Barbour northwest of Scottsbluff. Joe Emery was also a successful grower of trees, and fruit trees as well. When Mrs. Emery was a little girl, she planted a lot of small trees that her father had brought up from the river ; and the people who attend the Scotts Bluff County Fair, at Mitchell, year after year, should know and realize whose hand it was that planted those magnificent shade trees upon the fair grounds. Dvorsek's, Deutsch's, Simmons' and Fanning's places are well bowered in the trees of older years, while the newer people are planting groves and orchards under all the canals.

The "tree planter state" has not confined the tree results from the timber culture law alone to Scotts Bluff county. If one will take a trip south for twenty miles, over the state and federal aid road into Banner county, one will see three more of these groves. They are a bit neglected now and the fire has run through one of them but that was not the fault of the law or the people who took pride in planting and caring for the trees. Will Ashford, Daniel Stouffer, and Emma J. Leach planted those groves. The first two have "gone on" and the latter now lives at Long Beach, California. These are in Banner county development, but they are nevertheless a part of the tree planting story of the Panhandle. Ten miles east of this road the editor-in-chief planted his several thousand trees that grew and thrived so long as the place was under his care. They may be there now.