Putman place, taken in 1884, as was that of Ora Remsburgh. Mrs. C. Nelson filed on a quarter about 1886. Andrew Hansen came about that time and three of the Adams' filed just about then. Mr. Lape and his two sons-in-law, Jake Amer and Dick Meredith, came about the same time and the two Van Gorder brothers filed three miles below the present Bridgeport on what is now the Mark Iddings place. This places us up into the vicinity south of Bridgeport.

"In the late eighties that neighborhood was taken up by John Mcintosh (brother of Jim Mcintosh). Chas. Lowe, Chas. Logan, R. P. Scott (on his well-known place a mile south of Bridgeport), and R. V. Brown, whose holdings took in the west part of the townsite of Bridgeport, and upon which he erected the corner grocery^ here in town. Mr. Peterson of Julesburg bought up land which became the east part of the Bridgeport townsite. Just below town the Tusler outfit located their hay meadow (this was the Hart ranch at an earlier date). Above town were Geo. Laing and T. W. WTolf's places. Henry T. Clarke had filed in the seventies and the story of the Camp Clarke ranch, store and toll bridge are more fully narrated elsewhere. Past Camp Clarke in the eighties were the filings of Frank Durnell and Henry Randall, his father and brother, and the Ccad filings.

"As to the development on the north side on the Platte river on the west side the town of Bayard sprang up in the nineties northwest of Bridgeport. That country was practically all ranches until 1890.