Show PIONEERS OF BROWNS PARK after mexican joe herrera went out ot of browns hole in 1872 the roy hoy brothers moved in and took possession ot of the whole works says the denver field and farm their nearest neighbors were the ute indians but that tall fall tour four white men moved into little browns hole twelve miles up the green river and just over the line in utah these exemplary men were george richards jack gunn smith and west the last named was an old codger who made a specialty ot of hunting bear and took particular delight in following a bad one into a thicket and like davy crocket engaged in a hand to paw fight with it to end the argument they were camped in a little pocket at the mouth of red creek and got along pretty well with their hunting and loafing around all winter vinter like so BO many indians tor for all they had to do was to tilt back against the wall to keep it from falling in in the spring after stagnating around all winter smith and old man west pulled out and went up on the fountinelle Fount anelle where the former took to sheep and got rich in a few years richards and gunn had consulted west as to the lay of the land and had had the pick of the whole hole w country nothing had been surveyed and they were a hundred miles from the union pacific railroad jack gunn gun crossed the divide and took up a ranch in a beautiful basin on red creek got some cattle and set up the G brand which he afterwards sold to the middlesex cattle company tor for bill tabor who had lma been a meat blunter for the ben holliday stage company was also squatted in there and showed gunn G a good spot on which to locate while richards settled in a fine little park near the head of vermillion fifty miles away from the other follow fellow richards took to buying utah stock and trailing them to wyoming where much of the stuff was sold to alex F swan on the chugwater Chug water in the spring ot of 1874 1974 the spicer boys arrived from south carolina and settled in the beaver basin and then tt it bean to look as it if the range were becoming a little overcrowded there was a great deal of grumbling about the neighbors coming in so thickly and takping up all the land selfishness Is about the only trait of human nature that is universal one day richards went vent to cross the spicer ranch with a beard bear dof of through cattle when george spicer came out with a needle gun to stop the parade richards was an old rebel soldier and as full ol of fight as the confederate spicer so he ran a bluff and crossed ills his cattle saying that the country was still big enough to allow the passage of a trait trail herd As a general rule however there was no quarreling a mong among the squatters and they worked harmo harmoniously piouslY together in keeping track of stock the thieves had not come into routt county and there ther ewas was no tiie the country finally became so thickly settled by the arrival ot of fifteen or twenty outfits that richards could stand it no longer so he sold out and went to ogden where he be married a mormon girl gunn journeyed to canada got into the hardware business married a canuck maiden and finally dle diedam ilat atlanta ga at the height ot of the great cow boom the hoys hoye were offered tor for their cattle hut but concluded to stick as the money was coming comin g too rapidly to give up such a good ti thing hiag so with the they stuck when they should have sold out to the barons who by the abe early were flocking in with big wads ot of money a and nd buying everythIng every thing i with hair on it at most outlandish prices the country was rich then tor for everything was on n the jump and the poorest buccardo buc caroo anthe on the range was lousy with filthy lucre tor for it was as the way ot of the land and everybody was happy |