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Show I Page 3 Friday, November 10, 1972 It Was A Very Good Year :x)A roundup a slippery business this fall. However, the Oct. 30 deadline was met in spite of Mother Nature's lnconwideratenPR. Seven loads of cattle were taken from Lakefork range where this picture was taken. The cattle were sorted, weighed and shipped from Zane Christensen's receiving corrals at Ballard. OCTOBER SNOWFALL-Ma- de ELECTRIC SCALE SYSTEM-i- s explained ta Business Committee member Fred Coaetah by Art Brown, Ute Cattle Enterprise Manager, Three thousand heifers and steers were sorted and weighed for shipment last month to Producers' Livestock Commission in Salt Lake City. The Fairbanks electric scale automatically records the weight of each load on a ticket at the cattle are loaded onto the scale outside. The entire herd was shipped from the receiving corrals at Ballard. 9 72-Tr- Tops Cattle Market ibe "It's been a very good year" is the tune being whistled by cattlemen across the country this fall. And that tune is also popular in Ute Country where cattle were record shipped last month at an all-tihigh price. Trucks began rolling into Zane Christensen's receiving corrals at Ballard on Oct. 10 and the final truck arrived on schedule, Oct. 30. In all, 19 truck loads of cattle were brought to the yards for shipping to Producers Livestock Commission, Salt Lake City. Producers offer of $56.15 per 100 weight on steers and $51.65 per 100 weight on the heifers was accepted by the Enterprise which sold 3000 head this year. 60 percent steers and 40 percent heifers. The enterprise retains placement heifers, thus the 6040 split. Several inches of snowfall made shipping a rather muddy process but roundups at Wallys Cabin, Hill Creek; John Starr corrals, lake Fork corrals and Rock Creek were carried out as scheduled me and the deadline was met. Marks Decade The Ute Tribe Cattle Enterprise is marking its tenth year. In 1962 the enterprise consisted of 156 head of brood cows with a net worth, inclusive of land, of $70,056. In 1971 the audit report revealed a 4,789 head brood cattle operation with a net worth of $1,693,206 of which $1,169,420 was in livestock. In 1962 the Enterprise began utilizing the former Randlett farm which consisted of less than 2000 acres of farm land and 12,000 acres of rangeland. In its 10th year the cattle roam 10,000 acres of farmland and 630,000 acres of rangeland scattered ov-- .r the entire reservation. For the use of the land resources the enterprise pays annually to the Ute Tribe or individual tribal members $23,000 annual range fees, $22,660 Operation and malntalnance water assessments to Uintah and Ouray irrigation Project; and $8,578 in farm land leases. Art Brown joined the Enterprise as manager in 1970. A native of Washington, he attended Washington State University and has many years experience in the livestock industry having managed the LAK Livestock Ranch in Newcastle, Wyo., and the Gamble Ranch on the border. He came to the tribe from the Rock Creek Ranch, north of Canon City, Colo., and succeeded Victor Brown of Roosevelt as manager. He and his wife, Rene, make their home in Ft. Duchesne. Utah-Neva- da Ute THINK OF IT AS MONEV-Th- e Bulletin staff was told when complaining of the odor at the shipping corrals. Unloading at the receiving corrals didn't seem to be much of a treat for the cattle prefer the lush U A O rangeland to the receiving corrals on a muddy afternoon. The Enterprise employees 17 people in4 forecluding a secretary-bookkeepe- r, men , cowboys and farm hands. The board of directors includes Gene Ostler, vice president of the Walker Bank; Dr. Roger Nelson, Assistant Dean of Business University of Utah; and Ray Smith, Supervisory Range Conservationist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U & O Agency and Francis Wyasket, Tribal Chairman. Always A Gamble Last year saw the Enterprise profits Included in the dividend payments to tribal members. And with a 1972 income of approximately $480,000, this, of course, will be repeated. Mr. Brown believes the cattle business is the biggest gambling operation going, "Youre not only gambling on the market, youre also gamblingwith Mother Nature, he said. However, gamble or no gamble, Brown sees the next three years as "very good years for the livestock business and the Ute Cattle Enterprise. ! t . B il TRUCKS-A- re the newest in shipping cattle. The Ute herd was trucked Iran Hill Creek, John Starr Flat, Lakefork and Rock Creek in the belly bottom trucks, as cattlemen refer to them. Fred Conetah, member of the Ute Tribe Business Committee, was at the receiving yard to watch the profit being unloaded, sorted and weighed. TRIPLE-DEC- K -- I WAY BACK WHEN-The- re was no cattle Utes marketed their cattle in enterprise, Roosevelt with neighboring ranchers. This picture, taken around 1930 at the sale yards adjacent to the old Uintah Power n and Light on the north side of Roosevelt. Some of the personalities identified in the picture are Lawrence Appah, Kneale Grant, Roy Smith, former farm aide at Whiterocks; W. W. McConkie, Floyd Lamb and Roy Buck Adams who was principal at Whiterocks School at that time. On the top far right is Hal Albert Daniels Sr. Sub-Statio- |
