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Show The Survey's Findings 41 P tt The East Grouse Creek Water Company irrigation system. The system of creeks, canals, ditches, and dams has not changed in any essential way since 1896, when this sketch was made. (Courtesy Oren Kimber; GCCS TCB- 90105/35) the water is switched onto his land. Kimber says the system gives everyone "about their fair share." Sprinklers now are quite common in the valley, particularly on the land below the Etna Reservoir, completed in 1958. In all cases, however, the sprinklers supplement rather than replace flood irrigation. People are concerned to make use of all the water available, for, as Oren Kimber remarked, "when it gets by here it's gone." Fall roundup begins about the first of October. In the past, this too was a community activity. But today each rancher is responsible for his own herd, and they are driven down on horseback to be collected at the ranch. Calves born during the summer are branded and doctored, and those that will be sold are separated out. In early days the cattle would be driven to the railhead at Lucin to be sold in the Ogden stockyards. Today buyers come out and pick them up, or they are trucked to the livestock sale at Rupert, Idaho. Heifers about to bear their first calves, and some other selected stock, remain on the ranch's feed lot all winter, while the others are driven to the winter range. |
