The land changed hands numerous times before being purchased during the Great Depression by the New Mexico Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, which in turn sold it to the federal Resettlement Administration in 1935.
Zemljište je mnogo puta mijenjalo vlasnike sve dok za vrijeme Velike gospodarske krize ga nije kupila New Mexico Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, koja ga je 1935. prodala saveznoj agenciji Upravi za preseljenje (Resettlement Administration).