The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191?, 1909-07-16
means MUCH TO OUR CITY
WILL DOUBLE POPULATION IN
LESS THAN TEN YEARS.
The Taxes From Railroad Holdings
viii More Than Pay Interest
on the City's Bonds.

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City will soon have her long cherished
hopes realized, and get that freight
division on the Missouri Pacific. For
many years, the citizens of this COM
munity have looked forward to the
time when the railroad company would
locate 1t at this point. and at last we
are pleased to be able to say that
the company are going to do that very
thing.
| On last Thursday night mass
meeting was held and after the rail
road officials made their proposition
to place an eighteen-stall brick round
house here, and they would COM
mence within ten days after the con-
tract was signed, pledges by the
citizens, rich and poor, ranging from
81 to $4,000, were made to guarantee
the deal.
Freight runs should be about one.
hundred miles in length, and the fact
that Falls City is just half way be-
tween Omaha and Kansas City, makes
this town the logical point for such
terminal, it being just 1o1 miles to
Omaha or Kansas City.
The Commercial club has been
working ON this matter for several
years and the railroad company has
just got to the point where they are
a hln to 10 ri
essary to locate fully equipped divi-
sion at this place.
Now all this will mean, when the
business is good on this road, at
least pay roll paid out here to their
employees, of at least $4,000 per
month. And it will be put up to the
citizens of this city, to decide If they
want to secure the benefits that can
be derived from such an increase to
our population, as the division will
give us.
There is no reason why Falls City
sfould not increase herr population
materially after the establishment of
this division. 1t will bring the best
times to Falls City, that she has ever
enjoyed. And it will begin as soon
as the company makes an agreement
with the city to do these things.
Many new houses will have to be
constructed for the newcomers, as
there are no vacant ones now. Many
teams will be working for months
moving thousands of yards of dirt,
and many workmen will be employ
ed in constructing the new buildings
to be erected by the company. In
fact, t,there is no telling where the new
work will end.
All the company asks this commu-
nifty for, is for deed to the thirty
three acres just south of the stock
yards and the water to be furnished
to them at cost.
From this you can readily see that
the Missouri Pacific is going to spend
lots of money here, and they would
not be putting SO much money into
their work here, unless they expected
it to be a permanent location for their
division
Falls City will be the gamer in
many ways from this new project.
She not only will grow fast, but she
Is so located in distance from other
towns of good size, that she should
grow to be quite city. In fact, we
cannot see why, with our natural ad-
vantages, together with the big start
that the division will give us, that
this town should not be a city of at
least 10000 population inside of six
or seven years.
1t is the universal opinion of our
citizens, that the only just way to
raise the money to secure this right
of-way, is to vote bonds to buy it
with. 1t is the property in the COM
munity that will be directly benefited
by the division, and not the individual
So the property should be made to
pay for it. And the only fair way Is
to vote bonds for the required amount,
only $12,500.
In the event that we secure the
division by the voting of bonds, the
extra taxes that will be paid on the
new railroad improvements by the
railroad company every year,will more
than pay the interest on the bonds.
No citizen, who is interested in the
welfare of this town and community,
should be against this proposition in
any way, and everybody should pull
together to secure this great advan-
tage, and lets get together and show
our neighbors how to build up a
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