Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-30
woNDERFUL DEvELOPmENT.


 interest regarding most interesting portion highly inviting field for enterprising business l men, artisans, laborers, mechanics, investors, stc. An opportunity for the making of many l fortunes is offered in Kesrney, which is des- l tined to be great western city:
 Only thirty years ago there were not 800 people between the Missouri river and the Pacific slope; to-day there are 5,0O0,0O Then the now great State of Nebraska had not one mile of railroad; now it has 5000. 900 of bushels. There were only fifty white people in Nebraska thirty years ago. Now the States population is one and 6 half millions. In three months of 1887 83 ,000 acres in Nebraska were entered by homesteaders. Only eighteen years ago countless herds of buffalo roamed over een- tral and western Nebraska, one herd alone estimated at 50,000, and elks, antelopes and wild horses and cattle were abundant. Now they are nearly all gone to the happy hunt ing grounds, and the white settlers farm houses dot the plains. Last year Nebraska stood fourth among the corn States. ninth in wheat, and tenth as to number and value of it's live stock. In the same period the num- Der of it's farms increased from 63, ,289 to 119, ,S97, the number of it's live stock from 2,424 ,590 to 4, ,647, $50, and the value of the latter from $33, ,440, ,295 to $91 ,099, ,941; the number of it's factories from 1,403 in 1880 to three times that number and four times the value of the produce tions while the crops of the three chief cereals which aggregated in 1880 S5, ,853, ,017 bush- els have since reached 173, ,282, 900 bushels, while the actual value of it's real and personal property now amounts to the enormous sum of $7O3, ,431 ,021. With all this truly magnif- cent showing not more than one acre in four of the arabic land is yet under cultivation. The 12O, ,OOO improved farms in the State, 90 per cent of which are operated by owners, are worth $500, ,000, 900 and produce annually s55, ,OOO, ,O0O worth of live stock and farm products The railroads receive annually from passengers nearly $5,000,O0O and from freight nearly $14,000,0 ,0e0 afording net earning of nearly $S, ,00e,e GOO.
 "Corn is ng'-originated in Nebraska, and corn is the greatest crop of Nebraska and wherever the cereal is put into competition with that of other States the superiority is shown. And it is a sure crop, being raised on the same land for twenty years without @ failure. Where corn is abundant there you will find hogs and cattle, and this combina- tion brings wealth to any. country.
 This brings us to especial consideration of the great field which KearHey, Neb., of fers to farmers, merchants and other busi- ness men, and especially to young men of enterprise. Employment is open to them at once. The architects are driven with bus mess. The youngest architect in the city of Kearney has over quarter of million dol lars of contracts ahead on his books, despite his present large force of assistants. It is difficult to procure workmen to supply the demand for building. The same is true in other industries and trades.
 Now as to Kearney. It is situated in the center of the fertile Platte valley, in Buffalo county, which embraces seven hundred thou sand acres of the best land in Nebraska. The county produced last year over eight million bushels of corn-twenty thousand car loads; three million bushels of oats seventy-6ve hundred car loads; and there are more than sixty thousand hogs and sixty
 on4--1d cattle in this county alone, with
 piow' rne of the county yet turned by the
 Ilie: hearney i-nr-ffths being equally fer
 Platte river valleys. ,.atural focus of both publican and Loup valleysVood river. Re-
 ted that their western fertility Ino SO situa- | rally to Kearney's market places. rs natu- | of this section, immense as thsv nouz ans | must increase to figures far more st,,,a. | dous. Kearney means to handle the blss" nr the product. Every foot of ground will H5 contested for by her buyers and salesmen manufacturing must increase greatly; nea | ranges will be enclosed, ranches turned into farms, and these changes will swell the con.
 stantly incoming tide of new settlers and | new people generally. Kearney has grand | assured position, with nothing to fear from | competition further west, as the mountains \ | daries west of her. Kearney has the market | east of her under control.
 1 Its position as a great western railroad ! center is amply assured. Why2 Because il ! is on the main line of the Union Pacific and | the most important cities between Omahs
 and Denver. It is the crossing point of the | Burlington and Missouri railroad in Nebras- ka, tho Chicago, Burlington and Quincy'e system on it's way to Wyoming. The Mis- souri Pacific has just completed 8 branch tc Kearnsy, and will be extended to Wyoming and the Black Hills. The Atchison, Tepeka and Santa Fe is at Superior, only seventy miles distant, and will cross the Burlington and Missouri at Minden, fifteen miles to the south, coming direct to Ksarney. The Rock Island line and the Northwestern road are soon to be continued to Kesrney and beyond. The Manitoba road has secured a charter, with capital of seven millions, to build from Yankton to Kearney. The St. Paul is also near Kearney and will build to Kearney at an early day. The Illinois Central is now crossing the Missouri at Onawa, Iowa, and has Ksarney for it's objective point. The St. Joe and Western is already at Hastings, and is graded to within five miles of Kearney. The Beatrice road, part of the I. I. and I. eystem, is already at Crete, at the east, and has eigui6ed its intention of continuing its line to Kearney, which will give. when com- pleted, almost an air line from Kearney east to Jersey City and New York. The Wood river branch of the Union Pacific road is al ready graded for eighty miles to Milldale on the Northwest, through the Wood river val ley, with Bessemer, in Wyoming territory, as its terminus. The Burlington and Mis- souri has already surveyed and will soon build road from Kearney up the Wood riv- CT valley, connecting with its northern main line at or near Broken Bow, ninety miles to the northwest. A charter has already been applied for for road from Bismark, Dako- "a Ak kha fA kaya %l,a wheat fields of Dakota and extending south to Salina, Kansas, and from there to Wichi- ta. A road has already been projected from Kearney southwest to Santa Fe, New Mexi- GO, for its terminus, developing the western sections of Kansas and bringing the cattle and products of that region, and of southern Colorado, in direct communication with Kesrney. It is clearly apparent that most of the great trunk lines from the east are going on either side of Lincoln and Omaha, leav- ing them in an apex and meeting at Kearney, there crossing in every direction and spread ing outward toward the Rocky Mountains These facts ought to convince the most hesi- tating of the importance of Kearney geo. graphically and commercially as a coming great railroad center, and it is fair to pre- sums, with at least eight of the great rail- road systems above mentioned, all within an average radius of not over forty miles, and now built and stopping at unimportant
 
 big business already ct Kearney and soon to be greatly augmented, most of these lines will be extended to secure their portion of the trade within short time.
 Nebraska's climate is most salubrious. Kearney is 2, ,136 feet above the sea level and possesses the combined properties of purity, rarity, elasticity and transparency. There are no fogs or mists, 90 disagreeable in the east. The climate of both Colorado and Ne- braska is most health giving and most invi- ting to invAlids, especially consumptives, many of whom have recovered health under its influences when hope had been aban- doned. The death rate of Kearney is very small, only one to every two hundred per year. Harper's Magazine says in southern or central Nebraska you find as near a perfect climate ss the United States affords.
 We como now to speak of Kearney's mag nifcent water power. This important factor ! is not wanting. It has two great sources of ! supply, both the main Platte river, fed by | the North Platte extending into the moun- l taias of Wyoming territory, and the South I Platte, finding it's rise in the mountains of | Colorado. Kearney's water power is fur l nished by 8 canal which taps the Platte river | uiwka S1ou 1e L. IL