W, Atkins donated over a mile and a half of the right of way through his ranch, and other land owners signed up so as to make certain the best road.

This road will require a little more work at the beginning than the road through the hills. Twice or three times as much tonnage can be hauled in one load and the cost of hauling thereby materially reduced. It will run through the irrigated section enabling travelers to see the better lands.

The farming corporation of Omaha donated some right of way and also subscribed $500 in cash toward building the road. The first work by state and federal aid in the county was on this road, it being most needed to meet demands for connecting principal towns of the county.

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In April, 1919, Mrs. R. C. Bassett wrote lor the Ladies' Literary Club and read at the home of Mrs. C. W. Clifton, the following allegorical and descriptive story of the development of the North Platte valley :

"Old Spotted Elk stood on the brow of Signal Hill looking northward. In the valley below, and in front of him, lay the muddy waters of the North Platte, which seemed to broaden cut and lose themselves in the yellow sand, only to be collected later as by some unseen force, and to be swept swiftly through the channel where the banks narrowed. Again its course widened ; the river spread its waters over sand bars and around clumps of willows, passing lazily from view far to the southeast.