The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-08-16
F. ]. HAGENBARTH D
NOTED SHEEP MAN

Frank Hagenbarth with his
mother Mrs, David Wood, has been
the guest OF the +. S. Edwards family
during two days of this week Mr.
|of Lemhi county. having been born
in the mining camp of Leesburg in
1868.
For many years he has been the
active head of the Wood Live Stock
company. the largest agricultural
corporation in the state. He Is also
a controlling figure in republican
politics. He was the leading sponsor
of Senator Borah when he required
making Of great national figure of
himself This prominent business
man and politician is leader In the
sheep industry In the great west. He
has refuted the general contention
that sheep deplete the ranges and
impoverish the country. He has de-
monstrated that ranges improve
where sheep are pastured under eff
cient management. He has proven to
the satisfaction of the best conser-
vation experts that the ranges con-
stantly occupied to their full capac-
ity for fifteen years have Increased
their food productions more than two
hundred per cent.
II Is the policy of the Wood Live
Stock company to permit grass on
their sheep ranges to ripen crop of
seed annually. After the grass has
ripened the sheep are returned to
their spring range. The seed bed Is
throughly cultivated by tramping.
and hundred spears OF grass grow
where only one grew before.
This range expert advises that
Lemhi ranges can be made to carry
four times the present capacity of
stock that We have here now.
In the old days when Clifford Pin
chot figured so prominently and ma
llevolently. AS many OF the fiockmas-
ters then thought, in regulating the
use of the range. Il was Hagenbarth
who steered him on the right conser-
walton course and he went safely
that way. President Roosevelt was
then in office and he sent Pinchot to
get first hand information on the
proper use OF the public lands. He
met Hagenbarth who took him in
charge for two or three weeks to
show him the ranges and methods Of
using them adopted by the Wood
Live Stock company. II developed
afterward that Frank Gooding had
icomplained to the department at
Washington that Hagenbarth was
''hoggins" the range to the exclusion
OF its use by other hockmasters. and
that Pinchot had been sent to see
about the complaint From being un
that Gooding had made against him
J Hagenbarth became fast In the
friendship OF Pinchot In his conser'
walton policies.
Frank Hagenbarth's father died
at the Loon creek mining camp. In
the summer of 1870 that camp was
worked out to the stage which ap-
pealed only to the Cinnamon as a
possible producer of gold. There was
an exodus OF families In TIE fall OF
that year
Eli Mlnert was an operator OF a
transportation line which consisted
of train OF pack mules. but IL was
a frst-class line jus, the same,
Young Frank was two-year old
: aristocrat at that time and his berth
was front seat on Mr. Minert's sad,
die mule.
The first station was at Three
Forks where the train stopped for
: the night. The next morning was
cold and Frank waited 80 warm after
the train had started on the days
run Mr. Minert INDUCED the little
aristocrat to play In the fire and frol
ic on the grassy plat which bordered
on the roaring river And Frank
tumbled in and would have drowned
only for Mr. Minert's watchful eyes
and alertness. He was rescued wet
and fighting mad. The wind was cold
and the water was colder. A new fire
and. dry blankets brought comfort
and peace. Frank Joined the train
and tourneyed for several hours
swathed in a blanket. a very lively
mummy. still on the front seat afore
mentioned.