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MARCH,1968 CONTENTS
JACK PEPPER 4 Book Reviews
Publisher
CHORAL PEPPER 6 The Desert Unicorn
By ELEANORE McCOWAN
Editor
ELTA SHIVELY 8 A Pretty Kettle of Fish
Executive Secretary By JACK DELANEY
AL MERRYMAN
Staff Artist 12 Bighorns of Joshua
By EDNA NICHOLS
JACK DELANEY
Staff Writer 14 Museum by the Side of the Road
By HARRISON KARR
EDITORIAL OFFICES: 74-109 Larrea, Palm Desert,
California 92260. Area Code 714 346-8144.
Unsolicited manuscripts and photographs not
16 The Forgotten Treasure of Lost Horse Mine
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coded envelopes will NOT be returned.
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22 The Dale Mining District
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THE
MYSTERIOUS WEST.
by Brad Williams and
Choral Pepper $5.95
This book examines many little-known stories and Illustrated with photographs, this fascinating survey
legends that have emerged from the western regions of North of Western Americana will be welcomed by all readers inter-
America. Two unsolved mysteries, unearthed in this century ested in the folklore and history of the United States.
and detailed in this absorbing book, furnish evidence that the About the authors:
earliest European navigators to set foot on American soil date
back to ancient times. Old Roman artifacts buried near BRAD WILLIAMS has worked for various news-
Tucson, Arizona, and Phoenician hieroglyphics inscribed on papers ranging in location from Oregon and California, to
a rock uncovered some miles southwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico and India. He has published several mystery novels
Mexico, raise startling questions about America's past. Are and nonfiction works; his books include Flight 967 and
these genuine archeological finds or elaborately conceived and Due Process.
executed hoaxes? These unusual discoveries form but a small CHORAL PEPPER hails from the mysterious
part of the intriguing history, legend, and folklore that make up west — Palm Desert, California. She is the editor of Desert
Magazine and she has been a columnist, free-lance writer,
THE MYSTERIOUS WEST.
and author. Her most recent book is Zodiac Parties.
Included are such phenomena as the discovery of a
Spanish galleon in the middle of the desert; the strange curse
that rules over San Miguel Island; the unexplained beheading Send check or money order to Desert Magazine
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schemes and fantastically imagined hoaxes are documented,
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what were formerly assumed to be tall tales. Cleveland and New York
On Uni
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HE desert is always quired from a mail order house, but it sharp points. This is what gives it the
coming up with the un- was a surprise to me to learn that the common name of Devil's Claw. The
expected. Some time ago plant grew native in my own area. plants in my garden thrived in July and
I was asked by the dir- My plants are comparatively large an- August, when they were green and col-
ector of an herbarium nuals with coarse hairs on both stems orful. In the lower Mississippi basin,
to be on the lookout for and leaves and trumpet-shaped flowers where this species is native, it is con-
Martynia Proboscidea altheaejolia, a spe- which vary in coloring from lavender to sidered a nuisance in meadows because
cies of the Martynia family commonly purple and have yellow markings in it catches unwary ankles and cattle
known as the Unicorn plant or Devil's their throats. Unfortunately, they also hooves. For this same reason, in Mexico,
Claw, which grows "somewhere" on the have a disagreeable odor. The seed pods it is called El Toro.
Southern California Colorado desert. Be- are large and while green have a long To determine the species native envi-
cause the pods of this plant are attrac-' curved beak that gives the plant its Uni- ronment on the Colorado desert, I con-
tive in dried arrangements, I already had corn label. Later, as the pods ripen and sulted Jaeger's Desert Wild Flowers. He
some growing in my Imperial Valley shed their outer fleshy coats, the beaks described the flower as being vivid yel-
garden, the seeds for which I had ac- split into two curved prongs with very low with smaller leaves than the species
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March, 1968 / Desert Magazine / 9
Hunting fossils in Providence
ACH time I return to the
Providence Mountains, I
by Max Ferguson am amazed at the over-
whelming quietness that
hammers at my ears when
• < • • I turn off the ignition,
letting the last chug of civilization die
away. Then slowly, very slowly, the
ringing stops, and the delicate, desert
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sounds come out of hiding. The whir of
office machines, the meeting of dead-
lines—are but a memory. Here in the
•> - *• l i t S3 desert, one of the few remaining remote
areas of our country, you are faced with
W%%0 ***' ' *' H? nature as it has been for thousands of
years.
- Ji To reach the town of Providence and
the fossil area, travel east from Barstow
on Route 66 to Essex, and turn left on
an asphalt road. This road, within about
11 miles, will become a well-graded
dirt road which you follow to the 7IL
ranch sign. Turn right, and travel for
about six miles to the forks of the road
bearing the old Providence Town sign.
*. Bear left and follow the most used road
A* to the few remaining buildings of Provi-
dence. Drive up to the lone wooden frame
house and park. The fossils are in the
canyon behind it.
On your left, as you hike up the can-
yon, is Fountain Peak; on your right is
Silver Hill. In the float material at your
feet you will notice pieces of the gray
Permian Birdspring limestone. Any one
m» ML of these may have an abundance of fusu-
, i, 1 linids, appearing as dark grains of wheat
# in slight relief against the lighter gray
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limestone. The fusulinids are Wolfcam-
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tures (now extinct) that swarmed the seas
of the Pennsylvanian Period, culminated
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ished by the beginning of the Triassic.
Weathered cave formations (speleothems) such as these can be found along the side Predominantly salt water creatures, they
of the wash. usually built their shell out of a carbona-
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7" Penny
8-12" Silver
Dollar
18" Pistol
24" Jar of
Coins
30" Kettle
36" . . . Placer Gold
Deposit
48" Metal Chest
60" Large Metallic
Object
ceous material. Because of their small found in this area, for in the cracks and
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surface, the micropaleontologist studies with your load of fossils and rocks, take Hunters' Guide (reg. $2.00 value).
these minute forms of ancient life and time to explore the old town. (DESERT, Name
can tell by correlation from which forma- April '65) With a little imagination you
Address
tion they came. can hear the dumping of the ore cars and
Identifying your fusulinids may be a echoes of yesterday's loud, eager voices. City
problem. It is necessary to make an axial I wonder if any of those people were State Zip Code
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cross-section of the fossil and study the fossil hunters? •
Bighorns.
We found the hike an interesting
one. There were birds, odd rock for-
mations and shrubs, and myriad tracks
of small animals on the sandy trail. The
path is steep and winding, and we would
have appreciated some encouraging
sign posts along the trail, such as, "Don't
give up when the path is steep," or
"You are now just one-slope-and-a-dip
from the observation point."
Just as we thought we had missed the
spot, one of our party said, "Look, there
they are now!" Sure enough, there they
Campsites are strategically placed among the boulders for privacy.
were, two big rams, both with huge
horns. Excited as we were we kept our After returning home, we consulted such as mesquite, catsclaw, paloverde
voices normal and slowly went to the top a reference book and learned that moun- and cactus. Though this might seem to
of the hill. Across a narrow wash, the tain sheep live in many different parts of be rather rough fare, the rams we saw
sheep advanced cautiously as they watch- the world. American Rocky Mountain at the spring looked sleek and well-fed.
ed us. At the spring, one of them bent To see these shy, elusive Bighorns, as
Sheep (Ovis Canadensis), or Bighorns,
his forelegs to kneel for a drink while they cautiously file down a rocky hill-
inhabit areas from northern Mexico to
the other, coveting his spot, clashed his side to a trickling spring, or to some
horns sharply against his rival's, pro- northern British Columbia. In the north
desert water-hole where there is still a
ducing a noise like that of two colliding these sheep are usually grayish-brown in
small supply of precious rain water left,
blocks of wood. The first sheep moved color, though in Alaska another species is to feel a wonderful thrill. To realize
over at once, letting the bossy one have is entirely white. In our Southwest, the that these wild sheep forage for them-
the preferred drinking place. With their Bighorns (O. Nelsoni) are a paler ver- selves in the inhospitable, often cruel,
backs to us, they drank deeply, their sion of the grayish-brown and the mas- almost waterless, land of our Southwest
rumps showing creamy white, until they sive horns, particularly those of the desert, is to be filled with an overwhelm-
had drunk their fill and turned to bound rams, curl toward the front of the head. ing respect for the magnificent animals.
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solely for their beauty." A collection of
butterflies and moths is equally exten- Dune Buggy Bodies
sive, equally beautiful, and apparently
equally unclassified.
When it comes to guns and knives, /A/ GL/TTEG/
though, Harry speaks with authority.
One gun came from Harper's Ferry and METAL FLAKE
presumably was used in John Brown's
raid. A knife, a handsome creation of plain colors are . . . green,
amethyst-obsidian 30-inches long, is a
rarity which Bergman identifies as an
H99 orange, red, blue & yellow.
metal flake colors are red,
early Indian beheading knife. Baskets,
pottery, stuffed animals and fish, fos-
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sils and mastodons, dinosaurs and pre-
glacial buffalo horns (these from be-
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T WAS late December, the fate of the expedition. It was bitter tion" that would serve this purpose. The
1775 and a band of cold, according to Anza's diary, and soldiers of the expedition probably cut
Spanish colonists were water was scarce. A number of days had the stalks of the spiney desert tree, placed
being led into California passed since the party last camped at them in the ground and then strung
by Juan Bautista de An- good water and spirits dipped low. rope around the stalks to form a corral
za. This was the second When the band arrived at Coyote for the animals. Since that time the
trip Anza had made through the desert Canyon they made camp and constructed stalks have grown into full-grown oco-
area. Only a year before he had traveled a corral for their more than 300 head of tillo plants to form a "living fence."
nearly the same route to open the first livestock. Anza's diary is not clear at The diaries of Padre Pedro Font, who
inland trail to Alta California. this point, but he wrote that the corral served as astronomer and cartographer
This trip was to bring the first group was made from "native vegetation." on the expedition, and Anza indicate
of colonists into Alta California over the Today, near the lower willows in
that the travelers decided to spend sev-
newly discovered inland route. The Coyote Canyon, there is a "living fence"
made of ocotillo. The growing plants eral days at their camp in Coyote Can-
weary band had been traveling for weeks yon. An abundance of water here and
form a huge square that measures
and were entering what today is known several hundred feet along each the canyon's shelter offered a haVen
as Coyote Canyon, about seven miles side. Many feel the living fence was for the weary band. This would be an-
northwest of Borrego Springs. planted by the Anza expedition. Oco- other good reason for the permanent
Hard luck and bad weather had been tillo is about the only "native vegeta- nature of the corral.
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The steamer Cochran that ran on the Colorado River in 1890. Niland railroad siding in 1903.
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Stopping the break of the Colorado Early Yuma boasted of three blocks of bars.
River in 1907.
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ran the mine until 1916, extracting the O.K. and Supply Mines later on. lion dollars. The headframe here stands
$145,000 in gold. After that operations If you double back from the Los An- over an inclined shaft 1200 feet deep.
were sporadic. In 1931 the Brooklyn geles Mine and go down the canyon The ore was processed in a six-stamp
and Los Angeles Mines were still active, rather than up and over the ridge, you mill and in cyanide tanks with a capa-
employing 15 men. At that time it was will pass the Gold Standard Mine be- city of 300 tons. The run-off from the
calculated that almost half a million fore joining the original canyon near tanks filled a good portion of the can-
dollars more could be recovered from the Gold Rose. The mine building at yon below the mine before operations
that particular body of ore. the Gold Standard is in good condition ceased in 1917. The mine was large
In 1906 the main shaft at the Brook- and is a fine place to spend a night if enough to support a small community,
lyn was 270 feet deep with tunnels run- you like a roof for shelter better than most of which still stands in a delapida-
ning off of it each 50 feet. The mine stars. ted condition. The final grade up to the
had been in operation so long that the Nearby to the east are Zulu Queen Supply is suitable only for jeeps and
superintendent had to send wagons 15 and the Outlaw mines, but the roads to pick-ups; passenger cars able to cross
miles away to gather firewood. From them are poor and the going is slow. the sandy wash at the bottom of the
the mill you can see the Cottonwood There is little left at the Zulu Queen to grade may be brought to a point within
Mountains to the south and pick out make the trip worthwhile, although the a quarter mile of the mine.
the dip that marks Cottonwood Springs headframe of the vertical shaft is in- Behind the Supply Mine the road
—23 miles away. During its first few tact. It is the only one which includes drops into an area of many smaller
years water was hauled here from Cot- an elevator used to haul up loaded ore mines and prospects. Another road runs
tonwood Springs at a cost of 59! a gal- cars. At the Outlaw Mine are only two from the mine up the side of Ivanhoe
lon. As it required approximately 200 shacks and an assortment of disintegra- Mountain to three mines at the summit.
gallons to process each ton of ore run ting machinery. Its headframe has fallen
through the stamp mill, it is not hard into the shaft.
to imagine the expense and effort it The town of New Dale forms a focal
took to keep the business going! It point for the mines on the northern
proved so impractical that the miners side of the Pinto Mountains, but unless
dug a well 180 feet deep at Dale Dry you watch carefully, you may drive over
Lake, put in a 10 horsepower gasoline the site and not realize it. The town,
pump, and ran a pipeline seven and a which housed some 70 people in 1916,
half miles over the mountains to the has disappeared completely, leaving be-
mine. The plant had a capacity of 7000 hind a few bedsteads and the usual
gallons a day and the Brooklyn eventu- mounds of rusty cans. The town moved
ally shared the supply with another mine
nearby.
Beyond the Brooklyn the road drops A four-wheel-drive vehicle is a must for
into another canyon where the Los An- most of the way—and watch for washed-
geles mine is located. The buildings out roads! t
here, all of stone, are still in fair con-
dition, although their roofs are liable to This road is not for the weak-hearted;
blow off in a few years. Better built at times the drop-off over the edge is
than most mining camp structures, the almost 1000 feet. It is not a bad road
largest house has good window and door for jeeps, though, and from the top the
frames, a false ceiling, and a screened- view to the west stretches beyond Twen-
in porch. Of special interest here are the tynine Palms to Mt. San Gorgonio, 60
acid tanks which were used to dissolve miles away.
gold from crushed ore. These wooden One of the most interesting mine
tanks had false, slatted bottoms that structures in the region is the aerial
held the crushed ore eight to ten inches buckets system east of New Dale. The
above the actual base of the tanks. A lower terminus of the tramway can be
layer of canvas was spread over the reached by a short, steep road from New
bottom of the tank to prevent the firmly Dale. Steel cables still stretch between
crushed ore from falling through. Cy- the loading dock and the mine tunnel
anide was poured over the ore and al- and an ore bucket hangs over the loading
lowed to filter down through. When it dock in position for dumping.
came out the bottom it brought with it The Ivanhoe Mine is situated near
the gold. The solution was then run off The Brooklyn Mine was established in the summit of the mountain at an ele-
to a settling tank where the gold was 1906 vation of 3000 feet. The road from
precipitated out. The cyanide could be New Dale is in fair condition and af-
drawn off and re-used. twice as the Dale Mining District ex- fords a spectacular view of the deserts
This process was widely used in the panded to the east before it settled at and mountain ranges to the north and
treating of gold, silver, and copper. The the mouth of the canyon below Ivanhoe east. Two or three sheet-metal buildings
pink mounds of dried mud around the Mountain. The Supply Mine, a mile to still stand, but the headframe and load-
the acid tanks at the Los Angeles Mine the north, was one of the richest pro- ing ramps are gone. Just before you
are characteristic of the process; similar ducers in the district. Total value is un- reach the Ivanhoe, a side road branches
run-offs will be noticed, particularly at certain, but it probably was over a mil- to the left. This leads to another mine
HE night was full of Captain Francisco Munoz on the Baja theme of its pla2a's filigree-crowned
sounds. Softly they wove Airlines, and this you can do when you church.
through my dreams — fly to Puerto Vallarta, which is the rea- There is scenic variety, too. Toward
guitars serenading the son I chose this romantic spot for a five- the beach on the far side of Gringo
moon and stars, tambor- day vacation from the desert. Gulch, a name given the banks of a river
inos beating in hypnotic Accessible only by air, unless you wish along which "rich Americans" have built
rhythm with the surf. A grid of starlight to hazard a new route over which bridges picturesque casas, the land flattens broad-
seeped through the jalousie of my hotel may or may not be built and which in ly to hold a village of thatched-roof huts
window, casting its shadow against the part requires a 4-wheel vehicle, this where the Mexicans live who do menial
thick adobe wall. This was Mexico, but charming fishing village climbs roughly chores for the rich Gringos. Without
more than that, it was Puerto Vallarta. up the tilted sides of a tropical mountain these Gringos there would be no industry,
With dawn came the crow of roosters overlooking the 40-mile sweep of Ban- no monied population to buy fish and
and a clatter of horse hooves against cob- deras Bay. Its cobblestone streets, tiers of lush tropical fruit, no building construc-
blestone streets. Salt-scented air stimula- red-tiled rooftops and layer upon layer of tion to provide wages for artisans; nor
white adobe reflect the wedding cake would there be tourists to purchase the
ted my hunger for fresh papaya spiked
with lime juice, for coffee and a hard-
,j
crusted Mexican roll. Soon they appeared
before me on a linen-shrouded table of
the Oceano Hotel—sophisticated fare for
a primitive land. Puerto Vallarta may be
a Mexican village, but there is no other
village in Mexico remotely like it.
"It's like the South seas ought to be,
but isn't," a visitor at the next table com-
mented.
His remark provoked thoughts of a se-
ductive hand snaking through a beaded
portiere, of Methodist missionaries har-
anguing naive sinners. It is all here, too,
but with a difference. The South Seas had
Sadie Thompson; Puerto Vallarta had
Elizabeth Taylor. But the missionaries
here wore the robes of Franciscans and
Jesuits and the native sins they discour-
aged are the artifacts prized by archaeolo-
gists today. Still, there are strong similiar-
ities, if one is to take seriously the writ-
ings of Somerset Maugham when he
described grass-roofed huts clustered
among banana groves and endless idle
days watching native maidens glide along
jungle trails bearing trays of tropical
fruit on their heads.
But you can't fly directly to the South The swimming beach of Puerto Vallarta is a happy rollicksome place where everyone
Seas from Tijuana with our good friend goes. Photos by Trent Lowe.
LTHOUGH San Jacinto has set out to preserve the ancient cave. paintings and carvings probably had a
Valley gives birth to Robbins believes that the history of the religious significance, but they are
numerous golf courses cave is mostly hearsay, although an ar- shrouded in mystery.
and health spas where chaeologist who once visited the area We found another landmark in Rein-
tourists come to bask in judged it to be 14,000 years old. A leg- hardt Canyon, off Highway 74, seven
Southern California sun- end claims that little people once lived miles west of Hemet. It is another mo-
shine, it differs in one significant way there; another account refers to Mayans mento that connects the past with the
from most resort communities. It is who came perhaps 4000 years ago. present. Painted on a huge boulder, the
steeped in a traditional and colorful past. The roof of the shallow cave is smoke- maze or swastika-like design is estima-
This picturesque valley in Riverside encrusted and its granite floor is covered ted to be 15,000 years old. One theory is
County lies in the azure shadows of with mortar holes. The holes were that it, too, was the work of Mayan
ground into the floor over the years by emissaries, although it is only one of
Indian women using stone pestles to many. Some think it was drawn to con-
grind meal. A little stream once ran fuse evil spirits.
through the cave and was diverted into The Maze Stone was registered by
a tiny pond, which served as a reservoir. the California State Landmarks Associa-
Behind the cave on a high boulder, a tion in 1957 as an outstanding example
carved eagle's head juts toward the smog- of prehistoric recording. Nearby is Medi-
less blue sky. Some believe that Mayans, cine Man's Cave, which resembles two
using obsidian stone as a tool, carved the hooded monks. Inside the cave the walls
intricate eye, beak and wings, but who- are stained reddish-brown and mortar
ever the patient artisans might be, they holes pock the floor.
were master craftsmen. There are other pictographs arid petro-
In this area rich with aesthetic beauty, glyphs in the valley. Near the Ramona
Author holds Indian basket and stone wind whistles over the rock-strewn hills Bowl, in the brown hills southeast of
pestle found at site. and giant boulders groan in the sun. Hemet, we saw more mortar holes where
Mount San Jacinto. At one time the re- Indian women spent endless hours grind-
gion was under the dominance of Mis- . - T O SAN DIEGO—HWY. 3»5 ing acorns and other seeds into meal.
sion San Luis Rel de Francia, one of the In truth, California did not begin
HWY. 74
21 missions founded by Father Junipero with the Spanish period, as has been
Serra. Indian vaqueros rode herd over said, but began long before when brown-
the sprawling cattle and sheep ranges. HEMET skinned people tread softly over the
GIBBEL
mountains and valleys. Today, their re-
Yet long before the padres or Juan ROAD CAVE
•I minders are here to wet our curiosity. •
Bautista de Anza and Pedro Fages claim- RAMONA)
ed it for Spain, it was home to countless Local Indian bands believe the Cahuilla
Indian wanderers who left their indeli- and Cascadians once made it their home.
ble mark on the region in the form of Visitors are welcome to visit the site on
pictographs, petroglyphs and mortar- weekends when Clyde Robbins displays
filled caves. Even today stone artifacts artifacts uncovered in the area. He show-
and Indian arrowheads are found. ed us plant life that was used as food
Our own wanderings led us three by the Indians. The blue-flowering chia
miles south of Hemet, on Highway 79, plant near the mouth of the cave was
to a rocky area studded with evidences once a main staple of the Cahuillas. To
of the past. We turned off the country the left of the parking lot is a large live
lane onto Gibble Road, where we found oak tree estimated to be 550 years old.
hollowed-out mortar holes embedded in Lithograph paintings have also been
rock among the hills. About a mile and found here. Directly south of the cave
a half further down the road is a cave is a small, but spectacular sunburst petro-
called the Eagle's Nest, located behind glyph and to the southwest of it is a Entrance to Eagles Nest Cave with
the home of Clyde Robbins, a man who carved turtle nearly a yard long. The Eagle head in background.
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That thief with "LOCK STRAP"!
care and display of animals, express their
attitude toward Rover by posting signs
at the entrance gates reading No Ani-
teresting to note that no new important
species of animal has been added to those
domesticated in this period. Fido led a
A revolutionary new mals Allowed. carefree life when the first concern of
design secures all Motels usually have a definite for or man and animal was the finding of food,
G.I. fuel cans to it- and the second was the eating of it.
self and locks your against policy regarding pets but, in our
gas filler cap - at- travels, one was encountered that allowed Compared with the presence of dogs,
taches to back of the pooch with the provision that $10.00 motels and hotels have been in existence
carrier. All steel
construction - zinc be left as a sort of fidelity bond, return- only a short time. Their forerunner, the
plated. able if our pet behaved himself. At inn, which served as a home away from
Model B $ 7.50 checkout time next morning we stood at home for ancient travelers, originated in
Dealers inquiries invited attention while the manager inspected Lydia in the third or fourth century B.C.
every inch of the unit. After receiving It was in this country that the first re-
LOCK STRAP clearance, our deposit was returned. Dur- corded coins were minted, which might
329 West Lomita Ave , Dept. D, Glendale, Calif 91204
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California residents add 5 % sales tax
been everywhere including Mexico, where keeping inns. However, the time and
AY 25TH: Arrived at came evident to me that some work the numbers and noted its position on the
Mecca last night on time would have to be done if the irrigation the numbers and noted their positions on
and found that the date of the tract was to be properly done. Be- the chart. The work did not progress
palm suckers were arriv- fore leaving "the garden" I had Johnson very rapidly. It seemed to me that we
ing. A number—64, had and Hougham remove the suckers from were too many at the job. Hougham had
arrived the night before th? fumigating house and place them in the team and handed out the palms to
and about 60 came on the same train that water to soak over night. Johnson and Mills.
brought me. They were sent by franked When I returned "to town" in the Burns worked all day grading. It took
mail, so arrived from the East in good evening, I spoke very forcibly to Mr. most of his time to work down the high
season. They were immediately hauled Rogers about the grading. He offered to place where the sand hummock stood at
out to the garden site. They were packed provide his driver, Burns, and four the S.W. corner of the 5-acre piece upon
first in moss wrapped in paper and then horses to go to work tomorrow, so that which we were to work.
in mail sacks. the high places may be taken down. Before we stopped work for the day,
I found things advancing in Mecca. Mills arrived tonight in response to we began irrigating the palms which we
The store and "hotel" buildings are well my telegram sent last night. So did an- had set. I soon found how difficult it
along, but the look of desolation is still other small lot of palms. was to handle the water to advantage in
much in evidence. MAY 26th: We went to work bright the long (660 foot) furrows which it
Today, I worked with Johnson and one and early this morning. Mills and Houg- was necessary to use in the absence of
man all day at the date palm garden. It ham unpacked the new lot of palms and the pipelines and hydrants. The necessity
took nearly all morning to unpack the got them ready for fumigating. Johnson of these became doubly apparent.
suckers, which had arrived, and get them and I made a list of the numbers of the MAY 27th: When I arrived at the
into the fumigating. I found that the palms received. After the list was made, date garden I found that Johnson had
adobe building which we erected for the we spent the rest of the morning placing irrigated all the palms which had thus
purpose was fairly air-tight. The cracks the different numbers in rotation; deter- far been planted. An examination show-
between the bricks were plastered tight mined that the palms had better be plant- ed, however, that those at the lower end
with wet mud. The roof was covered with ed with the numbers running consecutive- had not gotten as much water, propor-
"elaterite" and I think the whole thing ly. It seemed advisable to do this in the tionately, as those at the upper. More
ought to be satisfactory. The palms were absence of the names of the varieties. In reason for the pipelines and hydrants!
piled loosely and subjected for five and going over the numbers, we found that I determined to make a change in the
a half hours to a gas made by the use of they did not run through. Some were planting. I came to the conclusion that
6 ozs cyanide, 6 ozs H2S04 and 12 ozs missing to make the series complete. In three men ought to handle the planting
H20. order to find out which ones were re- without trouble. I therefore set Johnson
In the afternoon Johnson and I staked ceived, we opened the fumigating house to work wrapping the palms planted. We
out the tract for the planting of the before the full time had elapsed. When used burlap and excelsior. The growing
palms. Hougham, the other man, irriga- we closed the house to finish the dosage, tip was first well covered with excelsior
ted a portion of the tract which had been we used double the quantity of material, and then the whole wrapped with burlap
leveled. Late in the afternoon a high or 12 ozs. cyanide, etc. The palms were
and tied with twine to keep it in place.
wind sprang up and it was difficult to allowed to remain in this for two hours.
I think this wrapping might remain on
keep at work owing to the way the sand In the afternoon we began planting. all summer and even through the winter
was blown about. In going over the land Four of us worked at the job together. in order to protect the young growth (if
staking out, I noticed that several high Mills and Johnson dug the holes, while any) from cold weather. Nearly all the
places had been left, and it at once be- I sighted them and took the record of suckers arrived in good condition. I
OR some, the Gay Nine- was a pair of rusted gold scales. Further Presumably this was during the winter
ties weren't so cheerful. search uncovered a location notice with when a small creek wasn't dry. Near
The decade took off a barely legible signature, that of Hiram Goler, 15 miles distant, about a thou-
with a jolly start, but Johnson. The date, 1853, was clear. Not sand men had flocked in to recover
y
1893 brought a finan- so clear was what happened to Johnson. $50,000 in gold before the supply was
cial disaster. Many of Langdon satisfied himself by picking exhausted.
those whose established ways of earning up the larger nuggets that lay exposed No settlement of consequence resulted
a living had been wiped out turned to on the surface since lack of water for from any of these flurries, although one
prospecting, hoping they would luck panning, let alone drinking, discouraged substantial town did arise on the desert
out with a bonanza of gold or silver. him. Not long afterward he joined there. This was Garlock. Its existence
W. J. Langdon was one who headed for forces with several Los Angeles men, wasn't due so much to local gold dis-
the wilderness with pick, shovel and pan. including one F. M. Mooers, who made coveries as it was to a good supply of
It is unexplained why Langdon should history by later discovering and develop- water. Randsburg had burgeoned on the
have selected an area lacking in water. ing the fabulous mines in the neighbor- mountain to the east where tons of ore
It could have been that he loved the ing Rand district. had to be crushed. This necessitated
desert scenery of Red Rock Canyon on After Langdon gave up in Red Rock mills and water to wash out contained
the fringe of the El Paso Mountains, but Canyon, others more persistent took gold, an operation requiring manpower.
the important thing is that he found over. A group from Bakersfield set up Since men needed eating, sleeping and
what he was searching for—gold. Lang- camp in a side gulch originating in Red drinking places, a collection of bunk
don is generally credited with being the Rock Canyon where one of them had and boarding houses and saloons arose.
first in that part of the Mojave to dis- picked up some nuggets. The eight men This was Garlock. All buildings at first
cover gold. Less celebrated is the fact comprising this party took out $1000 a were of native rock and adobe, later of
that his first gold was found in a black week for a time. In Bonanza Gulch, a boards and battens hauled down from
whiskey bottle beside an old fireplace mile or so away, each pan of sand yielded Randsburg after a sawmill was built.
nearly buried in drifting sand. Near it anywhere from 30(£ to several dollars. Originally called Cow Wells, the name
was changed to Garlock to dignify its
address when a postoffice was established
on April 10, 1896. Gene Garlock, the
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HE Indians had a name The surface of the huge arrowhead on a triangular plateau six miles north
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agua caltente. A few times, but when bare, the design shows an amphitheatre of rugged, pine clad
miles north of San Ber- up to even greater advantage, especially mountains. On either side of the plateau
nardino, California, ly- during winter months when surround- are dark, deep canyons. Through one a
ing against the rugged ing areas are covered with snow. Neither crystal clear stream of snow water bounds
hillside near the Arrowhead Hotel, are fire, flood, wind, nor landslide has ef- among clumps of live oak, mountain
found these ancient springs. The Arrow- fected it, although frantic work by civic laurel and springtime wild flowers until
head, for which the hotel and springs organizations recently has been institu- it meets the boiling water that flows
were named, is some seven acres in ex- ted to halt erosion. Wire posts and iron from the hot springs in the second can-
tent and is believed to be a natural phe- pipes have been installed on the moun- yon. Where the two streams meet, steam
nomenon. The freak mark on the moun- tain side to reinforce the gravelly rock. and vapor fill the air.
tain reminded the first white men who This has produced gratifying results. Arrowhead Spring water is believed
frequented the springs more of the Ace Except from the north, where it is to be most beneficial when taken intern-
of Spades than it did an arrowhead, how- hidden by the mountain, the big, white ally, cleansing the system while it im-
ever, and for awhile the area was known arrowhead is visible for miles in all di- parts minerals. Today it is bottled and
by that name. rections and often is used as an estab- sold under the Arrowhead label. Own-
Legends related to the mark's incep- lishing landmark for pilots flying ership of the famed hotel and spa was
tion are legion. Some say it was made by through the vast valley. An Indian leg- transferred in recent years to the Uni-
Mormons who settled the valley; others end says that the arrowhead points to- versity of Redlands. During summer
ray Indians removed earth from the months guests may avail themselves of
ward the hot springs that lie at its base.
mountain side in the design of their own the hotel's facilities and programs are
Some 56 have been discovered to date,
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