"In the winter of 1866 we planned to build the next 288 miles to Fort Sanders. As cur work had to be clone under the protection of the military, I was continually in communication with General Sherman. Although he had expressed the belief that our proposition of building so far in 1867 would be almost a miracle, yet during the year 1867 we reached the summit cf the Black Hills and finishing at Cheyenne where the population of nearly 10.000 gathered around us."

Most of the touches of interest in early railroad incidences affecting Kimball locality have been mentioned by Grandma Lynch and in personal references and sketches of various Kimball county pioneers, who in former years were in the service of some department of the Union Pacific.

This takes the Union Pacific on beyond Kimball county.

State Highway Work From the provisions and aopropriations made by the Nebraska State legislature in 1917. and the wonderful increased appreciation of the necessity of uniform, permanent highway construction that swept over the

state in the following biennium came forth the gigantic appropriations and program of the 1919 legislatures and the federal aid providing approximately $10,000,000 for the construction of some 4,200 miles of state highways mapped out by the state engini er. The Kirrlball-Harrisburg project of 19.85 miles secured a very early place on the lists of projects as No. 16, in the state, far ahead of the Harrisburg-Scottsbluff project, which became No. 69. In January. 1921, the Kimball-Harrisburg project, extended to 26.7 miles, was 98 per cent completed.