Connoly was the foreman for a number of years, and was a remarkable man, having a grasp upon the details of all the several locations that was almost uncanny. What happened to him never came out clearly, but it may have been the weariness of the grind. At any rate, he quit the ranch work and made quite an extended search of Wyoming, with the hope of locating a bed of "coking coal." Had he been successful, Guernsey would have been the great foundry center that the inhabitants thereof have long hoped it would be.

Owing to the lack of that kind of coal, it has been found expedient to ship the iron ore from Sunrise mines to Pueblo, Colorado, near the fields where this variety of coal is found.

In some way Connoly ran at cross-purposes to Senator Francis E. Warren, and for a number of years he was tireless in his attempts to make that respected statesman answer for some of the land frauds of eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska, particularly on Horse creek, where thousands of acres of Uncle Sam's domain went to private ownership by means that have often been criticized.

Connoly is now in Washington, at some work in the Interior Department.

In 18S4, Ferris was in charge of the State Line ranch, which later went to Colonel Pratt. Al. Smith, in the early days designated "Swearing" Smith, to distinguish him from "Extract" Smith and "Whispering" Smith, had charge of the ranch later, and now I believe his son is managing the place or owns it. Sheldon has a picture of one of the partly dismantled sod houses on this place that was erected at or about the time the ranch occupied the old Red Cloud site.