Daily Republican., 1888-04-12
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Many ask why Western cities and
towns "boom" and rapidly gr wv, thus
enriching the citizens faster than the
ordinary channels of business in the
East. Not all the towns OF the West
do grow, but there are some whose
growth has been so wonderful In the
past twenty years that some of the
causes may be given. Those who
wish figures and more exact details
will be supplied by the undersigned d
In papers recently published at LIN
coin, Nebraska, giving history of the
growth of that town Of 40, 900 inhabi-
tants.
There is one thing essential, and
that is all must pull together for tho
common good, and the least side not
be jealous Of ihe'west side" No mat.
ter how eagerly the two sides worked
for the same new enterprise, as soon
as II was determined that the east had
II, the west helped the victor for the
common good.
BY becoming great railroad centre
Kansas City has become the great city
that 1t is. Not many years ago Leav-
enworth was ahead both sought
Eastern cspital-through wonderful
and persistent energy and skill Kansas
City obtained the confidence OF Bos-
ton capitalists, railroads were built
and these in turn brought others,
manufacturing establishments were
Invited and at great cost were induced
TO locate there, until the city was es-
tablished on basis so impregnablc
that the town can't do otherwise than
grow. All this applies to some other
towns in the West.
Twenty years ago the city of Lin
coin, Nebraska, was started. 1t was
started as the capital of the State and
is still the capital. A magnificent
new State house is now nearly com
pleted. 1t is the second capitol build
ing, the first soon became tco small
Tor the rapid growth OF the State. A
great element of success from the
start, the citizens "pulled together" !"
Another element, the city was not the
resort of retired farmers and business
men merely, but it became the home
of pioneers-men in tho prime of life,
who, as wealth was obtained, did not
sit down idly to nurse their dollars,
but who entered ardently into all of
forts for the public good, A few OK
amples will suffice: A $3.50, 900 hotel
was recently urged, very soon 1858, 600,
were subscribed by five or six men
who formed company which was in
3orporated at once. AS soon as $72,
900 more are subscribed by the citi-
zens, making $i25, 900, the $l25, 600
will be borrowed by the company.
The enterprise is already assured, aud
the work will be commenced this
spring. Though they have fine
opera house, a better one was needed,
and new will be built, to cost $780,
600. This is an individual enterprise.
| With ten spokes TO their railroad
wheel they concluded last fall to boud
the city $l5O,00O to aid an eastern
company to build from Lincoln TO Des
Moines, in Iowa. The citizens voted
for it almost without opposition.
This was done to get more favorable
freight rates eastward, and it gives
them the shortest and pest line to Chi
cago.
The Burlington and Missouri River
Railroad in Nebraska is part OF the
famous G. b. Il Q system, one of the
richest corporations in the United
States. 1t has six lines to and from the
city OF Lincoln. Each of these have
many branches or feeders reaching re.
mote parts of this great State.
Perhaps from thirty to fifty feeders
or brauch lines pour freight into these
trunk lines OF the b, & NJ. Nearly
the whole of this passes through tho
yards of the b. IL M. Company al
Lincoln. In these yards are thirty,
five miles of side track, employing
daily 800 men In the past year 10, OK
cars OF live stock passed through the
Lincoln yards on the b. s. NJ, system
alone.
Two years ago the Missouri Pacific
entered the city and this summer it II
said she will push out her line to tht
northwest some hundreds OF miles. A
: belt line railroad around the city viii
be built this year, tapping every rail
road entering the town and saving the
builders and others heavy hauling
across the city in wagons or drays o
lumber, bricks, stone and other build
ing material. This makes a unior
depot possible. The entrance of tht
Missouri Pacific was not made withou
cost. The citizens were equal to thu
emergency, and on short notice thu
whole amount needed was pledged
SO also the building of the belt line
On its completion some manufacturing
enterprises rest. The conditions fol
building have been about met, ant
dirt will fly as soon as the weather be
comes favorable.
In less than two years 1t is claimed
there will be IA railroad spokes to thei
hub, and already on the envelopes o
the business men there is miniature
map with these IA roads on it.
To obtain these advantages the sam,
kind OF energy, perseverance and lib
erality were needed as in other boom
! ing cities of the West. The sam,
means employed here would product
results as wonderful.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will
far-seeing sagacity and most libera
: policy produces wonderful results
! The town of West Chester is abou
100 years old, and has population o
about 5000. The town of Lincoln
Nebraska, gains that in single year
She Is now the home of three grea