Field journal, v4159
Page 627
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347. Toroweep or Tuweep Valley May 2, 1933. Interview with H.A. Kent. The Kents came into the valley to homestead about 5 yrs. ago. They are cattle people. The valley above H.A. Kent's homestead is mostly homesteaded. Gardening and cattle raising supply a living. The places are neat, clean, & fairly well improved. The valley is fertile - produces excellent potatoes, beans, sorghum, corn, & gardening products. It is of course overgrazed. Hence houses & barns are up. Water is scarce. The stock driveway appears to serve no purpose. It may have been just over by a shepheman to spite the cattleman - at least, such is the view taken here. The area as wide as Mt. Trumbull Nat. Forest & extending from the Forest south to the Colo. P. is a State game preserve. Has been so since 1930. Kent procured the step. He saw a local inhabitant kill 30 deer and feed them to the chickens. Deer are not as abundant in the Trumbulls as on the Kanbah but he reports them common. Last fall he saw a band