Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 3, 1881, Page 3

i L L ! AFFAIRS AT ARAPAHOE: The Town Splendidly Situated--- A Vast Amount of Mercantile Business Transacted. The Crops in Splendid Condi tion and a Good Yield Anticipated. Woell Regulated Schools Main tained--Signs of Prosperity on Every Hand Correspondence of Ti ben. Araranor, Neb., Aug. 1, 1881 — Arapahoe, the principle town of Fur- nas county, is 30 miles east of Indian- ola, 36 miles south of Plum Creek on the U. P. R. R,, and is the centre ot as rich a farming and stock district as can be found in western Nebraska. Arapahoe was platted and surveyed by a Plattsmouth company in the spring ot 1871, It was corporated in 1879. Less than two years ago the B. & M. railroad made its entree and brought with it new buildings, new firms and new life. The town is most beauti’ully locat- ed, being on a peninsula formed by two crecks, their banks studded with trees, making thisanimportant point for fire wood which is sold here for $2.50 per cord. The Republican is also lightly timbered, but the main supply comes from the two creeks already re- ferred to. On the Muddy near town is located alarge brick flouring mill with the most improved machinery. This mill derives its power .from water taken from the Republican by means of a canal that gives a 12 foot head of water at the mill. Five run of burrhs, including machinery for patent flour, is being used. Another larze mill on the same creek will shortly become a woolen mill something which cannot fail to be very profitable, as sheep are raised here in vast droves, and of course, the mill products will not have to go far from home to find a market. A wagon and carriage manufactory is now doing a good business, and in fact anything in the manufacturing line cannot fail to be a good invest- ment in a country like this, where supply seldom equals demand. Water power, the greatest desideratum for manufacturers, is here readily obtain- ed, and that too, without regard to low water, the Republican river and tribu- tary streams containing ‘sufficient for all purposes. THE CROPS. Chartering a livery rig your corres- pondent took a ride for the purpose of seeing some of the sights around Arap- ahoe, and truly the products of these much criticised barren (?) plains are worth seeing. Here are wheat fields covered with shocks so closely ranged as to make navigation between them with the wagon rack a mattor for ex- perts. Some of the farmers claimed twenty-five buehels to the acre. I saw oats that will yield fifty to sixty bushels to the acre; rye that will thresh out thirty-five bushels to the acre, and barley that will yield fifty bushels. T would not intimate that the above fifurou represent the average products of the county, but I will say that the average must be greatly in excess of the most fortunate eastern localities visited by your correspondent this sea- son. There is not a shadow of a doubt but that on all staple products western Nebraska will make a much better showing this year than Illinois, Towa or eastern Nebraska. The Republican Valley property is a rich sandy loam; the “sl.“d‘ are still richer, and the soil is deeper. The valley 1s a level plainskirted by ridgeson either side that rise so gent- ly 51“ thoy can be plowed in most localities; beyond these ridges is the high prairie, and that stretches away a xast green sea, covered with huge, beautiful billows plumed with wnvms buffalo grass, and dotted here an there by the cozy homes of the far- mers or stockraisers, It requires no extraordinary stretch of the imagination to lcok forward to the time when every acre of this ground will be made serviceable to man, ‘When, ten years ago the writer rode through Saunders’ county sod halls, sod corn and prairie hay was about all that appeared to view, not one acre in a hundred was cultivated. To-day a quarter section without cultivation is hard to find. At the present time about one- twentieth of Furnas county is plowed up,” and the incoming immigration will soon dispose of the remainder, The healthfulness of this country is one of its strongest recommendations, invalids coming here with consumption have in numerous instances recovered, thing is as cheap in the Republican valley as at Omuha. The best of schools are maintained and the bright, intelligent faces of the youngsters would seem to indicate that in the future as in the past, the Kepublican valley may furnish gover- nors for the great state of Nebraska. 1 wish to acknowledge the many favors received by your correspondent from that public spirited, ontorprising merchant, Mr. L, Clute, and the able assistance of Mr. J. A. Dudgeon, at y at law and real cstato agent. he men have done wonders n building up this beautiful town a developing the surrounding country. For business directory see 6th page. RANGER, te ACROSS IOWA, How the Building of Milwau- kee's New Main Line Progresses. Sloux City Journal, July 3: A gontleman who has just returned from an inspection of that part of the new Milwaukee main line between Council Bluffs and the Des Moines river, says that all is well. Week be- fore last fifty more teams were on the rolls than at the end of the week pre- vious. Of these teams twenty-five were scattered among Vincent'’s con- THROUCH THE SOUTH. The Bee's Special Correspondent Reaches White Sulphur Springs, Manufactories Springing Up in All Parts of North Carolina, Cotton Factories nnd Other Signs of Prosperity Beginning to Appear in the Sonth To the Editor of Te Ber. Winte Surpnur Srrises, Western N. C., Jul th, 1881, —North Caro- lina is divided into three parts. The eastern, which embraces all the coast line, extends some 100 miles. This section is cut up by large bays and inlets of the Atlantic. The land is low and marshy and the cli- mate tropical and in summer very hot and unhealthy. Central to C. ex- tends through the middle of the stale and is confined on the west by the slopes of the Blue Ridge. No surface is higher and more diversified than enstern to C. and in appearance is not unlike to norther Illinois, except that it is heavily timbered in places. Western to Carolina embraces the mountainous portion of the state and is about 250 miles in length, by from 30 to 60 miles in breath, In guide and rail road hooks it is called the “land of the sky.” And the name is most certamly merited, lying at an elevation of from 1,600 3,000 foet, its surface diversified with the bright peaks cast of the Rockies and with fertile valleys and plateaus drained by rushing mountain streams and an atmosphere wonderful- land no section of our country of its nature possessing so many attractions for the pleasure secker, or indeed for resi dence, if one desires to live among mountains. These three sections ot the state are clearly marked, not only by physical characteristics but to a inhabitants. The state contains som: 1,600,000 people and is fairly settled but no more. Like Towa and other states where agricultural interests pre- dominate, there are no large cities, but several of from 10,000 to 18,000 inhabitants. Tt will not be long though and the time has already come when something other than farming will be profitable, While the state is still an agricultural state man tures tractors. There aré now 300 teams working on the grade on this part of the line, and 100 more on the bridg- ing jobs. Sioux Uity furnishes 150 of these teams, so the gentleman said. The going wages are $3.50 per day for heavy plow teams. The two miles at the Council Bluffs end have not yet been opened, and this indicates that as yot the terminal point has not been decided. THE WORK GOES ON, The 5mds is getting on better than the bridging, 4 Gangs are at work on every half mile of the grade, and with fair weather the whole will be done by the last days of October, The bridg- ing is more backward, the timbers and gili!\g hnving been delayed by rush of usiness, and then by the washout on the Towa pool roads. But there is enough coming in now. For McNa- mara alone 300 tars have been shipped. Everybody is in goud heart. Pay-day comes regularly on the 15th of every month, a paymaster of the Milwaukee company going over the line and pay- ing each contractor an amount propor- tionate to the showing he has made on the work. Where there is any doubt about the contractor, or where he re- x\ueuts it, the money is paid directly to the men. ABOUT FINISHING the work the reporter’s informant said that with favorable weather, and fresh teams coming in as they had been do- ing for the past week or two, the grad- ing and bridging could be finished before hard freezing. The tracklaying cannot be finished until some time in the winter, but can be finished then if the weather is not too severe. He in- stanced tracks that had been put down in the winter and ballasted from grav- el beds. Mark Naughton, a contractor on this line, told areporter yosterday that during June, when the time was broken by wet weather, none of his teams that worked brought their own- ers less that 850 tor the month after paying for feed and board, Grass for the teams can be cut near the work, and corn is not more than 26 cents per bushel. Everything that 1s needed can be bought at fair prices, ROTATION IN OFFICE. It is reliably reported that Louis Sharpless, foreman of the machinery departmont of the St. Paul shops at this city, has resigned and will return to Shackopee. Mr, Sharpless ha made many friends in the city by his quict, gontlemanly ways, and will leave much regretted. His place will Mr. George D. Baker, the ownerof a thousand acres of Gosper county land, came here two years ago with bleed- ing at the lungs and every sign of consumption in its advanced stages, but since he has becn breathing the | tending from Bt. James to Omaha. pure, dry, bracing atmosphere of these | Jas, Brennan will take Mr. Anderson’s plains has enjoyed better health than | place as waster mechanic at the + for yoars, aud 1» confidont that it has | Bchakopes aliope, Mot Ellis hus hers given him a new lease of life. tofore been the only master mechanic There is plenty of land here yet, of [for the entire line, It is reported the very best quality that can be got |that his brother, John Ellis, is to be under the homestead or pre-emption [appointed division wmaster mechanic acts, and thore are always plenty of | from St. James east. Messrs. Hetzle- chances for securing improved farms |man and Anderson are expected to at the real estate co 1 Arapahoe. | arrive from 5t. Paul this morning, ‘This letter would not be complete THE SURVEY. without some reference to the vast| .. § ; wmercantile business of Arapahoe, Axt ing was heard of the Mil- Bome stores Liere would be a credit to | Weukee engiucers yosterday, as they almost any eity, and wero I allowod | "% working a little off the main be filled by H. C. Anderson, who for five years provious to leaving this city held” that position, Taylor Hentzle- man Las been appointed division master mechanic, his division ex- ks ot IS S A road on tho‘ west side of the West tors T would like to deseribe one or | Braneh. The survey they are mow 0 ol it The o o8 making follows very nearly the route try relying upon this ity for supplies :'en::ll:n.um Des Moines and North- :vm :nud not liable to suffer — ek o Out of Wark, and sick with my kidneys for y ) wrote Mr. Alexunder Forria, of Cho. Forks, N. Y., recently, He Warner's Safe Kiduoy and Liver Cure. Now he says, ‘I cheerfully Denver will be the market for the sale of |western Nebrask products as soon as the B. & M, R. R. is com- leted, which will be in the near fu- 5..; Lumber and many other arti- nan, are slowly springing up, and in a few years can but radically alter the eco- nomic relations of the people, not only with themselves, but with other states. Before the war a cotton factory was unheard of -in the south. The “Yankees,” as all northerners are|§ called here, mgnopolized the raw pro- ducts of the soil wupon which back to the seuth the mauufactured product. Since the war this relation has been slowly changing. . Georgia of all tho states south, has made the rnFidaat progress, and oven to-day sells the product of her cotton fac- tories in New York., The coming ex- position in October at Atlanta, Ga., will rouse more than ordinary inter- est as showing the wonderful revolu- tion in the industrial relations ‘of the southern states since the war. At first skilled labor from northern fact tories is imported for the cotton mills, but I-learn that the white people who are alone employed in them, are nYt scholars and ~ soon are able to take matters into their own hands. In other respests than this too, is the south changing for the better. While before the war most of the land was held in large quantities, and the small land owners was almost an unknown quantity, now the latter has become quite a factor, and the change can but be beneficial. Crops are more diversified than when cotton was king, and while there is not the neatness and thrift generally observable further north among farm- ing communities, there is an improve- ment over the general shiftlessness so often noted by travelers during slavery days. Better ngricultural implements are used in farming, and there are better markots for produce. In that portion of the state just east of the mountain the present season has been a bad one for cereals and all kinds of vegetables by reason of a se- vero drought, The hotels in Salis- bury and Hickory found hard work to get potatoes for even one meal per day, and there was almost an_entire lack of vegetables. i peach crop suffered severely through the severe weather of last winter, but cotton and tobacco are do- ing well, T had hoped to see the for- mer in ploom, but it does not ripen till October, Qur party remained a week at Ashe- ville, 'The time was pleasantly spent in driving and walking excursions to neighboring s and hills, From mountain, just back of our hotel no less than 140 peaks of the Blue Ridge were visible. it. Mitchel, higher than moun- tain Washington and yet with its smooth sides covered to its sum- mit almost with id old tress, shut off the southern horizon and to the west lay the Unaka or Smoky Range mounntains just visible in the hazy summer atmosphere, North and east was xange upon range of wooded hills and in the valley toward the west flowed the French Broad River, a wide, rapid stream and emptying into the Tennessee, Upon the sum- mit were the outlines of a rebel earth- work which an acquaintance told me he had not seen since the war, when for many a night he had stood guard there, watching for the signal fires down the valley that were to announce the Yankee raid from Tennessee. It never came, however, which in my eyes seemed to spoil the poetry of the incident. The absence of lakes and ponds was very noticeable, as among mountains of this character they usu- adlf' abound. left Ashville for. this point early Monday morming and it was not till 7 p. m. that the springs were reached 'he course lay due west 40 wiles, and cles can then be furnished at lower rates; however, freight added, every recommend it to all persons i - i tho mamo way. - PO, v all day the road wound among the ruts, across fords and into deep val- leys where the dense woods shut out ly clear and iavigorating. I know of | § good extent by the personnel of their | | skilled labor was necessary, and ‘sold | & almost the light of a bright sun, Din- ner was hng ina large farm house, and ‘‘mine host” was n descendant of a Pennsylvanin Dutchman, who had settled in this section nearly 100 years ago. The place was de- lightfully situated between two moun- tains and with just enongh space for a dashing brook, the road and his home. Dinner was fit for the gods, and for the first time 1 tackled a gen- uine hoe-cake, needless to say with great success. The sun was ‘‘right smart” low, to fall into the vorr - lar of the section, a drove up to the sp place and situation n But of the ther time, —— Virtue Acknowledged Mrs, Ira_Mulholland, Albany, N. Y., writes or several years 1 have suf- fered from oft-recurring bilious headaches, dyspepsia, and complaints peculiar to my sox, se using your Burdock Blood Bitters 1 am entirely relieved.” Price £1,00, trinl size 10 cents. angl-lw e — No Good Preaching. 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