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THE TRIBUNE, WILLIAMS LAK®, B.C.

‘Thursday, August 7, 1952

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Chilcotin Story Leads Albertan
‘Grass Beyond the Mountain”

To Find The

know, we are reprinting it.

“You will be surprised to hear
from me, especialiy at the above
post office address. However, if you
have read the sensational book
“Grass Beyond the Mountains”, by
Richmond Hobson Jr., you will un-
derstand why I am over here.

I am at present a guest of Mr.
|Hovson and his charming wife on
taeir ranch 35 miles southwest of
| Vanderhoof.

I am writing in the hopes that you
‘will publish part of my impressions
jot this huge cattle country, so that
the cattlemen of Alberta will better
appreciate the narrative of true ex-
Periences written by Mr. Hobson in
[his book.

ONE DAY LAST winter while
managing the Bar XL Ranch at
Ricinus for Mr. Hobson, I came in to
Calgary on business. During the
day I met severai cowmen and cow-
boys who all agreed to a get-together
at thé Empire Hotel that night.
During the evening as we talked
between occasional sips from a stack
of refreshments in the corner, cattle
ranges and methods of feeding were
as usual discussed.

During a lull in the conversation,
my brother Ken spoke up— “I get
something you fellows would sure be
-interested in”. He dug in a dresser

The letter reproduced below, was written by Albertan
Gordon Thomson to Fred Kennedy,
Calgary Heraid. It was printed in t
concerns the locale of Rich Hobson’s book,
Mouniain,” and therefore people that many of our readers}

the Old Bloater in the fall of 1934.
agricultural editor of the |1I shall never forget that trip of 150
at paper, and because it miles of The
Grass Beyond:-The'}.6y. was\ running shoit on gas and
I never knew how far I had to go
or if there was a filling station be-
“Grass fore Lake Anahim. The rain was

jackpine and rock.

drawer and. came up with

Beyond the Mountains”. We al. falling steadily as I topped a ridge
Jooked it over with enthusiasm. Most) of burned pine and rock. The jeep
of the cowmen were sceptical of the sputtered and stopped. I looked

veracity of the contents but were around helplessly wondering what
agreed that it made wonderful reaa- to do.

ing. To make a long story short, the! I saw an Indian approaching on a
book intrigued me so, and fate play- pony. He sure looked good, but bet-
ed her hand, making it possible for ter still on telling me that it was
me to. burn my bridges in Alberta,/only a half mile to Anahim. I
raise enough capital for a‘new start, walked on to the store run by Ike
and head over the Rockies to find the Sing, a hospitable Chinese youth,
erass beyond the mountains. Whom I will never forget for - his

A hospitality.

AT KAMLOOPS, B.C., I stopped
of at Monte Creek to visit my old| DURING MY STAY with Ike I
Stampede partner, Doug Bruce, met all the characters mentioned in
formerly of Black Diamond. He has Mr. Hobson's book, with the excep-
a-nice little ranch and is away to a tion of Andy Holte who was at that
good start. Crossing the 225 miies time up in Vanderhoof buying a bull
of Chilcotin Plateau, I looked up from Hobson's Rimrock Ranch. 1
Duke Martin who is now one of the Still hope to have the pleasure of
largest ranchers in_B.C. meeting Andy, but after I have set-

As a boy, he lived across the river tled, because I still need my jeep,
from our ranch at Black Diamond. 2241 am convinced by rumor that he
He is now at Alexis Creek, where he Will have traded me out of it shortly

‘ - fter we meet.
ranches hundreds of miles of jack-
The largest rancher, Andy Christ-

pine and rocks, contrasted by 4
; : , has a store and a herd of 506

att fertile valleys ana ®use2
nee ae a is a good Herefords. I was rather dis-

appointed in his appearance as most
ranchers are never caught without a
However, Mr. Christen-
me he had never owned
Hobsou

‘PROM HIS RANCH I drove near-
ly 200 miles to Anahim Lake on the coat or tie.
same road that Hobson and Pan- sen assured
handle worked their way through in such apparel and that Mr.

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andl Finley T00f,

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must have been under the influence
of Itcha Mountain Fog when he
made such a rash statement.

FROM OBSERVATIONS and en-
quiries I found that the grass I want-
ed was not across the Itcha Moun-
tains which loomed above Anahim
Lake. The Frontier Cattle Com-
pany had broken up after twelve
jyears and Pan Phillips owned the
best part of it. Other ranchers had
bought up the other meadows.

The story was the same right ac-
ross the Chileotin. The big ranchers
;controlled the majority of the range
.for hundreds of miles west of Wil-
liams Lake. However, I had one
hope left. Rich Hobson had moved
lout of the Blackwater Valley and
ysettled near Vanderhoof. I had read
between the lines in his book and
knew he would never settle unless
there was an abundance of cattle-
men’s gold . . . grass.

I drove back from Anahim rather
glad there was nothing there for me,
the frost and high altitude forbids
raising grain or gardens, the long
haul to Williams Lake, over 200
miles, makes everything so expeu-
sive to buy, and cuts down on the
Profits of the cattle, that I could see
jbut a poor future there.

| I WENT OUT ABOUT 50 miles
east of Williams Lake to Horsefly to
look up an old cowboy friend who
lives there. I found that country
more comparable to our. foothills,
and thought of locating there. Be-
fore committing myself I felt I had
to drive another 300 miles to look
up Rich Hobson at Vanderhoof, and
have now been here several days.

Mr. Hobson’s search for grass
has surely paid him for all the hard-
ships he has endured since he left
New York in 1932. He has here, in
my opinion, the nucleous of the
[greatest cattle empire in Canada.-
His home ranch is located on Greer
Creek, which is a branch of the upper
Nechako River. This immense val-
ley is a series of the most fertile
meadows I have ever seen. The
meadows are skirted by the most
giant diamond willows I have ever
heard of. The grass is lush and
away ahead of anything I have seen
in over a thousand miles.

HOBSON’S CATTLE are hog tet
and wading in grass up to their
knees He has thousands of acres of
open range and is busy on a prograin
of clearing, breaking and. sowing...
his meadows down to tame hay for
winter feed. This is the country I
set out to find and if I can get locat-
ed, I’m sure going to settle and try
to build up a ranch.”

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