The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-12-29
THOSE BIG HONESIEADS
EFFORT TO DiscREDIT NORTH.
WEST NEBRASKA.
LAND MEN OF EAST BEHIND MOVE
Advertise the Country as Having Dis.
advantages That Do Not Exlst--one
Hard Luck Picture That Did Service
In Several Capacities.

II is strange how much outside nd
Vcrtising the Sixth congressional dis
triCt has received regarding It's dlsnd
vautagCs, instead of it's advantages.
not only in the eastern ana Mississippi
valley stntCs, but also in Canada II
was only a short time ago that n pam
phlct was sent ont by the Canadian
government containing hnlf tone of
eighteen or twenty covered wagons
each being drawn by from two To six
horses. Under the picture were the
words. Immigrants Trcking from the
Sand Hills of Nebraska to Northwest
'nnada." Somewhat later the same
picture was shown in Canadian pub
'icatiOn in the northwest, with the fol
lowing words under II. "Mormons
Trcldng from Utah to Alberta, N. w
r"
That Is Just about the way the Van
KEGS down east are accused of doing
things The puzzle is, how many 9th.
or cVpcditions that picture has Illus.
tratcd.
Being somewhat fNmlinr with some
Of the conditions Of the northwestern
oart of the Sixth district several years
since when there was tide of immi.
Grafton from that portion. II may not
We ont of the way to ten the eastern
and people Of other states that there
was a time when some mistakes were
! made in that part Of the country and
! that the big cattle men and corpora
tions never suffered but that the small
farmers who tried to farm ms they had
| done east Of the NissisSinni river.
made total failures of the Job as 9th.
"rs did before them in southwestern
Nebraska the western half Of Kansas
and the eastern portion Of Colorado.
and as they also did in southern Al.
bcrta, and are still doing in some parts
Nf Assnahoia and Saskatchewan, NV
r., when they try mixed farming In.
stead Of cattle raising
The government has had great hopes
for northwest Nebraska, and all who
have followed their advice and expert
ments have been successful
1t was only year ago last July when
the Kinkaid act became effective to
give each actual settler a tract OF land
Of $40 acres as homestead instead of
the 1GO acres given in other parts OF
the country.
It is a well known ract that the pub.
licity the act received outside Of Nc
braska was Of the most limited va
riety. For some cause the real estate
men seemed TO keep II quiet and when
\ real estate man from Lincoln was
interviewed over in Des Moines, Iowa,
he stated that he thought the cOndi. |
tiOns attached to the entry we're of |
such a nature that II would not amount |
TO much. He didn't say that one man |
in Nebraska said to a prospective set |
tier that in five years time the land |
would he worth $4,000 A visit to the !
land Office at Alliance or O'Neill will
show that a large number Of home
steaders for the mile square farms all
came from within the district and that
new settlers did not rush for the big
pieces Of land as 1t was generally sup
posed they would. Men who already
had good farms simply added $50 acres
to their tax list, and when a stranger
came to any point west of Valentine
on the Northwestern. or west Of BrOk
en- Bow on the Burlington, he would
readily find that the only available
land was thirty to fifty miles from the
towns, and as recent developments
have shown, that was fenced by the
w nf
in each town ever ready to discourage
actual settlement of the country. It
is possible the president may have
some knowledge of these facts. which
are just now causing official heads to
fall.
At Hyannis last summer the picture
referred to was posted in a real estate
office and at Dakota Junction II was (
to be seen in the waiting room Of the ;
station. 1t is that advertising and I'M
ierCurrent which has been a detri.
nent. They raised fine potatoes and 1
other things at Hyannis, Hemingford ,
and Gordon, all towns within that por- |
ion which the Canuci called the sand I
nils. The stock shipments according /
o the shipping receipts were enor.
nous, and everything seemed to he as I
prosperous there as elsewhere, except :
hat the population is thinly scattered. /
The public land grabber is the worst (
enemy that Northwest Nebraska has {
o contend with, and it is probable that
With a Methodist preacher in one of c
he important land Offices of that dis t
rict, together with President Roose- "
'elt's big stick, some reforms and ex. g
,osures will be made which viii make a
he Kinkaid act real benefit to the +
ctual settler who is seeking a home
n the best western state in Uncle =
'am's great country. n
How to Cure Corns and Bunlons. c
First, soak the corn or bunion in \