The Chappell Commercial Club is one of the live oraginzations of its kind and has done much for the development of the town and county.

Western Lumber & H

The Chappell State Bank is doing much for the town and county, the First National Bank, the oldest in the county is an institution that from the first has been of influence in the upbuilding of the town, while the Deuel County Bank is doing a fine business.

The Register is an up-to-date newspaper that furnishes the town and county with excellent service. Today Chappell stands out as one of the live, prosperous and thriving towns of the Panhandle which is doing a large business, marketing the crops of the contributing territory and supplying it with the necessities of agricultural life and industry, and bids fair to become larger and of more importance with the increase from farming on modern lines.

Big Springs

Big Springs is the second town of importance in Deuel county. It is located in the southeastern part of the county on the Union Pacific railroad in the Platte valley; is the center of a fine irrigated farm district and is a growing town of progressive people. Big Springs was platted and the plat recorded at Sidney, November 6, 1884 ; the Union Pacific railroad filed the plat. At an earlier date the station was known as Lone Tree. Big Springs was known at an early day as it was not far from the present town that tin- "crossing" of the famous < )regon and California trails occurred. This history is given iii the general history of the Panhandle.