New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-01-09
RERR1SKH.

| excepted) was but 2,732. Originally, tno Dill
organizing Nebraska included within her limits
Kansas, as well as all the United States terri
| DRY north and west Of her and this side OF
the Rocky Mountains but Senator Dougias'
before action was taken on the measure
modified it 10 as TO sever 40 much of that terri
tory IA lay north of 400 N. latitude, and 40
directly westward Of Missouri, which he
chrisiencd Kansas. That ii was the object OF
those who suggested or sought this division 10
expose Kansas more completely to subjugatIon
and appropriation by the Border Humans
of Missouri, then intent on making her slave
| State, We never doubted. Thus born twins
the two Territories have had widely diverse
destncs. Kansas had a stormy and perllOus
minority but the lusy infant grew apace, anu
was admitted IA State early in 1861, just after
the withdrawal from Congress of the repre-
sentatves of the Cotton States which had
plunged into Secession. Kansas in 1860 had
1O7,2O6 inhabitants Nebraska but 289O3; and
the latter was not admitted AZ q State till
1867, (March ~ by virtue of an act Of Congress
passed over Andrew JOhnsOn's veto on the
9th of February. Kansas ia 1870 had 361,309
| inhabitants Nebraska but 122,093. The bOunda-
ries OF the latter, as reduced by the act OF adj
mission, are the doth parallel of North latitude
and the State of Kansas on the South, the 25th
degree Of West longitude from Washington on
the West to the 4ist parallel Of North latitude;
thence two degrees due West to the 9th par
alleI of North latitude thence North along
that parallel to the AID degree Of North lati
tude; thence East along that parallel to tho
Reya Paha river; thence down the middle of
the channel of said river to the NiObrara
thence down The middle of the NiObrara to
the Missouri thence down the Missouri to the
doth parallel, or boundary Of Kansas afOro-
said. The State is thus nearly 400 miles long
(from east to west) with IN average width of
200 miles and total area of $4,000 square miles.
Her soil is. in the main, decidedly fertile
On the upland5, tits deep, dark vegetable mold,
containing very little clay, and slightly i'm
pregnated with lime, while the valleys are
even deeper and richer. IL is mainly covered
with rich, nutritious grass, very palatable to
cattle buffalo, and deer. IL is splendid
grazing country, where excellent Beef, Nut
ton, and Wool, may be grown very chcaply,
even after the cruel folly of trying to winter
them without shelter or hay shall have been
abandoned or utterly exploded.
Nebraska was formerly kept in the back
ground by scarcity OF Iimber ana Soai
which, until the construction of her Railroads,
seriously impeded her settlement. The Mis-
souri,. forming her eastern and in part her
northern boundary. il large, deep, rapid,
turbid river, difficult of navigation, ospe-
cially mp. stream, but still naVlgaDlo
ard q very considerable belt of heavy
timber lines its banks, save iii tho few
places where it has been cut off; but tho
flR
north line OF the State, though each rises in
the Rocky Mountains far west OF the western
boundary of this State, are so shallow and
rapid so INSTRUCTED by islcts, cvcr-shiitng
bars. ducksands, &C., that not even Hat
boat, much less steamboat, can navigate
them, unless for a few miles near their mouths.
In the absence of Railroads, we did not ana
could not regard Nebraska IA specially inFt-
ing to settlers.
But the opening of the Union Pacific Rail
road changed all this. That Road traverses
the State throughout its length, from Omaha
III chief city, on the east, to Julespurg OH JIG
west. making Nebraska no longer tne QUIZ
side row." but the very heart OF the olhon'
There ia no other point in the United States
whence all our great commercial cehters-Ne"-
York Boston, Chicago, ST. LOuls, New-orieans,
Son FranciscO-can be reached 40 easily anu
oucl,ly rs from Omaha; and the southern hah
of rho State Is within days ride OF TINS great
Gorilla tboronghfare Nebraskas inadequate
Timber is thereby supplemented from 'no
oroat forests further North while her ehih
,,oino If Coal will soon be reinforced rom
Tho annie deposits of Wyoming and Coiorauo
=. a. weat Of Iowa on the east ana OF
notota on the north. Time and research VIII
dorhtless discover thicker veins beneath her
own col, while forest -culture-now barely IN
oucrroted-Uin in a few years enrich ana
cIadden her landscape with groves, and clumps'
and ro,ys and spacious woodlands, OF the cholceSe
Timber. Other Railroads. goodly lluiiioei VI
them-are already in progress Inc DUN" W."
and Missouri River Railroad IL conpieUu from
| Plattesmouth on the Missouri 10 Llhco'h' t'no
| State capital,) in Lancaster County, anu ID
being rapidly pushed WESTWARD 10 ioi'
Kearnev. where it will form d Junction WIN
the Union Pacific The Midland racine IKE
wise reaches from the Missouri (at NcDraSka
Citv, 70 Jincoln. The Sioux City and Pacific
enters Nebraska at Blair, 30 miles north OF
Omaba. is running to West Point, 80 miles, and is
heinz nrsbed 40 miles further northwest. The
Omaha and North Western connects with the
above at Blair: The Omaha and Southwestern
rims from Omaha through Lincoln to Beatrice,
and is soon to be finished to intersect the st.
Joseph and Denver on the Little Blue. These
are but portions of network which will soon
l e,idiron all southern and eastern Nebraska,
rendering her lands as accessible and her pro-
duce as easily marketable as those of Ohio
So many people ask-"Where are those free
Glands that you talk of G"-tbat we are happy
! ia ono,r.r In Nebraska NOT five dayS' icur-