History & Family

Our Angus Heritage

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    Much change has taken place, since these early days. Changes like building a trailer to haul stock to fairs, instead of relaying on the railroad for transportation. Changes like harvesting silage with a 30hp Allis-Chalmers tractor and single row corn chopper to the 400 hp multi-row choppers of the 1990's. Arthur H. Butler was the first ditch rider on the west end of Northside Canal Co. in 1910. He helped build the canal that now supplies water to our present day pivot irrigation systems.

    Through all these changes, through all these 75 years, one thing has remain constant, there have always been registered Angus cattle grazing the ranges of Spring Cove.

    In March of 1919, Arthur H. Butler purchased 13 registered Angus cows and a bull from the estate of his neighbor, George Fletcher of King Hill, Idaho. These cattle were bred in Humeston, Iowa by George McCullock. These "Blackbird," Nosegay," and "Jennet" cow families were the foundation of the present Spring Cove herd. Our ranch records reveal Registration numbers of the purchase numbered under 200,000 with even some four and five digit numbers appearing back in the fifth generation. The oldest number belonged to one old ancestor "Blackbird of Hillhurst," No. 3976.

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