The Montana post. [volume] (Virginia City, Montana Territory [i.e. Mont.]) 1864-1869, 1867-02-02
NEBRASK

1t is not yet thirteen years since the
Kansas-Nebraska act was passed, organ
izing into Territories a portion of the
vast expanse of country lying between
the Missouri and the Rocky Mountains.
Kansas fought her way up through an
ocean of fire and blood. that made her
name familiar wherever the English
language is known, and was admitted
into the sisterhood of States, while her
less pretentious neighbor was scarcely
mentioned. Lesvenworth, Lecompton,
Topeka, and a host of towns and cities,
in the former, were historic, while Oma-
ha, Plattsmouth and Nebraska City were
all unknown to fame, and the people of
Nebraska toiled on in peace and quiet
ness. The rivalry between the cities of
Chicago and St. Louis, and the great
natural facilities for railway from the
Missouri to the Pacific via the valley of
the Platte, first brought Nebraska prom
inently into notice, and attracted to her
cities the enterprise and capital of the
northwest. A continuous line of rail
way, extending from Chicago to San
Francisco, with Omaha as the principal
intermediate point, was projected, and
under the management of the ablest
railroad men in the country. pushed for
ward with an energy and rapidity here
tofore unknown in the history of rail
roads and now reaches, in a connected
line, as far as the forks of the Platte,
and will, by another season, connect
with Denver city, and, by short stage
routes, with the mining regions of Mon
tana, Idaho and Nevada. Omaha, by
this, is designed to become the great in
termediate city between the Atlantic
and Pacific; and shrewd capitalists have
invested largely in property beyond the
limits of the present city, depending
upon it's rapid growth for realization
Last season, the Credit Foncier, a mon.
eyed association, composed principally
of Chicago men, purchased eighty acres
of land. known as the Park, in the edge
of the city, and brought from the East
a number of cottages already framed
and erected them on the property. Geo
Francis Train is the acting member o.
the association, who, visionary and fanat
ical as he is, has no compeer in financial
shrewdness. The Yankee has entered
the lists against the South in the race
to California by rail, and it is not diff
cult to predict who will win it. Nebras
ka has population of nearly 100, 900, al
area of 4S,636, 800 acres, lying betweer
the fortieth and forty-third parallel o
latitude, and 102 and 104 meridians. Ii
1865, it is estimated 1900 wagons, 50,00t
cattle, $4,000 horses and mules, anC
10000 drivers, guards, ETC., were em
ployed in transporting 200, 600, ,000pound
of freight from the Nebraska cities to thu
west, the principal portion of which, it il
believed, came to Montana. During 1856
| S13, ,000, 600; and in 1866, $4,000 600 IL
gold passed through Omaha from ldah'
and Montana. In 1864 Congress pass
ed an enabling act, by which Nebraska
might have entered the Union as
State, but it was not accepted by tn
people. They are now as eager for &C
ceptance as they Were opposed to it, an
there is no reasonable doubt that, a
though the bill which has passed in Coz
gress has been vetoed by the President
il will be passed over that veto by tn
necessary vote, and Nebraska become
State. ....