The Bay State Company, through its president, H. H. Robinson, made a tender to the Union Pacific people. Later the bondholders of the Union Pacific brought foreclosure proceedings on their bonds ; and then the Bay State people intervened on their contract, and on a compromise reached, the government ratified afterwards.

The land in the vicinity of present Kimball county not involved in these two foregoing deals was taken up by various individuals, who started settling in this locality about 1886.

A considerable land was gathered together in later years to form the Circle Arrow ranch, now approximately .5,000 acres in area. This had certain Bay State lands, Pumpkin Creek lands and other lands in this locality of Kimball. They used the whole range in the eastern end of the present county. The local ranch was sold to Robert Beal, and then to Beal & Hagerty, and later to H. M. Bennett of Cheyenne, and finally to the Lodgepole Land Company, of which B. F. Knapp of Fremont is president.

W. T. Young was an early homesteader in this locality, coming about 1885. He still has holdings of about 3,500 acres. Theo. Menges had at one time practically a thousand acres, which since his departure has been split up and sold to various parties. J. J. Kinney's ranches, which expanded to about four thousand acres, were west of town, on both sides of the railroad. He sold these holdings to H. A. Clark of Columbus, who disposed of them to Wm. Webster, of Kansas City. While part of this ranch has been split up. the most of it is yet together. The L. C. Kinney holdings, west of Bushnell, have been sold.