Lodgepole Irrigation Company The Lodgepole Irrigation Company was organized in November, 1913. with $250,000

capital stock. The announced intention of this company upon its organization being to put the Bennett Live Stuck Company's range, overtake all fertile acres into irrigation and divide into eighty-acre tracts for sale to settlers. This range was then composed of approximately 5,000 acres of land. It was figured that this project would allow more than one-hundred new families to come into Kimball county and settle.

The principal places of business were named as Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Kimball, Nebraska. The officers were H. M. Bennett, Pitt Covert, J. A. Whiting. The work on the clam was started Aery shortly after, by the Owens Construction Company of Denver. By 1919 something like 20,000 acres had been put into irrigation.

TRANSPORTATION-- HIGHWAYS

When Kimball count}- was first claimed from the boundless prairie and cattle range by the early ranchers and homesteaders, the sole paths of travel lay along the U. P. R. R. roadbed and the trails of the hunter, trapper, trader, or home-seeking tourist bound westward. Except for these defined trails, the access to the Indian trail, the domain of Kimball county was unmarked, unfenced, unclaimed and undefined. The progress of the county to its present high state of development in this, or in other lines, is fairly well measured by the evolution of its transportation and highway facilities whose first entrance for proper facilities beyond the original trails and the tourist was of course the arrival of the U. P. "Trans-continental Railroad." This long preceded the establishment of Kimball county as a separate entity and the first twenty years cf railroad history of this community belongs to that period when it was part of the mother country, Cheyenne.