low and black walnut do well. Evergreens, the different kinds of pines and cedars, do well here.
Among the early settlers may be named, for Milford Township, Joseph Brouhard, Wesley Arrasmith, G. W. Sowers, John Rich, J. E. Hoover, Sol. Young, W. Randeau.
Mr. Brouhard settled some fifty rods from the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section 5, township 84, range 23, in Spring Grove, a small patch of timber on Bear creek. Mr. Brouhard has been gone from the county for many years.
Mr. Arrasmith settled next south of Mr. Brouhard, but built his house on the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section five, and is still living there.
The following names are some of the shippers of live stock, stock raisers, farmers, etc., men of energy and stir are included: Geo. W. Sowers, J. W. Sowers. Frank Curtiss, Chas. M. Minkler, F. T. McClain, Lafayette MCKIM, Geo. Stultz, Isaac Craig, James Smith, G. H. Alfreds, And. Scott, George Gilmore, Edward McNicholson, John Eagleberger, R. Kimball, B. Confare, J. Weidner, John Harndon, Samuel Rich, T. B. Howland, W. Rondeau, G. B. Kooser, R. McClure, John Rich, Charles Campbell, A. O. Hall, H. Rasmussen, N. H. Rasmussen, A. Jargenson, Robert Kelley, Kirkendall, F. M. Confare, B. Confare, Oliver Thompson, O. Christian, Wesley Arrasmith.
SOME Hogs.—One day last week Geo. Gilmore, of Milford Township, sold to Duea & Mickelson, of Roland, eighty-three Chester White hogs, the average weight of which was 372 pounds, and the amount received was $1,097.50, being at the rate of $3.55 per hundred. The weight of the lot was 30,915 pounds. The best part of it is that they were all of the raising of Mr. Gilmore. There are very few such lots of hogs in any county in the state, and we congratulate Mr. G. on his success.—(Nevada Watchman, Dec. 10, 1886.)
RICHLAND TOWNSHIP.
A HISTORY OF RICHLAND TOWNSHIP FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO
MARCH, 188 7.--CONTAINING, ALSO, A NOTICE OF MANY OF ITS CITIZENS.
POPULATION 558.
It is believed it received its name, " Richland," from its beautiful rich land of which it shares largely. It was organized in 1872, comprising all of township 84 north, range 22 west.
The brief items were partly culled from our county papers.