Omaha daily bee., 1883-09-13
A GOODLY LAND!
A Business Man Tells OF tho Country
on the Cedar County I4ne.
Sioux City journal.

A well known business MAN of this
city, whose modesty forbids tile mention
of his name, returned yesterday from a
trip along the line of railroad being built
into Cedar county. A reporter inter
viewed him about the country. In an
swer to a question about the crops, he
said:
"They are certainly the best / have
seen anywhere in these parts, and l have
been around pretty generally The wheat
and other small grain is mostly in stack,
and it is worth while to make a trip
there Just to see how thick these stacks
stands in the fields. The corn is much of
it eight feet high, whole fields of it, and
still growing. Never saw promise of a
better corn crop than there is along the
Lopan and Bow valleys and in Cedar
county"
"You like the country them
SIT is without exception the best coun-
it here among tho-us Psop:s here
think the Floyd and Big Sioux valleys
good. So they are, but nothing like the
Logan and Bow. The valleys in Cedar
county are so much wider than the Floyd
or Sioux, for one thing. For another
l don't expect you to believe it, but it is
so--the soil is better. The crops now on
the ground show that. Then the upland
is none of it too rough to farm. In fact,
it is the farmers paradise over there"
"How about the p.ice of land2'
"Well, you would suppose from the
excellence of the country that land would
be high, but it isn't as high as in this
county, and a great deal lower than back
of LeMars or Storm Lake. You see
Cedar county and the south part OF Dixon
were rather out of the way until this road
began to build in, and the new settlers
that came into Northwestern Nebraska
followed the lines OF r%ailroa1. Now that
a railroad is being built, land-seekers are
beginning to come in and price tend up.
But the spectators realize that by sell
ing part of the lands to settlers they in
crease the value of the rest. So they are
selling at a very fair price yet, much less
than lands are sold for elsewhere"
Then it is a new country2
''There you are off. The settlers have
some of them been there twenty years
along the valleys, and are well fixed
good farms and buildings, with plenty of
stock. But it is a big country and there
is an immense amount of land held by
spectators that can be bought"
The Cedar county railroad made its
own towns, l hear2
YES; Peavey Bros. of Sioux City, are
the agents, and in such a country rs there
is along the line these towns are sure to
thrive. [ was at the two first town sites
on the line. Concord is in Dixon county
and has a beautiful site, overlooking
miles of the Logan valley. This town has
jus, been plated. Coleridge is at the
head of the Logan, where the new road
starts to 60 over the divide into the Bow
valley. The site is on good high ground,
the country around fairly settled, and
everything needed to make a t,wn grow.
Some of the foundations for buildings
were in at Coleridge before the town was
plated, and now there are eight bull lings
up"
Then lots at these towns are going W
in pricel
"No, they are not. The railroad com
pany plats the towns to get business fol
the road, not to make money from the
sale of lots. What the company wants ID
for folks to 60 in and possess the land,
an l every facility is offered. Lots are
sold by the company. AS investments
or for business j can recommend these
lots in the new towns on the Cedar
county line. l bought some of them my
self, but you needn't say anything about
it,"
And the reporter promised he wouldn't,
and also promised to go over with the
business man sometime and see the
country and write it up.