The Nebraska division of the Chicago and Northwestern and the Burlington railroads tap the county from east to west and north to south, with a branch at Chadron running into the Black Hills.

The fuel question is of but little importance to the farmer, for he can go to the timber at any time and get wood -- yet free for chopping and hauling. The great Wyoming coal fields are less than a hundred miles from us. Coal can be laid down at railroad towns in the county equal to the best Iowa coal.

There are over one hundred school districts in the county and a school house in each district. The most competent teachers are employed to develop the minds of the ''young idea," no matter how small the attendance

may be. All the towns support creditable church edifices, and in localities where no church is provided, the school house is used for this purpose.

The land upon which Red Cloud agency once stood forms a portion of the military reservation on which Fort Robinson is built. Surrounded on three sides by beautiful ridges of the famous Pine Ridge hills, on the north side by a magnificent range of cliffs, known to the Sioux Indians as "Dancing Buttes," and on the west and south sides lie a succession of towering peaks, relieved by beautiful undulating swells and receding knobs. These are covered by superb growth of stately pines and nutritious grasses, on which, in times past, the buffalo, deer, elk and other game fed undisturbed, except by the wily Indian, who claimed an ownership in them.