The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1904-04-22
NORFOLk'S RETAIL FIELD
1T is HERE TO BE DEVELOPED
BY BUSINESS MEN.
SOME ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE
Ana Others are Getting Advantages
Secured for the City Through Ef.
forts Of the others-united Efforts
Would be Quicker Method.

1orts OF the Others-United Efforts
Would be a Quicker Method.
II looks now as though the Rosebud
Dill were not to be passed at this ses.
sion of congress. Which fact while
II VIII keep back the tremendous in.
hhN OF people that had been antici-
pated for this spring until another
year, will nevertheless have no III
effect upon the new northwest which
has already been developed fer.
ritory along the Northwestern line be.
tween Norfolk and Bonesteel that is
already substantially settled by busi-
ness folk of energetic methods.
The fact that the Rosebud bill is
not passed this year will detain for
another season the coming in of 25.
OOO people who shall be tributary to
Norfolk as a trading center. but il
will not take away the territory that
already exists in the country to the
north and west-a country which is
uneQuallcd as to extent by any other
district in Nebraska so far as being
tributary to one point is concerned.
The Rosebud bill would aid the up.
building of that country in the Rose.
bud reservation, but Rosebud bill or
not there is still great big import.
ant lot of country in northern Ne.
braska that is already growing and
developing and to which Norfolk is
naturally and logically and everlast-
ingly the gateway.
Already the Northwestern railroad
has pushed on into that territory in
two separate lines of track, the one
on the main line west to the Black
Hills and the other on the Bonesteel
extension out of this city. Before
the railroad went on out from Verdi
girls there was a vast territory of
fertile and productive land In it
were a great number of people who
had shopping to do and shipping to
do. But they had no access to Nor
folk and Norfolk never got to see
them.
Today those same people can get
passenger train very early in the
morning, reach Norfolk just as the
warming sun is peeping over the east.
ern horizon and stay for seven long
hours, visiting and transacting bust
ness and returning in time for supper.
Field Expanded,
The outbranching of Norfolk was
mi, =,
because of the limited sphere, But
With that movement the field so ma
terally branched out that Norfolk was
given an opportunity if it chose to
take advantage of it, to develop into
a great deal more than the present
town that it is.
There are thousands and thousands
of square miles in the country that
has been termed the new northwest.
1t is the great range that stretches
for hundreds of miles north and west
of this city and it all converges here
into the focusing point.
There is a wonderfully spread-out
triangle which embraces this land.
One line of it goes northwes from
here to Gregory county, South Dakota.
Another goes from here west to Chad
ron or Deadwood, if you choose. And
the third side, which is as yet un-
drawn may be imagined as cutting
across from the reservation to the
Black Hills and enclosing every town
in the territory
Not one single town in that great
territory, with the exception of those
reached by the Pacific Shortline,
is accessible to Sioux City, Omaha
or Chicago except by way of
Norfolk. The little Latin word of
be pasted in the hat of Norfolk people
for that word, on account of Nor
folks location, is one day going to be
the making of a city here.
This territory is all so far away
from the Missouri river cities that
the advantage of trading point half
way between, such as is Norfolk, must
sooner or later be felt When another
entire day of twenty-four hours, to
say nothing of the expense of car
fare for almost 300 miles, is taken
into consideration, it must be seen
that Norfolk's future is assured.
There are things that people want
to buy which, of course, can't be
bought in Omaha and must be sought
in Chicago. There are things that
ChicagOans must go on to New York
to find and in turn New Workers run
to Paris to suit their unsatisfied
fancies. And just as truly, the people
of every community in the world, in
Guiding the new northwest in particu-
lar, must go east for certain articles
not found upon the markets at home.
This always has been true and al
ways will And in their going, these
people of the territory tributary to
Norfolk, are going to find that a great
portion of the things which they de
sire are to be had in this city.
Can't Keep Norfolk Down.
And just from that fact, it will
be impossible for a pessimistic lot to
keep Norfolk from growing. 1t is