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Show WOMAN TILLS RANCH Unaided Denver Woman Renders Barren Bar-ren Tract Valuable. Mrs. Agnes M. Hart of Denver has refused an offer of .$3500 for her ranch near Fort Du Chcsne. Utah, in the Uintah Uin-tah reservation. Mrs. Hart., almost alone and unaided, has mode the rnnch what it is. In the summer of 1005, when the drawing for homesteaders took place, her name was among the first to come out the exact number was J 29. In a few weeks she went to Vernal, Utah, to file on her claim. She selected a quarter section, about seven miles from Fort Du Chcsne, a few miles from the new town of My-ton. My-ton. For a year and a half Mrs. Hart has -resided on the property and improved it. She has built houses and fences, has dug ditches, milked cows, and. in fact, she has performed all tho work on a ranch that n man usually docs. For several weeks during tho first winter she was there Mrs. Hart slept in a tont when tho thermometer registered IS degrees below zero. The ranch is located 150 miles from a railroad and for a vcar and six months Mrs. Hart never saw a railroad train. |