The Falls City tribune., 1910-07-01
NE
Some Facts That All Nebraskans
Should Know.

Ntlfdska Nd5 duIIltleu INTO the
Union On March ]. 1867. On that
date the state contained less than
100, zoe inhabitants and these were
confined TO a comparatively narrow
strip bordering on the Missouri river.
The1 the t~erritoy now known as Ne
braska was known as THE Great
American Desera.." Today, Nebraska
has 1.250,0 900 inhabitants, the Great
American Desert" is a fast fading
memory, and no where in all the worl
is presented such a spectacle of pros
perity and development as hat pre-
scented by the giant young state cary
ed out of the heart of the desert"
In the short space of the forty-three
years there has been builded within
the confines of Nebraska an agrieul-
tural and industrial empire that is
at once the wonder and the admira-
ton Of the world.
One hundred and sixty thousand
farms.
-Four thousand Industrial plants.
Six thousand miles of railroad.
The third largest packing center in
the world.
TIL second largest smelter in the
world.
The largest creamery in the world.
TIL, largest permanent school fund
of any state in the Union.
The seventh largest state universe
ty.
These are some of the big things
possessed by Nebraska-a state less
than a ~half-eentury old, and which
less than a half century ago was
designated upon the maps of the
worll as THE Great American Des-
ert."
The total agricultural, dairy and
industrial products of Nebraska in
1909 were worth 5000, goo, 900. If
loaded into standard freight cars the
products of Nebraska in 1909 would
mako a freight train 5000 miles long
No one state or territory in the union
produced in 1909 enough gold and
silver to buy the butter that was made
in Nebraska in the same year. No
one state or territory in the Union
in 1909 produced enough gold to buy
the egg crop of Nebraska in the
same year. The total gold and silver
output of the nation in 1909 would
scarcely pay for the butter, eggs
and poultry output of Nebraska in
the same year.
The total tobacco crop of the nation
in 1909 lacked $22, 600, goo of being
worth as much as Nebraska's 1909
corn crop.
Nebraska's 1909 crop of corn, wheat
oats aud hay was worth $32, 0O0. 900
more than Pennsylvania's 1909 crop
of anthracite coal.
The nations output of crude petrol
cum in 1903 was worth $97, O00, 900,
Neb1asfa's 1909 corn crop was worth
A million dollars more.
Fifteen years ago dairying was
practically unknown in Nebraska. A
Few little creameries were scattered
mere and there, but they afforded no
%inducement to the farmers to en-
gage in the dairying industry. With
the development of modern methods
Nebi aska steps into the front rank
of dairying states. In 1909 there were
nVnr % E0A hand cnno rotar~ IN No
braska, separating the milk from
SAC, 600 mich cows. From the cream
thus separated was manufactured up
wards of 50, 200, 900 pounds of the fin
est butter in the world.
Nebraska is the greatest alfalfa
field in the world.
To the homeseeker, Nebraska Of
fers unparalleled advantages and op-
portunities. Fertile farm lands in
the west-central and northwestern and
western parts of the state may be
bought for from $40 to $50 an acre,
on the most liberal terms ofpayment.
Land in the older settled parts of
the state sells for more, of course,
but it is a bargain at any price. This
land will raise corn, wheat, oats, rye,
barley, alfalfa, potatoes, sugar bets
or any other crop that can be raised
in the temperate zone-and produce
an average yield greater than the av-
erage yield of the United Saes.
Nebraska waits with a welcome for
all who come to her to make home
within her borders. The, best gifts
that any state a bestow she waits