 | | Journal (issue) | | festival, street dance, barbecue, parade. Beaumont, California. May 30-June 1—Desert peaks section, Sierra club...of Montgomery and Boundary peaks, White mountains, California-Nevada. May 30-June 3—Albuquerque Market...RED ROCK CANYON, California. Photograph by Fred H. Ragsdale, Los Angeles, California. CALENDAR June...Desert Press, Inc., 636 State Street, El Centro, California. Entered as second class matter October 11, 1937...1937, at the post office at El Centro, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered No |  | | Book | | conditions on th P desert . are changing rapidly; Mining claims are filed, property, once open to collectors...and is punishable under the law. Do not disturb mining machinery or buildings, posted or not, they are...Anima.s (Afton Canyon) in the Mojave Desert, California. Photo by Jerry Strong. I DESErt TGEM TrtAJLS...$2.00 Published By G E M B O O K S MENTONE CALIFORNIA 92359 Copyright @ 1966 by Gembooks T A B...Gem Claim Volcanic Hills Montezuma Silver Peak Agate C O N T E N T S 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 CAL I F ORN I A |  | | Journal (issue) | | pine. If you want to know what the mine is worth, Well, loosen your shirt and tighten your girth If you...CRYSTALS By ALICE THSKMBSO-N HAWKINS San Pedro, California This luminous cluster of crystals had birth,...grew. DESERT GLEANING By AMY VIAU Santa Ana, California I cannot stay the dawn on desert sands, Nor tether...3-4—Annual Grants, New Mexico, Rodeo. July 3-5—De Baca County Mounted Patrol Rodeo, Fort Sumner, New Mexico....Mexico; Fireworks, Lancaster, California; Aquacade, Palmdale, California. July 4-5—Annual Round Valley |  | | Book | | lapidary field. Beginning with a description of agate, he proceeds to an interesting account of the history...ever been written before. Tracing the history of agate from prehistoric days through events of the Bible...the details of agate collecting, the varie ties and forms of quartz gems other than agate, opal and its...infor1nation on tl1c rockl1ouncl's favorite gem-tl1e agate. THIS IS LELAND£ QUICK La Jolla ( ,5an l)irgo)...efficiently ty1)ecl by Wilcla Boyer of La Jolla, California. AFTER A 1 Lt::LANDJ:: Qu1cK La Jolla (San |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................49 California ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts .................................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | 00-$2 25 dcz. RARWIRBS Sensational new type. Hol( well and is comfortable Sterling Silver sl.in pr. • -...LET'S GO PROSPECTING By Edward Arthur, Head of the Mining Division of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Written...items listed except G. F. Wire and Copper Items California Residents Add 3% Sales Tax—Postage Extra OUR...GRIEGER'S • 1 6 3 3 E. WALNUT ST. * PASADENA 4, CALIFORNIA OUR STORE IS OPEN EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY FROM...MAGAZINE DESERT CALENDAR September 2-4—Summit County Fair, Coalville, Utah. September 3-6—Onion days |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl *"» Agate ** Jade =p Amethyst ^ X ) y ' £f h % ^...Johnson, of Napa, California; Norman and Betty Lemkau of Castro Valley, California; Herbert V. Corbett...thousands of amateurs venture every year into the mountains and deserts of North America, they enjoy not only...and Washington beaches, the Mojave desert of California and the Sonoran desert of Arizona, the lake beaches |  | | Book (volume) | | THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...The Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...Mineral Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30 ana HOW TO USE...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................39 California ................................................459 Appendix C - The Various Names & Forms of Agate.....................................467 Appendix...rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gneisses, as well as numerous granite pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................39 California ................................................461 Appendix C - The Various Names & Forms of Agate.....................................469 Appendix...rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gneisses, as well as numerous granite pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham |  | | Book (volume) | | colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...to the end of 1974. John Sinkankas San Diego, California July, 1975 JOHWSTUPAW.N19,901 Gene ay Derek...with digging vast quantities of coal, leveling mountains of iron ore, and tapping subterranean lakes of...resources have often been ignored. This is nowhere so well shown as in the tremendous North American geological...and optical properties of the species concerned as well as a discussion of color, quality, and other features |  | | Book (edition) | | A Field Guide to the Most Important Areas in California. by DAROLD J. HENRY, A.B., M.S. FIRST E D1T...AROLD J. HENRY 1781 Fleming Street P omona, California 2 GEM TRAIL JOURNAL Table of Contents FOREWORD...FOSSIL HUNTER SONOMA COUNTY HUMBOLDT COUNTY CARPENTERIA FOSSILS SAN MATEO COUNTY FOSSILS SANTA BARBARA...LEA VITT MEADOWS HIGH SIERRA GEM STONES MONTEREY COUNTY SAN BENITO JADEITE CINNABAR LOCALITY DARWIN MINERALS...CANYON AND LAST CHANCE CANYON KERN COUNTY DRY LAICOUNTY ONYX DEPOSIT WILDROSE CANYON . . |  | | Book (edition) | | on collecting. by DAROLD J. HENRY Author of California Gem Trails, Gem Trail Journal, The Rock Collector's...a miner alogist, and an educator in California schools as well as a writer of many articles and several... Gordon, 1810 E. Anaheim Street, Long Beach, California No portions of this book may be reproduced in... I l ti CALIFORNIA GEM TRAILS TABLE OF CONTENTS * FOREWORD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA....................................... WARNER MOUNTAINS.................................... * 3 NORTHERN BORDER LOCALITY |  | | Journal (issue) | | Nov. 3-4—Annual Fall Road Races, Palm Springs, California. Nov. 3-4—Copper Giant Rodeo, Ajo, Arizona. Nov...Calif. Nov. 9-12 — Eighth Annual Death Valley, California, Encampment. (See page 20.) Nov. 10-11—Rodeo...Nov. 14-17—Annual Western Week, Palm Springs, California. Nov. 15—Annual Desert Outings by Visitors Club...Rodeo, Victorville, California. Nov. 18—Founders Day Picnic, Palm Springs, California. Nov. 22—Desert Sun...Florence, Arizona. Nov. 24-25—Annual Rodeo, Needles, California. Nov. 28-30—Nevada State Farm Bureau Convention |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...is fully illustrated with color photographs as well as with diagrams, both in color and black and...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...illustrations in Italy in the lan- proved to be so well related to the needs and interests of American collectors...collecting has become widespread here in Italy, as well as in the rest of Europe and America. Whether this |  | | Journal (issue) | | summer's sun. Rocks are clean; views to distant mountains are crystal clear. Spend a few days, a week, or...THE TIME Stove Pipe Wells Hotel Death Valley California Home of the Famous Annual Confirmed or Prospective...informal. Located in the California Desert just a mile West of the Imperial Dam For folder write: BARRETT...Pines Highway, Palm Springs, California. Dec. 5—Lecture "Indians of California" by Arthur and Donald Barr...Camping Trip to Stein's Rest Oasis, near lndio, California. Dec. 12—Desert Sun Ranchers' Rodeo, Wickenburg |  | | Journal (issue) | | sunsets are beautiful even if they do set in California. Dry Camp Blackie is glad November is here....Taos, New Mexico, group. The others are well-known California desert artists.) For variety, the Desert...monthly by Desert Magazine, Inc., Palm Desert, California. Re-entered as second class m a t t e r July...July 17, 1948, at the postoffice at Palm Desert, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Title registered...correspondence to Desert Magazine, Palm Desert, California. Address all advertising correspondence to Clyde | | | Book | | is ful ly illustrated with color photographs as well as with diagrams, both in color and black and white...the language of that country, 11 proved to be so well related to the needs and interests of American collectors...collecting has become widespread here In Italy as well as In the rest of Europe and America Whether this...collectors Certainly Curator de Michele swords apply as well to those who read this book in English as they do...manual will be an invalu· able tool for turning out well-grounded competent collectors and that readers will |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mexicali. April 2-12—Tucson Festival. San Xavier CALIFORNIA April 23-May 3—National Orange Show, Fiesta on...presentation of the Ramona Pageant at Hemet, California . . . the big doings at Mesa (First Annual National...over as Editor of Desert, grew up in central California and graduated from Stanford University, but today...man. After a newspapering stint in Palmdale, California, on the edge of the Mojave Desert, Gene moved...NOTES TRUE OR FALSE WILDFLOWERS COOKING CLOSE-UPS MINING HOBBY LAPIDARY BOOKS COMMENT ADIOS PHOTOGRAPHY |  | | Book (volume) | | The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct)...red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct)...Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 ct), Pala, California. NECKLACE...blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 diamonds |  | | Journal (issue) | | In any alabbed atone - Jade, quartz. agate, glass, etc. Worka well on Metallcs such as Silver. HI-Strength...Caudle (RMFMS) P.O. Box 1512, Clifton. AZ 85533 CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES Otflcere........... 80 HOW-TO-DO How to Cut Mexican Fire Agate by Ken Scherer ...................................Gemac Corporation. 1797 Capri Ave.. Mentone, California 92359. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6.50 per year. $12...BOTSWANA AGATE - Hard agate nodule& of beautiful fine white banding on translucent grey or purple agate. They |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mexico Winifred Randle Jones, author of "Black Agate in Milky Wash," began writing 15 years ago—as a...was still a baby, his family moved to Downey, California, and it was here that he was raised and schooled...last 34 years in desert country—working on water well rigs, herding goats, picking dates, figs and grapes...service and supply company in Desert Center, California. His wife, Frances, is head cashier. The Jewells...Southern California and San Diego Chapters, Sierra Club, climb to Temple Crag in Southern California. August |  | | Report (issue) | | ] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's |  | | Journal (volume) | | STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES RICHARD SACHSE, Director DIVISION OF MINES FERRY...BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1940 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 85005 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY Of CALIFORNIA DAVIS ] DIVISION OF MINES...A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines |
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