BARILLIS PEAK
New Mexico - San Miguel County - Santa Fe National Forest
November 21, 1920: "On the Santa Fe Forest another ranger's wife, due to a critical season and the inability to get properly qualified guards, occupied during the daylight hours the Barrillis Peak lookout, riding each day from the San Geronimo Station five miles distant. This woman was Mrs. D.E. Harbison." (Tombstone Epitaph)
October 22, 1925: "Ranger M.M. B----- of the Gallinas Forestry station is now building a lookout cabin on the Barellis peak." (Las Vegas Daily Optic)
November 10, 1938: "An observer, standing in the Barillas Peak lookout station, N.M., may view more than one billion trees, the forest managers never intend to harvest. These trees, overmature, dead, and rotten remain augmenting the inevitable fire hazard." (Albuquerque Journal)
June 30, 1971: "Forest Service official Wendell Gore said the 'Cat' and 'Dog' fires in the Santa Fe National Forest joined and increased to 7000 acres.
Gore said the fire apparently burned past a Forest Service lookout tower on Barillas Peak without damaging it." (Albuquerque Journal)