1. From Richard Callard, 23 Sep 2001:
LAND RECORD
Name: CHARLES EDWARD CALLARD
Date: 31 Dec 1958
Location: CA, San Bernardino
Document #: 1189981
Serial #: CALA 0110241
Sale Type: Small Tract Sale
Meridian or Watershed: SB
Parcel: Township 002N, Range 007E, Section 25

“This was the desert house. In order to get the ten acres we had to build a one-room cabin. The cabin had an open beam ceiling and fireplace. Water had to be brought in and there was a water tank. The outhouse was about 75 feet away from the building and it was cold in the winter. My mother, Maurine and father Charles Edward Callard liked to spend time in the desert and get away from the city. The cabin was built by my father and friends. The chimney and fireplace were built of rocks and stone that Dad had collected. The slab was formed and poured in one day. A neighbor had a small water truck and kept the slab moist so it would cure. Three weeks later we framed the cabin, but we had only put up two sides when the wind started blowing and they came down. That was Saturday, on Sunday the wind stopped and we put up the framing, cross beams and the roof. We painted the exposed wood surface of the open beams. Two doors and the windows were installed. This was a lot of work done in a short time. I think there were about ten persons working on the cabin. A friend who was an electrician did the wiring. Wire and backing was added to the outside in preparation of Stucco, later that week a local plasterer put on the Stucco and the final coat. I remember taking the wall board out to the desert and the installing it. One side had a photo surface of wood grain not too dark and it looked nice. The cabin was basically completed in about ten weeks. We still had to install the floor tile and get connected to the outside power. With out electrical power we used oil lamps. Each weekend my parents out to do something of the cabin and they made a patio out of the rocks they had collected over time. They would put cloth on the bottom of a form place the rocks and pour concrete in the form and push chicken wire into the soft concrete to give it some strength, smooth it and cover until later. They made about ten squares a weekend; the completed patio had about 40 squares and looked very professional. Water drained into a pit full of gravel under the corner of the slab. Little water was used, i.e. washing dishes, Sponge bath.”