On the valley and north and west table farms, the hog is the important animal. Many Garden county fanners have carried off honors from the Denver Stock show. Mr. John Mevich who settled on Blue Creek in 1886 has been particularly successful with hogs. For five straight years he took the grand prize for best carload of hogs, besides, many other prizes. He has a large pillow cover made of his prize ribbons and he is justly proud of it.

TOWNS IN THE COUNTY

OSKOSH

In the year 1885, Henry Gumaer, Alfred W. Gumaer, George P. Kendall, H. W. Potter and John Robinson started a cattle ranch at the present site of Oshkosh. They organized a company and as the Gumaer brothers were natives of Ohskosh, Wisconsin, they named it the Oshkosh Land and Cattle Company. They had been informed that there were several thousand

up considerably by the homestead filings of Charley Mills, Floyd Jones, J. H. Duffin, Tim Duffin, Peter Duffin, Susie Duffin, Delia Duffin, and Winnie Duffin. Henry G. Gumaer and John Robison drove their first herd of cattle through from St. Paul, Nebraska. In 1889 they built a two story frame building on the Wy2 of the NWJ4 of section 36, township 17, range 44, in which they started a general store

acres of school land at this point in addition to section 36, and they expected to be able to purchase the whole tract. They built their headquarters ranch near the east side of section 35, purchased section 36, and applied to purchase the balance of the tract. They soon found that the whole tract outside of section 36 was government land, so they filed on as much as possible and were able to have and hold a good sized ranch, which was soon cut