Desert Book - Desert Magazine of the Southwest

Quiz
If you have an eager mind—eager to learn
all you can about Southwestern United States
— its history, geography, botany, geology,
Indians and lore you'll have a lot of fun with this quiz. You'll not know
all the answers, but that is no disgrace. Twelve to 14 is a fair score; 15
to 17 is good: 18 or over is super. The answers are on page 30.
1—The most important tool to have with you when driving sandy trails
is a — Pair of pliers Shovel Tire wrench Crowbar
2—The Spanish term agua caliente so often used in the Southwest means
—Good road Cactus garden Hot water Extreme
heat
3—The tree most commonly used for windbreaks in the desert Southwest
is—Mesquite Palo Verde Cottonwood Tamarisk
4—Largest Indian reservation in the Southwest is — Navajo
Apache Papago Mojave
5—A piton is one of the tools used by a—Blacksmith Miner
Surveyor Mountain-climber
6—Roosevelt dam is in the—Salt River Gila River Verde
River _„. Colorado River
7—The desert town which publicizes itself as "The Dude Capital of the
World" is — Tucson Prescott Wickenburg Las
Vegas
8—Crystals which most commonly occur in geodes are—Calcite
Quartz .-. Gypsum Tourmaline
9—Desert mistletoe never grows on one of the following trees—Mesquite
Catsclaw Ironwood Joshua tree
10—Highest peak visible from the Colorado Desert of Southern California
is—Mt. Whitney San Jacinto San Gorgonio Telescope
11—The book The Saga of Billy the Kid was written about a—Famous
stage driver Notorious outlaw Trapper and Scout
Discoverer of the Comstock Lode
12—The Gila River enters the Colorado—Above Lake Mead Below
the Mexican boundary Near Yuma, Arizona At Parker,
Arizona
13—Material generally used by the Hopi Indians in making Kachina dolls
is—Pinyon Clay Cedar Cottonwood
14—Center of the Chimayo weaving industry in the Southwest is in
Arizona New Mexico California Sonora, Mexico
15—If you wanted to take a picture of the Great White Throne you would
go to — The South Rim of Grand Canyon Zion National
Park •„. Death Valley Monument Valley
16—The material used by Navajo women in weaving their rugs generally
is—Yarn from the trading post Wool from their own sheep
Yarn furnished by the Bureau of Indian Affairs
17—Mexican Hat is the name of a small community in — Utah
Arizona New Mexico Nevada
18—The species of cactus from which the Papago Indians harvest fruit
is—Saguaro Cholla Beavertail Pincushion
19—The late Ernest Seton Thompson of New Mexico was a—Mining
engineer „. U. S. Senator Indian Trader Writernaturalist
20—Evaporation losses in Salton Sea are mainly offset by water coming
from—Rain storms in the surrounding drainage basin Seepage
from the Gulf of California Drainage water from the Imperial
Irrigation system Underground springs
UTTERS
Don't Change a Thing . . .
Desert:
I recently purchased the January
Desert at the newsstand, as I have
been doing for 20 years, and I am
writing to register a loud scream of
protest.
I refer to the announcement that
you contemplate a Desert Kitchen section—and
a Desert Primer for junior
readers—and a section on outstanding
Southwestern architecture!
May the good Lord deliver us!
There is plenty on western cookery of
all types, especially barbecuing, etc.,
in Sunset. Also Sunset features the
outstanding Southwestern architecture
in some of the horrible examples of
Frank Lloyd Wright—and there are
plenty of books for the junior readers.
Why can't you leave Desert alone?
It was all right—everybody likes it
fine the way it is. It will end up just
like some breakfast cereals—improved
so much that they aren't fit to eat any
more.
MARY DeARMOND
Grants Pass, Oregon
Silver Bar Discovery . . .
Desert:
Last August while on a prospecting
trip in the country just east of the
Twentynine Palms to Amboy road, I
made an interesting discovery. In an
old partially caved-in mine hole I found
some old hand tools and seven bars
of silver weighing one and three-quarter
pounds each.
I sent these bars to the U.S. Mint
which verified my find. Later I sold
them for $180.30.
There weren't any roads into the
mine area that I could see, nor were
there any remains of housing nearby.
I figure whoever worked the mine
lived in it also. I think that it caved
in on him, because I don't think anyone
would go off and leave the silver.
W. H. CHILDRESS
2708 N. Loma Ave.
El Monte, California
Jaeger's Alumni . . .
Desert:
As I read the January issue on a
cool moonlit evening here in San Francisco,
tears came to my eyes when I
finished Dr. Edmund C. Jaeger's account
of the annual outdoor reunions
of his former students and campmates.
I wept, not because I am one of them,
but because I'm not!
As a long-time desert camper myself,
and an avid reader of Dr. Jaeger's
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