Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM
Afternoon at Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM, May 10, 2012
Ute Lake State Park is located on the shores of a Canadian River Reservoir in Logan NM which is on US 54 about 25 miles north of Tucumcari NM.
- Verizon cell phone and broadband service - weak signal and not useable during my stay.
- Go to Ute Lake State Park website
- Locate Ute Lake State Park on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Nights I've camped here
- Thursday, May 10, 2012 - Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM
- Image: Camped at Ute Lake State Park, Logan NM, May 10, 2012.
Heliograph routes of the 1890 Practice
The date was May 15th, 1890, and the Army's Department of Arizona had just completed a major heliograph practice; it was, in fact, the largest the world had ever seen. I call it the "Volkmar Practice", after the man responsible for it, Col. Wm. J. Volkmar, the Assistant Adjutant General and Chief Signal Officer for the Department of Arizona. Although the practice lasted only sixteen days, preparations for it took months of reconnaissance and preparation. Involved in the long range signaling maneuvers were twenty-five heliograph stations stretching from Whipple Barracks near Prescott to Fort Stanton near Ruidoso, New Mexico. My guess is that close to two hundred men were involved, both cavalry and infantry.