There have been no coal discoveries of consequence in the county although undoubtedly ligniteous coal underlies the county's soil. The depth, is, however, prohibitive from a commercial standpoint.
Potash production is only in connection with the sugar factory at Scottsbluff and the low price of the commodity made the plant lie idle the year of 1921. It is made from the waste waters from the mills at Scottsbluff and Gering which is piped into a large storage reservoir and later reduced to potash.
THE COUNTY MILITARY RECORD -- HONOR ROLL -- FRATERNAL ORDERS
One of the forever bright spots in the history of Scotts Bluff county will be the part she took in the great World War. This county stands with but few equals, in a state that had no equal in the constructive and substantial parts of the world's conflict.
When the great forest fire in northern Wisconsin was raging some years ago, it reached the shore of Tomahawk lake. Out on this lake on rafts, were refugees, a mile from the shore. The heat became so intolerable, that they dropped over the edges of the rafts into the water up to their necks, and repeatedly ducked their heads. A great sheet of flame stretched out across the water and over their heads, and set the forest on fire about a half mile beyond them. The flames leaped nearly one and one-half miles, a distance unheard of in forest fires, and theretofore believed an impossible distance for a fire to leap.