Tortilla Ranch Now and Then

[00:00:00]Nations from the old barn that was there.

[00:00:06]The foundation from the house that was there.

[00:00:13]We have you know we [music] have some pictures of that stuff it's pretty interesting.

[00:00:16]And I guess it was a private piece of property in that Superstition Wilderness for a long time until the Forest Service took control of it.

[00:00:24]>> That's always been a question in my mind how these guys went out there and and acquired what they acquired.

[00:00:31]When Frazier sold it to Clemens he patented it in 1919. How did he buy it from from the guy from Frazier?

[00:00:42]There's no mention of of What do you call it homesteading or anything like that?

[00:00:49]>> Yeah.

[00:00:49]>> Cavaness just went out there and built a house and wherever his cattle went that was his land range but he didn't buy it.

[00:00:58]>> [laughter]