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8 Hu Blakemore Myers, commanded Fort Huachuca in 1923. “Richmond,” he said, “you go to Lochiel and wash it off the face of the earth; add concrete footings to the temporary target range; take the pumping plant and the light plant and bring them on up here and relocate them on the target range.” That’s about half-way between here and Garden Canyon. We took the escort wagons down; we took the beds off HUACHUCA ILLUSTRATED
and sent one troop. I went to Lochiel and salvaged the place and transported it over. ...I transported all the lumber, light plant pieces and the pumping plant pieces. I came back here and put concrete foundations out on the target range and set it up and pulled the switch. I was amazed when it worked. ...At that time there was only one adobe shack and a gate [at Lochiel], with a line rider and his wife. We had no fresh vegetables at the camp; however, there was a Chinese garden five miles south of a little town called Santa Cruz. We used to go down, myself and the Mess Sergeant, to the Chinese garden and buy fresh vegetables and potatoes which we brought back across the line. 150 In 1924 10th Cavalry and post commander, Col. J. C. Rhea, was writing to the commanding general of the 8th Corps Area headquartered at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The commander had been asked to appraise the real estate value of the post. The Army was apparently considering selling the property. Colonel Rhea’s reply gives a glimpse of the post in the early twenties. The matter of the real estate value of Fort Huachuca has been gone into carefully. There has been very little land sold in this vicinity recently, and the present obtainable prices do not furnish an accurate basis for estimation of prices on account of unfavorable business conditions. However, by comparing prices now with those received in more prosperous years, it is thought a fairly reliable estimate has been deduced. It must be remembered that any sales made in this vicinity are usually paid for over a long term of years, ten to twentyfive, and that payments depend on the prosperity of the cattle industry. It is believed that the Fort Huachuca reservation and installations could not be subdivided. If sold it should be sold in its entirety as a cattle ranch. There is a large part which is good grazing land, with winter shelter and some grazing in the canyons and wooded hill sides. The principal factor that makes it desirable as a cattle ranch is the water system which has been developed here, and which would furnish sufficient water for the range included in the reservation. In case it were bought for a ranch the owner would have a surplus of buildings and plants for which he would probably have no use. In this case the land and water system would be the most valuable, while the value of the buildings would be lost. It was considered selling the post proper as a tuberculosis sanitarium or a health and amusement resort. In this case the buildings and installations would be of greater value but the price of the land would be small, since it could hardly be sold as a cattle range without the water system. There had developed in the last few years a fad for establishing “Ranch Resorts,” a combination of ranch and pleasure resort, which seem to be well patronized and which are very profitable. A combination of that sort might be worked out for Fort Huachuca, as conditions are ideal. In that way the reservation might be sold as a whole. The purchaser establishing a ranch proper, and utilizing the existing buildings and other plants for the convenience of guests who would wish to ride and hunt, and possibly setting aside the hospital and other suitable buildings for a sanitarium. The reservation is not suitable for agricultural or factory purposes, or for any other use than as above stated. It is possible that minerals may be developed in the mountains some A MAGAZINE OF THE FORT HUACHUCA MUSEUM 9
Page 2 and 3: 2 Contents Huac Huachuca’ Huac hu
Page 4 and 5: 4 the mountains. We also have a wir
Page 6 and 7: 6 Garrison Flag at halfstaff on Mem
Page 10 and 11: day, but there is no salable value
Page 12 and 13: World War II. Looney was the son of
Page 14 and 15: the Commanding Officer’s Quarters
Page 16 and 17: 16 “Fort Huachuca, Arizona, 1933.
Page 18 and 19: 18 Original enlisted barracks. From
Page 20 and 21: 20 Railroad siding with warehouses
Page 22 and 23: 22 Mexican laborers’ camp. From t
Page 24 and 25: 24 View of Fort Huachuca in 1920. V
Page 26 and 27: 26 View of Fort Huachuca around 191
Page 28 and 29: 28 Fort Huachuca in the 1920s. Note
Page 30 and 31: 30 A view of Fort Huachuca in 1924
Page 32 and 33: 32 “Parade Grounds and Buildings
Page 34 and 35: 34 A 1929 aerial view of Fort Huach
Page 36 and 37: 36 Post Exchange in the 1930s. Look
Page 38 and 39: Officers’ quarters, 25th Infantry
Page 40 and 41: 40 Fort Huachuca in 1933. Photo cou
Page 42 and 43: 42 Keeping a crap game honest. From
Page 44 and 45: 44 A Markel boy on his pony. From t
Page 46 and 47: 46 the instruction of a CMTC [Citiz
Page 48 and 49: afternoon the treaty became a reali
Page 50 and 51: A Fort Huachuca trooper with machin
Page 52 and 53: 10th Cavalry Machine Gun Troop at s
Page 54 and 55: colored non-coms from a squadron of
Page 56 and 57: Camp Stephen D. Little, Nogales, Ar
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ment to 1,150. Personnel affected b
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60 patrols. * * * The staff was pro
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62 views. U.S. Army photo. Regiment
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64 Company G, 25th Infantry, at Nog
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66 Parade at Huachuca in 1938 of th
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The massed standards and colors of
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70 HUACHUCA ILLUSTRATED
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mas Wolfe finished Look Homeward An
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The commander at Huachuca in 1932,
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Colonel Robert S. Knox (left), comm
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interesting to me, since I always w
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80 sions. Wire and radio nets will
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82 The 25th Infantry Newspaper The
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84 that came the march by, first ti
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86 States Army.” 184 Golden State
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“The American Soldier, 1938: Cava
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90 The gas station at Huachuca in t
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ody apparently had ever figured on
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Colonel John F. Franklin, commandin
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96 lifestyles of families stationed
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98 was home and I had a relatively
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Huachuca’s Changing Landscape: Wo
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military accessory schools. Followi
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Fort Huachuca, Arizona in 1934, hom
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Post theater (bldg. no 41305) about
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108 View of the Old Post from Reser
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South end of Old Post area, Bonnie
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112 July 19, 1938 view of the post
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Airfield at Fort Huachuca’s main
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Pacific. Japan went to war with Chi
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118 behalf of the education and wel
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Beach, E. Merrill. From Valley Forg
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Printing Office, Washington D.C., 1
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155 Betancourt papers in FHM files.
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