el gambrisino 2013-03

EL GAMBRISINO Gem Crafters & Explorer's Club Bulletin,

P.O. BOX 3091, Las Cruces, NM 88003 March 2013 - Volume 55 – Issue 3

Affiliated with: American Federation of Mineralo gical Societies www.amfed.org Member of: Rocky Mountain Federation of Min eralogical Societies www.rmfms.org Member of: Blue Ribbon Coalition www.sharetrails.org

2012 OFFICERS & volunteers:

President – Cookie Saathoff 382-3464 [email protected] Vice President – Sheri Gaines 526-7176 [email protected] Treasurer – Pat Grace 202-2862 [email protected] Secretary - Brenda Gadberry 202-0200 [email protected] Refreshments - Patti Pickert 532-9351 [email protected] Historian - Don Saathoff 382-3464 [email protected] Program/Field Trip - Eric Fuller 524-0204 [email protected] Director Editor- Maxine Wyman 649-4900 [email protected]

We meet on the third Friday of the month at Gardiner Hall, Room 118, NMSU campus, Las Cruces, NM at 6:30 pm for social and 7 pm for the meeting. There are no meetings in July and December. Dues are $10 per adult per year and each additional family member under eighteen is $2 per year. They are due Jan.1st of each year. A membership form will be emailed or mailed to you in December to be filled out and returned with your check to the treasurer. There are no regular committees or board meetings nor do we sponsor a show. Our purpose shall be to gather knowledge and provide educational benefits to members on geological, archaeological, lapidary, and mineralogical topics of interest, to include assistance to members in all lapidary problems, the study and identification of minerals and gem stones in the rough, the field study of geological formations which produce minerals and gem stones, the collection of minerals and gemstones, and the exploration of any geological or archaeological topic or area which may be of interest to the membership. NOTE: All articles and photographs are by the Editor Maxine Wyman unless otherwise noted. Any address or email changes must be sent to me at: [email protected] or 4680 St. Michaels, Las Cruces, NM 88011. Permission to reprint is granted if acknowledgement is given. We reserve the right to edit all material submitted for publication Info for the Newsletter: If you have information, articles, pictures or a we bsite related to gem crafting, rock collecting or exploring and would like to share please give me a call at 649-4900 or email me at [email protected] If you have a good idea or story to tell I will be more th an happy to help you write it up. Also if you have minerals, outdoor or camping equipment, etc. that you would like to s ell please let me know for our FREE "Classifieds ." Maxine Wyman, Editor

Gemcrafters and Explorers Club "EL Gambrisino" Mar. 2013 - 2 -

Meeting Notes – Feb. 15, 2013 Submitted by Secretary Brenda Gadberry Speaker : David Kirkpatrick, Associate Director of Human Systems Research. Treasure's Report: $1,305.04 New Business: Anybody possessing club supplies should report inventory to Sheri Gaines. Field Trips : 1) Mike Bromwell will be leading a trip to El Paso, February 23rd to purchase Mexican Minerals from a wholesale dealer. Contact Mike at 575-642-8104. 2) Jim Huff is leading a trip to Cookes Peak February 24th. Contact Jim at 575-524-0880 or 642-5255. Club Campout: February 23, 24, & 25th in the Columbus area. If you are interested, contact Eric Fuller. Mineral Meeting: Wednesday, February 20th, gates open at 6:30pm. If you need directions, contact Don Saathoff.

Program – Feb. 15, 2013 David Kirkpatrick, Associate Director of HSR (Human Systems Resources) a non-profit archeological firm here in Las Cruces gave a lecture titled “A Cold War Soldier's Life at White Sands Proving Grounds: Archaeological Clues from the Trash Deposit, 1945-1947

David Kirkpatrick Ph.D., R. P. A.

This consisted of the results of one of the first studies of material culture of a Cold War military installation. In 1994, during the construction of a new commissary building at White Sands Missile Range, a previously unknown dump was encountered. The artifacts from this dump, possibly the earliest on White Sands

Proving Ground (now known as White Sands Missile Range), provide us with insight into the daily lives of the soldiers and scientists working on the V-2 missile program. Many of the artifacts relate to the personal lives of these men, stationed in temporary quarters in the desert of southern New Mexico. Dates on various artifacts, especially bottles, indicate the trash deposit was in use from July 1945 to 1947. After test drilling into the site it was determined to be heavily contaminated with lead and thus to toxic to be entered by any but the firemen who were trained to handle this kind of situation. The firemen picked up what they determined to be important which were mainly the museum quality artifacts. While this was good many things of interest to the archeologist, of which Mr. Kirkpatrick was one, were most probably missed. All artifacts were thoroughly washed down. The slide presentation of the artifacts was beautiful. A list of some of the artifacts recovered follows: . Post Operations: Ink bottles, Fountain pen Motor Pool: Car parts, Batteries Mess Hall: Bottles of all sorts, Stoneware-some marked USQMC July 15, 1940, Forks and Spoons, animal bones and chicken feet Personal Care: Safety razors, Tube, Hair tonic bottles, Noxzema cream bottles and an Inhaler. Misc.,: Beer bottle tops, an unbroken light bulb, broken Signs, Mess Kit and a Steel Canteen, a Game horse shoe, Newspaper in German, Albuquerque Journal pages, Liquor bottles and Church Keys which used to be attached to each six pack of beer circa 1935. Some of the bottles were from local dairies and the chicken feet which indicated that products were being bought from the locals. At the end of the dig after all was done it was discovered that the first test drill had drilled directly into a pile of batteries – hence the lead reading and toxic requirements. It is a funny ending now but probably wasn’t so funny to them at the time. .

Take nothing but photos leave nothing but footprints break nothing but silence

kill nothing but time.

--Explorer's Code


BISHOP’S CAP FIELD TRIP 2/10/2013 After a Saturday of fifty mph winds Sunday turned out to be a beautiful day, cool with just a hint of a breeze. Al Spencer was our leader and took the group to the old Fluorite mine at Bishop’s Cap to look for purple fluorite and barite. The road up to the mine was in very bad shape as it has been for years. The two ATVs that were along made it up as did the Turkell’s Zukie. When Jim and I arrived (late) most of the people were still hiking the long trek to the top. Our Jeep made it to the top without any problems in spite of the two vehicles parked about a quarter of the way up.

The infamous road to the mine

The turnout was good, about sixteen of us along with two Boston Terriers. Al gave us a short description of where things were and what to look for and everyone got to digging and exploring. The fluorite here was mainly massive although we did find many clear cubes on the dumps.

Digging for the Purple

Some serious digging going on here

That’s Al in the dark blue.

Sheri & Mike Gaines & Tony Nunez

Large Barite Rock

Of course the “big” specimens caught my eye. This is just one of them – too big to bring home in any way but in a picture.


EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT

“THE ENTIRE GRADUATING CLASS

OF THE LOCAL COLLEGE” MURDERED!

LAS CRUCES IN SHOCK!

A FAT Boys Historical Research Group compilation

The primary target of the perpetrator was Sam Steel. Murdered in the prime of his life, at the age of seventeen, in a robbery gone bad on the 9th day of March 93. Sam was delivering milk from the family farm at 7pm. The murder took place two months before his graduation commencement ceremony.

There were no witnesses to the murder which

took place in Mesilla Park. A drunken cowboy named John Roper was arrested, tried and sentenced to death for the crime. The Supreme Court of New Mexico overturned the verdict as reported in the “Pacific Reporter” on pages 1014 thru 1022 in August of 93.

Sam was born in Ireland in 76 and moved to

America and Las Cruces to better himself. He was a well-liked student and the grief in the community was so strong that the local paper reported on his funeral as follows: “The grief at the loss of so promising a young citizen and the indignation at the cowardly murder brought out the largest number of mourners and followers that ever attended a funeral in (Las Cruces). The church was literally crowded and not even standing room was left. All of the faculty and students of the collage attended…”

Knowing of his great interest in entomology professors C. H. Townsend and T. D. Cockerell, of the College of Agriculture, named the insect Bergrothia Steelii in his honor.

Samuel Steel entered Las Cruces College at

the age of 13. He was the only member of the senior class and was killed just before his graduation at the age of 17.

Posthumously the NMSU Frontage road was named for him “Sam Steel Way”. NMSU seems to honor many people by naming places on campus after them. Such as the “Clifford Yaryan Regulator Station” and the “Dr. Quentin Ford Underpass”!

Today's graduates of NMSU's College of Agriculture, Consumer and Environmental Sciences are well aware of Sam Steel. In the 100th anniversary year of his death, the Sam Steel Society was formed to carry on the scholarly tradition of Steel by inducting new graduates and honored individuals into the Society during a special pre-commencement ceremony.

Congressman Joe Skeen, on the 14th of May

of 1998, (The third Congressman to be elected by a write in ballot), awarded Sam Steel his diploma posthumously.

The entire graduating class consisted of only

Samuel Steel. Samuel was to be the first graduate of the College of Agriculture of New Mexico A&M which would later become a university, NMSU.

Samuel Steel was born May 25th 1875 and

died March 9th 1893. His final resting place is in the “Odd Fellows

Cemetery” on the North East Corner of Brown Road and Compress Street.

Cont’d. on Page 5


Notes:

Samuel Steel would have been the first and sole graduate at the first graduation of The New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (N.M.A. & M.A.). He also would have been the first graduate of any New Mexico institution of higher learning.

New Mexico was still a territory in the fall of

1888 when “Las Cruces College” opened its doors. In 1889 the NM Legislature authorized a land grant college to be created in or near Las Cruces under the Morrill Act. This was the beginning of the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Las Cruces College merged with The N.M.A. & M.A. and school opened on January 21, 1890. There were 35 students and 6 faculty members. By 1960, the school had grown greatly, and its name was changed by state constitutional amendment to New Mexico State University.

“The Entire Graduating Class of the Local Collage Murdered”

is a FAT Boys Historical Research Group compilation. Monthly Bench Tips from Brad Smith Most jewelers use a granular pickle mixed with

water. The active ingredient is sodium bisulfate. This can be purchased from local stores as a common pool chemical used for adjusting the acidity of the water. It's sold under various names, so be sure to check the list of active ingredients for a brand that is 95% or more sodium bisulfate. An added benefit is that the pool chemical is more pure in form than what is sold for jewelry use and does not cause the often

found brown grime floating on the top of a pickle pot. BEZEL SETTING PROBLEMS. When bezel setting a cab that has rather sharp corners, have you ever had problems pushing the metal down at the corners? It's a common problem often causing a wrinkle in your bezel and a grimace on your face . In order for a bezel to capture the stone, the top edge of the bezel must be compressed and become shorter

to lay down onto the stone. With a round or oval stone this naturally happens as you push and burnish the bezel. But when setting a stone with corners, the tendency is to push the long sides of the bezel down first. No compression occurs along the sides, and all excess metal is left at the corners. Compressing everything there is difficult. Often the only way to remove the extra metal at the corner is to make a saw cut and fold the two sides in to touch.

If you want a smooth bezel all around the corners, the simple solution is set the corners of the bezel first. Then push in and burnish the sides. In this way the necessary compression is distributed along the

length of all sides and not forced to occur at the corners. With the corners set first, the top edge of the bezel can easily be compressed along the sides.

More Bench Tips by Brad Smith are

at facebook.com/BenchTips/ or see the book "Bench Tips for Jewelry Making" on Amazon.com

Trillions in Diamonds Russia has just declassified news that will shake world gem markets to their core: the discovery of a vast new diamond field containing "trillions of carats," enough to supply global markets for another 3,000 years. The Soviets discovered the bonanza back in the 1970s beneath a 35-million-year-old, 62-mile diameter asteroid crater in eastern Serbia known as Popigai Astroblem http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0917/Russia-reveals-shiny-state-secret-It-s-awash-in-diamonds Sent in by Brad Smith

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him...... A super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis


THE FARM & RANCH HERITAGE MUSEUM FIRST ANNUAL ROCK SHOW

Not quite knowing what to expect from this first show put on by the Friends of the Museum, I was very impressed with both the number of vendors and the quality of merchandise. True, my favorites the minerals weren’t well represented but there was a lot of variety. Several of our members had tables along with other local dealers and friends. I heard counts of forty to fifty vendors. Pretty darn good for a first show. We ran into a number of Gemcrafters in the crowd and I tried to get pics of them all but had some trouble with the camera and didn’t get them all. Wish they made a camera like the old Timex watches – Take a beating and keep on clicking. Anyway, it was a good show, had a good time and will go back next year.

Rob Kosnick, Dave & Joan Smith

Dodds Culpit, Jr. at his booth

*If there had been a prize for the most well organi zed and marked booth, he would have won it.

Benny Finn Jr. & Jim Huff (probably talking cars)

Copper found at Fred Hurd’s booth – *(One can never have enough copper)

Fred & Linda Huff (cash in one hand and a

Meteorite in the other)

*Editor’s opinions


REMOVING CLAY FROM ROCKS AND MINERALS

Here in the eastern USA, what was once solid rock has been heavily weathered into our infamous red clay. As a result, firmly attached clay on mineral specimens is a common cleaning problem and can be a real headache to remove successfully. Rule Number One in cleaning any mineral: ALWAYS RESEARCH YOUR MINERAL SPECIES FOR ITS SOLUBILITY AND HARDNESS BEFORE CLEANING . Check in textbooks (RGMS library) or on the internet if you are not sure what cleaning solutions or techniques you can safely use on a particular species. It is also a good idea to examine your rocks carefully before cleaning for possible non-washable mineral species - such as fluffy crystals or delicate coatings. Procedure 1. Never rub or scrub wet clay - it will pack down even tighter. Let clay dirt dry out completely. This will take considerable time. 2. Work outdoors in an area where you can safely and conveniently dispose of the waste clay slurry you will make. 3. Fill your empty washing container with cold water. Never use hot or warm water for cleaning clay, as this will cause the clay to stick even tighter. 4. Stir a tablespoon of powdered Calgon or TSP (Lowes) into a cup of hot water until the crystal dissolve. Add this to the cold wash water. The cold water should now feel “slippery” – if not add more Calgon or TSP by the same method. (Clear [not “sudsy] ammonia will also substitute as a cleaner for clay, but is unpleasant to work with and requires excellent ventilation, eye protection, and rubber gloves. Also, powdered dishwashing detergent can be used – dissolve powders first in hot water and add that to the cold wash water.) 5. Now, add the fully dried out clay, clay covered rocks, or dirt. Let it rest for 10 or 20 minutes to absorb the solution. You will see the clay begin to fall apart. 6. Flush the rocks with a hose and pour off the muddy slurry. Carefully pour off the muddy water after each flush to avoid losing crystals. 7. When this rinsing stage is complete, you can do a final wash with a little Calgon, a small amount of clear (not “sudsy”) ammonia in water, or Windex to remove the last of the clay coatings. Rinse again and drain. 8. Carefully dump minerals on to newspapers to dry or let them dry in the tub. Minerals can also be screened for size during the final rinse stage, or you can screen later when dry. 9. Once dried, if necessary, you can brush or “pick out” remaining clay and re-wash in Windex, dilute ammonia, or more Calgon. The vibrating “Gemsonic” type jewelry cleaners (about $10) or a true ultrasonic cleaner (about $30 at Harbor Freight) filled with Windex will put a clean final finish on crystals. Rinse again. 10. Iron stains (and clay) are removed with a soak in Iron Out (Walmart $10/5 lb.). Dissolve Iron Out in warm water before adding to the soak water. Use this solution in a well ventilated space as there is a sulfur odor. Soak 24 hours. Solutions of Iron Out can be re-used right away, but will lose strength if stored. 11. Oxalic acid (wood bleach – Lowes, Home Depot) can also be used on suitable minerals to clean off iron stains.

Handle oxalic acid carefully and rinse specimens as you would for other acids (see below). Oxalic acid can be reused. Household products that can be used as “rock cleane rs” **Safety : Always use plastic containers, rubber or nitrile gloves, eye protection, good ventilation, and great care when handling these household products** 1. Zud or Barkeeper's Friend cleansers (contain oxalic acid) - Warm or hot solutions will remove iron stains and is helpful with clay deposits. These cleaners can be used with a toothbrush on sturdy surfaces. 2. Toilet cleaner (the hydrochloric acid type) - Dissolves calcite rapidly. *** After treating anything with an acid, rinse very carefully and soak in ample fresh or distilled water for a while to leach out any acid remaining in crystal seams and fractures. You can then follow up with a final soak in dilute Windex to neutralize remaining traces of acid. **NEVER use a Windex solution until the water soak is fully completed. ** 3. Lime Away (dilute hydrochloric acid) - Dissolves calcite more slowly. Rinse as you would for other acid treatments (see above). 4. Calgon - Dissolve this powdered water softener in water. Use for clay removal. 5. Vinegar (acetic acid), soda water, colas (carbonic and phosphoric acids) – Will slowly etch out very delicate fossils in limestone. Rinse as you would for other acids (see above). 6. Iron Out (iron stain and clay remover) - Mix with warm water and use with good ventilation. It will lose strength if stored. Rinse with plain water. 7. Bleach - Dilute solutions of bleach can remove organic deposits and disinfect minerals collected in areas used by livestock. Rinse with plain water. 8. Hydrogen peroxide - Use to remove manganese stains. Rinse with plain water 9. Citric acid - Use to remove manganese stains. Rinse as above for acids. 10. Windex (with ammonia) - A good clay deposit remover and final surface cleanup. Works well in ultrasonic cleaners. Rinse with plain water. 11. Distilled water – Use to clean sensitive species and as a final soak after acid treatment. REMOVING THIN COATINGS On moderately hard minerals - Use toothpaste (a feldspar abrasive) and a toothbrush. On hard minerals – Use toothbrush with pumice powder and water. On calcite (including bruised places) – Quickly dip in vinegar or Lime Away and rinse thoroughly. Repeat. Soak in plain water afterwards to leach any acid from cracks. CLEANING TOOLS Toothpicks, bamboo sticks Old dental tools Old toothbrushes Canned air Periodontal brushes Sewing needles in a pin vise Seam ripper Cheap small stiff bristle brushes Single edge razor blades Exacto knife Via The Collecting Bag December 200


Reminders & Gen. Info The next meeting will be as usual on the third Friday of the month, Mar. 15th in Room 118, Gardiner Hall on the NMSU campus, 6:30 PM for socializing and 7 PM for the meeting. The speaker TBA.

It’s that time of the year once again DUES ARE DUE. For those of you who have not paid up by the March meeting, this will be your last El Gambrisino and you will be removed from the Membership roll. The Dues are now Ten

Dollars per adult (over 18). I would like to thank Eric Fuller for the most interesting articles he has submitted this month and last. Although not rock related they are local history and noteworthy. I hope everyone is enjoying them as much as I am. LeRoy Unglaub would like to remind everyone that the DAAS meeting is at 7PM Tuesday, the 12th of March at the Good Samaritan Auditorium. He will be giving his “Southwest Rock Art Hunting Iconography” lecture. This is the same program he gave to us several months ago but with many additional photos. If you missed it here, this would be a good time to catch it.

CLUB PRIZE DRAWING! Prizes will be awarded at the March 15th, 2013 meeting of the “Gemcrafters and Explorers Club”. First Prize will be a new hard hat suitable to wear underground or when on tours of industrial facilities. Second Prize will be a Surprise!

Members will be asked a question about some item in this issue of “El Gambrisino”. They will answer on a piece of paper signed with their name. The first and second papers with the correct answer that are drawn will win the corresponding prize. EF

AFMS ENDOWMENT DRAWING FOR 2013

Drawing to be held during the AFMS Convention and Show

Sept. 18-22, 2013 Jacksonville, FL

by R.J. Harris, Endowment Fund Chair

Interest from AFMS Endowment Fund investments is used to support numerous programs that benefit our affiliated member clubs. In the past several years, interest money has been used to purchase badges for the juniors program which are given at no charge to clubs with organized junior activities programs, digitize the old AFMS slide programs that have been distributed at no charge to the regional federations, purchase new commercially produced programs for the regional federation libraries and support the Judges Training Program. As the primary means of fund raising, the Endowment Fund has held an annual drawing of donated prizes for the past several years. If you would like to donate one or more prizes, send your item, with a complete description including estimated value and donor name to: R.J. Harris 1109 Gunstock Lane Mechanicsburg, PA 17050-2009 roqfreq rjharris.com The excitement is growing for the 2013 Drawing! Tickets are $5 each of 5 for $20. To order, make your check payable to “AFMS Endowment Fund” and mail it along with a stamped self-addressed envelope to your regional federation representative listed below. Be sure to include your name, address, phone number and e-mail when placing your order. Regional Salesperson: Rocky Mountain Federation: Richard Jaeger

3515 E 88th St

Tulsa, OK 74137-2602

[email protected]

Please go to the AFMS web site to view the donated prizes. www.Amfed.org/endow2013


COOKE’S PEAK 2-24-2013 It was another blustery morning when we headed out. Most everyone had backed out and only two vehicles showed up, Jim Huff and I and friends Cliff and Jeannie Meier’s from Albuquerque. Other than the wind it was pretty nice. We made good time and arrived at the Cookes Peak Road turnoff in good shape to find the road in good condition and we were soon gaining altitude on our way to the old town of Cooke.

Just before arriving at Cooke we checked out this old homestead. Jeannie & I kept busy picking up some very interesting Conglomerate rocks of many colors. By the time we got to Cooke itself the weather was closing in and the winds were worse. We pretty much stayed in the vehicles where it was warm and dry.

We drove around quite a bit; absolutely have to go back when the weather is a little more favorable. Then it started snowing – a lot – tho not enough to keep us from exploring the area. The Meier’s had never been up there before and were quite taken with the beauty and ruggedness of the area. Jeannie’s Grandmother had taught school at the old town many years ago and she had wanted to see it for herself. She didn’t get to walk around this trip but there’s always the next time.

This was on the way up. The clouds were already well down

in the valleys.

Same fixture later on the way down.

Another relic of the mining days. Those white dots all over the picture are snowflakes in case you haven’t guessed.

By the time we got down to the flats on the main road there was no snow and the sun was shining but still windy and cold. It turned out to be a great time. Did I mention Sparky’s on the way back? Yummy!


UP COMING SHOW Dates: MAR. 7-10—DEMING, NEW MEXICO: 48th Annual Rockhound Roundup Gem & Mineral Show an d Sale; Deming Gem & Mineral Society; SWNM Fairgrounds; 4200 Raymond Ree d; Thu. 9-5, Fri. 9-5, Sat. 9-5, Sun. 9-5; free adm ission; jewelry and rock-related items, displays, demonstrations, spinn ing wheel, geode cutting, guided field trips, child ren's corner, silent auction, live auction, door prizes, cash raffle; co ntact Maurice Crawford, 713 W. Spruce St. PMB 726, Deming, NM 88030, (575) 546-0056; e-mail: [email protected] ; Web site: www.dgms.bravehost.com MAR. 15-17—ALBUQEURQUE, NEW MEXICO: Annual show; Albuquerque Gem & Mineral Club; Albuquerque State Fairgrounds, Expo NM; 300 San Pedro NE, enter from San Pedro at Copper St.; Fri. 10-6, Sat. 10-6, Sun. 10-5; adults $3, $1 Fri., children (under 13) free; 45 dealers, exhibits, minerals, fossils, jewelry, crystals, cut stones, displays, books, raffles, silent auction, door prizes, Creative Arts Center; contact Paul Hlava, (505) 265-4178; e-mail: [email protected] ; Web site: www.agmc.info APR. 4-6—WYOMING, MICHIGAN: Annual show; Indian Mounds Rock & Mineral Club; Rogers Plaza Town Center; 28th St., west of US 131; Thu. 9:30-9, Fri. 9:30-9, Sat. 9:30-8; free admission; dealers, crystals, minerals, fossils, beads, polished rocks, faceted gems, jewelry, carvings, estate pieces, rock tumblers, specimens, coprolite, demonstrations, children's table, rock identification, coprolite exhibit; contact John Donker, 7129 Edgewood Ave., Jenison, MI 49428, (616) 457-0556; e-mail: [email protected] ; Web site: www.indianmoundsrockclub.com APR. 19-21—DENVER, COLORADO: Wholesale and retail show; Martin Zinn Expositions LLC; Ramada Plaza Denver Central; 4849 Bannock St.; Fri. 10-6, Sat. 10-6, Sun. 10-6; free admission; 70 local and regional dealers, minerals, fossils, meteorites, gems, jewelry, beads, lapidary supplies, metaphysical supplies, decorator items; contact Regina Aumente, PO Box 665, Bernalillo, NM 87004, (505) 867-0425; e-mail: [email protected] ; Web site: www.mzexpos.com APR. 26-29—WICHITA, KANSAS: Show and sale; Wichita Gem & Mineral Society; Cessna Activity Center; 2744 George Washington Blvd.; Fri. 9-7, Sat. 10-7, Sun. 10-5; adults $5, students $1, children free; contact Gene Maggard, (316) 742-3746; e-mail: [email protected] APR. 27-28—BENTON HARBOR, MICHIGAN: Annual show; Blossomland Gem & Mineral Society; Orchard Mall; 1800 Pipestone Rd.; Sat. 10-7, Sun. 11-4; free admission; demonstrations, gem faceting, silver smithing, jewelry making, rock and gem crafts, gold panning, dealers; contact Larry Kiernan, 208 E. Sycamore St., Three Oaks, MI 49128, (269) 756-9080; e-mail: [email protected]

For further information or shows please check: www.rockngem.com Who knows, there just might be a good rock show in the area of your travels.

Thought for the Day:

How come abbreviated is such a long word?

Some Interesting Web Sites for you to Check Out Please send me any of your favorites that you think others might be interested in and I will pass them along.. For Land and road use issues, here are some good web sites to visit: www.amlands.org American Lands Access Association www.landrights.org American Lands Rights Association www.nmohva.org New Mexico Off Highway Vehicle Alliance www./sharetrails.org Blue Ribbon Coalition

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