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.

The Bayard-Broadwater and Broadwater- Oshkosh projects. Numbers 79a and 82, being 93 per cent and 90 per cent completed, were other projects in the western part of the state to come near the Kimball-H arrisburg line in point of completion.

The Lincoln I [ighway The Lincoln Highway, the first trans-continental highway to be projected across the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific, traverses the entire length of Kimball county. When this association was in the process of active organization in 1913, Kimball took seventeen certificates of membership to help pay the expenses of this venture. Copyrighted markers were erected to point out the course of this highway. These were twenty-one inches high. They had a red strip three inches in width, a white band fifteen inches wide, and a blue strip three inches in width. The ccntribtuors in 1913 were: ]. W. Ewbank. Chas, Anderson, F. M. Wooldridge, C. W. Richards. C. L. Alden. L. H. Lilly, George Yogler, Bank of Kimball, I). C. Mockett, J. L. Jones. C. E. Lockwood, Hubbard & Nugent, F. E. Reader, Gus Linn, B. K. Bushee. V. I'.. Car-ill. Sam Hanna. Will Young, 1. A. Tracy, [saac Roush, E. T- Dillon, P. Maginnis, I. S. Walker, Hans Nelson. Fred Morgan, F. M. Whitman, Mrs. A.