Into these by hydraulic power were forced several carloads of concrete, and ultimately effectively stopped the leads. During this process, the force of the hydralic machinery caused bubbling out in the lake a quarter of a mile from the dam showing the points at which the water had found the subterranean channels. The historian has gone extensively into the details of this, which is only one of the many structures of the tremendous irrigation system that now covers such a wide acreage of Scotts Bluff county. These irrigation structures are of various shapes and forms : great dykes, concrete flumes and syphons that are large enough to carry veritable rivers, and tunnels in the hills. One of these, that will be large enough to ran a train through, is to be part of the Gering & Fort Laramie canal where it passes through the Scotts Bluff National Monument from Mitchell valley to Gering valley.

So, out of the wilderness, has the land about us emerged. So, from the ranges for buffalo and cattle, have we the magnificent homeland of our adoption. Trees, groves, orchards, gardens, flowers, and shrubbery, and around them, the farms done in seventeen shades of green.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

Cities have sprung up, Aladdan-like, or like the alone runs to about seven million dollars a dreams of dreamers, and over twenty thousand year. It is a story as wonderful as the Arabian people live in Scotts Bluff county. One crop Nights.

SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY SCHOOLS

The beginning of the school in the North Platte valley was in Horseshoe Bend, when a part of Cheyenne county. A new district had been taken from the old number ten and number eleven by the Williams, the Shobars, the Rayburns, and others. Gertrude Ashford taught this school, and she stayed at the Rayburn homestead during the week, and rode home over the glorious hills at the weeks' end.