This swiftly moving river at Chimney Rock was evidently at least one hundred forty feet deep, and the coarser sand that settled down and were cemented into the firmer rocks form that much of the spire of that wonderful landmark of the ages. Court House Rock and Round House Rock are two other distinctive monuments of that ancient river, while the mighty facades of the Wildcat range west of Court House Reck, and the bluffs south of Broadwater are likewise sediments of that river which was the long ago antecedent of the great North Platte.

In the oxidization of the rocks, the softer substances have "decomposed."

Oxygen and hydrogen, wonderful invisible elements of the Infinite, are today, and as they have been for a million years, working -- working incessantly, penetrating the hard and flinty substances of the earth, and creating' therefrom the rudiments of an excellent soil. Never, anywhere in the wide world was there found anything better. For many feet down into the bowels of the earth are found stores of potash to draw upon as the surface soil loses this vital element through crop production. Nature builded well and builded deep the foundations of Morrill county agriculture.

Morrill county has vast acres of irrigated land, which are passing from the larger holdings into smaller farms, for it has been found -- in the language of the late Arnold Martin -- "Twenty acres is abundant for any man, forty acres is a calamity, and eighty acres a catastrophe." Spreading acres develops the muscle but does not give the brain the wider chance to expand in scientific production.