The daily sentinel., 1909-12-03

On Wednesday afternoon the Daily
Sentinel made the first announce
ment to the effect that the big hay,
grazing and fruit ranch of William
Ternahan, Sr.. located on Hannah
Creek, in this county, and perhaps
the best known and assuredly one of
the finest ranches in that rich farm
ing section, had been sold
However, in the announcement
Wednesday The Sentinel was not able
to give the name of the purchaser of
this fine piece of property and not
until today was the name of the pur-
chaser made public.
The deal has been completed in ev-
cry detail and Mr.. Ternahan, who is
one of the county's oldest and wealth.
lest pioneers, transfers his big home
ranch to Mr.. r. II. Sawyer, of the
city of Denver.
The exact figure of the consider
alton is not given but ii is known TO
run high into the thousands.
Mr.. Sawyer has been in the city
for several days closing up the deal
He is stopping at the La Coust hotel
From what The Sentinel can learn
the new owner of the Ternahan ranch
is very well known in the business
circles OF Denver, and for a number
OF years was very prominent in the
ministerial circles of Colorado. Mr.
Sawyer is retired minister of the
Christian church. He was chaplain
OF the Colorado State Senate during
the firSt few years after the state
government occupied the new state
house in Denver. Owing to i'll health
he retired from the ministry several
years ago and since that time has
been giving his attention to land in
vestments
Mr.. Sawyer decided some time ago
to make investments on the western
slope and after making careful in
vestigations he concluded that the
big Ternahan ranch in the Hannah
Creek section of this county was in
many ways one of the best pieces of
realty and producing properties on
the western slope and in this opinion
Mr.. Sawyer will find many willing
sharers among those who know the
big ranch, its fertility and its pro-
ductive power
The ranch sold by William Terna-
han, Sr., to MIR. Sawyer comprises
$50 acres of land. mainly high mesa
lands, and located on that never fail
ing mountain stream, Hannah Creek.
Over 200 acres of the big ranch have
been planted to alfalfa for a number
OF years and the annual Yield has
been enormous There is an orcha rd
of about ten acres on the ranch and
this has proven very successful. The
rest of the land is practically unde-
veloped. One of the most interest
ing features of the ranch is the Elk
Park, ideally situated on one portion
of the ranch and in which there are
five fine specimens of this noble ami
NAL whose race is so rapidly dimin-
ishing from the face of the earth. Mr..
Sawyer, it is understood, will take
pleasure in maintaining this unique
and desirable feature
AS is well known to nearly every
body in this county. the Ternahan
ranch possesses two of the finest res
ervoir sites in the county or on the
western slope. On one of these sites
a great reservoir was completed sew
eral years ago and has an enormous
storage capacity, the other is about
completed, it 400 will have a vast
storage capacity. On the big ranch
is large and comfortable residence
and several tenant houses.
1t is understood that Mr.. SAWYER,
the new owner, will next spring plant
three hundred acres of the ranch to
orchard, selecting the best COM
mercial varieties of apples, pears,
etc. 1t has been demonstrated on