But the builders either by accident or design made it run through very picturesque canyons and over a high ridge that gave one a magnificent view of the lesser hills and the distant pine and cedar fringed mountains, as well as of the valleys smooth and fair.

To the southwest were Wildcat and Hogback with their mile high summits towering above their contemporaries, and across the valley south of Lover's Leap. Southeast were Table Mountain and the Big Horns and eastward was Chinese Wall, on the south side of the range, and Castle Rock and Sheep Mountain on the north side. ' The spire of Chimney Rock, and the pile of Court House Rock were hidden by other elevations.

Hon. W. W. Cox, of Seward, who visited this land in 1892, tells of the scene, and thus describes the vista to the north :

''O ! the transporting rapturous scene,

The rises to my sight. Sweet hills arrayed in living green,

And a river of delight."

"Scottsbluff in the distance, and nestling beside it and Dome Rock ; at the feet, the bright bustling little town of Gering. The broad river shining in the bright sunlight like a silver spear, was sweeping through the broad valley."

Scottsbluff National Monument

As stated Benjamin F. Bribane once had a homestead filing on a part of Scottsbluff and he left without making proof. Later on T. C. Henry made a filing. He said he would make final proof, and cede it to Gering for a park. This did not materialize and later still Mrs. Gardner, the mother of Oscar W. Gardner, had a filing. She had a cabin in the bend in the bluff back of the country club house. She did not make proof, and the bluff then reverted back to the government in time to be caught in the reserve for irrigation.