It has been awhile since I have done one of these topics. In 1915 Frederick Zarbock filed on a 160 acres of desert land in the eastern Honey Lake Valley, near Stacy. Zarbock, like so many others were lured, that between the dry farming experience, along with assured water supply from the Standish Water Company, the sagebrush plain would be transformed into productive agricultural land. Zarbock would never see the final result as he was drafted to serve in World War I and when he was discharged returned to Minnesota.  Somewhat surprising, while his old cabin is no longer there, the sagebrush did not reclaim his old homestead.