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The interesting story of the inception and consummation of the dreams of the "Transcontinental" rail-builders who gave this wonderful system to the great west, can best be distinguished in the words of one who played a leading part in the scenes of those days. Ox the P. I'. Trail Major-General Grenville M. Dodge, chief engineer of the Union Pacific railway from 1866 to 1870 …
One of these bills passed one of the houses of Congress. "The route was made by the buffalo, next used by the Indians, then by the fur traders, next by the Mormons, and then by the overland immigration to California and Oregon. It was known as the Great Platte Valley Route. On this trail, or close to it, was built the Union and Central Pacific railroads to California, and the …
Dey, who had been a division engineer of the Rock Island and was chief engineer of the M. & M. in Iowa, I made the first survey across the state of Iowa, and the first reconnoissances and surveys on the Union Pacific for the purpose of determining where the one would end and the ether commence, on the Missouri river. I crossed the Missouri river in the fall of 1853 and made …
Farnum and Durant and obtaining from voyagers, immigrants, and others all the information I could in regard to the country farther west. There was keen competition at that time for the control of the vast immigration crossing the plains, and Kansas City, Fort Leavenworth (then the government post), St. Joseph and Council Bluffs were points of concentration on the Missouri. The …
Distributed broadcast by the local interests of this route the map and itinerary had no small influence in turning the mass of overland immigration to Council Bluffs, where it crossed the Missouri and took the great Platte valley route. This route was up that valley to its fork to Salt Lake and California by way of the Humboldt, and to Oregon by the way of the Snake and …
In commenting upon how this road obtained its name, General Dodge narrates that various lines proposed had received the names of the "North Route," "Buffalo Trail," "South Route," but that in 1858 a bill was fostered that gave out the name "Union Pacific." One of the arguments advanced for the bill that eventually passed was that the route proposed would tend to hold the …
"In the winter of 1866 we planned to build the next 288 miles to Fort Sanders. As cur work had to be clone under the protection of the military, I was continually in communication with General Sherman. Although he had expressed the belief that our proposition of building so far in 1867 would be almost a miracle, yet during the year 1867 we reached the summit cf the Black Hills …
state in the following biennium came forth the gigantic appropriations and program of the 1919 legislatures and the federal aid providing approximately $10,000,000 for the construction of some 4,200 miles of state highways mapped out by the state engini er. The Kirrlball-Harrisburg project of 19.85 miles secured a very early place on the lists of projects as No. 16, in the …
The ccntribtuors in 1913 were: ]. W. Ewbank. Chas, Anderson, F. M. Wooldridge, C. W. Richards. C. L. Alden. L. H. Lilly, George Yogler, Bank of Kimball, I). C. Mockett, J. L. Jones. C. E. Lockwood, Hubbard & Nugent, F. E. Reader, Gus Linn, B. K. Bushee. V. I'.. Car-ill. Sam Hanna. Will Young, 1. A. Tracy, [saac Roush, E. T- Dillon, P. Maginnis, I. S. Walker, Hans Nelson. Fred …
T. Dillon, Reo; Geo. Ernst, Overland; Frank Goodwin, Chalmers-Detroit; F. M. Woolridge, Buick; W. B. Cooper, Ford; Hans Peterson, Ford; E. J. Dillon, Ford; Wm. Ballard, Ford; H. C. Erwin, Ford ; F. O. Baker, Ford ; J. A. Erwin, Ford ; Mr. Holladay, Ford ; Mr. Van Pelt, Ford; B. K. Bushee, Reo; W. D. Atkins, Buick; A. H. Amos, Ford; W. J. Davies, Studebaker; Hubbard & Nugent …
In the era in which we now enter the motor vehicle on the modern highway will be the main factor in the development of communities and national advancement. When we first built the railway we first provided the roadbed, then bought our rolling stock and then put it in commission. Now we have reversed the order. We have purchased our rolling stock, a costly and delicately …
Science has provided a substitute so well adapted to the purpose that today one-third of the people of the United States have resorted to the use of the passenger car, while I am informed that even in the newest part of the country where agriculture has taken its most rapid strides within the past five years and where from Ogallala to Kimball I have been surprised at the magic …
The fact that needs to be impressed today is that the entire human family is going to resort to the motor vehicle as rapidly as these can be manufactured, the means provided for their purchase, proper roadbeds constructed for their operation, and skill developed for the operation and upkeep. We are conducting a national drive for these purposes." The Motor convoy which …
In 1885 this little community had a population of about one hundred. One of the first numbers of the Kimball Observer gave the following data concerning this community which is now instructive as well as interesting. "Some of our most prominent citizens have made their homes here and have been holding responsible positions with the railroad company. The location of the town is …
Clarkson owned the land that part of the town site is formed from and has large interests adjoining the new town. A. Burg laid out part of the town. F. W. Schaffer has been east projecting a line of lumber. Theo. Menges is a leading land agent and locater. Others have been Jones, Fleharty, Root and Robertson. Mr. Wolf keeps a restaurant. J. J. Kinney has a horse ranch three …
Randall in recent years became a member of the national congress from California, being the . first and only Prohibitionist congressman ever elected, as a member of that partv. The name of the Nebraska Observer was changed to the Kimball Observer after the change of the name of the town. This paper was published in 1887, by Beard & Riddle and later by A. B. Beard, who sold it …
I. Sullivan, contractor; HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA P. Magihnis, blacksmith shop; Jas. Lynch, meat market ; Minnie Shirley, millinery ; Miss M. Marston, millinery; J. McAllister, barber; L. K. Markley, physician; Geo. W. Beard, Hotel Martha'; C. C. Clewett, contractor; N. E. Gassman, groceries; Jas. M. Bearse, postmaster and drug store ; S. N. Paulson, shoes; L. A. Ballenger …
Phelps, dray and express wagcn ; George Holton, dray line in winter and farming in the summer ; William J. Ballard, attorney, who located in Kimball seye View of Kimball in 1900 purchased it. George F. Wilkinson had the Kimball Pharmacy in 1900. F. H. DeCastro was attorney and Dr. W. L. Carlyle, physician. B. K. Bushee, in 1907, was in the general merchandise business. Other …
Fonda, cashier, as officers and then having deposits of $115,000, in sharp contrast to the prosperity some twelve years later; Dr. P. C. Mockett physiin 1903; Dr. G. E. Darrow, who came from Omaha about this time, and Dr. J. H. Dullard, and Kimball Grain Company, elevator. Business Roster, 1919-1920 A comparative roster of business people of Kimball in 1919 and 1920, will …
Lockwood, "The Land Man"; Lodgepcle Land Company, Mutual Oil Company, National Refining Co., Nebraska Telephone Co., Observer Printing Office, Prairie Oil & Gas Co., Richards & Kennemer, Securitv Land Farmers Co-operative Association. Gibson Motor and Tractor Co., Highland Live Stock Co., Kimball Mill «!v Elevator Co., Kimball County High School, Kimball Irrigation District …
Meat Markets: Waggoner's Market, City Meat Market. Bullock's Vulcanizing Plant, Carter Land Company, V. B. Cargill, editor Observer : Civic Activities Kimball has, like every other town in it~ early history, made spasmodic spurts towards maintaining a commercial or community club but in recent years built up a very active and creditable organization, the Kimball Club. In 1917 …
The Bank of Kimball, was started in 1886 by the Bickels. In 1907 H. A. Clarke of Columbus undertook the banking business. A. C. Fonber, 1915. B. K. Bushee was president and Wm. Rodman, cashier. W. S. Rodman was vice president. W. J. Davis and Benjamin Levinski were stockholders. Later the Rodmans left this bank and started the American State Bank, of which W. S. Rodman is …
The directors are now Gus Linn, president ; Geo. L. Vogler, cashier; John Filer, Dr. P. C. Mockett, Vernon Linn. This bank is now housed in a room with magnificent fixtures. It has an especially equipped ladies' rest room, private telephone booths, two waiting rooms equipped with large desk, chairs, and settee. A private consultation room, safe deposits vaults with 250 boxes …
Rodman, entered practice at Kimball in recent years. Attorney A. O. Torgeson came to Kimball some three or four years ago and in 1920 he was joined by Attorney R. M. Higgins of Omaha. So Kimball county now has a splendid bar, of both older and younger legal lights. James A. Rodman is making a legislative record in the sessions of 1919 and 1921, and in the constitutional …
K. Bushee, Peter Nelson, Henry Vogler. L. W. Bickel. In 1906: B. K. Bushee, P. Maginnis, rmEtm giving Kimball county an important voice in moulding Nebraska legislation. City Government Kimball was incorporated shortly after its change to that name about 1888. Its officers about 1890 were: L. R. Markley, L. E. Shaefer, J. M. Bearse, P. Maginnis, G. F. Hark, Isaac Roush, clerk …
Beginning with 1910 the officers of the city have been: I. S. Walker, F. Lemon. B. K. Bushee, F. H. Cunningham, D. L. Regione, Geo. Vogler, treasurer; Jas. A. May, clerk. In 1911: B. K. Bushee, F. F. Reader, Frank Cunningham, Fred Eichenberger, Wm. Young, W. J. Ballard. Geo. Vogler, treasurer; lames May, clerk. In 1912:" B. A. Lathrop, F. E. Reader, Frank Cunningham. B. 1\ …
In 1917 Kimball voted to put in sewers by a vote of 98 to 49. In June, 1918. electric lights bonds were voted upon with a vote of 56 to 17. At the spring election of 1920, new councilmen chosen were : F. E. Reader, F. J. Eichenberger and Thomas Campbell. For school directors, C. L. Alden and Mrs. O. A. Hedlund were chosen. City Clerk Overton was retained at that post of duty …
Rodman, chairman; F. E. Reader, treasurer; Mrs. O. A. Hedlund. secretary; Claude Alden, Gus Linn and Mrs. M. Markley. On the Kimball county high school the present board officers are: W. S. Rodman, chairman; Isaac Roush, treasurer; Rachel McElroy, secretary; E. A. Selover and Ed. A. Bergman. The teachers for Kimball county high school are : C. P. Beale, superintendent ; Ida …
In 1890 Rev. W. H. Bancock was pastor. Rev. J. P. Bradley assisted this charge about this same time and in 1892 Rev. W. H. D. Hornaday entered upon a pastorate which lasted for several years. In 1898 Rev. Benjamin Hornaday was in charge, and was succeeded by Russell Link, who served as pastor of this flock until the arrival of Rev. R. Randolf. In 1906 N. G. Medlin came and …
John and the organization of the Union Presbyterian church of Dix will illustrate the close co-operation of the Presbyterian church of this part of the state. Called from the farm to the pulpit, Mr. O. O. St. John of the south table was ordained a minister of the gospel in the Kim- HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA ball Presbyterian church in the presence of a large and appreciative …
After a canvass of the Dix community their representatives, Mrs. Emma Williams and Airs. Rena Peterson, arranged with Dr. Hunter to preach regularly on Sabbath afternoons in the village schoolhouse north of the Union Pacific railroad. This plan was entered into May 20. 1918. will known to our readers and will no doubt be a success in his new calling. No higher recommendation …
Williams' residence, the congregation agreed that they would open the way for the organization of a church. The name of the church was to be determined by the vote of the large congregation present. The votes taken resulted in the choice of the Presbyterian church, by about two-thirds the majority of all the votes cast. And the result of this vote was stated to the minister …
Kearns, D.D., superintendent of Home Missions for Synod of Nebraska and of the Home Missions Committee of the Presbytery of Box Butte, the Rev. Thomas K. Hunter, D.D., a member of the Home Mission Committee of said Presbytery, did organize the Union Presbyterian church of Dix, Nebraska The names of some twenty-three persons were enrolled as charter members of this church, and …
John, did receive into and enroll the names of the following named persons in the Union Presbyterian church of Dix, Nebraska, and declare the ecclesiastical organization of the church complete. The list of names of members received November 23, 1919, and on the roll at that time, are: Arthur W. Wilson, Ernest Otis Houghtaling, Wm. Elwood Mc- Kinney, Emery J. Horrum. Mrs. Mary …
In the meantime the Rev. Dr. R. W. Taylor was elected Assistant Synodical Superintendent of Home Missions, and made his headquarters at Scottsbluff. A part of his duty was to assist the Rev. O. 0. St. John in the raising of funds for the building of the church at Dix. Dr. Taylor's efficient and persistent efforts in connection with the pastor and co-operation of a willing and …
Civ; iND Spanish War Veterans Kimball county's settlement started much too late to have any participation as a community in the Civil War, and was too sparsely settled to support a separate company in the Spanish War, but taking the roster of Civil and Spanish War veterans living in Kimball county in 1915. shows the presence of a proportionate number. HISTORY OF WESTERN …
Willis. C. E Kimball Bat ery. Vessel Company or Regiment Fro m State of Ind. Ind. S. D. Okla. P. Mo. Kas. B. L F. A. Ind. Pickett Post No. 221. G. A. R.. was organized very early. Some of the commanders were : C. Schooly as early as 1886, and in the early nineties were B. Deason, I, N. Broyles, H. H. Prouty. Early adjutants were: N. O. Calkins, Jas. Newelt, G. W. Beard …
Dick. P. Maginnis. Some of the presiding officers were: G. F. Wilkinson, John Gharst, I. S. Bradv, O. E. Forsling. The Masonic order was installed in December. 1914. with the following members: W. J. Davies. Dr. W. K. Mvler. V. B. Cargill, F. R. Morgan, W. S.' Rodman. I. S. Walker, C. W. Richards. F. L Bellows. A. 1',. Morgan, Al Mangan, O. W. Seyfer, I. T. Dean. J. J …
It was the first time that they had all been together in years and the first time that they had all attended the same lodge. At Grand Island, in 1907. seven of them had been present, but one brother, Charles, was then living in Los Angeles and could not get there. Fred Morgan had been attempting for several years to secure their presence at one time, but accomplished this for …
The local lodge No. 2547 of the Modern Woodmen of America was chartered on November 1, 1894, with the following members: Dowe Buckeman, Harrv J. Bloom, Louis W. Bickel, C. J. Campbell, A. Coch- Near Kimball opened the work that evening: Horace Morgan, Clarion, Iowa, W. M. ; George Morgan.^St. Joseph, Mo., S. W.; Charles Morgan, Los Angeles, J. W. ; Jess Morgan, Moberly …
Royal Neighbors lodge No. 804 was installed December 20, 1900, with the following members : Rose L. Wooldridge, Daisy E. Johnston, Irving S. Walker, Oscar E. Forsling, Rose Forsling, Geo. Herrick, J. W. Sprague, Ruth Bushee, Conrad Burg, Winnie DeCastro, Geo. F. Wilkinson, Annie L. M. Fletcher, Barney Martin, Clarence A. Forsling, Ida Hall, Jennie Bickel, Hattie E. Walker …
Resiukxce of Chas. E. J the following: Mrs. Nellie Alden, Claude L. Alden, Mrs. Kate Bellows, Frank J. Bellows, Mrs. Belle Cargill. V. B. Cargifl, Mrs. Mary M. Caldwell, Evan Caldwell, Mrs. Louise Mvlar, Wilber K. Mylar, Mrs. Rachel McElroy, Mrs. Hazel Mangen, Mrs. Helen I. Rodman. Mrs. Grace 1'.. Rodman. Alary J. Richards. Chas. Richards. Mrs. Esther' Horam, Mrs. Winifred …
Maginnis, Airs. Fred Morgan, Airs. Art Morgan. In October, 1917, R. D. Wilson, former publisher of the Nebraska Observer, bought the Banner County News at Harrisburg. Air. Wilson had the Observer when it was Whitney at the home of his daughter. He came to Kimball in 1898 and lived there twenty years, excepting four years. Two of these were spent in Harrisburg and two near …
He went in the Civil War with Company 3, Second regiment, and in the fall of 1874, was promoted to captain of Company D. He came to Kim- E. E. Gom> Dix by Frank Cunningham. This hotel is a really unique venture, for a town of this size. It is one story in height with a full basement, making practically two stories. It has a commodious lobby on the first floor with two rows of …
The year 1917 also saw the death of Fred for a ball room as well as dining room, with a splendid soda fountain in the front end. Dix The town of Dix was laid out on the land of Margaret Robertson and was later moved to a point south of the railroad station where it was platted by D. H. Shultz. The original town was laid out by C. T. Robertson and secured its name from Dixon …
tw> restaurants, one hotel, Foster Lumber Company, two garages, a meat market, telephone exchange, municipally owned water and light plant, an enterprising newspaper, the Dix Tribune, published by E. K. Goding and L. F. Price, one drug store, one millinery store, Gunderson livery stable, Citizens State Bank, started in 1919, of which George W. Winkleman is president, E. E …
Out of the total increment of armed forces of 4,034,743 for the entire United States, Nebraska produced an increment of 49.614. Of these 29,807, or only 60.08, represent inductions under the registrations into the National Army; 14,416, or 29.06%, were enlistments in the army; 4.944, or 9.96%, enlisted in the navy, and 447, or .90%, in the Marine Corps. The per cent of …
Nebraska furthermore claims the record of having subscribed more money per capita for Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps, and given more money to the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., and K. of C. than any other state. She oversubscribed ever) quota from 1% on first liberty loan to 4i>2'; on the Knights of Columbus drive. Nebraska was the first state to go over the top in the War …
on June 5, 1917, and a total of 410 in that C. A., and other war subscription quotas first registration. In common with every that were allotted to Kimball county, other countv in the state, or community in the country; June 5. 1917, will stand out as The First Drawing a red-letter day. Since the foundation of While it was held in Washington, D. C, the republic, the American …
might voluntarily assume, seemed to many bowl at 9:30 a. m., Friday. Julv 20, and the almost a dangerous risk for the federal gov- iast at 2:16 a. m„ Saturday, July 21. 1917: ernment to take. But it turned out decisive- elapsed time, sixteen hours, forty-six minly that this tradition was more than offset utes, and during which time the numbers by a popular will to win the war …
Alden Those who registered for call to military and F. J. Eichenberger. Johnson, R. D. service on June 5th, 1917, were: Walter Wilson and F. E. Reader. The registration Brown Adair, James Delanev Austin, Fredof 361 on that day was divided between the erick Achziger, Carl August' Anderson. \rprecmcts as follows: Antelope, 152; Bush- thur Earl Atkins, Charles Wilson Avery, nell …
C. Bergerhoff, Rav Everett Bessev, Ed- Actually inducted and accepted at camp, win A. Bergman, Wm. F. Boop, Elmer Otto 108. There were 161 in general service, 4 Bergman. Carl K. Belgun, Ralph Bowers, remediables. and 28 placed in limited ser- Boyd Frank Badglev, John Frederick Buess. vice, and only 21 from this county disquali- Peter S. Bourlier, Nathaniel Bernev. A. C. fied …
Flovd Flohrer (died in camp) 10. Geo. Mc 1 unp^ev (killed in action 11. Arthur H. Atkins 1_>. Shirlev II. YogU 13. Ernest Linn 14. Chester Seguine 15. ririch Pedrett 16. Howard Smith 17. Harvev Smith IS. Merle A. P.radv 19. Earl Bicknell 211. Alfred Sequinc 21. Fred Miller 22. Roger Wilson 25. A.J.Fritzler 26. Ernest Parker 27. Leonard E. Smith 28. Geo. Semler 29. Wilbur K …
Donahue, Ralph Wright Dillon, John W. Delay, Shelby Dennison, George John Dreith, Dillard Earl Dennison, Harold Dankman. Randolph Churchill Davis, Hugh Dean. Josiah L. Disney, Guy Andrew Disney, Arnold E. Dickman, Carl August Dickman, Lester Walter Domena, Walter A. Eden, Edward H. Eden, Max Allen Emerson. Ezra Jacob Ernst, Geo. G. Evertson, Harrison Easier, Wm. Lester Ely …
Imes, Albert Wm. Imes, Clarence Glenn Irby, Clarence A. Johnson, Cecil F. James, Charles M. Johnson, Jens Jensen, Wilmer McKarty Jones, Henry Lee Jones, Ole Jensen, Jas. Chris Jensen, John Robert Johnson, Ichezo Kubdtera, Chester Crockett Kaderli, Geo. E. Ketch, Frederick Kane, Christian F. Krans, Gustalf O. Karlstrum, John Knippel, Conrad Knippel, Geo. Klippel. Raymond C …
Prime, Bill Pawpanikolan, Wm. B. Peters, Olaf Alexander Petersen, Ralph Adolph Phillips, Ernst Arthur Peterson. Alexander Purchuis, Ulrich Pedrett, Ernst Wesley Parker, Emanuel Harrison Piper, Phil Marten Piper, Joseph Andrew Pease, Delmar Laurence Pickett, Fay Lavern Pyle, Reuben Peterson, Lee James Peterson, Albert Alexandria Petersen, Frederick Peterson. Cloe Walt Petersen …
Benjamin Harrison Sims, Benjamin Milton Swayze, Edward Saunders, ( )liver Simpson, Albert M. Straub, Worth Story, Glenn F. Scott, J. E. Sumner, Elmer August Seth, George Schroeder, John Roy Schrceder, Harold Eugene Sterner, Hans Schmidt, Arthur E. Torgeson, Lewis J. Tretbar, Ralph E. Truax, Nathan P. Thorn, John Joseph Tworney, Perle James Traer, Elmer Jay Taylor, George …
Five lists were then prepared, one retained for the records of the local board, one copy posted in a conspicuous place in the courthouse, one copy given out for publication by the press, and two remaining copies furnished to the state authorities and the offices of the provost marshal general at Washington. In order then to designate with the utmost impartiality the sequence …
Amos accepted the position of cashier of the Citizens State Bank and thus resigned the place on the County Elective Service Board. In November. 1917. Kimball was assigned a quota of $1,500 for the Y. M. C. A. drive. This county for that work was in the district with Box Butte. Banner, Scotts Blurt. Cheyenne, Morrill. Kimball, Deuel. The work was to begin on November 12th. and …
On December 13th. the first Food Administration price was published and shewed that the prices then for the staple commodities should be: Sugar. 1 lb.. 9c; flour, 1 sack, $3.10; corn meal. 1 lb., 6) \c\ bread, loaf, 10c; potatoes, cwt, $2.25: creamer) butter, 53c; fresh eggs per do/., 50c. Those who served upon the County Council of Defense were: B. K. Bushee, president; John …
By January 3, 1918. the Kimball chapter of the Red Cross had a membership of 1013, exclusive of those who took out life membership before the drive. The result of the recent drive enabled Chairman W. S. Rodman to report for Kimball, 884 members ; for Bushnell, 127, and for Dix, 102. The financial report showed membership reports, Kimball, $927.00 ; Bushnell, $127.00; Dix …
Professor Johnson of Kimball schools resigned to take effect Saturday, January 26, 1918, to enlist in the navy ; though he was not yet twenty-one and not subject to the draft, he had hastened into the service. By September, 1918, Treasurer George L. Vogler of the Kimball chapter of Red Cross showed a membership of 1,150 which was certainly remarkable for the population of the …
In March, Kimball was announced to have won a second place among the ninetythree counties in the state for having the largest per cent of membership in the Red Cross in proportion to its population. While it did not win first place it came the next thing to it and the only count}' ahead of it w-as a well-settled eastern county. The table showing membership and per cent in …
A group of men in Seward county held a meeting around the holiday season in 1917, shortly after the appointment of count}- chairmen and local committees, to devise ways and means to meet the quota in Seward county, accepted the suggestion of Mr. W. H. Brokaw, now director of the Agricultural Extension Department of the State University and Farm Bureau work. They drew a plan …
The success of the Nebraska plan so attracted the attention of those in charge of the national campaign, that Mr. Burgess was called east to assume charge of its application to the nation and a second date set for the War Savings Stamps campaign, in every state in the Union except Nebraska. In this campaign, as in the others. Kimball county followed the policy of having a …
Walker, president of Kimball irrigation district, received this welcome gift from the Great Western Sugar Company at Denver, and explaining that out of their S2.000,- 000 Liberty Loan quota they were crediting $7,000 as the proportion that Kimball production entitled this company to receive. Red Cross Drive On May 9th, County Chairman C. L. Alden received the Liberty Loan …
The advertisements of the Red Cross Fighting Dollars was contributed by the Farmers State Bank of Bushnell. The advertisement shewing how the last war funds were spent was contributed by other Bushnell business houses: Tin- Cash Bargain Store, Bushnell State Bank, O. D. Pickett, Foster Lumber Company, and Western Lumber Company. From Dix two advertisements were financed …
Kimball was well over on its second Red Cross drive. < >n June 2nd, the Union Pacific took off five trains a day and the public began to notice the effect of the move upon its convenient passenger service. Some of the trains affected were numbers 3, 7. 17. westbound, and numbers 8, 6, 10. eastbound. Number 19 took over the work of number 3. and number 1 that of numbers 7 and …
Gallogv, Dix; O. D. Pickett, F. O. Baker, Bushnell; Robert Pahl, Harold Sterner, South Divide ; O. P. Cromwell, C. E. Bert, Union, and W. W. Chamberlain and Mr. Meredith, Johnson Precinct. The division of this registration as to precincts was as follows: Antelopeville, 329; Bushnell, 100; Dix, 87; Union, 25; South Divide, 23, and Johnson, 36. The Count}' Draft Board consisted …
There were 17,000 numbers drawn, the first capsule being taken from the same glass bowl that had been used in the first drawing, at noon, Mondav, September 31st.- and the last at 8 a. m., Tuesday, October 1st, 1918, elapsed time, twenty hours. The first fifteen capsules were drawn by the following government officials, and the numbers drawn, when low enough to affect Kimball …
Chief of ( (perations, I'. S. Navy. No. 6147. 13. Lieutenant General Samuel B. M. Young of U. S. Army, retired, 10086. 14. Provost Marshal General Enoch Crowder, 432, Hans Peterson Dix. 15. Col. Charles Warren, Judge Advocate, Army. 904. The next seven numbers applied to Kimball men were: 20, Fred Strickler; 525. Peter Christensen ; 219, John Randolph Tritt ; 72, Jacob Miles …
Bushee, A. B. Beard. W. F'. Davies. The Red Cross election showed the officers elected were: Thomas Campbell, F. E. Reader, Mrs. Thomas Campbell, and Airs. Emma Williams. November 11th, Armistice Day. beyond any doubt the happiest day in the history of Kimball county, was celebrated as no 4th of July was ever celebrated in this locality. Bon-fires, artillery play featured the …
Ratliff, Gail H. Russell, Harry P. Shuler, O. G. Linn, Glen V. Osborn, A. E. Irwin, Clifford P.. Greenwait, W. Chris Thomson, Aimer Funk, Fred Harrison, Cecil Barnett, Arthur P. Hubbard, Ulrich Pedrett, ERYIX L. TITMAN (died in Funston), Jens Jensen, Henry L. Jones (colored), Irven Sample, William C. Wisworth, Ernest W. Parker, Peter S. Bourlin, Earl Brest, William Robinson …
Plook, Otto A. Morris, Karl A. Paw. Those who volunteered, but were not subject to registration at the time: John R. Henderson, Edwin Mangan, Ralph Hall, John Gearo'U, Israel Levenski, Ephraim Levenski, Olaf Gunderson, Ed.^ar Peterson, Klmer Peterson. James Peterson, Robert Peterson, Hobart Peterson, Earl Sizermore, Irwin Pierson, Elmer Nelson, Paul Nelson, Harold Nelson …
But the tale of the settlement and development of the area of territory which comprises Morrill county reached back into the Cheyenne county realm, and the narration of the part played by those pioneer spirits who have built up Merrill county is most appropriately told under this section of the general story of the western Nebraska garden spot. Fortunately, some years before …
Before its cuter limits were trimmed bv the formation of the counties named, it was known as the largest organized county in the state and during that period it had become the cradle of the cattle business. It was while Edward Creighton was building the Far West telegraph line, which antedated the construction of the LT. P. railroad, that the discovery was accidentally made …
When this fact was reported to Edward Creighton. his quick apprehension suggested what might be done by driving Texas cattle to Cheyenne county in the fall and turning them loose. Later he did turn a larger bunch of cattle loose in that locality and the remarkable manner in which they went through the winter caused that experiment to be repeated by Mr. Creighton and many …
This vast area was covered with a thick coat of buffalo grass which as long as the virgin soil was not broken did not show a weed to mar the beaut}- of the surface. The peculiarity of this grass was not alone in its wonderful nutritious quality, but the fact that as it cured in the dry atmosphere and under the constant sunshine of our peculiar weather, it became coated as if …
Neither cattle business nor cattle baron could forever hold them back and in the eighties Cheyenne county became thickly dotted with dwellings built by the homesteader, though a large per cent of them were so small as to have been dubbed "claim shacks." So far from cities and trading marts, so high were freight rates, and so few were lumber yards and scarce was money that the …
For the cowboy, while feared by some, was loved by many and admired by all ; for there never was a truer friend, a braver boy to face the many perils common to his day and duty, nor a more faithful guardian of the interests intrusted to his care. Fair weather meant a holiday fur him but when the storms of winter raged in their greatest severity, he would disdain shelter and …
The name of "Camp" was given liecause the tide of travel to and from the hills had become so great awaiting its completion, that the caravans and pedestrians congregated on either side of the valley in that immediate vicinity gave the appearance of a bivouac. That Sidney, the county seat of Cheyenne county, should frequently have gotten its name, together with a photograph …
The buoyant gold-seeker naturally craved the best, and he whose hopes had already been clashed, would take what he could best pay for -- generally known as "forty rod." Hence originated the saying that "Every drink contained a dance, a song and a fight." and it was the common lament of the frequenters of those places that if you stopped to watch a fight in one salocn, you …
For him who thus showed himself wiser in his generation than the homesteader proper, "life went merry as a marriage bell." for during this period of transition, which culminated in the eighties, a few years in the cycle of seasonable showers seemed to indicate that the rain belt extended as far west as the foothills. Hut those who prayed to Jupiter Pluvius instead of plowing …
Just a few short years after the departure of the Indian, the soldier and the cattle, one following up the grass-grown but still well defined trail from Sidney to the hills, would see on either side as far as the eye could see, deserted and crumbing "soddies" as so many tombstones standing at the grave of buried hopes. All of which meant that man in his extremity must resort …
Cheyenne county had all of the river frontage within her limits well marked and covered and wherever a land owner or the land owners under any completed canal gave proper attention to the cultivation of the land and the irrigation of their crop, most satisfactory results were obtained. Railroads were quick to see the possibilities and they paralleled and crossed the valley …
With this renewed influx of home-makers and new railroads, came the feeling that we in the northern half of old Cheyenne county were too far removed from the county seat and as early as 1907 a properly signed petition for a division of the county was presented to the count}- commissioners, and when submitted received the requisite majority. The county was divided and a little …
This process of thus reducing- the acreage and multiplying the yield has shown that there is an idle acreage oh which thousands of farmers could soon gain independence under the half-dozen canals in this county, all completed and in yearly operation. It is safe to say that there are 60,- 000 acres under these completed enterprises which lie idly basking under the three hundred …
Since the canals mentioned were constructed, the idle and unbroken acreage sub-irrigated from them has produced the finest natural hay, and where water has been turned upon the unbroken prairie, a natural growth of what is called wheat grass springs up which makes the finest wild hay that is to be found upon the western market. While the elevation naturally shortens the …
And if at any time the local supply of corn falls short, it can be shipped in from the locality known as the "corn belt" at a rate several cents per hundred cheaper than Fort Collins, Greeley and other great feeding points can obtain, so that with unlimited quantities of alfalfa grown here, with oats in abundant supply, yielding as it does when properly handled, from 80 to 120 …
From this it is easy to be seen that the owner of an irrigated farm in the North Platte valley will soon be rated among the most independent classes of our citizen's. From what has been said of the irrigated section, however, it must not be inferred that the farmers beyond or above the line of canals are not making good. It has been conclusively demonstrated in recent years …
Morrill county has no need of an alms house and there is not a pensioner on the bounty of the county today. By cultivating a portion of the section of land which Uncle Sam in his bounty bestowed upon him. and by pasturing milch cows on the remainder of his land, the homesteader has attained a degree of independence which a landless man in the older sections of the country …
Foot passengers paid a dollar each for the privilege of crossing the bridge, while teams were charged at the rate"of from $5.00 to S10.00. The tolls collected on the day of the opening of the bridge amounted to more than $10,000, and for several years the bridge was a mint for its owner and' a great convenience to the restless pioneers who struggled for gold and gain in the …
There was one house between Sidney and the bridge, a distance of fifty miles, and one house between Camp Clarke and Camp Robinson (the Red Cloud Sioux Indian Agency), seventy miles distant. This was a Sioux and Chevenne Indian country prior to the treaties. Mr. Clarke asked the government for protection. They furnished him a plan for Fort Clarke, which he built for the …
He put on the Clarke Centennial Pony Express, supplying all towns in the Black Hills. He was postmaster at Camp Clarke, the government turning all mail over to him, accepting it from him, which was conducted until the government put on mail service. Hay was then from $100 to $150 a ton ; corn, 12c to 15c a pound. The Indians were troublesome. One of the pony riders …
Xebraska, believing that the town would some time become the western terminus for a railroad. "In the spring of 1856 Mr. Clarke became the steamboat agent at Bellevue and from dealing in a small way in provisions he soon branched out into a general merchandise business. In 1862 he took a contract to furnish the government with corn and oats at Fort Kearney, on the south side …
The first ten miles of the line was built and is now operated by the Burlington. "Mr. Clarke became engaged in the building of railroads and highway bridges in 1870. The last bridge he built was at Camp Clarke. "The Clarke Centennial Pony Letter Express was established by Mr. Clarke in 1876, operating between Sidnev and mining points in the Black Hills. He also established …
At present he is chairman of the state railway commission. "In 1862. during its territorial years, Henry T. Clarke was a member of the Nebraska house of representatives. In 1864 he was elected to the council (now the state senate). He was a prominent candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in 1SSS. He was a member of the board of education at Omaha for three years and …
He presented it to the Presbyterian synod of Nebraska together with two residences and two hundred and sixty-five acres of ground. The institution is now the collegiate department of the University of Omaha. "Mr. Clarke received a large amount of land for building railroads in the state and put many thousand acres under cultivation, giving his personal attention to raising …
Anyone who failed to throw five aces was given four shots at the four legs of the chair. If he missed all four shots he had to treat. The man in the chair was not permitted to wriggle, swear or chew tobacco, for they tended to disconcert the man with the gun. The chair victim could hold his own legs as high as he wanted to, and fifteen minutes was the time limit that anyone …
It will also be noted by a reference to the early history of that part of Cheyenne county, which is now Morrill county, as presented in the general history of the entire Panhandle territory, and in the separate history of Cheyenne county, that there came upon the stage and has largely disappeared an early generation. This first generation of pioneer spirits left their imprint …
He died some time ago Next along the river there was Olaf Lift". He hired a man to haul him out there from a ranch though he did not know where he was going. He made an application for filing but did not know wdiere the land was. He told a fellow to just unload him there. The next day he went to town and found out where the land was and then made for himself a dug-out and …
Putman place, taken in 1884, as was that of Ora Remsburgh. Mrs. C. Nelson filed on a quarter about 1886. Andrew Hansen came about that time and three of the Adams' filed just about then. Mr. Lape and his two sons-in-law, Jake Amer and Dick Meredith, came about the same time and the two Van Gorder brothers filed three miles below the present Bridgeport on what is now the Mark …
Clarke had filed in the seventies and the story of the Camp Clarke ranch, store and toll bridge are more fully narrated elsewhere. Past Camp Clarke in the eighties were the filings of Frank Durnell and Henry Randall, his father and brother, and the Ccad filings. "As to the development on the north side on the Platte river on the west side the town of Bayard sprang up in the …
Graham of Alliance on the Graham holdings in the north end of the county has had perhaps in excess of one thousand head. Frank 1 '.lain has run several hundred at a time. R. M. Hampton at Alliance has had a large ranch out there. He sold to Hall and Graham. Also over in the north part of the county have been Henry Swan in early times, Joe Vaughn of Alliance, and Burk & Tiernan …
As early as 1878, the county records of Cheyenne county show local officers elected for Court House Rock precinct. In that year among the precinct officers elected for that territory were : L. Mined, justice of peace, and Julius Hill, also justice of peace; constables, Ed. Countryman, Chas. Patten ; Thos. Crosby, assessor; election officers: D. B. Powers, judge; D. B. Lynch …
This somewhat overestimates that sparse population of this territory at that date. Redington precinct had been formed by HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA September. 1887. Camp Clarke precinct was formed about that time. By 1887 the map showed this north end of Cheyenne county which later became Morrill count}- to be divided between the original Court House Rock precinct in the …
Morrison, Frank Cravett and two hundred other electors, a vote was requested upon Court House Rock, South of Bridgeport county commissioners of Morrill county were Fred R. Lindberg, Herman E. Smith, Win. T. McKelvey. It was agreed that the assessed valuation of Cheyenne county, being twice that of Morrill county, that Cheyenne county should get two-thirds of the property and …
the issuance of SI 5,000 bonds for the building a court house of which it was remarked by said petitions was not necessary for reason that said board is in favor of said bond issue. It favored said election asked for in the said petition so the election was called for the 29th of June. 1909, and carried by a substantial majority. The commissioners districts and the precincts …
The heating- and plumbing contract was awarded to the Sterling Heating and Plumbing Company for $2,100. The Lincoln Land Company aided in getting the site of the court house located for Bridgeport, and to donate a choice of two blocks of land, one being a block 300 feet square abutting River and Nemaha streets, lying 420 feet north of block three of the original town of …
The legislative and administrative functions pertaining to getting the various county offices established, supplied and equipped, and under their guidance. The work of building the new court house as y:_,,- m ^•11 1 l |FF of block two of the original town of Bridgeport. This offer being contingent upon the condition that the court house was not to cost less than $15,000 and …
Randall succeeded Mr. Mc- Kelvey and remained on the board four years. When Messrs. Lindburg and Smith "left the board, J. J. Grimes came on with Leslie Bocdrv who resigned and was succeeded by F." H. Putman. After Randall, Putman and Grimes had served together for one and one-half years, then Fred R. Lindburg returned to the board and served with Messrs. Randall and Grimes …
Bradbury, justice of the peace; F. P. Boone, assessor; F. P. Boone and F. E. Bredbury, tie for overseer of highways. Broadwater precinct : Walter A. Canaday, police magistrate; Thos. O. Haiston, justice of the peace; C. V. Gilbert, assessor; W. T. Carr, overseer of highways. Camp Clarke precinct: Dave Kelly, police magistrate; P. C. Wade, justice of the peace ; Thos. Burke …
Becker, justice of the peace; Albert Acker, assessor; William Marquardt, overseer of highways. Haynes precinct: A. D. Hull, justice of the peace; Leslie Boodry, assessor; F. W. Wood, overseer of highways. King precinct : D. S. Kelsey, justice of the peace: D. S. Meek, assessor; C. F. Hagerty, overseer of highways. Kinkaid precinct: B. L. Gillespie, justice of the peace; Sam …
This officer had not only the duty of county clerk and therefore clerk of the board of commissioners, but was also clerk of the district court and register of deeds for the county. In 1912 J. R. Minshall took this office. For the last three years of his term Z. H. Jones served as his deputy and in 1917 Mr. Jones became the county clerk and clerk of district court and has since …
Mount as deputy, served the first term as sheriff and from 1912 until 1921, Wm. I. Dyson has been the sheriff of Morrill county, until he was succeeded by R. C. Neumann. County Superintendent The first county superintendent after the organization of the count}- was Mary E. Walford. Succeeding her for live vears HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA came Cora A. Thompson who later went …
McDonald has discharged the duties of this office. County Judge Morrill county has been more steadfast in its political affections in the matter of the county judge when they captured John H. Steuteville, at the inception of the county's career, and it has kept him to this date. Judge Steuteville has served as colleague with all of the county officials who have served Morrill …
Rouse, Louis Larson. Frank Hunt. Court House Rock, W. F. Hollingsworth, Marion Dugger, John Hall, Marcus Hallway, Frank Halloway. Lnion. A. L. Adams, L. E. Buck. Gilchris't, J. A. Hutchinson and C. A. Snow. Storm Lake, Arthur Feagins. S. M. Hickman. King. Chas. Tolle, Fred Anderson, Andrew Hansen. Broadwater, C. G. Fairman. Anthony Johnson, Pat Row- Ian, George Beerline …
The last court held under Judge Grimes' jurisdiction as district judge'was April 4, 1911. The district then was composed of the counties of Lincoln, Perkins, Keith, Cheyenne, Kimball, Banner, Deuel, Garden, Logan, Mc- Pherson, Scotts Bluff, and Morrill. In June. 1911, R. W. Hobart of Gering became the presiding judge of Morrill county district court. Morrill county was then …
Camp Clarke precinct 619 556 Court House Rock precinct 313 195 Eastwood precinct 291 282 Gilchrist precinct S7 131 Good Streak precinct 61 118 Haynes precinct 358 408 King precinct 172 199 Redington precinct 397 396 Reilly Hill precinct 138 122.... Storm Lake precinct 66 112 ... . Union precinct 200 137 .... Weir Lisco precinct 323 135 .... Yockev precinct 435 Incorporated …
In producing and setting forth the arguments for the fruition of these many hopes, Morrill county has herself discovered and been prompted to set forth to the rest of the world her physical and material resources. Not as a tale of dead hopes, but as a vivid portrayal of the valiant struggle kept up for some two decades by the active, loyal citizens of Morrill count}', do we …
The Hill people said little about this project, but newspapers professed to believe that it was the intention to connect that line with the roads centering in Bridgeport. Besides providing a short and direct line across the continent, the read would pass through a good country the entire distance. The Hill interests maintain a line of steamers plying from Buffalo to Duluth …
Bridgeport then began to anticipate the long deferred line connecting Bridgeport and Kearney, and the following appeared in the local press of the time : "Every man and every team that can be crowded into the big tunnel work west of Guernsey is being rushed to the scene of activity and carload after carload of outfits and equipment are being shipped to that point. The …
Bridgeport to Harriseurg "An Electric Line would be a Direct Benefit without Proving a Menace to Our Business Interests," was headlined at Bridgeport in May, 1913, when Banner county was in a fever for a railroad. With the possibility that the effort to build a standard gauge railroad from Cheyenne to Bridgeport might not prove successful, the News-Blade suggested that a …
The proposition was discussed freely and while all were in favor of the proposed road, the question of details was referred to the railroad committee which was to confer with the promoters of the enterprise at a date to be fixed to suit the convenience of all parties. Bridgeport-Newark Line In 1915, railroad officials announced that definite arrangements were being made for …
It is a far cry from the trail of the Indian, <>r the unbroken surface of the boundless prairie, which greeted the earliest trappers, ranchers and homesteaders of the Morrill county area to the wonderful gravel-surfaced, boulevarded roadways being constructed by the Nebraska State Department of Public Works in this second decade of the twentieth century. This single feature in …
As soon as the road on the east side of the railroad track can be put in shape for travel, the markers will be changed to that route. The "Pat King road"' runs northwest from Angora for a number of miles, and then northeast to Alliance, and is about ten miles longer than the road on the east side of the railroad track, but it will be used until the east side road can be put in …
line of section 29, township 19, range 46, and runs in an almost direct line northwest to Broadwater, where it crosses the river to the south side and follows along comparatively close to the river about five miles. Then it runs west for about two and a half miles, and then north and west for short distances until it reaches the Guthrie ranch. Then it runs west from the …
From Bayard the new road runs north four miles, which is some departure from the old road that used to run west from Bayard past the sugar factory, the commissioners desiring to get the road away from the "seep land" near the sugar factory that has made the road so hard to travel and keep up. From the point four miles north of Bayard the new road runs straight west until it …
This does not mean that the road on the north side of the river between Bridgeport and Broadwater will be neglected, as it will be maintained by the county, but it does mean that the route on the south side would serve the greatest number of people at this time. The state and federal aid is for roads most needed. The commissioners are pledged to a good roads program, and each …
W, Atkins donated over a mile and a half of the right of way through his ranch, and other land owners signed up so as to make certain the best road. This road will require a little more work at the beginning than the road through the hills. Twice or three times as much tonnage can be hauled in one load and the cost of hauling thereby materially reduced. It will run through the …
In the valley below, and in front of him, lay the muddy waters of the North Platte, which seemed to broaden cut and lose themselves in the yellow sand, only to be collected later as by some unseen force, and to be swept swiftly through the channel where the banks narrowed. Again its course widened ; the river spread its waters over sand bars and around clumps of willows …
No longer shall the brave red men hunt buffalo over the hills or on the grassy plain. The white man comes to build houses and towns. The antelope will be gone, and the sunny hunting ground be plowed to raise food for the pale face and his children. He comes from the rising sun. The braves of the once great tribe are gone, and I am left: I go.' Then shouldering his rifle, the …
"The next morning a wagon train consisting of some half dozen ox-wagons, rumbled laboriously along the Oregon Trail and wound its way up the North Platte valley. A halt was made near a singular, conicalshaped phenomenon, called by Washington Irving 'The Chimney.' "Some of the party from the ox-wagons climbed Old Sig'nal Hill, and standing on its summit in the exact place where …
"The large volume of water in the river, the wide bottom lands, and the long, gentle slopes of the table lands afforded ideal conditions for irrigation. From the building of the first irrigation ditch in about 1887, to the completion of the Tri-State Ditch in 1911, and the Government Ditch a little later, the country has developed, step by step, until there are now some …
This swiftly moving river at Chimney Rock was evidently at least one hundred forty feet deep, and the coarser sand that settled down and were cemented into the firmer rocks form that much of the spire of that wonderful landmark of the ages. Court House Rock and Round House Rock are two other distinctive monuments of that ancient river, while the mighty facades of the Wildcat …
Nature builded well and builded deep the foundations of Morrill county agriculture. Morrill county has vast acres of irrigated land, which are passing from the larger holdings into smaller farms, for it has been found -- in the language of the late Arnold Martin -- "Twenty acres is abundant for any man, forty acres is a calamity, and eighty acres a catastrophe." Spreading …
The coming cf the homesteader was the termination of the big rancher, except in such cases as a far-seeing ranchman has acquired title to large tracts of deeded lands. Also the better method, born of experience, is that cattle be ranged in summer and fed in winter. The cattlemen of old counted that it took from ten to sixteen acres to range a cow a year, giving feed both …
The prevailing breeds are Herefords and Shorthorns, with an occasional Angus herd for beef, while Holsteins and Jerseys constitute the dairy herds. A review of those men who were extensively engaged in stock-raising in Morrill county and vicinity in the last score of years can be gleaned in part from the lists of "Brand" registrations. Coote C. Mulloy, Lower Dug Out, Irving …
Bern Hutchinson. Court House Rock, Bridgeport, Nebraska. Smith Brothers, 4 P. Ranch, Bridgeport, Nebraska. Anthony Johnson, north of Lisco, Irving, Nebraska. J. W. Bowersock, Lower Dug Out, Irving, Nebraska. Ed. Porter, Bridgeport, Nebraska. F. W\ Smith, Indian Creek, Bridgeport, Nebraska. J. W. Ricedorff, Bridgeport, Nebraska. Art Oliver, Bird Cage to North River, Bridgeport …
Hubble, 22-45, five miles north Or- ton, Nebraska. lando. Orlando, Nebraska. Sam Oliver, Bird Cage to No. River, J. I). Hagerty, Fire Guard and Brown's Bridgeport, Nebraska. Creek. Bridgeport, Nebraska. P. C. Wade, east of Oak Creek, Lisco. Ne- Jas. Millet, below Lisco, Lisco. Nebraska, braska. Lewis M. Meyers, Cedar Creek, Lisco, Nebraska. P. C. Laing. Brown's Creek, Irving …
Clough, near Lisco, Lisco, Nebraska. Frank Irving. Brown's Creek. Irving, Nebraska. Ben H. Pusey, Irving, Nebraska. Warren Coulter, Pumpkin Creek, Redington. Nebraska. Burke Brothers. Bird Cage to No. River, Bridgeport, Nebraska. II. B. Hopkins, Greenwood, Redington, Nebraska. Robert McConnell, Deep Holes and Mud Springs, Simla, Nebraska. John Nunn, Round House Rock …
Beerline Brothers, Brown's Creek, Irving, Nebraska. Arthur North. Deep Holes. Pisco. Nebraska. Toole Brothers, Gutch Creek, Bridgeport. Nebraska. Jas. Lafolett. Bridgeport, Nebraska. HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA A. J. Alby, Deep Holes, Bridgeport, Nebraska. Henry Bartling, .Middle Creek, Redington, Nebraska. Wm. Stilwill, Range Camp Creek, Lisco, Nebraska. Chas. Endsley, Middle …
For a number of years, other markets, including the constructors of the government and Tri-state canals, have made a demand on the hay crop. An old sheep feeder's advice is. "If you have never fed sheep, try old ewes first for a year or two ; then if you succeed you can rest assured that you will make good money at lamb feeding." Lamb feeding, like chicken raising, is …
Pigs farrowed in early spring can be turned off in the fall weighing one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds, with little expense, by raising on alfalfa pasture and supplementing this in the early fall with sugar beets, and possibly a little grain. Hog raising here is not hampered with the risks common to many localities. In the last few years several have engaged in the …
Those who are going into it are making- money, and lots of it. There is no reason, if we can have the buttermakers. why North Platte valley will not have a national reputation for its excellent butter. Several farmers have their entire output contracted by the year. Others ship their cream, there being receiving stations at all of the railroad towns. Poultry A number of years …
Poultry raising is just the thing to couple with dry farming on a homestead. Turkeys are easily raised and are quite profitable where one has sufficient range for them without bothering the neighbors. Farm women and ranch women, however busy, do find time for handling some poultry, and numbers of them regularly have an income from "the national bird" at Thanksgiving time, and …
For the last few years horses have been in demand at good figures, three hundred to five hundred dollars being not an uncommon price for a work team. But few mules are raised here. A great many eastern people have the idea that a brand on a horse is the sign of an outlaw, or broncho or pony stock. This is no longer true. In North Platte valley can be found thoroughbred Xorman …
The comb is light colored and the strong "beeswax" taste so common to eastern honey, is entirely absent. One hundred and fifty pounds of hone}- is not an unusual output for one hive. In a single season, besides swarming twice and laying up an ample supply for their use, one hive has furnished one hundred and thirty-four pounds of marketable hone}-. Many farmers have …
Alfalfa is to the irrigated Morrill county what the cocoanut palm is to the tropics -- food and drink and raiment. There are crops paying more to the acre, there are crops requiring less labor, there are crops requiring less time to give return, but there is net another crop that will stand by the farmer year in and year out, giving him compound interest on the labor invested …
It makes good green pasture for hogs and horses, but as green pasture it is not the best for cattle and sheep owing to the liability of causing bloat the same as clover. Nebraska grown alfalfa seed is gaining an enviable reputation for purity and excellence. Under irrigation it is not a sure seed cropper, though the second year is liable to produce seed of more value than that …