Gunnison news-champion., 1920-09-24
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papers hght each other over No
Man's land Of quarter OF a mile.
GuHuis1n doomed in the early day
and debated 20 leave q trensr5ggs
supply Of choice lots" unoccup.,t
Many q these tracts in the hear; Of
the city are made useful this a-m-
mer uy the growing Of pOtaIDs--
The STATE Normal school, justly the
towns pride. has just closed It. sum
DsE -sssion- Next year an addition
20 H. present quarters Will b. com
p.e.ed.
4 SINGLE rule applies 20 cattle ras--
ing N GInnIs0n county. Own or
lease a rarch 0f 100 or 500 acres which
wsII cut about 500 tons Of native hay
and you can count safely on tn pro
puet0rshtp of 800 head Of cattle which
grazc the mountain tops probably
nifty miles aHay IN the forest reserves
during the summer, come down % the
sage brush when the frost comes and
call for admIttance 20 the pastures
and c0rrais with the advance Of the
snow.
Farming in the Tomichi. Ohio
creek, GunniEon and other valleys
around GunnisOn involves cleaning
ones bitches in the spring. foofsng
the hay meadows in June and july.
putting up hay in August, ridsng tn
hills for beef in October and feeding
the stock in the winter that Ia. ben
withheld from market in the fall.
Twenty acres OF oats for ones horses
about covers proper farming Hort
N grain.
Sounds Like Easy Money.
Il all sounds like easy money.
There are no sil0s. no hogs TO slOp. no
cattle or sheep 10 be g,rain-fed and
there Is no alfalfa 10 speak Of 20 de
wand successive cuttings. Take Il
by and large. II is perhaps the s,cadi-
',t and most peaceful live stock and
farming system there is to be found
in the west GunnIson cattle. rang
ing on forest reserve permits come
down sleek and fat in the fall. Excess
COWS are shipped for beef and the
steers 90 20 market as feeders. With
packer or feeder buyer the Gunnison
cattle invariably have the call for
they seem to have the stuff in EN- 10
make money.
On my way down from the pass
stopped At the best looking ranch
along lOmichI creek, eight miles out
Of town, and caught c. T. Stevens, its
proprietor, within an hour of the time
tth " a. ~ k-.N' a - .AtiA ADi kllf ~kAbth
board special meeting at Trinidad.
Mr. Stevens niece. Miss Miller. is the
mistress Of the classy cottage which
oy"TloOks the fairest, greenest valley
one can imagine. Clusters of willow
marked the course of Tomichi creek
which wound its silvery course in the
afternoon sunshine and in the open
places in the distance the hay crews
could be- seen busy at their work
Community Grazing Practiced.
Mr.. Stevens is one of q committee
Of ten farmers who hold 5000 acres
on the forest reserve range all sum
mcr under the care OF three riders.
Whether a farmer has two steers or
thousand he is required TO pool
them thus If he cares to use the for
est reserve, prorating with his com
munlty the expense and occupying
with the other members the grazing
ground assigned by the service. Nr.
Stevens explained that il was that
way throughout the district.
Our only concern Is in shipping"
said he, at is difficult to get ac-
commodations from the railroads.
have already ordered cars for Octo-
Der IS, but there is no assurance that
| will not be holding my market stuff
on hay long after that date"
My good friend Gray W. one
of the pioneer cattlemen Of Gunnison
and a pillar of the district, personally
conducted 4 tour extending a dozen
miles up the Ohio creek valley for my
express benefit. Ranch BY ranch and
mile by mile | had unrecled for my
gaze the most prosperous and hand
some valley | ever expect TO see.
They have never had a water COM
missioner in the Ohio creek farming
region. The irrigation resources are
SO plentiful that no ones rights are
ever disturbed. The rich hay mead
ows get their summer wetting, the
nutritious wire grass is cut and
stacked and the cattle belonging TO
each farm are brought down in the
fall for pasture or market as their
owners elect.
From Rock to Meadow
Bill Gillaspey's place lay off to the
righ, a short distance bevond the
l60-acre piece on the left of the road
which the plain pluck and persever-
ance of some individual a few years
ago turned from patch of rock and
willows into meadow cutting 200
tons of hay. Bill not long ago made
a favorable deal and moved down
from up stream.
w. L. Curtis, operating the old A.
r. Heiser place of 500 acres is re-
garded as the heaviest taxpayer in
land and cattle in this district. Be-
yond his ranch we began to tread the
land of George Anderson, the man
who brings in purebred Herefords by
the carload for distribution to the
range men, Mr.. Anderson owns al
long narrow slice of hayland and grain
soil. On the latter the harvest hands
were busy. Then came a view of Sam
c. Fishers successful ranch project |
on the bench across the river, and the |
120-acre place where AL Cunningham
pluckily bucked i'll health and adver-
sity to a standstill a few years ago
emerging as one of the substantial |
cattlemen of the ditrict.
Mrs. Louise Bieble, who homesteadedl |
and tree-claimed in the Ohio creek |
allow in 1870