The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . The County Commissioners met at the office of the Oo. Clerk. When meetins; was ad-journed for want of a quorum caused by a heavy snowstorm. Present R. W. Bancroft: Attest, W. D. Long, Oierk. County Clerks Office, Valley Co Neb . Deo 7, 1874. No session of the County Commissioners held by reason of the North Loup being n anuncrossable condition. Attest, W. D. Long, Clerk. Now to revert to the county seat controversy hinted at in the first partof this chapter. The North Loup party though defeated in the first test ofstrength did n
The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . The County Commissioners met at the office of the Oo. Clerk. When meetins; was ad-journed for want of a quorum caused by a heavy snowstorm. Present R. W. Bancroft: Attest, W. D. Long, Oierk. County Clerks Office, Valley Co Neb . Deo 7, 1874. No session of the County Commissioners held by reason of the North Loup being n anuncrossable condition. Attest, W. D. Long, Clerk. Now to revert to the county seat controversy hinted at in the first partof this chapter. The North Loup party though defeated in the first test ofstrength did not lose courage, and hoped against hope sooner or later tobe able to wrest the countyseat from the upper settlements. The matterwhich ultimately settled the sorry affair was the so-called bridge inci-dent. The story of this matter is in brief as follows: Settlements wererapidly springing up on both sides of the river and the demands for a riverbridge were becoming imperative. For many months of the year it was ORGANIZATION OF VALLEY COUNTY—EARLY POLITICS 105. impossible to cross from one side to the other. Now in case a bridge wasto be built, the all important question would be where to build it. Thestrongest settlement on the north side of the river was the Springdale settlement immediately across from theDane Creek settlement. Both these settle-ments, and indeed all the people in theupper half of the county, would favor abridge as near as practical to the newlyvoted county seat. North Loup naturallyenough advocated some poiut on the rivernear their own settlement; or, for sake ofcompromise, a location midway betweenthe upner and lower settlements. As affairs stood in the summer of 1874,two of the county commissioners. Caseand Bancroft, not alone favored buildingTownship Map of Valley County. the bridge, but Were determined to See itbuilb where it was needed the most—and that with them meanc near thenew county seat, Ord. The third member was Jacobs of North Lpup, whowould
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