He erected the frame building now on the corner just south of the Blaine hotel, on the corner of Second and Bordeaux avenue, which was used for a saloon ; later he built a dance

hall, which was moved over and is now merged into one of the finest homes in Chadron on Egan street. About the first of April, 1885, tents began to come. The first was that of M. M. Harrah, who put in a stock of hardware ; then came Jack and Sam Stotts with groceries ; Walter & Lyman, drugs ; Ed. Flvnn, saloon, Tom and Charley Black and White & Sloggy, restaurants and saloons, and Keyes & Soder, cigars, confectionery and notions. About this time the two story log house of Mrs. O'Linn was completed and leased to Mc- Coy & Kearns, who converted it into a hotel and saloon. Then came more tents. Loewenthal Brothers, clothing; Kass & Poll, hardware; Billy Wilson, afterwards postmaster, with furniture : Emil Faust, bakery ; Frank Soder, saloon, afterwards turned into a dance house which was later moved to the new town and operated by irrepressible Johnnie Owens, and later cut into two parts and made into residences and now occupied by prominent families. By this time buildings were fast going up. Among them the Lockler & Harrison Red Front saloon with Mickey O'Brien in charge ; Carter & Dixon, wholesale and retail liquors ; Canfield & Garner, groceries and hotel. Ed. Egan moved his Journal plant in from his shack out on Chadron creek ; Glover & Brower put in the Dawes county bank ; Ballou & Cassady, real estate ; H. O. Martin, jewelry ; Anton Weber, groceries ; Lamb & Whitten, general store with George Shinn manager ; Valentine & Younglove, general store with Ed.