Volume XII THE Issue X OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Page 9 June 15, 2005 Sheepherd ~ Part 2 life in the “Valley within the memory of many stillliving here. Betty has also graciously allowed the paper to reprint, as a part of th is series, 2 small collection of his Valley be found i in the Ogden Valley Mina environment with none of the tools and comforts we have now. They reacted to the land in the same way it treated them—with demanding indifference. They were trying to survive. And when life is defined in terms so basic that survival is the primary objective, there is no real concern for what the watershed will look like next yea, your Part II re te busy ho LH, 7 OL Il be there. 1 as a teenager, the only place Icould see grass was et When we lived on the Homestead in the summer, to play. The only organized sport was “kick the can.” In the clearing west of the cabin we dug a small hole. Choosing up equal sides composed of any number of players ara I the hooves of the animals. I didn’t like to see the exon bare in so many places and had I not been aware of the inter sity Id ais pies avtner Be ak ra ies indifference Hh be act ¢ his family. 1h: . ino Hil to chase. kil ice mae and a little bit like “holies” in marbles. One am tried to get an empty cam (usually pork and Concern for the condition of the soil, the state 7 ground cover, and an abhorrence for erosion did no first originate with a BLM man in Was I don’t really know why anyone wanted to play a game like that after all the work we did during the day. Nonetheless, it was a common occurrence in the evening after supper. A diversion, maybe, to avoid helping with | washing the di shes land can improve its condition.It has been so with the Homestead and Sheepherd. After the family’ S Income: a Ly, 1 done in the spring. The activities there in the summer d fall \ 14} 1 Lei eee siti and ahaals : iti The neighbor’s range around our property was en as was some of our grazing east of the hay field on ihe Shepherd flat. As a consequence, our cattle ass. ens thesame country. The old story in somany have been on is not true. Our cattle and the sheep next to us competed for the available forage and seemed TRappeas Village lower central part of the main Sheepherd field, and one at the eastern end directly north of the cabin. Originally made of barbed wire, the stack yard fences were later constructed (courtesy of the Fish and Game Commission) of nine foot high slabs nailed to a cedar post and a 2” x 6” frame to keep the elk out of the stacks. Interrupting the summer work in the Valley to go to Sheepherd for haying was always something to look forward to. We probably looked like a bunch of Gypsies the way 1 to Sheepherd. O pulling the hay am I a new one with rubber tires and a longer bar. The man working on the mower, usually Uncle Clyde (Mother’s brother), or Uncle Loke (Dad’s brother), would have a few acres mowed and drying by the time the rest of us arrived in Sheepherd. We left from the farmyard at Grandma Allen’s house. It is the frame house directly northwest of Lila’s new rock house and at that time had numerous ‘outbuildings and a corral in back of it. Old Chuck pulled the single horse drawn i iron tired dump rake.A hay rack on it fully loaded with tools and gear. as a struggle to disassemble the buck rake and ting the buck rake, cooking gear, tools, food, water cans, pitch forks, derrick rope, pulleys, Jackson fork, and bedding on the wagon. A sorrier looking pile of equipment in complete disarray could not be found. Dad always far from the buck rake. He saved cone Space on oo front of the hay rack to stand and driv team. attire, year le same: ee ae gloves, worn felt hat (which, when new, he wore to the weekly Monday cattle auctions), J. C. Penney denim pants, cotton shirt, and light weight ankle high work shoes (also. Cc: Penney). The team was never in doubt went up ear lier } had iron tiresand a five foot cutter bar. Later we acquired he would * een into the wagon, grab the reins, EPHERD cont. on page 12 Historical Photo grew up and ‘pursued other vocations, we left the Homestead idle or grazed it only lightly for ten or twelve years. A full stand ofgrass has grown ~~ Its condition Li n the last decade it has been largely the private Tromain of deer, elk, and moose. however, i not due to a greater concern of ours for the range than Dad had. Rather, it can be attributed to the fact that we could relax our demands upon the land; he could not. His attention and his efforts were concentrated on the Priorities that Corclmnistances impo on him d the field Sheepherd also involved, heats sandwiched in between planting and irrigating. Most of the acreage WANTED...Donated Items: Trappers Village is looking for a variety of items unique to Ogden Valley. These items will be displayed around the Village for visitors to enjoy. We are looking for weathered saddles, stirrups, bridles, harnesses, pitch forks, rakes, sickles, hay rake wheels,cowboy boots, hats, old skis, boots, poles, was planted to a hay When the hay stand started to kill out, it we and rot or tw years of barley ae going back into hay.‘One year after I had grown a successful crop of potatoes in the twenty acre fi eld iin Huntsville, I ‘tried togrow oo ina small fi a total failure. The growing season is too cern ‘the ground too heavy and too wet in the spring, and the water dries up too early in the summer. Sheepherd’s principal contribution to the farm was hay. Stacked in three fenced stack yards, it was fed to the herd of beef cattle from roughly February until the time the cattle were turn n grass in the spring. stack yards were marten throughout the hayfields 4 \ Jin th Dand Holl sh “g o indifferent to the fact that, by tradition, they were not Note The, followi ing history i is par tofa series The OGDEN dto Hil h oth VALLEY NEWS will It was written by Scott D.Alllen, who was born in 1928. He ur range was ove! d as were many other was the second son and the second of eight children of areas. For years I have listened to town folk and city Abner Allen and Elmina Peterson of Huntsville. Here he peapls who somehow believe they are the only ones cones red, t until he went off to college in 1946. Over his life he fia apparent i aero oa selfish ractioes that resulted in the range being enjoyed skiing with his family and working on the Allen Jamily ranch in Huntsville with his brothers Garth and of protecting and improving ie mie is valid, but I don’t think the assumptions as to the motives of the Ross Allen and their many son. Scott died in 1996 at the age of 68. His wife Betty lives i inSLC, InI984 Scott spent ranchers are. Most of the early ranchers carved the Ftodav’e plist i Fa | some of his spare time of heoinni Eden Town Baseball Team of 1905 at Eden Park. From lofi to nights Dave Lindsay, Joe Fuller, Wilmer Ferrin, Ren Colvin, Bill Colvin (Umpire), Ace Davis, Martin Farrell, Reed Ferrin, Parley Farrell and Lee Gould. Photo courtesy of June Fuller of Eden. & other related items. "Your donations are greatly appreciated." If you would like to donate items please contact Jeff Hyde @ 745 -9690. 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