Sidney was the accessible trading point, and there was more or less social life there on account of the fort. It was determined that a ranch nearer Sidney would also have its advantages, especially at shipping time. Cattle could be moved to the railroad and allowed to rest on the fine pasturage and hay meadows, then shipped with little or no shrinkage. The best available spot for the use of Adams & Redington was found near the presert site of Potter. This ranch is still owned by Adams, who also has a southern home at Augusta, Georgia, called "The Hill." The Adams ranch is one of the beauty spots along the Lodgepole. This firm ran four thousand to six thousand cattle and their principal brand was H-Bar.

Just below their Potter location, near the station of Bronson, Callahan & Mursheid had a ranch, which about the time of establishing the Adams-Redington ranch, went to the ownership nf Thos. Kane.

Henry Newman, who once had an interest in the holdings that finally came under the masterhand of Reuben Lisco, located in 1873 a ranch near the present site of Sunol. The structures were all of discarded railroad ties set on end, making rude but comfortable stockades.

After the building of the Union Pacific, for many years there were parties of emigrants crossing the continental divide in the old way. There were parties of different nationalities occasionally, and one time forty or fifty Turks were making their way up the Lodgepole valley. True to their faith and custom, they wore the picturesque costumes of their native land. As they neared Newman ranch, Henry was out with his saddle horse to see what was coming.