Show WAS A FAMOUS I 1 PIONEER RANCH sonic some Early History of the IC ranch now marker on pikes peak pank highway the denver field and farm has haa dug upa bit of the early history of the K ranch now one of tile the watering places on the ocean to ocean highway tile the K ranch to Is one of i the ithe old land marks marke and will no doubt bo be known aby that name forever during the early settlement of tile ashley fork country which this section of etthof baa in was called at that ump tile the K ranch passed into tile the hands of charles poppel who was 1 engaged in III tho the butcher business in salt lake city at that time andy strong was vas his foreman and niana wan tales are told by filhe old timers of this old geteian ve latoi gatei on oni illy ay iy WEIRS Mee Ksor of jensen ed IB as foreman of tile the K ranch for a creore of years the field and farm stor story y may be lacking but we give it as it app appears earli i the f first herd of cattle to flock into northwestern colorado was a band of 1400 longhorns which came up hom texas over tile the old cherokee trail early in 1872 they browned by an oc centric lettle tellow fellow known only 11 aa doctor kiser who was more of a ithan a or but this chade no difference to the few neighbors scattered around between the yampa and the green The doctor had the pick of the earth for his place and chose ch ito locate in a most 1 charming spot at the toot foot of the blue mountain it was a place where tho thet mesas I 1 were covered with coppler and the skies ekies were deiy blue I 1 the doctors tb branding monogram iwas the letter K on oil the J left alett hip and from this simple circumstance the place became known wide by this name it is still called the doctor knew more about the scalpel than the branding iron and left the management of the held to I 1 his english foreman who in like degree knew more of outdoor spot ts than outdoor calves and in this careless manner the affairs at the K ranch wont went mostly to the dogs as was tile the case with many another bovine enterprise in those frivolous days leastwise whilo while tho foreman was running foot races the 1 neighbors were running the K stock out of tho country until everything waa soon hammer and tongs the I 1 little doctor with his big stick much like chinese chinecie gordon who in front of khai tum always went around with a waving baton in fit his hand saw ho he had bad novel been whittled out for a cowman so ho he threw up the sponge by soiling selling out toB to bishop ishol hatch and brothers who lan ian the ranch for or severalty ee years ears the patient doctor and his bisgood good wife wie moved on westward tn in the cruel realization that roan man Is but a mortal full of woes boes he starts a ranch and I 1 up ho he goes the fleet footed foie man paddle tooted footed out of the country on one of hatchs hatcha sure footed ponies and won well the big I 1 footracer footrace foo trace at green river city the K ranc ranch hhas has passed in and out of many hands andis now owned by tom morgan formerly of the axial basin and he knows hoy hoi to run things |