Show - i - i ' - - r l'' 1 es f:1 1 4 Man g Just as Big ds CoUntry Ah!ch Produced Him k L - - By Tom Mathews TT WAS Jan 11 1915 that he rode over from Monticello to take a look at what was about to be his life's work The inowtcoverecl sage-dotte- d ranchland around La Sal 'didn't look like much of a career to Charlie Redd 24 years old and a greenhorn at that! Anybody going to La Sal these days can see how wrong he was "He owns the Rocky mountains and damn nea'r eVerything on four legs in ttm" is the local description of Charlie's holdings Although he is probably the largest individual stockman in Utah everyone in Grand and San Juan counties calls hir4 "Charlie" with the easycountry familiarity that makes no distinction between the town loafer and too 1 E Cosgriff (Salt Lake me his bank's limit 'someadvanced banker) times over $100000 without security" With the aid of such highbinding financial maneuvers Charlie spurred his shaky ranch washes df the early through the debt-fille- d 20's He gradually bought out the other holdings until at present the Redd ranches are a family affair "I take a lot more satisfaction out of the tough things that were ricked than out of the years of easy sailing" he is fond of saying "When something comes up that's serious then something's got to be done about it Even if it's wrong do something Hell these people that throw up their hands" Charlie says shaking his head and twisting his gray cowlick' a sure indication that he's thinking The stockman's thumping gallop to wealth and prestige has hauled along several lesser men who through association with Charlie have become well fixed themselves "I've started out quite a few young fellas who are now independent" Chatlie boasts "Some of 'ein are too darn independent" he adds ruelongshot I the banker - -- Pay Roll Hits $350000 His holdings include 35006 acres of deeded land 250000 acres of permit range land and 2000 acres of cultivated land He runs 18000 head of breeding ewes 011112e Redd ranch and 2500 head just to keep them company another are of cattle Of the latter 500 registered Herefords On the Kansas wheat stubble he grazes as many as 40000 head of lambs Iis pay roll will "go to $350000 this year rm afraid" He is not a resident of La al1 H is La Sal The only buildings in the corturltunity are owned by him They include housing for 14 e families a shop a general n ranch headquarters store an ' and flock of barns sheds and 'ctinerals Charles Redd is as big as the tremendous fit country which produced him He was a native of the area but that didn't make him a rancher After growing up in Bluff San Juan county he graduated from Brigham young university and- then served for 2Y2 years as a missionary for the Church Saints of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Bought on Shoestrhig He believes that had he knovvn pnough to realize the difficulties of putting Ithe dogie ranch on its feet he'd have told his dad to the ranch management to somebody else Lemuel Redd Jr Charlie's father1 had purchased the spread along with several other down and local men on a shoestring 12 10 years to pay It was Charlie's job to tie that shoestring Into a sound investment He did it in swashbuckling style "I'm not a sound operator" Charlie says "I'm a long shotterIFOrtunately I had the help of some creditors who liked to ' fully 11 Afortunate young man who is in the procis of hitching to Mr Redd's star is Sam i "'"---- - 4 ' - ' t ' - :' ' ' ' ' " ' 1 t - - i' ' 1 1 20-hor- - ?" 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