 Rather than buying an existing operation, Burt and Carncross established the B C as a homestead claim on adjacent tracts of for Burt and for Carncross, claiming more land in subsequent years.By 1917 the B C amounted to more than .In 1924 Burt and Carncross bought a ranch near the Gros Ventre River to raise cattle and hay, naming it the Lower Bar BC.