The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-12-08
WOMAN A PIONEER
In SHEEP BUSINESS
MRS. YEARlAN STARTED EIGHT
YEARS AGO WITH A FLOCK or
1,200-TH1S YEAR HER NET PRO-
FITS ARE $4,000.

MRS. NEARiAN STARTED EIGHT
YEARS AGO WITH A FLOCK or
t,2oo-THIs YEAR HER NET PRO-
FITS ARE $25.ooo.
The pioneer woman in the sheep
business in Lemhi county, and the
first flockmaster. man or woman, in
the valley OF the same name. is Mrs
Emma r, Yearian. wife of Thomas
Yearian, Mrs. Yearian began with
a flock OF 1000 eight years ago. The
wool clip the year afterward yielded
just half the amount of the original
ccst of the sheep and so the profits
have continued 10 grow with the in
crease OF the noeks from year to
year. until this year the gross re-
turns We're $4,000. The expenses
We've less than 10000. so she was
left with al least $4,000 clear pro
tit Meanwhile her husband has re-
mained in the cattle business and has
prospered too,
Sheep We're brought into the
valley before the venture Of this far
| seeing business woman but never to
| stay. In fact, they were not allowed
| 10 stay The cattle men outlawed
them, every cattleman but her hua-
band, who allowed her to get a foot
hold on the home ranch and the ad-
| iacent ranges where her sheen
could not be driven out With a por-
ton Of her profits she steadily ae-
Quired outside lands for her aocks un-
| Ill II was not many years before she
was independent OF the priority rights
OF any cattle owners on the fall and
| spring ranges, with rights we'll es
tablished in the summer ranges on
| the national forests
1 Ia IL.
around 10000 head. all in prime con
| dition. They have been improved
and graded up from the very start
1T is care and attention that have
brought the best returns to me-"
saldMrs. Yearian In speaking OF her
| docks together with a constant aim
| TO improve the stock. | noticed at
The outset in my venture that small
band at sheep ranged In a held at
home where they got plenty to eat
and regular water did far better than
docks somewhat neglected and rang
lnG outside. When put together you
could tell them apart quarter of
a mile away The better conditioned
ewes produced vastly better lambs.
That fact determined me to have the
docks carefully looked after.
When ] started In the sheep bust
ness | could buy all the hay | want
ed and have u fed 70 my flocks at S3
a ton paid this fall $40 ton and
have TO do my own feeding at that.
II Is easy TO see how vastly the COM
lng OF the sheep by the thousands
into Lemhi conuty since my venture
IN the business eight years ago has
brought wealth to the growers of hay
| as well as fair profits TO the flock
masters themselves. And II must be
observed that the aOckmAsters get
two crops a year--from their deeces
and their lambs--while the cattle men
get only the calves"
Mrs Yearian ls an influential mem
ber OF the National Woolgrowers' as
ISOLATION She expects 10 attend the
coming session of that body in Salt
Lake in January, Keenly alive to
market conditions affecting wool and
mutton prices she discusses these
subjects as an authority with the
heads OF these bodies Of men when
ever the sessions are held. Presi
dent Hagenbarth OF the national as
3ocation was himself a Lemhi county
man before he settled In Southeast
Idaho Ia the sheep business. She
knows him and the secretary OF the
same body, Dr. s w, Mcclure. very
well.
And yet Mrs Yearian IL as much at
home in society and In the midst Of
her refined family as she Is In look
ms after her flocks and marketing OF
their increase and their fieeces, for
which she always gets the top prices.
With her husband and a grown son
she occupies the largest dwelling
house In the county. where the Year
ian hospitality dispensed is famous in
all the countryside. The location is
about half way up the Lemhl valley. IS
miles from Salmon. There are
guests In the home nearly all the
time Two daughters are married and
two other daughters are attending
. school, one al Salmon and the other
AZ Spokane When they get home In
the summer time there Is pretty near.
Ily the ideal family life in the large
circle extended TO include friends
Mrs, Yearian was a school teacher
and a capable one before she be-
came mistress OF the home over
which she now presides.