The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1910-07-29
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FROM -O,4CI ,SSS acres pldHIeu W ColH
in 1909 Nebraska gathered crop Of
169, 179, 1877 bushels, worth $9s, 1851.
That crop, if loaded into standard
freight cars, 1900 bushels to the car,
would have made freight train long
enough to reach from Chicago to Den
yer 1,O4O miles, with 172 miles of corn
6lled ears left over to adorn the side
tracks.
There are millions Of acres Of corn
land in Nebraska that have never been
touched by the pillow.
In 1909 Nebraska harvested 5O,313,-
600 bushels Of wheat from 2,564,3 79
acres, an average of practically 20
bushels to the acre. This wheat crop
was worth nearly 100000. If that
wheat crop had been loaded into stand
ard 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 that have never been
touched by the pillow.
The duty of Nebraskans who desire
to assist in the work of developing the
state, is to call the attention of home
seekers to the opportunities that are
offered by this great young state.
There are 100000 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 be-
come agriculturally rich, and the trans
portation facilities far superior to what
the more favored sections had dozen
years ago.
There is room and opportunity for
the accumulation of competence for
100000 more farm owners in Nebraska.
The hardships of the early pioneers
need no longer be endured by new
corners. They will have the advantage
Of schools, and churches, and railroads
and markets, right from the start. Their
only capital needs to be industry, fru-
gality and honesty. Some of Nebras-
ka's most prosperous farmers today
were renters ten or fifteen years ago.
What they have done hundred thous-
and more men may 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 north
west, would mean ample riches after
an equal length of time upon a Nebras-
ka farm. For years the Argonouts
travelled across the plains of Nebraska
in search of the colo and silver of the
mountains, unmindful of the fact that
at the grass roots in Nebraska lay
greater store Of gold and silver than
were hidden in the mountains 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 Nmined -
more wealth than the famed gold fields
of Alaska have yielded in decade,
and the men who mined their wealth
from the soil of Nebraska endured no
hardships compared to the hardships
of the A4askans.
| Other thousands are being lured to
the "bonanzas of the northwest, I'M
mindful of the fact that greater riches
and greater opportunities lie in the
soil of the great state Of Nebraska.
There are millions of acres of gov
eminent 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 agri-
culture suited to the temperate zone.
The hundreds of growing cities and
towns offer inducements for merchan-
dising and manufacturing. The me-
chanic may find employment in the
smaller cities where the cost of living
is comparatively small, and where the
opportunity to become a home owner
is great.
By and large, from east to west
and from north to south, Nebraska of
fers more inducements to the industri
Gus, frugal and honest homeseeker than
any other similar expanse of territory
on the North American continent. This
truth should be spread to the four cor