The Falls City tribune., 1908-12-25

Falls City. the Omaha Bee of
Sunday. Dec. 10Th, has this TO
say of us:
There are three great pictures
Of southeastern Nebraska. One
that was, Que that is, and one
that is TO be, The early western
lie was primitive, but it never
was the lie of a peasahtry. For
more than half a century the far
mel has been tilling Richardson
county, but he is Just beginning
to learn how to use il, how 10 en-
rich himself from it, how TO en
10y it, how really to feel the mas
terry over it. In the recent his
tory Of Richardson county, one
TACT stands out wildly: the day
Of speculation and experiment has
passed away, substantial business
progress based OH plans of per-
NANCY has succeed it. New gen
erations are coming on the stage,
new enterprises are being devel-
oped, new territory is being open
ed through the adoption OF new
farming methods to the existing
conditions. 1t is an amending
procession of home seeking and
BODYBUILDING, ard ii continues
today with as regular a move
ment as it possessed forty years
ago. 1t is one of the great fac
tors in the development of Rich.
ardson county.
This whole eastern part of the
state has broadened, expanded
and matured within the last few
years. Wider knowledge Of pos
Slbilities, firmer grasp Of oppor
tunities and richer resources ozark
it than at any time in its history.
The traveller who has only seen
eastern Nebraska from the car
window could say the same if
they had passed over it in a bal
loon or sailed by it in a boat. To
see and know the state requires
more than a day, a week or a
month. The saddle is indispensa-
bic to the full enjoyment of Rich
ardsor county. I rolling
farms and wooded streams are
always becoming the rider. Many
a delicate woman finds her way
where she wishes without escort
and careless of fashion in mount.
ing. Either she is bent on re-
Cruiting her health, or means to
have a good time, or has business
requiring her attention. The
darlington and Missouri Pacific
trains steam past the farm homes
and through the great corntields.
ard the rural mail carrier trots
by with his portion of forty miles
- suburban mail delivery. Be-
ire Il ~ dc trolley lines will be
! d hcte.
rdlis Ci'y is the commercial
{ .,tr Of Rich1r1Sor county. Drop
a lollar anywhere in the county
aud IL will roll into Falls City as
natural as water runs down hill.
The old time idea of producing
rdw material only is passing away.
Ihc manufacturing era is to be
next on the western stage. The
county has eight Touring mills,
n vinegar factory, one canning
factory and a pressed brick plant
employing thirty men. Y h
county has 2,100 farms, with
500, 900 acres under cultivation.
The last season the county pro-
duced $4,000 acres of winter
wheat and TO- 600 acres of oats
aud 100, 900 acres of corn. The
County also has SO,0 600 acres in
tame grasses.
Richardson county is the banner
county of the state as a fruit-pro-
ducing section, consisting largely
Of apples, pears, peaches, plums
and cherries. They have 200, 900
apple trees, 10000 pear, So 900
peach and rs, 900 plum trees. The
products sold from the farms are
about as follows. Hogs, $780,
900; cattle, 5000, 900; corn, $780,
600; oats, 500, 900; apples, SlOO.-
900. On these farms the dairy