Tired of congested humanity, sucking bad air? Long for the great out doors, sounds of silence, and clear skies to see for ever?

Where are you going to find that in the big city?

Wild Horse Acres offers the traditional use real estate and that being to build a home. The difference between building a house in the big city and building a house on Wild Horse Acres is the required permit. On Wild Horse Acres, all one needs to do is bring the carpenters. By code, one has a right to build on this property.

But, besides the ability to build a house on the property, one can build the house their way on the property. This includes a house made of rocks, glass, plastic, steel, or any other material which may meet ones fancy. Another possible type of structure is and underground house. An underground house would offer cheap insulation and extreme privacy.

The average price of an acre of good buildable land in San Francisco and Los Angeles is well over $500,000. Most the time, just a lot, 50 by 100, 5000 square feet, 0.1147 acres, sells for well over $100,000. In the Santa Cruz mountains, a very pretty area, an acre of land which can not be built on goes for $35,000. Within the Sacramento valley, the average acre of agricultural land sells for about $5000. At a Santa Clara Tax Delinquent Sale a 20 acre parcel which was half a river went the other half cliff went for $120,000.

There are several sections of this property which are suitable for building a home. Some parts close to Highway 395 may need to be elevated but there is plenty of dirt to use for fill right on the land.

One could build a house a year for 10 years and with little effort in subdividing and elevating the building sites, it is possible one could get 16 building sites to qualify as building by right. Sell the second house for a modest profit. Build another house and sell it the next year and so on. For a writer, programmer, musician, retired person, or the such, who wants to be away from the crowd, Wild Horse Acres is a perfect location. This would make an interesting vacation house with it's own airport too.

It was a hot day when this passage was written first. The 12 o'clock news, a San Francisco TV news station, aired an air quality warning, don't use lighter fluid, don't use spray cans, don't drive, don't cut your lawn with a power mower, and don't go outside. The gas attack did not happen in Lassen County. A telephone call to Susanville confirmed that the air there was fresh. How much value does breathing have? How much value is there in rasing children free of disease caused by car fumes? Or, away from the influence of drugs and gang warfare? How much value is there in seeing the stars at night or hearing the sounds of silence when you go to sleep?

When one wants to leave the rat race of New York, Chicago, Boston, and Detroit, or, Berlin, London, Moscow, and Tokyo, but still having the four seasons with snow, then Lassen County is great. If one wants to be close to people, bars, stores, hear cars, big rigs, the squeal of breaks, solicitors knocking, and the such, then this is not for you. If you want to listen to quiet, may be raise a horse or two and ride for miles, breath fresh air and not insecticide or gas fumes, then this property is for you.

Lots of celebrates have homes in remote areas just to get away from the general population. Generally speaking, these are super stars. One may argue that this land does not trees and the such. It is mostly flat. However, even super stars got to work or they will not be super stars for long. A nice thing about this land is that one could land a large plane on it without even making a runway in the summer. Admittedly, in the winter, it would be nice to have a runway. The point being, there is enough room to land and take off a 747 if one wanted to.

Another consideration for living in an area like Wild Horse Acres is the relative safety of not being in an area that can be hit by terrorists. San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston and the like are pron to terrorist attacks. These places can easily have a nuclear weapon snuck in by boat or plane. Bang...no city. Wild Horse Acres will not have this problem. It is something to think about.

Ranching: Wild Horse Acres is obviously range land suitable for a horse and or cattle ranch. As a cattle ranch, the BLM land could be leased for grazing.

Farming: Farming is another possibility. Alfalfa grows on this land. Alfalfa sells at about $2,200 per acre. However, there are many other types of crops one can grow. Grapes will grow in the area too. Grapes are a cash crop for California.

If one farmed the area they would have to fence it. Farming would not upset the local cattle ranchers because there is not competition with leasing BLM land. Cattle, horses, and antelope love alfalfa. Controlling water would be a very important consideration.

Dude Ranch: One can start a dude ranch. As the governments wild horse facility is only 3 miles south on Highway 395, one could get a good deal on horses. Have people come out for a week or two and do nothing but ride the range.

Spanish Springs is a dude ranch about 20 miles north. This is a nice spot. Spanish Springs is in mountainous terrain with some Juniper Trees around. However, the operators of Spanish Springs come down to BLM land and use the government land for trail drives, and the such.

This property has many places to ride a horse. One could ride a horse all the way to Utah.

Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facility: Being remote and having few neighbors to complain, Wild Horse Acres would make a good Rehabilitation site. It is far form any where to buy drugs or alcohol. No one will simply walk to the store. There is no store for miles in any direction. The local government would welcome such a business.

Rock Concert or Country and Western Concert: This isn't what one would call a classical use for land but it is a viable option which could pay for the land in one use. It is for sure a valid possibility. The flats during August and September would support thousands of cars parked on it. Access to the parking lot would be right off the main highway. The eastern section could have a stage put up.

Loud...how loud can you get? 120 dbm no problem. Neighbors will not complain because there are no neighbors. However, a 120 dbm will probably draw law suits from those at the concert due to the deafening volume.

One could run a train from Reno Nevada to the site, drop off the people in the morning at the wistle stop town with no buildings called Viewland and pick them up at night. This way, many people could get to the concert in an old time train, and stay in Reno at night. Additionally, Reno would offer an international airport for world wide operations. The train line has recently been abandoned so there is also the possibility of obtaining the rights to the line.

Those who didn't want to take the train could camp out in their cars. Additionally, with permission, the BLM land could be utilized too.

The local economy would welcome something like this too.

Mobile Home Park: This property would make a great mobile home park too. It is cheap and there is a lot of land to park on. A mobile home park would require permits but the local economy would welcome a mobile home park. The eastern end is a classical area for such use. People would like to say they live at the California Crossroads of the Oregon Trail.

More interestingly is the new prison in the area. The towns folk some 26 miles away are not all that thrilled to have spouses and other relatives who have relations with the actual inmates. The guards and support personnel are welcome but not so much the friends of the inmates. This is a huge potential resource for a trailer park. These people have a tendance not to have a lot of money. They have to live somewhere. Why not to east of the prison rather than in town? Getting something like $350 per location is easy. This is a large state medium security prision. There would be quite a few relitives that would stay in the area if they could.

Camp Ground: Along with a mobile home park, Wild Horse Acres would make a classic place for a camp ground. Advertising Wild Horse Acres as a Camp Ground in the KOA franchise operation has great possibilities because of the historic land mark area. Most KOA facilities are only 10 - 20 acres. This facility would be 1300 acres. Besides just a place to camp, one could also provide horses and midnight hay rides.

SCUBA Aquatorium: Odd as it sounds, there is no such thing as bad lands. Here, in the middle of no where, one can dig a hole as deep as they want, then flood the hole with water from a well. There is a lot of water underground. There is plenty of power. With a deep hole, good plastic lining, and plenty of water, this place can be turned into a SCUBA wonderland. No sharks to worry about any way. Well, as in deep subject, probably not.

This property lends itself to some unique valuable options for the use of real estate. As it is remote, there will not be many objections to uses which can cause people to worry about their health. Sierra Pacific Power Transmission Line goes about a mile through Wild Horse Acres and the Sierra Pacific's Tuscarora Gas Power Pipe Line goes about a mile through Wild Horse Acres allowing Wild Horse Acres many possibilities.

Aluminum Recycling Plant, Medical Waist Disposal Facility, Biological Development Operation, Power Generating Plant which are all possible because of the unique position this real estate is in. It has a power transmission natural gas line. There is few people who will complain. Both rail and roads are close by. The land is highly stable. The county needs the money.

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