The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-02-17

them. he does il by making signs. Now
while Peter rks at the land business
"a hours day he puts in all the bal
ance Of his waking hours boosting the
country
Things seem to be moving around
here 1 anted."
lie raised the ante before the draw
with "a whole stack of blues
! Moving" he doomed Il guess you
would call it moving Freight trains
in sections, freight jugglers working
in shifts, houses built by electric light,
S. Il. o. signs at all the churches.
new school house every six months,
acrobats for traffic cops so they wCur
get hurt in the rush. walters on roller
skates and head winters on mo,orcv-
cles-yes, | guess its SAFE to ira Gin,
tha. we are under way at lcas:
But shucks' H. Continued only Pet
or d:d not sly sllucks as he 'igi,t,h \
cigar as big and as black as a waIri;
limb, "thngs are only starting Pop
ulation Aoubled in past three years
and will do better in next three. Big
gest sugar factory in the country and
a mate going up two miles away. Two
trans-continental lines of railroad
positive certainty. Best irrigation
facilities In the world. Ideal climate,
rich soil. Industrious people, wide-a-
wake business men and room for {,
hundred thousand happy contented,
prosperous people"
Yes, peter is some booster
Butshe isn't lonesome, There are
others, Every man, woman or kid that
l talked TO was just bubbling over with
eoostSdmor and optimism.
And why shouldn't they? Just sup
pose for minute that Logan county
had an irrigation project on the south
side Of the river equal to the North
Sterling and suppose there was as
much good irrigable land on that side
as ON this and suppose the government
had already built a great storage res
ervoir that would impound far more
water than could be used, and suppose
there was town at the other end of
the bridge that was growing like
mushroom and building another mill
ion dollar sugar beet factory and that
there was a new house either business
or residence, going up on practically
every block in the town, don't you just
reckon that Logan county would sit up
and take notice And don't you think
they would discuss the situation in
large black face type?
The county is peculiar in one re-
spect 1t has rival towns that don't
/ rive.
Gering, the county seat, on the south
side of the river is the old town of
that section. 1t thrived and prosper
ed in the days of the way back. when
the whole country was covered with
cattle. The Burlington built up the
north side of the river and the town
of SCOTS bluff was started 1t had an
|
went to sleep. Bye and bye the Union
| Pacific built a line up the south side
of the river and Gering ceased to hib-
ornate. Now. although Scottsbluff is
the larger (5200 by actual count Ger
| ing. with one-third that number is
starting out to over take her larger
sister. And instead of working at
cross purposes, the two towns are pull
ing in double harness for common
end. The business men have the same
gun club, the same country club. the
same commercial club, the same light
and power plant serves both places
and they are all working together for
their mutual good.
In the campaign Just colsing the
Scttsbluff sugar factory handled 246.
900 tons of beets, and 11S,O00 tons were
| shipped to Brush. This year the Ger
ing factory will handle about the same
quantity as the Scottsbluff factory and
there is strong talk that within two
years there will be another factory. 1t
is said that the company plans at least
four more factories in the valley.
The stock industry is growing fast.
cattle, sheep and hogs being fed in
large numbers. Each Monday the
Burlington runs special hog train.
Dairying is a rapidly growing indus
try and the fine, large new brick build
ing just completed for that purpose
will soon be a busy hive of industry.
The community is thrifty. prosperous
and peaceful. The county showed the
state the dry road many years ago and
the liquor question has long been a
settled issue there, just as 1t will be in