This is explained by the fact that the stream is fed from numerous springs along its entire course and also by the fact of the valley being from one to three miles in width. The irrigation of such land thus being very close proximity to the stream that water reappears promptly, after being spread over the bordering land. It has been observed frequently that when all the flow was being diverted at one point the stream a half mile further down would flow again the same as if no water had been diverted above.

LODGEPOLE

The town of Lodgepole is the second oldest town in Cheyenne county. It had the first newspaper, the first bank, first business house, and first postoffice in the county outside of Sidney. School district No. 4 was located there, which is the second district organized within the present limits of the county. Its high character of morality, and its religious and educational institutions appeal to people who are looking for a permanent abiding place.

There are now resident there some excellent people who came and located when the cattlemen occupied the wide domain. They have adopted the newer standards of an ownership of acreage, instead of the open range.

There arc the first grangers also, who came and remained through the years of stress, a number of which are ye< residents after the lap e of a third of a century. Here was horn the first white boy in thai part of the county; Guy C. Newman. Here also is Col. V B. ■ and his I tardscrabble ranch. Here