The Red Cloud chief., 1900-06-08
A Webster Countyite Abroad.
GORnON. NEB. june 3, !

in Webster county or the Republican
valley, imagine that they are the whole
Of Nebraska and when they take a trip
10 Lincoln or Omaha consider that
they have seen the biggest par OF the
state, but in this they are mistaken III
one should travel from Red Cloud 10
Chicago, they would not see any coun'
try as varied as they can see on the
Eikhorn K. II from Fremont To
Crawford.
Down in the southern part of the
state, "A puddle OF water as big as Friz
Richardson's livery barn would be
called q lake and people will go many
:, miles to see il and sit on its banks, as
they do at Sweeps on the Blue. la
Cherry county up here, there are al
J the least calculation, 200 lakes OF from
10 to 2OOO acres each. Most OF the
lakes are full of fish and there is no
!, end If wild ducks, even now as they
|, are nesting, and | have seen quite Il
J number of the little yellow fellows
swimming after their mammas near
. the PUSHES. - In the fall there are mon
! sands on every lake and hunters come
in by the hundreds after them.
! Besides ducks the other resource oil
Cherry county is cattle and horses
There are a great many cattle IN Cher
! nv county, but why shouldn't there be
with abundance OF grass, so well wa
tered and 9l44 sections OF sand hills
J and valleys for them to run over, while
{ Webster county has SIG sections, or
less than one.tenth as much. Every
\ animal except sheep is supposed to re-
( auire about 80 acres a piece.
The city OF Gordon where now am
stopping is in Sheridan county, Sber'
Z idan county Is not nearly as large as
4 Cherry, nor is it as picturesque, but IL
, is a much nicer county to travel over,
( because there are not so many sane
. hills. Gordon IS q town somewhat
= larger than Blue Hill and / have only
4 seen five little shade trees in the whole
4 town. However they go up to Pine
= Ridge, 30 miles north Of here and cut
- pines about 90 feet high and put them
in holes in front of their buildings
which by Keeping well watered, remain
green most OF the summer. CHE trees
mean not the holes
There is in the town that ! write
ps, about, $50 Indians OF the Sioux OF Da
kotah tribes and right here | want Il
saw. have seen the first Indian squav
that though: was good looking. Sb'
- was passing up the street yesterda.
carrying two large buckets OF water
while beside her walked her HUSBAND
- of two weeks carrying a box of sar
T., dimes. just think of IL, only the clos
Of the honeymoon and the wife carry
ing such a load right on the street. 4
white man would not think OF such
,, thing before he had been married
vi" year at least and lots of them woul
not allow it at all-in public.
- This is IA get. rich.quick country IL
man was only here at the right tim'
and observed his opportunities. III
lie, rise in cattle is what did it. Day bt
fore Yesterday | vitited n rancher WI
came to this country IL years ago wit
his wife. Two years after they can
here they got so poor he had to go
trapping muskrats on the lakes tor
living, while his wife went to work
a hotel and the landlord advanced h
money enough to buy a pair of sho
before she began work. Today thu
have a ranch of $500 acres of hay Lar
Nv which they )wn, an unlimiied rang
and nearly 5000 head of good catt
with very few debts against them, al
they never received a dollar of hel
atol. and there are plenty of other SUI
cases.
In travelling around over Sherid'
'ech county, nearly every other man l me
when he hnds u that l am from X
- Cloud, asks, "Do you know Madis'
Finch" And when l tell them |
they all say, How is he getting alon
NC should like to see him." He mi
w. have beer as popular up here as he
in Webster county.
The Elkhorn Valley Editorial AS
ana met here Yesterday and had a gene
pow.wow ending up in the eveni
with a lecture by Bixby of the ST.
K Journal followed by q banquet. | WI
= 20 hear Blk and yielded up fifty cel
:. at the door for his benefit, but ! m
e say it was well worth the money
I'M. il any of you ever get "A chance To h
him be sure ard 60, you will not reg
1t.
i sat and listened an hour or ore,
10 Blk and his jokes select;
A. And he never spoke but once, clear thro'
or the spstted COW called Speck."
- II WAS sorry when he closed at last.
For all through his speech that night
He forgot to even mention once,
XXI His standby. rainmaker Wright"
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