The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-05-24

used by The News, means all of those
commodities and Injuries for which
there is occasional demand from every
small town but which are impractic-
able for handling excepting In distrlb-
uting centers. The territory around
Norfolk is coming to look to this city
for its "cut flowers" In all lines of
commerce. The fact that Bonesteel
sends to Norfolk for its roses only
means that Bonesteel and hundred
other communities in Norfolk's terri
tories will GENE more and more to
look to Norfolk for every desired ar
ticle that can not be found In the
smaller places. Instead of Omaha and
Sioux City, Norfolk must come to be
the market place Of the new north
west which shall supply, in a whole
sale and retail way, all things unob-
tainable and impracticable for hand
| ling in the smaller towns.
In order to supply this demand for
a market place within a days reach
from all this country, Norfolk is stock
ing up, more and more, with indus
tries and institutions to take advant-
age of the opportunity offered With
in the past year number of valuable
and substantial institutions have been
located here and more are to come.
With this opportunity knocking
harder and harder on Norfolks door,
with the call from out of Norfolks
vast tributary territory growing louder
and louder in insisting that this is the
place that ought to supply the "cut
| flowers" of life to all of these neigh
boring towns, because of the mutual
benefit in building up the new north
west and creditable city at it's gate
way, it might be no bad plan for the
| Commercial club to adopt some active
campaign for developing the POSSIBLE
tiles offered. 1t would be no bad plan
to launch an advertising campaign, in
forming all parts of the nation of the
fact that the new northwest wants to
get its cut flowers" in Norfolk, and
giving a list of the various industries
which, in order to supply the wants
of Norfolks neighbors who are natur-
ally looking more and more to Norfolk
to supply them with all things that
can not practically be handled at
home, ought to be able to live and
grow right here.
| A look at the map shows that Nor
folk has remarkably advantageous
location as the distributing gateway
to magnificent and fertile territory
running more than a half thousand
miles west and more than a hundred
northwest. Chicago's only asset is
| its location.
But an opportunity undeveloped
brings no benefit. After little while
new lines of railroad will be built
through and across the vast tract
northwest of here, bringing that terri
tory into closer relation with Sioux
SlIy anu Oudnd. III 1aCt plans Tor
such railroad building are already
completed. From Sioux City the Oma-
ha road will build to Niobrara and
thus get close to the Rosebud and
Trip counties, as well as Knox and
Boyd. From Omaha or Lincoln a line
will no doubt be built to Springview,
throwing interest from that territory
into southern parts of the state.
Today Norfolk has an exclusive, vir-
gin territory that ought to be wooed
and won for all time to come. 1t can
not be expected that this territory will
do the counting. And unless active
plans are developed and executed in
a thorough manner, other cities will
do the counting and win the hand.
The opportunity is now ripe for
Norfolk to go accounting and to wed
the new northwest as the husband who
shall send "cut flowers" in all lines of
industry and trade out through all this
territory for all time to come; and
the opportunity for this romance, un.
less organized activity and an aggres.
siye campaign Is adopted by the bust.
ness interests as unit, will one day
fade away.