Wellhead Flare: Raw natural gas is flared off to reduce the pressure to the point where it could be controlled with the methods and equipment available in those days and sent on to the Turner Valley processing plant.

Early settlers often exhibited great ingenuity in establishing their first shelters. Joseph Fisher from Cumberland, England, immigrated to Ontario and in 1883 came west with a delivery of cattle. He wintered the cattle south-west of Calgary on what would become his own ranch. Not having any accommodation, he built a dug out in the bank of what would be called Fisher Creek, and covered it with a sod roof. Rocks were carefully lined along the walls and it was deep enough that a tall man was comfortable standing. A friend, George Bell, spent that first winter with Fisher. For years afterward the dugout was used as a shop.

Fisher was actually the first settler in the Millarville district. He homesteaded one quarter section and obtained another by pre-emption to being what would become a thriving horse ranch. He kept as many as twenty stallions, and the Fisher horses were well known for their speed, beauty, and endurance. Roaming as far south as Fort Macleod, the herd provided a regular supply of stock for the Mounted Police and the Calgary Fire Department, and numbered about 1400 when Fisher died in 1914.

Mrs. Fisher operated the ranch after her husband's death, while her son, Joesph Junior spent his early years in Calgary and rode the rodeo circuit. Joseph eventually took over the ranch and then passed it on to his son, Peter.

The attractive log buildings located on the ranch were constructed in 1933. The original ranch house was located on the south side of the creek not far from the dugout, but only the dugout's rock walls are still standing.