Measuring Bayard not only as a single town or city, but taking the broader view of its wonderful trade community and territory, he pictured the entire project in splendid terms. Much of the history of the community is woven into this graphic series and while the entire product is much too long for reproduction in this work, we feel it should not be lost to posterity. Neither should this work be confined to the narrow limitations of the newspaper file, kept in two. or three places, but given fuller

circulation through this work, so the compiler of this narrative has taken portions of Mr. Hilton's story of Bayard and herein incorporates the same.

Located on the Burlington railroad, almost centrally between Bridgeport and Scottsbluff, in the heart of the fertile North Platte valley, Bayard, with a population of 2,500, today takes rank among the cities of the state for growth and opportunities offered. Practically builded in five years, with the erection of the mammoth $2,000,000 sugar factory in 1917, the city has one of the brightest futures of any city in the entire state of Nebraska. Climate, soil, altitude and resources combine to make it one of the most productive spots in the fertile valley, while work being done within the city by a progressive set of business men is pushing it rapidly toward the front.

Thirty-eight hundred feet above the level of the sea, short hot days with the long cool evenings are experienced in summer, while, lying snuggly in the North Platte valley it has considerable protection during the winter months.