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4A Daily News – Saturday, October 22, 2011 Agriculture & farm Last weekend was the fall branding for Mike and Fred Hamilton at their Vina ranch. It was new country for me, so we appreciated the good directions that Mike had given, in order to find the corral where they were working. Jean Barton Earlier in the day we had been to the Dairyville Orchard Festival where Paula Holden, Jill Gard and I had sold the California Cattle- Women ranch history books in Author‚s Alley. We enjoyed the parade of old tractors at the start of the day as they cruised past the vendors booths and attendees. The Hamilton branding saw Dan Hencratt, Lyle Hencratt, Grant Leininger and Justin Hamilton roping the calves head and heel. Fred Hamilton applied the earmarks, and Mike Hamilton applied the 7HL to the left hip. Kim Summers and Gail Hencratt gave the vaccina- tions, while Cathy Tobin and Dennis Helberg applied the pour-on wormer. The important ground crew included Rick Summers, Cody Coulter, Royce Hiner and Flint Graham. There was a big birthday cake and ice cream to help their Aunt Doris celebrate her 80th birthday with her extended family, after we had enjoyed a lunch in the shade of the trees on the green lawn. Sue, Eric and Ann Junge, and Dea Hamilton had prepared a delicious luncheon of tri tip, chili beans, quartered new potatoes with sausage, buttered French bread, and Dutch oven peach cobbler. The colorful, flavorful vegetables that we added to the let- tuce salad had come from Sue's garden. Her tomatoes were bright red and flavorful, while I pulled out my tomato plants when they reached nine feet, and still no tomatoes this year. I am glad I had planted some Early Girl because they are the only plants that produced this year. Big Beef, Big Boy, Super Beefsteak, Celebrity and Champion were all a disaster. The Ambrosia can- taloupe, burpless cucumbers, and Zucchini squash did well. Dahlias weren't as breathtaking as past years but the Zinnias are still colorful and blooming in the gar- den. ***** Sept. 3, 1904 Weekly People Cause Sixty head of fine beef cattle were driven in from the east side range by the Willard Brothers Thursday evening and taken to the railroad stock yard north of town. head filled two cars. There they were put on board the cars. Sixty These cattle were purchased by Mr. Cramer of Chico. The price paid for them is stated to be 6 cents. ***** August 27, 1904 WAGON AND LOAD GO OVER GRADE "Mineral, August 19. The teams that left Red Bluff a few days since with a load of granite from Arm- strong‚s marble works met with a bad accident at the top of Battle creek grade, which is a steep one for a short distance. Mr. Balach, with two wagons and six horses, was in the lead, with a load of 80,000 pounds. When about half way down the steep pitch, the brake in some man- ner gave way, and both wagons, with horses, driver and tombstones, went over the grade. At first turn of wag- ons the heavy stone took the load down the steep moun- tain side, some pieces going as far as 300 feet before stopping. The wagons turned over twice before lodg- ing against some trees. The team rolled twice over the driver, Mr. Balch, and strange to say, neither the driver nor the team was more than slightly injured. The wagons were damaged slightly. The greatest damage probably was done to the smooth cut tombstones, as they were chipped and nicked by the roll down the cliff. The wagons and stones were raised and got back to the road by means of block and wire cable. Mr. Arm- Courtesy photo Fred Hamilton was holding down the calf while Mike Hamilton was applying the 7-L brand on the left hip at the Hamilton Brothers fall branding. strong was soon on the ground after the accident and with the assistance of Mr. Britt from the mills, Ross and Will McRae, Bert and Elbert Hampton the work of recovering the wagon and its load was finished by dark that night. The accident happened about 10 o'clock Wednesday morning." Another article in this issue: WAGON GOES OVER A GRADE. "Mr. Armstrong, who started from Red Bluff a few days since with a load of monuments for Susanville, met with an unfortunate mishap on the road. In one of the wagons driven by Jas. Balch there were seven large tombstones. This wagon and team went over the grade at Cold Creek crossing. This grade is over 100 feet high there, but the wagon was prevented from going to the bottom by lodging against a couple of fir trees and the flume. The wagon, team and tombstones were recovered, but the stones were found to be badly nicked, and will have to cut over again." My father remembered seeing pieces of granite along the hillside, before the road was straightened and stayed up on the mountainside instead of going down along Battle Creek. The road used to drop downward just east of Lassen Lodge before the current road starts to curve. ***** We still are offering $ 20,000 for arrest and convic- tion of the person or persons who stole Owens cattle. Tip line is 1-800-671-4327 or 530-520-9399 or 530- 527-6332. This was published Feb. 24, 2011 in newsok.com/cattle rustling is on the rise in Oklahoma. A sketchy back story, two dead calves and a dis- cerning livestock veterinarian led investigators to a cat- tle rustling plot stretching across two counties. But this crime wasn't committed 100 years ago. It‚s happening today. Hundreds of cattle thefts have been reported in OK since last year. 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The driver of the pickup asked a nearby ranch- er to look after the cattle, but when he came back the next day with a new trailer, he left the old one and two dead calves behind. This raised the eyebrows of local ranchers and a vet- erinarian who contacted law enforcement, said Col. Mike Grimes, director of investigative services for the state Dept. of Ag, Food and Forestry. We knew the cattle were stolen because a normal producer wouldn't handle his cattle that way, Grimes said. Thieves don‚t care how they treat livestock. Grimes said he expects arrest warrants to be filed soon on the case. ranch Fall branding at Vina ranch