lishing the Irrigation Age at Kearney, the « ATER ^°ntrac '

paper being, I believe, established by Wil- I , hereby agree to purchase

Ham E. Smythe, later of Riverside, Califor- of the Belmont Irrigating Canal & Water

nia. Carj- came to the then Cheyenne coun- Power Company, a water right on its usual

ty, and one of the first efforts there was to terms for the following described land

assist the Belmont enterprise. situated in Morrill county, Ne-

The conception originally in the building braska, and shown to be irrigable by the

of this canal'was perhaps what is called the topographical survey of said canal and to

Van Aukin fiasco, this being a part of the pay for the same $16.25 per acre, to be evischeme proposed by Swede Andersen for ir- denced by promissory notes, each for

rigating the divide of Deuel county near one-tenth of the total cost thereof, and pay- Froid. able, the first note one year after date, and As told in the history of Deuel county, the remaining notes each one year therethat affair fell through. The pioneers, how- after, with interest at six per cent per anever, under the present Belmont had been num. payable annually, and to secure said banded together and determined to finish payment by a first mortgage upon the land the unit for their needs. L. B. Cary was above described, to which the water is to be much interested in it, and frequently in the conveyed ; it being understood that said years of its building told the editor-in-chief notes and mortgage are to be executed and of the system being built, something of its placed in escrow in the Bridgeport Bank. cost, and the hopes of the men who were where the water deed to be executed by said putting their shoulder to the wheel.