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Show Volume XII THE Issue XI OGDEN VALLEY NEWS Page 11 July 1, 2005 Sheepherd ~ Part //I Note: The following history is part ofa i OGDEN VaLLey News will be printing in the next several issues. It was in 1928. He was the son of Abner Allen and Elmina Peterson of Huntsville. Here he helped with the farm and the family’s land and homestead until Scott Allen he went off to college in 1946. Scott died in 1996 at the age of 68. His wiife Betty lives in SLC. In 1984 Scott ‘one some of his spare time ries of wowing up in Huntsville. His meconst is a rich portrait of life in the Valley within the memory of many still living here. Betty has also graciously allowed the paper to reprint, as a part of this series, a small collection of his poetry pertaining to the Valley. A copy of Scott's book can be found in the Ogden Valley Library. Part Il Uncle Loke worked hard like Dad and was able to do everything well. I never heard him complain. Once during World War II, when I was in high school, wrecked our only car—a 1939 Chevy. That is, I totaled it. Mother and Sherman Johansen (a cousin) were in the car with me. No one was seriously hurt but we could not get a new car because of the war. Uncle Loke made a significant contribution to my exposure to the opposite sex by unselfishly permitting me to use his Willys on dates during those years. Uncle Loke, Bill, and I spent many years working together and doing chores. My first deer hunt was made possible because Uncle Loke let me use his 30-40 Craig. Grandpa Peterson was quiet mannered and an opinionated stacker. He wanted to do it his way and was not receptive to a lot of suggestions. Frequently, his stacks leaned a little when they settled down. Of all the jobs, the stacker had the most dusty, itchy, and unpleasant and I never envied Grandpa Peterson as he moved the hay into place on the stack in the hot sun. Clyde inherited Grandpa Peterson’s quiet manner, but was easy going and had fun doing whatever task was before him. Enthusiastic about fish- ing, picking apples, cleaning ditch, fixing fence, or feeding rabbits, he was old enough to be a grownup in my eyes but childlike enough in his approach to things to be a good friend. Clyde worked with us a lot when I was young. As we grew older, we remained close because both of us chose to spend our adult years in Salt Lake City. In Sheepherd, and on_ the Homestead, there was always time to shoot a few squirrels with the twenty-two or chase pine hens for an evening meal. Clyde never missed out on these diversions. He, as well as others in the crew, frequently interrupted the hard work by hunting the little wild chickens with the twenty two. When this crew got moving, the windrows and piles of bucked up hay disappeared quickly and the hay stack moved upwar wo every Prevailing winds come from the west in Sheepherd as they do in the Valley. By positioning the derrick so the buck rake approached the derrick and stack from the west, it was possible to send the loaded Jackson fork up the front corner of the stack without subjecting the fork man to a face full of dust. Most of the time, the derrick horse pulled to the south from the derrick on the lower stack yard, and to the north on the other two yards. The repetitious motions of the derrick horse made his confined trail a bed of powdery dust. In a similar way, the path of the buck rake as it approached the stack became beaten to a powder which was littered with the cobble rocks which were picked up with the hay. Pausing to pass the water bag among quench someone’s thirst, it was carefully hung or placed in the shade of the stack to keep it cool. It was normally the job of old Chuck and the rake boy to go for fresh water when the bag got low. The rake also had another incidental job that was done when time permitted. As windrows were pushed into piles by the buck rake and then shoved along toward the stack yard some of the hay was lost. This left little piles of hay scattered over the otherwise clean field. As the stack neared completion, these “scrapens” were raked up into one or two long windrows usually with old Long Arm Machine Quilting right here in Ogden Valley. Quilts ~ Bedspreads ~Table Cloths ~ Runners & much more! Hundreds of designs available Pick up and Delivery Norma Aston snaston@yahoo.com (801) 745-0703 It's If you hard to know what to Stop Violence Against can help save her il er Women. POWER OF COMMUNITY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION Your y y cont. on page 12 aete ae rT2y \ fi pee tf 18 ; a Ka ‘ 4 ce ead a4 en F i 7 7 —_— ¥ * S aeA ae : 3 * ¥ 8 = es “ Were pS) - & WA r es Scott Allen with his brother Bill Allen and rn iends Gail Collard and Ruth Aldous after a successful day of fishing. Photo courtesy of The Allen Family. 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