The agricultural sector is of minor importance and is made up of cattle ranches and small farms producing coconuts, breadfruit, tomatoes, and melons.
A few ranches in the Badlands area accommodate tourists and have horses available for riding trips.
Below the North Roosevelt Park ranches are fewer, and people are seldom seen from the river.
While diversified farming predominates in the vicinity, traces of the old West are still found on a few small ranchesalong the White Earth River between the route and the Missouri River to the S.
It is really a heartbreaking sight for a lover of animals to go into one of the huts or ranches and see the poor things.
This is particularly the case on the ranches and farms, and in almost all the villages where they have to provide themselves with water from the communal wells.
They assure us that on ranches where sugar-cane is grown, and just as soon as the grinding machine for the cane is set up, they will go and turn it or they will drive on the horse attached to it, to make it trot around.
On some of the ranches the obligatory field-work is reduced to half, but in this case they have to pay their real for Mondays, and always have to do the Saturday's fagina.
The trail passed away within two years of the close of this narrative; but from their wide acquaintance with former drovers, cattle with which to restock their ranches were brought north by rail.
From their humble beginning, chronicled here, within two decades the brothers acquired no less than seven ranches in the Northwest, while their holdings of cattle often ran in excess of one hundred thousand head.
The beef ranches along the river had no men to spare, but constant inquiry was rewarded by locating an outfit whose holdings consisted of stock cattle.
This was providential; for it was on this Sunday that the Cheyenne Indians made their memorable raid and plundered the trains, burned the ranches and stole the horses for three hundred miles along the Platte River.
On our return we saw how the people had been murdered, the trains plundered and the ranches burned along our route; and it presented a terrible spectacle.
They have high grade horses, cattle, hogs and sheep upon their place and theirs is one of the leading stock ranches in southeastern Washington.
Wickersham, a leading farmer and stock raiser of Walla Walla township, Walla Walla county, holds title to two valuableranches and is meeting with signal success in the management of his affairs.
He also owns four hundred and eighty acres of land which constitutes one of the valuable wheat ranches of Columbia county.
He has since purchased two hundred and forty acres adjoining his other tract, so that his home farm now comprises six hundred acres and constitutes one of the valuable wheat ranches of Columbia county.
This is one of the best improved ranches in his part of the county and Mr. De Ruwe is now equipping it with a thoroughly modern set of buildings, in which he is installing electric light and running water.
Lots of folks that run dude ranches make more than they could raising hay.
On many such a night as this he had crossed the ranches to find her there.
Sarria's kindness and good-will toward the most outrageous reprobates of the ranches was proverbial.
One could not take a dozen steps upon the rancheswithout the brusque sensation that underfoot the land was alive; roused at last from its sleep, palpitating with the desire of reproduction.
Then, as the imagination itself expanded under the stimulus of that measureless range of vision, even those great ranchesresolved themselves into mere foreground, mere accessories, irrelevant details.
The season was beginning; on all the ranches work was being resumed.
Riding on by the side of this man through the ranches by the County Road, Presley repeated these words to himself till the full effect of them burst at last upon him.
It was impossible to learn whether or not the company considered Los Muertos, Quien Sabe, and the ranches around Bonneville covered by the test cases then on appeal.
The creek had eroded deep into the little gully, and no matter how hot it was on the baking, shimmering levels of the ranches above, down here one always found one's self enveloped in an odorous, moist coolness.
Neither Magnus Derrick, Broderson, Annixter, nor Osterman actually owned all theranches which they worked.
There was the ranch to which he had been told to come, and he had heard of it often enough to know that it was one of the largest ranches in the country, but who would direct him there?
The cattle were worked in pens much more than in the North, and on all the ranches there were chutes with steering gates, by means of which individuals of a herd could be dexterously shifted into various corrals.
These they swapped for flour and feed at the ranches or squalid, straggling frontier towns.
During the last year and a half three other men from the ranches in my immediate neighborhood have met their deaths in the course of their work.
Belllounds owns ranches there," said the innkeeper.
An' he was so cute an' so swift that he'd work on different ranches on different nights.
In the years that succeeded the departure of the Utes Bill Belllounds developed several cattle-ranches and acquired others.
They stopped at various goat-ranches to inquire about Adolfo Urbina, and at noon halted beside a watercourse for lunch.
Evidently, thought the woman, this fellow belonged to the East outfit, or some of the other big cattle-ranches in the Hebbronville district.
As other ranches grew under the hands of such unregenerate owners, so also under "Old Ed" Austin's management did Las Palmas increase and prosper.
The ranches were stripped of stock, no carts creaked along the highways, and the roads, like the little farms, were growing up to weeds.
As we journeyed on down the Platte, we passed thrifty ranches and thriving little towns.
Pondering over this none too reassuring remark, Hans lapsed into silence, while Tom and Larry plied the sheriff with questions about life on the ranches and the antics of the cowboys.
They made inquiries about Four Eyes, but no one on the neighboring ranches had seen him.
Guess I'll turn one of my main ranches over to you.
Later Don Juan lorded it over twice as much land in the ranches of Santa Margarita and Las Flores.
Los Coyotes, La Habra and San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana were among the Stearns ranches advertised for sale in 1869.
One of hisranches was known as "Rubio's," and there many a barbecue was celebrated.
These and other provisions, which Godey and his neighbors sent for, were transported by burro- or mule-train to the ranchesin care of Miguel Ortiz, who had his headquarters in Los Angeles.
They came in from their ranchesand discussed with freedom the different phases of their affairs and other subjects of interest.
Newmark & Company to discover that buying ranches on any such basis was not a very safe policy to follow and would, if continued, result in disaster.
Four or five such lone ranches they passed, tarrying overnight at one where they found a broad-bosomed woman with a brood of tow-headed children.
Five of the ranches had oil, the other twelve were part of the chance, but quite as necessary to Hamil's purpose, in any event.
As far as I am concerned you can keep your ranches to the rest of your days.
Other ranches stretched to the left, ending in the foothills in rich groves of olive trees.
We then crossed another great level and passed three ranches known as West Gate, Little Gate, and East Gate.
We passed some beautiful grain ranches the next morning and so came to Stockton, where at the Hotel Stockton we saw the red, white, and blue sign that was to guide us across the continent.
Wide grain ranches stretched away to the right, walled in by the massive ramparts of Nellie Palomar Mountain.
Off to the right were beautiful mountains with houses and ranches nestled in the foothills.
We passed poor little ranches dropped in among the rocks and gulleys.
The poorer people build ranches of long, slender canes or Indian cornstalks tied together by grass and coated with mud.
The thick, hot grass roofs of the ranches harbor centipedes, which drop on your face as you sleep, and bite alarmingly.
Around the ranches of the people are many mice, which must be of a ferocious nature, for if one is caught in a trap it will be found next morning half, if not almost wholly, eaten by its own comrades.
He worked quietly, nosing around the ranches talking to everybody, while the other detective attracted all the attention.
When that dam is built and those ditches are filled our ranches must go dry.
We can't work and improve our ranches with that hanging over us.
Why, girl, you've saved Talapus to the McCraes, and their ranches for the men who made them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ranches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
