It was taken out to Pumpkin creek, the first domestic cat in the present Banner county limits.

The Potter Review calls that town the "biggest little city in Nebraska," which is emphasized by the character of its numerous business houses of today. Among these are Farmers Union Trading Company, Johnson-Cords Company, Thornburg & Hager, Housen-Seyfang Mercantile Company, Potter Lumber Company, Johnson's Implement & Feed Store, Potter Grain Company, Jones Furniture Store, Central Market, Potter Bakery, Gunderson's Hotel, Seyfang Theatre. The City Garage, Hite's Transfer, and numerous others.

The two banks have substantially aided in the progress of the community, furnishing credit for the rapid expansion of agriculture

HISTORY OF-WESTERN NEBRASKA

and the development of the raw prairie into magnificient fields of wheat.

At one time in the county division agitation a "Potter county" was proposed. This proposal which left Sidney on the edge of two counties had much to do with Sidney's sudden change of heart in 1888, and brought that city to support the five-county plan, which carried.

In 1920 Potter shipped 375 cars of wheat, of a value of approximately $700,000. a drop of probably one-third from last year's total cash, but twenty-five percent of the wheat is yet in the fanners' bins.

Dalton

The high divide north of Sidney was traversed by the overland stage, pony express, and western bound emigrants, before Sidney existed. The Jules Cut-off from the South Platte valley at Fort Sedgewick (now Julesburg) went up Lodgepole creek to near the present site of the town of Lodgepole. Here it crossed the divide to Mud Springs (now Simla) then up the North Platte river on the other old trails.