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I was named after my Uncle Gilbert Yardley who died in the First
World War in France trying to preserve our freedom. WE STRONGLY
BELIEVE IN THE RIGHT TO OWN PRIVATE PROPERTY, MAKE
A PROFIT, AND TO MAKE OUR OWN DECISIONS. These things
have given us the incentive to establish the greatest ways of life and
the highest standard of living of any people that ever lived on this
earth.
We are sick, troubled, and mad when we see how liberals, environ-
mentalists, bureaucrats, and animal right activists are trying to destroy
this wonderful way of life and to take away all of our freedoms, and
make us slaves of the state. WE MUST DO EVERYTHING IN OUR
POWER TO PREVENT THIS FROM HAPPENING.
If any of you would like to know more about our beliefs and our reli-
gion, feel free to call or write me, Gib Yardley, at any time you would
so desire. I will be more than glad to help you in any way I can, or visit
our Church website at
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In 1984, we bought two winter range allotments 40 miles west of
Beaver. We winter most of our older cows out there without feeding
hay. They have to calve on their own and do it all. They have to have
natural fleshing ability to take it, and we have gotten rid of the cows
that haven’t done well out there. We have Indian rice grass and some
native desert browse plants that are wonderful feed. Since then we
have been scattered out for 100 miles between winter and summer
ranges. So we spend half our time coming and the other half going.
I started artificial breeding in 1968, and have done more of this than
anyone else in our state. one year, we bred over 600 head, I have
always tried to buy the best bulls I could find in the nation, besides
raising some very fancy herd sires.
I first wrote this history in 1994. A mighty lot has transpired since
then. My wonderful children are all grown and all married but 2.
We have been blessed with 21 beautiful grandchildren. Our oldest
grandson Chase got married this summer. Nikki graduated from high
school, & CJ is a senior. Michelle & Mark Smith live 15 miles from
Beaver in Minersville. They have 2 daughters and 3 boys. Jessica is
a Junior in high school & Clayton, Sam, & Dallin love to come and
help us. Mark works at Milford Elementary & Michelle is our ranch
secretary and does all the records for this catalog. Jake & Julie Finlin-
son live in Panaca, Nevada where Jake teaches school & Julie is a busy
Mom to 7 active children, Mathew, Nicole, Josh, Ray, Ben, Lydia &
Rachelle. Jeannie is married to John Griswold of Stillwater, OK. They
have a little girl, Maggie, who has hung the moon for them! Jeannie
puts together and finalizes our catalogs and loves to come home peri-
odically and see all of us and work with the cattle. She couldn’t have
found a better guy than John…he is such a good Dad, husband, & so
good to our family. Steven works on the ranch. He is a great cattleman
with a good eye for cattle and a hard worker. He writes many of the
reasons for the catalogue. He and his wife Leslie have 3 boys, James,
Kade, & Shawn who love to “help” their dad on the ranch. Lori Ann
& Toby Hoffman live in Tremonton Utah, 300 miles north of Beaver.
They have 2 girls, Whitley & Oakley and just welcomed a new baby
boy, Bridger. Toby is a Pfizer Animal Health Rep, and travels through
Utah and Nevada. Their house is the halfway mark between here and
Rexburg, ID so we see them pretty frequent. Tawnya & Rodney are
living in Rexburg, ID attending BYU Idaho. They work here dur-
ing the summers & are planning on returning to the ranch. We sure
enjoy having them here and their good help. Emily works hard on the
ranch. She graduated from BYU-I and is an expert on calving heifers
and clipping and fitting sale cattle. Emily takes all the pictures for
our catalog and does as good a job as anyone in the Country. Angela,
our youngest, is a sophomore at BYU-I majoring in nursing. Our kids
have all been blessed with brilliant minds, and work very hard at their
studies, and are all 4.0 students. They all learned to work hard on the
ranch and they have applied it in their school work.
2012 started out very dry with only one good storm all winter long.
We didn’t know what we were going to do. But all the congrega-
tions of our Church had a special fast and prayers and the good Lord
heard our prayers and we received some very good rains throughout
the summer and fall. We have had our prayers answered a lot of other
times when we have had a bad drought. We had the warmest fall I can
remember up until just before Christmas. After Christmas we got 8
inches of snow and it was the coldest January we have had in Utah for
64 years. It has thankfully warmed up since then. WE APPRICIATE
ALL OF YOUR INTEREST VERY MUCH.
