Its growth has been steady and even rapid in the last two years. A large number of brick business buildings have been put up, crowding out the wooden structures of earlier days. The growth of the town during the coming year will be in keeping with the past. One brick yard reports a contract with one individual of 200,000 brick to be delivered this year. The health of the town has always been good.
Water is easily obtainable.
To all kinds of manufactories and especially to oat meal, hominy and starch factories large inducements are held out. To all such parties our board of trade composed of all our business men under the presidency of H. B. Millard will gladly make inducements and answer correspondence. Of Merrick county it can in soberness be written that it has a soil of unsurpassed fertility, plenty of rain and a good class of farmers. Thousands of cattle are brought from the western ranges, kept to suitable yards and fattened for the eastern markets. These feeders near the towns have created an excellent home market for corn and hay which fetch good prices.