Gem Trails in Arizonas Whitlocks - NeoNova（在亚利桑那州的怀特洛克- NeoNova宝石审判）.pdf

Gem Trails in Arizonas Whitlocks... The open land holds many re- wards for the weekend explorer. Here is the account of a field trip made into an eroded range in southeastern Arizona—where gem stones were collected, and the early evidences of ancient Indians and pioneer cattlemen investi- gated. By FENTON TAYLOR Photographs by the author Map by Norton Allen PURPOSE in making the expedition to southeastern Ari- zonas Whitlock Mountains one day last February was threefold: Darvil McBride, in whose pickup we made the trip, was anxious for us to see a crude deeply-buried cement pipe which he felt might have been laid down centuries ago by Indian in- habitants of this country; Rex Lay ton, another expedition member, wanted to show us what he called the original Arizona flour mills, a hillside covered with basalt outcrops containing two score or more Indian grinding holes; and We wanted to inspect a promising collecting area for rockhounds. Early morning found us driving east on Highway 70 from Safford, passing the village of Solomon, the State In- spection Station at Gripe, and climb- ing the rolling foothillls of the Pelon- cillo Mountains at the eastern end of the Gila Valley. The paved road shot an arrow- straight course for the purple outlines of the mountains over which towered the distant pyramid of Ash Peak. Watching the right side of the road, we found our first turnoff three and a h