Sheridan, rancher of Chico Mesa, had big dreams of irrigating the mesa: "His plan conceived the raising of high-bred beef-cattle on a big scale, fattening them on alfalfa grown under irrigation, producing first-quality beef, firm and larded with fat, commanding a top price.... It would take money, more money than he knew any way of commanding at present." ............... Joseph Allan Elphinstone Dunn (21 January 1872 - 25 March 1941), best known as...