Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-17
HOWE CORRESPONDENT
TELLS OF RANCH OUTLOOK.

Special Correspondence.
| lowe, Fremont Co. March 10
This postoffice Is situated in what Via,
lis known as the sinks Of Little
Lost river, in Fremont county a few
miles north of the Bingham county
line and about one mile east OF the
Blaine county line. The valley through
which the stream flows runs from
northwest to southeast, hence when
one has travelled 10 miles up the
stream It all lays in Blaine county.
That portion located In Fremont and
strip adjacent thereto belonging to
Blaine are conducting joint school
under the direction OF Amelia Maelzer,
with an enrolment OF 90 pupils, The
people are very much behind the times
I'm the way of a schoolhouse, consider
ing the amount of taxable property
I'm the district as will be seen by the
enumeration of the hocks and herds
referred to hereafter The school
house is a very primitive log building.
The ranches of this valley are not
very compact; few have neighboring
ranches bordering on more than two
sides. Many have but one neighbor
Joining them, and some are surrounded
with Uncle Sans domain only. The
main reason for this is the fact that
only the best land and that which IL
most easily irrigated has been filed on
by the settlers who use all the water
supply There Is not water enough
now to irrigate more than one-tenth
Of the land. Each ranchman seems to
vie with his neighbor In raising the
biggest stack Of hay. Wheat, oats aud
potatoes are the other staple crops,
Everything raised by the farmers
seems to ind a ready market at their
doors. and at this writing farm prod
ucts are IN great demand. In short,
the products are insufficient as sheep
men are having corn hauled from the
railroad al ArcO, a distance Of % to 80
miles, to feed their flocks, owing TO
the scarcity of hay In the valley. The
little amount Of hay for sale is held
at sl2 per ton, hence the sheepman
who has exhausted his supply takes
| It as the better part " economy to
pull out for the desert and feed corn
than to buy hay at that price. The
scarcity Of feed is due TO the fact that
the snow IS deeper and the winter
| longer than for IL years past
This is a very good stock country
as Will be seen by the number Of herds
| of cattle and bands of horses and
| sheep. For the first f. miles from
| tho sinks up the river there are IS
| ranches There were also counted
| seven large herds Of cattle four bands
| Of horses and &c hocks of sheep, own
ed largely by local ranchmen. on
| each side OF the valley there is good
, stock range, where sheep, cattle and
| horses Craze In some cases horses
| and sheep rustic their living the year
| around, but cattle, as a rule must be
| fed during the winter. Every rancher
| is raising some horses and cattle on a
| small scale,
The output IN farm produce Is hard
20 beat Herewith is given the several
amounts per acre raised by Miller Jen-
| son on his ranch In 1905; Alfalfa hay,
| SIS tons; wheat As bushels. Oats IS
bushels Mr., Jensen believes this TO
| be about the average Of the valley.
| There has been produced as high as
| 1870 bushels VI oats per acre. One
| prominent man who came here 20
| years ago, states that at one time from
| the products Of his ranch and stock
| business he had m bank $500, now
| has In lands and stock, horses and cat
| tie an estate valued at 100000.
ON the east range of mountains and
within the 9 miles distance heretofore
mentioned, the Domb mining district
| lies and the hills abound with timber
The price of real estate Is from S25
| TO $50 per acre Were there some
| way devised to increase the supply OF
| water there are thousands OF acres
OF first class land which could be
opened to settlers.