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Show Don't Forget, V . w Phone News Items iS. In Each Week 1C V 564-3334 ?' y V - j Green River 1 kT 1 A Letter from Pearl, lona and Barbara... J Motel Association. . . The Green River Motel and Trailer Camping Association As-sociation met Monday for their regular luncheon and business meeting. Mr. Knouts of Grand Junction reported on signs. It is possible to contract a maintained ' sign for $50 a month, it was reported. The group estimated that there are between 500 and 600 accommodations accommo-dations hotel rooms and camping sites in Green River. Fourteen members were present, with President Pres-ident Lee Howland conducting con-ducting the meeting and Mrs. Florence Howland as secretary. Expresses Thanks. . . Mrs. Helen Anderson wished to thank all her and her husband's friends and co-workers for the many acts of kindness shown to her and her family at the time of her husband's tragedy. "Words cannot express my feelings for the outpouring out-pouring of love w hich was shown for my husband," she said. Mrs. Anderson is at home recovering from a broken jaw and other injuries in-juries suffered in the car accident. Her mother, Mrs. Beach, is spending a short time w ith her until she is able to get around a bit better. She will return re-turn to work in a couple of weeks. . . k j - .. '-. ? , I " f V ' ' ' 1 ; .v. v. t ; . t : r :' 'A . . . ; -i Breeds Stock Dogs. . . Mr. and Mrs. Glen Jameson, managers of the ranches on San Rafael, Ra-fael, are also raising a special breed of stock dog, the English Shepherds. Shep-herds. These are a medium med-ium sized, strongly built dog, and are natural "heelers," handling cattle cat-tle from the rear, a drive dog rather than a "catch" dog. They are used in Texas, where the Jamesons Jame-sons are from, to bring cattle out of the thick mesquite or the salt cedar ced-ar thickets. Since this country has some of the same problem, dogs have become necessary to the cattle business here. The Jamesons brought a pair of registered English Eng-lish Shepherd dogs, Lady and Sam, up last year. Lady had six puppies in April at the ranch on San Rafael, and died three days later. Mrs. Jameson Jame-son took the puppies in hand and raised all six of them,, which tells something not only of her care of them, but of their hardihood. Two of them had been promised when Lady and Sam were pur -chased, and the raiser, Tom D. StodghillofQuin-lan, StodghillofQuin-lan, Texas, wanted two more of the litter. Mr. Jameson shipped him four of the puppies, and will receive two non-related females later this season. With this start and Sam, the Jamesons hope to establish a strain of this valuable dog for use by cattlemen in this area. Outlaw Trails. . . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ekker, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Ekker and a repeatgroup of Outlaw Trails people brought Ekker's cattle out of the Maze and South Fork of Horse Canyon on an outing scheduled to give this experience to Miss Mary Sauna and Miss Ruth Messley of Cincinnatti, MissJeannie Schauble of Poughkeepsie and Roland Davis (Allied Development Company) of Salt Lake City. Davis was riding his own horse, and when the mare became be-came lame, he had to leave the group and did not get to finish the roundup. The girls were here last summer for a real trail ride when Outlaw Trails took them down Horseshoe Canyon, building trail as they went, to join a Canyon- lands float trip. The girls had such a good time, that they begged for a repeat or better trip, and feel they really got what they asked for. The group camped at the top of the Flint Trail the first night, and the next day mounted up and went into the Maze. The next two days they gathered gath-ered the cattle, and the next day worked them up the all but impassable trail. During the climb out. one of the packs slipped, and the horse lunged into another pack horse and they both rolled roll-ed down the trail and off onto a shelf. The Ekkers were able to get to them, carry the packs out and gel both horses out of the canyon. After getting out. unsaddling un-saddling and unpacking at Flint. Missy, one of the saddle mares, was kept in for a wrangle-pony. wrangle-pony. Missy had been more than homesick all along, so Arthur hobbled her as well as putting her in the corral. In the night she jumped out and started start-ed home again. No problem, prob-lem, one of the fel'.ows just walked after thv horses. hor-ses. The party started home in the carry-all with Ekkers Ek-kers bringing up the horses hor-ses and equipment in the big truck. Arthur said if they saw Missy to take the hobbles off her. it would make it a bit easier for her to get home. Missy's tracks went right down the road, but before they overtook her. they met one of the rangers rang-ers who had caught her and was leading her back. Ted told him to just turn her loose, but the ranger was concerned about her thirst. They were not about to unpack the carry-all to get Missy a drink, so the ranger dealt her out 5 gallons of his water and she really lap- ped it up. They told him just to turn her loose, but he just couldn't be persuaded it was all right; the last they saw he was standing holding the rope. When Arthur came along. Missy was loose, all right, but he couldn't figure where she had got a drink, she was obviously well watered and full. During the trip the sun was hot. water short, the climbs steep and long, and the primary interest was in the cattle rather than the people. The three girls left for home, know -ing they had been privileged privi-leged to cut themselves a slice of the old west in its raw state. |