Will Kelly's daughter was the first child born on Pumpkin creek that lived to maturity. Bess Kelly grew up in the present limits of Banner county but has since died. Ted Kelly resides on the old Kelly ranch on Pumpkin creek.

The Lone Pine District

South of the valley was the Lone Pine district. A. S. Alexander opened a store there when the land was young. Wild horses used to browse on the high tablelands and travellers could see them from afar.

Prominent among the early names in this community were the Trowbridges, the Mc- Latchys, the Palms, the Johnsons, the Larsons, and the Petersons. All these names are still in the land -- decendant of the pioneers and in rare cases the pioneers themselves-- except Mc- Latchy.

Palm was a wizard in fruit ; he had an orchard and worked at blending varieties. Notic- •i)£ the trees that were hardy in this country, lie sought to graft domestic fruit on some of the native stock. He was successful in making plums grow on boxelder trees, but not to a commercial extent.

J. T. Bunger's was the well known place on the south divide on the road to Kimball from Big Horn and Indian Springs. Bunger had a deep well and used to haul the water out of it with a team. There was a barrel attached to the rope and he would bring up a barrel of water at a time

When coming to western Nebraska I heard of the depth to water between Hastings and Seward, and in Keith county I found a man who had just completed a well 140 feet deep. That scared me out of the fine tableland countrv that is now Perkins countv. The fine table-