A man I know (and his brothher) own teh ranch to the south fo Deseret Ranch. He suggested I talk over an education idea with the manager of Deseret, Paul Genoe (probable spelling error) and a meeting was set.
At that meeting, Paul mentioned that they had 315,000 acres and paid taxes on all of. Seems his church felt the payment of taxes was an obligation and thus they didn’t get exempt status.
It is a well run ranch. Wwould it be more productive under more diversified private ownership? Who knows - but as long as they bought that land and pay taxes on it, IMHO they should be credited with running a productive ranch, not an easy task, especially with volunteers. Most Western ranchers have hired raqnch hands called cowboys for a reason.
PS I am not Mormon.
HE needn't 'feel' - they ARE!
This is a BUSINESS being run by a church.
...IMHO they should be credited with running a productive ranch, not an easy task, especially with volunteers.
The Mormons 'manage' to run a LOT of businesses 'productively'.
But; I wonder how 'productive' they'd be if they had the added cost of WAGES to pay their 'volunteer cowboys'?
IF their ‘volunteer cowboys’ get hurt on the ‘job’; I wonder what the legal ramifications are?