ier year. 



The fostering of the tray mill Industry oi California 

 Is left to :".e . orest Service. The problem of supplying 

 tale local demand and at the sane tine setting the most 

 conservative use of our timber i3 by no means an eaay one. 

 The local demand io fron a real need ..hat should be supplied 

 "out at the same time met in a way that will obtain the great- 

 est possible permanent sood. 



Special Use Business at Hunting-ten Iia2:e 



by 

 Claude H. Barter. 







The past summer has seen a rapid advance In the epeolal 

 use business around Hunting-ton lake, the beautiful artificial 

 la?:e, five miles Ions and froia a third of a r.lle to a mile 

 wide, formed by the damming of 31^ Greet for power purposes. 

 TTlthln easy reach of "reono and about 70 X) feet above the hot 

 valley, it Is becoming the favorite location for summer hones, 

 between twenty-five and thirty new perr.its hav-i.ni been isoued 

 tils year. .'; good water ays ten has been installed for the use 

 of the Homal School, the tent camps and the summer hones. 



But it is not a^ays eas> to locate people on lots possess 

 ins al 1 toe good points desired. In one case, a full day was 

 spent with a would-be permittee who wanted a "home on a rocky 

 point . '..'hen a rounj; roclry point was reached, the home-builder 

 waiite'' a good siiooth place for a house and yard on it. 3\it 

 thoxigh the search was continued till nightfall, we load no suc- 

 cess in finding a rou^h roclcy point that r/as snoot]i on top. 



IThlle showing another party lots, we happened to atop on 

 a meadow. Uhile standing there, the nosqiiltoes nearl" ate us 

 up. Lt once the applicant decided tl--at' he r.iust have a r.ee.dow 

 v/here there were no noscj-iitoeo, ior hia lot. 



The nrt lot desired v;ac one ri Jh a '.reat oan^ bl j- trees 

 c. it. IJ was eaoy enough to locate several forested lots, but 



Another hard lot to xind wao one with large timber And a 

 swiitly running itream very olose. The swift water was desired 

 because the applicant ''cou^a sleep so well" where ^ie cox^.^d hear 

 riinninc water er.d the ai^hin^ of the trees. "Then the bep^ lot 



. . the above speciiications was ohown hir: , he 'could neyer 

 g-^and to be near such a roar t "ur.d 'It must be terrible a ; r.on 

 those trees -Then the wind blcwsl" 



