Built on the side of a range of bluffs which slope gently to the North Loup river, the city possesses one of the most beautiful natural sites to be found anywhere in the west. The natural beauty of our location strikes the eye of every stranger who visits our city. From the residence part of the city the beautiful North Loup valley extends before the eye of the observer for thirty miles north and east, the river shimmering in the landscape for nearly the whole distance. The city is compactly built, and many costly residences have been erected by our substantial citizens. Several neat and commodious brick blocks have been built in the past year among which a bank building equal to any in the state, one of the finest two story brick court houses in Nebraska is the pride of our citizens.
Extensive improvements are under way for the present season.
The business enterprises now represented are two national banks, two dry goods stores, four grocery stores, three hardware stores, one clothing store, three drug stores, three hotels, three lumber yards, three general merchandise stores, one grist mill, two furniture stores, two agricultural implement stores, three newspapers, fifteen lawyers, six doctors, two dentists, two grain elevators, two brickyards, three livery barns. We have also a flourishing board of trade comprising nearly every business man in the city. The fraternities represented are the Masons and Odd Fellows. Being the county seat of Valley county and having a large tract of rich agricultural country tributary to her, Ord is one of the liveliest trading points in Nebraska. The shipments of grain and live stock every month is not equalled by any town of her size in the state.