John Snodgrass had built a large dwelling on the north side of the railroad track, east of the Pumpkin Creek Trail at Antelopeville. This he made his headquarters. Kimball, who was one of the big eastern investors, spent a great deal of his time at the different ranches of the company, getting in touch with the business first hand. It was in his honor that the Union Pacific and the post-office department, changed the name of Antelopeville to Kimball.

J. S. Robb had been here at an earlier date, but he had gone back to his old home in Uvalde county, Texas, and served a term as sheriff there. Returning to this county a short time before the date of the organization of the Bay State, he had been put in charge as foreman on the Pumpkin creek ranch by Creighton.

Johnny Peters was sent over from the Circle Arrow and plied his skill with a broad ax, hewing the logs that were builded into the one and one-half story log house, which Robb used for a dwelling at the head of Pumpkin creek. He then built the stone spring house, which was delightfully cool, there being a large cold spring therein.

Mrs. Robb was not much in love with the solitudes. She often had visiting with her, one of the women of the ranch proprietors, or what she really enjoyed more, were the visits of the girls that were just then beginning to come into the valley.

In the summer of 1S87. Mary Rose, whose father was a soldier in Sidney and whose mother was dead, came out to visit the Livingstons, who had cared for her during her childhood, and were like parents to her. Livingston's grout house stood about six miles east of