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Adjutant General James Baca Authorized by Governor and Defense Council to Receive Bids on Buildings. The National Guard cantonment in University Heights is to be sold, ac cording to an announcement yesterday by Adjutant General James Baca, General Baca has been authorized by the governor and the state conuncil of defense to veil the cantonment build ings and water system and return the money to the treasury of the defense connect, from which it originally who obtained. The camp was bait under supervi sion of General Baca from the war fund of the council of defense in This, 1817. By October, of the same year, the troops left for Camp Nearnes and vines that the the buildings have been empty. It was decided then vacation of the camp that would be retained i order that the war department might have the option of using it should they find a uve for it. After much ef fort on the part of General Baer, the governor and prominent state offi cals, to have the cantonment used in some capacity by the war department, it was decided that it should be sold. There are 70 findings in the can tonment, ranging 1 size from 20 by 6 feet to 26 by 120 feet. These con tain a half-million feet of lumber b ids for the momber, In part or as a whole, wil be received on the camp grounds. General Baca or his repre sentative will establish an office there at ones and will receive the bids. Bids aiee may be tailed to the amjutant ceneral at Santa Fe. ‘The right is re served to reject any of his PLAN TO PARK PRESENT CANTONMENT GROUNDS for some time a plan has been agit ated, principally by Colonel D. kK. B Sellers, to park the grounds now used by the cantonment, which are the property of the university. The plan of Colonel Sellers is to plant the grounds with trees of many varieties. “We could ask every citizen of the state who cared to donate a tree,” he said, ‘to send them to the campus on a designated day, provided they are unable to plant their own trees. The engineering students of the university could survey the ground and stake the eooth where trees should be planted The donations need not be confined even by the state. Prominent men and women thrmmhont America could be invited to furnish a tree as a memoral. The trees should be syste matical’ tagged with the names of the donore and there names preserved as the trees grew into permuepen rhonament? ‘Kael donor could care for his or her own tree or could obtain the ser vices of a university student for a) amali sum, who would care for the tree. Trees from outside persons could be cared for by the caretaker of the university grounds. There are a20 acres in the grounds and they could be made into a beautiful park with out expense to the university. “I believe that as many as 1,000 persons in Albuquerque would be enough interested in this plan to do nate trees and fully half that num ber could be obtained throughout the state and from other states. This plan probably will be brought before the board of regents of the university
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Albuquerque Morning Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Thu, Aug 22, 1918
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