The Mud Springs in Sioux county soon passed to the hands of the Schoonovers, and they in turn sold it to Ed Eastman. Eastman used to live at Minatare, and was identified in the story of Jimmy Moore, related elsewhere.

Eastman wanted more land, and Mrs. Eastman secured a divorce on very good grounds of periodical intoxication. She then took a claim near his land, and in due time made final proof. Then Mr. and Mrs. Eastman secured a license and went before a magistrate to remarry.

The judge noticed that the names were both Eastman, and he asked some question about it. Mrs. Eastman told him that they had been previously married, and he wanted to know why they had been divorced. She told him, honestly, that she had secured a divorce on the grounds of drunkenness. The humor of the affair was that at the time of the second wedding, she might have had ample grounds for a second divorce on the same complaint.

John Maycock bought out Eastman after a few years, and the place finally went to Joe Schramek, who sold it to Chas. Loucomer, the present owner.

Below the Elmore ranch on Snake creek, Billy Haines was known to many of the later people. He had bought out Frank Harris, Will Benn, Iperhope and some others, and made quite a ranch. After Billy's death, Mrs. Haines sold the ranch to Wilson brothers. Doc. Wilson was quite active for a time, but the ranch finally went to Scotty Henderson. Scotty has been in the Snake creek for a third of a century, and is the present owner of the valuable ranch, the history of which runs back to almost the beginning of the cow business in this part of the west.