It has been the first section to fully realize what John LeConte has so ably set forth in another chapter on Tahoe as a Summer Residence.

With the completion of the state highway around Lake Tahoe and the projected automobile route from Reno and Carson City, Carnelian Bay will be adjacent to the main arteries of travel.

The proposed link of the Lincoln Highway around the north shore of the Lake will put Carnelian Bay directly on the great international auto road.
The beauties of Lake Tahoe can hardly be magnified to the people of the West.

Those who have once viewed its wonders and its magnificence, who have for a season breathed its invigorating and stimulating atmosphere, who have caught the wily trout which abound in its waters, who have sailed, or rowed, or motor-boated over its indigo-blue surface, carry in memory pictures in comparison with which any word-picture would be inadequate and incomplete.
Hence the projectors of Carnelian Bay struck a popular note when, out of their 81-acre tract, they put on sale convenient-sized lots.

Of these 75 were purchased almost immediately, and by 1914 there were over 45 homes, large and small, already erected.