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The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 53

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Aprlt IMS SAN BERNARDINO SUN-TELEGRAM D-5 Native Trees Topic of Talk Members of the new Redlands Junior Garden Club heard a dis s' 4 HISTORY IN THE MAKING 1911 Mule Team Driver Recalls Roads of Past (This is the 9th article of the 11th historical serin. From the vivid memory of a former teamster and miner evolve long for-gotten bits of desert history. These articles appear Sunday in The Sun-Telegram). By Bl'RIt RKIJIKV Some months back this column printed an old photograph owned by Fred Vail, who operated the El Dorado mine during World War I and before. The photograph showed a Chilean Mill in operation at a spot named Hansen's Well in what is now the Joshua Tree National Monument.

cussion of some of California's' native trees by Mrs. J. C. Cruise, junior garden rluh leader. Occasion was the opening of spring activities with a tour of the garden center.

The joint meeting of center members and members of Yu-catpa Herb and Horticultural Society featured a program of slidesi showing Hawaiian flowers, The-annual report was read with the. highlight being a gift of 13 pounds of vegetable seed to garden clubs in India. First of the spring open house affairs honored the Valley Gar den Club of San Bernardino, whose members toured the garden now lovely with spring bulbs and fruit blossoms. Mrs. J.

C. Cruise, since 1938 an accredited judge of the Ameri i eluded a pipe line from Pinyon The photograph Wame an ob-jWc; Befolnis was com pleted, however, the line was laid part way west from the mine ter 1 i oi uuiiunny in me neauquai-: ters of the Joshua Tree National Monument for the ample reason that park rangers had not been able to locate Hansen's Well, yet it was referred to in numerous can Ins Society, wilt be hostess minating in a large Pleasant Valley tank. It was into this tank that Price dumped his wagonload at the annual Iris Show staged by the Southern California Iris So of water daily. He made the trip old travel accounts and appeared ciety. This will be held Saturday, April 28, and Sunday, April 29, at Los Angeles County Arbore on several maps by ei of a rt)ad of hh Jwn nepartment of Interior a fward he lde of wh.rh accompamocl water va of Taf)k vey publications of the Colorado.

whcre the was4lirm. ma Pesert. tum, 301 N. Baldwin Arcadia. Show hours are 1 to 6 p.m.

Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. I was iwu vi un re unit's went. PRICK TRAVKI.KD KOAII the present park service road to Now an old timer who spent Squaw Tank.

Wilh his four mulesj ears as a teamster and miner in an(i water wagon the firm mesa the region has not only produced vel made hauling much easier Information as to the missing than by a straighter route approx- wells location but also consider- jmaiing today's road. ahie data on niri roans through After little more than a year of the Little San Bernardino Mts. mule skinning young Price veered I 1 4 'a 'I Wounded Fisherman To Get Compensation WASHINGTON (API Indonesia has told the United States that appropriate rompensation will be given to four Okinawan ti'-hermen 'wounded by an Indonesian patrol plane. The men were injured when the plane strafed their boat of Moro-tai Island last week. The old timer is Herman Price nvnr in minine Thr nav tt'as het- He was, incidentally.

one of )h vi miners pictured in the Hansen, dorado and some smaller mines 1 l. i I iwiiniiinirifiiiti1--f Y1 n-r Envoy Thanks U.S. WASHINGTON (AP) Iran's new ambassador to the United Slates, Hossein Ghods-Nakhai, formally presented his credentials to President Kennedy and expressed thanks for U.S. assistance to his country. wen pnooKmpn ii a imu a hpavi)y minera.jpd "s- one.

Around 1914, maybe a year As a young man thirsting for 0r so before, he was at Hensen's western adventure Price left his Well in company with T. J. Tur-home in Chicago during 1910. and Art Sellers when a fourth left the train in Coachella, out-jparty produced only of those old fitted himself in western garb! box cameras and took a photo whieh would have done justice to graph of the trio posed around a Frederic Remington tne 0)d revolving grinding stone and started locking for a solution lhe Chilean Mill there which of his most pressing problem use(j to grjnd custom ore for money. small mines.

The photography Within a year Price had become; waH anything but good. Turner, a teamster with a four-mule team in the centeri had lig nead Cut off making daily trips with a tank at 1he top of tne fimi but now a wagon hauling water to the El nHl mitury this very infer-Porado Mine. There were photography has been a key ways to reach the El Dorado. One bit of evjdence in the relocation i iiliif Japan Students Hit Constitution Change FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) More than 100 leftist students staged a Horn tne southeast roughly P- 0f the "lost Hansen Well proximated the Cottonwood Spring ROtl) sitdown demonstration here to protest a government-sponsored neanng on proposals to revise the V. A if no-war" Japanese constitution.

rnirame to uie juMiua irce Monument. It was not utilized as a water route because it was largely uphill. The other road, one that was rrfeired to as the Ranning-Quail Spring-El Dorado Mine Roarl on the maps, was The reason Hansen's Well became "lost" is that it was not on the most traveled road from Pinyon Well to Indio, a road that has long since been abandoned. Hansen's Well was in brush a half mile, or so, south of the road and Police arrested 10 students whoit belone to the radical Zeneakuren Students Organization. There were .4 no injuries.

the one used by Price. liot TK was rvm.t: about two miles from Pinyon Japan's postwar, American-pro Well. Price's recollections have also moted constitution permits only defense forces with light arms. agisted in definitely fixing thej Price left the Joshua Tree area course of this road which has puz-j long after the picture was zled manv later dav explorers. I'aken at Hansen well.

Around This road, after ascending' 1917 he was up in Johannesburg Whitewater River and crossing and signed on to drive the famous I Jl scribed as being reached by burro trail from the Pinyon Wells Indio Road ajid being less than 2 miles from Pinyon Well but i three-quarters of a mile off road. The geological survey men no ted that an old wagon road led I I) 1H I n. I to the well but they were not sure it was passable at that time. The road to Indio was so sandy, in spots, that only light loads could be carried in wagons. From Indio going north this was over to the Morongo headed for; Johannesburg-Skidoo stage which Warren's Well, a reliable water served to connect the mining supply developed by a pioneer' camps of Ballarat, Wildrose, Har-cattleman Mark Warren.

At War-'risburg and Skidoo with the ter-ren's Well, which is adjacent to! minus of the Randsburg Railroad the present town of Yucca Val-'at Johannesburg. The stage line ley, two routes branched norther-ihad recently been motorized with ly; One went northwest to The! a familiar Model pressed into Pipes and Pipes Well. Another! service in place of the four horse headed northeast to Surprise! team employed in earlier yeais. Spring, while a third headed near-. Price didn't think the rolling stock lydue east to the Twentynine'of the line was any too reliable.

Palms oasis and Dale. "Those Fords were just held t- Five miles east of Warren's getlier with lots of bailing wire," W11, on the Dale Road, there he recalls. "They kept stalling in a fork where a road turned the sand and on the heavy grade to Jhe south to reach Quail Spring. up to Wildrose." Price returned This route follow ed roughly to mining. prfsent monument entrance via Now he has gone back to Twen-the'town of Joshua Tree.

Joshua tynine Palms where he and his Trje, in fact, started around this, wife live in a comfortable hou.se pioneer days' road fork. Just Mesa Drive, live there close sid the present boundary of the to the places where he mined and particularly true. Riverside Coun ty supervisors hud sunk a well on the route, a common prac -ft tice in desert areas not only for Riverside but for San Bernardino, San Diego and Imperial counties. San Bernardino, for instance had a county well at Dale 1 and another farther north near Ivanpah. Imperial had two wells on the road to Yuma.

No liitle Sure I Read Them I got my job, my car and my apartment through SUN-TELEGRAM Classified Ads spring or tank was neglected. RECALLS MULE TEAM DAYS Herman Price, Twentynine Palms resident, national monument the old road lreigniea a hail century ago. Trails always led from a sign on desert roads to water sources, heided up a canyon to Quail ith a small house trailer they is pictured the upper left photograph as he looks at an old picture album or the Sprihjr, some 5 miles distant. visit other spots. At the Death he mined and droye a muIe tam in what js now the joshua Tree National From Quail Spring the old road Valley Encampment last Novem-i struck out easterly with Keys' ber Price enjoyed reminiscingplonument.

Lpper riRht shows Herman as a young easterner when he arrived in Ranrh as the next recognizable: with other old timers, some of Coachella in 1910 and promptly outfitted himself in what he considered true western plari name. At Keys there was whom he had not seen for dec- The jower photo YjntaCe of 1912 or 1913, was taken near Pinyon Wells ith even poor ones, in the vicinity. Such, in brief, was part of the country now embraced by the Joshua Tree National Monument a half century ago. 4th and Sts. Phone TU 9-9666 another fork with one road head- ades.

two prospectors' burros. ing to Lost Horse Well and OLD ROAD LOGGED stamp mill and yet older arras- Pinyon Well in 1918 and a public anofjier continuing east to Desertj The U.S. Geological Survey Wa-Qifeen Well. Both of these old ter Supply Publication 490-A are still passable. Fromjtains a log of the Wan-en's Well both.

Lost Horse Well and Desert; to El Dorado Mine Road over VHTAAAIIN! faucet was kept 2 miles west of; the mine where travelers could I draw needed supplies without! charge. By 1918 Hansen Well was de-i tras. The Gold Coin Mine closed in 1918 due, in part, to a shortage of miners. The El Dorado Mine had completed its pipe line to though Quail Spring had, by that time, fallen into disuse, a fact that explains why later travelers have had difficulty in rediscovering how the old wagon route passed from Warren's Well to Keys Ranch via Quail Spring. The 1918 road forked again BUY DIRECT and S-A-V-E FRESHNESS POTENCY TIME FOR PERSONAL ATTENTION, LOWER PRICES, THESE ARE THE REASONS THE STORE LISTED BELOW CAN GIVE YOU MORE FOR YOUR MONEY.

which Price drove his four mule team wagon. The road fork, east of the well, is logged at 4.7 mjles with a geological survey sign placed at the fork. From the fork Quefn Well roads continued on soOrti to Pinyon Well and. eventually, farther south to Indio. La-tea road of sorts was -broken out Jrom Lost Horse Mine to Pin- Ranch 1 one-half mile from Keys FORMULA K-54 FOR EMOTIONAL AND NERVOUS STRESS Today, K-M Ii ustd tittnsivtly for alleviation of ptriodi of dapraiiion, amitty, ilaaplait ntis and narvoui fatlgua Iwhart thtr Is no organic or functional caust).

Man and wo-man from tvtry walk of Ufa (bank-art, taachers, accountants lawyers, salesmen, housawtvai) all found that K-54 builds nutritional reserves with 54 micro food in a scientific formulation. Why go on being irritable, unhappy and depressed if yours is one of the many causes that can be relieved by nutritional replacement. Don't let another day qo by without tryinq K-54. Fully teited by University research, it holds to much pro-mist you owe it to yourself to set what it can do for you. yoh'Well, but that was after Price; t'he road proceeded up a long running his water wa-! wash, described as sandy in eoh-and started mining.

places. There is another road fork NEW NEW NEW A NEW CONCEPT IN SAFFLOWER Olt CAPSULES KALASH LABORATORIES AGAIN LEADS THE FIELD WITH NEW COMPLETE BALANCED FORMULA I'SfiD SHOUT ROUTE 7 miles south where by 1918 a the El Dorado developed an' road had been broken out direct extiinsive water system which in-ito Keys Ranch. The longer route MULTI-ZEST WE BELIEVE THIS TO BE AN IMPORTANT STEP FORWARD IN DIET SUPPLEMENTATION VCH CONTAINS i STiVR By CLAY R. rOLLAN- A road to tiie right headed Lost Horse Well and Lost Horse 5 Mine. To the cast was Desert Queen Well, a indmill about one-half mile off load.

A road went south here in the general direction of Pinyon Well. It was noted a dim trail headed for Pin- yon Well but the advisable road, according to U.S.G.S. was east to I Gold Coin Mine where a better fork headed for Pinyon Well with the main road continuing east'EE through Pleasant Valley, El Do-iEEE rado Mine and eventually Cotton-irs wood Spring. There was a geo-; logical survey sign at the Gold Coin Mine stating it was 28 miles to Indio. 1IUA Amis MAR.

SWT. 23 Your Daily Activity Guidt JH It ArrnrAinn in thm Start. Don't know where to buy it? Many progressive firms are! anxious to serve you today. They Are Listed in the EE Mtuifmn tnMitel i OCT. 23 126 Tablets 1.25 SAFFLOWER WITH B-6 Capsules I00 J.85 2003.60 "RED LABEL" 6-18-27-32H 1 1-23-4761 To develop message for Sunday, Yeod words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign, 69-70-80-84 63-72-86-90 scoorto Vitamin R-l? mc Ff-rrmin fcuHntr HI nil Vlt A 15.000 USP Unill Vitmin R-t 10 mt Vitamin B-Z 5 ml Vitimtn R-ft 1.5 nit Nmeinlimid SO mf Paulhtnol IA Vittmm 50 mf VII.

2.000 USC Umti Vitamin I Int. Unit. Falls Aril) 01 mi Para Amino Btniaia Acia Ill mf Cholina 20 mi Rutin I mi OCT. 24 Uli O.ftl mt 10 mt 2.A mt Ifl wt fl IS I ft mi mf ft 4 mt 07 mi 22 mt A.I mt I mt I mt 213 mt 165 mt 24.50 g- APS. 21 I MAY 21 pi ONLY ONE CAPSII.F.

DAILY NOV. 22 r.htnretihvM Mfthiflnint Iftrtin ManfjirtM r.Bhitl CnBr Zine PoUaiium MolybfJrnuiH FlttDftnt MnntiuH1 Cnleiuin Phosphorous Family Six 500 4- 7- 8-43cO in 2-17-24-36 NV38-44-82 83! VITAMINS COMPARE B3-54-71 oimin) MAY 22 SOV.23 MC22 en Day. 9 or 1 00 a 5.95 I WW Supply JUNE 22 VU Supply 27-25-35-51? Cfcl0-12-3M 119 100 100 57-66-79-83 06- 58-68 SUNDAY PLACE ABANDONED The report noted it was only 25 miles but the writers apparently did not know that the miners had shortened the distance materially by heading directly south across Pleasant Valley and VITAMIN A 25,000 Unit. VITAMIN 100 Mj. VITAMIN 250 Mq.

VITAMIN I 100 L.U. MULTIVITAMINS Month'a Supply F.arh Mulli-Zrt ronlain 42!) Mg. of Saf flower oil. Each Multi-Zest rontains a bane of alfalfa, water rrtM, parsley, and e.rarole plua oilier food fartom and digestive aid. Mulli-Zest film into weight control Multi-Zest Formula i hel on Knl.i-li reaearrh.

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ath. AOUAItUt past a Riverside County well. I The sign distance seems to have LIVER, IRON end B-12 100... 1.75 200. ..3.25 High In iron for corrtction of iron dtficltncy aid rad blood building.

'an. 2i a Aik for "td lab.l" preduett. Thay will maat or baat tfc. discount or mail order pric.i Gat train organic vitamins .1 yoa na.d them. JULY 24 1 QjfZ pa29 40-45d 34-37-41-44 been the holdover from an earlier routing over a steep saddle up canyon from Pinyon Well.

Pinyon Well in 1918 consisted M-67-74 I Classified Section I 30-39-75 nscti VHOO of two abandoned cahins and the ACHES? PAINS? RUKAL irnri tNini ftf the jainli anil mhcIm. 50 1.9S 100 3.40 200 A. 50 Thu fnrmuU nHrartinq trmnrf-nui Hmlln btctutt iti ability to halp ymi. AUG. 24 SOf.

22 KALASH VITAMINS Street So. Bernardino PLENTY OF HEE PA.KIN& rKone TUmer S-2U2 12 lwrri in Jinn Rrrnnrilinn HOURS: MON. thru SAT. Frtt Delivery or Posfog Faid wreckage of an old stamp mill. 1-13-16 55 on :4 Advetse MV5-33-48-53 y60-77-81-8fl Ore from many smail mines had 2-73-76 vv been crushed there in both A V.iii iV.lS Ai if if Ai A il iA A.

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