Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-06-29
Bellows falls Iimes
BELLOWS FALLS. JUNE 20, 1896.
Letter from Nebraska.
e OTHER SIDE OF THE QUESTION.


porting to be from this place and as that
article is filled with with representations
as false as they are malicious, and tend
ing 10 mislead the minds Of those in the
East who may desire to emigrate to this
city or neighboring country, / cannot pass
it by without responding to its vile mis-
statements. l have been resident of /
Omaha for some time and know whereof |
l speak. aa q l
He writes of Omaha as /" small town."
humbug, delusion, snare and ad-
vises all to "keep away if they do not
want to starve to DEATH" etc. l will |
enumerate and leave you and your read
ers to judge of its Insignificant and an
important business, and whether we resi-
dents are likely to starve to death. AT
present there are tlcetoe wholesale houses
whose business will range from hundred
thousand dollars TO million dollars per
annum. Among these | may State, one
large Agricultural Warehouse, one large
Heavy Hardware House, one large Lii
quor House, several large grocery Houses,
Clothing Houses, etc; to these may be
added fifty or sixty stores, whose stocks
are large and various, and whose sales
will amount from $4,000 TO 100000
per year Do these facts indicate an IN
significant and unimportant business If
there be no trade to warrant why do
merchants bring such large stocks to sup
ply a mercantile business not worthy "to
be considered in speaking of Omaha p
What object could your correspondent
have in thus misrepresenting
There is a scarcity Of timber in the i'm
mediate vicinity of Omaha; but twenty
miles above on the Missouri river, there
is plenty of Cottonwood and Oak. as also
there is on the Platte and Eikem rivers /;
besides these means of supply we have
nine lumber yards, which supply us with
pine lumber from the vast forests of Wis
consin and Michigan.
Yes, &" the land is tolerably good" and
if your correspondent would but take a
I" homestead" he would see how Nature
Z would produce without s. irrigation" -
There are small streams throughout the
whole country for hundred and fifty miles
west. Our average of rain, as tested by
actual observations, made for the Smith
sonian Institute at Washington, is thirty.
inches per year? Does a porous sott
need irrigation" with a fall of thirty
inches of water per year!
There is no country where agricultural
! pursuits will meet with greater reward.
Our farm products will always be higher
than those of Illinois, Wisconsin and
other States that have an eastern market.
Our market is west. The vast mining
regions of Colorado, Montana, Idaho, &c.
must be supplied from the States. Ne
braska is the nearest one, and will shortly
have railroad communication with the
mountain region. These facts are patent
to those who investigate the subject.
Your correspondent is evidently one of
those" deluded Victims destitute of means
who left an Improbable "situation" with
the vain hope of making a fortune in a
day; but having failed to do so, he vents
his splenetic temper upon Omaha, by viii
ifieation, misrepresentation and falsehood.
If he wants to make an honorable COM
petenee, let him work. If his condition
is truly deplorable" l know of no better
way of improving that condition than by
labor. There is plenty to do. Let him
apply to the " execrable" George Francis
Train, who ddcertises for workmen TO la
Dor upon his cottages. No mechanic who
comes TO this city need be day without
employs but it is no place for adventurers,
without profession, trade or means. Such
+ / would advise to stay away. Every man
Z must move aloEg with the crowd or gel
' out of the way.
!; There are, at the present writing, twelve
brick stores, three stories and basement
!. in process of construction, and three more
T in contemplation. About two hundred
= residences will be built this summer. Arc
e these nnimportant and insignificant
facts ?"
a The Union Pacific railroad is now fin.
ished over a hundred miles TO the west o.
Y Omaha, and built at the rate of milo
: per day! Passenger trains will soon be
I, put upon it. In less than year we vii
have two railroad connections eastward
! via the Northwestern to Chicago, and the
a Council Bluffs ard St. Joseph to St
n Louis.
Have not written sufficient, Mr.. Ed
R tor, to convince you that Omaha has 4
: rising greatness ! We are, as yet, only
Q twelve years of age, and have now oveI
five thousand inhabitants, with constant
: increase. We have five churches with 8