Olsen, Gering; George P. Buckner, Sidney.

Drainage committee: Fred Everett, Scottsbluff; A. M. Ginn. Mitchell; R. C. Bassett, Bayard.

BRIDGEPORT BUSINESS DIRECTORY -- THE BAR -- OTHER ACTIVITIES

The very name is attractive and suggests to the stranger something more than an ordinary village. One at once assumes that there is a bridge spanning an important stream and at the end of that bridge is a port or town of some importance and both surmises are correct.

Bridgeport always will naturally be a thriving city of the western part of the state, and the commercial center of a magnificent territory. With its network of railroads reaching out in all directions, Bridgeport offer- excellent facilities for the jobber, the distributor, the manufacturer, the wholesale

grocers, dr\ g Is dealers, hardware houses.

and many other large business houses. Around it is an empire which stretches in all direct inns and is made directly tributary by railroads reaching out in five different directions like spokes in a wheel of commerce. Bridgeport is the railroad center of western Nebraska.

The Chicago, Burlington and Ouincy railroad company has marked this city as its center of operations in the Platte valley, and here should be both the freight and passenger divisions and a natural point for other prospective lines centering here, as pointed out more fully in the railroad story of this county's history. During the comingmonths steps will be taken to install car repair shops here, with a saw mill for framing timbers. A twenty stall roundhouse has been built and a modern passenger station will be provided.