Herman Lund and Tom Lincoln were active in the promotion of the enterprise, and "Red" Mc- Clure spudded the well, the depth of the drill in March. 1921, being about five hundred feet.

Nothing speaks more eloquently for the substantial character of Sheridan county, than the story of its agricultural development. The first turning of virgin sod smiled back at the first settlers with abundant harvest. By 1888, the county's agriculture had advanced to such a stage that an agricultural society was formed. Recent exhibits at the state fair have won the admiration of those agriculturally inclined, especially in potatoes, vegetables, and alfalfa and wild hay.

The latest manifestations of agricultural unity and power is the Farm Bureau, and Sheridan county is alive to the purposes of the organization. The present officers are : Anton Jansen, president ; Geo. Fisher, vice president; R. H. Bourne, secretary; Jeffrey Westervelt, James Hindley^ John Burrows, Clarence DeWitt, directors. The county commissioners of 1921 have approved a Farm Bureau budget of two thousand dollars.

County Division

All attempts at county division have so far failed. One of the persistent ambitions of Gordon is to become a county-seat town, and one of the dreams of the future is a new county formed out of a part of Sheridan county, and a part of Cherry county, but the difficulties in the way of such an accomplishment is the consent of the two counties named.

Shortly after the building of the Burlington through the south part of the county, a petition was filed with the county commissioners (on October S, 1888.) asking the submission of the question of dividing the county, and forming the new county of Kersey. This petition was laid upon the table by the county board.