He met them about two weeks after the unloading, and the men were in considerable distress as their tobacco had given out. A limited supply was given them, to last until they should reach the settlements.

Next to Scotts Bluff mountain Court House Rock and Chimney Rock were the more famous land marks of the Trail in western Nebraska. And every chronicler had a different name or suggestion as to the proper name for each.

Samuel Parker said Chimney Rock looked like Beacon Hill of Boston, and Kelly, the Englishman says it "looks like a Wellington Testimonial on a Danish fort." He adds that "it is fast chipping away, and no doubt would be gone in another fifty years." After this lapse of seventy years he would no doubt be surprised to learn thai it looks fair for another century or two, although fragments have recently fallen away ( 1919).

Kelly was on his way to California in fortynine, and wrote as he sat "at the country residence of Mr. Robideaux," May 25th, that he Would not be surprised if they were traveling over gold here. He little dreamed of the manner in which the soil and the sunshine and the vagrant river would be by the later genius of man converted into the acres of diamonds, or transmuted into untold riches.

In the vicinity of Chimney Rock there came up one of the heavy rains, for which that spot seemed famous, and for three days the downpour continued and thoroughly soaked the party. On the third day as they were slowly moving to the west, they ascended the hill to the west of Creighton valley, Scotts Bluff mountain suddenly loomed distinct and clear above the fog that enveloped its base, and the excited pilgrims cried : "Mount Araratt, Mount Araratt."