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ist accommodations are available, and the dates, the magnificent 

 palm trees, the tropical fruits, will make a stop here enjoyable 

 and not to be forgotten. South from Indian Wells a few miles 

 is unique La Quinta with its typical Spanish architecture close 

 against the foot of the San Jacinto Mountains. Cathedral City 

 and Palm Springs lie ahead. 



Here Is Palm Springs 



And lo! here is Palm Springs! Here are the finest and most 

 modern accommodations in the midst of the most abject desert. 

 From sage-brush, greasewood, and cacti, horned toads and the 

 parched arid land, suddenly the most modern buildings and 

 verdant vegetation loom before the astonished gaze. If the 

 enchantment of this marvelous city in the desert leaves any 

 longing for the wild go up Palm Canyon, or explore any of the 

 canyons which serrate the rugged sides of San Jacinto Moun- 

 tain. Palm Canyon extends almost due south 2 5 miles, having 

 its head on Santa Rosa Peak. The west fork of Whitewater 

 River follows the line of a fault and has eroded the deep gorge. 

 On the east side of the gorge the rock wall is metamorphosed 

 sedimentary rock; the west wall is the gneissoid-granite of the 

 San Jacinto Mountains. 



Mount Jacinto and San Andreas Fault 



San Jacinto Peak (10,805 feet) towers overhead. From 

 Indio north, off to the right for several miles, the steep perfect 

 scarp of the Indio fault faces the valley, 100 to 300 feet high. 

 Two ranges of hills, the Indio Hills north and Mecca Hills 

 south, face the valley on the east, the ranges rising to a height 

 of about 1,000 feet above the plain. The hills are eroded to 

 a magnificent type of badland topography. The Indio fault, 

 which determines the east wall or side of the valley, is regarded 

 as the continuation of the San Andreas fault. Mud volcanoes 

 extend along a line through the axis of the Imperial Valley to 

 Volcano Lake in Mexico. The heat of the mud volcanoes, boil- 



