Pearson's ranch was one of the later places on Snake creek, and he needed more range and came into the hills about three miles north of the west end of Lake Alice, where he established a camp -- as a sub-station for the ranch. These sub-stations consist usually of a well and windmill and a set of watering tanks. Sometimes a small shack and corral is added. This sub-station of the Pearson ranch was the only watering place between Snake creek and the' North Platte river.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

When Pearson sold to Billy Haynes, he reserved this sub-station for his own use.

Pearson had two daughters, and the oldest, Alma, married Joe Maycock and they went to Lusk to live. She did not live very long -- only a couple years, I believe, and then Joe married the younger daughter, Mamie.

A few years ago they removed to Canada, where Joe has since died.

The 'Maycock brothers were among the cowboys when the grangers began to arrive. For when the contingent that settled old Tabor (now Minatar'e) landed in the valley, John Maycock was the first to greet them. He at once "spread the alarm" up and down the valley for manv miles.

Virgil' Grout and Captain W. R. Akers were building their first irrigation ditch over the Wyoming line, when they saw John coming, riding like the wind, and when he got in hearing distance he commenced to shout the news : "There is a whole colony settling on the river down below Scottsbluff, and they have brought along everything, even a postoffice." This latter was, of course, an invention or imagination, but all who knew John Maycock are not surprised at this -- in fact it was moderation. Some years later John Maycock dropped dead from his horse in the sage brush of central Wyoming, and there was another on the Final Roundup.