Leedoms, Johannsen, Clark, Broome, and Cooper, are all progressive up-to-the-minute scribes and recorders of

the passing events. These men have performed no small part in the building of the foundations of Sheridan county, upon the firm and enduring basis of sound intelligence. The exercise of the brain has had and will have much to do in the future in retaining for this county, the excellent place it has won among the counties of the state.

SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY

WHEN PART OF CHEYENNE -- EARLY EXPERIENCES

By an arbitrary act of the territorial legislature, Lyons county was created out of a part of the western Nebraska, which is now Scotts Bluff, Banner, and Kimball, and a part of each Cheyenne and Morrill counties.

The first state legislature re-adjusted the lines and the names. Lyons county, which had been unorganized, ceased to exist, and in its place and the place of Taylor county which was adjoining it upon the east, and in the place of a part of Monroe county, which was east of Taylor. Cheyenne county was created. For a few years it remained unorganized, attached to Lincoln county for administrative, judicial and taxation purposes. Then Tom Kane and a few other of the live wires of Sidney, secured the necessary act of the governor and Cheyenne county became a separate entity. Scotts Bluff county was a part thereof, in the extreme northwest corner of its limits.

School district number one was organized at Sidney, and Scotts Bluff county was also a part thereof. Taxes from the Coad and Sheedy and other big ranches were paid into Sidney. Even the ranches that were over in the unorganized county of Sioux, as far east as Valentine and the Long Pine section, helped to pay for the support of the Sidney schools for a few years.