How many pounds of salt did they put out each summer or, say on a per cow basis?
RS: Well, it varied. The summer that we were up there we’d always carry in a knapsack, we’d put about twenty pounds of salt in a knapsack each morning as we started out, visiting the various areas, and if there was no salt there we’d put out a handful or two, you see, and over the period of the summer there’d probably be as much as , I know we probably put out three hundred pounds of salt that summer. Once back when I was a smaller kid we used to haul the salt up to the herder and one of my uncles, Joe McCall herded up there for quite a while and we had an old mule that was very docile, and so they let us kids, my brother and I, we put two hundred pounds of salt on the old mule and take the salt up to Uncle Joe, and I don’t know how many times in the summer time we’d make that trip but we made a few. We’d go to spend the night and come back the next day. We’d walk up and lead the old mule carrying the salt and drive him back home. SB: So you’d just have the salt tied on to a saddle? RS
