A bit of Brush history... The history of Brush throughout the 20th century was always closely associated with the cattle and livestock industry. Because of this, Brush came to be known as Cattletown, U.S.A. From its earliest beginnings, even before the turn of the century, ranching, livestock feeding and marketing were big factors in the economy, and livestock was by far the biggest industry for Brush. Near the turn of the century shortly after the huge cattle drives were concluded, Brush became an important shipping point for livestock on the rail lines. Ranchers would bring their animals to the stockyards in town where they were then loaded onto rail cars and shipped by rail to the packing plants in the Midwest, in Sioux City, Omaha, St. Louis, Chicago, and other points. A small business known as the Brush Livestock Commission Company was organized by the railroad, and in 1937 Ted Rediess, together with several other associates, bought the Company and in time it became the largest sale barn in Colorado. The Company brought together livestock sellers and buyers, and over a period of 50 years hundreds of thousands of cattle were run through the sales pavilion. During this period several cattle feed lots were built in the vicinity, the largest of which was probably the Boxer-Weisbart yard located just northwest of town with a capacity of more than 25,000 head....