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Show When ternem Was tana iunmng you take for your brand the Bert Stevens Recalls Years On the Range V 4 Albert S. Stevens Payson, Utah Bert (Albert's.) Stevens of is a typical excowraan, robust and good natured. Most of his 70 years have been spent in the saddle, riding the high mountain ranges and dry desert lands herding his cattle, roping . and branding, and enjoying the fruits of his labor.- ''Guess I. was, born with cattle in iny blood," he said, "for even when f was a kid, I'd sooner-bon a horse following a bawling herd 'han in. school." "Many 're the times I've gone oh my horse Tony into the high range country in Payson Canyon with cattle an come back out at night when it vvas so black I couldn't see Tony's Hose ,'yet I knew he'd car-r- y me home safely " " When very young. Bert began his career in,, the cattle industry along with hfs' brother and father. Maybe some- of the earliest cattle-raisinmethods he' used are out dated now as far as stock devek opment and science are concerned when big associations and districts live and "work together for range benefits; but his stories never lack in interest as he tells about how things were when it was all open J j' ' in Back 1905 some of Bert's cattle ranged on the dry desert out from Eureka, wandering like deer over the wild terrain '40 to 100 miles as they grazed. Other cattlemen reported seeing animals with his brand as far south as Fillmore and as far north as Grantsville. Once! one of his "critters (that's a cow) came off the range with another herd down in Mt. Pleasant. A fresh brand had been seared on the animal. After Bert ' ' Payson. Utah " , hfhMyfavv.v-lC.Vlo-.J-v- : THURSDAY, DAILY HERALD 3 NOV. 12. 1933 Utah County. Utah A D D saddle. It was about '4 inches in If a man got careless and didn't diameter. When , it was red .hot, i h could run it easily over the hide get his brands and marks record to make his ""brand, one side of ed regularly, some slicker, accord- the loop burning in his XDaon the ing to Bert, might be on hand to left rib as he rkn it smoothly and move in and register the brands fast with an intricate handle of and marcs as his own' and pro- StiCkS.; : m ceed to lather in somebody else's Today the stamp iron for simple . cattle. I branding has replaced the running Way bark in the beginning of ' branding in Egypt there was often iron almostthe everywhere. Stamp complete design of side cut and then slashing outj of fancy scrollwork burned on ani- - irons have as for stamping the skin at the top The; weight mals by a running iron. Bert once the brand ready of the skin would cause it to lop had such an iron - that he made the name implies. Running irons were! typical over and hang down like a pen- - out of d metal ring from an old marks, wattles, and dewlaps cuttings on the pendulous skin under the throat. .Bert's dewlap was originally held by a Payson pioneer, Lyman Kapple. After, Mr. Kapple's death and the expiration of his registration, Bert acquired the dewlap. It was made by first pinching' up slitting underthe loose skin-anneath and upwards from the in; -- . FAMILIAR X-Top illustration shows familiar X-brand of Bert Stevens as recorded im"190& booklet! by Payson Forest Reserve and Grazers Association. BERT AND TON Y Bert Stevens, Payson cattleman; has ridden a lot; of range since this picture of himself and his favorite horse Tony was, taken in 1912. " i during his lifetime and then taken by his son.j Samuel. Nowadays, Bert Stevens no tongj er sits in his saddle to ride herd ' e - ; or to down a critter or branding. Instead,' when he wakes in 'he early dawn, he thbks of the past --of his horse Tonyj and the brand herds and and iron ing grazing the clouds shifting as he rode the upland ranU: of the canyon he loves. j , . er '1! '' figure" He didj sp and the brand was, recorded regularly over! the years jj Pay-so- n country; 90 per-cenof his branding did ."at home." When he his cattle out 'into the dd-a- l! that were his carried his brand. Milk cows in pastures might never! be branded. Some brands may have colorful and uijusuai origin. Take the "Hot As Hell" brand. When Jess Hit- son of Colorado was attacked by Indians, he frantically used his running iron on a ;calf to tell of his fae. "Hot As Hell,' he' wrote, hoping his story would somehow reach his friends and they would under; ;tand that Indians had attacked him..- Tragedy sometimes played a part.- - Way back in the long ago, two men quarreled over the ownership of a I steer in Texas. The dispute led to gunplay that resulted in the death of the man with the steer. who li ad ridden-of- f So en aged Were the cowboys over the killing that they caught the; animal and 1 branded on its side, Then they turned Tine it loose. legend is that a murder was committed wherever that steer showed up. Simplicity had a hand, too. Whn the pioneer, William t KATIIRYN D. GROESBECK E Cow or i dant. - j 1 . i when all the country was wide rustlers open range i;jHland cattle i could run almost any kind of mark aver another brand to change it or burn in a fresh brand on an animal that had never been branded and then claim it. i Bert branded his horses, too, as he did his cattle, but he said it's not logical to put a brand high on a horse as it disfigures. The brand was often! burned on the hind part of the; leg so that it could be identified as the horse 1 Douglass- of Payson appeared - , to have a brand registered, the clerk said, "Since you are the sixth to register, why don't j DELICIOUS ; ni . n : 3 f At l3'ju I;: : ? had proved ownership,, he sold the cow. "I didn't want any critter of. another' brand running with my herd," he said. The branding iron was as much a part of his cowman's equipment as his saddle and dutch oven, and burning hair and hide a familiar odor as brands were burned into the hides of cows and calves. Advertising brands, according to Bert, is most important. Booklets !.' '; i' I f :.'fT33 I if hU r- - 1 - !'M::m: are prepared by, organizations of cattlemen and the Department of Agriculture, listing all brands registered. 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