Rider, sound like voices from home, to the old timers.

Around Ashford there are a group of likewise interesting names that hark back into the primitive years. The Howards, the Masons, the Stauffers, the Shaftos, the Walters, and the Olsons, the Andersons, Chris Pfiefer, the Shauls. Leonidas Leach brought into the county some of the finest Morgan horses ever seen in this section. Emma Leach, now of Long Beach, California, planted the trees that top the hill south of the old Ashford townsite. To the east of this road will be seen the grove, down on the flat, that was planted by William Ashford. A little farther south will be seen the Stauffer orchard. Daniel Stauffer was firm

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in his faith, and that faith his son, F. F. Stauffer, has shared. The result is acres of cherries. F. U. and Geo. Streeks are still on Pumpkin creek looking after the Airdale ranch, and Theo. Johnson is upon and owns the Sunderling place and a lot of adjacent lands. The Beattys have gone to Scottsbluff and prospered.

Around Harrisburg we find the names of the Cross family, the Jones, Earl and Geo. A , Mark H. Crosby, the" Downers, Stauffers, the Grubbs, the Kellys, the Langmaids, the Dubbs, the Snyders, Lars Olson, and others.

Over on the southwest table are the McKinnons, the Cox family, the VanPelts, Cvrus, William, and Mrs. T. U. All old timers remember Tom VanPelt for the good citizen that he was. Others prominent in the neighborhood for the material and civic progress of the high tableland are: John Patton, Geo. Schindler, and the Thomases, the Zorns, John V. Broadhead. Over in the Gabe Rock country J. W. Hoke formerly resided, and while he went to Colorado, one of his sons resides in the vicinity of Sixty-six mountain.