feb 51 Dipo—of the Desert Sands—.Apr 51 pl5 Hiser, Wayne and Lucile Sep 51 pp5-ll
p36, Mar 51 p24, Apr 51 pl4 Gist, Evalyn and Marion (Close-ups) Hodgson, Eleanor, Author of—
Fitzpatrick, George, Author of— Aug 51 p39 Geronimo, Apache or Greek? Jun 51 p9
Wanted— Glen Canyon Dam Jan 51 p33 Holcomb, Judge George U Dec 51 pl4
A Desert Thermometer Aug 51 pl6 Golden Eagle Nov 51 p22 Homesteading ...... Dec 50 p46, Feb 51 p30
Fitzpatrick, George (Close-ups) Aug 51 p39 Goldfield, Nevada Nov 50 p l l Mar 51 pp27, 35, Apr 51 pl9
Ford, John Anson Dec 51 p2 Gold Mountain, Nevada May 51 p9 Hornaday, William T... Jan 51 p6
Fort Bowie, Arizona... - A u g 51 pp 4-12 Goldpoint, Nevada Dec 51 p4 Horned Toad ..Sep 51 p4
Fort Defiance, Arizona Nov 51 p27 Goldwater, Barry, Author of— Hoskininni Dec 50 p5
Fossils— Trail to Hawkeye Natural Hudson, Karl, Author of—
Camel skeletons Jun 51 p2 Bridge Oct 51 p4 Lost Loma Gold Jul 51 pi3

DECEMBER, 1 9 51 39
Hudson, Karl (Close-ups) Jul 51 p39 Liars of Borrego Contest Feb 51 p8 Mines—
Hughes, Jim Nov 51 p l l Lida Valley, Nevada Dec 51 p4 Alvord Mine Dec 50 p38
Littlefield, Ted (Close-ups) Sep 51 p39 Apache Mine Nov 50 pl8
I Logan, Richard F. (Close-ups) Nov 51 p25 Black Rock Mining Co Oct 51 p26
Cave of the Crystal Blossom Mine Nov 51 p26
Indian ceremonials— Snowbanks Nov 51 p4 Bottomley-Rogers Uranium
Bean ceremony (Hopi) Feb 51 pl8 Logan, Richard F. (Close-upsQ Nov 51 p25 Mine _ Oct 51 p26
Butterfly dancers (Hopi) Aug 51 Cover Lost mines— Buffalo Valley Mine . ... Nov 50 p39
Feather ceremony (Hopi).... Feb 51 pl8 Gold Mt. and Oriental Mt. ghost Consolidated Virginia Mining
Fire dance (Navajo) Dec 50 p31 mine area May 51 p9 Co. „ Sep 51 p20
Ghost dance (Paiute) Feb 51 p l l La Purisima Concepcion (lost Cortez Silver Mine . Dec 50 p38
Turtle shell rattles for .. ..... Dec 51 p22 silver mine) . Nov 50 p25 Coyote Mine ... Nov 50 p38
Indian food Dec 50 p33. Aug 51 p8 Lost Gunsight mine Nov 50 p29 Desert Rose tourmaline mine Sep 51 p20
Indian legends— Lost Ledge of the Sheep Hole Duplex Mine Aug 51 p31
Pish-la-ki Dec 50 p6 Mts. . .... ...... Oct 51 p9 Fortuna Mine . Jan 51 p6
Shrine of E-Vee-Taw-Ash...... Dec 50 pl2 Lost mine in Tehachapi Mts. Feb 51 p26 Getchell Mine Jan 51 p20, Feb 51 p26
Yuma of Quechan ... Dec 50 plO Lost mines of Indian legend Mar 51 p9 Iron Age Mine Aug 51 p3 1
Indian life— Lost Peglee Smith mine . Feb 51 p5. January Mine Nov 50 pll
Apache.^. ...Dec 50 p31, Aug 51 p4 Apr 51 p5 Kelly Mine . Nov 50 p38
Cohoninas Oct 51 p27 Mina del Tiro Mar 51 p9 Lincoln Mine Dec 51 p24
Hopi... Dec 50 p33, Feb 51 pl8, Pedro's Lost Gold mine .... Apr 51 p22 Little Jupiter Mine Oct 51 p26
Aug 51 Cover Pish-la-ki (lost Navajo silver Maxine Copper Mines Sep 51 p20
Laguna Nov 51 p26 mine) ... ... .. . Dec 50 p5 Metallurgical Development
Navajo Nov 50 pl6; Dec 50 pp5-7, 24; Lost Palms, Calif. .. Dec 50 pl6 Co. . Oct 51 p26
.Ian 51 p21; May 51 p23; Lost treasure— Mina del Tiro Mar 51 plO
Dec 51 ppl6, 25, 29 Buried gold in San Animas river Minerals Material Co.. Sep 51 p20,
Opata Nov 50 p25 valley, N. M. ... Jul 51 pl3
Pai-Pai (Baja California) Jul 51 p8, Nov 51 p26
Aug 51 p8 Buried treasure of the Minietta Lead Mine Jan 51 p20
Papago . ...Jan 51 pp6, 14 Chiricahuas .... . . . Nov 51 plO Mohawk Gold Mine Nov 50 pll
Zuni Feb 51 p35 Lost Badger Hole Bullion . Dec 50 pl4 Newinont Mining Corp.. Oct 51 p26
Indian petroglyphs Nov 50 pl9, Jan 51 p7. Luke Chief Oct 51 p7 Rossi Tungsten Mine Dec 50 p38
Jul 51 p5 Lukens, Donley, Author of— Sandstrom Mine . Nov 50 pll
Indians, prehistoric . Nov 50 ppl5, 20, 31: Off Limits to the Public Apr 51 pl6 Searchlight Consolidated
Jan 51 pp7, 10, 14, 33; Feb 51 p21; Mar Lumholtz, Carl... Jan 51 p5 Mining Co. . . Aug 51 p3l
51 plO; Jul 51 p'i; Sep 51 pp5-ll; Oct Singatse Mountains Copper
51 plO; Dec 51 p7 Mines Feb 51 pl3
Indian trail shrines Dec 50 p28, Jun 51 p4 M Three Kids Mine Dec 51 p24
Indian welfare ...Nov 50 pplO, 14, 31, 36; Titanium Metals Corp. Oct 51 p26
Manti Nat'l Forest Nov 50 p38 Unida Mine Sep 51 p20
Dec 50 p36; Jan 51 p33; Feb 51 p35; Manuelito Nat'l Monument .... Jan 51 p38
Mar 51 pp31, 36, 37; Oct 51 p28 White Mountain Lime Co. Nov 51 p26
Marajilda ... Dec 51 p8 Mining laws Nov 50 p39, Feb 51 p26,
Inman, Bill Nov 50 pl2 Marble Gorge, Arizona May 51 p4
Inter-mountain Indian School...Dec 51 pl7 Apr 5 1 p38
Martinez Lake........ Apr 51 pll Mission de los Quatros
McCoy, Raymond... Aug 51 p 16 Evangelistas Sep 51 p 14
I McElrath, Jean, Author of— Mission San Pedro y San Pablo
Jaeger, Edmund C , Author of— He Tells 'em How to Find de Buchner . Dec 50 plO
Burro-man of the Desert— ..Mar 51 p22 Uranium .... .... . Nov 50 p27 Mission San Xavier del Bac ..May 51 p20
Jaeger, Edmund C. Dec 50 pl8, Jan 51 pl8. McKenney, William. Author of— Mitchell, John D., Author of—
Mar 51 p29 Desert Botanist of Tucson Apr 51 p 13 Lost Silver Mine of the
Jaegeri Jan 51 pl8 "Miracle" Tree from the Jesuits ..... ._ Nov 50 p25
Jaggers, "Honest Tom" Dec 51 p6 Sahara .. Jun 51 pl7 Black Nuggets in the Valley
James, Harry, Author of— McKenney, Wilson (Close-ups) Jan 51 p31 of Phantom Buttes .... ... Feb 51 p5
Turtles for Tewaquaptewa Dec 51 p22 Merrick and Mitchell Buttes, Cave of the Golden Sands.. Aug 51 pi3
Jennings, Dr. Jesse Sep 51 pp5-ll Arizona Dec 50 p6 Lost Ledge of Sheep Hole
Joshua Tree Nat'l Monument Nov 50 p34, Merrick, Jack .. Dec 50 p5 Mountain . Oct 51 p9
Dec 50 pi5. Aug 51 p31. Mar 51 p29 Mescal roast Jul 51 pll, Aug 51 p8 Mojave desert Dec 51 p33
Meteorite crater... Feb 51 p7 Monte Cristo Mountains Mar 51 pl5
K Monument Valley Dec 50 p5
Meteorites Jan 51 p33 Morelos Dam, Mexico. . Nov 50 p33
Kaibab Forest Nov 50 p31
Kaiparowits Mts., Utah Sep 51 pp5-ll Mexican River pact Dec 50 pl4 Mountaineering .. Mar 51 pp7, 8
Kerley's Navajo Trading Post Oct 51 p6 Milne, Anne C. J Dec 51 p30 Mountain Hon.. Dec 51 p21
Kino, Fr. Eusabius Apr 51 p5 Milpitas Wash, California Nov 50 plO Muddy Valley, Nevada... Oct 51 pl9
Kitchen, Ed Dec 51 p6 Muench, Joyce Rockwood, Author of—
Minerals— Drill Crew in Marble Gorge May 51 p4
Knaus, Charles L., Author of— Carnotite Nov 50 p28
Where Slave Miners Toiled for Murbarger, Nell, Author of—
Copper Dec 50 p36 On Desert Trails with Lloyd
Silver Mar 51 p9 Gold. Dec 50 p38, Jan 51 p6
Kohlars, M. H Aug 51 plO Smith 1 Dec 50 pl5
Gold-silver-copper-lead Feb 51 p26 Forgotten Ghost of Gold
Krug report Dec 51 pl8 Jadeite Dec 50 p40
Kumaumtewa Nov 50 p31 Mountain May 51 p8
Lead Feb 51 p27 On Black Rock Desert Trails hi\ 51 pl5
Lead-gold Dec 50 p36 Golden Treasure of
Lead-zinc-silver Jan 51 p20 Tide Canyon Dec 51 p4
Lahontan Dam Sep 51 pl6 Lead-zinc-gokl-silver Jan 51 p20 Murbarger, Nell [letter). ...Feb 51 p41
Lake Lahontan, Nevada Sep 51 ppl5-19 Lignite Feb 51 p27 Myers, Maggy Nov 51 p27
Lake Mead, Calif..... Oct 51 pl9 Lithium Jan 51 p20
LaRue Feb 51 p6 Manganese Nov 50 p8, Dec 50 p38,
Las Tinajas de Emilia __ Jan 51 pl4 Dec 51 p24 N
Las Vegas bombing range Apr 51 pl6 Nephrite Dec 50 p40 National Park Service Jan 51 p24
Lava field Jan 51 plO Oil-shale Jan 51 p20 National Speleological society. Nov 51 p25
Lawbaugh, A. La Vielle, Author of— Powellite Feb 51 p27 Navajo Mountain, Arizona Oct 51 p8
Sacred Mountain of the Rhenium Aug 51 p31
Tribesmen .' Nov 50 pl8 Sheelite Feb 51 p27 Nevada State Museum Feb 51 p31
Where Turquoise was Mined by Silver Mar 51 p39 Nevada Station Dec 51 p20
the Ancients Aug 51 p9 Steatite talc Nov 51 p26, Dec 51 p36
Layton, Oscar G. (Close-ups)-.-Aug 51.p39 Tin Mar 51 p39 o
Leadville, California Nov 51 p4 Titanium Nov 50 p39
Lechuguilla Desert,.Ariz,.—-__„_.Jan 51 p9 Tremolite asbestos ... Dec 50 p38 O'Donohue, Patrick ....Sep 51 pl2
Leopard lizard ..:..:-.:. -Sep 51 pl9 Tungsten Jan 51 p20 O'Keefe, Johnny -Oct 51 pl4
Levy, Louis .......:. .Feb 51 p33 Uranium Nov 50 p27, Jan 51, p20 Oraibi, Arizona Feb 51 pl8, Dec 51 p22

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p Segerblom. Gene and Cliff, Authors of— Fossil Wood in Nevada F e b 51 p l l
Palmetto, Nevada Dec 51 p8 Ghost of Muddy Valley Oct 51 pl9 Geodes on an Old Silver Trail. Apr 51 p7
Palm Springs Museum.- Dec 50 p!5 Senner, "Dutch Chris" _. Dec: 51 p8 Gem Hunt on a Ghost Town
Palo Verde Mts., Calif.. .. Nov 50 p9 Sespe Creek, California Dec 51 p22 Trail May 51 pi3
Palos Verdes Tinajas._... .... Jan 5 1 plO Shadow Mt. Gem and Mineral Rocks of the Ages—in Utah- Jun 51 p l l
Peterson, Ed Mar 51 p5 Society formed .... Aug 51 p33 Agate Trail in Nevada Sep 51 pl5
Photographs, contest prize winners— Sherrill, William (Bill) Jan 51 p6, Geodes in Lizard Gulch O c t5 1 p l l
Harold O. Weight . Mar 51 Cover Jun 51 P 39 Opalite on the Road
E. Foster Scholey, Bill Sierra Club Nov 50 p34. Mar 51 p4 to Cibola Dec 51 p l l
Stoughton Mar 51 p25 Sing Kee Dec 51 pS Weight, Harold and Lucile
Woody and Sibyl Rhea, Slipher, Dr. V. M Oct 51 p29 (Close-ups) Jan 51 p31, Sep 51 p39
B. M. Klus Apr 51 p21 Sloman, Fritz Aug 51 p20 Werner, Louise, Author of—
Brooks Hill, Weldon Heald May 51 p20 Smith, Claude M. Nov 50 p l l On the Trail to Picacho del
Nell Murbarger, A. LaVielle Smith, John and Adelina Aua 51 p20 Diablo ... Mar 51 p4
Lawbaugh ._.. Jun 51 p21 Smith. Lloyd D;c 50 ppl5, 46 We Climbed Avawatz -Aug 51 p20
Don Ollis, John R. Hamilton Jul 51 p21 Smith, Lloyd Mason, Author of— Werner, Louise (Close-ups) Mar 51 p28,
K. J. Shepard, Ben Pope Sep 5 1 pi Trail of a Naturalist . Jan 51 pl6 Jun 51 p39, Jul 51 p39
K. J. Shepard. Hubert A. Smith, Lloyd Mason Wiley, A. P Nov 50 plO
Lowman Oct 51 p23 (Close-ups) Jan 51 pl6 Wiley, Harry Dec 51 p4
Picacho, California Dec 50 pl3 Smith. Mary .. Mar 51 pl8 Wiley's Well, Calif Nov 50 p4
Pillsbury, Dorothy L. Smith, Thomas L. (Pegleg).... Feb 51 p5 Wilhelm, Paul, Author of—
{Close-ups) Jan 51 p31 Snakes Nov 51 p29 Trail of the. 57 Shrines Jun 51 p4
Pinacate, Mexico Jan 51 p6 Sonoyta, Mexico Jan 51 p l l Wilhelm, Paul (Close-ups) Jun 51 p39
Pinto man Feb 51 p37 Sonoyta River Jan 51 pplO, 11 Williams, Ray and Oscar Dec 51 p6
Piper Toll Road, Nevada Dec 51 p8 South, Tanya—Poems Each issue Willow Springs, California Nov 51 pl7
Pipe Springs Nat'l Monument Spanish Trail, Santa Fe to Los Wilson, Bill and {Catherine. ..Oct 51 p4
Nov 50 pp 15, 17; Jan 51 p30 Angeles .. Nov 50 p38 Wilson Canyon... Feb 51 p l l
Pish-la-ki, legend of Dec 50 p6 Speckled earless lizard . Au:> 51 p2 Wilson, David Feb 51 pl2
Placentas Canyon. Calif. Dec 50 plO Stahnke, Dr. Herbert L. Dec 51 p25 Winsor, Bishop Anson P. Nov 50 pl6
Pottery .__. . Feb 51 p9 Stalactites Nov 51 p7 Woods, Betty (Close-ups) Jun 51 p39
Powell, John Wesley Sep 51 p9 Stimler, Harry. Nov 50 p l l , Dec 51 p6 Woodson, Weldon D., Author of—
Powell Grand Canyon Strom, Harold Dec 51 pp5, 9 / Keep a Gila Monster in My
expedition Feb 51 p20 St. Thomas, Nev. Oct 51 p 19 Home ....Dec 50 pl9
Price, Bill and Edna . Oct 51 p30 Sykes, Godfrey, Author of— Woehlke, Walter V. Mar 51 p31
Punta Penasco. Mexico Jan 51 p 15 Summer Journey on the Devil's Woodward, Arthur, Author of—
Road Apr 51 p5 High-graders of Gold field Nov 50 p l l
Sykes, Godfrey . Jan 51 plO Wovoka Feb 51 p l l
Q Swainson's hawk Nov 51 p21 Wupatki Nat'l Monument Oct 51 p23
Quail Dec 50 p31 Wynn, Martha Rittenhouse, Author of—
Quick, Lelande, Author of— T When Ezra Hamilton Found
Amateur Gem Cutler ...Each issue Gold at Willow Springs ... Nov 51 p l 5
Talayesva, Don Dec 51 p23
Quick, Lelande (Close-ups) .....May 51 p36 Tarantula Feb 51 p24
Quitovaquita, Arizona .... Jan 51 p7 Taylor, Fenton, Author of—
Young, Brigham Nov 50 pl5
So They Built Fort Bowie Au;» 51 p4
R Taylor, Fenton (Close-ups) Aug 51 p39 Yuma Sun ...Dec 51 pl4
Rachford Spring. Nevada .... Dec 51 p8 Tewaquaptewa Dec 51 p22
Ragsdale, Desert Steve ...Nov 50 p28 Thompson. A. H. Feb 51 p20
Rainbow Lodge, Arizona.. ...Oct 51 pl6 Thornber, John ...Apr 51 pl3 Zebra-tailed lizard Oct 51 pl2
Rainmaking Nov 50 p36, Jan 51 p35, Thousand Palms, Calif. . ...Jun 51 p4 Zion National Park Mar 51 p37
Feb 51 p31. Mar 51 p36 Thurston, Dorothy Evans . Feb 51 p9
Rancho San Jose, Baja Calif.. Mar 51 p36 Tinajas Altas Mts.. Ariz. Jan 51 p7 Answers to True or False
Randsburg, California .. ....Oct 51 p29 Toltec Turquoise Mine .. Aug 51 p l l
Ransom, Jay Ellis, Author of— Tombstone, Arizona . . ...Mar 51 p31, Questions are on page 31
Guardians of an Ancient Fort Nov 50 p 15 Dec 51 p24 1—False. It merely is an old cowboy
Rasmussen, L. James, Author of— Tortoise . Nov 50 p37 superstition.
Lost Treasure of the Irish Trailfinders, the Dec 51 p22 2—True.
Cavalier ...Sep 51 pl2 Trail-marking Mar 51 p6 3—False. Date palms were brought
Rasmussen, L. James Trigo Peaks, Arizona Dec 51 p l l to the United States from Africa
(Close-ups) Sep 51 p39 Tucker, Dora Edna . Jun 51 p39 and Asia.
Rattlesnakes. Dec 50 p29, Feb 51p 38, Tule Canyon, Nevada Dec 51 p4 4—False. The Hopi Indians make
Nov 51, p27 Tule Well, Ariz Jan 51 pp9, 11 Kachinas.
Reclamation.. ..... Mar 51 pp35, 37, 38; Turtle shells . Dec 51 p22 5—True.
Feb 51 p36; Sep 51 pl4 Twentynine Palms, California Dec 50 p33 6—False. Mistletoe never grows on
Robinson, Douglas Dec 51 p8 Joshua trees.
Rochester, Ed
Roosevelt Well. Nevada
Dec 50 p8
Dec 51 p6
u 7—True.
8—False. The Bird Cage theater
Roy, George M.. Author of— Uintah Basin, Utah ...Dec 51 p24 may still be seen at Tombstone,
/ Found a Watering Place of U. S. Dept. of Agriculture Jan 51 p9 Arizona.
the Bighorn M a r 51 p l 3 9—True.
10—False. Camino means road or
s Vallecitos, Baja California
Vasey, Dr. George W.
Mar 51 p6
... ... May 51 p7
highway.
11—False. Chief mineral from the
Samuelson, Marcia Wynn, Author of— Venn, Catherine, Author of— Ruth pit is copper.
When Ezra Hamilton Found Diary of a Jackrabbit 12—True.
Gold at Willow Springs Nov 51 pl5 Homesteader Nov 50 p23, Dec 50 p27 13—True.
Samuelson. Marcia Wynn Venn, Catherine (Close-ups).,.. Jan 51 p31 14—False. Adolph Bandelier was an
(Close-ups) Nov 51 p25 Victor, Wilma. . Dec 51 pl8 archeologist and writer.
San Diego and Arizona R.R. .. Mar 51 p34 Vinegaroon . Feb 51 p23 15—False. Nearest town to Petrified
Sandspikes Dec 51 p20 Virginia and Truckee R.R. . .. Jan 51 p35 Forest National Monument is
Scorpions Feb 51 p25, Dec 51 p25 Holbrook.
Scott, Ann Ellis, Author of— w 16—True.
Night with the Navajo ..... Dec 50 p24 17—False. Salt River valley gets its
Scott, Ann Ellis (Close-ups)....Dec 50 p30 Wasatch National Forest Oct 51 p32 water from Roosevelt dam.
Weight, Harold O., Author of— 18—True.
Scott, J. W Nov 50 p l l Agate Hunters at Double 19—False. The shores of Salton Sea
Segerblom, Gene, Author of— Butte .... Nov 50 p4 for the most part are barren.
They Make Pottery of Desert Gold and Roses on Garces' 20—True.
Clay Feb 51 p9 Trail _... Dec 50 p8

DECEMBER, 195 1 41
Qu5t Hetureen 1/ou and Me

By RANDALL HENDERSON the desert we recommend it. We get more lift out of that
early sunrise hour than any other hour of the day.
DESERT, the little community which began • • •
to take root in a sandy cove at the base of the Among the visitors to the Desert Magazine office
Santa Rosa Mountains five years ago when this during the past week were Otis and Margaret Marston,
location was selected for the new home of the Desert two of my companions on the Norman Nevills Grand
Magazine, is becoming civilized. Canyon expedition of 1947.
Early in November, Ernie and Betty Maxwell pub- In the last three years Otis has made three trips
lished the first edition of the Palm Desert Progress, and through Grand Canyon with inboard and outboard motor
also the Cathedral Citizen for the neighboring community boats. He believes the power-boats will become increas-
of Cathedral City, five miles away. ingly popular for adventurous folks who want to experi-
It is fun to live in a community so new that the ence the thrill of running the Grand Canyon rapids. The
paving of the streets, the opening of the first drug store power boats need a high river—30,000 second feet or
and the starting of the first newspaper are thrilling events. more—to navigate the rapids successfully. At that stage
• • • most of the midstream boulders are submerged. With
My friend Guy Hazen, who spends much of his time detachable motors it is possible to make the 240-odd
out prospecting the hills for semi-precious gem material mile trip from Lee's Ferry to Boulder City in from three
and fossil deposits, came into the office last week with a to five days, or even less.
drab looking rock under his arm. He put it on the table, But that is too much speed. If I ever make the trip
then turned it around so I could see the beautifully again I am sure I will prefer the oar-propelled cataract
polished surface on the other side. It was just a chunk of craft used so successfully by Norman Nevills, or rubber
ordinary granite with flecks of copper stain that you and rafts, which have proved their stability for running the
I—unless you are an expert—would have passed without rapids. Just why anyone should want to race through
a second glance. Cut and polished, it had become a those gorgeous canyons at break-neck speed is beyond
beautiful pair of bookends that would be prized by anyone. my ken.
Guy had found a large deposit of it only two miles • • •
from the paved highway near Salome, Arizona. Thou- Soon after this issue of Desert Magazine reaches its
sands of prospectors have passed over the spot heading readers, the great trek to Death Valley will be starting—
for the hills beyond. The copper content was too low the trek of thousands of Americans who plan to be present
to interest a mining man. But the sharp eyes of an expert at the annual Encampment of the '49ers December 1 and 2.
gem-prospector could visualize the beauty those green No grand spectacle is planned this year. Instead, the
stains would acquire under the polishing buffer. two-day program will be devoted mostly to art and mineral
It is my opinion that the rockhounds have scarcely exhibits and various entertainment features at Furnace
begun to tap the possibilities which the desert holds for Creek.
the amateur and professional lapidary. They have been Those who have visited Death Valley are aware that
picking up just the most obvious material that happens hotel accommodations are so limited only a small frac-
to lie on the surface. The desert still holds unlimited tion of the visitors will be able to secure rooms. A ma-
treasure for those who go a Tittle further and study the jority of those who attend will not be looking for rooms.
rocks a bit more carefully. I am sure no hobby contrib- They look forward to this event as an opportunity to
utes more to health and happiness. spread their bedrolls on the floor of Death Valley and
• • • enjoy a night under the stars—just as did the original
Among the delights of living on the desert are the '49ers more than 100 years ago.
colorful sunrises and sunsets. Because the air generally I will never forget the spectacle two years ago when,
is clear we see more of them out here than elsewhere. from a low ridge above that valley, I looked down on a
Then a few weeks ago the law demanded that we set thousand tiny campfires spread over the floor of the valley
our clocks ahead—the end of daylight saving, they called —the fires of motorist-campers from all over the South-
it. Under the new schedule we were up too late to see west having more fun than they had experienced for a
the sunrise, and it was dark before the working day was long time—just cooking their own camp dinners and
over. then sleeping on the ground, with perhaps an air mattress
So, Cyria and I have adopted our own daylight saving to insure a good night's rest. It is good for humans to
program. We just wouldn't be pushed around by any do that—to get out of the groove of luxury in which we
dumb legislators in Sacramento or Washington. Now we normally live, and sleep close to the good earth.
are up before the sun comes over the Santa Rosa Moun- If you plan to camp out, I would suggest that you take
tains, at work by seven o'clock, and in bed at nine. It some firewood and extra water. These items are not
isn't practicable for everyone, but for those who live on plentiful in Death Valley.

42 DESERT MAGAZINE
BOOKS OF THE SOUTHWEST ...
BLACK GOLD IS NO MYTH
ing the lives of the cougars, coyotes,
bears and other beasts as if they were
all made in a like mold, yet neither
the men nor the animals are made to
seem foolish in order to produce thrill-
years become alive for the reader who
SAYS GEOLOGIST-AUTHOR follows the adventures, hardships and ing action.
Ralph L. Caine's paper-covered Lost agonies of desert travelers through Barker tells these stories in a highly
Desert Gold is the newest and one of their own starkly real accounts in adult manner. The book is not recom-
the most comprehensive stories yet diaries and journals. mended for the very young.
written about the lost mines and treas- Original texts have been carefully Published by University of New
ures of the Imperial, Coachella and annotated by Mr. Korns and his staff, Mexico Press. 187 pp. $4.00.
Borrego valleys in Southern California. and the addition of extensive notes and • • •
Caine, graduate geologist and mem- introductions round out the wealth of DEEP INTO THE HEART
ber of the California and American information they contain. Numerous OF THE WESTERN RANGE
Bar Associations, is an inveterate pros- maps and illustrations, including pho- Ross Santee's cowboys and miners
pector himself, and has correlated his tographs of the diarists themselves, live, they do not simply ride, swear and
simply told tales of lost treasure with complete a compelling identification of have hackneyed adventures against a
the geology of the region. Since there reader with traveler. background of traditional "wild west-
are gold lodes on both sides of the Also included in the study is a sec- ness."
Colorado Desert—in the Cargo Mu- tion on T. H. Jefferson and his extra- Hardrock and Silver Sage is the tale
chacho and Picacho mountains on the ordinary map of the emmigrant road of a hardrock miner. Pop. and his two
east, and the Volcan and Oriflame from Independence, Missouri, to San motherless sons. Tommy, who loved
mountains on the west—Caine consid- Francisco. A modern map of the hunting and the cowboy life, tells the
ers it only reasonable to assume that country traversed by the Hastings Cut- story. Robin hated hunting and killing,
placer gold in considerable quantity off, together with the Jefferson map, was the sensitive artist. Pop was a
has found its way to the great desert are contained in a back pocket of the philosopher and idealist, blacklisted at
basin between. The "black gold" of book. the mines because the wrongs and
the Pegleg Smith stories, he believes, injustices of the world had caused him
is entirely plausible. Black gold, he In West from Fort Bridger, the Utah to have Socialistic ideas.
suggests, "would merely be gold from Historical society brings to readers
Hardships, exciting adventure, the
a placer deposit that had been trapped one of the most important contribu-
true flavor of the Old West, written
by a lava flow or hardened fault muds." tions to Western Americana published
by a man who lived and loved it. are
this year. It also is one of the most
The author devotes many pages to the stuff of Hardrock and Silver Sage.
interesting, with its collection of ab-
the Pegleg gold, and presents convinc- Characters, good and bad. and what
sorbing personal accounts of pioneering
ing evidence that such a placer deposit made them so, move through the lives
through the immigrant trails across
as Pegleg Smith is said to have dis- of Pop, Tommy and Robin—high ad-
Utah.
covered is geologically possible. venture of a way of life that has gone
Vol. 19 of the Utah Historical forever — but that is not all. The
This is a book that belongs in the Quarterly; published 1951 by the Utah reader will adventure too in the inner
library of every treasure hunter. Historical society. 297 pp. Available fastnesses of the human spirit in the
Published by Desert Magazine Press. in paper ($3.00) or maroon fabrikoid mountain and desert land which always
Palm Desert, California. 71 pp. 15 binding, $4.50. has. and always will, bring out realities
maps and photos by the author. $ 1.00. • o • too often lost in our hurried, mass
o o o
IN THE WORLD OF civilization. And what reason for art
TRAIL BLAZERS ON CLAW AND FANG in any medium if it ignores the spirit?
THE DESERTS OF UTAH In Born to Battle, a slender volume Delightful sketches by the author.
With all its rich and varied history, of fourteen stories, S. Omar Barker Published by Charles Scribner's
the West has few episodes more fas- tells of the trials and tribulations in the Sons. New York. 225 pp. $3.00.
cinating than the pioneering of immi- animal kingdom he so well knows.
grant trails across the great Salt Lake Born and reared in the wilds of the
country. high mountains of New Mexico. Barker
As its 19th volume of the Utah has come to talk and think in the ways Legendary and Geological
Historical Quarterly, the Utah Histori- of the wild-life about him. The reader History of
cal Society this year presents West
from Fort Bridger, a study by the late
J. Roderic Korns of Utah trails of
feels a real kinship with and a deep
sympathy for the hard playing, hard
working, hard living four-footsd. fur-
Lost Desert Gold
Written by a geologist who has spen!
1846-1850. The volume deals with bearing inhabitants of this rugged years of travel and research in quest
some of the most celebrated chapters mountain world. oi the truth about the legendary gold
mines of the California c'.occ.i—and
in the history of American trails, iden- Yet, Barker never oversteps the who believes there is sour-', geological
tifying for the first time all the routes reader's credulity in giving the power basis for the tales of lost :::'.. c; in his
of 1846 across Utah and rendering of reason to the beasts of the woods. region.
certain where these routes went and Here are the stories of—
They are always animals, possessing
why. Pegleg's Gold
only natural instincts which often The Phantom Mine
The single five-year period of trail enough are startling in their logic, The Yaqui Indian's Gold
history which begins in 1846 embraces though never unbelievable- Hank's Lost Mine
the absorbing story of the Donner With adroit dramatic sense, the and a score of other legendary
party and the Cutoff which became for treasures
author intermingles the men whose
them a road to death; the gold rush to habitat in these mountains is as nat- $1.10 pos'.paid
California; the trains of covered wagons Address: Ralph L. Cctine
ural to them as it is to wild life. Cow-
bearing hopefuls to a wonderland. In boys, ranchers, prospectors and her- P. O. Box Foy Station 17162
West from Fort Bridger, those five Los Angeles, California
mits move through the stories touch-

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