They were in a measure fixed here several years before any of the others, but it was in the capacity of rangers looking after cattle. They settled down and took land in the early eighties. ■ Runey C. Campbell, who still resides upon his homestead (1919), George Marsh, lately removed to the newer land of Montana, and W. E. Ingraham, who was killed by a colt on his farm in Mitchell valley, were the next to build permanent domiciles in the vicinity. They located about ten miles apart, that being in their judgment a good neighborly distance. Campbell was near the old Coad ranch in what later became Gering Valley. Ingraham was in Mitchell Valley northwest of the old fort a few miles, and Marsh on Kiowa and Horse creek. Wyman and Foster were nearer neighbors for Marsh. These houses were all on the south side of the siver, and were made of logs, with poles and sod for roofs and dirt floors.

In the spring of 1885, "Sailor Joe" Hanson built a log cabin in Mitchell Valley, and lived there for a number of years. One day his boy got his foot tangled in a lariat rope, the other end of which was attached to a wild saddle horse. The animal promptly ran away, and dragged the boy to his death, after which Hanson sold out, and left the country.

Perry Braziel, who had been here off and on since 1882, took some land adjoining the old Bay State ranch in Mitchell Valley, about this time. Perry had been at the ranch considerable of his time for three or four years, working on the roundups and feeding stock in the winter.