In the spring of 1921, a number of the farmers and owners of land in this vicinity, made a tour of inspection of the irrigated territory in and around Scottsbluff, and so enthusiastic are they that now the project is to be revived under the name of Hay Springs Irrigation

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District. The development of this idea will mean a family on each eighty acre farm under the ditch, instead of the sparse population there now, and it will mean a rapid doubling up of the land values, and earning power of the farms.

This land under irrigation will make a big difference in the mercantile affairs of Hay Springs. One who has never lived in an irrigation country, and noticed the change of business activity with the acres that are put under irrigation, can have no conception of how rapidly business develops. It is almost

Rushville John W. Grubb's furniture store is one of the places where one can accumulate a fund of stories about old Rushville, for Mr. Grubb homesteaded north of town about a mile, in 1884, and has been in business in town for almost thirty years. Also may be found there from time to time W. J. Zoll, who takes great interest in old times and has a splendid memory to assist. He is a brother of Kate M. Zoll, one of the splendid, brave young women who came to Rushville when it was still Rush Valley, and afterwards was associated with Mrs.