The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1914-11-13
SECOND RANCH IN size
Holdings of Utah Construction Com
pany Beyond the Ordinary.

Holdings of Utah Construction Com
pany Beyond the Ordinary.
Elko county among other things,
contains within its area of more than
| $4,000 square miles what is claimed
to be the second largest rancho in the
world, embracing rectangular tract
| about 66 miles north and south by 40
| miles east and west. This is not the
full size of the rancho, either, for it
extends north into Idaho for a dis
lance of some 20 miles farther, making
it's extreme length north and south
in the neighborhood of sc miles,
or approximately 3,640 square miles
in all. In other words, this Elko
county rancho is larger than sew
eral of the eastern states of the
Union
Originally the property was owned
by the Sparks Harrell stock interests
who established the famous shoesole
! brand still used there. Then en-
sued the reign of the Vineyard Land
and Stock company, by which name
the great rancho is perhaps the best
known. Today, the property has for
| its owners or lessees, the Utah Con-
! struction company, of Ogden, Utah.
who actually own $4,000 acres and
who control approximately $500, 900
| acres of land, embraced by the ran
cho, in the extreme northeast corner
of Nevada adjoining the Utah line,
and, as above stated, running over
well into Idaho.
Copper Camp on Tract.
Situated within the boundaries of
the rancho is the copper camp Of
Contact. San Jacinto ranch, compris-
ing a cultivated area of some 5000
acres, is the seat of government for
the great rancho. Here resides the
superintendent, Thomas R. Beason.
Here are located 35 ranch employees
and here is San Jacinto postoffice,
distant 2S miles from the nearest rail
road, which is the Oregon Short Line
in idaho.
Sixteen smaller ranches, each with
it's cultivated area, go to constitute
the rancho as a whole. Thirteen Of
these are in Nevada, with three in
Idaho. AS though fearful of the 10
hoodoo, one of the Nevada ranches
has been consolidated with another,
the two now being known by the name
! VI dCOllld ldHC1l, SO budL dt lIlo IllilS
there are nominally just - of these
ranches in Elko county, with Is as the
total count.
The names of the separate ranches
are as follows: San Jacinto, described
above; Bridge, adjoining the San
, Jacinto, one employee, 200 acres cul-
tivated; Vineyard, one employee, SOC
acres cultivated; Hubbard, one en-
ploye, 250 acres cultivated; H. d., two
employees, 1900 acres cultivated;
J Lower H. D., one employee, 800 acres
: cultivated; 12-mile, one employe, 20t
} acres cultivated Crittenden, one EN-,
ploye, 100 acres cultivated; Gambol
one employee, 400 acres cultivated;
Tacoma, no employees regularly sta
toned thereon 5000 acres cultivated
Rancheo Grandeo, two employees, 3OO
acres cultivated. In Idaho, Poin
ranch, 100 acres in cultivation; Rocl
Creek and House Creek ranch, abou
500 acres in cultivation.
/, Numerous streams traverse thu
great rancho, The Little Salmon
. whose waters the Utah Construction
| company control solid for a distance
of 20 miles, runs through the Vine
) yard and San Jacinto 1t is stream
!. of about the same size as the Hum
}. boldt river at Elko. The THOUSAND
Springs, appearing and disappearing
: river, is controlled solid for Z
, miles, and ON it are situated all of tn
: other ranches except two, the Brldg
}. ranch being on Shoshone creek, an
q the Rancho Grandeo on Goose creek
+ the latter being controlled over 8
t miles of its course, and being abou
v twice the volume of Lamoille creek
: near Elko.
I The country comprising the vas
+ tract is roughly rolling, but not TO
+ rugged for grazing purposes on tn
4 lIillsides, which are in reality tn
f slopes of mighty mountains, smoothe
f and rounded into gently sloping hill
q and dales by the processes of tn
( centuries. One bold peak, does, how
/, ever, rear it's mighty mass toward tn
r heavens. 1t is China Mountain, NOR
g | than 10000 feet high, and the onl
v big dome in any part Of the rancho
], which is in reality part of the grea
# mountainous district of Nevada, Utaf
: and Idaho Just south of the trae
@ is Pilot peak, the highest point in El
d ko county, and the second highes
d mountain in the state of Nevada, IL
k 400 feet high, or about a thousand fee
# higher than Mt. Hood, in Oregon. Th
# highest mountain in Nevada is i
White Pine county, not far to tn
: south.
: The number of cattle now runnin
:, on the vast ranges of this rancho
n reputed to approximate more tina,
V 80, 900 head, with also Is bands G
!. sheep, comprising 10000 head. Their
! are three COW outfits, tended by som
4 % men. The total number of employe
# throughout the great rancho is clos
to 150-Elko Free Press.