A homesteader, a Pomona teacher and a century in Bull Canyon
Walter Fredrich took up land at the head of Bull Canyon in 1913 and married the Arbon schoolteacher Rachel Fryer in 1918, and the ranch they began was named an Idaho Century Ranch in 2020.
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Herd District Clarifictations
The Power County Prosecutor recently received a telephone call from Barry Williams wherein Mr.
Arbon Herd District
Having reviewed the Deputy Attorney General's advisory letter of May 31, 2012, and having heard comments from Arbon residents on June 25, 2012, perhaps some additional…
Branding
Nostrils are flaring as acrid smoke rises from the valley and stunned calves hobble off to find their mothers.
Welfare Cows
y closest neighbors are a large herd of Black Angus cows. Because they are about all I have to look at through my kitchen window I have become fascinated at some of…
Snowmobiles, full pantries and neighbors carry Arbon Valley through a hard winter
After a January of drifts, deep cold, a stalled school bus and a flood warning, the *Journal* went out to Arbon Valley in February 1982 to see how its farm and ranch families were getting by.
At 56, Arbon Valley's Sherm Swim says he can't quit roping
In June 1980 the Journal profiled Sherm Swim, the Arbon Valley cattleman who took the 1979 old-timers' roping in Pocatello, and the next March it pictured him and his son Kirk with a calf mauled by coyotes.
Arbon neighbors still brand by rope and by hand
In the spring of 1978 Arbon ranchers went from place to place roping and branding close to 1,200 calves, and the *Journal* came out to photograph their day at Sod Williams's ranch.
Two Bannock Creek stockmen take opposite sides in a forest grazing fight
In May 1978 a Bannock Creek rancher and a young Shoshone-Bannock stockman from the same creek each told a federal judge he might have to sell cattle if the forest grazing case went against his side.
Fort Hall tribes hold 300 head said to be Sod Williams's cattle
In March 1972 the Fort Hall tribes impounded more than 300 cattle on Bannock Creek range that they said belonged to the Arbon rancher Sod Williams, and vowed to keep them until the damage was paid for.
Arimo barber Sim Hatch looks back on the horse years at Pauline and Dairy Creek
Closing his Arimo barber shop in 1971, Sim Hatch recalled the years he and his brother Abe ran 130 horses in Bannock Valley and on Dairy Creek, until the slump after the First World War broke them both.
Bannock Creek hunters bring down a big lion near Bannock Peak
In January 1963 Merle Meyers, his sons Jerry and Jay, and Kenneth Pevoe ended the career of a big female mountain lion blamed for lost sheep near Bannock Peak.
Arbon Valley cattleman tells senators of his small range war
At a Senate hearing in Twin Falls in 1960, Arbon Valley cattleman Lloyd Brower told how a quarrel with sheepmen moved his herd onto the national forest, and objected to a 40 percent cut there.
Bannock Creek buries two of its older men in one week
In one week of July 1959 the Bannock Creek district lost Frank Bell, found in the creek below his footbridge, and William Lipps, 88, a former president of its cattlemen's association.
Sod Williams of Arbon and the family that followed him into the arena
From Sod Williams's prize quarter horse in 1958 to his great-grandson's rodeo title in 2025, the papers followed an Arbon ranch family through the show ring and the arena.
Through snow and dust, riders bring 1,200 cattle off the Bannock Creek range
In September 1957 Indian and white stockmen spent six days riding through snow and then dust to gather about 1,200 cattle off the reservation range on Bannock Creek, and Merle Meyers, raised at Crystal, rode along and wrote it up.
An Arbon rancher and his quarter horses make the Utah show pages
For ten years Utah papers followed Sod Williams of Arbon and his quarter horses, from Poco Star's placings at Ogden to the clinics where he was billed to teach reining.
John H. Meyers, Crystal rancher and stockman, dies at 63
John H. Meyers, a rancher and stockman who came to Arbon Valley in 1900 and raised his family on the Crystal side, died at his valley home on October 9, 1953, at 63.
Carl Axel Johnson, Swedish hand on a Crystal ranch for 34 years, dies at 70
Carl Axel Johnson, a bachelor from Sweden who tended stock and land on the Wright ranch at Crystal from about 1914 until 1948, died in Pocatello in February 1952.
Sheepherder killed when his supply truck rolls off the Arbon road grade
Hauling supplies to his family at a summer sheep camp, herder Dick Staker died early on July 24, 1948, when his truck left the grade on the Arbon road and came down on him.
Elk season opens on the Pocatello game preserve, and cattlemen worry
In 1933 Idaho drew 150 permits for old bull elk on the Pocatello game preserve, near the heads of Crystal and Midnight creeks, after years of farmers' complaints about elk in their fields.
Survey crew runs down a sheep-killing bear at the head of Rattlesnake Creek
In June 1899 men from Surveyor Sonnenkalb's camp cornered a silver-tip blamed for hundreds of dead sheep in an aspen thicket at the head of Rattlesnake Creek and killed it with a borrowed gun and a six-shooter.
An old cattleman remembers Tom Sparks's herds and a sheepman shot near Sunbeam
In 1928 J. R. Munn recalled Tom Sparks's cattle on the Arbon and Crystal range, the Fleming sheep that crowded them, and the sheepman found shot near Sunbeam creek, a killing other papers place in 1894.
Arbon Valley signs up 213 cows for a cheese factory
In the spring of 1924 Ren Evans signed up 23 Arbon Valley farmers and 213 cows for a cheese factory backed by Ernest Brog of Driggs, but whether it ever made cheese is unknown.
Arbon crowd braves a wet November day for the McLarry auction
In November 1920 the horses, combine and hay of Lucien McLarry, who had bought the Parley Bailey place at Arbon two years before, sold at auction, and by 1922 the Bailey land was tied up in court.
Arbon farmers organize to keep the sheep out of their canyons
In the spring of 1920 Arbon's farmers incorporated a range association to keep the migrating sheep bands off their canyons and hills, and by midsummer a deputy was riding the ranges and sheepmen were standing trial at Pauline.
Arbon Valley gets its herd district, and no one objects
In July 1918 the Power County commissioners heard a petition from Arbon Valley residents for a herd district and, with no one standing against it, created the district on July 27.
Hatfield's tractor plows 350 acres in a valley of horse teams
From a 10-20 tractor plowing 350 acres in 1916 to a Fordson on a 1921 sale bill, the papers show the first tractors at work beside Arbon Valley's big horse teams.
Ten cents, two cows and a greased pig built the Bailey ranch at Arbon
J. R. and Annie Bailey reached Arbon with ten cents, two cows and some debts, and by 1917 a farm writer found them on 560 acres, with a greased pig still part of the family lore at their golden wedding in 1940.
Dayton family reaches Arbon by wagon, and neighbors stop a fire at Knox Canyon
A family from Dayton, Washington, came into Arbon by wagon after losing horses to poison on the road, in the same week that neighbors plowed fire guards to save 1,500 bushels of sacked grain near Knox Canyon.