The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . t the aid of artificial ferti-lizers. The upper part of the region only belongs to another and moreancient period—the Pliocene. Portions of Loup and Garfield counties and a GLIMPSES OF THE NORTH LOUP VALLEY 59 few square miles in northeastern Valley county are encroached uoon by thegreat Pliocene Sand Hills. This part of our Valley is therefore more prop-erly a grazing district. To get a more definite idea of its topography, letthe reader study carefully the maps of Loup and Garfield counties giv-en elsewhere in the book. The No
The trail of the Loup; being a history of the Loup River region . t the aid of artificial ferti-lizers. The upper part of the region only belongs to another and moreancient period—the Pliocene. Portions of Loup and Garfield counties and a GLIMPSES OF THE NORTH LOUP VALLEY 59 few square miles in northeastern Valley county are encroached uoon by thegreat Pliocene Sand Hills. This part of our Valley is therefore more prop-erly a grazing district. To get a more definite idea of its topography, letthe reader study carefully the maps of Loup and Garfield counties giv-en elsewhere in the book. The North Loup river rises among a clusterof small lakes in western Cherry county, just east of the 101st meri-dian and about 50 miles from the north line of the state. Some twenty ormore lakes comprise this group. And a more beautiful region can hardlybe imagined. Some of the lakes are crystal clear, with pebbly nestle in the sandhills, but they are immediately surrounded by grassplots of remarkable richness. Out of them flows the river at first a mere. A View Taken in Olsens Canyon. silver thread, making its way by tortuous windings through the hills,which in the upper course approach almost to the river brink. After itenters Loup county the valley becomes well defined, though at firstnarrow and of a sandy consistency. By degrees, however, an alluvial soilappears, which becomes deeper and richer as Garfield county is stream itself is shallow and bounded by low, usually treeless islands, often covered with a dense growth of Cottonwood, box-elders, ash, and thickets of wild plums and choke cherries, dot the rippling,eddying stream, and add much to a scenery which might otherwise becomea little monotonous. The river bottom is, for the most part, fine shiftingsand, but compact enough to make fording by heavy wagons perfectly sa fe 60 THE TRAIL OF THE LOUP The river sands are, as far as we can ascertain, of Pliocene origin. Itshould be added, tho
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