Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-20

ing seventy miles of railroad within its borders
and 10000 acres of timber land along the
streams. The county will soon add 10000 ACRES
of the best tillable land to its area by a drainage
system to cost $3.50, 900.
Richardson is not one of the mall counties
of the state, as it has $50 square miles and the
population is $4,000. Falls City, the county
seat of the county, has 1000 inhabitants and
was established in 1857; Humboldt has 1900;
Rulo, LOCO: Stella 700. and Salem, once the
county seat, with Dawson and Verdon, each
have about 500 population, and all excellent
shipping points for a rich farming country.
Shubert has but 500 people. but is one of the
best little shipping points in the state.
There are 10 school houses in the county
with $50 teachers. This excellent school sys-
tenn has attracted the best class of citizens and
the social atmoshere is of the highest order.
This county is, fortunately, on the fine that Is
not too hot or too dry, and has the happy
medium of thirty-two inches of rainfall.
Natural conditions are ideal. 1t enjoys the
warm southern winds of winter seasons and
the cool, pure breeze during the long sum-
mers. Nor is there one of these features that
is not already giving somebody something to
do, something new and full of thrift, some
thing new and encouraging in the prospect 1t
OH6TS lot the prosperity anu progress U JOuOT-
row. A glowing new life has come upon Rich
ardson county. Things are doing again as they
did in the immigrant day and in the sixties.
But it is as impossible to ignore Falls City
as it is to ignore the great Missouri river. The
city is an ever present factor. It's location gives
it command of the ommerce of the valley. 1t
has had a steady growth from the start. Peo-
pie went to Falls City, not because it was ad-
vertised, for it was not; not because 1t was
doomed, for it was not; not because of its hos
pitality, for it was anything but hospitable in
early days, but they went because they could
make money there. The city's position gave it
advantages over any other city of the county
advantages that will always keep 1t supreme.
And so great were the opportunities, so vast
the development, and so important the COM
merce which continued to flow that all who
came prospered. The city grew for the same
reason that a great bank grows-because of its
utility. And it grew in much the same way that
a bank grows, with no hubbub, no shouting. no
booming of any kind; it grew because of a nor
NAL. inevitable demand that 1t should grow.
Falls City must be studied. and understood
to be appreciated. 1t will never shout to at
tract attention. 1t is a stranger to what is
known as the hot air method of exploitation!
The city is indebted very largely to it's present
Commercial club for its progressive methods
and unusual prosperity. The people are not
worrying about how much population the city
has. what difference does 1t make to us what
city in the valley is the largest" said one of
the Commercial club. Fails City has an in
terest in all of them" This lack Of brag Is
more than compensated for by the intense at
lection that the city's sons and daughters feel
for their homes. This pride and fondness is
contagious. It is the same pride that a crafts
man feels in his handfRork. the inventor in his
creation. and the wife in her home.