Show Eva Fitzpatrick Sells Soils Sheep Outfit For More Than Million Dollars Mrs Eva tva Fitzpatrick sheep queen of the Intermountain area has sold her outfit for fot more than a million dollars it was announced definitely this week Several weeks ago it was reported that Mrs FitzPatrick Fitz Fitz- Patrick one of the leading sheep operators of Grand county coun coun- ty and owner of the Cottonwood Cottonwood Cotton Cotton- wood Albert Turner outfit had sold out Sundays Sunday's Grand Junction Sentinel carried the following interesting story tellIng tell tell- ing of the retirement retirement- from active ac ac- tive business of this remarkable remarkable remark remark- able woman Broad grazing lands and white ewes spiraled Into more than one million dollars for Mrs Eva Fitzpatrick famed W western stern Colorado sheep queen for man many years ears Mrs Fitzpatrick has recently completed sellIn selling her acres of grazing land and more than head of sheep for foran foran foran an announced price of better than one million dollars Last October Mrs FItzpatrIck FItzpat- FItzpat rick sold part of her property property- the Blue Mesa unit and Carbonero Carbonero Car Car- ranch in Garfield coun coun- ty ty-to ty to Donald W. W Squirrell of Montrose At that time sheep grazing those areas areas were sold to Mrs M. M Vaughn and sons of Montrose and J. J Perry Olsen of Grand Junction e n t r I 1 y V She hadn't intended to dispose dispose dis pose of the rest of her property summer quarters at the Big Cimarron river and Gunnison river in Montrose county and andr winter headquarters the former A. A J. J Turner ranch in Grand county Utah 18 miles north northy of Cisco Cisco- But asked by the Co Co- lorado Utah lorado-Utah Utah Livestock company to name a price she did The price was accepted by company officials R. R H. H Lindsay and the R. R H. H Lindsay Wool company In Boston and G. G Aaron Hanson Hanson Hanson Han Han- son of Salt Lake City During her years as sheep camp boss Mrs Fitzpatrick lived much of her time at an attractive ranch on the Big marron However she has also owned a home at 1240 North Fifteenth street for the past few years and it Is there that she plans to spend much of of her I time now I When the late W. W T. T Fitz Fitz- FitzpatrIck Fitzpatrick patrick died in 1933 Attorney I William Weiser Welser was I executor of the estate which th then n included acres of pastureland Mr Weiser Welser managed managed man I aged the estate from 1933 to 1938 1933 Mrs Fitzpatrick lived in Los Angeles during those years with her hers her WO o daughters Kathryn Ka Ia thryn and Betty who attended Marlborough School for for- Girls there Kathryn graduated in 1938 from Stanford university and married G. G G G. Walter Bowman Bowman Bowman Bow Bow- man of Denver In 1947 Betty who graduated from University of Southern California in 1943 married John G. G of Los Los' Angeles that same year They now have a daughter and anda a son I In 1938 Mrs Fitzpatrick returned returned re re- turned to western Colorado to take ake over as manager manager supervisor or of the Fitzpatrick land and sheep During the intervening 11 years she has doubled her land holdings She also replaced the black face Hampshire sheep owned by Mr Fitzpatrick with white face crossbred ewes This breed averages four and one one- half to five pounds of fleece more per sheep than the Hamp Hamp- shire I Some of Mrs Fitzpatrick's employees had been with Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick Fitz Fitz- j patrick sheep interests for 36 years years having been fJ empl r first by Mr Fitzpatrick and his brother Jim when they owned and operated the business Mrs Fitzpatrick was for years year one of the notable horsewomen of this area Her love of horses horles is still quite evident at he her r home where she has many exquisitely exquIsitely exquisitely ex ex- modeled copper horses hors es and pictures ot of favorite mounts |