The Treat family owned a butcher shop in White Oaks. In the next generation his grandmother Sally Clements, born July 19, 1888, married Arthur Roy Treat on December 25, 1909. Treat has heard rumors through his family to the effect that Adamson may have colluded in Garrett's murder. (He states that on one of these ranches net wire fence was built-one of the first in the nation.) He remarks that Carl Adamson, second husband of his great-grandmother, was riding in the buckboard with Pat Garrett when Garrett was murdered near Organ. After the death of his great-grandfather in the mid-1920s the ranch was divided three ways amongst his wife and two sons. Joe's children went looking for ranching country and put together a 150- section sheep ranch in the mountain country west of Roswell, east of the Mescalero Apache Reservation.

His great-grandfather, Joe Clements Sr., moved to New Mexico from Gonzales, Texas, around 1903 and established a farm near the thriving community of Hope. In 1964 he and his wife purchased the ranch near Picacho from his parents, it was called the Block Dot Ranch taken from their sheep brand. Treat was raised on these two ranches primarily.

Then in 1950 this ranch was 'swapped' for a ranch that his grandfather owned near Picacho, a ranch that abuts the Skeen ranch. At the same time his father and a partner owned ranch near Corona. In the 1940s his father leased a ranch south of Picacho from his great-grandmother (this ranch has been owned since 1950 by Joe and Mary Skeen, his second cousins).

Catch Me a Catch by Sally Clements