MI 150443

Hutton Creek
Hutton Creek empties into Cottonwood Creek north of Horn­ brook, and it heads in the south slopes of the Pilot Rock area.
The Hutton Creek area used to be, and I guess it still is, a good winter range for cattle and horses. A few years ago there were lots of horses roaming these hills around Hutton Creek and
many of them spent the winters there for the snow fall usually was
light, and there was quite a lot of grass on the rocky ridges.
The headwaters of Hutton Creek are on the Oregon side of the state line.
Some forty or fifty years ago some people started to make a couple of little ranches in the main fork of Hutton Creek near the state line, but they were vacant a few years ago when I was there, although some of the buildings were still standing.
Some thirty years ago someone lived there for a while
and had a herd of goats, and since then its been called the Goat Ranch.
There used to be a wagon road up the creek to the little ranches, but when I was there last in the mid-nineteen forties the
--) road had not been used for a long time, and was not passable.
It's sort of a nice place, with a couple of nice, cold springs. Probably some people, long ago, homesteaded the place.
On the east branch of Hutton Creek a man we used to call "Dad " Miller located a homestead some forty-five years ago.
December 18, 1953