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.

"In the sand hill country, Geo. Richardson settled in the early nineties where the Bignell brothers of Lincoln were running five hundred to eight hundred head of cattle. Charles Snow has been over in there for twenty-five or thirty years. Herman Smith and Frank Cantwell were in there and the heirs of Herman Smith have about five hundred to eight hundred head. I sold my old place in 1896 and bought a ranch twentyfive miles northeast of Bridgeport and I have run some five hundred to eight hundred head of cattle in there. W. C. Thompson has ranched extensively and Robt. Graham of Alliance on the Graham holdings in the north end of the county has had perhaps in excess of one thousand head. Frank 1 '.lain

has run several hundred at a time. R. M. Hampton at Alliance has had a large ranch out there. He sold to Hall and Graham. Also over in the north part of the county have been Henry Swan in early times, Joe Vaughn of Alliance, and Burk & Tiernan in the northwest quarter.