The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-21
FOR GREATER NORFOLK.

FOR GREATER NORFOLK.
Few people in Norfolk realize how
vitality important are the railroads to
this citys prosperity and possibilities
for growth, until their attention is di-
rected to the statistics which show
that pretty nearly half Norfolk's pop
ulation is made up of railroad families,
and that many more homes are occu-
pied here and many business institu-
tons prospecting here because of Nor
folks advantageous location, created
because this Is railroad center and
a gateway to the new northwest.
Without the advantages of being a
railroad center, Norfolk would lay
claim to a population equal to that of
any village with limited farm area
around it from which to draw trade.
Norfolli's railroad population is just
about as big today as it ever need be
to operate the railroads in and out of
here. Railroad extensions will mean
few more commercial travellers for
the town. But unless Norfolk seeks
growth in two directions, the town has
about reached its limit. One of these
routes for growth lies in the estab-
lishment of more factories here which
will give employment and mean pay
rolls. Every factory added will mean
the support of just that many more
people in the community and there
fore just that much of an increased
population. The other route lies in
the development of the possibilities
which can come out eof the immense
territory made tributary to Norfolk by
the railroads centering here.
The matter of securing new facto
ries is not an easy one and yet Nor
folk believes that it can be done and
will be done for this city. With the
present tendency of factories away
from the cities to smaller towns
where rents are lower and labor diff
culties lessened, the problem is made
easier than it was a few years ago
And every factory secured will near
the addition of just that many people
to Norfolk's population.
The matter of developing the terri
tory tributary to Norfolk is now under
way, Norfolk business men having re
Gently organized for trade promotion
The more business developed, the more
prosperity will it mean for Norfolk
and the more people to do the work
If this development is to succeed, co
operation and absolute harmony among
the city's business institutions is es
sehtial and it is believed that neveI
before has there existed the whole
some feeling of fellowship and uniol
in single purpose of building a great
er Norfolk, among business folk o
the city, that exists in the town today
Northern Nebraska wants a city in it
midst. The northwest would mucl
, prefer to build up a prosperous cit,
here than to be constantly drained il
the building up of cities far ava,
= whose interests are anything but ider
, teal with this section. Much bushes
that has been going to Omaha an
, Sioux City can be brought to NorfolE
New lands in southern South Dakota
tributary to Norfolk, are being opene
: to settlement and to secure the friend
ship of those settlers now is to win |
for all time in, Norfolk's behalf
+, The day may come, and not at
3 great distance when it will be too lat
for Norfolk to get out and take az
e vantage of opportunities which pre-
: sent themselves today. With tn
: building of a railfoar from Niobrar
< to Sioux City, with the extension c
the Norfolk Bonesteel line to som
t point on the new rre-Rapid Cit
! line, the country northwest of Norfol
: is going to be placed nearer both Siou
, Clay and Pierre, and at Norfolks e,
; pense. 4>'f' s'} -'SHa.'
The day is not far distant whe
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