SOCORRO – For the Socorro baseball team, last week’s Thoreau Hawk Invitational had its ups and downs.
The Warriors opened with a 6-3 victory against Miyamura, riding the pitching of Michael Chavez, who gave up three runs in the fifth inning.
“He threw incredibly well,” Socorro coach Alan Edmonson said. “It was our best defensive performance of the season and we did not have any errors. Justus Jaramillo made some great plays at third pase. He made two diving stoops and was able to get the putouts at first base.”
The downer for the Warriors, though, was that starter Kenneth DeCosta pulled his hamstrong and “I am not sure if he will be ready for Wednesday (at home against Espanola Valley or Friday (at home against Estancia).
The Warriors advanced to play Grants Friday and Edmonson said, “it was one of the ugliest baseball games I have ever been a part of.”
Socorro left 13 runners on base and still lost despite getting a one-hitter from pitcher Charlie Savedra.
“Charlie walked the bases loaded in the first inning and then they hit a ball down the first base line and we committed two errors on the play and three runs scored,” Edmonson said.
The Socorro coach said the Warriors got the leadoff man on for three straight innings and they were not able to advance them.
“Losing games is never a good thing,” Edmonson said of his 6-2 Warriors. “And I am not pleased we have lost two games. I can handle the Robertson loss but losing to Grants makes me sick to my stomach.”
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Baseball Team Finishes Third At Thoreau
Golf Team Second In Own Tourney
By Nicky Romero
For the Mountain Mail
SOCORRO -- The Socorro boys golf team is excited and eager to show off their golfing skills this season.
“We have very high expectations for our boys golf team this year,” Socorro coach Russ Moore said.
The Warriors opened the season with a first-place showing at the Belen Invitational on March 8, but they did not qualify for a leg for state.
“I believe we're in the top four teams in the state,” Moore said. “The teams to beat are Lovington and St. Michael's They both tied for the team title and St. Michael's won in the playoff last year for the state title. Hope Christian School rose to the top last year and actually came out third.”
In Belen last week, despite playing in poor weather, the team won the tournament.
“But we weren't quite as successful as we wanted to be,” Moore said. “We haven't started our goal of picking up legs for the state tournament. We did play reasonably well, but not as good as we like.”
“We have a very competitive golf team led by a good group of seniors. Our leading senior is Ryan Romero who has been on the team for five years. He was on the state championship team in 2006. We will have senior Randall Romero who has been affiliated with the team for the last three years earning varsity letters. Joe Carilli, Eric Mitchusson, and Willie Lucero are the other seniors who will help lead our team.”
“Depth doesn't stop there. I expect big things out of our 9th grader Willie Schaffer. He played as an eighth grader last year and earned his varsity letter. He will probably be challenging Ryan Romero for that number one spot. Willie has done a great job and worked hard on his game the last couple of years. He's improved tremendously. In fact, Willie will be our number one man going down to T or C. He won our last qualifier.”
“We have a good group of juniors too. We have Nathan Vega and Zane Lam. We expect big things from Zane this year. Zane qualified for the tournament in T or C, so he has earned his varsity letter this year. We're real proud of Zane for getting into the varsity this year.”
Robert Smith and Raymond Chavez are the sophomores on the team.
Socorro also traveled to Hot Springs on March 23rd for the Hot Springs Invitational. The team outshot Cobre and Hot Springs for first place, but again did not qualify for a leg for state.
Moore said, “We need to work harder on our short game, putting and chipping.”
Pictured: The Socorro boys golf team. Front row left to right: Dmitri Valles, Tyler Lam, Zane Lam, Randall Romero, John Carilli, Ray Chavez, Bubba Anaya, Eric Mitchusson, Head Coach Russ Moore. Back row: Assistant Coach Miguel Griego, Nathan Vega, Robert Smith, Willie Lucero, Ryan Romero, Joe Carilli, Raul Contreras, Jonathan Hade, Willie Schaffer, Bryan Melanson, Assistant Coach Dennis Walsh. Not pictured: Will Benson, Alq Fuierer, and Tye Trujillo. Photo by John Severance
Lady Warriors Keep Rolling
The Socorro girls golf team shot a 364, easily winning by 27 strokes at the Bernalillo Invitational Monday at the Santa Ana Couse and earning its second leg at state.
The Lady Warriors took the top three spots individually as Kristen Cline was the medalist, shooting an 80. Shania Berger was second with an 83 and Brittani Webb was third at 84. Theresa Chavez rounded out the team score with a 117.
“Pin placements and speed of the greens were very tough,” Socorro coach Margaret Stanley said. “The top three girls hit the ball well. We will be working on the short game the rest of the week getting ready for the Seery Tourney on Monday. Each of the top three girls earned another individual leg for state.”
Stanley also explained the state qualifying system.
“In our state qualifying system, teams have to earn three qualifying scores during the season,” Stanley said. “This means that a target score is set at every tournament and a team has to meet it or beat it. A team can also qualify for state by being the district champ. Individuals can also earn legs by meeting or beating the individual score at a tourney. They also have to earn three legs to go to state.”
The Seery Tournament will be held Monday at the New Mexico Tech Course. Teams competing in the tournament include St. Michael’s, Robertson, Ruidoso, Bosque, Valencia, Tohajiilee, and Belen.
VLA To Hold Open House
By John Larson
The Very Large Array, 20 miles west of Magdalena, will hold its semi-annual open house Saturday, Apr. 3, coinciding with the Trinity Site open house.
The array in currently in the “D” configuration, which will provide for the best photographic opportunities, said Dave Finley, VLA Public Information Officer.
“The telescopes will all be within one kilometer of each other; the tightest array,” Finley said.
“Our tour guides will be able to answer questions about what is going on at the VLA these days, and the status of the Expanded Very large Array, a project that was begun about two years ago.”
The EVLA project was begun two years ago “to take the existing instrument and make it 10 times better.
“People will be able to get a look at the installation and get answers to any questions they may have,” Finley said. “My hope is that winter will loosen its vicious grip and well have a decent day out there.”
“The VLA open house coincides with the Trinity Site open house.
“Trinity in the morning and the Very Large Array in the afternoon makes for a great day of science tourism,” Finley said.
Pictured: A group of visitors are dwarfed by one of the 27 radiotelescopes at the Very Large Array. Photo by John Larson
Trinity SiteTo Hold Open House
SOCORRO – Although American history books state that the first atomic bomb was tested at Alamogordo, longtime residents of Socorro County know differently. The Trinity Site was practically in their own backyard.
Many remember the flash and noise that morning, and others remember Robert Oppenheimer sitting with Brig. General Leslie Groves having a beer at the Owl Bar in San Antonio.
The site of the first atomic bomb explosion, known as the Trinity Site, will be open to the general public Saturday, Apr. 3, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The open house includes the site of the blast - ground zero - and the Dave MacDonald ranch house, two miles to the south, where physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer oversaw the assembly of what was referred to as the “gadget,” or the “device.”
Whether the location of the site of the first atomic bomb explosion is a matter of pride or embarrassment to county residents, no one can deny its historical significance.
Many locals remember that Monday morning when a light brighter than the sun flooded the area.
First State Bank President Holm Bursum III told the Mountain Mail he was staying on the family’s ranch in the summer of 1945.
The 10 year-old Holm may have been the closest civilian to the blast – only 16 miles – on the morning of July 16.
“Highway 380 cuts through the center of our old ranch,” Bursum said. “The military had taken over the south portion – one half of the ranch - from 380 down to three miles north of what is now the Trinity Site. In fact, 99 ranchers were displaced. The military said the ranches would be returned three years after the end of the war. They never were.”
Bursum said he actually spent his first eight years on the ranch, and spent most summers there throughout his youth.
“We lived at the old stagecoach stop for the Ozanne Stage Line,” Bursum said. “In the old days a stage coach from Carthage came through there on its route to San Antonio to meet the train.”
“That summer I was staying in an adobe building, four miles east of Bingham and 16 miles north-northeast of the shot,” he said. “The army had blocked part off the highway (Highway 380), and there was a military presence in San Antonio. We later learned they were there to evacuate Socorro if the radioactive cloud blew over it.”
The test was scheduled for midnight, but because of a big thunderstorm, was rescheduled for just before sun up.
At 16 miles away the detonation at 5:30 a.m. shook the building in which Bursum was sleeping.
“I slept in a top bunk in a bunkbed against the south wall of the adobe place that morning, and it woke me up,” he said. “It shook the house pretty good and rattled all the cans, and it was bright as morning.
“For a minute I thought the sun was coming up in the south,” he said. “We had no idea what it was. It was announced later that an ammunition dump had blown up.
“On a ranch 10 miles east of us there was a kid who visited us that summer to go horseback riding, things like that,” Bursum said. “He was outside the house in his yard at the time of the blast. He said ‘I just glowed in the dark’.
Bursum said all the cattle that were within range of the explosion “were turned white on one side.”
“There was one sheepherder whose hair was turned white,” he said. “Another rancher, Mac Smith, had a black cat who was also white on one side. He sold it to a tourist for five dollars.”
He said that a few years later he was able to find ground zero with some friends.
“When the army left, all the ranches were abandoned. It was empty ranchland,” Bursum said. “In the early 1950’s, two or three of us rode our horses down to the Trinity Site. This was before it was fenced off. There was a big circle of green sand, somewhere around 50 to 70 yards in diameter. We walked all over it. It didn’t seem to cause us any health problems.”
Ben Moffett, retired chief of public affairs for the Rocky Mountain Region of the National Park Service, was a boy living in San Antonio at the time.
"I may be the only person who slept through the blast, but I remember it vividly because my parents (John B. and Regina Moffett) ran from the kitchen where I was asleep and woke me up to see if I was safe,” Moffett said. “I was a month short of six years old, but I remember the panic in their eyes, something I had never seen before. Later in the day we went to Socorro to peddle vegetables house to house and it was all anyone could talk about.”
In 2005 a group of San Antonio natives gathered for a discussion on their experiences at New Mexico Tech’s Skeen Library.
The talk was organized by San Antonio native Ricardo Padilla Reyas.
Lucille Catherine Miera told the audience she remembered military men in San Antonio. “There were other men, too,” she said. “I met many of them, and was told later that Oppenheimer was there. I may have met him, but I was only 13 at the time, so I'm not sure.”
She said the men were gone during the day, and came back at night. “No one said where they worked other than they were just working on a project,” she said.
Miera remembered overhearing some of the GI's talking on the telephone. “They said they were talking to their girlfriends. 'Oh, I've got to call Mary Ann,' they would say,” she said. “But the things they were saying didn't sound like it. They were saying things like how many of this or that, and what are the times, something you wouldn't expect someone to talking to their girlfriend about.
“Then they would say I've got to call my other girlfriend, so-and-so,” Miera recalled. “We figured they using some kind of code. Or they had lots of girlfriends.”
She said her grandfather had rented out cabins for the servicemen and government people, and there were also trailers and army tents in the vicinity.
“Friday night was always movie night at the recreation area, and all the soldiers were there like usual, eating popcorn,” she said. “Saturday was normal, but Sunday was quiet.”
“We had a flashlight, and my grandmother would sometimes wake me up by shining it in my face,” she said. “That Monday morning I woke up because of a bright light, and I said, 'Turn it off, Grandma,' but she wasn't there and there was no flashlight. The whole room was lit up. I didn't know what was happening.”
She said her grandmother came into the room and told her to stay inside. “But I went outside to see anyway,” she said. “Everything was real bright, like a halogen lamp. The little trailers and tents were all gone.”
Juana Gonzales Odeb remembered waking up at 5:30 that morning. “There were no lights, no phone, no nothing,” she said. “It was already getting to be daylight. You could see it. A big mushroom cloud.”
“I remember thinking we were being bombed by the Japanese,” she said.
Cecelia Padilla Woodward said she was playing in her yard with her sisters when the bomb exploded. “I remember we were playing outside,” she said.
She remembers the farm animals being sick afterward. “There was a kind of mucus coming out of their beaks,” she said. “Some of the cows lost their hair.”
Ana Lee Padilla Montoya said her husband, Atreraclio Montoya, worked at the trinity site on the tower that held the bomb.
“They never told him what it was for,” she said.
About 200 local workmen helped construct the tower, a fact which hasn't been made known to the general public. “But, all you see in the old photographs are military workmen,” he said. “They kept the locals out of sight when pictures were being taken.”
Ana Lee said after the test her husband went to work for the Bureau of Land Reclamation. “He was never told to keep secret about his job,” she said. “He just started looking for a new job.”
What she remembers that morning was seeing the cloud. “We saw the mushroom cloud and all that red light,” she said.
After the blast she said some of her sisters had cysts and other health problems, and she had three miscarriages. “We didn't find out the radiation dangers until after the war,” she said. “They should have notified us about the risks.”
Declassified documents have revealed that the military knew about many of the dangers of fallout to the local population.
“The military was apparently afraid that any request for residents to move would give away the secret nature of the project,” Reyas said. “Although they knew about the risks of radiation, they felt it wouldn't be high.” He said subsequent documents state that future tests should be held 150 miles from any populated areas. “That's why they moved above ground testing to Nevada,” he said. “This indicates they knew the radiation was more dangerous.”
Reyas said the first choice for testing the WMD was California. “But since General George Patton did his tank training there, Oppenheimer would not consider it,” he said. “He hated Patton personally, and didn't want to have to deal with him.”
Visitors are allowed to enter and exit White Sands Missile Range’s Stallion Gate off Highway 380 unescorted during the open house, although identification is required to enter.
During the free open house visitors can personally inspect ground zero where the July 16, 1945, 20 kiloton explosion occurred, and take a shuttle bus to the MacDonald ranch compound where the bomb was assembled.
The Trinity Site is open to the public only two days each year; on the first Saturday of April and October. The Stallion Gate turnoff is 12 miles west of San Antonio.
Pictured: The Ozzane Stage Coach stop Photo courtesy of Holm Bursum III.
Sylvia Wants The Impossible And Doesn’t Get It
By Anne Sullvan
PRELUDE:
“Dummy,” said Sylvia.
“I know,” I said, “I sent the wrong column to the paper last week.”
“How could you?” she scolded. “Just when everyone wanted to find out if and how I got back from Shanghai.”
“My fingers must have slipped when I attached it.”
“You didn’t check?!”
“I guess not. I was tired and frazzled.”
“No excuse. Are you going to send the China column this week?”
“No, I can’t. I have to send another one but I will next week, I promise.”
* * * *
“Please,” said Sylvia, “I really really need it.”
“I can’t imagine why,” I countered.
Sylvia and I were in the process of straightening and cleaning the front porch and the going was slow.
“Everyone else has one,” she wheedled.
“I don’t.” I stood firm.
“You’re probably the only person in the whole wide world who doesn’t have one, and that’s all the more reason for me to have one,” she declared.
“How so? I don’t fathom your reasoning.”
“I need it. I really need it.”
“Why? You never talk on the telephone. You don’t have anyone to talk to. And you don’t even know how to dial.”
“I could get speed dial. I need it. I need it to call 911.”
“But why do you need to call 911?”
“Suppose you fall down -- it could happen, you know, you’re not getting any younger -- and break a leg. What am I supposed to do then? I don’t know how to set your leg. I’d have to get an ambulance here.”
“It’s a nice thought but I’m afraid it won’t work.”
“It would if I had a cellphone.”
“No, it wouldn’t. The problem is that I’m the only human who understands you and I’m out of combat with a broken leg.”
“I don’t know why you’re the only person who understands me.”
“Perhaps it’s because I’m YOUR person.”
Sylvia was not about to give up. “Maybe we could make a recording that says, ‘Send ambulance to Swingle Canyon.’”
“Maybe I’ll just be very careful and we won’t need an ambulance.”
“But I still want my cellphone.” Sylvia dug in all four heels. “I want one that gives me the news, the movie reviews and tells me what restaurants are in my neighborhood.”
“I could tell you that: the Eagle Guest Ranch and Mary Mac’s.”
“It’s not the same.” Sylvia began to sulk and from her appearance it was a prelude to a full-scale melt-down. She announced, “I’m going to take a nap now because I never get anything I want.”
Without a backward glance, she went into her house. If there had been a door, she would have slammed it.
I was left to finish tidying the porch by myself. When the task was done and I went inside to check my email she was snoring away.
I returned to the porch an hour later. Sylvia had ceased snoring and only emitted little puffs. I knocked over a broom which woke her as well as reminding me to sweep. She emerged from her house slowly, shook herself and stood defiantly in front of me.
“Sylvia,” I said. “I have some very sad news for you.”
“What? I suppose I’m not going to get my cellphone.”
“You’re not but that’s not it. It’s something worse.”
“What?”
“I just heard that Jacky Barrington died.”
“Aunt Jacky?” Sylvia’s lip trembled when she spoke, “Aunt Jacky who gave me my start in the newspaper business?”
I nodded.
Tears dripped down Sylvia’s face making rivulets in the dirt almost as deep as the current ruts in my road. “Jacky published the very first thing I ever wrote when I was just a puppy, my first Christmas card from Swingle Canyon,” she said. ”She encouraged me and gave me the courage to write. She was my mentor.”
“Mine, too,” I said. “Jacky was my introduction to the newspaper world. She published and paid me for all sorts of weird articles I wrote – about UFOs, the love lives of my animals, old settlers. She even put up with my refusal to enter the computer age. I was so sorry when health problems forced her to leave Magdalena.”
“We’ll really miss her, won’t we?” said Sylvia, sniffing.
“That we surely will.”
Easter Bunny At Datil Library
Datil's Baldwin Cabin Public Library will hold its 11th Annual Greatest Easter Egg Hunt Ever on Saturday, Apr. 3 at 1 p.m. at the library, rain, snow or shine. Please dress your children appropriately for any or all of the above. The library will provide bags to hold the eggs. The reading of Easter books and a snack are also on the agenda.
Everyone is invited.
In other library news, due to several spectacular book donations in the past year, we now have an excellent collection of Southwest books, new and old, fiction and non-fiction, biography, history, art, gardening. You name it and it’s in the front room just waiting for you to take it out.
An adult program on organic gardening will be held Friday, Apr. 9 at 1 p.m.
The library is regularly open every Wednesday and Saturday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Quemado Community Choir To Perform Easter Program on Sunday
By Debbie Leschner
For the Mountain Mail
The Quemado Community Choir Easter Program will perform Sunday, Mar. 28 at the First Baptist Church. The musical “Rise Again” will start at 6:30 p.m. It will be sung by a choir made up of folks from the the various local churches and the Quemado area. The music is lively and promises to be an evening for the family to enjoy. Everyone is welcome. There will be refreshments to follow.
At the Quemado Senior Center, March Birthdays go out to Robert Orano and Tommy Turner. There is a correction on the date for the All You can Eat sausage gravy, biscuits and eggs. It is Saturday, Mar. 27 from 7 a.m to 11 a.m. Exercise class on Tuesday and Friday at 1 p.m.; Movie with popcorn will be shown on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.; Quilting and Bingo on Thursday. Lunch for the week will be Monday – fried chicken thighs, Tuesday – pork butt roast, Wednesday –steak smothered in mushroom gravy, Thursday and Friday will be announced. Phone at 773-4820 to make your reservations.
The Quemado School will host a track meet on Thursday, Apr. 1 against Hot Springs and Saturday, Apr. 3 the Eagles will be at the Silver City Invitational Track Meet. Good Luck to Dana Farr who will be going to the State Science Fair on April 4.
The Western New Mexico Veterans Group We will soon start selling tickets for their Spring Raffle in support of the Scholarship Fund and other WNMVG projects and programs. Donations for tickets will be $5 each or five for $20. Prizes will include a 13 foot Radison fiberglass canoe, "custom crafted" tricolor eagle and turquoise pin, hematite bolo, acrylic painting and more. Contact a member of the Executive Committee to buy tickets; Commander Rick Sharp 733-4350, Doug Miller 773-4512, Vic Wiertsema 772-2927, Harry Shawver 773-4693 or Ernie Leschner 773-4119. The Raffle Drawing will be held during the WNMVG General Meeting on May 20, 2010.
The Quemado Ranger District has asked that if you are planning to burn within/near the forest, or around Quemado area, that you contact the Ranger District before you start. Provide the information on when you will be burning, the location of the burn and the contact person. This will assist them with informing the public telephone calls and whether the information was received at the Ranger District. The telephone number to the Quemado Ranger District is (575) 773-4678.
Know of anything going on or a special event in a family or school, please let me know. Call 773-4119 or email at mmquemado@hotmail.com.
Youths Catch Plenty At Derby
Mountain Mail reports
More than 150 youths took part in the Socorro Community Fishing Derby Saturday at Escondida Lake, Chamber of Commerce Terry Tadano said.
The top three finishers in the 3-7 age group were Adam Lopez, Sean Benevidez and Christopher Lucero. Anastasia Benevidez caught the biggest fish.
The top three finishers in the 8-11 age group were Antony Silva, Daniel Chavez Jr., and Clinton Wellborn. Antonio Gonzalez caught the biggest fish. The top three placers in the 12 and over age group were Brice Rosales, Samantha Maldonado and J.W. Sanchez. Sean Sanders caught the biggest fish.
The grand prize went to Norman Lanz, 11, who won a bicycle in a raffle. The bicycle was donated by Ernestine and Ernest Silva.
The New Mexico Game and Fish stocked rainbow trout on the March 18.
Socorro Valley Bass Club member George Lucero, a volunteer, was in charge of weighing all the fish. Other volunteers included Al Greenwood, Leroy and Phillip Anaya , Lewis Auerbach, Gloria Anaya, Lori Tadano, and Van and Barbara Romero.
“Despite the cool weather, the derby was a great success,” Tadano said.
“There were 161 registered youth anglers and with their parents, uncles, aunts, Grandpa and Grandmas, and friends. There were over 500 people at the lake. The community was so giving and generous with the donations”
Pictured: George Lucero weighs one of the fish brought in at the Derby. Courtesy photo
Farr’s Oral History Comes With Pictures
In this, the last segment of the Dave Farr ranching oral history, Farr describes some of the pictures in the family’s photo album.
“These were taken in the early '50's, a lot of 'em,” Farr said. “And you've heard of Harvey Caplin? He was a professional photographer, and he come out, got on a horse, and went with us three or four days and took a lot of good pictures.”
Farr then explained why the quality of the photographs were less than optimum.
“And it was at the beginning of color film. The only place you could get it developed was New York City. And so Karen and I went by and picked out all the good pictures,” he said. “Harvey shipped 'em to New York to be duplicated, and they were all lost in the mail. So, there went all our good pictures and then we had to go back and pick out these second rate ones. Now I guess you can get color film developed anywhere.”
This is the corner, it was a north east corner. Big building. Did a lot of business with the ranchers. Mercantile, Groceries....this is still standing, I believe.
My mother's family owned that hotel and she worked there as the waitress and making up beds and everything. And I think I've told Mark that we'd go to Magdalena and rent a room and my mother would be there, demanding “no rooms over the saloon.” [laughing] Because she'd seen too many pistol shots through the roof of their saloon. And I don’t think it’s of any importance, see they were all German, and the hotel was named Swastika. And then WW II, or WW I started, and they changed the name real quick. Well that’s the two names it had. And they all spoke German among the family at home. So that was the reason they originally used that name, before it was a bad thing, which it really was during the world wars. And you know the Indians used the swastika on their blankets but it was usually made backwards from the way the Germans printed it. My mother and father were married in 1923, and so she was part of the family that run the hotel, so she worked there, ....and then over at the old bank.
Isn't this right near the new gas station?
Well, I'll have to look when I go by. I haven't paid any attention. It's on that south side of the main highway, and it would either…that new gas station would be on down west, or right across the street, you know....to the east. It's in that location.
On the back they say July 1937. They're stamped. So that's when the film was processed.
That building was standing and in use, until not too many years ago.
And it burned?
I think so. Roy Vinyard had a big manufacturing plant in there. Do you 'member Roy? Roy drove the truck, and then he hired a lot of people and they just made, halters, you know out of nylon, rayon, for horses and shipped them all over the world. Made 'em right in that building.
It just…the only connection is that building, that's the last time it was in use.
Can you draw your brands on a piece of paper?
That's on the left hip, and left shoulder. And just in recent years, due to cross breedin'. But those are the main two. (circled)
Were they used according to family member, or are they from different time periods?
No, this is a company brand. I changed to this, 'cause little less burnin'. This we adopted for cross breeds – to keep the blood pure. And then we changed to this to meet requirements of the packers....'cause they don't want brands on the part of the hide that makes choice leather.
Oh, okay. And then, and what about this one?
That's just an old brand, I can remember seein’ one cow with that on, when I was little. Too big, too much burnin', so they quit it. They're supposed to pay ya more for a, hide without brand, you know. You're allowed to draw down on the thigh, and we sell cattle direct to the packer. And I think one time we got a little bonus for going to all that work, for gettin' that different brand. Then, I forgot to add one brand that was my mother’s brand. I don’t know if you want it or not. We sold the brand. It was very simple. It was on the left neck. It was a bar, and back toward the animal’s tail was a slash running from the upper right down to the lower left. A bar slash.
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