Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-13
WEST NEBRASKA FARMS BOOM
New York Paper Shows Arid re-
Eion Turned to Fertile
Farms.

The "arid" land of western Nebraska
no longer exists. What is more to the
point, 1t never did exist except in the de
ceptive stories of cattlemeu whose immense
herds grazed on the open ranges there
and who had no use" for farmers. with
their fences and crops and little punches
of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs.
There is an ~nexhaustib supply OF good,
wet water forty to a hundred feet or more
beneath the three to six feet of fertile
top soil In western Nebraska, and there
is an average of twenty-five inches of
Just as good and just as wet water which
drops gently from the clouds that pass
overhead there during each spring and
summer.
Has the east anything more or better to
offerf !fF
Take Cheyenne county in western Ne
braska, for instance, because land there
is still cheap and may be bought in small
allotments for from SIS to $40 an acre.
There is not a richer soil, a milder or
more salubrious climate, or a more copious
and useful rainfall elsewhere in the state
or in the adjoining states.
In 1906-7-s-s, on Cheyenne county land
costing never more and often less than
s25 an acre, there was an average yield
per acre OF 81 bushels OF oats, Il bushels
Of rye, SO bushels Of barley, 10 bushels of
spring and 26 bushels Of winter wheat, rs
bushels of corn, l1 bushels Of potatoes, 8
tons of alfalfa, 2 tons Of timothy, over /
ton Of wild hay, 10 tons-ef sugar beets,
etc.
Has the east anything more or better to
offer2
You do not have to take the word of
npa man or ono caf Of man for Hha fine
farming conditions that prevail in Chey-
enne county. You do not nave to take
the word even of the Union Pacific or the
Denver-Bilings branch of the Burlington
g. Missouri River railroads, which run
east and west, and north and south
through Cheyenne and many other coun-
ties OF the state, and which can, there
fore, hardly afford TO boost Cheyenne un-
duly. You can have the figures Of the
states own authentic statistics of Chey-
enne and the adjoining counties in the
commonwealth; and IL you make your
comparisons fairly, little old Cheyenne
will profit and not suffer thereby.
But to make this sketch practical we
must add that the full truth about west
ern Nebraska. and about Cheyenne county
particularly, Is being told here in Omaha
by a new real estate office, opened by the
W, S Rodman Realty Co. at 4O6 Bee build
ing. The company was organized Decem-
Der l, 1909, and succeeds the Rodman-
Looschen Land company, which for the
past three years mas had its Headquarters
at Sidney, the county seat Of Cheyenne
county. w. S. Rodman, a specialist I'm
western Nebraska farm lands, Is president
of the new corporation; II. H.. Looschen,
with twenty years experience in zeal es-
tate, is vice president, and O. A. Torger-
son, who has practiced law for the past
six or seven years, is attorney, and George
T. and s. II. Wilson, old real estate
operators, are associates. The Sidney
office Is now a branch OF the Omaha es-
Enlistment and is under the management
of r. w Devoe.
Desire for a larger field and the re-
solve TO make western Nebraska farm
land more prominent in the natonal mar
ket have brought these gentlemen to
Omaha.
There is approximately 10000 acres Of
Cheyenne county land ready to be dis
posed Of now at the prices mentioned,
and after this is all taken there may be
more. But because no new land like this
u being made and because the demand
for what there is is Consistently growing,
the price will certainly advance very soon,
very rapidly and very decidedly; 50 It be-
hOoves the man who wants a really good
and profitable slice OF II as a home. a
workshop or an investment TO get into
touch with the w, s Rodman Realty
company, here in Omaha, just as soon as
he can.-The Mercantile and Financial
Times.
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