Show I BY SALT LAKE LAKEI I 1 j i Nevadans Buy Acres Acres' q qI I for Cattle Gra Grazing ing and andI I Raising i lOne One of the largest land deals made in Salt Lake this year year has Just been I completed in irr the sale of the famous Godchaux ranch in Paradise valley r Nev formerly owned by Kimball Richards the land merchants to the Union Land and Cattle company of of Reno Nev The property now consisting of 15 acres is located about twelve miles north of Winnemucca Originally Originally nally it consisted of some twenty went Y small ranches but in 1862 1562 Lazarus Godchaux one of the cattle kings of pioneer days consolidated it into one ranch At various times as many as t c cattle have been grazed upon the ranch More than forty-five forty miles of is required to go around the hugo lingo property and in addition ma many lY miles of fence have been used in dividing it into various pastures and nd hayfields More than of tho land laud is used for raising hay The remainder I is pasture and mountain land running well into the high hills and thus con con- controlling controlling controlling trolling the water supply No No definite information has been V given glyen out as to the tile price paid for forthe for the property by the Union Land and Cattle company but it Is known that thata that thata a recent conservative appraisement placed its value at 10 an acre I II I The Tile purchasing company was I formed by a group of cattle and sheep 1 men men some of whom are among the most extensive in the v West The dominating figures in the corporation are understood to be bet I f Humphries and amI Moffatt who who maintain offices at Reno with I branches in San Francisco and other othel large cities They are heavily Interested interested interested Inter- Inter ested in the sheep business and their clip cUp last year is said to have exceeded exceeded exceeded ex- ex 7 pounds The Tho Kimball Richards company 1 v vIs Is now negotiating the sale of a 1 1 I acre stock ranch in northern 0 Utah Officials of the company report report re- re rei i port that livestock men throughout the 1 I c county country are on the lookout for I tunit s to purchase properties which offer advantages to the grower of oC stock The unusually heavy demand for beef and mutton and the rising prices of wool and leather are given as the principal causes of this demand The company is predicting a larger demand for ranches within the next year than has ever before existed in inthe inthe r the history of the United States and rIn rin r t tin I in preparation for such a situation is attempting to secure favorable options op- op opa a 9 I and listings of large ranch properties prop- prop B. B in the West |