Omaha daily bee., 1908-05-28
First Stop Of the Morning is Made at
Sterling, Colorado.
CURTIS GIVES WARM WELCOME
All Towns Along the Route Vie with
Neighbors in Cheers.
MOVING PICTURES TAKE WELL
Scenes from Omaha Life and
Business Activity Most Taking
Feature of the Entire
Trip.

wELLFLEET, Neb.. May 27-(special
Telegram.) AFTER touring the dry farming
sections Of Colorado and Western Ne
braska all day Wednesday the omsha
trade excursionists spent the evening in
Curtis then headed for Wyoming. Every
member of the party now wears SOM
brero and many have red OF blue hand
kerchiefs about their necks 1t is a spe-
cisl tribute to Wyoming The train was
an hour late out of Sterling when It
started Wednesday morning owing to the
managers Of the party being unable to
sort out central and mountain time. but
the Burlington officials put on another en-
gine. General Ascent Vsllery Of Denver
Joined the party. and the lost time was
made up.
Immediate results have been secured for
the market town. When A. w. Jefferis
concluded his address at Grant, Neb.. Mel
Anderson, a large sheepman. came to thu
stand and said: 81 have carload Of wool
on the track which was TO be shipped to
Boston. Give me the address of the
Omahan who will furnish storage for T."
Anderson's wool was started for Omaha
| Wednesday evening. He promised another
load or two, and estimated the amount OF
wool which would be shipped from Grant
to Omaha this year at twenty carloads.
Great Dispiuys OF crops.
The Colorado towns in the dry farming
region had displays of the grain and other
\ products tackled over the front Of the
depots Haxlun gave the visitors a live
| stock show, bringing to the depot cows and
horses, driving and work animals, and also
! showing exhibits of farm products which
make it possible TO buy farm in the dry
farming section and pay for it In one
year. Phillips county where the parry
stopped at four towns, carried off the first
premiums at the Colorado state fair for
potatoes, spring wheat. onions and white
corn, and the people Of Holyoke gave as
surances that the white corn premiums at
the national corn exposition would be car
ried back to Colorado
But the Nebraska towns were no dis
| appointment to the visitors. Madrid.
| Elsie, Wallace, Dickens, Somerset Well
fleet and Maywool all greeted the visitors.
had good things to say about Omaha, ami
the enthusiasm was measured by the popu
lation all along the line from Curtis to
Sterling. Those interested in dairying are
sending their cream to Omaha and buying
the Omaha products, there being two car
loads of Omaha butter on the Denver mar
ket every Monday morning.
Because Of the time the train was un-
abled to make the stay at haywood was
! heightened to forty minutes. and the Wis
itors found one of the best towns on the
trip. AS the train leaves stations quar-
| tet headed by A. V. Dresher sings a va
riety Of good-by and parting songs. E. F.
Donda of the Union Stock Yards bank
was marshal of the day Wednesday and
lined the party up for the most success
full parades which have been given.
In Nebraska and Out Again.
CURTIS, Neb, May A.-(SpeciaL) )-After
two days tour in Colorado. the Omaha
trade excursion passed over the Nebraska
Colorado line and into the home state at
noon Wednesday, but during the day.
Thursday, the prosperity special will enter
wyoming and will not be on Nebraska
soil again until late Saturday afternoon.
1t was with regret that the Omaha busi-
ness men said farewell TO Colorado. be-
tween Amherst and Venango. But the land
| of sunshine, mountain chains which hold
the wealth OF the world, everywhere broad
fields fringed with a wealth of vegetation.
silvery streams and irrigation canals. had
to be left behind. And It is just a little
closer TO Omaha than ever before. There's
something in common between the men and
women of Nebraska and Colorado. and the
Coloradoans still look toward Omaha as
the original metropolis OF their great coun-
|
! they first pushed westward across the vast
silence to make homes on the mesa and
plain. or trailed the prairie schooners
bearing the slogan OF pixies Peak or
Bust" And TO hundreds OF others. 1t is
still their Omaha. though they have now
chosen to make new homes in the slopes
and valleys OF Colorado. which surfeit the
senses with foliage and flowers.
Scores OF times men and women stepped
from the crowds on the streets of Colorado
towns and said. II want to meet someone
from Omaha-it was my former home-and
though this is grand out here in the sun
shine and high air, I long to be back In
Omaha sometimes"
First stop at Sterling.
The first stop Wednesday morning was at
Sterling. county seat OF Logan county, in
the sunny South Platte valley. $50 miles
from Omaha. Within the great county.
almost a state OF itself. there are ten prom
ising towns. all made possible since the sue
cess OF the irrigation projects. They are
mfr Crook Atwood, Merino. Red Lion.
Leroy Fleming Willard Mercer and Wins
ton. The county contains over 10000
acres OF land, and over 10000 acres are
. under the great irrigation bitches. Just
now the fields are green with sugar beets,
wheat, rye. oats. barley, alfalfa and native
hay. Covering these are skies OF rarest
hue azure and tawny topaz, and the whole
! makes scene scarcely edualled In the
great country west Of the murky Missouri
From 10000 acres OF the fine level range
in this one county come cattle, horses and
sheep to the Omaha market.
Representatives Of the South Omaha
stock yards and commission houses on ths
prosperity special attest the fact that the
] j ha ed
: ers Tor the Omaha market An instance
! | Of the way Colorado supports the live
stock Industry in Omaha was at Tinna n.
colo. when n F. Brown, travelling agent
OF the Colorado Southern railway Leaned
out a window and asked how many car
! loads Of sheep had been shipped from ths
station since January L The agent re-
p Piled 442 carloads. How many went TO
Omahag" inquired Mr.. Brown. And the an