Johnson and his friend were out in the country and looked over some railroad land, where a tract that suited Johnson was found and he bought it. When they came back to the station, O'Neil and Short tried again to get him to buy a lot in the town site. Mr. Johnson looked about and asked what they would take for a certain corner of three lots. They said to start it, "four dollars a lot. or twelve dollars for the three." Johnson bought them. In an early at-

Crowe stock and moved it into the building which had just been completed.

Ira Brashears took up realty more enthusiastically when he disposed of the Rustler, and built the first frame dwelling house in Chappell. Before that all the houses had the appearance of temporary shacks, which in reality they were, so the first real house was an important event.

Ben Beatty built and started up early in 1886 but sold to Fred Sudman in February and went to Julesburg. Fred Sudman thus started in the mercantile business, and later formed a combination with Eugene Fish in the Sudman-Fish Company, which became and continued an important business concern for years, with stores at Chappell, Oshkosh and Lewellen. Today the company is out of the mercantile business in which they prospered.

Isaac Woolf is one of the sturdy characters of Deuel county development, as he came here about 1884 and built the first real hotel in Chappell. It was called the Chappell hotel and Still stands just east of the First National bankcorner, although it was built more than thirty-