Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-04-18


A Site for Everyone.
Some people in locating a sum
inner home or camping and fishing
lodge in the wilds, prefer to be
ientirely away from all other settle
Iments and people and the summer
home subdivision plan of the for
est service which is attractive to
many, does not appeal to them
For these folks provision is made
and recognition given that they
exist. The individual forest en-
braces a great eXpanse OF country
Of great diversity, much of it wild
and accessible only to tho more
venturesome. Any place in this
area where the title to the ground
rests with the government and
where no other administrative con-
sideraton iutervenes, the seeker
for an isolated retreat for his sum
Imer home can have, ON applica-
ton, a site surveyed and permit
ISSUED. The more accessible lot
subdivisions remain for those wish
ling to be nearer 70 supplies, mail
land community life as represented
by nearby neighborhood summer
Iresidenters. For the seeker of soil
Itudc, the vast mountain ranges and
the back country still remain.
1. Community Sites.
A number of forests in the
southwest have summer home
areas subdivided and surveyed
ready for application and build
J., ing. As far as possible the forest
service anticipates the demand for
these lots in advance on forests
Inear or easil accessible to the
larger communities. Phoenix has
such an area already highly de-
veloped and containing over fifty
; homes, a club house, golf links,
tennis court, store and community
pavilion on the Prescott forest
near Prescott, Arizona. On the
Santa Fe forest ON the famous
! Pecos river many individual sum-
mer homes have been built in
past years and there await for
application many attractive sites
, in three groups at as many points
along that river. on the Coronado
forest, near Tucson, big impetus
has been recently given to the
building of summer homes through
|
, automobile road to the crest of the
tSanta Catalina mountains, hither-
> to reached only by pack burrO or
long, tedious wagon trip of sew
{ eral days duration. About twenty
: new summer homes are to be
built this spring at this place on
three groups of forest service sites,
| development Of which, excepting
half dozen or so cottages built
some years ago, has been await
I ing the building of the road now
completed. Roswell is starting a
: community development in the
p Lincoln national forest this spring,
! and here also about twenty-five
: summer home lots will be built
upon. in addition to central club
or community house.
; Pick Your Own Site.
: AS to the procedure in getting
? one of these summer home sites,
the process is simple. Just as one
t would not buy q city or town lot
= upon which one planned to build
= a home and live, without seeing it
! or having a very definite idea as
| to its surroundings, so it is i'm
practical to ask for a term occu-
= pancy permit without having made
= trip to the areas available and
= picking out lot that is for rent.
81 Conditions and surroundings on the
. forests are so variable that only
= by going over the ground could
! one be assured of being satisfied
e with the lot for which a permit is
\ taken. The forest ranger in the
2 particular region is available to
; direct applicants to summer home
r subdivisions. The boundaries of
S the lots are usually marked or
= the ground and numbered so that
g each lot is easily identified and
: selection thereby facilitated. AS
e. has been indicated, site need
a not be in a locality already sub
f divided. but any suitable area can
d be applied for and if, upon exam
o ination, there are no conflictinc
= claims or interests, it will be sur.
t veyed and permit issued. The SO.
: lection of such a site is usually
e however, based on a fairly good
9 knowledge of the region and sur.
d roundings by the one desiring tho
:. land
/, To people living in Albuquerque
e ana santa re and vicinity, tho
n Pecos summer home areas offe,
: the nearest and most accessible
7. places of the kind here described
n Lying in three groups along this
o stream. in heavily tmbered and
e Wen watered country with excel.
it lent fishing, well developed noun.
n tain trails and high mountains or
Il all sides, are many summer home
el sites ready for use. The foresr
e ranger at Cowles. N. NJ, is on thu
Isl ground and can take or direct in.
IS terested individuals to the areas.
+ Further information on summer
Isl home sites is available at the for.
81 est supervisors office in Santa FL
d or at the office of any supervisor
! Of a national forest, also at III,
/ district forester's office In Albu
IS qureQue.