fields that the old time implements began to work ; planters, drills, listers, seeders, harvesters or binders, double rowed cultivators, riding harrows, six foot mowers, rakes, sweeps, stackers, threshers, and every other implement that has a name or place in modern husbandry, are now in use in Deuel county fields on Deuel county farms. Today the telephone places the farmer in a position to keep in touch with the market hour by hour and much farm business today is transacted by telephone lines which stretch over Deuel county connecting the farms with the towns.

The land value of Deuel county is high, making it a rich division of the state though small ; it has not been possible to learn the value of the personal property value of the county but it ranks among the first of the counties of the Panhandle : this taken in connection with the values of live stock makes a person begin to think of the wealth and resources of Deuel.

The history of Deuel county has ever been the history of the frontier. The spirit that has presided over her destines has been that of the pioneer; the creative, formative forces have been the same as those which won the west from the wilderness and within the last two decades the county has been pioneering in the establishment of its irrigation and last phase of development.

GARDEN COUNTY

EARLY HISTORY

This locality was a favorite hunting ground of the American Indians. In the north, the scores of beautiful lakes; in the center, Blue creek, with its miles of willow fringed meadows, and a little farther south the broad North Platte river with its cedar covered bluffs and canyons, furnished ideal places for camp, hunt or battle ground.