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Mowing alfalfa using horse teams on the Mayer Ranch at the south end of the town of Eagle. (This ranch property is developed and is called the "Bull Pasture.") There are three teams, each pulling a cutter on which sits a team driver. The first team is driven by Ralph Robertson, Allan Hibbs is next driving the mules, and Frank Hulett is on the back team
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Fall cutting of alfalfa on the Pearch place using a two-horse team. There is a couple standing to the left of the horses, the woman holding a child on her hip. [Thomas Pearch was born in 1917 so it could be he.] A boy is seated on the seat of the cutter with a woman standing next to him.
Vern (Elmo Levern) Pearch was born in 1878 and came to Leadville in 1881. Several years later, he located a homestead on Squaw creek. "He was always interested...
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"Stacking alfalfa hay with a Mormon stacker on the Conger Mesa Schrupp ranch in 1912. In those days, after hay was cut and raked it was first put in shocks and when ready to be stacked it was loaded on slips or wagons with a fork after hay slings had been placed on the bed of the slip or wagon. Arriving at the stack yard, the stacker, operated by the same horses that brought in the load, picks up the sling load of hay, raises and swings it around...
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"Looking southeast from the middle of the subject [property]." -- Appendix, Appraisal of the value of the Schmidt Properrty required by the Eagle County Airport Authority, by John Peeples, I.C.A., April 24, 1984
Photograph was taken in September 1983.
"From the looks of the abstracts, we held the complete ranch for the longest continuing time--25 years. The reason we left was that the County condemned and bought our best hay fields for runways...
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"Looking east from approximately the center of the subject property." -- Appendix, Appraisal of the value of the Schmidt Properrty required by the Eagle County Airport Authority, by John Peeples, I.C.A., April 24, 1984
Photograph was taken in September 1983.
Alfalfa fields.
"From the looks of the abstracts, we held the complete ranch for the longest continuing time--25 years. The reason we left was that the County condemned and bought our best...
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"Looking northeast from approximate center of subject property." -- Appendix, Appraisal of the value of the Schmidt Properrty required by the Eagle County Airport Authority, by John Peeples, I.C.A., April 24, 1984
Photograph was taken in September 1983.
The hayfield has been cut, awaiting baling.
"From the looks of the abstracts, we held the complete ranch for the longest continuing time--25 years. The reason we left was that the County condemned...
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"Showing excellent stand of alfalfa with grasses." -- Appendix, Appraisal of the value of the Schmidt Properrty required by the Eagle County Airport Authority, by John Peeples, I.C.A., April 24, 1984
Photograph was taken in September 1983.
The view is looking west, standing in the Schmidt Ranch alfalfa fields.
"From the looks of the abstracts, we held the complete ranch for the longest continuing time--25 years. The reason we left was that the...
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"Showing Showing brome and orchard grass mixed with alfalfa." -- Appendix, Appraisal of the value of the Schmidt Properrty required by the Eagle County Airport Authority, by John Peeples, I.C.A., April 24, 1984
Photograph was taken in September 1983.
The view is looking east, standing in the Schmidt Ranch alfalfa fields.
"From the looks of the abstracts, we held the complete ranch for the longest continuing time--25 years. The reason we left was...
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"Hill ranch on Lake Creek" - caption from Edwards School Scrapbook, page 14. The scrapbook was completed as a youth citizens' league project between 1954-1955.
The foreground appears to be a hay or alfalfa field with several piles cut and piled in rows (one is in clear view in the bottom right corner). There is a building or home at center left; another home can be seen (colored white) beyond the first building as well.
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Glen Staton takes a seat in the alfalfa field on Brush Creek. He's wearing gloves and has his hands perched on a tool.
