Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-10

sTATIoN-INDIANs-A BUFFALO HUNT
THE PEST OF TIE PLAINS.
PoTTER's STATION, Neb., June, 1873
Edttor Rutland HadH Here we
arc-Jackman and myself comfortably
seated in a cattle rancho, on the extreme
western edge of Nebraska, 430 miles
west of Omaha. We have just been
perusing the columns of our Rutland
Herald, and the thought has penetrated
our wise heads that perhaps the numer-
Gus readers of said HERALD might be in
terested in a brief description of life in
a cattle rancho, ont on the mighty plains
of Nebraska So taking the fiattering
unction to my soul that your subscrib-
ers will be interested, I dedicate myself
to your service for the time being, and
crave the boon of a column for said de-
scription.
TIE JOURNEY WESTWARD.
1t was but few weeks ago that Jack
man and myself, remembering the in
junction of the old patriarch: go
West, young man, 90 West" started
from the fair town of Rutland, en- route
for Albany, Buffalo, Chicago, and the
mighty West. Passing rapidly over the
route from Rutland to Chicago, suffice
it to say that we arrived in the latter
city, after the usual run, one fine morn
ing about 8 o'clock, and within two
hours were seated in the cars of the c.
b. & NJ. r. r., for Council Bluffs and
Omaha Through that day and night we
jOurneyed on across the great States of
Illinois and Iowa, and the rivers of the
Mississippi and Missouri, having passed
through some of the finest farming coun-
try in America, and the next morning at
! 9 o'clock we arrived at Omaha.
OMAHA.
We remained one night at the latter
city, resting ourselves and examining the
advantages and disadvantages of the me-
tropolis of Nebraska. Omaha is a very
fine city indeed, with its broad streets,
handsome buildings and enterprising in
habitants. 1t evidently has a fine future
before it, though at present things are
rather at a stand-still, owing to the fact
that during the building of the Pacific
railroad the city grew faster than the
surrounding country, and consequently
upon the completion of the Union Pa
cifc railroad, and the withdrawal OF
its large floating population, the city re-
| ceiyed a set back from which it has
been slowly recovering and increasing
in accordance with the increase of the
| surrounding country, north, south and
west of it. At present it has about
| eighteen thousand inhabitants.
JOURNEY TO POTTER,
The following day we took our plac-
es at noon, in the fine cars of the Union
Pacific railroad and proceeded on oul
journey westward We passed through
a very fine farming country for about
two hundred miles west from Omaha
We beheld on all sides of us vast, ex
pansive plain, dotted here and there
with little farm houses squatted-so tt
speak-in the midst of the broad area OF
mother earth But time will not allow
me to describe the agricultural resources
of Nebraska, etc, so we will hasten OF
with our journey. We passed rapidly
along, stopping ever and anon at the lit
tie towns along the line, which places
| may say, excel in the number of thei
liquor saloons, and lawyers signs-no
that the two always go together, by NJ
means-yet, "I merely remark, and my
language is plain, that the number o
both is peculiar, which the same | an
free to maintain" At one place wher'
we halted, there were eleven saloons
one lawyers sign, one drug store AM
gye. residences. Through that night WI
iourneyed on, and at nine o'clock in tn
morning we arrived at our destination
I at Potter.
POTTER AND ITS ADVANTAGES.
Potter is not large town-oh no !
in fact may say it isa small town,ther