Show the D L S co possessions during the warmer season of the year the range t occupied by the D L S co lies to the west of a line joining wasatch station and woodruff and covers an immense tract of land from the wasatch to tile the dense forest covered bights bight touching the southern sky of cache valley tile the sight ka from an eminence looking i ng in eitler either direction is one to stir cosmic emotions of the beholder with its awe its beauty and its sublimity awful for its solitude beautiful for its verdure and sublime for its vastness here at the shearing corral however these features are made less attractive for the click and din of tile the merry clippers cooks herd ers and extra hands have overcome the solitude the sheep have tramped lie hie verdure into dust and tile the vastness is hid bid by the rising hills around our canvas homes of this great range range 0 the company owns thirty three sections or twenty ono one thousand one hundred and twenty t y acres besides a ranch containing ID over one thousand acres fenced for pastur pasturage acre 0 and hay laud land where some five or six hundred tons are put up the present crop looks very promising isid t this aliis year twelve men are em employed aloyed at this job for six weeks in haying time thirty eight herders gerders and camp tenders are constantly engaged whose wages run respectively from 15 to 20 per month from 36 to 39 men are busily kept at the shearing bench and average from fifty five to sixty head bead per day this job will last until after the fourth of july four men find all they can do in countin counting 0 and baling the fleeces including 0 herds not bead belonging in 0 to the company about forty six thousand head will be sheared at this camp the increase jn lambs this year is seventeen thousand five hundred but very few having baving been lost the wool crop is expected to reach two hundred and afify thousand pounds but the prospects for realizing 0 prizes of an encouraging z nature D are not in the least bright c tile the slice are in an all excellent condition and no less than eight 0 thousand muttons buttons will be ready for shipment this season prices raD ranging gincy from to 63 per head bead As soon as a herd is sheared and the sheep recover a little from the effects of the change and cruet cruel cuts they are taken two miles from here to the dip pen where they are run through a vat sixty feet long filled with a strong 0 solution of lime and sulphur to cure them of and prevent the scab they will be dipped a again 0 0 ain in in the fall sulphur costs cwt cat and tile the expense is only about oue one aalf cent per head bead tobacco juice is generally used but a change 0 was adopted this time it requires six six or seven men for sixteen days to accomplish com this ducking c As soon as this is finished they are driven to the timber for the summer where feed is abundant the company is well organized ta and the onders are arc well fitted filled for the position their names are as follows president john I 1 H I 1 moss vice pres ident J I 1 atkinson general cupl wm moss see sec 0 P hatch directors J 11 II moyle J E hatch moroni morod moss starns hatch and jens nelson STATION june 19 1894 |