A Pioneer Cattle Venture of the Bennion Family BY G L Y N N B E N N I O N
The author's father, Israel Bennion (left), at about the age he herded cattle for the family cattle enterprise.
I've been going over the almost-forgotten items my father, Israel Bennion, related to me about early day cattle enterprises of the Bennion family, and the total now seems pretty sketchy and perhaps meaningless. One wonders why they allowed their livestock to so greatly increase at a time when there was little or no market for the increase. Cows were worth $10.00 a head and sheep $2.00. With untouched ranges stretching away without limit in every direction perhaps it was the natural thing to let their livestock increase also without limit. Mr. Bennion has spent most of his 75 years homesteading on the desert land he writes about. H e is the author of two short novels, numerous short stories, and articles for the Salt Lake Tribune, Deseret News, and Improvement Era. At the present time he is homesteading in Riverbed, about 30 miles from Vernon, Utah.
