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Show 595 Hyde- D were willows and bull berry bushes on each side of it, sloping grass banks. We could ride ponies across it most anywhere we came to it, without for do. As the country settled up, livestock tramped the grass down, made trails into the river, more or less, and the timbers were out off the headwaters, and the floods started to coming, and the big flood that hit Monticello and Montezuma first came down in August, after we had been there for two or three years, and it tore our water wheels out. My father put in a water wheel, raised the water out of the river by wheel, and it out the bottoms in two, took the farming land away from this settlement, and they all left there but three families. We were one that remained. About being on the range, I was on the range from the time we went there as a boy. My father took in a big band of horses. Q Now, just what part of that country do you call the range? A Well, you go up back forty miles, fifty miles, from the river on the north, you come into the summer range country, up in the high sections where they summer their stock; from the top of Blue mountain better than nine nine thousand feet down to Bluff, forty- two hundred. That is where they drift their stock down in the winter and winter them on the sand flats. Q At what age did you commence to go down to the sand flats? A I was put down on the sand flats when I landed there; I was about ten, I reckon. Q How long did your family continue to live at Montezuma? 2563 |
