Heiman, each have contributed their part in the upbuilding of community and its spirit in the parts of the county in which they respectively abide. In the northwest portion Jesse O. Ammerman and Edward J. Whipple retain the names of olden times as beacons of what can be done by young people. On Wildcat W. W. Henderson has come at a later date. The editor well remembers the Bolin Spear for the high moral standard he never failed to hold aloft and the name of Sarah M. Spear is one I notice in the later chronicles.

Banner county is one of the two counties in the state that has dropped in population in the last ten years. From that enormous vote cast at the county division election the population dropped back until in 1900 the census shows but 1114 people. In 1910 there were 1444. In 1920 but 1435. The area of the county is 743 square miles which gives a population of less

than two for each section of land in the county. This is principally rural population. But naturally the land must be in large holdings and some of the largest are those of Lars Olson of Harrisburg, and A. H. Olson of Ashford. John Kelly, Hope Brown estate, Joe Duckworth, and W. W. Henderson, Rolla Warner, the Harveys, the Noyes family, A. B. Beard and Millard Cluck are some of the big present acreage in individual ownership. Thos. W. G. Cox, Cyrus Van Pelt, E. J. McKinnon and many others are surrounded by great stretching acres accumulated in the years of intelligent dry farming and stock raising.