To the north is the Indian country, to the east the cattle country, and to the west and south dry-fanning makes it situated ideally for steady trade. No depression of any one, can so effect the other two of Gordon's sources of business. Flour mills, elevators, electric lights, water works, four churches, two hotels, two banks, a live newspaper, and a generally wide awake people, make the city an excellent place to live. 1920 census gives Gordon a population of 1591.

Clinton as stated heretofore his its bank and store, although being between Gordon and Rushville, it has an uphill fight in this day of motor cars. The stories of Antioch, Lakeside and Hoffland appear in the resume of the resources of Sheridan county, under the subdivision of Potash. Bingham and Ellsworth are sand hills stations on the Burlington, with postoffices and stores for local accommodation. At Ellsworth the big ranch people, the Spade ranch, have a store. It is quite complete in all the needs for ranching, following the well known business sense of the Spade people in all their various enterprizes.

THE STORY OF THE SCHOOLS

No part of a new land is of such interest as that part which relates to education. The first schools of the High Plains were necessarily crude affairs. Log houses and sod houses were generally thrown up as soon as possible, and sometimes the first schools were in the claim shack of some settler, and occasionally that of the teacher.

The first school district organized in Sheridan county was at Gordon, Otcober 9, 1885. The county had been created the previous July, and organized in September. The settlements at Gordon and Rush Valley were a year and