Show OWNED BY SALT LAKE MEN Character of Country Where Reese velt Will Hunt Meeker Colo Jan 12Col Theodore Roosevelt and his companions on his hunting trip left here today for the Key to 1e ranch twentysix miles northwest of this place where they will make their headquarters in a log cabin The Keystone ranch Is owned by Messrs Parsons and Hanauer stockmen stock-men who reside in Salt Lake City The Keystone ranch was purchastd by thc UtahColorado Cattle and Improvement Im-provement company which is controlled con-trolled by M K Parsons and A Han auer Sr within the past year from Price Bowkley who had owned and operated It for fifteen years It is a large range proposition and wart well stocked during the past summer I consists about 1000 acres of patented land which is Inclosed with a fence together with outside grounds to the extent of 5000 acres in addition to nddlton wjiich there is a vast area of good grazing graz-ing land unlnclosod In speaking of the property last night Mr Parsons said I is situated In the Crooked Wash country in Routt and Rio Blanco counties coun-ties and Is one of the greatest game countries on earth There arc elk antelope an-telope and deer In abundance and that mountain lions can be found there was demonstrated last year by John Goff I the guide for Gov Roosevelt on the present expedition who killed four of them on the companys grounds In one day The land Is badly broken with some timber and is an Ideal place for a good hunt The ranch Is watered by a reservoir which is fled by melting snow In tho spring |