And in addition to McShane, and Muldoon

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

and Raley, the writer officiated over the pots apples, dried currants, rice, and occasionally the

and kettles once, and cannot find the heart to luxury of prunes. These with coffee. A cook

say that it was not a first-class profession, es- who cannot satisfy a hungry man with variapecially where dominated by a first-class man. lions of those staples of diet, was not a cook

Sore-finger bread, sow-bellv, beans, dried for a cow outfit.

CHAPTER XN

EARLY SUB-IRRIGATION -- BAY STATE BUYS COAD'S NORTH RIVER RANCH

-- J. S. ROBB, FOREMAN -- MARY ROSE'S GRAVE -- THE GROUT

HOUSE -- I- H. D. RANCH -- ROUND-UP AT CIRCLE

ARROW -- DEATH OF "SKY PILOT" AT

PINE BLUFFS

While Simpson was managing the affairs at the J. H. D., big Jim Boyd and Runey Campbell were working at the ranch. And just below the ranch house in the creek are still some rocks that were piled there in the indifferent but substantial manner of lazy cowboys, to form a sort of a dam for raising the water level in the creek, and causing it to percolate back into the hay bottoms belonging to that ranch. The theory of sub-irrigation was here promulgated.

The spring of 1884 witnessed further changes in the Bay State developments. Three quarters of a million dollars had already been spent in acquiring Creighton's and other ranch possessions. Now the company reached over to the North River and bought out the Coads, paying therefor seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The Bay State people ran over fifteen thousand cattle by actual count, although when they bought, they obtained a book value of about twelve thousand from Creighton's and about ten'thousand from Coads.