The Falls City tribune., 1910-08-05
NEBRASKA.
Some Facts All Nebraskans ought to
Scatter Broadcast.


Ffom 6,477.2S2 acres planted Il
corn in 1909 Nebraska gathered a
crop of 1863, 9,179,137 bushels, worth
worth sos. 123,S71 That crop, il
loaded into standard freight cars
LOO bushels to the car, would have
made a fraight train long enough to
reach from Chicago to Denver, 1,O4o
miles, with 172 miles of corn filled
cars left over to adorn the side tracks
There are millions of acres of corn
land in Nebraska that have never beer
touched by the plow.
In 1909 Nebraska harvested 50,313,.
600 bushels of wheat from 2,564,37
acres. an average of practically ~
bushels to the acre. This wheat
crop was worth nearly SAG 5000, 900
If that wheat crop had been loaded
into standard freight cars it would
have made a train long enough to
reach from Omaha to McCook on the
Burlington, or from Omaha to North
Platte on the Union Pacific.
There are millions of acres of wheat
land in Nebraska never touched by
the plow.
The duty of Nebraskans who desire
to assist in the work of developing
the state, is to call the attention of
homeseekers to the wonderful oppor-
tunities that are offered by this great
young state.
There are 1000 quarter sections
of unoccupied land in Nebraska that
may be made into profitable farms.
The soil is fertile, the rainfall quite
equal to that of other sections that
have become agriculturally rich, and
the transportation facilities far sup
erion to what the more favored sec
tions had dozen years ago.
There is room and opportunity for
the accumulation of a competence for
256,000 more farmers in Nebraska.
The hardships of the early pioneer
need no longer be endured by new
comers. They will have the advan-
tage of schools, and churches, and
railroads and markets from the start.
Their only capital needs to be indus
try, frugality and honesty.
Some of Nebraskas most prosper
Gus farmers to-day were renters ten
or fifteen yares ago. What they have
done hundred thousand more can
do within the next ten or fifteen
years.
The same capital, the same soil
and the same frugality necessary to
acquire a competence in the Canadian
northwest, would mean ample riches
after an equal length of time upon a
Nebraska farm. For years the Argo-
nouts travelled across the plains of
Nebraska in search of the gold and
silver of the mountains, unmindful of
the fact that at the grass roots in Ne
braska lay a greaterstore of gold and
silver than were hidden in the noun
tains in all the ages of the past
eternal mines of riches that grew
more fruitful as the days went by.
From the grass roots in Nebraska in
any one of the last ten years has been
mined more wealth than the famed
gold fields of Alaska have yielded in
a decade, and the men who mined
their wealth from the soil of Nebras-
ka endured no hardships compared to
the hardships of the Alaskans.
There are millions of acres of
government land in Nebraska-all of
it good for something, most of it
good for general purposes, and much
of it good for anything in the line of
agriculture suited to the temperate
zone.
The hundreds of growing cities and
towns offer inducements for mer-
chandising and manufacturing The
mechanic may find employment in
in the smaller cities where the cost of
living is, comparatively small, and
where the opportunity to become a
home owner is great.
let US all join together in the
great work of boosting Nebraska.