Section 2: History and Use - United States Fish and ...

The Gardiner and Orr ranch was lost to the Federal Land Bank in 1933. The Jackson Ranch was the only ranch in Pleasant Valley to survive, and they were barely able to do so. They were milking 40 head of Milking Shorthorns with three milking machines and selling butter fat. The cream was the only way the Jackson Ranch kept going. ................
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