GORDON'S AND WHITEHEAD'S RANCHES -- YODER'S BEGINNING AND EX- PANSION -- NEW DEVELOPMENT IN GOSHEN HOLES -- BE- GINNING OF ALFALFA AND SUGAR BEETS

On our first trip up Horse creek in the eighties, we stopped at the Gordon ranch, in company with George Whitehead. Gordon was .'in active Scotchman and had built an irrigation plant. He, in one place, had made a tunnel through a hill, as I remember it quite a long distance, and large enough to work a team in.

The house was modern and had "upholstered" furniture. The night we were there, we were entertained in the parlor, along with a couple of "punchers" from the south. These were decidedly ill at ease sitting on the sofa, until they got their feet drawn up under them, (in the "plush" upholstery. Gordon tried Iiin l.i'si to In unconcerned aboul using his style

furniture as a boot mat, but he occasionally grunted ; "that must be comfortable."

The Gordon ranch later became a part of the Colen Hunter ranch, and I believe it so remains. The building and improving of the ranch involved Gordon in heavy obligations which he was unable to meet in the later money-pinch. He built an ideal, but was unable to retain it. like so many of the ideals which dreamers build. Someone else absorbed the benefits of his genius and industry, because he built on borrowed money.

I do not know the present ownership of the old Whitehead ranch, although, as I recall, it was quite a place then.