Other Early Names It would have been more in keeping with proprieties to have given Tabor precinct the name Harshman. Theo. Harshman furnished

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knows to what depths these bogs extend but at least it is presumed that they reach down to the Laramie formation and perhaps a far greater depth. One can shove a pole or post into the muck with little force, as far as it will reach.

Surveyor Fairfield said that an unfortunate steer could never hope to extricate itself if it fell into one of these bogs, but that it would gradually sink down "until its last despairing bellow would ring across the prairie as the tip of its tail would sink beneath the mud."

Surveying With a Wagon Wheel The fact that many corners were some few feet or rods from where they should be, making crooked lines, or sometimes over acreage or under acreage in given tracts, gave rise to the stories that original surveyors were careless, and "counted the revolutions of a wagon wheel"

the largest family and thereby the greatest population of any individual in "the precinct. He arrived in the spring of 1886, from Iowa, with several covered wagons, as there were twelve children (and they were all good workers). He built a sod house 30 by 75 feet, in which. the family resided for twenty years. He brought a complete blacksmith outfit and put up a shop, which was a great convenience to the neighborhood. He also brought the first herd of dairy cows that was ever in Scotts Bluff county.