Show THE OGDEN STANDARD EXA5ITNER — SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 7 1934 v I -- Ohio " m m 55 — — — S - ' r - --— H : — '— - -- — if r L' mfaa££&ZmMl&iSV&tt iV" : i ISV 7 U A I ' j"- i - ' - v na--- v " - o - o 5 W " K V j7 f 3 ''Sv rA y?v ' 1 1 f fJ 17W0 7Z77077 !CUUL 7 acres ln m'"OAio rane upwards of 20000 cattle—drouth cattle brought by the federal government from the far vest to be fattened and killed end the meal canned for poor relief ®VCr Si) sZt fUL? heat-strick- fl W? 111- i T a i - " 1 ' ' A l - 'S ri - ' V i Lteu Z? JV "Bud" Peyton boss of the Ohio emergency range won the Distinguished Service Cross in France and knows his cattle and horses as few others do t tr frr west nas nc i i r-- to a symmoved phony of thundering hoofs cowboy ver- lyrics and the crisp hard-boile- d nacuiai or an army lieutenant in charge of one of the largest herds of cattle in the ranch of the Ohio Relief the world Commission A mile north of Delaware O near the site of Old Fort Morrow the 300-acr- e cattle tract lies along the lazy Olentangy where the Delaware tribes sat around their flickering camp-fir- es a century and a half ago On this range there are upwards of 20000 federal drouth cattle purchased by the government in Northwest and Southwest where lack of water and forage wrote a "move or die" signal across the burning horizons of the drouth areas The federal plan is to buy 10000000 Vead of cdttle 340000 of which will be allocated to Ohio where this largest of emergency ranges is located Nearly every day they come — in trainloads of 5060 80 100 cars Some are dead or the injured when the cars are unloaded-b- ut vast ma jority mill through the pens and out on the rolling Ohio soil gratefully wading into the cool river that twists through the range like a giant horseshoe These cattle are fattened and shipped out in trucks that carry them to Ohio packing plants The meat then will be sent forVslaughteririg relief to canning factories and prepared for distribution to a quarter of a million needy families throughout the Buckeye state this winter c-a- st project will cost probably $300000 rpHE Already there are nearly 300 men employer! on the range and the weekly payroll is $5000 The quiet little com nunity of Delaware for nearly a century the home of Ohio Wesleyan University has taken on many of the aspects of a boom cow town Every day an unending cavalcade of hay trucks rumble through the streets and at all tours huge trucks leave with cattle to Cincinnati-packers Every Saturday night the cow punchers confe to town attired in chaps loud - boots shirts high-heand sombreros Proud of its ideal advantages for this tremendous government project the town has "gone western" to the exclusion of nearly all other interests Arriving on long freight trains the starving beasts from the ' Dakotas Nebraska and the southwest soon brought the local cattle census up to 23000 The Jiight pf July 25 when Bruce Burgess and Ben Vincent of the state commodity distribution department were asked to find "beds "for 8000 federal drouth cattle at once touched off the fireworks After that the cattle arrived almost faster than they could be accommodated It was necessary for a number of local business men to put down their prosaic tasks and assist at :he I- l ? : S'' V -- I I I I ZZZ E 7 S S Me O C 4 All the new arrivals on the federal range in Ohio find a pal in Dr Joseph Deriv an who's shown here acting the "mother to a lone dogie ' range is below the 'water plant and everybody including the farmers who leased happy their land at a good figure Restaurants and filling stations and post card concerns have profited considerably since the cattle ranch became a mecca for motorists from all states of the Union An average of 10000 cars Jamming the highways adjacent to the range very Sunday indicates that the East is getting a thrill from the synthetic "wild west" as operated and presented by the Ohio Relief range while organization was in Lhe making min-- t Four and utes were required to unload each car on the first one-ha- lf Commission shipments This time soon About was reduced to a mere two minutes 1 1 00 cows can be parked in the loading pens when the rush periods are on T IEUT s "PHE stork has not neglected the government f- range Calves are born daily at the ranch and many are born on the trains One jittle his ma during the unloading and there dogie lost was no rest among the sympathetic cow punchers until a foster-mothhad been found and the orphan allowed to lunch contentedly There is a "sick corral" under the expert His "masupervision of Dr Joseph Derivan boasts hot ward" now and cold running ternity water and his newest arrivals — twin calves--find life a pretty smooth proposition Never on any ranch was there such a' mixture of strains as there is on the Delaware tract Here shorthorns Jerseys Herefords Hol-steiGuernseys and Texas longhorns present as strange a bovine panorama as ever haunted the dreams of a tipsy cowboy There even are w ' x r - : in charge of ol mules er ns 1 ' "Romeo" mystery man of the range A 'member of the Brahma breed of cattle thai might have come up from Argentina where this breed is not 1 uncommon es house for Uncle Sam's hungry Hay bales in stacks of 150 -tons resemble the pyramids of the ii ancients Scores of hay ricks have been built and scattered over the range where cattle have easy access to them Some 200 5 blocks of salt are licked up daily It breaks down the animals reluctance to drink Each cow drinks strange water fed about 25 gallons of water per day in warm weather which suggests a total daily consumption of more than half a million gallons Plenty of people are trying to figure Just why this constant drain doesn't noticeably lower the water in the Olentangy which is after all a stream of rather modest proportions Fish have died in considerable numbers a mile below the cattle range probably affected by insect powder washed fronts the legs of the animals as they wade into The government originally intended to locate the range Just above the city water : filtration plant but townspeople objected strenuously even though assured by the' water company that filtration would render safe the water polluted by the cattle As it happened however the bo-vin- nd Huge slacks of hay are scattered over the 300 acres in Ohio where the government's cattle for slaughter Hundreds of bales are consumed daily " V PEYTON the range is a picturesque army type who began his career early and managed to pack a lot of excitement into the years between 1916 and 1 920 While a student at Texas the School of Mines he was sent into Mexico with the Civilian Service Corps and 96 -- some pf the sacred cattle of Brahma origin Range authorities are at a loss to account for their presence but believe they may have found their way into this country through Mexico and probably before that from the Argentine Most imposing of these Hindu cattle is "Romeo" a This great bull with a' savage disposition breed however once tamed can be handled like oxen 'and they are much more intelligent than oxen Probably the most interesting inmates of the federal drouth range are the descendants of cattle that originally were bred with buffalo Range executives say that these strange crea B hard-boile- el uioiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM rs5 — The drouth wrote "move or die" on the scorched western plains —so 340000 cattle are coming east and unemployed families are assured of meat this winter By F Beverly Kelley t en mmmmm ry ' - - ' 1 - : i nun -- - P —— : ' f r ZZH : tures probably came from the Anthony Tarvis ranch in the southwest They are distinguished by their wide heads almost snaggy in outline massive shoulders and slim hips Bison characteristics are plainly visible even though it has been many years since the ancestors of these cattle roamed the plains in a wild state and bred with native buffalo i 1TORE than 300 tons of hay were sumed daily by the "visitors"' when the range at Delaware reached its population zenith Alfalfa clover and soy bean hay oats and straw comprise the diet at OhiVs boarding (Copyright 3934 by Every Week Magazine) con-J-'- J- ce the-strea- m "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIli -- 4 Before they returned an act of Congress had enlisted all civilian service corps as well as combat forces so Peyton was automatically in the army He was assigned to a remount station at Ft Bliss El Paso and there arrested Pancho Villa's brother for desertion1 from an American infantry post Peyton is extremely reticent about his own exploits but admits that the most colorful episode in which he ever participated had to do with taking 1 900 mules from Newport News Va toQueenstown Ireland aboard the famous "Hercules" — an Austrian boat reserviced and renamed The trip took 33 and mules 600 lost they were were days loaded so closely that they had to remain standing for the entire voyage "Nothing in France scared me after that trip" declares Peyton recalling that the "Hercules" went to New York to get a convoy and then couldn't keep up with it: that the engine broke down in that there was fire and mutiny aboard and that their boat was sidewiped by a torpedo' The ill- fated "Hercules" sank on the return trip Lieutenant Peyton's destiny seems frequently to have been linked with mules Here's a story one of his army colleagues tells about him: In July 1 91 8 at Fere en Tardenois in the Chateau Thierry sector Company C in first line trenches ran short of ammunition A message was sent to the supply company but nothing' was expected until after dark : It looked like certain suicide for a supply wagon to attempt a dash of 600 yards from nearest cover to the trenches while German fire swept "the area h mule team came dashSuddenly a ing down the grade from cover dumped a load of ammunition and beat a hasty retreat Peyton drove that mule team and unloaded that ammu- nition He" and the" team were a perfect target yer not a shot was fired at them Probably the enony was too amazed to shoot For this exploit' Peyton received the - mid-oce- an four-hitc- single-hande- d Distinguished Service Cross He even can Peytcn knows cattle well recognize at a glance the many different brands these drouth victims carry P But horseflesh is his long suit and he likes nothing so well as to feel a bucking horse under him nilllilllllliUllllllllllliiiillliiiiiliiiiiiiilM c |