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Randolph Land and Livestock Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2424

Scope and Contents

Contains business and corporate records for the Randolph Land and Livestock Company, Randolph, Utah, and its subsidiary, the Randolph Reserve Association. Materials include meeting minutes (ledgers), correspondence, and bank statements.

Dates

  • 1903-1939

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Randolph Land and Livestock Company records must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the Special Collections Board of Curators.

Administrative History

The Randolph Land and Livestock Company (1903-1910) was a Utah ranching operation and business.

On May 21, 1903 the Randolph Land and Cattle Company was incorporated with Alex Brown, Archibald McKinnon, W. L. Smock, Henry Hoffman and Charles Jenson constituting the Board of Directors. Following incorporation, Archibald McKinnon, of Randolph, Utah, was elected chairman of the Board and Charles Jenson was selected Vice President. Located in Randolph, Utah, the Company grazed its own livestock, primarily cattle but also horses and sheep, and leased land to independent livestock owners.

Capital was raised by selling company stock, and stockholders' participated in both annual and general meetings held at the Randolph County Court House. Stockholders' also elected members of the Board of Directors. Day-to-day company operations resided with the Board of Directors who met on a near monthly basis. Until March 1920, when the board began using an office in Randolph, board meetings were typically held at the home of one of the board member's.

Board of Directors responsibilities included the payment of stock dividends, borrowing money, acquiring new land, capital expenditures, hiring range riders, and merging with and purchasing other livestock companies' land. Tasks related to the upkeep of the company's livestock and land included: dealing with strays, salting the land, dealing with damage done by other companies bordering the company's land, livestock trespassing, assessing cattle, turning out the bulls, use of the land, and dipping the cattle.

On March 12, 1910, the Articles of Incorporation were rewritten and the name of the company was changed to the Randolph Land and Livestock Company.

Administrative History

The Randolph Land and Livestock Company (est. 1910) was a Utah ranching operation and business.

The Randolph Land and Livestock Company was established on March 12, 1910 in a reorganization of the earlier Randolph Land and Cattle Company. Located in Randolph, Utah, the company grazed its own livestock, primarily cattle but also horses and sheep, and leased land to independent livestock owners. Capital was raised by selling company stock, and stockholders' participated in both annual and general meetings held at the Randolph County Court House. Stockholders' also elected members of the Board of Directors. Day-to-day company operations resided with the Board of Directors who met on a near monthly basis. Until March 1920, when the board began using an office in Randolph, board meetings were typically held at the home of one of the board member's.

After the reorganization Archibald McKinnon continued as Chairman of the Board, a new vice-president, Samuel Hanney was elected. Through most of its first ten years, the board regularly discussed the expansion of its land holdings through purchase of bordering lands. Finally, on May 29, 1911, a piece of property known as the "Muir Land" was purchased. Later, in June 1914, the company continued to expand by purchasing the Deseret Live Stock Company’s land. By 1914 the Randolph Land and Livestock Company owned at least 3,400 head of cattle.

Company President Archibald McKinnon died on April 13, 1915. Two years later, at the annual meeting of stockholders', on February 13, 1917, a new board was elected. A. P. Jacobson was appointed the new President with Duffy Ingram, H. J. Norris Jr., Samuel Hanney, Henry Hoffman, Oleef Larson, and William Johnson as the other board members. As early as May 5, 1905 the Board of Directors for the Randolph Land and Livestock Company discussed the idea of establishing a "timber reserve." In March 1918, the board agreed to petition the Forest Service to "get pasture land" for horses and, in July, the company applied for additional land "south of Big Crawford."

In February 1919, a new board was elected, with Demo Pearce, President, and A. P. Jacobson, Vice President. Under Demo Pearce, in June 1919, the Company purchased or otherwise acquired two new parcels of land: 160 acres from William Johnson, and pasture land from the Forest Service. In the months prior to February 1919, a new subsidiary company, the Randolph Reserve Association, was formed.

In March 1930 a new board was elected for the Randolph Land and Livestock Company with Ray Hoffman as President, C. B. Spencer Vice-President, and Leo McKinnon Secretary. In May 1932, C. B. Spencer was elected President, and the last recorded Board meeting of the Randolph Land and Livestock Company was held on March 22, 1937.

Extent

2 cartons (2 linear ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Arranged in two series: 1. Randolph and Livestock Company records, 1903-1939; and 2. Randolph Reserve Association records, 1919-1938.

Other Finding Aids

A more detailed finding aid is available in print in the repository.

Other Finding Aids

File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS2424.xml

Custodial History

Purchased.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased.

Appraisal

Utah and American West and LDS cultural, social, and religious history (20th Century Western & Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.VII, 2007).

Processing Information

Processed; John M. Murphy and Jacob W. Olmstead; June 2003.

Title
Register of the Randolph Land and Livestock Company records
Status
Completed
Author
John M. Murphy and Jacob W. Olmstead
Date
June 2003
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Sponsor
Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008

Repository Details

Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository

Contact:
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States