It has been abundantly satisfactory to the organizers -- this exemplification of the community spirit ; and the Brotherhood here shown still has Rev. Runden for pastor.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

SCENIC BEAUTY -- MANUFACTURING AND OTHER INDUSTRIES

No part of the west can excel the Wildcat range for scenic beauty. This beauty also extends to the south part of Banner county. No one can imagine the impressions one receives when one reaches the top of some eminence and looks about at the miles of evergreen fringed miniature mountains. It must be seen to be appreciated.

Coming from the plains region, these mountains do not seem small. They are gigantic geological structures approximately a mile above the sea, and rising hundreds of feet, and in some instances a thousand feet, above the surrounding land. Scottsbluff mountain is 4,662 feet above sea level and eight hundred feet above the river that runs at its feet. Wildcat mountain is 5,038 feet and the Hogback is 5,082 feet above tide water, and about nine hundred feet above the adjoining valley. The

Scott Bluff Mountain

Wildcat range extends from near Bridgeport to the state line, or about forty-five miles. The range varies from two or three to five or six miles wide, and the two spurs terminating at the north with the Scottsbluft' mountain, and at the south with the Wildcat mountain, makes an extreme width of about fifteen miles.

In this forty-five miles range, there is one natural pass for travel, being known as Wright's Gap and is south of Melbeta. A number of other passages were used, but were much more difficult: there is Round House Gap, Williams Gap, Birdcage Gap, Rifle Gap, The V. and perhaps a few others. The present state and federal aid highway south of Scottsbluff and Gering is entirely artificial.