Many of the farm homes have changed from dwellings of the old Jake Smith dugout type, to modern Delco-lighted farm houses of large dimension.

Plow and sod, or ax and timber, made the first dwellings. The Livingston grout house was the first to break away but the lime therein was hauled from Sidney. Over in Big Horn, about a mile north of the Table mountain the first lime kiln in the county came into existence as early as 1887. G. W. Bushong and sons were the owners.

About the same time "Briley" Randleman started his sorghum mill. This was a convenience, and we hauled cane for many miles to take home our home-made molasses. Syrup was quite a necessary standard of food in those years.

The first and only brick yard in the county was on Willow creek -- established by Bob Everett about 1S88. He hauled some of the product to Kimball, and he furnished the brick for Johnny Logan's brick house in Harrisburg ; the only brick ever constructed in the county. It is now the residence of M. E. Shafto.

At the Four- J spring Ben Cross located a sawmill where the native timber was reduced to rough boards for our domestic use. Ed. Wright bought this mill, and ran it for a while in Glenrock canyon, now a part of Airdale ranch. He later moved it to Laramie peak. The largest log that I pulled to this mill made 240 feet of lumber. It was too heavy to load on a wagon and I had a pair of hind wheels from and old wagon of large dimension. I balanced the log about the middle with a chain over the axle and under the reach. By pulling the reach down to horizontal, it lifted most of the weight of the log, and was easily dragged six or seven miles to the mill.