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Sept. 3dia

E S E R T C A L E N D A RO-Oct. 2—Annual Navajo In-

fair, Shiprock Navajo agency,

Sept. 3Pr

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Sh prock, New Mexico.-Oct. 3—Yavapai county fair,scott, Arizona.—Lake Mead regatta, spon-

ed by Boulder City, Nevada,ior chamber of commerce.

Oct. 3- -Eve of St. Francis day pro-sional from the Cathedral of

StM

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Francis, Santa Fe, Newtico.

-Horse show, rodeo grounds,uglas, Arizona.

Oct. 4- -Feast day of St. Francis ofAi sissi, patron saint of Santa Fe,Saita Fe, New Mexico.

Oct. 4- -Annual fiesta, Ranchos deT; os, NewMexico.

Oct. 4 —Annual fiesta and dance,N ; mbe Pueblo, New Mexico.

Oct. 9-10—Sierra club, Desert Peaksse< tion, clim b of the two highestpe iks in the Ord mountains.

C; mpfire Saturday night at Aztecsp ings, 10.5 miles south of Dag-ge t, California.

Oct. 13—Seventh annual New Mexicora ich day conference, sponsoredby the New Mexico College ofAj riculture and SouthwesternFc rest and Range experiment sta-tic l, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Oct. 1 5-17—Luna county fair andSh :riffs Posse ro deo, Dem ing,N< w Mexico.

Oct. 15-17—Greenlee county fair andro leo, Duncan, Arizona.

Oct. 1'-18—Salton Sea internationalpo ver boat regatta, Desert Beach,California.

Oct. 1( 17—Formal opening of Des-ert Magazine's newhome at PalmD( sert. Open house — everybodywe come. Palm Desert, Cali-fornia.

Oct. 16 17—Eleventh annual Pioneerda s and California Centennialeel ;bration, square dance, pa rade.Twentynine Palms, California.

Oct. 1 i-17 — Sixth annual MojaveGc Id Rush days, rodeo, drilling

test, grand ball, Mojave, Cali-

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17—Gem and mineral show.

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Ho lywood Lapid ary society,

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mmer Park, Hollywood, Calif.17—Sierra club, Desert Peaksion, climb of Lost Horsejntain, Joshua Tree national

mo lument.Oct. 16 17—Gem and mineral show,

Sai Diego Mineral and Gem so-y , Federal Building, Balboa

Paik, San Diego, California.Oct. 22 23—Fourth annual air meet,

Presc rtt, Arizona.Ocl. 22-24—Tombstone Helldorado,

tern show, barbec ue, streetda: cing, Tombstone, Arizona.

24—Gem and mineral show,Searles Lake Gem and Mineralsoc ety, Trona, California.

Oct. 28-30—Graham county fair, Saf-for 1, Arizona.

Oct. 3031—Papago rodeo, arts andera 'ts show, Sells, Arizona.

October — Desert Rat Circus —muieum of desert rat oddities,

mu.ic of the '90s — staged byH a ry Oliver and Vernon Peck,Jr., Fort Oliver, Thousand Palms,Cai fornia.

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Volume 11 OCTOBER, 1948 Number 12

COVER

CALENDAR

PHOTOGRAPHY

TRAVEL

OPEN HOUSE

LOST MINE

ARCHEOLOGY

FIELD TRIP

HUMOR

TRUE OR FALSE

LETTERS

POETRY

NEWS

CLOSE-UPS

CONTEST

MINING

HOBBY

LAPIDARY

INDEX

COMMENT

BOOKS

DOUBLE ARCH, Arches national monument,

Utah. Photograph by Hubert A. Lowman,

South Gate, California.

October events on the desert 3

Contest winners for August 5

When Tombstone Came to Monument Valley

Told by HARRY GOULDING

to JOYCE R. MUENCH 6

Desert Magazine's New Home Is Open . . . 10

New Clues to the Pegleg Gold

By H. E. W. WILSON 11

Winning a Degree—the Pick and Shovel Way

By OREN ARNOLD 13

Shining Rocks of Sidewinder

By HAROLD O. WEIGHT 19

Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 24

A test of your desert knowledge 24

Comment from Desert readers 25

Moontide and other poems 26

Fram here and there on the desert 27

About Desert Magazine writers 32

Prize announcement for photographers . . . 32

Current news of desert mines 34

Gems and Minerals 35

Amateur Gem Cutter, by LELANDE QUICK . . 40

Annual Index, Volume 11, Desert Magazine . . 41

Just Between You and Me, by the Editor . . . 46

Reviews of Southwest Literature 47

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Glimpses of the wild palm oases to be found in more thana score of the lovely cany ons within 20 miles

of Palm Desert community.

W h y Make Your Home in 7>O£HI~DaaxL ?Last month we told you about the melting snow on the Santa Rosa mountains—and the pure

snow water which filters through many miles of clean granite sand and eventually is brought tothe surface from a deep well to serve the domestic needs and grow flowers and trees for Palm

Desert dwellers. This month, in the second of a series of stories featuring the assets Nature has

given this new desert community, we want to tell you about another of Palm Desert 's assets.

This is about the

C A N Y O N SDown through the ages when the forces of Nature

have been fashioning the lovely desert cove wherePalm Desert community is growing, the erosive forcesof water have chiseled into the rocky slopes of thebordering mountain ranges a score or more of se-cluded canyons where crystal pools and splashingwaterfalls are fringed with the majestic forms of wildpalm trees.

Nearly every one has heard of famous Palm Can-yon—but not every one knows of the many otherpalm canyons found within a 20-mile radius of PalmDesert—of Hidden Palms canyon, Deep canyon,Carrizo creek, Ebbens creek, Cat canyon, Grapevine,

Dead Indian, Bear creek, Fern canyon, Murray andAndreas canyons—and across the floor of Coachellavalley on the opposite side are Thousand Palms andPusha walla canyo ns. Palm Desert is in the heart ofa land of beautiful palm canyons—and where thewild palms grow there is always water close to.the surface.

For those who love the beauty and majesty ofpeaceful canyons, no spot in the Southwest is morefavored than the Palm Desert are a. Folks who dw ellin the Palm Desert community have these lovelycanyons at their doorstep. They are part of yourinvestment when you buy and build in Palm Desert.

For iniormation regarding home or business property in Palm Desert community write to

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Clifford W. Henderson, Founder, President

Hollyw ood Office: 8622 Sunset Blvd. Teleph one CRe stview 55269

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PueAlaH. Ragsdale of Los Angeles took first place

Tt's August contest with the photo (above) ofLdian pueblo, New Mexico.

young Indian (right) in his holiday fineryt picture which won second plac e for Russ•om, Oa klan d, California. The shot w as tak en

fcpeed Graph ic on Supe r XX film, 1/200 at f.22.

Amoig the many fine photos submitted, the judges

1 Vista," George H. Kuhl, Glen Ellyn, Illinois;^ueblo," Martha Burleigh, Los Angeles, Cali-and "Night Blooming Cereus," Gladys Dies-

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Built by 20th Century Fox for the staging of "My Darling Clementine" thismodern version of the historic old mining tow n of Tombstone remains a ghost townof the Monu ment valley desert, with only a Navajo "mayor" and "sheriff" on duty

as watchmen.

When Tombstone Came

to M onument ValleyQueer things happen on the

desert — but to Trader HarryGoulding and the Navajo In-dians of Monument valley, Utah,the strangest of all was in 1945when a horde of carpenters andm a s o n s and painters and actorssuddenly appeared on the desertamong the p innacles whichgave the val ley i t s name andbegan preparations for the film-ing of "My Darling Clementine"with an improvised Tombstoneas the stage setting. Here is

Goulding's version of the way ithappened — and its impact onthe natives of the southern Utahdesert.

As told by HARRY GOULDING

to Joyce R. Muench

Photographs by Josef Muench

ft IVING out in the desert, the way«£_> I've done all my life, I've seen

some strange things happen.You'd smile if I told you how once,when a storm was brewing, I saw awhole team of twenty mules and aborax wagon on a cloud! Th e ears ofthe mules were twitching and every sooften one of the critters would stamphis foot—it was that clear! An d, be-lieve it or not, that little old outfit wasactually 20 miles away, in Tonopah.You'd just call that a mirage and letit pass.

There've been stranger things yet,and not so easy to explain scientifical-ly: desert rats, guided to lost mines byvoices they couldn't have heard, andcanyons changing their looks when aman wanted to go back for a find he'dstaked out. I suppose those were hallu-cinations.

Perhaps you'll be interested too, inhow Tombstone came to life again fortwo months in Utah. Utah, mind you,and not Arizona where the city reallywas. It still gives me a chilly feeling up

my spine when I think how that placeappeared out of nowhere. Men rodethe streets packing guns (and shootingthem, too); pretty women laughedunder their parasols and Indians stalk-




Known to every one who visits Monum ent valley, Harry and "Mike" Gouldingoperate a trading post and lodge there and extend genuine western hospitality to

white folks and Indians alike.

Then, before you could quite take it

I wasn't the only one who was sur-A tourist came through one

He stopp ed his car right in the

In one hand was a map a nd

"Say, can you tell me what this townhe growled at me. "This map of

I smiled to myself, but not wanting to

let on that I knew just how he felt, Isaid,

"I don't know anything about yourmap, partner, but this is Tombstone,Utah."

He just looked at me, and then wentback to his car and drove off. Not evenstopping to take a picture of the biggestmiracle that ever hit Monument Valley!Next time he drives that way, he'llwond er still mo re. If the buildings arestill there, the only folks he'll see willbe the Navajo "mayor" and "sheriff"who take care of the place. But theymay be gone too, by then.

Think I'll wait a few years until thedesert has come into its own again andthen I'll get a scientist to bring an ex-pedition in and have them dig downto a big bowl of concret e. The y'llthink they've found something pre-historic, some old-fangled kind of ballcourt that the ancients used. At least,they will until they get all the sand dug

off and read on one edge, "20th Cen-tury Fox ." By that time I'll be awayshowing visitors around in Monumentvalley.

That's what I should have been

doing in the first place, when I sawTombstone pop up out of the desertlike a rabbit from its hole. But I wantedto look up a Navajo who works forme sometimes, so I rode over towardthe monuments .

It was March and the rains wereover and the snow gone, what littlethere'd been that year. I could see thegreat tall figures of sandstone buttes onthe skyline, all red and brooding in tfiewarm sun. It looked pretty much th eway it did any March, until I got downalmost to Mitchell's wash. There,right in the middle of the driest spoton earth, were half a dozen bigmachines—bulldozers they were—rip-ping around through the soapweed andrabbitbrush.

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This is Hollywood's reproduction of the famous O. K. Corral near where the historicEarp-Clanton feud came to a bloody climax.

You can't blame me for thinking thatmaybe the sun, or old age, had hit meall of a sudde n. I tried to figure it out.There's nothing to mine in that sand,and anyway, they were clearing theground. Not even an Indian couldraise corn way out there without a dropof water closer than five miles. Wealways say that the rabbits have tocarry their lunch in the valley, andnothing else could hope to live there.Besides, this is all Indian land. But Iknew better than to ask. Somebody

would have told me that they werebuilding a new marine base. Might beat that! You can' t tell nowadays. S o ljust looked the other way and rode onover to see my friend, Grey Whiskers.Perhaps when I came back it would allbe gone and then nobody could laughat me for having seen a bulldozer clear-ing ground—acres of it—in Monumentvalley.

But it didn't work out that way. Nextthing I knew, the place was hummingwith people. The bulldozers had gone

but instead there were carpenters—onehundred and twelve head of them—with lumber coming in a steady stream,trucked in from Flagstaff.

By then, I knew it was a stage set

for a movie, but instead of putting upjust fronts, they went right ahead andbuilt real buildings. Th ere were fancynames on the saloons and the "Man-sion House" had a sign "EstablishedTn1871!" There were 7000 cedar polesfor corrals. I couldn't get over it.

The Navajo know everything thatgoes on out here but they were keepingout of sight. I guess they felt kind ofjittery. Just the same, when they werecalled on, the dust lifted from the des-ert in every direction as they rode in.

They brought about 1500 head of cat-tfe, bawling all the way. Forty-fiveprairie schooners came from some-where and a couple of old stage coach-es , not to mention the hund reds ofIndian wagons and ponies and dogsand cats that go along with Indiancamps. There must have been 400Indians, setting up shelters all aroundthe plac e. Mo st of them had left theirflocks of sheep and goats at home, butsome even brought those. Old timerssaid the noise and smell was like oldtimes, the days before the army forced

peace on the tribe.I began to wonder how it would all

turn out. I know lots of the Navajo,so I went around and talked with them.They'd come from 50 miles in every

direction; from over at Rough Rockand Chin Lee, from Tuba City andNavajo m ountain . It was the biggestget-together they'd had in years. Andthey had a wonderful time. There wasa Navajo Sing or a Squaw Dance everynight till sunup. Maybe you've neverseen or heard of a Squaw dance. Ittakes a lot of telling, but its better thana circus and polite as a Sunday schoolpicnic, but not as quiet. When any-body got tired shuffling round the fire,he'd roll up in a blanket and dropdown in a wagon, or under it, or near

it, and you didn't dare step over himbecause that's bad luck. All the timethe men's chorus that serves as orches-tra, with a drum beating out therhythm, was making a weird hauntingkind of music. Hearing it a few timesspoils you for the canned music in thejuke boxes in town.

They danced all night and in the day-time the young fellows turned to andhelped with the building. A Navajocan learn to do almost anything, oncehe's been shown, and soon some ofthem were doing carpentry, others

helped with the wiring and concretework, and of course they can set upposts better than a white man can.

The buildings looked fresh and rawwhen they were done, until painters

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The desert has begun the long patient process of reclaiming its own. Sand hasbegun to drift in the streets of Mon ument valley's Tombstone, and only the caretaker

and an occasional Indian visitor now walk the streets.

e swooping in. The n, in a few

years old. It was the dam dest

Things move fast,

While we were getting adjusted tothings, buses and station wagons andcars started piling down between OwlButte and Algothla, bringing 700 actorsfrom out on the coast. And then things

did pop. They were warming up fortheir parts in My Darling Clementineand they worked at it 24 hours a day.I'd hesitate to tell you some of the jokesthey played on each other. And to

hear them try to talk to the Navajowas really something.

The directors and leads and assist-ants, about 80 of them, stayed at nightat Goulding's Trading post and lodge

(that's my place) up alongside the cliff.The other 600 and some were fed andbedded down in an Anderson campdown on the flat near the air strip.Every so often a plane would come

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For more than two months the staff of Desert Magazine has beenbu sy ins ide the c losed doors of the spac ious ne w publ ish ing hom e

at Palm Desert, putting business and editorial offices in order,gett ing the printing machinery in operation, arranging the bookand deser t s ta t ionery d isp lays , and comple t ing a thousand andone details for the day when visi tors could be admitted.

And now the doors are open—and we extend a sincere invita-tion to our readers and to all who come this way to stop andbr ow se through our pu ebl o. In this desert institution yo u will findan unusual combination of activities—a cultural center for the artsand crafts, a business and sales department, and a manufacturingplant.

ART GALLERY (To be ope ned Octob er 15 with J. Ma rie Rop pas director) . Here will be shown some of the best work done by

dese rt ar t ists in oil, cray ons , water-colors, an d sculpture. M an yof the paintings will be available for purchase.

BOOK SHOP—now open, features books of the Southwest in-cluding history, biography, Indian life and customs, archeology,botany an d wildlife, mines, minerals and gem cutting, geograp hy,travel guides, arts and crafts—and here will be a special sectionfor juvenile readers. This department also includes some distinc-tive stationery in color and a selection of gemstone bookends.

PRINTING—A very modern printing office is equipped for alltypes of let terpress pr inting—business and off ice forms, guestranch and resor t s ta t ionery and b rochures , pamphle ts and mai lorder catalogs and forms, and l imited book publishing.

MAILING SERVICE—Includes mul t ig raph ing , addressographpla te making , address ing and mai l ing . A comple te mai l ingserv ice .

OPEN HOUSE—Formal opening of Desert's pueblo will be Sat-urday and Sunday, October 16 and 17, but visitors are welcomeanytime—and there is ample parking space for your car or trailer.

LOC ATION —P alm D esert is on Hig hw ay 111, 12 miles fromPa lm Sp ring s an d 11 miles from Indio. You will reco gnize thebuilding from the sketch above, with the Santa Rosa mountains inth e b ack g r o u n d .

This is an invitation to you from the

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buzzing in and drop down with anotherbig shot or special orders for somethingthat had to be done right now. Therenever was a dull moment.

The whole outfit was herded downto the set early in the morning. You'dsee photographers perched on the bal-conies or else in trucks, following theactors and shooting at them with big

fancy cameras.I must say they didn't do things half

way when the big director arrived. Itwas John Ford and he put everyonethrough their paces. The ClantonGang got killed every day; they musthave had more lives than a cat. Someof the shooting was done at the O. K.Corral, but they came clear up to mylodge to get a scene of Clanton's hang-out. Since then more than one womanguest has shuddered as I told her howClanton shot a man through the back—right from my trading post door!

Folks talk about working like troop-ers. I never knew before what theymeant, but I learned at Tombstone. Itwas fun watching what a swell timethey had doing it.

I'd been hanging around, helping alittle here and there, just so I couldsee things. It was all so almost realthat I broke out my old six-shooterand took to wearing it (but withoutbullets) and I was actually getting usedto seeing a boom-or-bust town inMonument valley, with swarms ofeverything from Hollywood actors tosheep. Any direction you looked fromthe streets of Tombstone, or Fordville,as they called it half the time, themonuments stared down at you. Therenever was and I'm willing to wagerthere never will be, another movieset with as grand a backdrop as thisone had.

The n, one day, it was over. Justlike that. The troopers climbed intocars and rolled away in a cloud ofdust. The Indians rubbed out theirfires and scattered with the wind. Inanother day or so the last cameras

had been moved out and the windowswere all boarded up.

The sand began to shift in, a littlehere and there. The big concrete reser-voir that said "20th Century Fox" onit, was emptied for the last handful ofcattle and sheep, and now the sand isfilling it, too.

I've ridden over that way a time ortwo since, and it gives me a kind oflonesom e feeling. If my Nava jo friend,Frank Bradley (the mayor) wasn'tliving there in a little house acrossfrom the corner saloon, where I couldchat with him now and then, I mighteven believe that it was all just a mirageor hallucination or something.

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Gold. . .Willits, California

Some months ago I opened the current issue of Desert

Since my name was mentioned in connection with the

annual Pegleg Trek is to be held— I believe January 1 is

You published a picture of some of the old-timers who'vebeen more or less on the Pegleg trail for many years. Three

or many years. Harry Oliver I have

The DesertRat Scrapbook, every copy of which I read with interest.

of that desert country. The two shown in photo look

I recognize the location of the photo as on the east side

of Coyote mountain, not far from Dry lake in Clark valley,which before Fred and Frank Clark drilled their well,was called North Coyote.

I thank you for inviting me to join the trek next year. Ihope to be able to go and shall do my darndest to keep thedate. In the meantime, as I wrote above, I shall divulge afew secrets.

In October 1900 an Indian rode his pony from the Mar-tinez reservation in the Coachella valley to San Ignacioreservation in the San Ysidro mo untains. He stopped atCollin's house, and John, as was his custom, invited himin for something to eat. The Indian told John that he hadridden over the nearest trail, around the Santa Rosa moun-tains, and only diverged in order to water his pony at 17Palms. To everyone who knows the Badlands it is quiteobvious that the nearest trail would be the one around theend of the Santa Rosas. There are many trails throughthe Borrego Badlands which extend in the form of a fan—

the mountain being the handle and the tips extending tothe Salton sea on the east and San Felipe creek on thesouth.

A week after the Indian had gone through Collin's valley,John and I were ready to venture forth in our quest forthe territory traversed by the pioneer of the desert with thewooden leg.

W here should we go first? John h ad never been east ofClark valley and Borrego spring, and I had never beenanywhere and knew nothing. The Ind ian's ride gave Johna clue and he suggested that we backtrack the pony's routeand travel over the trail "nearest to the moun tain." Wefollowed the tracks down Coyote creek, and over whatafterwards became the Doc Beatty road to 17 Palms.

We learned what gave that natural oasis its name, byc-mnting the trees, including those lying on the ground.There were just 17. We drank the alkaline water, whichwas in an open ditch that looked man-m ade. The burros

Due to shrinking water supply only a jewpalms which once lined Palm wash are stillThis veteran Washingtonia, bowed with age, isthe last survivors. In the background is theBorrego Badlands terrain where H. E. W.believes the lost Pegleg gold still may be found,

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were not thirsty enough to do more than sm ell it. Webacktracked a little way up Arroyo Salada (which is wellnamed), and traced the pony's track over a well markedtrail to Palm w ash. From there the trail led across Gravewash and three or four others to Fish spring, where theburro s got a drink. Th ere we camped that night in spite ofFig Tree John ordering us to vamoose.

Somewhere between 17 Palms and Fish spring, I saw thetops of three little hills, on the same level as the trail wewere on. The top of the middle hill was covered with blackrock. I walked out toward it—but did not climb it. Collinswas disappearing with the burros. He had not seen thehills. It was my first trip and I was as green as grass andafraid of being lost, so I joined the burro train, sayingnothing to Joh n. Several years later I rememb ered thisspot and ever since have been trying to relocate it. MaybeI found the Pegleg hill that day.

To return to the Pegleg Smith story: Smith's story merelylocates the gold as being on one of three hills betweenYum a and Warner 's ranch. But two other persons are said

to have located the gold also, and by dovetailing theirstories with that of Pegleg it is possible to narrow thesearch down to a comparatively small area.

First, there was the Indian woman who, traveling east-ward—the opposite direction from that taken by PeglegSmith—stood on the hill where she found the black goldnuggets and saw the smoke of the construction camp atSalton on the line of the Southern Pacific. She was dyingof thirst when she reached Salton. Her story would in-dicate she was in the Borrego Badlands, but close to thebase of the mountains for she missed the water at 17 Palmsand was dying of thirst when she reached Salton station.

The halfbreed at Warner's ranch also told of findingthe gold. Th e three days required for him to visit the richdeposit would also locate the treasure somewhere in ornear the Badlands.

I believe one reason why the Pegleg gold was never

found is that the searchers have been looking for largehills instead of low ones.

In the March issue of Desert, Marshal South told aboutthe Yaqu i Indian for whom Y aqui well was named. Th emystery gold which he is reported to have found camefrom the Badlands. I suspect he and the halfbreed whom

I have mentioned, were the same persons.The last but not least important clue to this whole pro-

position is the fact that the Pegleg gold was black, notdark brown, but black. W hat made it black? Gold isnaturally yellow, and exposure to the sun does not turngold black in a million years. Le t us conside r petrifiedwood. Practically all petrified wood that I have found onthe Colorado desert, and I have seen a lot, is a greyish-brown color, and—now mark this—the only black petri-fied wood I have ever seen comes from Grave wash. Ihave in my collection of desert specimens, a fine piece ofblack petrified woo d. It is a pa rt of the limb of a tree an das hard as iron. It came from the ridge on the south sideof Grave wash. On the north side of the same wash thereis a very indistinct trail leading to the next wash north ofGrave, and on that trail is some black petrified wood,spread over the ground as if a tree had fallen and brokenup, and petrified where it lay. This trail is very hard tofind because it does not lead from Grave wash direct, butfrom a tributary—and there is very little of it left.

Grave is the next large wash north of Palm wash, andthe bridge num ber on 99 Highway is 58 48 . Th at of Palmwash 5846. The latter is the third wash north of Truck-haven—the first two being small ones.

To return to the petrified wood, is it not likely that thesame mineral solution which caused the petrified wood toturn black also colored the gold? If this is true , then G ravewash is the key to the mystery of the Pegleg gold. Th e

Indian trail crosses Grave wash, and if you can pick upthis trail north of the wash you may have found the routeto the lost Pegleg treasure .

H. E. W. WILSON

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Beneath the topsoil of this Arizona mountain meadow students are finding many

strange relics of three distinct Indian cultures.

For more than 800 years the elements of Nature have been trying to concealthe evidence of a prehistoric Indian culture—a community of perhaps 5000tribesmen—which once thrived in a lovely mountain setting on the Apache

reservation in Arizona. Toda y, under the direction of the University of Arizona,student archeologists are seeking to reconstruct the story of those ancientdwellers. It is a strenuous w ay to win a co llege de gree— as yo u will learnin reading Oren Arnold's story.

By OREN ARNOLD

Photog raphs by E. B. Say lesCurator , Ar izona S tate Museum at Tucson

E afternoon in the summer of1947 a pretty graduate of Vassarand a handsome young man from

Argentina were facing each other ontheir knees in a hole in Arizona. Nearly

30 of us stood as spectators on therocky rim around them, like gamblerscrowding a cockpit. A fragile bowl laybottom up between them.

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"You will lift it, senorita," the boyinvited.

Gently she held it up—symbol of acivilization centuries old. With toolslike those of a surgeon the two had

labored here for days to expose thatbowl. Und er it now was revealed ahum an skull. A roun d it were arrowheads, spear points, small mortars for

grinding, many pottery sherds. Westared in silence until a kindly gentle-man among us spoke the words forwhich the youths had been hoping.

"Well done," said he. "Chalk up an

A grade. And come on out now forsupper."

The spokesman was Emil W. Haury,professor of anthropology at the Uni-

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University of Arizona's summer camp at the Point of Pines archeological site.

versity of Arizona, and one of Amer-ica's foremost scientists. Here, he wasdirector of a field school in archeology.

Nineteen boys and girls were in hisclass. Each was a college graduate,working here for a higher degree. Theschool is a camp in the Arizona wilder-ness 90 miles from the nearest whitevillage. A pine forest loomed black tothe west of us. A green prairiestretched eastward 20 miles to endabruptly in a mountain range. We hadnot seen a newspaper or heard a radioin 10 days but any hour we mightcommune with coyotes, deer, panthersand bears.

My companion on a trip to Dr.Haury's summer school was Fred Ran-

dolph, an insurance salesman. It wasnot a fertile field for selling insurance,but the region was by no means devoidof life. During the last 75 miles of ourmotor trip we met one five-foot rattle-snake, 12 does that flowed over bould-ers and logs in streamlined beauty, agiant stag who—bless him—was lordof all he surveyed and made it knownby an indignant shaking of antlers andsnorting, four flocks of wild turkeys,and one completely black Apache In-dian man who spoke no English. Ittook us nearly five hours to travelthose 75 mountain miles.

But when we reached there—a doton the map called Point of Pines w»found Dr. Haury. At the edge of the

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forest was his university "administra-tion building" of rustic architecture,its walls partly built of rocks used in

other walls 800 years ago. A mess halland kitchen, baths with hot and ex-ceedingly cold running water, a labora-tory, an outdoor "stadium" for sports,a lecture circle which doubled forcampfire fun, even a studio and dark-room for the school photographers,were grouped there. Dormitories werelarge wall tents electrically lighted,with beds that had good mattresses andsprings. In short, every reasonablecomfort had been provided; becausein a school of archeology as in per-haps no other kind, good grades de-pend on being physically fit. These

students were no bookworms. Five oftheir eight strenuous hours a day weredevoted to plain pick-and-shovel dig-ging. This applied equally to the boys,all of whom looked like football stars,and to the dainty co-eds among whomwere representatives of Vassar, Ste-phens, Wellesley, Columbia, Chicagoand Arizona U.

Other meritorious schools in arch-eology are in existence, but none ex-ceeds this one in sheer picturesquequality or in opportunity. Coronadothe great Spanish conquistador may

have camped at Point of Pines fourcenturies ago. Since then only a fewwhite men—ranchers, surveyors, oc-casional hunters — had seen it until

1945 when Dr. Haury with his friendand associate, E. B. Sayles, curator ofthe Arizona State Museum in Tucson,re-discovered it. The stranger ap-proaching this site would be impressedonly by a lovely landscape — rollinghills sprinkled with pine-fringed moun-tain meadows. But walk on these hillsand lo—at every step, literally, you

crush pieces of pottery. If you arealert, arrow heads await your discov-ery. Hundreds of metates and manoshave been recovered on the surface orjust under the top soil. Dig a foot ortwo and whole pots are disclosed,things of utility and usually of beauty,revealing the craftsmanship of folkswho lived at Point of Pines long beforeColumbus sailed.

Haury and Sayles found nearly 200separate ruins of great cultural diver-sity, with evidence that perhaps 5,000people lived in this locality for about1,000 years. Traces of old reservoirswere evident, and in the nearby forestwere agricultural terraces like thosebuilt by our Civilian ConservationCorps. The two men tramped over theregion for days, measuring, surveying,staking, studying. Each hour theirexcitement grew. This was a find byany standard, one of the Southwest'sgreatest ruin areas. Archeologists, forall their worship of exact science, areromanticists capable of a sophomore'senthusiasms. The climate, they ob-served, was perfect in summer; sunnydays, with nights cold enough for four

blankets and invigorating sleep. Alti-tude was 6,200. Good water was avail-able. And there was a road, of a sort,within reasonable range. Only onemajor hurdle remained—this was onthe reservation of the Apache Indians,once the most warlike of the South-west's tribesmen.

"If you dig in the graves of the an-cients," they solemnly warned, "troubleand danger will forever haunt you."

The Apaches were owners of thisland, but Haury and Sayles were diplo-mats. They also had as much patienceas the red men, which of itself is note-worthy. In the end they secured a per-mit to set up a paleface college andexplore Point of Pines archeologically.They hired Apache boys to help withthe camp labor. They arranged to sup-ply their commissary with the fatApache cattle that grazed in the mea-dows there.

Thus the University of Arizona sum-mer school in archeology opened in1946 in tents, and by 1947 had somepermanent buildings. Financial aidcame quickly. The Viking Foundationof New York, and the late Burridge D.

Butler, radio executive of Phoenix andChicago, helped pay for the buildings.Student loan assistance came this yearfrom W. J. Schieffelin, Jr., president of

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rm. He visited the school

stake in Arizona anyway, for it was

found rich silver ore samples betweentwo human skeletons and there estab-

lished the historic mining camp ofTombstone .Dr. Haury foresees at least 20 years

of intense digging and study at Pointof Pines for his students, during whichmay be expected important archeolo-gical discoveries.

"Young people are eager, specula-tive, daring," the professor remindedus. "They take assorted bits of in-formation and put them together insane conjecture, then set out with dig-ging tools to prove what they thinkthey kno w. Often they find themse lveswrong, but disappointment is no

tragedy to youth. Ilove to work withthem. And Iam proud of what theyare doing here."

The students dress, talk and act asyoung Americans do everywhere, sothat a certain vacation atmosphere per-vades the place. Yet this is no pam -pered society school. Day begins with agong at 6:00 a. m. Breakfast is at 6:30.Meals were cooked last summer byBarbara McCoy, University of Arizonagraduate student in archeology, whowanted to earn extra money. Foodwas abundant and delicious. At 7:00a. m. the classes are on the "dig."There's an hour and a half for lunch,then an afternoon shift until 4:30 inthe ruins, plus an hour for note studyand laboratory work. Tw o hours forrecreation are sandwiched in—barelytime enough for cleanup and supper, agame of volleyball. Romances floweron this strange campus as they do oncampuses everywhere. Guitars lendtheir enchan tmen t. Most of the songsheard there were in Spanish, thesebeing as much a part of the Southwestas is the students' Tucson tan.

Boys and girls are assigned by pairsto excavate specific areas ofruinmounds previously marked off. Wewatched a very young GI couple—Fredand Nancy Wendorf—go down six feetin one room with rock walls. The roomwas about 10 feet square. That meantplenty of dirt tossing — and Nancy ,who looks like Shirley Temple andweighs 98 pounds, did most of it.Tactlessly, some of us visitors chidedFred for making his bride do the hard

Nancy Wendorf uncovers a jar hid-den in the floor of the 14th century

room.The thrill of archeology— a pot isfound by Raymond Thompson of

Tufts college.

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Above—A 14th century grinding mill—a row of metates lined up much asthey are found in Hopi homes today. Below, a stone-lined fire-place.

Below—Storage room in an ancient Indian home. A roof caved in and

damaged part of the pots, but the young archeologists have removed

the earth in which they were encased particle by particle to preserve

them as they were left hundreds of years ago.

labor, he sitting near her with only asmall trowel in his hand. Both smiledat us.

"A piece of shell got Fred's shoulderin France," Nancy explained. "So hisright arm is paralyzed. But his brainisn't. And I'm his right arm."

We wanted to hug them. Indeed we

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guests reacted with sentimental fervortoward all the college kids there, fornone was bluffing. They were the

same youngsters who had won a war,and now they were showing the stam-ina necessary for serious career jobs.

Nancy and Fred had made a findnear the floor of the ancient clan

house they were excavating. They hadcome onto 12 rocks shaped like loavesof bread but twice as long, and laidside to side. Yet nobody, not evenDr. Haury, knew what they were. Theymay have been an altar—there arelegends, unsubstantiated, of blood sac-rifices among these ancients. Nothingcomparable has been found elsewhere

in contemporary ruins. The studentsthus have a new stimulus for conjec-ture. If one can ever make a guessabout those rocks, then prove it true,he will achieve local distinction as wellas a good school grade.

Student excavation already has re-vealed two distinct types of dwelling inthis area. A Wellesley graduate and aCanadian boy schooled in Columbiawere down to the pit-house level bylate June. By August the school knewthat the first inhabitants had simplydug holes in the ground here, covered

them with roots and lived inside thesepits. Their time ended about 100 A.D.But soon another group of people cameand erected the rock wall pueblos ontop of the pit ruins, and these were oc-cupied until about 1300 A.D. In these"apartments," three distinct culturesseem to have overlapped: that of theMogollon (pronounced mo-go-yone')or "first settlers," then of the Hohokam(ho-ho-kam') or sedentary agricultur-alists, and finally of the Anasazi (an-ah-sah'-ze) or conquerors.

Conceivably the Mogollon folk were

the pit dwellers, then they and the Ho-hokam were driven out in their turn.But what happened to the last group,the conquerors? They left in the four-teenth century, despite an abundanceof game, water, corn, all the things oflife. The fierce Apaches that we knowdid not arrive until years later. Habita-tion ended at other communities inthe Southwest because of prolongeddrouth, but they were on the ariddesert. What happened at Point ofPines is one of the mysteries Dr.Haury hopes his students eventuallycan explain.

A red-haired young giant with

"Tufts College" on his T shirt labored

in a square excavation with six skele-

tons showing. He had already moved

tons of dirt—the fill-in from centuries

of erosion, on top of the original grave

soil. We watched him strain with tiny

scraper, tea spoon, artist's brushes, and

a little hand syringe. He dared not

shovel, once a hint of bone was re-

vealed, lest irreparable damage to a

skeleton be done, hence the dirt was

lifted away almost literally grain by

grain until the six forms stood out in

full bas-relief. With other students'

help, he took every conceivable meas-

urement, in millimeters. Sketches were

made, directions noted, minute descrip-

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Dr. A. V. Kidder, C arnegie Institution of Washington, and Dr. Emil W . Haury,director of the University of Arizona archeological field school.

tions written in notebooks, and photo-graphs taken. All of this constitutesfact, which later is correlated withother students' findings in other graves.Together it becomes public property,

at the University of Arizona, for anyreputable scientist or student whowants to have access to it there.

After supper that night we saw"Red" with the Argentinian lad andthe girl from Vassar in a serious hud-dle. Dr. Haury sat listening. All wereabsorbed in trying to piece togetherthe day's facts as gathered from twoseparate burials. What could be saidabout the ancients after this intimatestudy of their remains?

A few things we know. They wereof medium stature, no nearer to mon-keys than we are in bone structure and

general bodily conformation. Theymay have had something like a maleUtopia, meaning that their women didmost or much of the hard labor, be-cause remains of the females indicate

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muscular development comparable tomen's. We know they suffered high in-fant mortality, for many child burialsare found. We know they suffered ar-thritis, for the evidence of it is still

seen in their bone joints."This one was a warrior," the Tufts

boy announced, holding up a skull."He was killed in battle. Here's a holemade by a stone axe. I even have theaxe that exactly fits it. That's proof!"

"Hold your hosses, son," Dr. Haurygrinned amiably. "The axe is coinci-dence. Put that skull under the micro-scope and study the edges of the hole."

This done, the teeth marks of rodentsshowed plainly. Morever, there was nohint of healing—evidence that the holewas made after death. This was a

minor disappointment to the students,but a definite contribution to theirnotebooks. Burrowing animals are theworst destroyers of graves.

It is more than likely that scientists

in some post-atomic era, probing forfacts about ou r life and times, will doas we do now—dig in the graveyardsand the kitchen middens. For, surpris-ingly, man leaves his best records in

his public dumps. Those ancients atPoint of Pines lived in apartments ofstrong rock walls. These had no win-dows or doors as we know such, butentry to any room was through a holein the roof, reached by a ladder pulledup at night for safety. And Mrs. Ana-sazi simply walked to the edge of herroof and tossed her garbage and trashoverboard. When somebody died, oftenit was convenient just to toss him downthere too, then go place beside himhis favorite arrows, his sacred rattles,his awl, needle, tomahawk, and some

food in a beautiful urn, and anotherurn over his skull for—we can presume—pure sentiment as well as protectionfrom dirt, and finally cover him witha few feet of the trashy soil.

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everyday life of the ancient occupants.

It is outside the walls of the pueblos,therefore, that Dr. Haury's studentsdig most avidly and with greatest care.They have learned to expect little inthe first four-foot layer, for most ofthis has blown there since the puebloswere aban done d. But after that, eachshovel or spoon of earth is carefullyscreened. One student was showing amore-than-prehistoric interest in hisgirl companion when he tossed a shovelfull of earth out, and the co-ed caughta glint of black in it. She climbed ou t,and retrieved the most perfect double-bladed axe yet found there. For suchunscientific negligence, he had to standthe camp's razzing for a month.

One morning a graduate student fromColumbia gave a shout from his dig.Heads popped up over walls all aroundand Dr. Haury turned toward him.

"Look, Doc!" the boy called. "I gotproof that a race of giants lived here.With amazon-type women!"

The professor waited. He was used tothese alarms. But for once the studentreally did have interesting evidence. He

came out of his hole with a fired pot-tery piece about 12 inches across andhollowed in the exact shape of a femalebreast. "It's a prehistoric brassiere,Doc, if I ever saw one!" he proclaimed.

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It was in perfect condition, and un-like any other found there. Dr. Hauryshot back at the lad in kind. "Younever saw one, then. I never saw onelike this, either. And I think it's a coverfor a cooking vessel."

The Doc has to be wary. Studentswill plant anything possible on him.The most distinguished professors aregullible at times. Notorious instance,retold around campfires wherever ar-cheologists work, was "Werner's Folly"in Germany. Years ago students thereplanted fake fossils, and the instructorwas so taken in he wrote a book aboutthem. Exposed and shamed, he boughtback all of the books but two, thencommitted suicide. After his funeral,his relatives took advantage of thepublicity to re-sell the books at ahandsome profit.

But if Dr. Haury has to take a lotof friendly ribbing, he can also dish itout. One student grew a terrific water-fall mustache that became the sensa-tion of the school. After about a week

of it, the boy suddenly unearthed avery strange piece of pottery onemorning. Everyone studied it withminute care. Tha t night, in the seriouslaboratory seminar that is held four

evenings a week, the students askedtheir beloved professor to analyze andif possible identify the object. W ithconsumate drollery he answered, "It'splainly a prehistoric mustache cup." Itappeared to be precisely that, and notfor a week did Mrs. Sayles confessthat she had made it to Dr. Haury's

order.I sat on a rock for three hours one

morning and watched a blond co-ed.Between shifts at pick, shovel, wheel-barrow, whiskbroom, measuring tapeand notebook, she was delighted totalk. Her name was Edith Sykes, andshe was momentarily distinguished incamp because she had outwitted Dr.Hau ry. She had been digging for therock wall of a room in the clan house.The doctor came by, studied the situa-tion and warned her that she'd neverfind it where she was working. But

she did."How'd you know it was there?" he

demanded.

"Woman's intuition," she teased.And then, mo re specific — "I'm en-gaged, and I've been thinking abouthomes. If I had been building thishouse I'd have wanted this partitionabout here, instead of over there whereyou said I'd find it." Professor Haury,Ph. D., bowed to a higher knowledge.

Edie, who looks like somebody's kidsister, has her paleontological philoso-

phy all down pat. I asked her, "Whyare you doing this? What are yougrubbing in the dirt for, when youcould be at home sitting on a pillowand sewing a fine seam?"

"Are you serious?" she challenged,mopping sweat. "My gosh, man, this isthe most romantic work I ever heardof. And it's important, too. I 'm goingto marry a mining engineer, but arch-eology will always be my hobby if notmy career." She climbed out of thehole to offer me a drink from her fieldcanteen. Then she drove at me again."Loo k here — what good is — well,painting a sunset, or composing a sym-phony, for instance? Why bother to beinterested? Archeology is like that. It'sspiritual, I mean. True, we dig out alot of stuff that amounts only to ab-struse knowledge, but in time it fits to-gether. And somehow, just working atit enriches a personality; translates intoearning power, and poise, and happi-ness."

I remained silent, because Dr. Haurywas approaching. He had overheard."Did you read that in a book, Edie?"he demanded.

"No sir."

"Well it's good, and I'll give you anA for it. I hadn't quite figured thingsout that clearly, myself."

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These rocks withstood centuries of grinding and pounding on their long journeydown from the headwaters of the Colorado river. Picture shows a bit of the floorof the desert in Sidewinder hills.

Shining Rocks of SidewinderntngOld Man C olorado is a rockhound h imself. And after the old river

collects, sorts and polishes its specimens, it generously piles them interraces along the river valley where the rest of the rockhound tribeca n do a little hunting. On e of the best of the Colorado's rock ca ch eslies at the foot of the historic Cargo M u c h a c h o mountains. And,although it was first described nearly 100 years ago, it still producesbeautiful spe cim ens for those wh o search.

By HAROLD O. WEIGHT

fijJ\\AAAM P. Blake, geologistir iS with the Pacific railroad sur-

veys, rode from Fort Yumawith Lt. Hendershot, December 9,1853, on a reconnaissance to the CargoMuchacho mountains, shimmering tothe northwest in the winter sunlight.Their route at first lay over the bot-tomlands of the Colorado river, amongcotton wood s, willows and mesquite.The mules had to force their way

through the weedy luxuriance of plantlife until they reached the base of theupper plain, which rose 40 feet abovethe river valley, its edge gullied bystorm runoff.

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Through one of the arroyos, Blakeand the lieutenant climbed to the plain."From our feet to the base of themountain," the geologist reported,"there was not a single swell of ground,a tree, shrub or boulder of rock tobreak the monotony of the level ex-panse." And the plain was "literallypaved" with pebbles of "colored por-phyries, basalt and greenstone, mingledwith quartz, agates and jaspers." The

pebbles were laid out compactly, all atthe same height, as if they had beenpressed down by a roller, and the wholesurface was swept clean by the wind.

"Every pebble had a beautifully

polished and glistening exterior," Blakewrote, "and the diversity of colors wasincreased and their brilliance height-ened by this singular polish. The glitterof the sun's rays on this plain was likethat on the water of a lake on a sum-mer's day, when the surface is throwninto ripples by a passing breeze."

We rockhounds know just how Blakefelt as he rode across shining "myriadsof polished pebbles of agate, jasper andcarnelian." His attention "was con-stantly attracted by some stone ofpeculiar form or unusual color and itwas difficult to resist the temptation todismount and examine them." Somehe could not resist, and a tap of thehammer on several elongated and irreg-ular rocks revealed exquisite and beau-tifully preserved petrified wood inwhich cell and pore could be traced.

Blake had arrived at Fort Yumaonly the day before from Warner'sranch. He was with Lt. R. S. William-son's party, investigating routes in Cali-fornia which would connect with Whip-

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For many miles in Sidewinder hills the surface of the ground is covered with hardsmooth water-worn pebbles.

pie's survey for a transcontinental rail-road along the 35th parallel andParkes' survey along the 32nd. De-cemb er 11 , carrying his prized woodspecimens, Blake headed back acrossthe desert to San Diego, following the

emigrant road across the dread desertwhich was to become Imperial Valley.

Then for the best part of a century,so far as we know, adventurers tramp-ed and rode across the mesa, ignoringthe beauty beneath their feet whiletheir eyes were fixed on the golden oresthat waxed and waned in the moun-tain's fabulous mines — the CargoMuchacho, American Girl, Tumco andPadre y Ma dre. But modern Ameri-cans, cramped mentally and physicallyby city-herding, have rediscovered therelease which comes through contactwith Nature, the stimulation an out-door hobby gives. And the mesa andbluffs where Blake found his shiningstones — now called the Sidewinderhills—have become a popular rock-hound hunting ground.

U. S. Highway 80 passes directlythrough the Sidewinders for severalmiles, between Knob siding and theold stage station at Ara z. Pilot Knobbounds them on the south. Thereare not many such places—where col-lectors may park at the side of atranscontinental highway, walk a few

rods and find jasper, agate or petrifiedwood which can be finished into stonesof real beauty . This generosity of theforces of Nature which mined, trans-ported and sorted the vast depositthrough the ages has not gone unappre-

ciated by the fraternity. Slopes andmesas have been combed frequentlybut the field, by its nature, can neverbe exhausted. Time and erosion con-tinually expose new material for thosewho are willing to search and whodesire quality rather than quantity.

Blake visited the Sidewinders in De-cember, and I would recommend thecooler seasons for collectors who followhim. My most recent trip to the areawas taken in May. Mornings andevenings were pleasant. But middayand afternoon temperatures were above

100 and the blazing torch of the sunoffered a special occupational hazardto rockhounds. Have you ever burnedyour tongue licking rocks? It is anunpleasant sensation, yet I will wagerthat you will be just as unable to breakyourself of the licking habit on shortnotice as I was.

I had collected along the highway onseveral occasions, hiking some distanceback into the arroyos and onto themesa. Always I had looked farther uptoward the Cargo Muchachos with

typical rockhound faith that the stoneson more distant hills are mossier. Thistrip I decided to investigate a roadwhich cut north from Highway 80 nearKnob siding, hoping to drive farenough up the mesa to head the washes

and thus be able to work my waydown the gem-bearing tongues of landbetween them. The broad road leftthe highway exactly five miles east ofthe Ogilby turnoff, 4.9 miles west ofWinterhaven.

It crossed the railroad tracks, con-tinued about a mile then became amaze of scraped streets which markedthe site of the Kno b siding camp, wh erethousands of Patton's men sweated outtheir desert warfare training. The campis gone now. Storm runoff has erodedthe streets at every wash, and it isvery easy for the unwary driver tobecome involved with sand. Howeverone road, which has been marked withlittle "Jackson Flat" arrows by Pros-pector B. J. Recker, leads safelythrough the camp, up the mesa andaround the southeastern shoulder ofthe Cargo Muchachos. From this roadcollectors can investigate most of themesa area without trouble, if they willkeep to the firm, pebble-paved flats.

In one of the washes near the armycamp I came upon the first desert iron-woods, Olneya tesota, that I had seen

Small chunks of petrified wood such as aroused Blake's enthusiasm nearly a centuryago may still be collected on the Sidewinder mesas.




Co Picacho

in full bloom. The spectacle of theseenormous pink - lavender bouquetswould amply have repaid a visit in hot-ter weather than I experienced. Perhapsspectacle is not quite the right word—the display is beautiful and delicate.From a dis tance the ironwood is not

as showy as its relative in the peafamily, the smoke tree, whose almostpurple blossoms stand out against theash-green branches.

As a matter of fact, I did not noticethe ironwood flowers at first. W henI was at least 100 feet from one bigtree, looking for gem pebbles on thewash slopes, I became conscious of aheavy hum which sounded more like adistant truck in an intermediate gearthan any other comparable noise. Trac-ing the sound to its source, I suddenly

realized that the ironwood, at least 20feet high and with an equal limbspread, was one mass of flowers. Theblooms were so thick that the branchesand few new leaves were almost en-

To Phoenix STucson

tirely hidden and the light tintedflowers looked like a colored cloudagainst the sky.

And the drone I heard was made bythousands of desert bees, taking advan-tage of the brief flowering period toharvest rich stores of nectar. I wouldnever have believed there possiblycould be so many bees on the desert.Wherever I went that day, I foundironwoods blooming in the washes andevery tree had a noisy halo of bees.Multiplying bees by trees, there musthave been millions of the insects. Icould distinguish two types. One was agreyish fellow, broad and stocky andlarger than the domestic variety. Th eother was longer, thinner, and with anorangish-yellow body with dark rings.They zoomed on all sides of me butapparently did not resent my presenceso long as I did not interfere with theirwork.

The grey bees were in the majority,and it was amusing to watch them

force their bulky bodies into the deli-cate sweetpea-like blossoms. Later C.S. Walker of Gold Rock ranch told methat he had seen these bees in theirhomes in the Cargo Muchachos. Theylive in crevices in the rocks, and GoldRock ranch is one of their favoritewatering places. It would be impossibleto remove the honeycombs without

blasting, Walker said, and then thehoney would be of little use to the beesor the blaster. But I wond er whatironwood honey tastes like.

Two days later when I visited thesame ironwoods, they had a bedraggledlook and the ground was covered withfallen flowers which had turned adeeper blue as they died. There werefewer bees, but those rem aining seemedto be working more frantically thanever. I think that the short bloomingperiod of the ironwood and the appar-ent irregularity of its flowering date

explains why so many desert visitorsnever have seen it in full flower.Most books on botany do not go intogreat detail about the tree. The ma-jority of those who venture an opinionplace the blooming date in June. Theseironwoods in the washes of the Side-winders were at their best May 11.

Most botanists infer that the treesdo not have many flowers. But themajority of those I saw were literallymasses of the delicately-tinted, fragrantblossoms. In one wash I found twoironwoods in bloom while a third, be-tween the others, was covered withnew leaves but did not show a flower.The Walkers , who have lived nearthe Cargo Muchachos a long time,think the trees will skip a bloomingseason if they do not receive plenty ofwate r the year before. It would ap pearthat a closer study of the lives andhabits of these beautiful desert treeswould be a worthy project.

The old army camp seemed to be aplace for odd noises. After I tracedthe buzzing to the bees, I heard a faint

crackling noise. Following the soundI came to a pile of dead branches ofpalo verde trees, apparently lopped offduring the army period. Th e noiseseemed to come from within thebranc hes. I broke some open, to findtheir interior a mass of yellow powderand circular burrows in which whitishgrubs waved feebly in the unexpectedbrightness. Apparently they were thelarva of some variety of the powderpost beetle, going about their businessof reducing dead timber to dust. Un-doubtedly they play their part inNature's process of keeping the desertneat. But what voracious little creat-ures they must be when you can hearthem chomping their wooden rations15 feet away!

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Transferring my attention from wildlife to the shining rocks of the mesa,I ranged for several miles in all direc-tions across the pebble pavement. To-ward the Cargo Muchachos this plain,made principally of water-worn rockfragments, is gently rolling with shal-low drainage-ways. Down toward thehighway the washes become deep

ind-floored gashes with large treesand steep walls. L ayers of pebblesare eroding from the walls. The rocksseem to vary in size and in the percent-age of cutting material they contain,^ut almost everywhere it is possible tofind a few specimens—moss agate, jas-ner, opalite, agates, bits of carnelian,fossils—some replaced by stone whichwill polish—and varieties of petrifiedwood.

This is a field in which the prospec-tor's hammer is not to be scorned.With the exception of the petrified

wood, which can be recognized byshape and grain, it is almost impossibleto determine the color, kind or qualityof a pebble from its exterior. Mosthave been worn fairly smooth by waterand all those on the surface havebeen varnished a shining dark brownby water, sun and manganese. Thehunter learns to recognize a few types.But the number of rocks that lookalike is large and the percentage ofgem stones small and a gentle chippingwith a hammer often seems the onlysolution.

I have seen stones cut from Side-winder material that will match any-thing from any collecting area in theWest. At least one piece of woodpartially replaced with precious opal

M. L. Allen at his cabin near theold Cargo Muchacho mine. H erediscovered the Padre y Madre

mine.

was found there. W here does it comefrom—all this variety of the Side-winders? We ll, your guess should beas good as that of anyone else. Thatred, yellow and lavender jasper ap-pears identical with material found onUtah's San Rafael swell—and perhapsit did com e from the re. Tho se fossils

—perhaps they were torn from thedepths of the Gran d Canyon. Thewood—there are many varieties . Ari-zona is represented, and certainly Ne-vada.

For the Sidewinders might be calledthe kitchen-midden of the Coloradoriver. Their rocks are the hardy sur-vivors of a long, rough ride. Throughmillions of years the sweepings of theWest have been shoved, ground androlled to this spot by the thunderingstorm waters of the Colorado to bedropped before the river entered theGulf of California. An d while it maybe true that a rolling stone gathersno moss, a rock which has rolled andwashed as far as the river terraces ofthe Sidewinder hills certainly must betough and hard . Those two qualitiescan make for good polishing stones.

Most regular visitors to the Side-winders have their own favorite huntinggrounds. The easiest searching areasare along the slopes where the mesabreaks into the washes. Here some ofthe pebble layers below the surfacehave contributed their share, and rocksare easier to identify without theirdesert varnish. But I found good hunt-ing on the flats and along the edges ofshallow drainage lines. These areasapparently have not been investigatedso closely, perhaps because there arenot so many rocks showing and theaverage size seems smaller. I foundsome of the best pieces of wood bydriving along the pebble pavement andwatching the rocks as I passed.

One of the charms—and yet at timesa frantic irritation—of collecting in theSidewinders is the fact that the exquis-ite little pebble you discover may bethe only one of its kind still in exist-ence. It might have been transporteda thousand miles to this spot, and themountain from which it came eroded

Present workings of the Padre y Madre mines. Two tons of ore at the surface ofthe vein are said to have paid $78,000 a ton.




An d yet there might be another

rrow or next year. Tha t uncertainty

The Cargo Muchachos have morethan rocks, bugs and botany to offer.

One day or one trip cannot possiblyexhaust their attractions. A branch ofthe road by which I entered the mesa,dividing at the army camp site, goesnorthwest between the Ogilby hills andthe main mass of the Cargos. In thispass, a well-traveled auto trail headsalmost east into Jackson gulch andto the Cargo Muchacho mine. Thegulch placers and the oxidized surfaceores of the Padre y Madre valley, stillfarther north, were first worked bySpaniards more than 150 years ago,according to publications of the Cali-

fornia division of mines. The minerscame from the settlement near thepresent site of Yuma which was de-stroyed by Chief Palma and hisYumans in 1781.

M. L. Allen told me about the redis-covery of the Padre y Madre vein.Allen lives in a cabin about half a mile

below the Cargo Muchacho mine. Hehas a claim with paying ore there andplans erection of a 10-ton mill in thefall. H e had just closed operation s forthe summer when I visited him. Therehave been years when he worked rightthrough, but a severe attack of rheu-matism made him feel his 68 yearsand he admitted that, at the moment,

he couldn't work quite as hard as heonce did. He came to the Ogilbydistrict 20 years ago for his health.Through personal investigation andcontact with prospectors he has learneda great deal of its history.

Allen said that the Mexicans andIndians worked the Padre y Madrelong ago, carrying out the ore incowskin bags. When they went awaythe miners covered the rich vein. Butrunoff waters finally uncovered theledge. Allen, then working with Ken-neth Holmes, visited the valley when

a placer miner was making his finalcleanup at bed rock. Allen thoughtthe bedrock looked good and askedif he could take a sample. The placerminer told him he could take it all ifhe wanted. From that surface discov-ery came two tons of ore which re-putedly paid $78,000 a ton. One piece.

Allen says, was country rock that hadbeen shattered and the openings filledwith seams of gold thicker than a knifeblade.

The Cargo Muchacho mine appar-ently was the first one in the districtworked on a large scale. The nam eCargo Muchacho, which can be trans-lated "Loaded Boy," reportedly was

given to the area sometime after theMexican revolution when children ofthe Mexican miners placering the can-yons played prospectors like theirlathers and came home with shirtsloaded with rich gold ore.

The mine is said to have been oper-ated profitably for many years duringthe last centu ry. Bu t it was a ghostcamp by 1905 and today big tailingpiles are the only reminders of theearly days.

Allen believes the Cargo Muchachois going to be a bigger mine than ever.

The veins, he explained, are "strati-fied." The developers of the minethought they were going in on the bot-tom vein, but there were others belowwhich they had not found. KennethHolmes of Holmes and Nicholson hasbeen blocking out low grade ore inthe mine. He cut through the footwall

Motorists m ay drive over the pebble-paved mesas without difficulty— but shouldbeware of the arroyos.

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of the old ledge, Allen says, and hittwo rich veins, one seven feet wide,one five. Assays have shown up to areporte d $97 a ton. The re is talk ofbig milling operations this winter.

If the big strike materializes, it maymean another rush of prospectors. Butwhether or not gold brings new boomtimes to the Cargo Muchachos, the old

mountains offer unquestioned attrac-

MardKock Shorty

The loungers on the porch ofthe Inferno store watched thetow-car pass in a cloud of dust.

"Huh!" exclaimed Hard RockShorty. "Bet somebody's stuckon that Eight Ball crick road.Lot's o' quick sand up that way.

"Yu can't always tell about thatquick sand. Some folks think wetsand is the only kind that's quick.But that dry sand up in EightBall is jest as bad. W hen the cardrops down to the runnin' boards

that's quicksand, wet or dry."Navigatin' that Eight Ball

road is jest like navigatin' theol' Missouri river — you gottaknow yer channels t ' get throughit .

"Wunst I see a feller sinkin'down in that dry sand. He wasclear in to his chin, and hollerin'like bloody-murder. I throwedhim a piece of pipe to breaththrough till I could git help. Butit was n't necessary. One of thewhirlin' dust devils came along

jest then— a big walloper it was—and sucked him right outta thathole.

"OP Pisgah Bill found a traceo' gold in that sand wunst. Hefiggered the deeper he went themore gold there would be onaccount of the gold bein' heavierthan the sand. So he got him apair of snow shoes and set up adry washer out there in the mid-dle o' one of them shoals o'quicksand. But the next mo rnin'the dry washer was no where to

be seen. After losin' three dry-wash outfits and a burro he donegave i t up."

tions to those who like scenery, historyand a few fine rocks to collect.

Visitors to the Sidewinder hills andmesa today will not find the scenegreatly changed from the descriptionBlake gave nearly 100 years ago. TheCargo Muchachos still shimmer, red-brown, purple and blue, unmarked onthe mesa side by man's diggings. The

flats still stretch, pebble covered, tothe mountain slopes. But the flats nolonger are unmarked. They are scarredand torn and crisscrossed by tracksand roads of army vehicles — halftracks, tanks, cannon.

And these old army roads are perfectbooby-traps for rockhounds. They lookso broad, so well-traveled—so import-ant, in fact—that it is obvious theymust be the main roads to somewhere.

Then, when the hopeful rockhound hasfollowed them into a bad spot—sandywash or gulch or mountain side—theysuddenly disintegrate and the unfor-tunate who does not have tractortreads finds himself staring at isolatedtrails which lead up banks or plungeoff cliffs at impossible angles.

Collectors in the Sidewinders north

of Highway 80 should not enter thewashes with the idea of following themdown to the highway. They will find arailroad embankment blocking theirprogress just north of the pavement,and they will have to return the waythey came. This may prove very dif-ficult unless they have a short wheel-base jeep or—better still—follow Wil-liam Blake's procedure and ride amule .

T R U E O R F A L S EThis month's test of your desert knowl-edge covers the fields of history, geo-

graphy, mineralogy, botany, Indian lifeand literature. If you get over 15 correct answers you are a versatilestuden t. Ten is an average score. Twelve to 15 is good. Only an excep-tional student answers 18 correctly. The answers are on page 31 .

1—Rainfall is unknown in many parts of the Great American Desert.True False

2—A National Monument may be set aside by presidential proclamation.True False

3— Hosteen is a Navajo term, being approximately the equivalent of"M ister" in English. True False

A—Ores of copper may be red, blue, green, grey or black in color-True False

5—Death Valley's Ubehebe crater has erupted within the memory ofliving people. True False

6—Native palm trees of the Colorado desert will send their roots to greatdepths for water. True False

7—The northern portion of the Grand Canyon national park lies in Utah.True False

8—Chief industry of the White Mountain Apaches of Arizona is weaving.True False

9— The blossom of datura, or "desert Jim son" is red. True False

10— Nevada was admitted to statehood before Uta h. True False

11—The late Henry Chee Dodge was the last war chief of the Hopi Indians.True False

12—The sidewinder rattlesnake is generally found among rocky ledges andmountains. True False

13— Halite is the mineral nam e of salt. True False

14— Yum a is closer to the Mexican bounda ry than Tucson. TrueFalse

15—The Great White Throne is a landmark in Bryce Canyon nationalpark. True False

16—The book Campfires on Desert and Lava tells about the lava fieldsof New Mexico. True False

17—Indian traders must be licensed by the U. S. Department of Interior

before they can operate on the Navajo reservation. T rue False

18— Nevada is nicknamed "Th e Sagebrush State ." True False

19—One end of Davis dam is in Arizona and the other in Nevada.

True False20— Th e Grand Falls of the Little Colorado river is in Arizona. TrueFalse




Wild Burros, She ep and Otter . . .

Dear Desert:Picacho, C alifornia

a B i g D e s e r t . . .

Van Nuys, California

I sure like to read Desert Magazine, but

Let's hear about our great California

WILLARD ERBECKThe other day a loyal Arizonan ac-

cused us of giving too much space toCalifornia. So —• we'll probably justkeep on as we have been doing— cover-ing the Great American Desert whichincludes Arizona, New Mexico, Ne-vada, Utah and the desert portion ofCalifornia as best we can, and wishingwe could give more space to all of 'em.

-—Editor• • •

H o n e y B e es — a n d t h e L a w . . .

Chula Vista, CaliforniaDear Desert:Am glad some red-blooded tax payers

have at last taken up arms against thenuisance maintained at the state bordersunder the guise of agricultural inspection.

One day last year I had occasion to gothrough Yum a on a prospecting trip. TheArizona inspector would not permit me topass through with a jar of honey in my grubbox. I guess they figure a rockhound hasno right to eat honey on his flapjacks.

While resting one day in the shade of amesquite tree on the bank of the ColoradoI noticed bees gathering nectar, and—horrorof horrors, those bees were making a bee-line for the other side of the river as soonas they got loaded up. A law-breaker,

every one of them. F . A. MARKLEY• • •

Wildlife at Lake Ha vasu . . .Whittier, California

Dear Desert:The valuable article on Colorado river

otter in the August issue I have read withinterest.

During the latter part of the constructionperiod of Metropolitan Water district aque-duct and for several years following, I livedin Gene camp, a short distance aboveParke r dam. I was there when the gateswere closed and Lake Havasu filled.

At that time the cattle ranges and milesof brush covered desert were submerged.I made many long hikes along the west shore

as the water was rising. Early one morn-ing, along the road above the intakepumping plant I saw an animal I believeto have been an otter. It was only afleeting glimpse and I cannot be sure.

There was much wildlife in evidence dur-ing that period. The rising waters drovethe coyotes, foxes, swifts, also skunks, bad-gers and possums from their homes in theriver bottom.

Beavers are increasing in that area, andthat is the only place I ever saw a lake-traveling rattlesnake. I am confident acompetent observer who would go on footthe 16 miles between the Bill Williams riverand the Manganese works on the east shoreof the lake would find traces of otter.

That is a very isolated region. Many

wild burros and deer may be seen in season.The shore is low and rolling, there areclay banks, sandy beaches and bars muchmore suited to otter than the west shore.

PAUL J . LINSLEY

In the July issue of Desert, a news itemfrom Boulder City, stated that in the LakeMead area wild burros were competing withbig horn sheep for forage and water.

The shore line of Lake Mead is severalhund red miles in extent. It easily is thebiggest waterhole in the southwestern desert.

If it is true that the bighorn sheep andwild burros have "ganged up" around thispond and are battling each other for waterand food, it is a situation without parallelon the desert.

But perhaps I got the wrong impressionfrom the story. Most likely wh at actuallyhappened was that around some isolatedtank, far back from Lake Mead, wherethe feed temporarily was good, a conges-tion of sheep and burros occurred. I havewitnessed such a situation many times. Thelocalized rains that filled the waterhole alsoproduced green feed in the area. The wildanimals from far and wide came to thenew feed. So long as any of the green feedremained—or until rains in some othersection prompted them to leave — the

animals would stay with the best pasture.Such a temporary congestion in a desert

region does not necessarily indicate anover-stocked range. Sooner or later morerains come, then the animals scatter outover a vast country and you seldom findmore than three or four head in a place.

The desert bighorn sheep truly is a nobleanimal. No reasonable effort should bespared to preserve the few remaining bandsof them. But, too, the wild burro is alikeable creature. They have proven theirability to survive in a not too friendly en-vironment. If there is no organized cam-paign to exterminate them they will con-tinue to roam the deserts of the Southwestfor the balance of time.

Otter occasionally are seen along thesection of Colorado river between Imperialdam and Blythe, California. I saw onenear the mouth of Yuma wash not long ago.Fishermen have reported having seen ananimal "big as a beaver but with a roundtail." Fish carcasses, on tramped-down bedsof cane or tules may be otter sign. Myopinion is that within a dozen years otteragain will be plentiful along Colorado river.

ED ROCHESTER

In Defense of the Inspectors . . .

Pasadena, CaliforniaDear Desert:

I have been much amused as well aschagrined at the recent outburst from someof your subscribers on the subject of theborder inspection.

I would like to give three cheers forF. B. Reese (August issue) who to mymind has written the only sensible letter toyou on the question. Let others, who feelas he did, write to the proper authorities,(in this case the California Department ofAgriculture), to find out the "raison d'etre"instead of sounding off to a magazine whichhas no jurisdiction over the situation.

No wonder some of the inspectors de-velop an arrogant attitude if they meet withsuch mumblings and grumblings as some ofthe letters to you would indicate.

Personally, I am willing to give up a

small part of my time and effort every fewyears or so to help keep agriculture pestssuch as the boll-weevil out of the hair ofCalifornia growers.

MARY ALI CE WAUGH

Call of the Desert Wildern ess . . .

Banning, CaliforniaDear Desert:

In rummaging through some old papersI came upon the enclosed eulogy of thedesert—by an unknown author. It is writ-ten on the letterhead of Donnell's DesertHotel at 29 Palms—which dates it about 20years ago when we visited that charmingfamily. It reads:

"THE DESERT! Mighty kingdom ofthe blazing sun— land of romance andadventure— a fascinating mystical realmwhere vagrant winds waft the perfumeof scented sage over the creeping dunes.Countless years have fled, but fewpeople have glimpsed the true soul ofthe desert. Once you really know it,no power on earth can keep you fromit. Its magic spell will follow you tothe ends of the earth and you will hearits call. Whe n blue stars climb highabove the panting crags and the roguishmoon steals from out her nest behindthe blue mountain range a gentle rustlefloats on the cooling night breeze— theair is vibrant— night has come— an dthen the desert's children are at play."If any of your readers recognize the

passage and know the name of the authorI will appreciate this information.

C. G. GILLESPIE

New M ex ico 's H ighest P ea k . . .Banning, California

My dear Randall:In the current D M there looks like a

bit of confusion in the note about NewMexico's new high spot. Wheeler peak,13,151, is touted above South Truchasby 51 feet—but we musn't overlook NorthTruchas, which for years, and as recentlyas Dec. 14, 1937, was named by the U. S.Geological Survey as the tallest thing inNew Mexico, with stature of 13,306. Or

have later computations shorn North Tru-chas of her crowning glory?TOM HUGHES

Friend Tom: The New Mexico StateTourist bureau reports: "About theonly information the Geological Sur-vey has to go on concerning the altitudeof the Truchas peaks is a pencilednotation in a copy of Bulletin 27 4which says: 'North Peak 13,306, SouthPeak 13,140 and Truchas Peak 13,275/This penciled notation has the wrongaltitude for each of the three Truchaspeaks, so the survey men will soon bescouring the area with altimeter, transitand all the necessary equipment tocorrect elevations and altitudes."

—R.H.

• • •This Wa s a n Ex chang e D e a l . . .

Monrovia, CaliforniaDear Desert:

Isn't there some error in your referenceto the jackrabbit homesteaders taking upgovernment land in Section 36 in the Coa-chella valley area of California? By act ofcongress sections 16 and 36 in every town-site are school lands, granted to the state,and available only by purchase from thestate.

LEWIS L. BUCKAnsw ering the question raised by

Reader Buck, Paul Witmer, acting man-ager of the Bureau of Land Manage-ment in Los Angeles has written Des-ert's staff as follows: "When Township5S, Range 5E was surveyed, Section 36was withdrawn from the San JacintoForest reserve. The State then selectedland in another township. Later Section36 was restored to entry."

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DESERT MOONRISE

By WHEELER FORD NEWMAN

San Pedro, California

A friend goes with me to a quiet landWhere we shall wait in silence for the dusk,When full the desert moon ascends the skyAnd spreads its glow until the rippled dunesStir in their shadows and lie still again,Entangled and supine,

Then guardedlyI shall put subtle questions to my friendUntil at last it is revealed to meThe forms he sees, the sounds he dimly

hears,The dreams that stir and grope and struggle

freeTo walk the dunes, enchanted.

Thus shall IBe able to arrive at mine own stateAnd weigh and judge and at the last decideBeyond all doubt if I retain the giftTo hear and feel and see the mystic things—Music and forms eternal—that evolveOut of vast shadows as the desert moon,Full to a perfect roundness, sweeps the skyClear of all stars except a chosen few,And on the captive dunes lays such a spellThat life becomes an unimportant phase,

But Life Beyond, a vast reality.

MOJAVE MEADOWS

By CH ESNEY W. CARVERPasadena, California

Beyond a green expanse,The lofty mountains stand

Above great cottonwoodsThat bound the meadow land.

Old Baldy, robed in whiteThat winter tempests bring,

Exalts the lovelinessOf each returning spring.

To lush and smiling fieldsMojave's waters flow,But pass the barren sands

In secret depths below.

Near by, bleak mesas yearnFor rest from parching heat,

And yet endure to guardThe meadows at their feet.

Where herds of cattle grazeIn sleek and vast content,

Here peace is pledged anewAs blissful hours are spent.

THE DESERT

By ENOLA CHAMBERLIN

Los Alamitos, California

It is a place of cactus, rock and sage;Of violent rain, and heat and bitter cold;Of winds that tear the land as if in rage;Of peaceful dawns, of sunsets red and bold.

It is a place of distance and of pain;Of dried up springs; of short and sullen

shade;Of death where a mirage had left no stain,When closeness caused its trees and lakes to

fade.

It is a place where man must work and fightTo tear a living from its grudging breast;It is a place of passions hot and white;A place that is a promise and a quest.

Tt is a place where white stars lonely broodBeneath a sky far-reaching and immense;If is a place of solemn solitude—And yet I love it with a love intense.

Photo by George M. Ames• • •

MaantideBy LOUISA SPRENGER AMESCoachella Valley, California

Wash me in desert moonlight

That lies on the breast of the sea,And all of the dusty worries

Will slip from the heart of me.Here in the silvered silence

Lulled by the swish of the seaThere is cleansing and peace and wisdom

Enough for the world and me.• • •

GRAIN OF SAND

By PAUL WILHELMThousand Palms, California

Who seeks perfection in this landNeed not search beyond the sand,The mystery of this desert landIs held within a grain of sand.

* 7 a

By TANYA SOUTH

Do not despair, oh, weeping heart,At best life is so short.Too soon shall fate new things impart.Where is your inner fortOf strength and courage and of TruthTo breast your grief and doubt?The weaker only seek the smooth.Then drive your sorrows out!Whate'er they are, death shall eraseToo soon, too soon, life's priceless

place.Then carry on! And let nor time,

Nor fate, nor grief, nor hate andgrime,Keep you from progress, and the rightTo wrest from life a clearer light.

HEART OF THE DESERT

By M ILDRED C. TALLANTGlendale, California

Like a wounded heart,Low-pulsed, and wise through pain,The desert shrinks from the acrid smartOf garish worldliness and gain.Sun-shriven sands, in weathered sheets with-

holdFrom view, its jasper fire and virgin gold.

Like a valiant heart,It lays bright paths for spring,And draws vermilion hues apartFrom evening's cloud-spun folds, to flingA crimson cape across its cooling breast,Aware that ardor reaps the foil of rest.

Like a burning heartThat finds no sure response,The desert practices the subtle artOf feigning joy. Lone bluffs ensconceWith sun-gleaned bars of copper fused with

rose,Their saffron slopes that wane to gray

repose.

Like a pulsing heart,

It knows the breath of stars.It touches with a poignant dart,And purifies all thought that marsThe mind. And he who hears its melic

voice,Will make its test and teaching his, through

choice.

DESERT JOURNEY

By ANNA M. PRIESTLEYSan Diego, California

Life seldom offers such a perfect dayAs that on which good friends were desert-

bound.Over the magic mountains and awayThe highway, bordered with wild lilac,

wound.There was a meadow, spread with cloth of

gold,Patterned with poppies by a gracious sun;And lupins, with the power to catch and

holdThe sky's own blue, said summer was begun.

Then down we dropped to meet the wasteof sand

That has repelled invasion through theyears;

A brooding silence wraps this hostile land,Safeguarded by a host of cruel spears.Yet, even in this harsh, unfriendly place,Frail beauty still presumes to show its face.

DESERT CONTENTMENT

By KATHRYN AINSWORTH GROVERAlhambra, California

Northwest lie the Last Chance mountains,To the south runs Cottonwood Creek,With my shack unseen,Tucked down between,Of sun-cooked pumice brick.

There's the low soft breeze of the morning,And the hot-rock sun of noon,While a tumbleweedThat the wind has freedDances by to my fiddle tune.

On a twilight summer evening,

Never miss those friendly chats,In my stocking feetMy world's completeI'm the King of Sagebrush Flats.

26 THE DESERT MAGAZINE



on 'De&ent

ARIZONA Courthouse to H o t e l . . .

. . .

ST. MICHAELS—Navajo gathered from

and Oak Springs late in July to sayto Rev. Anselm Sippel, O. F. M.,of St. Michaels Mission and friend

The People during 17 years of servicethe Franciscan left for

at Louisville, Kentucky, Henryhim with a large Navajo

g in the name of the tribe. A great bar-of mutton was held in the missionand the Navajo performed chantsa huge fire.— Gallup Independent.

• • •

for the Medicine Men . . .

MOENCOPI—When 10 Hopi children re-to the reservation after a two week

in Southern California, the special

of sea water. The water will beby medicine men in tribal ceremonies.

he 10 Hopis and 10 Navajo children wereof the American Friends Service com-

of them had seen the oceanbut most were finally persuaded tothe surf, according to Mrs. Guy

who accompanied them.— Coco-Sun.

• • •

P la n B u d g e t . . .

WHITER1VER — The White Mountainhas worked out its own an-

for the first time this year, withof $147,845 to be drawn

tribal funds. Previously, the councilfor

specific purpo se. Before a tribal consti-was adopted in 1938, all income was

in the treasury and could not beby act of Congress. Since

the council collects its own in-it in an Arizona bank and

its own funds.— Tucson Citizen.

• • •

e w S p e e d S y s t e m S e t . . .

YUMA—The state highway commissions set a schedule of speed limits between

and Gila Bend based for the firston what department engineers have

etermined are safe speeds. Top limitsary between 45 miles per hour to 60 bya y and 50 by night with two stretcheshere drivers are limited to "reasonable andrudent" speed, which means more than 60

miles an hour if there is little traffic and per-ect conditions, less under less favorable

cond itions. Similar zoning will be estab-lished on all highways.— Yuma Sun.

• • •

Park Service Takes Hance Ranch . . .

G R A N D C A N Y O N — Historic Hanceranch, last privately owned land on the EastRim drive, has been purchased by the na-tional park service from Mrs. Eva Buggelin

oss, long-time Grand Canyon resident. The160 acre ranch was taken up by Captain

John Hance in 1883. Hance operated thefirst tourist camp and first tourist guideservice into the canyon. His log cabin, firstto be built on the rim of Grand Canyon,still stands and the park service expects topreserve it.— Gallup Independent.

TOMBSTONE—In a transaction report-edly involving $750,000, the old Tombstone

court house was leased to J. E. Goldmanof NewYork for 30 years. W. L. Lombardiand Albert Kazal, who leased the building,had been working to convert it to a 60room hotel. Goldman announced the hotelwould be ready for guests by January 1.Plans call for use of the old jail house asa dining room, and the courtyard wherefive men were hanged at once in the earlydays as an outside lounge for guests.—Tombstone Epitaph.

o • •

Teachers for the Navajo . . .

WINDOW ROCK — George A. Boyce,director of Navajo education, wants teachersfor "the most challenging educational serv-ice in the United States." All locations are

isolated, mostly two-teacher schools deep inthe Indian reservation, all near trading

posts. Persons with two years of collegema y be appointed for the year. Pay is$2498 per year including one month vaca-tion, two weeks cumulative sick leave, andone month educational leave subject to ap-proval. Many of the children for whomschools are available will receive no educa-tion unless vacancies are filled.— HolbrookTribune-News.

• • •

Huachucct to G a m e C o m m i s s i o n . . .

FT . HUACHUCA— The War Assets ad-ministration has accepted an applicationfrom the Arizona game and fish commis-sion for this old frontier army post south-west of Tombstone. The commission willestablish the state game farm, now locatedat Pima, at Huachuca and the range at thepost will be stocked with turkey and ante-lope. A public camp ground is includedin plans and fish rearing ponds may bebuilt and stocked.—San Pedro Valley News.

e • •

Flood in Brig ht Ang e l . . .

BRIGHT ANGEL LODGE—The Nor thRim of the Grand Canyon was without elec-tric power, water and sewage after a violent

storm on August 6 sent water cascadingdown Bright Angel canyon. The flood

HEALTHFUL, QU IET

DESERT LIFE

NEAR PALM SPRINGS, CALIF,

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HIKES to the Cathedra l - l ike da te gardens .

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T H E D 6 S C R T T R A D I N G P O S TClassified advertising in this section costs 7 cents a word, $1.00 minimum per issue

INDIAN GOODS

ALWAYS THE BEST in Indian things. Old and

new Navajo rugs a specialty. Fine jewelry andbaskets . Our thirty tons of rocks and mineralsinclude many hard to get items. Always wel-come. Daniels Indian Trading Post, 401 W.Foothill Blvd., Fontana, Calif.

4 VERY FINE ancient Indian Arrowheads $1.00,4 tiny perfect bird arrowheads $1.00. 1 AncientStone Tomahawk $1.00. 2 Flint SkinningKnives $1.00. 1 large Flint Hoe $1.00. 2Spearheads $1.00. 10 Arrowheads from 10states $1.00. 20 Damaged Arrowheads $1.00.10 Fish Sealers, $1.00. 10 Hide Scrapers $1.00.4 Perfect Saw Edged arrowheads $1.00. Theabove 11 offers $10.00. Postpaid . List free.Lear 's , Kirby, Arkansas.

WANTED TO BUY: Old Indian buttons, anynumber, from one button to an entire col-lection. Please write or bring them in. Alsowanted abalone shell buttons with metalshank. Hall's Silver Button Shop, Agua Cal-iente Springs, Julian, Calif.

PREHISTORIC INDIAN RELICS—Ten arrows$1.00. State wants. Sample arrow 10c. Ken-neth Mayhall, Belmont, Miss.

SELLING my entire collection: Coins, Car-tridges, Indian Relics, South Sea Souvenirs,Shells, Minerals, Fossils, Rocks and manyother items—PRICED RIGHT. Write or comean d see my collection. No calls Sunday. Rev.David Champion, 11775 Idaho Ave., West LosAngeles 25, Calif.

RARE INDIAN RELICS—Dance masks, rattles,necklaces, concha belts, costumes, war bon-nets, blankets, pipes, tomahawks, spears, ar-rowheads, Yumas, Folsoms, also antique flint-lock and percussion guns, swords, daggers,mounted Texas longhorns. Send want list forquotation. I also buy and exchange. P. L.Summers, Stamford, Texas.

BOOKS—MAGAZINES

BOOKFINDERS—Scarce, out of print, unusualbooks quickly supplied. Send wants. Clifton,Box 1377d, Beverly Hills, Calif.

"GOLD PANNING FOR PROFIT." Heal thy,profitable occupation. Begin ners' big illus-trated instruction book, $1.00. Desert Jim,627 Lillian, Stockton, California.

USED BOOKS priced by year, 29c-98c O942-1947) Free booklist. Ireland Book and LibraryService, 549 E. Poppyfields Drive, Altadena,California.

REAL ESTATE

DESERT RANCHOS—In "Wonder Beit" areasix miles from Palm Springs. Incomparableview of desert and complete panorama ofmountains. Five to twenty acre ranches.Nothine in common with ordinary subdivi-sions. Emphasis on people who want naturaldesert beauty and space for true ranch life

with riding horses, citrus and date groves.Hard roads, power, and water from 700-ft.well. Reasonable prices. Address C. A. Bar-re t t , P. O. Box 16, Palm Desert, California.

DESERT ACREAGE in beautiful CoachellaValley near Palm Springs. Excellent sub-division and homesites with date palms andgrapefruit trees in abundance. See JimBishop. Office one mile west of Indio onPalm Springs Highway. P. O. Box 324 Indio.Phone 7-2214.

A FEW CHOICE homesites left near Alpine;abundance of water, good soil, grand view,healthiest climate in the U. S. according togovernment report. $650 per acre, $850 peracre with developed water system. WatchOcotillo, ideal Desert Resort, grow! 26 mileswest of El Centro, California, on highway 80.Residence and business lots 100x100 withwater, $200 up. Acreage $100 per acre up.John C. Chalupnik, Ocotillo, via Plaster City,Calif.

MOST BEAUTIFUL RETREAT on Volcan Moun-tain. 70 acres seclusion with virgin timber,living spring, inspiring views. 4000 elevation.Few minutes from desert or Henshaw Lake.Five room house. Modern plumbing. $8,600.Thelma R. Anderson, Warner Springs, Cali-fornia. P hone Jackson 9144 San Diego.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

GIFT SHOP FOR SALE—Long established suc-

cessful business. Located across the road fromth e new DESERT MAGAZINE plant in beau-tiful Palm Village. Lease has two years torun, can be renewed. Unparalleled location fora gem and mineral business. Modern buildingincludes a mail order date list of more than1000 names. Fine opportunity for anyone whoknows the gift shop, tourist, mail order, gemand mineral business. Small cash outlayhandles. Write to Box Q, c-o DESERT MAG-AZINE, Palm Desert, Calif. Key at DESERTMAGAZINE office.

AMETHYST MINE FOR SALE—For price ofassessment work done and cost of machinefor taking out dirt. Box 403, Windsor, Colo.

SALE OR LEASE—Black Mammoth Gold Mine,Manhattan, Nevada, owned by the late Dr.H. G. Clinton, in operation before the war.Adjoins Gold Metals mine which is in opera-tion. Other operating mines nearby. 5 claims,2 furnished houses, 4 cabins, blacksmith

shop, garage. Only mining men with capitalneed answer. Would consider income propertyin trade if in California, Nevada or Arizona.Inez Lewis, Manhattan, Nevada.

MISCELLANEOUS

CACTI AND SUCCULENTS—From the desertsof the world. Don-Rita brand. By appointmentonly. Write us your needs and we will try tohelp you. Michael Donnelly Cacti Gardens,334 Lowell St., Daly City, Calif.

LEARN the profitable Jewelry and goldsmithingtrade at home. Simplified course teachesjewelry designing, manufacture and repairing;gemsetting, etc. Gemcrafters, Dept. F., Kali-spell, Mont.

GENUINE CALIFORNIA GOLD: One nice nug-get $1.00, four nuggets $2.00. Desert Jim,627 Lillian, Stockton, California.

COLOR SLIDES—Travel, Nature, Geology, etc.Free list (with sample 30c, three for dollar).Kelly D. Choda, Box 5, Los Alamos, NewMexico.

FRED AND JESSIE PORTER welcome you tothe "Pow-Wow" Trading Post, Yermo, 14miles east of Barstow, Hiway 91. Rocks!Rocks! Rocks! Rocks in the rough, slabbed,preforms and cabochons. Fluorescent and rarespecimens. Caledonite, Linerite, Benitotte, Nep-tunite and many others. See your own cut.Gifts and Souvenirs.

FOR SALE—Karakul wool bed blankets, colors,blue, green, natural and maroon. Money backguarantee. Price $17.50. Write Addis Kelley,4637 E. 52nd Place, Maywood, Calif.

KARAKULS. Producers of Persian Lamb furare easy to raise, adaptable to any climateor altitude. For further information write

Addis Kelley, 4637 E. 52nd Place, Maywood,Calif.

METEORITES WANTED, iron or stone, highestprices. Stuart Perry, Adrian, Mich.

FOR SALE OR TRADE—Radarlight, nearlynew, cost $12.50. Make me offer. Al Thrower,Box 305, Santa Cruz, Calif.

SPARKLING Kodachrome slides of desert andWestern States. Start a color slide collectionnow. Send for free list or 50c for sampleslide and list. Colorslide Agency, Post OfficeBox 508, North Hollywood, Calif.

BEAGLE PUPPIES — The ideal pet and com-panion for the Desert. Hinterlands Kennels,Et iwanda, Calif.

ONE FRIGIDAIRE Air Conditioning Unit, ModelSRA-50, new, $275.00 FOB. Kenneth Mayhall,Belmont, Miss.

SCR-625 Mine Detectors. For gold and othermetallic locations. Price, complete, tested,$54.95 FOB. Kenneth Mayhall, Belmont, Miss.

SILVERY DESERT HOLLY. Likes sunshine;rich, porous soil; salt. One dollar postpaid.Desert Plant Nursery, Rancho Mirage, Indio,California.

PANNING GOLD—Another hobby for Rock-hounds and Desert Roamers. Know how topan gold, where to look for it and be able torecognize valuable quartz ledges. The placesyou go are where rich virgin ground is found.Two instruction booklets 25c or send yourname for free literature and catalogue ofmining books and supplies for beginners.Old Prospector, Box21-B159, Dutch Flat, Calif.

GEOLOGIC & SCENIC color slides for Educa-tional Entertainm ent. Catalog Free. Heald-Robinson, Dept 2, 112 E. Lemon Ave., Mon-rovia, Calif.

WATER WIZARD, "Water Dowser" Malarky?N o ! "It isn't, but it is! It can't be done! Buthere it is!" I can find water in mountain ordesert where subterranean channels, lakes orsprings exist. LIQUID WHITE GOLD. In-formation, write "WATER WIZARD" 918 Le-land St., San Pedro, Calif.

LOOK—15 assorted foreign coins—$1.00. 100stamps 50c. R. Reynolds, Niland, Calif.

CALIFORNIA CACTUS—With pictures of everynative species. 96 pages, 84 illustrations, p aperbound book, $2.00 postpaid. Edg ar B axter,lone, California.

STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MAN-AGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIR-ED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OFAUGUST 24, 1912, AS AMENDED BY THEACTS OF MARCH 3, 1933, AND JULY 2, 1946

Of DESERT MAGAZINE, published monthly at

Palm Desert, California, for October, 1948.State of California, County of Riverside, ss.Before me, a notary public in and for the

State and county aforesaid, personally appearedRandall Henderson, who, having been dulysworn according to law, deposes and says thathe is the Editor of the Desert Magazine andthat the following is, to the best of hisknowledge and belief, a true statement of theownership, management (and if a daily, weekly,semiweekly or triweekly newspaper, the circu-lation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for thedate shown in the above caption, required byth e act of August 24, 1912, as amended by theacts of March 3, 1933, and July 2, 1946 (section5 3 7 , Postal Laws and Regulations), printed onthe reverse of this form, to wit:

1. That the names and addresses of the pub-lisher, editor, managing editor, and businessmanager are:

Publisher Randall Henderson, Palm Desert,California.

Editor, same.Managing editor, same.Business manager, Bess Stacy, Palm Desert,California.2 . That the owner is: (If owned by a corpora-

tion, its name and address must be stated andalso immediately thereunder the names and ad-dresses of stockholders owning or holding onepercent or more of total amount of stock. If notowned by a corporation, the names and address-es of the individual owners must be given. Ifowned by a firm, company, or other unincor-porated concern, its name and address, as wellas those of each individual member, must begiven.)

Desert Press Inc., Palm Desert, Calif.; LenaClements, Palm Desert, Calif.; Randall Hender-son, Palm Desert, Calif.; Clifford W. Henderson,Palm Desert, Calif.; Vera L. Henderson, LosAngeles, Calif.; Evonne Riddell, Los Angeles,Calif.; Nina Paul Shumway, Indio, Calif.; BessStacy, Palm Desert, Calif.; Lucile Weight, PalmDesert, Calif.; Phillip T. Henderson, Pasadena,Calif.

3 . That the known bondholders, mortgages,and other security holders owning or holding1 percent or more of total amount of bonds,mortgages, or other securities are: (If thereare none, so state.)

Bank of America, Indio, California.4 . That The two paragraphs above, giving

the names of the owners, stockholders, andsecurity holders, if any, contain not only thelist of stockholders and security holders as theyappear upon the books of the company butalso, in cases where the stockholder or securityholder appears upon the books of the companyas trustees or in any other fiduciary relation,the name of the person or corporation for whomsuch trustee is acting, is given; also that thesaid two paragraphs contain statements em-bracing affiant's full knowledge and belief asto the circumstances and conditions under whichstockholders and security holders who do notappear upon the books of the company astrustees, hold stock and securities in a capacityother than that of a bona fide owner; and thisaffiant has no reason to believe that any otherperson, association, or corporation has any in-terest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds,

or other securities than as so stated by him.RANDALL HENDERSON

(Signature of editor, publisher, business man-ager, or owner).Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th

day of August, 1948.(Seal) AGNES WHITT LESEY .My commission expires February 8, 1950.

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out 240 feet of the penstock of the

and cafeteria were closed to thebe made on the

Kaibab trail from the North Rimthe South Rim

Gallup Independent.• • •

Was H o t t e r . . .

YUMA— Yuma "won" in a "drip derby"17 to determine whether it,

or Phoenix was Arizona's hottestA block of ice weighing 100 pounds

in a prominent position in thein each of the three cities

t 7:30 a. m. At 7:02 p. m. Yuma's blockad melted completely. When the race was

officially over at 8:15 p. m., Phoenix hadone-half pound left and Tucson five poundsfour ounce s. Official high tem pera tures forthe day were, Yuma 110, Phoenix 109,

ucson 103 degrees.— Yuma Sun.• • •

One of the first buildings erected on theSells Papago Indian reservation, the Huishtrading post built at the turn of the century,was com pletely destroyed by fire on July 26.

•• •

Tiffany Construction company of Phoe-nix has submitted the low bid, $49,747, forimproving 30 miles of the highway southtoward Yuma from Quartzsite.

• • •After his new automobile was destroyed

in a flash flood, Orval Wise, Bumble Beeminer, bought a burro saying he neededtransportation he could depend upon.

CALIFORNIA

Another Lost Ledge . . .

RIDGECREST — When the weathercools, Angus C. Fox of Grass Valley is

going to look for a lost ledge of rose quartzand wire gold in Death Valley. Fox hasa map given to him by Gomer Richards,grandson of the Gomer Richards whofound the ledge while freighting betweenSalt Lake and Los Angeles in the earlydays. Richards, a Mormon, showed samplesto Brigham Young who advised him thatattempts to mine it would probably bringmisery and death. Richards did not lookfor the ledge again, but he gave the mapand samples to his son.— Randsburg Times.

• • •

Shrimp from M o n o . . .

MONO LAKE — Harvesting of MonoLake shrimp is under way. WaHis McPher-

son averages 1200 pounds per day and isunder contract to deliver the shrimp to theHot Creek hatchery where they are usedas a choice trout food. The shrimp are sosmall that they average only a half-inch inlength and McPherson harvests them by

locating the schools, running them downwith his launch and capturing them with afine mesh plastic net.— Randsburg Times.

• • •

Rockets Started There. . .

BARSTOW—Goldstone lake, once a des-ert mining camp 35 miles north of Barstow,has been revealed as the site of early mili-tary rocket experimentation in World War

I I . Here Dr. C. Lauritsen, Dr. Emory L.Ellis and Commander J. H. Hearn werethe first to develop, test and fire the deadlyretro rocket, used by aircraft against sub-marines. When there was not enough roomat the lake for expanding activities, the pro-ject was moved to what is now NOTS atInyokern.— Barstow Printer-Review.

Explore Tramway Tower Sites . . .

PALM SPRINGS—Exploratory work be-neath the surface of the ten sites where giantsteel towers of the San Jacinto tramwaywill be erected will start soon. Gordon Ban-nerman, chief bridge and tramway engineerfor American Steel and Wire corporation,who was in charge of surveying the tram-way route, will supervise the new work.When the subsurface examination is com-plete the contractors will have informationon which to base bids for the constructionjobs.— Palm Springs Desert Sun.

Easy Mountaineering? . . .

BISHOP — Pilot Howard Stevens ofBishop landed a borrowed plane on a hog-back at 12,100 feet elevation in the Whitemountains early in July. He had long re-garded the ridge as a possible landing spotand after circling for 30 minutes decided totry it. He landed without a scratch butwhen taking off, found he could not gener-ate enough power to taxi down the hogbackSo he flew off the edge of a sharp canyon,damaging the tail wheel in the process. Heclaims it is an easy way to travel to themountains and plans to try again in the fall.— lnyo Register.

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Scotty Was B i t t e n . . .

DEATH VALLEY—Death Valley Scotty,who says he had been bitten four or fivetimes, was struck on the thumb by a side-winder while repairing a leaky water line

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near his rancn. "Lots of darn fool ring-tails start crying and hollering and jumparound," 76-year-old Scotty declared. "Ijust reached into my pocket, pulled out thebottle of serum I carry with me, detachedthe razor blade I keep tied to it and slashedthe wound. 1 doused it with the solutionand laid down in the rear of my stationwagon." Scotty's sore thumb is said to behealing rapidly.— Inyo Register.

• • e

Cement Plant Blocked . . .

PALM SPRINGS—When Palm Springsprotested that the dust from a proposedcement plant would ruin the resort city,the Riverside county board of supervisorsvoted a zoning ordinance which outlawedheavy industry in 66 square miles of desert.The four to one vote to make the sectiona residential and recreational area was in-tended to block construction of the $10,-000,000 cement plant which S. A. Guiber-son, jr., planned at the edge of San Gorgoniopass, AVi miles from Palm Springs.— PalmSprings Desert Sun.

• • •Remove Desert Duds . . .

BLYTHE — A bomb disposal crew ofarmy engineers and civilian searchers iscompleting a cleanup of the desert areassouth of Blythe and in the Yuma section,

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finding and disposing of unexploded shells,bombs and practice mines. Captain Dono-van, in charge, warned that considerablematerial remained to be located. Findersof strange articles on the desert should nottouch them, he said, but notify the armyat once.— Palo Verde Valley Times.

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No Hunting in Mojave Area . . .

BARSTOW — Warden Leo Rossier of

Essex has revealed that regulation 712 hasclosed 10,000 square miles of desert to hunt-ing for five years. The area covered includesfrom Daggett-Yermo to the Nevada-Arizonastate line and between U. S. Highways 91and 66. The state recently has stocked thearea—especially the Providence and NewYork mountains—with deer, pheasants andother wild life.—Barstow Printer-Review.

• • •

New Well Near Mojave . . .

MOJAVE— A popular Mojave theory,that dikes blocked any large undergroundstreams from reaching the area, appearedto have been disproved by a new well fivemiles from Mojave on the Barstow road.After the drill entered granite at 367 feet,

water rushed into the pipe up to the 150-foot level, it was reported. A diesel pumpwas installed and is producing 1000 gallonsper minute with no let-up in volume.—Mojave Desert News.

• • •Sixty Navajo Indians were brought from

Window Rock to Cucamonga, California, towork in the vineyards and citrus orchards.If they like the work and are satisfactory,a permanent labor bank will be established.

• • •Engineers were puzzling over the cause

of large cracks which opened in westernCoachella valley following a recent flood.An old fault line was suspected, but thecracks might have been caused by land set-tling due to lowering of the water table, it

was reported.

NEVADA

H ow OurFathers Lived . . .

FALLON—Deputy Clerk and TreasurerPhil York, in the process of refiling courtrecords which are dated as far back as1903, found the following items on a storeproperty list filed in 1908: 18 bottles ofconsumption cure, five bottles of hivesyrup, two bottles of pain killer, 10 bottlesof nature juice, 17 cans of gall cure, onepackage of horse medicine, nine bottles ofcatarrh cure and 11 bottles of cherry tonic.— Falton Standard.

• • •

Gold Camp Lawyer Dies . . .

RENO—Judge John Adams Sanders, for18 years a justice of the Nevada supremecourt, died in Reno in August, age 82.Sanders established offices in Goldfield in1904 and was one of the colorful group ofmining men, lawyers, business men andpromoters whoboomed the camps of Gold-field, Tonopah, Rhyolite, Manhattan andSilver Peak. His speech, "The Prospector,"given at the 1909 session of the AmericanMining congress still is quoted by miningmen.—Tonopah Times-Bonanza.

• • •

Paved Road toLehman Caves . . .

BAKER—The new oiled highway from

Baker to Lehman Caves national monu-ment was scheduled for dedication Sep-tember 5 at the caves, with dancing, enter-tainment and a free trip through the un-derground caverns. Lehman Caves, previous-ly reached only over rough roads, were dis-




Ely Record.

• • •Simplify Lake Mead Fishing . . .

CARSON CITY — A bill to establish

n Janua ry. At present anglers fish-

Humboldt Star.

Sagehen Hunting Barred . . .CARSON CITY—There will be no sage-

hen hunting in the state of Nevada during1948. Elko, Pershing, Lincoln and WhitePine counties had set a tentative season fortwo Sundays in August, but further investi-gation of the state's dwindling sagehenpopulation reportedly decided them to fol-low the action of other county game man-agement boards and close their seasons forthis year.— Caliente Herald.

e e •The Rattler Carries a Punch . . .

TONOPAH—How fatal is the bite of arattlesnake? The debated question was re-vived with the death of a Hereford bullbelonging to the Fallini brothers of TwinSprings. The big animal, weighing three-quarters of a ton, was struck by a medium-sized rattlesnake and died in a few minutes,so quickly that the bite did not have timeto swell. Hot weather and the fact that thebull was moving was believed to have con-tributed to the rapid action of the poison.—Tonopah Times-Bonanza.

New Hours at Hoover Dam . . .BOULDER CITY—A new schedule of

visiting hours went into effect at Hoover

TRUE OR FALSE ANSWERSQuestions are on page 24

1—False. No part of the GreatAmerican Desert is without oc-casional rainfall.

2—True. 3—True. 4—True.5—F alse. Wh ile Ube hebe is believed

to have erupted within the last1000 years, the date is unknown.

6—False. Native palm trees are evi-dence of water close to the sur-

face.7—False. Grand Canyon national

park is entirely in Arizona.8—False. The White Mou ntain Apa-

ches derive most of their incomefrom cattle.

9—False. The blossom of datura iswhite.

10—True.11—False. Chee Dodge was a Navajo

chief.12—False. The sidewinder prefers

sand dunes.13—True. 14—True.15—False. The Great White Throne

is Zion national park.16—False. Cumpfires on Desert and

Lava is about the Pinacate regionjust south of the border in So-nora, Mexico.

17—True. 18—True. 19—True. 20—True.

dam August 16, according to C. P. Christ-ensen, power director. Guided tours throughthe huge structure will be available from 8a. m. to 5 p. m. daily, but the practice ofallowing visitors to go through the dam until9:30 p . m. has been discontinued.— NeedlesStar.

• • •

The Wheels Are Back . . .

CARSON CITY—The brass canon whichCaptain John C. Fremont abandoned 104years ago near Sonora pass on the Cali-fornia border, while on an exploring expe-dition, has been assembled again in theNevada state museum in Carson City. Thecanon was found and taken to Glenbrook,Nevada, where the wheels were installed ona hay wagon. The canon was finally givento the museum but the wheels only rejoinedit on August 20 when they were removedfrom their hiding place near Tahoe City,California— Salt Lake City Tribune.

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Drouth Evacuates Cattle ...

BEATTY—An extended drouth, aggra-vated by an unusually cold winter and a

torrid summer, is forcing Beatty ranchersto evacuate their cattle to keep them fromstarving to death. Shipments have been madeto Warm Springs, Nevada, and Cortez, Col-orado, and only the ranchers who are ableto irrigate their land have survived thedrouth, called the worst in 30 years, with-out loss. Even Beatty's water supply hasbeen affected and it has been necessary toopen several new wells.— Beatty Bulletin.

• • •

Fire in Tuscarora . . .

ELKO—Buildings in the silver camp ofTuscarora, 50 miles northwest of Elko,which have been landmarks since the boomdays of the '70s and '80s, were destroyedAugust 4 in a fire caused by a defective

chimney. The flames leveled four buildingsand damaged a fifth before being broughtunder control. Among the buildings burnedwere the old Tuscarora express office andthe No. 2 fire station— Pioche Record.

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united to blast army demands that the WhiteSands proving ground be expanded 1,500,-000 acres. Interior departmen t representa-tives returned to Washington to study thetestimony. A decision by Interior SecretaryKrug was expected within 60 days.— SantaFe New Mexican.

W a s H e Billy the Kid? . . .

RAM AH —Press stories that Billy the K idis alive recalled the conviction of local resi-dents that John Miller, a rancher who set-tled in the area in the '80s with his Mexicanwife, was the notorious outlaw. Those whopassed the Miller place at any time of nightfound him in the doorway, fully dressedand with his guns strapped on. A manknown as Billy Meadows, himself suspectedof using an alias, identified Miller as theKid and then precipitously sold his ranchand left the country. When asked by neigh-bors, with whom he retained peaceful rela-tions, if he were Billy, Miller's only retortw a s : "Billy the Kid will outlive some ofyou." Miller reportedly died in the Globe,Arizona, area in the '30s.— Gallup Inde-pendent.

• • •

Indians Can Vote . . .

SANTA FE—A three-judge federal courthas ruled invalid and void a section of theNew Mexico constitution which bars "In-dians not taxed" from voting, and issued apermanent injunction prohibiting enforce-ment of the constitutional provision. Thedecision gives New Mexico reservation andPueblo Indians otherwise qualified the rightto vote. The bureau of Indian affairsestimated th at the ruling would affect 15,900

Indians in New Mexico and that a similarArizona decision would add 25,500 votersto the rolls in that state.— Santa Fe NewMexican.

• • •Old Post Changes Hands . . .

MANUELITO—The Mike Kirk tradingpost, one of the oldest in the Navajo country,has been purchased by John Wall from JohnKirk, jr., and Tom Kirk. The Manu elitostore was opened in 1881 by S. E. Aldrich,

who had just completed a hitch in the armyat St. Johns . Mike Kirk took over the store25 years ago and operated it until his deathin 1942.—Gallup Independent.

• • •Early Population Large . . .

GRANTS—A brief survey of an areasouth of Grants by Ed Dittert and RayRuppe, University of New Mexico studentanthropologists, uncovered 52 ruins of In-dian villages on 3'/i sections of land . Th enumber of ruins indicated, it was said, thatthe Indian population of New Mexico be-tween 1250 and 1350 A. D. was as great asthe total population of the state today.—Gallup Independent.

• • •

Returns to Pueblo Agen cy . . .ALBUQUERQUE—Former Indian Com-

missioner William A. Brophy has returnedto his old job as special attorney for theUnited Pueblos agency in Albuquerque.Brophy was commissioner from 1945 untilJune, 1948, when he resigned because of hishealth. From 1933 to 1942 the interior de-partment retained him as legal adviser toSouthwest Indians. William Zimmerman,jr., is acting commissioner of Indian affairs.— Santa Fe New Mexican.

D E S E R T

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5bede>dPkotai Wanted...Every month Desert Magazine holds a contest for its photographer

rea de rs, with cas h prizes for the winners. The type of cam era orreputation of the photographer plays no part in selection of the prizepictures—every contestant, amateur or professional, has an equalcha nce . The picture most suitable for reproduction or most originalin treatment of a de sert subject w ill win.

Entries for this month's contest must be in the Desert Magazineoffice. Palm Desert, California, by October 20 and winning printswill app ear in the Decem ber issu e. Pictures which arrive too late forone m onth's contest are entered in the next. First prize is $10; secon dprize, $5. For non-winning pictures accepted for publ icat ion , $3 eachwill be paid.

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3—PRINTS WILL BE RETURNED ONLY WHEN RETURN POSTAGE ISENCLOSED.

4—AH entries must be in the Desert Magazine office by the 20th of thecontest month.

5—Contests are open to both amateur and professional photographers.Desert Magazine requires first publication rights only of prize winning pictures.

6—Time and place of photograph are immaterial, except that it must befrom the desert Southwest.

7—Judges will be selected from Desert's editorial staff, and awards wil lbe made immediately after the close of the contest each month.

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Oren Arnold tells the story of theUniversity of Arizona's "on-the-job"archeology training at Point of Pines

in "Winning a Degree—the Pick andShovel Wa y." Oren, who has appearedin Desert many times in the past, iscredited with hundreds of articleswhich have appeared in the SaturdayEvening Post, Colliers, and other lead-ing American magazines. His twelfthbook "Sun In Your Eyes," a collectionof Southwestern facts and fables pub-lished by the University of New M exicopress, is selling widely. Ore n, in fact,has reached that dream world of thewriter—winters in Phoenix, summerson the California coast.

• • •Hollywood does some amazing thingson location. Joyce Muench thoughtthe story of what happened "WhenTombstone Came to Monument Val-ley," as Harry Goulding told it, wasso enjoyable that it should be sharedwith Desert readers. And, of course,Josef Muench took the pictures. Th ehighly successful Muench & Muenchcombination of writing and photo-graphy started as a hobby. And theMuenches, who live in Santa Barbara,still head for the Southwestern desertswhen a vacation comes along.

• • •Readers who admire Jerry Lauder-milk's striking pen and ink illustrations,such as those in "They Left TheirPrints in Stone," which will appearshortly in Desert Magazine, will not besurprised to learn that he once was aprofessional artist whose work was col-lected by notables. They may wonderwhether he was right in transferring hisinterests to archeology, chemistry, an-thropology, geology, ballistics, writingand lecturing—with art as a side issue.But Jerry is happy finding the unexpect-ed stories which lie behind the face of

commonplace facts, and in poking aninvestigating finger into the unknown.

• • •Lewis W. Walker is an ardent natur-

alist, photographer and desert explorer.Readers probably will remember himbest for his kit fox picture on the coverof the January, 1947, Desert. Walker'sgreatest interest lies in Lower Cali-fornia and the gulf. Sometimes his in-vestigations take unexpected turns. Ona trip from Yuma down the Colorado,Walker 's boat was so damaged whencaught in the tidal bore that the partyreached safety only after seven hoursof ceaseless bailing. "Fre ak T ree ofthe Peninsula," telling the story ofsome of Lower California's strangevegetation, will be published soon.




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• • •UTAH

Angle for Ancient Fish . . .

VERNAL—Dr. D. H. Dunkle of the

Nationa l museum, Washington, D. C , andDr. Bob Schaeffer of the Museum of Na-tural History, New York, are studying thefossils of 50,000,000-year-old fish of theGreen River formation of the Uintah basin.The scientists, leaders in their field, plan tocompare the fish of the Utah oil shales withthose found at Fossil, Wyoming, and tostudy the growth patterns which the fossilfish disclose.— Vernal Express.

• • •Blasts in Lake B onn evil le.. .

DUGWAY P ROVI NG GROUNDS —The U. S. army engineers previewed theirexplosion tests in the desert southwest ofSalt Lake by detonating 2560-pound chargesof TN T July 27. The explosions, planned to

furnish information on construction likelyto be really protective under attacks withthe destructive force of modern bombs, willbe climaxed in November when 320,000-pound charges of TNT will be set off.—Salt Lake City Tribune.

• • •Wheat Seed From H ea ve n. . .

TOOELE — A forage-depleted area inSkull valley, 25 miles south and west ofTooele has been selected for Utah's firstseed-pellet plantin g by air. Some time inOctober or November, crested wheat grassand possibly Indian rice will be dropped inlittle brown pellets from airplanes, in anattempt to halt accelerating erosion.— SaltLake City Tribune.

• • •They See Their G eo log y. . .

SALT LAK E CITY— Geology students ina summer course at the University of Utahare learning the structure of the state byseeing it. The group , taught by ProfessorNorman C. Williams, has spent a week inthe Uintah mountains with earlier excursionsto House mountains, Topaz mountains, Bigand Little Cottonwood canyons and otherlocalities. The course will be concludedwith an eight-day inspection tour of thegeology of southern Utah. Students do alltheir own cooking and camp tending andcarry sleeping bags. — Salt Lake CityTribune.

• • •

Study Uintah Indians . . .WHITEROCKS—From headquarters at

Whiterocks, Dr. Florence Hawley and agroup of anthropologists from the Universityof New Mexico are studying ancient andmodern Uintah basin Indian cultures. Theywill attempt to find the relationship of theearly inhabitants to present-day Utes andother Indian tribes of the Southwest. Dataregarding adaption of the Utes to modernconditions, and their government and sociallife will be collected.— Vernal Express.

• • •Romance o f Fremont I s land . . .

SALT LAKE CITY—Soon Blanche Wen-ner plans to place a plaque on the newlybuilt cairn over the lonely grave of her par-ents on Fremont Island in Great Salt Lake.The U. J. Wenners came to Fremont in1885, because of Wenner's failing health. In1891, in the midst of a raging storm, Wen-ner died, and with the help of a hired hand,

his wife buried him in a home made coffin.When Mrs. Wenner died in 1943, her daugh-ter buried her ashes beside the grave of herhusband, as the mother wished.— Salt LakeCity Tribune.

• • •

U t a h P r o m is e d P o w e r . . .

SALT LAKE CITY—The Utah water andpower board has approved the Coloradoriver upper states compact agreed upon re-cently at a conference in Vernal. The bureauof reclamation estimated that under theagreement water supplies for 251,780 acresof new land, supplemental water for 161,-160 acres of land and power facilities togenerate 5,383,000,000 kilowatt hours an-nually will come to Utah. On the basis of1940 costs, the bureau figured the wholedevelopment would run to $930,142,000.—Salt Lake City Tribune.

• • •

Rangely Pipe Line Bu ildi ng ...

MOAB—The 10-inch crude oil pipelinebeing built from Rangely, Colorado, to SaltLake City was reported 30 per cent com-plete in Augu st. The rout e of the line lies

across the prairie country of the Uintahbasin, into Wolf Creek pass and across theWasa tch mo untain s. Sixty-five per cent ofthe right-of-way has been cleared and 50miles of pipe are in the ground. When theproject is completed, about November 1, amaintenance patrol will be established, andthe possibility of doing this work by airplaneis being considered . •— Moab Times-Inde-pendent.

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U ta h J ee p P o s s e . . .

BOUNTIFUL CITY — Bountiful Cityclaims the world's first jeep posse. Thisgroup of 23 of the versatile little cars wasorganized by the town's Lion's club and ison hand whenever the fire chief, citymarshal, sheriff or forestry service calls.The posse has gone on blizzard rescues, fol-lowed forgotten trails to fight forest fires,hauled out hunters trapped by snowslides,and located crashed planes on isolatedmountain sides. The members of the groupserve without pay.— Salt Lake City Tribune.

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m i n t sA j o , Arizona .. .

The Ajo district, with 30,477 ounces,led Arizona in production of gold in 1947,according to figures of the bureau of mines.Ajo was third in copper production, being

preceded by Morenci and Globe-Miami.Value of metals produced at Ajo was $22,-255,414. Morenci mined metals worth $62,-901,140; Globe-Miami, $38,561,737; andBisbee $20,599,396. Bisbee led in produc -tion of lead and zinc. Arizon a continuedto lead all states in production of copper—732,436,000 pounds—and was first in totalvalue of all metals— Ajo Copper News.

• • •Ely, Nevada . . .

A newly installed mill at the propertiesof the Old English Gold corporation inTroy canyon is processing 50 tons per day,according to Joe Hafen, president and man-ager. Operations at present are centered onthe hanging wall of the vein with yieldsaveraging $15 a ton, it was said, and the40-foot vein itself probably would average$5 to $6 a ton. First run of the m ill showeda recovery of 95 per cent. Plans call foreventual processing of 500 tons a day. Themine first was developed by an Englishconcern in the 1860s, but operations wereclosed in the slump of the 70s— Ely Record.

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Barstow, California ...

George Golden of Daggett, mine operatorand prospector, has made a lead and silverstrike just west of Lead mountain and lessthan 10 miles from the center of Barstow.With lead prices advancing, Golden re-membered some galena float he had foundin the early nineties. He retraced his steps,

followed the float and located the veinwhich is 15 feet wide at the surface andgrows wider as it goes down . Golden de -clares the ore should average 20 per centlead, runs 9Vi ounces of silver, and is freeof the barium which is present in the galenaof Lead mountain— Barstow Printer-Review.

Desert Center, California ...

Included in the shining aluminum coveredbuildings at the Kaiser company's newEagle mountain mining camp are 10 dormi-tories, two bath houses, mess hall, staffbuildings and a dozen two and three bed-room homes for engineers and executivesand their families, all complete with fluores-cent lighting and air conditioning. Whenoperations begin in the open-pit iron mine inSeptember, production to 4000 tons a dayis anticipated. The deposit now blockedout covers a vein seven miles long and amile and a half wide, which assays 50 to 70per cent iron— Indio News.

Ludlow, California ...

Strontium minerals along the south slopeof the Cady mountains, northwest of Lud-low, are reportedly attracting the attentionof mining men. The principal claims, under

the ownership of Rowe, Gabelic and Bueh-ler, are on the slopes of the range northof the railroad section house of Lavic.Commercial deposits of celestite, rhyolite,red ochre, flagstone, jasper and limestoneswere said to be found on the properties,now under lease to D. A. Kendall, ownerof the Red Ball mill at Barstow . Miningis done by open pit methods, employing ahalf-yard shovel—Mining World.

Shoshone, California ...

The old Crystal Spring lead and zinc minein Death Valley, owned by John Prato ofFontana, has been leased to F. W. Mackeyof Seattle, Washington. The mine whichoperated for a number of years before clos-ing down during the depression, was con-sidered expensive to operate because of itsinaccessibility. But the new leaser has con-tracted for the building of a road to theproperty which reportedly will be completedwithin a short time— Barstow Printer-Re-

Randsb urg, California . . .

Pipelines and water storage facilities ofthe Yellow Aster Mining and Milling com-pany will be used to make available anadequate supplementary domestic and in-dustrial water supply for the Rand district,if present plans are carried out. Officialsof the company report a satisfactory agree-ment had been reached regarding ways and

means of utilizing the mine's facilities. Buta contract between Randsburg Water com-pany and James Alspach for purchase ofwater from Judge well, and actual hookupof the water with the Yellow Aster can-not be made until the public utilities com-mission is heard from—Randsburg Times.

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Goldfield, Nevada ...

Lack of water is hampering plans to havethe new 100-ton mill of Newmont Miningcorporation operating by the latter part ofSeptemb er. The old Laguna shaft, whichthe corporation is cleaning out to the 711-foot station, at present can furnish only25,000 of the estimated 75,000 gallons need-ed. It has been found that the old workingsare so tightly caved below the water levelthat flow of water to the shaft is hampered.Plans for clearing the shaft to its bottomthen diamond drilling to another shaft havebeen advanced—Goldfield News.

Silver Peak, Nevada . . .

Walter Dunnigan, Esmeralda countyminer, is carrying on a one man mercurymining operation on his Red Rock claimsabove Lake valley, southwest of SilverPeak. Dunnigan does his own mining, fillshis 50-ton bin, and shifts to the furnaceand treats the broken ore. He handles theore himself through all successive operationsuntil the quicksilver is obtained— Inyo Reg-ister.

Ouray, Utah . . .A deep test well with rotary rig report-

edly is to be drilled by Seaboard Oil com-pany of Delaware, 20 miles southeast ofOuray near the junction of Bittercreek withWhiteriver. The Ross Construction companyis bulldozing a 30-mile road from Ourayto the site, which lies 20 miles west of theColorado state line and 30 miles east ofthe producing Rangely oil field. Kerr-Mc-Gee will drill the well— Vernal Express.

Beaumont, California ...

A mining rush is in progress around Al-bert B. Marshall's 300-acre ranch northof Beaum ont. It started when Marshalltook what he thought might be gold oreto Assayer Fred B. Greusel who told himthe rock contained uranium. Further checkswith a Geiger counter showed at least 20acres of Marshall's ranch to have radio-active mineral, it was reported, and some ofit runs above the minimum requirements toqualify for the $10,000 bonus recently of-fered by the Atomic Energy commission.The bonus was offered for development ofnew sources of .2 per cent uranium trioxideore in quantities exceeding 20 tons.

Marshall declared: "Back in the hillsthey're staking claims everywhere—on myproperty, on my neighbor's property —wherever the fence plays out. They've stakedclaims to everything but my cows." Askedabout future plans, the rancher explained:"I've found a couple of pieces of rosequartz with quite a bit of gold in them.Think I'll start looking around for the placethey came from"—Banning Record.

Kingmcm, Ar izona . . .

The Williams tungsten mine, 72 milessoutheast of Kingman in the Sandy andBurro creek area, shipped a ton of concen-trates worth $2500 the first week in August.The properties are operated by JewellTungsten, Ltd., Dr. Harry C. Kupp andJ. H. Van Buskirk, owners. The mill hasbeen revamped and new machinery movedin, with $10,000 additional equipment com-ing, it was reported. It was said that 100tons of ore are ready for milling—MohaveMiner.

Pioche, Nevada .. .

Extensive churn drilling is being carriedon over a large area in the Comet Coalitionproperty near Pioche, to explore areas belowand beyond the old productive zone andprepare the property for major production,it was reported. David Gemmill is shippinglead-zinc ore from his lease on a developed

part of the mine, but production is restrictedby a shortage of skilled miners. The CometCoalition is credited with containing largeore deposits carrying lead, silver, zinc andmanganese— Los Angeles Times.

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GEMS AND MINERALS

DIEGO GEM SH OW

The annual show of the San Diego Min-and Gem Society, Inc., will be held

16-17 in the Federal building, Bal-San Diego. The society plans to

a complete and diversified showas the keynote,

to Robert W. Rowland, publicityA lapidary shop will be set up

see the various processes ofmaking. Me mbe rs' showcase displays

and associated work with the accentSan Diego county. Society displays will

its history, membership, affiliationsare ex-

to cover the field: mineral speci-gem materials, books, supplies and

There is a large free parking space inof the building, and a resting area

of chairs will be provided in-There will be a free checkroom with

may beare ready to leave.

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to 10 a. m.andwill be removed from 6 p. m.

MINERALOGISTS

The Southwest Mineralogists, Inc., wel-any and all interested in minerals,

and stone polishing to visit them atnew address, 471 W. 41st Place, Los

to Connie Trombatore,are held

of each month at 7:30m., except when that date is a holiday,

d the meeting is postponed until the thirdGene Allen was speaker at the

9 meeting, describing the history ofHe explained that saws origin-

the Chinese who used a wirea slab until it literally was

EN SOCIETY CH ANGES NAME

At the regular August meeting of theand Gem society, members

to change the name ofto the Mineral and Gem Society

Mrs. G. W. Luce showedand exhibited fluorescent

at the meeting while Mr. Luce

a sample of Lavic jasper to every-Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Buhna part of their collection of

new membersthe society at the meeting.

AMATEUR GEMCUTTER OFFERSLENS BLANKS TOPOLISHERS

R. V. Andree declares that he and hiswife are newcomers to the stone cuttinghobby and they are learning fast and en-joying the process. They will be interestedin hearing from other enthusiasts and anyhelpful tips will be appreciated. In return,Andree has some lens blanks of high gradeoptical glass, suitable for magnifying lenses."They can be polished on any lap unit witha little care," he says, "and I would like to

share them. If any of your readers want alens blank I will send them one or two ifthey will send me postage.

"I also have a few blanks suitable forgrinding three-inch telescope mirrors, butplease don't ask for them unless you arereally interested as I only have a few andit is a lot of work to finish the concavesurface. I have some thick lenses, aboutlxlVi inches which are excellent for demon-strating and practice work in faceting. I'llsend a couple of these to anyone planninga demonstration who will write and enclosesufficient postage." Mr. Andree's address is612 Howard Place, Madison 3, Wisconsin.

CLUB PROPOSES COOPERATIONWITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

San Fernando Valley Mineral and Gemsociety is on record as the first society inthe country to propose a definite and sys-tematic plan of cooperation with federaland state mineral agencies in the study ofminerals, locations, geologic data and othervaluable information. Mrs. E. Waller, dele-gate at the State Federation conventionpresented the proposal which was acceptedby the federation and a committee will beappointed to work out further plans.

Members will be furnished with informa-tion regarding identification of valuableminerals, proper location procedure, recog-

nition of unusual topographic features andother factors which would increase thepleasure of members' field trips while add-ing to the technical knowledge of govern-ment agencies. At the August meeting ofthe society, Myor Wolfenson of MycoPrecision Casting company described "Cast-ing by the Lost Wax Method."

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BEAUTIFUL AUSTRALIAN Opal Cabs, 10x8—$3.00 to $7.20. 12x10—$4.80 to $9.00. Opalrough for cutting $1.20 & $2.00. Ace Lapi-dary, Box 67, Jamaica, New York.

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JADE SLABS—White or green, also rhodoniteslabs, four square inches or more, 50c. Jadeby the pound $5.00. Chas. O. Larson, 613French St., Yreka, Calif.

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ARIZONA PETRIFIED WOODS, all colors frombeautiful reds to jet black. Highly coloredgem woods, grey and black gem wood 20cinch, $1.50 pound. Have logs to 300 pounds.Jet black and picture wood 25c inch. Veryfine. AGATES. New find. Escadillo agate,bluish translucent, clear or banded. Takeshigh polish. You will like this. Blue Hillsagate another new find. Opaque, brown andred coloring, with fossil-like trees and plants.Also fine golden moss agate. All 20c inch,$1.00 pound Extra fine red and golden moss25c inch. These are all gem materials. Moneyback if not well pleased. We prepay postage.

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GOOD NEVADA TURQUOISE in the rough, $2.50o z. any amount. Turquoise cabochons 50ccarat. John L. James, Box 379, BattleMountain, Nev.

BEAUTIFUL AGATE from Arizona, New Mex-i c o , Utah, Arizona Petrified Wood, colorsand pictures. Agates in Red Moss, GoldenMoss, Black Banded, Red Banded, Red andBlack Banded, Carnelian, Moss Jaspers. Manycolors in many patterns. Let me send yousome of this Agate or Wood, every inch willmake a gem. 15c per sq. inch, will assort.Minimum order $1.50. Money back if not sat-isfied. Approx imate postage please. Makeyour next rock hunting trip in our yard.Good cutting material as low as 35c per lb.Tons to select from. Come any time. Geo.C. Curtis, The Agate Man, 645 1st St., Her-mosa Beach, Calif.

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SMALL PIECES of CALCITE, some fluorescent$0.10 up. Beautiful MICA in MATRIX $0.50u p . MICA BOOKS, a real attraction $0.50u p . CUPRITE specimens, beautiful, $2.00 up.Postage extra. TUCSON THOMPSON, 1621Niles Rd., West, Phoenix, Arizona.

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OREGON PLUME AGATE, from noted CentralOregon gem fields. Fines t quality plume s, $1.50sq . in. Assorted, vari-colored types, $1.00 sq.in.; cabochon sized slabs, 50c each. Smallrough chunks, $5.00 lb. Fair warning folks;this Plume is in strong demand and is going,going— Choicest Red Moss Agate $3.00 lb.Other gemmy types of Moss $1.25 lb. FromPlume vein, mixed moss and plume, varicolor-ed , 2 lbs. $3.00. Include postage on roughAgate, please. Satisfaction guaranteed. C. G.Springer, 862 Roosevelt Ave., Bend, Ore.

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ROSE QUARTZ—$1.00 per lb. rough. Fromfinest deposit known. European and Asiaticmarket before war. Rose Quartz, 283WildwoodPark, Fort Garry, Man., Canada.

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material, minerals, hand made silver jewelry,e t c . John L. James, Box 379, Battle Mountain,Nevada.

MONTANA MOSS AGATES in the rough forgem cutting $1.50 per lb. plus postage. AlsoSlabbed Agate 25c per sq. in. (Minimum order$1.00). Elliott Gem Shop, 26 Jergins Arcade,Long Beach 2, California.

FO R THE BEST in New Mexico Agate visit orwrite James T. Lawyer, Industrial Minerals,923 W. Birch, Deming, New Mexico.

TEXAS AGATE—The best from many beds. Agenerous assortment postpaid for $10. El PasoRock & Lapidary Supply, 2401 Pittsburg St.,El Paso, Texas. Phone M-4840.

INDIAN RELICS, Curios, Coins, Minerals, Books,Old Buttons, Old Glass, Old West Photos, Wea-pons. Catalogue 5c. Lemley Antique Shop, Os-borne, Kansas.

MINERAL SPECIMENS — Micro-mount andThumb-nail sizes; write today for free list.J. E. Byron, Mining Engineer, 1240 PearlStreet, Boulder, Colorado.

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MINERAL SPECIMENS, slabs or material bythe pound for cutting and polishing, RXUnits, Felker Di-Met Saw Blades, Carborun-dum wheels, Cerium Oxide, Preform Cabo-chons, Indian jewelry, neck chains. Be sure

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ATTENTION ROCK COLLECTORS. It will payyou to visit the Ken-Dor Rock Roost. We buy,sell, or exchange mineral specimens. Visitorsare always welcome. Ken-Dor Rock Roost, 419S o . Franklin, Modesto, California.

MINERALS, GEMS, COINS, Bills, Old Glass,Books, Stamps, Fossils, Buttons, Dolls, Wea-pons, Miniatures, Indian Silver Rings andBracelets. Also Mexico. Catalogue 5c. CowboyLemley, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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Benedict Bagrowski, vice-president of theof Mineralogical socie-

to the Chicago Rocks and Min-on some phases of mineral

and the care of collections at

A good collection, heis of little value unless it is catalogued

the name of each specimen,in which it wasfound andother

information. Reports on the Den-and a general dis-

of the society's future activitiesfor July, last regular meeting

e • •

August meeting of the Sequoia Mineralwas to be a picnic held in Selma

whoattended the Californiain Long Beach were

on the event anddisplay specimens

• • •

A field trip which included a visit to theand agate beds north ofwasenjoyed by 34 members of the

of Spokane,on August 6.

e • •

San Jacinto-Hemet Rockhound club hasof incorporation at Sacramento.

a non-profit institution, plans toan interest in geology andmineral-

y in the San Jacinto-Hemet area. Direc-are W. G. Tallent, Edna P. Nicolls

d L. F. Harvey, of Hemet; Albert E. Davisd V. F. Clark, of San Jacinto; and

M. Harwell and Thomas V. Harwell,

• • •

"The Art of Lost Wax Casting," presentedwas fea-

at the August meeting of Santa Mon-society. Thespeaker cleared

of metal casting and explainedw the hobbyist could assemble at little

an outfit with which he could turn outMrs.Louise Elakey, dis-

on the Long Beachand was given a vote of appre-

for her Quartz Family exhibit there.the August meeting, the club

at all meetings.

Mayor E. C. Seale was to bring thegreetings of the city and Superintendent ofSchools Don Sheldon was to speak on be-half of the Prescott schools on September4, opening day of the second annual gemand mineral show of the Prescott, Arizona,Junior Rockhounds to be held in the show-room of theArizona Power company. JudgeGeorge William Fryer was to speak in theevening, and Homer R. Wood was to givea talk the next afternoon. Mrs.Mary AnnKasey, Fred Wilson and Joseph F. Cham-

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Harold Butcher was elected president ofthe Yavapai Gem and Mineral society ata meeting held August 12 at the Hassayam-pa hotel, Prescott. E. E. Michael is thenew vice-president and Mrs. E. E. Michaelis secretary-treasurer. The incoming presi-dent expressed the club's debt of gratitudeto Mr. and Mrs. Moulton B. Smith, retir-ing president and secretary-treasurer andfounders of the society. In the address ofthe evening, Homer R. Wood spoke on"Early Day Miners of Prescott." PresidentButcher announced that Dr. H. H. Nin-inger, director of the American Meteoritemuseum, near Arizona's Meteor Crater, willinclude Prescott in a lecture tour this fall.

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A lecture by George H. Needham on thepreparation of micro-mounts was to featurethe September meeting of the San JoseLapidary Society, Inc., at the De Anza hotel.Members were to view specimens under thebinocular microscope and see 2x2 inchmicro-photographs in color projected. Thegroup planned a picnic September 12 atFlood park.

The Los Angeles Lapidary society hadMyor Wolfenson of Myco Casting com-pany, as guest speaker at the August meet-ing. His subject was the "Lost Wax Pro-cess of Casting." This year the societyplans to launch a program of exchangevisits with other gem and mineral societies,according to J. E. Gaston, correspondingsecretary.

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Rock Collecting FriendsI ha ve left Arizona and hav e opened astore at 1720 Chester Ave., Bakersfield,featuring natural, SPORTANNA, importedand plast ic jewelry; novel t ies; souvenirs;cabochons, pol ished slabs, and mineralspecimens. Al l of my past , present an dpotential friends will be cordially wel-comed.

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HOLLYWOOD LAPIDARY SOCIETYPLANS FOR FIRST SHOW

The Hollywood Lapidary society will holdits first gem and mineral show at PlummerPark, October 16-17. Chairman of the eventis Walt Shirey and his committee membersare Virginia Haithcock, Delia Holbrook,Jimmie Van Nostrand and Charles A. Rob-inson. Regu lar meeting of the society washeld July 8, with Retiring President JamesC. Arnold presiding. The chair was turned

over to the new president, Tom Virgin,and the other newly elected officers tookup their duties. The Mint canyon fieldtrip was attended by 44 members. Aftercollecting some geodes and nodules, thegroup went to the old Pacific Coast Boraxmine for how lite. Some members were lostand finally discovered in the mine tunnel.They claimed it was the only place theycould keep cool.

• • •

David M. Seaman, associate curator ofminerals at the Carnegie museum, spoke onpegmatites at a recent meeting of theCanon City Geology club held in con-junction with the Royal Gorge Fine Artsinstitute. He declared that 265 differentminerals are found in the pegmatite dikes.

• • •

Tucson Gem and Mineral society is nothaving guest speakers or field trips duringthe hot weather, but regular meetings arebeing held and attendance is reported good.

o • •

Members at the August meeting of theOklahoma Mineral and Gem society of Ok-lahoma City were to see a magic show byJ. B. Lankford and hear a talk on fluores-cent rocks. At the July meeting H. M.Rackets lectured on the art of facet cutting,and society members who had visited theDenver national convention of mineralogicalsocieties reported on it.

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Deadline for copy for theGem and Mineral section is the20th of the month preceding thedate of publication.

Oklahoma Mineral and Gem society re-cently has authorized a junior division, andset up a committee to guide and direct itsactivities. The junior division meets on thesecond Friday of each month for programson rock and mineral collecting, mountingand arranging. Jerry Lilly, Tomm ie Wil-liamson and Delbert Lacefield, are chartermembers of the new group.

• • •

Jack Pierce, newly elected secretary-treas-

urer of the Rocky Mountain Federation ofMineralogical societies and secretary of theNew Mexico Miners and Prospectors asso-ciation, gave a lecture on potash at theJuly meeting of the Albuquerque Gem andMineral society and showed a film on thesame subject. The society meets the firstand third Wednesdays of each month inthe administration building at the Universityof New Mexico.

• • •Grand Junction Mineral society, of Col-

orado, is on official vacation for the sum-mer months. However the club planned afield trip into the Crystal creek country forAugust 14-15. There were 34 out-of-statecars at Grand Junction on the Westernfield trip which followed the Denver na-tional convention, and the trippers weretaken through the oil shale plant and theThomas coal mine. The attendance atthe chuck wagon dinner in the orchardwas 150.

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August meeting of the Dona Ana CountyRockhound club was held at the home ofM r s. C. P. Archer at Brazito. At the closeof the business session papers on diamonds,emeralds and rubies by Mrs. Markley, Mr.Foste r and Mrs. Kilgore were read. A fieldtrip was scheduled for August 22 to thePicacho peak fossil beds.

• • •Don Alfredo, editor of the Dona Ana

County Rockhound bulletin doesn't like the

word lapida ry. "I know it has official sanc-tion," he says, "but if I were a builder ofhouses I wouldn't like to be called a car-penta ry. A washer of clothes isn't a laun-derary and a student of the earth and itsformation isn't a geologary. I don 't wan tto be mentioned as the authorary of thisarticle or the artary who drew the pictureat the top of the page. I just don 't like it."

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The Texas Mineral society met at theBaker hotel in Dallas for the regularAugust meeting. American Airlines showedcolor sound films entitled Viking-Land andMexico. Plans for a banquet to be held atthe hotel September 14 were annou nced atthe meeting.

• • •NOTS Rockhounds will make a field trip

to the ghost mining towns of Bodie andAurora, situated on either side of the Cali-fornia-Nevada state line, on September 4-6.




Searles Lake Gem and Mineral societya mineral show October 23-24, at

In conjunction with theto a number of collecting

are planned, including one for min-

any rockhoundwhos a collection to exhibit it and to come

the show for the excellent trading

There are fewaccommodations at Trona,

of time or bring camping equipment.who plan to exhibit should notify

10 so spacey be provided for their exhibit. The

is: Box1315, Trona, Cali-

• • •

Twenty-five members of the Pomonamet at the California

of Technology at Pasadena, Augustfor a trip through themuseum under the

of Don George, curator. The main

was the first stop,of beautiful specimenson display. One of the highlights of

was the large case filled with cutA stop wasmade in

ofThe last

was at the prehistoric animal exhibit,a visit to the laboratory where the

is open from 8 a. m. to 5m. school days and 9 a. m. to 12noon

• • •

The Rainbow Forest museum at Petrifieda display

cut and polished sections of petrifiedin size from cabo-

to large slabs, according to ParkJ. Brodrick. One case

a map showing other petrified woodin the United States with specimens

of those sites arranged around it.

WHY HAVEN'T THEY THOUGHT OF

A ROCK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB?

Think of the possibilities! Each memberwill receive, monthly, a perfectly beautifulpiece of rock, selected by a board of emin-ent petrologists and mineralogists. The club'smonthly magazine will describe each month'srock in advance, so that the member canstate his desire to receive it (at a fixed priceeach month—plus a few cents postage) or

his desire to substitute therefor one of thehundreds of alternate rocks listed in themagazine. Andbesides, "bonus rocks" willbe awarded for payment in advance, forsecuring new members, for accepting sixmonths' of selected rocks in succession,andfor submitting to the club thenames of 350interested friends who might become mem-bers!— Don Alfredo, Dona Ana CountyRockhound Bulletin.

September 2 meeting of the East BayMineral Society, Inc., of Oakland, Califor-nia, was to be the annual get-together withmembers telling of their experiences andtrips during the summer months. Memberswere advised to "bring along a hunk of

the mountain youclimbed." First field tripof the new season was planned for Sep-tember 5 to the onyx deposits back ofFairfield. Tenth birthday of the societywill be celebrated September 19 with anopen airpicnic at Redwood regional park.

SAN FERNANDO GROUP PLANS

SHOW AT NORTH HOLLYWOOD

San Fernando Valley Mineral and Gemsociety will hold its annual show October9-10 at North Hollywood park, Tujungaand Magnolia streets. There will be a dis-play of cut and polished stones and cos-tume jewelry. Another attraction will be acase showing the essential minerals. Ad-mission will be free, and visitors will bewelcome, according toTom Sheely, publicitychairman.

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A lapidary idea from a doctor's office issupplied by Dr. H. H. Snook of Palmdale,Calif. Doctors buy sterile solutions forhypodermic injection from pharmaceuticalhouses. They are rubber stoppered. "Thesestoppers," says Dr. Snook, "hold the grit andoil for drills. I cement them to the rockswith plastic household cem ent." So thereis something else you can salvage fromthe doctor's waste basket and find very use-ful. Dr. Snook also advises that he holdsrocks on the table with an aeroplane clamphe purchased at Sears and that he findsit better than the conventional C clamp."When the drill comes through it doesn't

break out a piece," the doctor claims.

We do hope that no society will feel badlyif we decline to use publicity for its eventsin these columns. We have risked annoyingpeople with our tub thumping for theAmerican Federation and California Feder-ation conventions, and we must say some-thing once in a while about gem cutting.Desert Magazine has a section of club newsand has long published more news of thatcharacter than any other magazine.

But we must mention one individualsociety show that will take place in theFederal building in Balboa Park in SanDiego on October 16-17. We must men-tion it because it represents the adoption

of so many ideas we have initiated in thesecolumns in the past and because we believeit will be a larger and better show than anyput on at any time at any place by anyindividual society. It all comes about be-cause of organizing and the San Diego Min-eral & Gem society is organized.

It wasn't always thus. Their story istypical and from it other societies can learnmuch. The Mineral Society of San Diegowas formed in March, 1934 as an outgrowthof government sponsored classes in mineralidentification. A small group interested ingems broke away in September 1936 andstarted the San Diego Gem society. InAugust 1938 the groups got together againas the San Diego Mineralogical society,which name it retained until February of

this year when it eliminated the clumsyword "mineralogical" in favor of the SanDiego M ineral & Gem Society.

In September 1944 it had declined to amembership of 26 but it has climbed steadilyto its present record of 238. The club wentthrough all the phases—prospecting in de-pression years, collecting minerals later andfinally faceting the native tourmalines andkunzite. It was the lapidary art, however,plus the seven league boots of Solon S.Kipp's $25,000 shop that lifted the societyto its present high level.

For those of you who have not readabout Kipp's shop (Lapidary Journal forJune '48) we mention briefly that Mr. Kipp,

a member, set up a shop with every knownlapidary device in it; many of them dupli-cated. The cost has been variously esti-mated at from $25,000 to $50,000 includingtons of material Mr. Kipp has purchased forhis society member students. Kipp's shop,possibly the finest in the country, and cer-tainly the most talked about, will be dis-mantled and moved into the show and thepublic will have every phase of the lapidaryart demonstrated for them. They will beshown that lapidary work is not difficult andthat it is not confined to pebble polishing.

And then the dealers have been invitedto exhibit in comm ercial space. People cansee what it takes and then find out howmuch it costs. This is our idea of what ashow should be. The only idea they havenot adopted is that of charging a s m lladmission. However in their case the c^. 1of the show is not the problem it is withsome other societies.

If you belong to a languishing society dotwo things to make it grow fast—promotea lapidary division and then give a show ofthe members' work, no matter how poor,as soon as possible.

By the time this appears we will haveaccomplished the organization of the Pasa-dena Lapidary society. W e helped organizea society in Downey, California, last month.It meets in the high school every secondand fourth Tuesday evenings. We now havea list of about 20 residents of Ontario,California, who wish to have a gem society.Are there more? Send us your names andwe'll notify you when a club will be formed.

• • •Melvin Kathan of Portland, Oregon,

mounts cabochons on slabs of white card-board by making a small loop of scotchtape (glue out) and pressing the gems to thecard. He prefers plastic coated white paperwhen he can get it. This type of m ountingpermits easy removal and replacement.

• • •Kathan also advises that he finds stick

shellac much faster and better than waxand some types of cement for dopping. Itis cheap and easily obtained at paint stores.

In grinding and sanding a gem, handle itgently until it is warm . This insures bettersticking qualities as heat makes the shellactacky. Stones dopped with shellac areeasily removed with a knife blade.

• • •Eldon Moore of South English, Iowa,

writes that he uses a length of Vs inchbronze welding rod for template markingon slabs in preference to an aluminum pen-cil. A bronze pencil can be obtained atgarages and machine shops. The advantageof the bronze is that it is harder thanaluminum . Ma rks can be seen as well andstay on longer and they can be made closerto the template edge.

This page of Desert Magazine is for those who have, or aspire to have, their own gemcutting and polishing equipment. Lelande Quick, who edits "The Lapida ry Journa l," willbe glad to answe r all questions in connection "with your lapida ry work. And he wouldlike details about new short cuts or devices which lapidary workers have discovered, topas s on to rea ders . Queries and information should be add resse d to Desert Maga zine.Palm Desert, California.

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ELEVENTH VOLUME INDEXNOVEMBER, 1947TO OCTOBER, 1948

John Mar 48 p5Aries May 48 p5, Jun 48 p5

Don Jun 48 p5in Jade Jan 48 p45

Jun 48 p47Lower California Jun 48 p5M. L Oct 48 pl 9

by Lelande Quick Each issuemb oy crater, Calif Jun 48 p30

American Meteorite museum . . Mar 48 pi2,May 48 p31

American Potash & Chemicalcorp Feb 48 p30, Jul 48 p32

Amm onites, Lower Calif May 28 p24Anthropology and the World

Today Mar 48 p47Apache Indians, land claims .... Aug 48 p33Archeology summer school,

Arizona Sep 48 p33, Oct 48 pl 3Arches national monument,

Utah Nov 47 p38, Aug 48 p24Arizona Brags Jan 48 p47Arno ld, Oren Oct 48 p32Arnold, Oren. Winning a Degree—

the Pick and Shovel Way .... Oct 48 pl3Atomic Energy commission .... Apr 48 p31,

Sep 48 pp 35. 38Aztec natl. mon., New Mex. .. Aug 48 p37

B

Bailey, Dr. L. H Jan 48 p5Barnes, Robert A. Report on the

Navajo Mar 48 p5Basic Magnesium, Nevada May 48 p34Bass, W. W Jan 48 p9Beal, Ma ry. A uth or of—

Lip-Ferns on the Desert Nov 47 p30

Oak Trees on DesertMountains Feb 48 p8

Ghost Flower Named byFremont Apr 48 p24

Desert Ash Trees Jun 48 p29Lupine Leads the Floral

Pageant Jul 48 p31Tree with Willow Leaves— an d

Catalpa Flowers Sep 48 p20Beatty, A. A.

"Doc" Mar 48 pl8, May 48 p21Beatty, Nevada Feb 48 p33Beck, Carl W Nov 47 pl 9Bedrock Spring canyon, Calif. .. Sep 48 p21Before the Comstock Feb 48 p47Behle, William H. Mystery Bird

of the Salt Lake Desert Sep 48 p25

Beilby theory of gem polishing .. Apr 48 p44Bell, Helen Drusilla. The MasterPasses By Apr 48 p48

Big Inch natural gas pipeline .... Mar 48 pl5Billy the Kid Aug 48 p37, Sep 48 p37

Oct 48 p32B i r d s -

Cactus wren Feb 48 p27Curve-bill thrasher Feb 48 p27Desert elf owl Jun 48 p25Ferruginous Rough-Leg

hawk Sep 48 p25Gila woodpecker Feb 48 p27Raven Apr 48 p20, May 48 p30

Black Ant Consolidated MiningCo Jan 48 pl6

Blake, Mary Otis. He Lived withthe Zunis Sep 48 plO

Blake, William P Oct 48 p l9Bluff, Utah Aug 48 p5Blumenschein, Ernest L Aug 48 p37Bodfish, California Ma r 48 p9Book Reviews—

Arnold, Sun in Your Eyes, Apr 48 p47;Bailey, Jacob Hamblin, Buckskin Apostle,

Apr 48 p47; Beckwith, Millard and Near-.by, Mar 48 p47; Bolton (Ed.) , Kino'sHistorical Memoir of Pimeria Aha, Aug48 p47; Brooks & Reeve (Eds.) , Fortsand Forays, Sep 48 p47; Carr, Desert Par-ade, Feb 48 p47; Chalfant, Gold, Gunsand Ghost Towns, Sep 48 p47; Curtin,Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande,Aug 48 p47; DeMille, Strategic Minerals,Nov 47 p47; Dodge, Poisonous Dwellersof the Desert, Jan 48 p47; Gardner, Th eLand of Shorter Shadows, Jun 48 p47;Gladwin, Men Out of Asia, Jul 48 p47;Graves, The Mineral Key, Dec 47 p44;Gudde, 1000 California Place Names,Jan 48 p47; Henry, California Gem Trails,May 48 p4 7; Hewett & Mauzy, Landmarksof New Mexico, Jun 48 p47; Ingles,Mammals of California, Dec 47 p44;Johnson, Scenic Guide to the MotherLode, Sep 48 p47; Johnston, Lost and Liv-ing Cities of the California Gold Rush,Sep 48 p 47; Kraus and Slawson, Gemsand Gem Materials, Jun 48 p47; Laughlin,

Caballeros, Mar 48 p47; Leighton andKluckhohn, Children of the People, Feb48 p47; McGlashan, History of the Don-ner Party, Jul 48 p47; Nequatewa, Truth.of a Hopi, Jun 48 p47; Nye, The Barberof Tubac, Dec 47 p44; Parcher, PanamintValley, Jun 48 p47; Pearl, Mineral Col-lector's Handbook, Dec 47 p43; Perkins,Pioneers of the Western Desert, Nov 47p 47; Peterson, Desert Pioneer Doctor,Jul 48 p47; Pickwell, Amphibians and.Reptiles of the Pacific States, Mar 48 p47;Putnam, Death Valley Handbook, Dec 47p44; Rice, The Los Angeles Star, Jan 48p47; Taylor, Bar Nothing Ranch, May 48p47; Tireman, Big Fat, Jul 48 p47; Un-derhill, First Penthouse Dwellers ofAmerica, Papago Indian Religion, Nov 47

p47; Weston, Mother Lode Album, Sep48 p 47; Wormington, Prehistoric Indiansof the Southwest, Jun 48 p47; Aller,Build Your Own Adobe, Oct 48 p47; Mar-riott, Maria, Potter of San lldefonso,Oct 48 p47, Willems, Gem Cutting, Oct48 p47.

Borate (ghost tow n), Calif Jan 48 p26Borax Miner, newspaper May 48 pl 7Borrego spring, California Jun 48 pl 9Borrego valley, California .... Mar 48 pl8,

Apr 48 p22, May 48 p21, Oct 48 p llBotany (see also Palm Oases, Plantlife,

individual names)—Desert ash tree Jun 48 p29Desert mountain oaks Feb 48 p8Desert willow (Chilopsis) .... Sep 48 p20

Ghost flower (Mo havea) Apr 48 p24Lip-ferns Nov 47 p30Lupine Jul 48 p31

Box Canyon Easter pageant .... Apr 48 p48Boyle, Kay and Floyd Jan 48 pl 7Branham, Allen Jan 48 p45Breed, Jack Aug 48 p38A Brief Introduction to Yaqui Feb 48 p47Bright Angel lodge Oct 48 p27Brink, Rev. J. W Jun 48 p36Brown, Charley Jul 48 p23Brown-Stanton Colorado river

expedition (1889) Nov_47 P 5Brown's Hole, Utah May 48 p llBryant, Dr. Harold Nov 47 p5Bryce Canyon natl. park, Utah .. Jul 48 p4Buffalo, House Rock valley,

Ariz Jul 48 plOBurbank, Luther Jun 48 p l l"Burro" tidal bore, Gulf of

Calif Ma r 48 p21Burros Dec 47 pp28, 32; Apr 48 p33;

Jul 48 p 36, Oct 48 p25

Cabeza Prieta game range,Ariz Jan 48 p31 , Apr 48 p32

Calico (ghost town),Calif. Jan 48 p26, Apr 48 p35, Nov 47 p3 5

California Desert Trails Sep 48 pl5Callahan, John and Grace May 48 pl 7Camino del Diablo, Arizona .... Jun 48 p32Camp Cady, California Aug 48 p22Camp Dun lop, California Aug 48 p36Camp Floyd,

Utah Feb 48 p35, Mar 48 p37Camp Grant massacre, Ariz Apr 48 pl 6Canon del Tajo, Lower

California Jun 48 p5Cantu, Governor (Lower

California) Jun 48 p5Canyon de Chelly, Arizona Jan 48 p4Canyon del Muerto,

Arizona Jan 48 p4, Mar 48 p29,Apr 48 p28, Sep 48 p33

Capitol Reef natl. mon Jun 48 p21Cargo Muchacho mts., mine,

Calif Oct 48 p l9Carlsbad Caverns natl. pk Jun 48 p36Carnegie Desert laboratory Apr 48 p5Carrick, Margaret. For the Desert

Home at Christmas Dec 47 p22Carrizo Canyon camp, Calif. .. May 48 p34Carrizo valley, Calif., unexploded

missiles Ap r 48 p35Carson, Kit. . . . May 48 p ll , Jul 48 pp 29, 38Carson's wells, Calif Jul 48 p2 3,

Aug 48 p29Cassell, Richard L. Author of—

He Fights with His Tail May 48 pl3It Wins no Beauty Prize Jun 48 p24He's not as Pious as he

Looks Aug 48 plOCastle Dom e mt., Arizona Apr 48 p25

Cave exploring, Arizona Feb 48 p4Cerro Colorado (Heintzelman)mine, Ariz Sep 48 p6

Cerro Prieto crater, Lower Calif. May 48 p5Chalee, Pop (Taos Indian

artist) Dec 47 p34Chapman, Ernest W., gem

collection Dec 47 p37Chase, J. Smeaton Sep 48 pl 5Chetro Ketl ruins, N. Mexico .. Nov 47 p37Chimney peak (El Picacho),

Calif Ap r 48 p25China Lake, California Ma r 48 p34Cholla, cowboy polo game Feb 48 p21Clarkston, Arizona Jul 48 p33Cliff Canyon cave, Colorado Apr 48 p9Coachella Valley Easter pageant Apr 48 p48Cochise, Apache chief Dec 47 p4

Cockerell, Prof. T. D. A Apr 48 p33Cody, Tim Jun 48 pl 7Coffin spring, California Au g 48 p29Coffman, Mrs. Nellie Dec 47 pp6, 46;

S e p 4 8 p l 5Coke, Larry and Lucille Jan 48 p26Coleman, Wm. T. .. Jan 48 p26, May 48 pl7Collier, John Ma r 48 p5Colorado river, dams .... Mar 48 pp 21, 34;

Apr 48 p32; Jun 48 pp 16, 26, 33;Aug 48 p36; Sep 48 p36

Colorado river, delta Mar 48 p2 1,May 48 p5, Oct 48 p46

Colorado river, expeditions (see alsoColo R. navigation) .... Aug 48 pp 36, 38

Colorado river, fish (1894) Mar 48 p21Colorado river, flood (1905-7) .. Apr 48 p5Colorado river, Hite bridge

proposed Ma r 48 p38, Apr 48 p37Colorado river, map Aug 48 p39Colorado river, Navajo bridge .... Jul 48 plOColorado river, navigation .... Nov 47 p5,

Dec 47 p5, Jan 48 p9, Feb 48 p9Colorado river, water

allotments Sep 48 plO, Oct 48 p33

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Colorado River Indian reserva-tion Feb 48 p37, May 48 p46

Colorado River terrace, gems .. Oct 48 pl9Colton, Dr. Harold S Sep 48 p28Columbus (ghost tow n), Ne v.. . May 48 pl7Cone-Bearing Trees of

California Sep 48 pl5Cowboy Songs and other Frontier

Ballads Jun 48 p47Coyotes Jan 48 p33, Apr 48 p36

Coze, Paul Feb 48 p21Craik, Frank and Jesse Jul 48 p23Crosby, Bing Sep 48 p36Crossing of the Fathers (Colorado

river) Aug 48 p38Crownpoint trad, post, N. Mex. . . Mar 48 p37Curry, George Feb 48 p34, Mar 48 p29Cushing, Frank Hamilton Sep 48 plO

Darton, Dr. Nelson H Aug 48 p34Davis, Capt. (Mullett Island) .. Apr 48 p5Daw, John Nov 47 pl9, Jan 48 pl7Death Valley, California Nov 47 p22Death Valley, radio-phone Jan 48 p34Death Valley, wells Mar 48 p34

Death Valley Castle, road Apr 48 p36Death Valley Scotty (See Scotty, DeathValley)

Debolt, "Dutch" Frank Sep 48 pl5Delicate Arch, Utah Aug 48 p24Dellenbaugh, Frederick S Dec 47 p7Deseret, Mormon state May 48 p28The Desert Sep 48 p46"Desert diamonds" Feb 48 p43Desert flagstone Nov 47 p46Desert "flower" arrangements .. Dec 17 p22Desert Magazine, new homfc .. Dec 47 p24,

46 ; Aug 48 p46; Sep 48 p46Desert plant experiments Nov 47 p35Desert plants, protected by law .. Jul 48 p35Desert tortoises Jun 48 p31Desert Wife Feb 48 p46Desierto de los Chinos May 48 p5Desloge, Joseph Jan 48 p9Diamond, Dick Jun 48 p38Dick Wick Hall day, Salome,

Arizona Nov 47 p46Dinosaur natl. mon., Colorado .. Apr 48 p9Dodge, Tom and Henry Chee .. Feb 48 p21Donner party emigrants Sep 48 p25Douglas, Jack "Old Pros-

pector" Dec 47 p27"Drive Through the Ages,"

Utah Dec 47 p34Dry ice, Salton Sea Apr 48 p5Dunn, Wm. H Feb 48 p9Duval, Eddie Mar 48 pl8

Eagle Mt. mining camp. See alsoKaiser Oct 48 p34Early Engineering Work Contributory

to the Comstock Feb 48 p47Earp, Mrs. Virgil Jan 48 p34Easter pageant, Box canyon,

Calif Apr 48 p48Echoes of Yesterday Apr 48 p47Edds, William D Nov 47 p26An Editor on the Comstock

Lode May 48 p47Ehrenberg, Arizona Mar 48 pl5Elk, Arizona survey Jun 48 p32Ellison, William Jul 48 pl7El Marmol onyx marble quarries,

Lower Calif Dec 47 pl3El Mayor, Lower Calif May 48 p5Elves chasm, Grand Canyon Jan 48 p9

Emory falls, Lake Mead Feb 48 p9Escalante desert, Utah Jan 48 p36Escalante and Dominguez, Franciscan

explorers Jan 48 pl7Eureka, Nevada Feb 48 p33Eytel, Carl Sep 48 pl5

Fallon Indian caves, Nevada .. Jan 48 p35Farquhar, Francis Nov 47 p5, Dec 47 p7Field Tests for the Common

Metals Mar 48 p26Fig Tree John Dec 47 p27Fisher, Luther May 48 p5, Jun 48 p5Fishing, Gulf of California May 48 p5Five-acre homesteads .... Dec 47 pl5, Feb 48

p38, May 48 p26, Jun 48p46, Jul 48 p46, Sep 48 pl9

Flagstaff Cavaliers, tours Jul 48 p33Font , Fr. Pedro Apr 48 p25Fort Deseret, Utah Jul 48 p38Fort Duchesne, Utah May 48 pl lFort Hall Indian agency Nov 47 pl9Forty-mile canyon,

Nevada Nov 47 p36, May 48 p34Forty-nine Palms oasis, Calif. .. Aug 48 pl7Fossil ammonites, L. Calif May 48 p24Fourr, Billy Apr 48 p32Fox, Kel M., and Edw. H. Peplow, Jr.

He Grew Peaches on a DesertHomestead Jun 48 pll

Fox, Dr. Warren Jun 48 p5Freeman, Catherine. Utah's

Incredible Arch of Stone Aug 48 p24Fremont, Capt. John Apr 48 p24, Oct 48 p31Fremont, Utah Mar 48 pl6Fremont (Dirty Devil) river,

Utah Jun 48 p21Frost, Kent Nov 47 p5, Dec 47 p7Fruita, Utah Jun 48 p21

Gabbs Valley hot sprs., Nev Dec 47 pl6Gadsden Purchase Feb 48 p30Ganado, Arizona Mar 48 p5Garces, Fr. Francisco Aug 48 p22Garrett, Pat Apr 48 p37Garrison, Lon Dec 47 p7Gatewood, Lt. Charles B Dec 47 p4Gem Cutting Jul 48 p45

Gem and mineral classes Nov 47 p39,Ju l 48 p43, Sep 48 p45

Gem and mineral collecting: Areas—Arizona, Tanner copper mine .. Dec 47 p7Calif., Colorado R. terrace .... Oct 48 pl9California, Fairfield onyx

deposits Feb 48 p43California, Horse canyon Feb 48 p43California, Last Chance

canyon May 48 p30California, Lava mts Sep 48 p21California, Moiave desert Dec 47 p40California, Mule canyon Jan 48 p26California, Pala mines .... Jan 48 pp39, 42,

M a r 4 8 p 4 1California, Turtle mts Jul 48 p23California. Wrightwood .... Nov 47 p44Nevada, Cedar mt Nov 47 p26

Nevada, Fish Lake valley .... Nov 47 p44Utah, Antelope sprs Nov 47 p43Utah, Dugway mts Nov 47 p43Utah. Wavne Wonderland .... Jun 48 p21Mexico, El Marmol, Lower

Calif Dec 47 pl3Gem and Mineral department .... Each issueGems and minerals: Collecting—

Agate .... Jan 48 p26, Jun 48 p21, Jul 48p23, S e p 4 8 p 2 1 , O c t 4 8 p 1 9

Bakerite Jan 48 p26Carnelian Jul 48 p23, Oct 48 pl9Chalcedony roses Jul 48 p23Colemanite Jan 48 p26Colored chart Jun 48 p21Dinosaur bone June 48 p21Jasper Jun 48 p21, Jul 48 p23,

S e p 4 8 p 2 1 , O c t 4 8 p l 9

Obsidian Apr 48 p5Onyx Dec 47 pl3Opalite Oct 48 pl9Oriental blue opal Aug 48 p29Pandermite Jan 48 p26Petrified palm root Jan 48 p26

Petrified wood .. Nov 47 p26, Jun 48 p21Oct 48 pl9

Pumice Apr 48 p5Sardonyx Jul 48 p23, Sep 48 p21Selenite Jan 48 p2b

Gems and minerals, descriptionBasalt Aug 48 pl4Fluorite Aug 48 p45Iron ores June 48 p44Jade Jan 48 p45, Feb 48 p26Jet (black amber) Feb 48 p45Lapis lazuli Feb 48 p45Magnetite Aug 48 pl4Onyx Dec 47 pl3Sapphires Dec 47 p27Turquoise May 48 pl7

Gems and minerals, production(1946) Nov 47 p45

Gems and minerals, semi-precious Nov 47 p45

Geodes and thundereggs,defined Feb 48 p40

Geological surveys, resumed .. Jan 48 p34Geronimo, Apache war chief .. Dec 47 p4Ghost towns—

Belmont, Nevada Feb 48 p31Borate, California Jan 48 p26Calico, California Nov 47 p35,

Ja n 48 p26Candelaria, Nevada May 48 pl7Columbus, Nevada May 48 pl7Ehrenberg, Arizona Mar 48 pl5Goldfield, Arizona Apr 48 p31Marion, California Jan 48 p26Picacho, C alifornia Apr 48 p25Pioneer, Nevada Mar 48 p35Rhyolite, Nevada Jan 48 p35Tuscarora, Nevada Oct 48 p31

Gila dam Mar 48 p21Gila monster Jun 48 p30Gila reclamation project Sep 48 p33Gilbert, Hope. Paul Coze— Friend

of the Tribesmen Feb 48 p21Gilmore, Iris Pavey. See Marian

Huxoll Talmadge.Ginkgo state park, Washington .. Dec 47 p40

Gleeson, John Mar 48 p33Glen Canyon power dam,proposed Jan 48 pl6

Goblet of Venus, Utah Nov 47 pi3,Sep 48 p38

Gold, in volcanic lava Jun 48 p30,Aug 48 p29

Golden Mirages Apr 48 p5Goldwater, Barry .... Nov 47 p5, Dec 47 p7Goshute cave, Nevada Jan 48 p23Goulding, Harry Apr 48 p38Goulding, Harry (with Joyce Muench).

When Tombstone Came toMonument Valley Oct 48 p6

Grand Canyon, description .... Nov 47 p5,Dec 47 p7, Jan 48 p9, Feb 48 p9

Grand Canyon rapids, number .. Nov 47 p5Grand falls, Little Colorado R. .. Sep 48 p28

Great basin, area defined Nov 17 p31Great Salt lake, Utah Jul 48 pp 32, 38Great Salt Lake desert Sep 48 p25Green, Art Nov 47 p5, Jul 48 plOGreen river, bridge opened .... Aug 48 p38Greenwater, California Sep 48 p36Ground gecko Nov 47 p25Guadalupe range, Texas Mar 48 pl9Gulf of Calif., tidal bore Mar 48 p21,

Aug 48 p35, Oct 48 p46Gun Smoke Mar 48 p33

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Hagberg, Eric T Jan 48 p36Hall, Dick Wick Nov 47 p46Hall, Ernest Nov 47 p46Hall, Thelma Bonney. Where Water

Turns to Dust Sep 48 p28Hamblin, Jacob .... Nov 47 p5, May 48 p37,

Ju l 48 plOHance, John Dec 47 p7, Oct 48 p27Handbook of Lizards Jun 48 p30Hanksville, Utah Jun 48 p21




Nov 47-Jan 48,Mar 48-Oct 48.. Mar 48 p21

mts., Arizona Jul 48 pl7R Aug 48 p35,

Sep 48 p35Dr. Emil .... Sep 48 p33, Oct 48 pl3

Feb 48 p9and Face Masks in Navaho

Ceremonialism Apr 48 p47Sam Sep 48 p6

Sea Apr 48 p5Dec 47 p24

of—Grand Canyon Voyage Nov 47 p5,

Dec 47 p7, Jan 48 p9, Feb 48 p9We Scaled El Picacho Apr 48 p25Fishing Village on the Gulf May 48 p5Daddy of the Palm Canyons .. Mar 48 pl8

Ray Mar 48 pl8Mar 48 pl8

of Jan 48 p36May 49 p5

"Doc" Feb 48 p29Col. Edwin F Nov 47 pl3

& construction .. Mar 48 p9(see also Five-acre

homesteads), Yuma mesa .... Feb 48 p29,

May 48 p22opened Feb 48 p24

dam Nov 47 p31, Oct 48 p31Jul 48 p47

Apr 48 p32Aug 48 pl l

Jan 48 p45, Jul 48 p45of Stone" (Utah) Mar 48 pl6

Jul 48 plOJul 48 p38

O. G. and Seneca Feb 48 p9F. M Sep 48 pl5

Dec 47 p29May 48 p5, Jun 48 p5

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Apr 48 p5Nov 47 pl9

Corn dance (San Ildefonso) .. Feb 48 p21Hopi snake dance Aug 48 p llSan Geronimo fiesta (Taos) .. Feb 48 p21Shalako (Zuni) Sep 48 plO

"Indian George" Hansen Mar 48 p34Indian legends—

Navajo Nov 47 pl6Papago Jul 48 p5Quechan (Yuma) Apr 48 p25,

J u n 4 8 p 3 1Indian petroglyphs .. Jul 48 p23, Sep 48 p38Indian pottery .... Nov 47 pl6, May 48 p21Indian problems (see also Navajo

welfare problem) Mar 48 p8Indian relief bill, signed Feb 48 p30

Indian ruins—Black mt. area, Arizona Dec 47 p29Canyon del Muerto, Arizona .. Sep 48 p33Chetro Ketl, Chaco canyon,

N . M Nov 47 p37Cliff ruins, Dinosaur natl. mon.,

Colo Apr 48 p9Inscription House, Arizona .. Feb 48 pi7,

M ay 48, pl4Nancoweap, Grand Canyon .. Dec 47 p7New Mex. discoveries .... Oct 48 pp32, 33Standing God tower, N. M. .. Nov 47 pl6

Indian swastika design Mar 48 p29Indian traders Jan 48 pl7, May 48 p35Indian vote rights .... Nov 47 p37, Aug 48

p37, Sep 48 p33, Oct 48 p46Indian witchcraft .. Jan 48 p4, May 48 p30Indians—

Agua Caliente (PalmSprings) Feb 48 p31, May 48 p33Apache Dec 47 p4, Apr 48 pl6Cahuilla Sep 48 pl5Chemehuevi Aug 48 p22Cocopah Mar 48 p21

Havasupai Jun 48 p32Hopi Aug 48 pllKamia Apr 48 p5Mojave Dec 47 p31, Aug 48 p22Navajo .... Nov 47 p p l 6 , 19; Dec 47 p31,

Ja n 48 pp4, 17; Feb 48 pl7, Mar 48 pp5,36 ; May 48 pl4, Aug 48 p5, Oct 48 p6

Paiute Nov 47 pl9Papago Jul 48 pp5, 15Pima Jul 48 pl5Quechan (Yuma) Apr 48 p25,

J u n 4 8 p 3 1Seri Mar 48 pl7Supai (Havasupai) Feb 48 p9Tesuque Dec 47 p33Ute Sep 48 p38Washoe Dec 47 p32Yaqui Dec 47 p29, Mar 48 p27Zuni Sep 48 plO

Indians, p rehistoric .... Apr 48 p9, Jul 48 p5,Aug 48 p35, Sep 48 p35, Oct 48 pl3

Ingalls, Don. Field Trip to BedRock Spring Sep 48 p21

Inglesby, Dr. A. L Nov 47 pl3,Ju n 48 p21

Inscription House ruins May 48 pl4Inter-Tribal Indian ceremonial

(1948) Aug 48 p37Iron Chief mine (See Kaiser)

Ironwood, Colorado desert Oct 48 pl9Ives, Lieut. Joseph C Apr 48 p25

J

Jackrabbit homesteads (see Five-acrehomesteads)

Jackson, J. Worthen Mar 48 pl6,J u n 4 8 p 2 1

Jaeger, Edmund C. Author of—•Old Man Raven Apr 48 p20Fur Animal of the Desert

Country Aug 48 p22Ar t in a Desert Cabin Sep 48 pl5

James, George Wharton Sep 48 pl5Jerome, Arizona Feb 48, p26Jesuits Jul 48 p46Johnson, Albert M Mar 48 p33

Johnson, W. E Sep 48 p36Johnson, Zeke Nov 47 pl3Joshua Tree natl. mon., Calif. .. Apr 48 p46,

Ju n 48 p27, Oct 48 p29Journey of the Flame Jul 48 p46

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Kaiser, Henry J Feb 48 p26Kaiser railroad, Eagle mts.,

Calif Nov 47 p35, May 48, p33,S e p 4 8 p 3 1 , O c t 4 8 p 3 4

Keams Canyon, Arizona Nov 47 pl9Keech, Roy Mar 48 p37Kelly, Charles Sep 48 p25Kelly, Charles. Author of—

Utah's House of Stone Mar 48 pl6Utah Mountain Man May 48 p ll

Rock Hunters' Wonderland .. Jun 48 p21Kelly, Charles, and Charlotte Martin.

Zeke Johnson's NaturalBridges Nov 47 pl3

Kennecott Copper corp., Utah .. May 48 p38Kimball, Heber C May 48 p27Kino, Fr. Eusebio Francisco .. Jul 48 pp5, 15Kipp, Solon S Oct 48 p40Kirk trad, post, N. M Oct 48 p32Kirschner, Karl Aug 48 p29Klohr, James E Nov 47 p5, Jul 48 plOKnowles, Emery Nov 47 pl3Kolb, Edith Feb 48 p38Kolb, Emery Dec 47 p7, Feb 48 p9Kolb Brothers Jan 48 p9Kraft, Fred L Jan 48 p45Krug, Interior Secretary J. A. .. Mar 48 p8,

A pr 48 p28

Laboratory of Anthropology .... Nov 47 p37Laguna Salada, Lower Calif. .. May 48 p5,

Ju n 48 p5

Lake Cahuilla (prehistoric) Apr 48 p5Lake Havasu Oct 48 p25Lake Mead .... Feb 48 pp9, 33; Jun 48 p35Lake Mead, silt report Jun 48 p26Lapidary Dept Each issueLate Pre-Cambrian C ross Sections

through Southern Nevada .... Aug 48 p32Laudermilk, Jerry Nov 47 p26, Oct 48 p32Laudermilk, Jerry. Author of—

Nature's Weapons of

Defense Jun 48 pl3

Magnetic Bombs FromPisgah Aug 48 pl4Lava falls, Grand Canyon Feb 48 p9Lava mts., Calif Sep 48 p21Lay, Doc Jun 48 pllLe Conte, J. L Apr 48 p5Learn, John Aug 48 p22Lee, John D Jul 48 plOLee's Ferry Nov 47 p5, Jul 48 plOLehman Caves natl. mon., Nev. Oct 48 p30Liebler, Fr. H. Baxter Aug 48 p5,

. Sep 48 p38Little Colorado river, Ariz Dec 47 p7,

Sep 48 p28Little Lake Pinto culture site .. Aug 48 p35,

Sep 48 p35Little San Bernardino mts Jan 48 p23Livermore Veterans hospital .. Feb 48 p43,

A pr 48 p29Lloyd, Elwood. Of Such as Theseis the Spirit of the Desert .... Sep 48 pl8

Lockwood, Dr. Francis C Mar 48 p3lLohr, Edison P. Winter Dig in

Yampa Canyon Apr 48 p9Lomax, John A Jun 48 p47Long, Horace M Nov 47 pl3Loper, Mr. & Mrs. Bert Nov 47 p38Lost Arch Inn, Turtle mts Jul 48 p23Lost mines and treasure—•

Arizona, Cerro Colorado(Heintzelman) silver Sep 48 p6

Arizona, Treasure of del Bac .. Jul 48 pl5,Sep 48 p32

Arizona, Lost Dutchmanmine May 48 p31

Calif., Golden Tortoise

treasure Apr 48 p22Calif., Jack Stewart's Ace-in-the-Hole Nov 47 p22

Calif., Lost Dutch Ovenmine Sep 48 p33

Calif., Old Man Lee's quartzlode Nov 47 p31

Calif., Pegleg Smith gold .... Dec 47 p27,Ja n 48 p8, Mar 48 pp 18, 27,

Sep 48 p31, Oct 48 pllNevada, TimCody's gold

ledge Jun 48 pl'7New Mexico, Black Ant Consolidated

Mining co Jan 48 pl6Texas, Maximilian's

Treasure Apr 48 pl3Texas, Sublett lost mine .... Mar 48 pl9

Lost rockhounds .... Aug 48 p35, Sep 48 p35

Lower Calif May 48 pp5, 24; Jun 48 p5,Aug 48 pl7

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MacDougal, D. T Apr 48 p5Magnetic bombs Aug 48 pl4Mahan, Russell Aug 48 p24Mangus Colorado, Apache chief .. Dec 17 p4Mantle, Charles Apr 48 p9Marble canyon, Arizona Nov 47 p5Marble Canyon lodge Jul 48 plOMarion (ghost town), Calif Jan 48 p26Marston, Dr. Otis R Nov 47 p5, Dec 47

p7 , Jan 48 p9Mattmueller, Rosella. Geronimo,

Apache Raider Dec 47 p4McCain, John Jun 48 pl9

McCloud, Charlie Mar 48 p27McKenney, Wilson Aug 48 p46Meals for Millions foundation .. Mar 48 p5Merriam crater, Arizona Sep 48 p28The Mesquite Mar 48 p47Mesquite, Sonora, Mexico Jul 48 pS

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Mesquite trees, water table indica-cators Ma r 48 p29, Apr 48 p29,

May 48 p30Meteor crater, Arizona Aug 48 p34Meteorites, hunting & report-

ing .... Jan 48 p37, Mar 48 pl2, Oct 48 p33Miles, Gen eral Dec 47 p4Military ranges .... Apr 48 p33, Aug 48 pp

36, 39; Sep 48 pp3 7, 38; Oct 48 p3 1Miller, Ray Jackson. Warning Rattles

for Snake Dance Visitors .... Aug 18 pl l

Miller, William P Apr 48 p25Mills, William J Mar 48 p29Milotte, Al Nov 47 p5, Jan 48 p9Mineral Resources of Douglas, Ormsby

and Washoe Counties Apr 48 p31Mining—

Borax, Nevada May 48 pl 7Copper, Nevada, Arizona .... Jan 48 p38Gold, Nevada .... Dec 47 p26, Jan 48 p38,

Feb 48 p26Gold, California Oct 48 pl 9Iron, California Oct 48 p34Platinum, Nevada May 48 p38Silver (Heintzelman mine),

Ariz Sep 48 p6Tungsten, Calif Jan 48 p38Turquoise, Calif., Nev Mar 48 p26,

May 48 pl7

Mining, Joshua Tree natl.m on . Apr 48 p46, Jun 48 p27Mining claims, assessment

work Jul 48 p32, Aug 48 p32Mistletoe May 48 p46Mitchell, John D. Author of—

Their 'Glory Hole' PinchedOut Jan 48 pl6

Lost Gold of theGuadalupes Mar 48 pl9

Maximilian's Treasure Apr 48 pl3Lost Treasure of Del Bac Jul 48 pl5

Mix, Tom Feb 48 p30Mohave Etiquette Oct 48 p47Mohave Tatooing and Face

Painting Oct 48 p47Moiave County Miner Jan 48 p31GAL 6—

Mojave desert, area defined .... Nov 47 p31Monahan, Texas Mar 48 pl9Montezuma Well, Arizona .... Jan 48 p31,

Aug 48 p33Mon ument peak, Calif Feb 48 p30Mon ument Valley Jan 48 p24, Oct 48 p6Moo n, Fred Sep 48 p47Mo ore, Avis and Dinty Jul 48 p23Morgan, Raymond May 48 p46Morley, Dr. Sylvanus G Nov 47 p37Morm on alphabet May 48 p27Morris, Earl Apr 48 p9Mt. San Jacinto Winter Park

project Sep 48 p24Mou ntain climbing Feb 48 p30,

Apr 48 p25Mountain sheep (bighorn) .... Feb 48 p34,

Apr 48 p32, Jul 48 pp33, 36, 38

Oct 48 p25Mud volcanoes, Salton Sea Apr 48 p5Muench, Joyce Oct 48 p32Muench, Joyce Rockwood.

Where Wild Buffalo Roam .... Jul 48 plOMule canyon, Calico mts.,

Calif Jan 48 p26Mullett Island, Salton Sea Apr 48 p5Multi-Purpose food Mar 48 p5

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Nancoweap Indian ruins, GrandCanyon Dec 47 p7

National Dry Ice corp Apr 48 p5National League of Pen Women,

Reno Jan 48 p35National Speleological society .. Feb 48 p4

Natural Bridges natl. mon Nov 47 pl 3Natural Carbonic products Apr 48 p5Natu ral gas, pipelines Mar 48 pl 5,

Aug 48 p32The Navaho Fire Dance Jan 48 p47Navaho Sacrificial Figurines .... Oct 48 p47

Navaio Bridge, Arizona Nov 47 p5,Jul 48 pplO, 33

Navajo-Hopi Indian administration,proposed Jul 48 p33

Navajo Indian farm laborers .... Aug 48 p39Navajo Indian land claims

(Utah ) Aug 48 p38Navajo Indian schools Nov 47 plONavajo industrialization Nov 47 p33Navajo language .... May 48 p36, Sep 48 p37Navajo livestock regulations .... Apr 48 p28

Navajo natl. mon., Arizona .... May 48 pl4Navajo welfare problems Jan 48 p46,Feb 48 pp37, 46; Mar 48 pp5, 46

Naval Ordnance Test sta.,Inyokern Apr 48 p33

Neetsein canyon, Arizona May 48 p l4Nevada state museum Aug 48 p36Nevills 1947 Grand Canyon

expedition Nov 47-Feb 48New Mexico, state names Jun 48 p36Niland-Blythe road Aug 48 p35Nininger, Dr. H. H Jan 48 p37,

Mar 48 pl2 , May 48 p31Nininger, Dr. H. H. On the Trail

of a M eteorite Mar 48 pl2NOTS Museum of Natural Desert

History Aug 48 p35Nygreen, Harry May 48 p5

Oatm an mining district, Ariz Dec 47 p26Oblasser, Fr. Bonaventure Jul 48 p5Obsidian butte, Salton Sea Apr 48 p5Ogilby, California Oct 48 pl 9Old Spanish trail, mark ers Jul 48 p34Olin, Irene. Cactus Campmates Feb 48 p27Oliver, Harry Mar 48 pl 8101 Adventures of Panamint

Pete Apr 48 p47Ordeal by Hunger Feb 48 p47Osborn, Gov. Sidney P Jul 48 p33Otter, Colorado R. Aug 48 p22, Oct 48 p25Our Plundered Planet Jun 48 p28Owens Valley water "fight" Feb 48 p30Oysters, San Felipe bay Mar 48 p21

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Pacific Outlook Sep 48 pl5Pacific railroad survey, 1853 .... Oct 48 pl9Pack, Dr. Frederick Nov 47 pl 3Paint pots, Salton Sea Apr 48 p5Painted Desert, Arizona Aug 48 p l lPala tourmaline district Dec 47 p43Palm Desert, California. See

Desert MagazinePalm oases, Lower Calif Jun 48 p5Palm Springs, Calif Jun 48 p5,

S e p 4 8 p l 5Palmer, William R Jul 48 p34Palo Verde trees Jun 48 p46Panamint City, Calif Nov 47 p32

Panamint mts Nov 47 p22Parker Dam, Calif Jul 48 p23Patton Memorial park May 48 p34Peach growing, Arizona Jun 48 p llPearson, Drew Feb 48 p46Pectol, Bishop Ephraim P Dec 47 p35Pegleg Smith (See Lost Mines)Peplow, Edward H., Jr., See Kel M. FoxPeppersauce Canyon cave Feb 48 p4Phantom Ranch, Grand

Canyon Dec 47 p7Photographs. Covers by—

Randall Henderson, Nov 47; J. K. Yoa-kum, Dec 47; G. E. Kirkpatrick, Jan 48;Don Ollis, Feb 48; G. E. Kirkpatrick,Mar 48; Harry Vroman, Apr 48; DonOllis, May 48; M. L. & M. H. Carothers,Jun 48; Mrs. Maurice Eby, Jul 48; Nich-olas N. Kozloff, Aug 48; Milton Knapp,Sep 48; Hubert A. Lowman, Oct 48.

Photographs. Prize winners by—Bill Thomas, Clarence P. Kinkor, Nov 47;Harry Vroman, Don Mohr, Dec 47; Mar-tha Burleigh, Don Ollis, Jan 48; Martin

Litton, E. R. Tinkham, Robert Leather-man, Feb 48; Martha Burleigh, J. K.Yoakum, Mar 48; Russ Eckerstrom, Nich-olas N. Kozloff, Jr., Apr 48; Fred H.Ragsdale, Daisy G. Roberts, May 48;Gladys Diesing, Nicholas N. Kozloff, Ju n48 ; Gladys Diesing, Clyde Dawson, Jul48 ; Nicholas N. Kozloff, Josef Muench,Aug 48; Jack J. Zehrt, George H. Kuhl,Sep 48; Fred H. Ragsdale, Russ Ecker-strom, Oct 48.

Picacho mt., Calif. .. Apr 48 p25, Jun 48 p31Pierce's ferry, Lake Mead Feb 48 p9Pinyon nut crop Dec 47 pp33, 34 ;

Aug 48 p37Pinyon resin, varnish source Jun 48 p32Pioneer (ghost town), Nevada .. Mar 48 p35Pisgah crater, Calif Aug 48 pl 4Pitman phonetic alphabet May 48 p27Plant adaptation Jun 48 pl 3Plantlife—

Arizona, Grand Canyon Jan 48 p9Calif., Lava mts Sep 48 p21Calif., Santa Rosa mts Sep 48 p46Calif., Turtle mts Jul 48 p23Lower Calif Dec 47 pl 3, May 48 p5,

Jun 58 p5Poems Each issuePoisonous Dwellers of the

Desert May 48 pl3Political History of Nevada Jun 48 p35Pony Express Courier Sep 48 p25Popular Gemology Jul 48 p45Poston, Charles D Sep 48 p6Powell, Maj. John Wesley .... Nov 47 p5,

Dec 47 p7, Apr 48 p9, Jul 48 plOPowell Colorado River

expedition Feb 48 p9, May 48 p31Pozo Verde, Sonora, Mexico .... Jul 48 p5Pratt, Orson May 48 p27Prayer Stick C utting in a Five Night

Navaho Ceremonial Oct 48 p47Praying Mantis Aug 48 plOPrehistoric man, Mexico Mar 48 p36Presbyterian foundation Mar 48 p5Priser, John . Operation Under-

ground! Feb 48 p4

Pueblo Bonito, New Mex May 48 pl7Pumpelly, Raphael Sep 48 p6

Quick, Lelande. Amateur GemCutter Each issue

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Ragsdale, "Desert Steve" Jul 48 p29Railroads (Mexico City to

Mexicali) Mar 48 p33Rain making (dry ice) Feb 48 p28,

Mar 48 p37Rattlesnake bite Jun 48 p33 , Oct 48 pp30, 31Rattlesnake venom, market .... Jan 48 p23Rattlesnakes, quiz on Dec 47 p24Rawhide (ghost tow n),

Nevada .... Dec 47 ppl6, 47; Feb 48 p26Recker, B. J Oct 48 p l9Red Rock canyon, Calif., photo .. Jan 48 p25Redd, J. Wiley Nov 47 pl 3Redlake trading post, Ariz Jan 48 pl 7Reese, Marion Aug 48 p l9Reese River Reveille newspaper .. Jul 48 p37Reichling, "Desert John " Jan 48 p23 .

Mar 48 p29Rhodes, Eugene Manlove Jul 48 p37Rhyolite (ghost tow n), Nev Jan 48 p35Richa rdson, Toney . Au thor of—

Indian Agent Nov 47 pl9Traders at Tonalea Jan 48 pl7He Guards the Secret of

Turquoise Shrine Feb 48 pl7Trail to Inscription House .... May 48 pl4

Rochester. Ed Apr 48 p25Rockhou nds, types Ap r 48 p45Rockwood, C. R May 48 p5Rocks and Minerals Sep 48 p45Rodriguez, Gov. Abelardo Jun 48 p5Roemer, Charles Feb 48 p9Rollins, Warren E Dec 47 p33




Dec 47 p7county, Nevada Jun 48 p35Billy A Feb 48 pl 7

He Lived Alone ona Mountain Jul 48 pl7

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cactus, bacteria Aug 48 p33

Utah Aug 48 p5, Sep 48 p38Dr. C. G Mar 48 p5

Sep 48 p25Sea, Calif Feb 48 p30, Apr 48 p5,

Jul 48 p36, Aug 48 p35, Sep 48 p35

proposed Apr 48 p33 , May 48 p34Andreas fault line Apr 48 p5Felipe, Lower Calif May 48 p5Jacinto tramway Jan 48 p33 ,

Sep 48 p24, Oct 48 p29Xavier del Bac mission Jul 48 pl 5

Catalina mts., Arizona Feb 48 p4Rosa mts., Calif Dec 47 p24,

Sep 48 p46, E. B Oct 48 pl 3

elin, Ed Oct 48 p l3ons May 48 p l3 , Jul 48 p29Al Nov 47 pl3

Death Valley Dec 47 p32Mar 48 p33, Aug 48 p36, Oct 48 p30

Paul Aug 48 p21

Grand Canyon Feb 48 p9

mon .) Apr 48 p46, Jun 48 p27Bill May 48 p5 , Jun 48 p5

Dooley Dewey Nov 47 p36terraces, Calif Oct 48 pl 9

club Apr 48 p25a Juarez, Lower Calif May 48 p5,Jun 48 p5

ver Peak, Nevada Jun 48 p35lead mine, Nevada Nov 47 p26

, Louis May 48 p llSippel, Rev. Anselm, O.F.M. .. Oct 48 p27Smith, Frances Marion

"Borax" Jan 48 p26, May 48 pl 7Smith, Ida Aug 48 pl 9Smith, W. E. "Doc" Jan 48 p26

institution Sep 48 plOSmoke trees Jul 48 p31Snow, Glen May 48 p5Sonoran desert, area defined .... Nov 47 p31Sourdough, recipe Dec 47 p32South, Marshal Feb 48 p46South, Marshal. Desert

Trails Dec 47, Jan 48, Mar 48-Aug 48Southwest museum Aug 48 p35,Sep 48 p35

Spencer, Frank C Apr 48 p32Spicer, Dr. E. H Dec 47 p29Stanton, Robert B Nov 47 pl 3State border inspection Jul 48 p29,

Sep 48 p32, Oct 48 p25Stewart, Jack Nov 47 p22Stewart, James Ma r 48 p31Stilts, Adeline Carson Jul 48 p29Stone, Julius F Feb 48 p9Stookey, Dr. Wa lter M Sep 48 p25Stove Pipe Wells hotel, Death

Valley Feb 48 p30Strauss, Jack Sep 48 pl 9Sublett, Ben & Ross Mar 48 pl 9Sudweeks, Leslie L. When Zion

Wanted a New Alphabet May 48 p27Sullivan, Carl E May 48 pl 7, Jun 48 pl 7Superstition mts., Arizona May 48 p31Sykes, Godfrey Apr 48 p5Sykes, Godfrey. Fish Tale from

the Delta Mar 48 p21

Tales of a Triumphant People .. Feb 48 p47Tales of the Pioneers May 48 pl7Talmadge, Marian Huxoll, and Iris

Pavey Gilmore. Padre ofthe San Juan Aug 48 p5

Tanne r, Seth B Dec 47 p7Taos pueblo, damaged Oct 48 p33Tarantulas Jun 48 p24Teach ers, for Navajo Oct 48 p27

Tecopa, Indian chief Jul 48 p30Tecop a hot sprs., Calif Jun 48 p33Teels marsh, Nevada May 48 pl 7Thorn, Gene Jul 48 p5Tilton, Frank Aug 48 p35Tinaias Altas. Arizona Jun 48 p32,

Jul 48 p20Tombstone, "built" in Monument

Valley Oct 48 p6Tomb stone, Arizona Oct 48 p27Tonalea (Red Lake) trad, post .. Jan 48 pl7GAL 8—Tonopah & Goldfield railroad .. Nov 47 p35,

Sep 48 p36Torrey, Utah Jun 48 p21Treganza, Adan E Apr 48 p5Trona, California Feb 48 p30

Truchas peaks, New Mex Oct 48 p25Tuba City, Arizona Nov 47 pl 9Tucson magazine Jun 48 p47Tumco (ghost tow n), Calif May 48 p34Tunnel (Mohawk) spr., Calif. ..Jul 48 p23Turquoise, market May 48 p38Turquoise mining .. Mar 48 p26, May 48 pl7Turquoise shrine, Ariz Feb 48 pl 7Turtle mts., Calif Jul 48 p23, Aug 48 p29Tuscarora (ghost town), Nev. .. Oct 48 p31Twain, Mark Sep 48 p36

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Udall, Charles E Sep 48 p6Uin tah Basin fossils May 48 p36Uranium ores Jun 48 p38, Jul 48 p32,

Aug 48 p32, Sep 48 pp38, 39; Oct 48 p34Uranium-Vanadium Cooperative

assn May 48 p38Utah, federal land Feb 48 p36Utah Field House of Natural

History May 48 p34

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Valley of Fire, Nevada Aug 48 p36Van Dyke, Dix Jan 48 p34, Jul 48 p34Van Valkenburgh, Richard. Author of—

Trail to the Tower of theStanding God Nov 47 pl6

Wolf Men of the Navajo Jan 48 p4Apache Ghosts Guard the

Aravaipa Apr 48 pl6On Kino's Trail to Pozo Verde .. Jul 48 p5Haunted Silver Sep 48 p6

Vargas, Glenn E. Lizard With

a Voice Nov 47 p25Vasey's Paradise, Gr. Canyon .. Dec 47 p7Verde valley, Arizona Jun 48 p l lVermilion cliffs, Uta h Jul 48 plOVidal Junctio n, Calif Jul 48 p23Virginia City Enterprise Sep 48 p36Virginia & Truckee railroad .... Nov 47 p36Volcan sprs., Lower Calif Dec 47 pl 3Volcanic bombs Aug 48 pl 4Vulture mine, Arizona Dec 47 p28

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Wah-to-Yah May 48 pl lWalker, C. S Oct 48 pl 9Walker, Lewis W Oct 48 p32Walker, Lewis W. Author of—

Nature's Onyx Factory Dec 47 pl3

Fossil Hunters at Catarina .. May 48 p24Walker lake, Nevada, photo Jan 48 p24Walker trail, markers planned .. Dec 47 p31Wallace, General Lew Mar 48 pl 9Warner, Solomon Sep 48 p6

Warren, Bacil B. A Burro's Backis Tough Dec 47 p28

Watt, George D May 48 p27Wayne Wond erland, Utah Jun 48 p21Wedell, Mrs. M. R Dec 47 pl 6Weight, Harold O. Author of—

He Staked a Claim for theRockhounds Nov 47 p26

Lady of the Hot Springs Dec 47 pl6Hunting Rocks in the Calicos . .Jan 48 p26Artist of the Mojave Mar 48 p9Nature's Freaks on Salton

Shore Apr 48 p5Ghost Town Miners May 48 pl777m Cody's Lost Ledge Jun 48 pl7On Turtle Mountain Trails .. Jul 48 p23Artist of Copper Canyon .... Aug 48 pl9Shining Rocks of Sidewinder Oct 48 pl9

Wetherill, Ben Nov 47 pl 9Wheeler peak, New Mexico .... Jun 48 p37,

Sep 48 p24, Oct 48 p25Whiterocks trad, post, Utah .... Aug 48 p39Wickenburg, Henry Dec 47 p28Wild horses Aug 48 p39Wildflower reports Mar 48 pl 7,

Apr 48 p30, May 48 p29Wildflowers, state penal code .. Apr 48 p33Williams, Ed. F Jan 48 p33Williams, Ham p Sep 48 p21Wilson, H. E. W. New Clues to

the Pegleg Gold Oct 48 pl lWinslow, Sylvia and Slim Ma r 48 p9Wolf men (Navajo) Jan 48 p4,

May 48 p30Wolfe, Mrs. Irene Jan 48 p26Wonderland of Rocks, Calif.,

photo Jan 48 p25Wonders of the C olorado

Desert Sep 48 pl5Wonderstone claim, Nevada .... Dec 47 p37Worthington, William H Sep 48 p39Wright, Fred Sep 48 p6

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Yamp a canyon, Colo Apr 48 p9Yaqui well, Calif. . . Mar 48 p27, Oct 48 p llYellow rose of Texas Apr 48 p37

Young, Brigham May 48 p27Yuma, Arizona .... Feb 48 p30, Mar 48 p21Oct 48 p29

Yuma desert treks May 48 p46

D E S E R T R A T

S C R f l P B O O KHarry Oliver, Editor

Here's a bit of the Old West—the tall tales, the wit andhumor, and the philosophy ofthe desert frontier—written andedited by one of the Old Timers.

It is a pocket-size newspaper—printed on tough paper—theonly 5-page newspaper in theworld.

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DESERT RAT SCRAPBOOKThousand Palms, California

O C T O B E R , 1 9 4 8 45



Qu3t J&etureen Ifou and Me

B y R A N D A L L H E N D E R S O N

of my neighbors on the Colorado desert havebecome alarmed over recurring rumors that thetidal bore at the head of the Gulf of California is slow-

ly eating into the great earthen barrier which separates thegulf from Imperial and Coachella valleys.

And that would be something for the 90-odd thousandpeople in these below-sea-level valleys to worry about if

there waseven a remote possibility tha t such a catastrophecould happen.

I believe Randolph Leigh sounded the original alarm.In his book Forgotten Waters, published in 1941, he re-ported that on a visit to the Colorado river delta he foundthat during the six years since Hoover dam was com-pleted the tide limit had moved inland 18 miles, thatthousands of acres of delta vegetation had been killed bythe encroachment of salt water, and tidal erosion wasgnawing at the silt embankments at the headwaters ofth e gulf.

The barr ier is 24 feet high at its lowest point, and about60 miles wide. The Colorado river built it over a periodof thousands of years when it poured millions of tons of silt

annually into its delta and eventually formed a great damacross the middle of the gulf. Evaporation of the waterabove the dam opened the way for the reclamation of thebelow-sea-level-basin and the development of the valleysas weknow them today.

Hoover dam brought an end to the building process.The silt carried down from the Colorado's upper watershedis now deposited in Lake Mead .

Leigh's theory is that tidal erosion is causing the barrierto slough off into the gulf, and since no new silt is beingbrought down to the delta, the erosive action of the tidethreatens the security of the people in this great desertbasin.

Following the publication of Leigh's book, I discussed

the question he raised with M. J. Dowd of the ImperialIrrigation district and other qualified engineers. Withoutexception they dismissed the idea as pure fantasy.

It is true the construction of Hoover dam has broughtmany new problems to the engineers on the lower river.Tampering with Nature's balance inevitably entails unfore-seen and often damaging consequences.

But the possibility that the lapping waves of the Gulfof California will ever gnaw their way through the greatland barrier that extends from sea level at the gulf to sealevel at Calexico 60 miles away is so remote is to classifiedas a fairy tale.

If, a thousand or five thousand years from now, thefarmers who till these fertile desert areas find that the salt

waters of the gulf actually have lapped their way inlandto the danger point, it will be a comparatively simple mat-te r to bring enough trains and rocks—if trains and rockare still being used for revetment purpose in that distant

age—and throw a dike across the delta from Pilot Knobto the bluffs on the Sonora side. Such a feat would bemerely a before-breakfast task for the engineers who builtthe Panama canal.

• • •

The Arizona supreme court has decided that Indianswho can read and write are entitled to vote, even thoughthey live on reservations under the paternal care of Uncle

Sam.On the face of it the decision appears to be a great victory

for the tribesmen. But some of the Indians are not surethey want the privilege of taking part in Uncle Sam's elec-tions. For the right to vote sooner or later will entail theobligation to pay taxes.

In Zuni pueblo the chief men of the tribe have advisedtheir people not to register, even though eligible under NewMexico laws to take part in state elections.

But do not condemn the Indians too harshly for puttingdollar values above civic prid e. Perh aps they learned tha tfrom Anglo-American neighbors who during the last 100years have slowly but surely encroached on tribal landsand resources.

I am quite sure, that given the same opportunity asother Americans, the tribesmen will assume the obligationsof citizenship in good faith. The ir war record bears thisout.

• • •

As this is written, early in September, there's a tinge ofautumn in the air. We desert folks know that summer ispassing when we wake up toward morning and crawlunder a sheet to keep out the chill air.

The desert dweller's year really begins in October .July, August and September are months when we just coastalong doing the necessary chores of home and shop, andtake as long a vacation as we can afford.

But when October comes the recess is over. And the dry

crisp air of the winter months is ample compensation forany discomfort brought by the high summer temperatures.Some of us complain about extremes of temperature, but

they are good for us. They make for tough resistantfiber, in both plant and animal, including the humananimal. It is unfortunate our system of education doesnot place greater stress on this fact. Too many humansspend their lives slaving for the wealth that will bringthem comfort and ease and luxury—and to the extent thatthey succeed they bring about their own physical—andoften moral—decline. The seeds of decay find fertile soilin soft living.

The time when Americans could build strong bodies anddevelop self-reliance by going out and reclaiming a home-stead on the western frontier have passed. But good roads

and fast transportation have greatly enlarged the oppor-tunities for those who would build physical and spiritualstrength by weekends and vacations of primitive living inuntamed wilderness areas.




People come from miles around to see

In BUILD YOUR OWN ADOBE, the

ent illustrations. Adob e is though t of

n Francisco. But adobe is adobe, and

The Allers had no knowledge of adobe

One Fourth of July they poured the

he last brick was laid and by the nexthanksgiving they had moved in. All workas done on weekends and two short sum-

mer vacations. And to aid those whom, theyhope, will follow in their footsteps, theAllers have given complete details of roof-ing, plumbing, wiring, and hanging windowsand doors, in addition to the basic problemsof making brick and pouring cement.

The Allers are adobe enthusiasts. Theyhad the time of their lives, building theirearthen home. And they declare: "Fromour experience, we say you and your familycan have that home in the country or thelittle house in the suburbs that you long for,if you have just half the gumption of youiforefathers and will consider building withadobe and doing the work yourselves." Ifyou plan to build or just want to dreamabout it, BUILD YOUR OWN ADOBE willprove worth while.

Stanford University Press, 1947. 110 pps.,photographic illustrations, one in color, anddiagrams. $3.00.

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A COM PLETE GUIDE TO THEART OF GEM CUTTING

We had been using the word cabochon

for years before learning from J. DanielWillems' recently published GEM CUT-TING that it is from the French en cabo-chon, meaning "like a bald head." Thesimilarity between the polished, rounded

stone and a hairless head is delightfullyobvious. Tha t, of course, is one of theminor items which the reader will learnfrom Willems' book, but it indicates thethoroughness with which the author has in-vestigated his subject.

GEM CUTTING is designed as a com-plete guide to the art. With it, beginnersshould be able to accomplish creditablework and experts will learn short cuts andnew techniques. Dr. Willems is an M. D.who took up gem cutting as a hobby tenyears ago. But in that time he has inventedthe Willems' faceting device and other toolsused by amateur and professional, and hasbecome one of the most expert workers inthe faceting field.

The new—and to date most useful—-manual of gem cutting has chapters on gemmaterials, sawing, rough grinding, dopping,finish grinding, sanding, polishing, andcleaning. Then it enters the faceting fieldand describes optical properties of gemmaterials, forms and types of facet cuts,preliminary facet cutting practice, and allthrough the phases of faceting. There a rechapters on special lapidary techniques anddiamond cutting, and a listing of the abso-lute minimum equipment requirements for abeginner's shop.

In addition to giving step-by-step pro-cedure, the book has many drawings andphotographic illustrations to help clarify in-structions. It should be of value to anyone

interested in the gemcutting field.Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois, 1948.

224 pps., index, bibliography, numerous il-lustrations including one color plate. $3.50.

M A R I A M A D E P O T T ER YA S THE " OLD ON ES" DID

MARIA: THE POTTER OF SAN ILDE-FONSO, by Alice Marriott, tells the storyof a Pueblo woman, from childhood to olda g e , and tells it with such simple, directstrength that it is one of the most movingpictures of native culture yet published. Of

course, Maria Montoya Martinez is noordinary woman, although she considersherself such.

It was Maria who rescued the art ofPueblo pottery making from obscurity —making it as the "old ones" did—and builtfinancial security for her family and forthe people of her pueblo. And her husbandJulian developed the process for giving theblack sheen which is now an acceptedtradema rk of San Ildefonso. Samples of

their beautiful ware, signed "Marie andJulian" are to be found in almost everylarge public or private collection today.

Alice Marriott is an ethnologist who hasserved as a specialist in the division of In-dian arts and crafts, department of the in-terior and as research fellow for theLaboratory of Anthropology in Santa Feand the department of anthropology, Uni-versity of Oklahoma. But she does notforget for a moment that she is dealing withhuman beings. The terms and technicalitiesof the ethnologist—which sound like double-talk to the uninitiated—are not to be foundhere. The story is told largely as Mariawould tell it and think it-—and a great dealof it in Maria's own words. Miss Marriottgathered the material through several

months of almost daily interviews withMaria.

But the book is more than Maria's lifeand the methods and history of Pueblo pot-tery making. It is the story of San Ildefonso ,of the way it is governed and of the wayits people think, of the work they do andhow they do it. It is the story of outsideinfluences—some good but mostly bad—andtheir effect upon the Indian s. But princi-pally it is the story of Maria and Julian,and of how drink, introduced by the Euro-peans, ruined his life and distorted theirrelationship.

When Maria's parents tried to discourageher marriage to Julian, she said: "I can't

be sure of happiness. You never can besure about anything in life, it seems to me.I can try to make it a good life, though. Ican work hard to make it good." AliceMarriott has told the story of Maria's ef-forts to make it a good life with the deft-ness of a novelist while maintaining theauthority of fact. Accurate reproductions ofpottery and drawings of pueblo scenes byMargaret Lefranc add to the book's charm.

Civilization of the American Indian series,University of Oklahoma Press, Norman,Oklahoma, 1948. 294 pps., drawings, biblio-graphy, chronology of Maria's pottery mak-ing. $3.75.

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