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Show New Ranch Shown HATCH One hundred and sixty invited guests enjoyed a sumptuous dinner and a tour of the newly organized and constructed Warner Ranch on the Fish Hatchery Road south of Hatch on Saturday, Aug. 17. Ben Warner, owner and Jim Mc-Connie, agent hosted the dinner and tout t" show off the new ranch and to lntiwuce many local ranchers and cattle breeeders to their growing herd of registered Polled Herefords. Assisting in ansvaring questions and helping to conduct the tour was ranch .foreman Craig' Gouff who (see RANCH page 4) Ranch lives on the ranch. The ranch is completely fenced over the three hundred acres, and, with all the new buildings, looks "like a laboratory, or a prime showplace for cattle, said one' bystander, the animal population of the ranch not Including dogs, said. McCormick, "consists of 52 cowns and a heard bull who is the son of a , champion. The herd bull' Is RB. Domino 287R and his father is B.T. CL Domino 15G. The Warner ranch herd bull is two years old and weighs almost 1,800 pounds and McCormick expects him to reach a prime weight of 2,400 pounds. The bull's father, B.T. Domino, is, valued at $1 million and Warner owns an undivided 25 percent in-K terest in him. The ranch has been built for the express purpose of breeding prime seed stock. Currently, physical properties of the ranch consist of a stuccoed,, Spanish tiled roof home for Gouff, the ranch foremen; an equipment building that measures 80 feet by 50 feet by 20 feet in height, equipped with restrooms and completely cemented; large horse barn; a calving barn; and a chute barn. Warner, McCormick and McCor-mick's brother Thomas have been running a combined ranch for some time. What makes the difference is II! If I --ft ,-y that although many cattle are involved and over GOO acres, the three men are functioning with a handshake and as Warner and McCorr mick say, "it's been running just fine." Warner said the officials from the Kansas Cattlemens Association and from the Utah Cattlemens Association have visited the ranch and that both groups were impressed with the progress of the operation thus far. Warner who is still living in f California, is planning the construction of a home on the ranch and expects to move here when it is corn-pleated. McCormick has lived in the area since 1979. |
