In 1909 Everett and Nannie Davis purchas~ a piece of eastern Logan County land, near Haxtun from Asa Johnson of Iowa. They lived in a small structure which was converted into a chicken coop when a larger home was finished in 1916. At that time the one-room Garber school (where both Everett and Nannie attended) was moved to the property. With the addition of two wings it was converted into a barn. About 15 acres of the farm was donated for construction of the Dailey Consolidated School and Gym.

When John and Mary Edgar came to Colorado from Iowa in 1895, they first settled in Otero County near rocky Ford. John soon became involved in the local sugar beet industry and acquired a second farm nearby in 1901. Sons Ray, with wife Lena, and Earnest, with wife Coral took over in 1915 and introduced additional crops at that time. Roy's sons Lyman and Gayle later expanded the farm and by the 1980's Lymans family had brought most of the lands into a family corporation.

Anders Johann Anderson arrived in America from Sweden in 1888 with his family following shortly after. By 1901 the family had settled near Fairfield in Sedgwick County, living in a sod house for several years until a wood home could be constructed in 1907. By 1909 a homestead patent for the land was finally granted. Several outbuildings were soon constructed including a barn to house the beautiful Percheron draft horses that Anders and his sons were known for.

Johan C. Andersen arrived on the eastern plains of Colorado near Genoa in Lincoln County in 1906. His animals and some machinery were brought from Minnesota with him in a railroad boxcar. Within a few years a granary and two-story block house were constructed. The property passed down to son Lier and daughter - in- law Edith and to their family Donald and Joan, Roy and Opal, and Lee and Shirley. Today the extended family continues to work the land, raising Wheat and Cattle.

In the 1890's Charles Albertson homesteaded 160 acres near Burns, in Eagle County. He was later joined by his brother Will and together they cleared the land and began construction of an irrigation ditch, which is still in use today. To begin their cattle operation the brothers traveled to Ralston Creek near present day Arvada to purchase 20 head of cattle which they drove all the way back to Burns. In November, 1903, Charles married Ella McMillan. Five children would follow, beginning with son Joe in August 1904. A home for the family was built soon after.

In April of 1889 the Frank Hradecky family, who had immigrated from Moravia and Czeckoslovakia 10 years earlier, left Brainard, Nebraska and traveled by emigrant railroad to the Colorado eastern plains. With them they brought household effects, horses, cows, hogs and homesteaded a plot of land three miles northwest of Fleming in Logan county. Daughter Anna, at age 23, built a homestead shack on a quarter section of the land in 1903 as did her brother on an adjoining quarter. She received her patent in 1908, and a husband, Loren, in 1910. By 1912 they also had acquired brother Joes acreage.

In the early 1900's Gottlieb and brother Fred Stahlecker homesteaded near Bethune in Kit Carson County - being near each other allowed the families to share resources during hard times. Fred eventually sold his land and Gottlieb sold his 280 acres to son William in 1945 - a good place to raise 7 children. One of those children, George, purchased the land in 1969. Wheat, corn, sunflowers, feed and cattle have been raised on the land. In 1990 George was able to buy back Fred's land, thus rejoining ownership of both homesteads.

On a cold windy day in May of 1907, Casper Oswald and family arrived by emigrant train with two carloads of belongings to the Colorado eastern plains. Capser had traded 800 acres of Missouri farmland for nearly 6,000 acres in Kiowa County 10 miles south and 5 miles east of Kit Carson. They moved into the existing two room house and soon moved into a two story house a few miles away which remains the current headquarters today. Upon Casper's death sons Joe, Frank and Martin purchased the  ranch, with Joe eventually buying out his two brothers.

In 1908 Newton Dotson purchased 80 acres of land in Las Animas County near Aguilar for $2,700 from the estate of Margaret Foster. Shortly after, a large wood- sided barn was constructed. A small farmhouse was built about 1920 which housed the family for many years. The property was handed down to Lyman and Irene Dotson and later to daughter and current owner Betty Jane Dotson Rickel. Today the land is leased by friend Tim Myers who pastures cattle there. The 3 Bar 5 brand is still registered to the family and the barn, chicken house and milk house are still in use.

In June 1908, CV Mundy acquired 400 acres in Elbert County near the town of Elbert. By this time CV had purchased the Three Bar brand that is still registered and in use today. CV hauled hard red winter wheat from the area to the railroad in Elbert. The land passed to son Hugh and wife Charlette, and then to Hugh Jr. Now at 720 acres the Elbert Three Bar ranch hosts a hay and calf/cow operation. Hugh Mundy Jr. was never married and in June of this year died in an unfortunate drowning accident.