Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 11, 1892, Page 6

DOUGLAS COUNTY FARMING Bome Pertinent Facts Concerning One of the Oldest of Nebraska Communities. EXPERIENCE OF MEN WHO LIVE HERE They Drove the Indians Back and Wrestled With Hardships and Privation to Enjoy Pence and Plenty in the Present, Douglas county was organized In the fall ©f 1854, by proclamation of Aoting Governor Cumings, and the boundaries were re-de fined by act of the territorial legislature, approved March 2, 1855, At that time Sarpy was included in Douglas, but by an act ap proved Februars 7, 1857, Sarpy county was created and the present boundary lines of Douglas county defined. Douglas county lies about the center of the eastern line of the state, bounded on tho east by the Mis souri river, ou the north by Washington and Dodge, south by Sarpy and west by the Platte river. In area it contains 360 squaro miles of territory, or 230,400 acres, and em- braces within its limits Omahd® the metropo- lis of tho stato. Thero are in tho county 1,210 farms, with 100,231 acres of tilled lands and 45,165 acres of permanent meadow land. I'he average prico per acre of Douglas county farm land is placed at §5. [t will readily be secn by the reader that the high average price is owing to tne fact that much of the 1and lios closo to the city, with its enormous demand for tho products of the farmn, dairy and garden . Tho con last official censns gives Douglas ty a population of 158,008, egainst in 1850, or an increase of 860’ per cent ussessed valuation for 1501 was and the actual estimated vaiua- In 1501 there was 8,747 ncres of whoat acres of oats, 4,000 acres of barley, 411 acres of flax, 404 acres of rye, 1,355 acres of mitlet 009 of meadow. There were returned by tho asses<ors 15,- 600 head of hogs, 17,006 cattle, 11,586 borses, 1,205 mules and 253 sheep Thirteen railroads centerin Omaha, soveral of which traverse the county in various di rections, affording amplo depot and shipping facilitis to every portion of the county. The main lne of the Union Pacific runs through the county diagonally in o north- west and southenst direction, while the Fre- mout, itkhorn & Missouri Valloy runs in the samo direction o few miles furtler north, aud the Chirago, St. Paul, Minncapo lis & Omaha runs through the northeast portion, in the county 's of corn, 14,- The Clty of Omahn, Omaba is a city of the metropolitan class, embracing 8 territory of Lwenty-five square miles and has a population, according to the ofticial consus of 1590, of 140,452, ngainst 30,- b18 in 1880, sbowing a gain of over 360 per cent. The assessed valuation 1s $20,000,000 and the actual estimated valuation of 53 000.000. The city has seventy m:les of paved streets, ninety miles of sowers, 175 miles of water mains, 103 miles of street railway and 128 miles of graded streets. Omaba has 163 mavufucturing establishments with an - vested capital of $7.015,000, cmploying over 12,000 operatives and laborers. The city has 190 jobing houses, with au invested capital of $14,100,000, and they do an annual business which aggregates over £50,000,000. Besides tho metropolis there are eight other inpor- tant towns and cities in the county, of which Bouth Omaha is of tho greatest commercial importance, being third 1 tho volume ot business done in the packing line in the Uunited States. Millard, Elkhorn, Water- loo, Valley, Florence and Irving- ton are all thriviog little ci The fact that Douglas contains a city so large as Omaha makes 1t the wealthiest and most important county in tho state. Tho samo cause answered for the fact that the price of land is kighrr 1n Douglas than any other county in the state. But it is errone- ous to suppose that Omana is all there is of Douglas county, for it is a fact, asour figures show, that thero is a vast amount of grain and stock raised on Douglas county farms and some of the most elegant farm™ homes within the borders of the stato aro owned by Douglas county farmers who have made vheir money entirely out of the soil, as the following personal interviews will show : An Old Timer, Mitchell Donahoe is a fair sample of the prozressive Douglas rounty farmer. He owns a fie proporty in the town of Eikhorn and is living at his ease, though he aamits ho was onco very poor. Ho sa; “1 came to this covnty thirty-five years ago without anything and entered 160 acres of land at the Omaha land ofice fn 1857. I mortesged eighty acres of it for a mule team, and fail- ing to meet the payment, forfeited the lang, leavitg me but éighty acres. I now own acres in one body, five miles south of Flk- horu, in seotion 2, township 14, range 10; 160 at Waterloo, and thicty-eight ‘acros west of Elkhorn, vesides my home of six lots where Ilive. 1 bought my landa little at a time ot from $10 1o &5 per acre. Have raisod grain and fed it to stock, usually feoding more than I raiscd, though year beforo last [ sold 3,000 busbels of corn.” Have 300 apple trecs on the big place and plenty of simall fruit, all of which does well. I built a largo barn this winter. 1 have made a success of farming aud have nothing to complain of,” Made # Success. Tsaac Noyes owns aud lives on a farm of 1,800 acres, bordering on the Elkhorn river, between the towns of Waterloo and Elk- horn. Itis oneof the hanasomest and best farms in Douglas county, prosenting @ beautiful picturo with its silvery river boraer, smooth bottom lands, elegant build- ings and grounds. *'Yos,” said Mr. Noye: mpted my first '160 acres in 1 how you that the prospect was not very inviting atthat timo, and for ycars afterward, I will relato a circumstance in point: Jacob Kirk came here 1a 1836 and secured 100 ncros and lived on it until 1867, wuen he got tired, concluding tuat the country was no good, and that his land would never be worth anything, offered to glve it to me freo gratls, 1advised him to stay by it, but when he said he was determined to go back to Towa, 1 told hum I would not only accept the gift, but would ive his wifo £0, which 1 dig. Some of Mr. Kirk's children were born on that place, and were the first borr. in this part of the country, but no tie could bind him to this country at that time, 1 raised 15,000 bushels of corn last year, and about the same the year before, Last year I sold 7,000 busbels at 57 cents per busbel, though 1 usually feed it all. Have on hand now 300 cattlo and am fecding 110 head. 1 market all my stock at Omaha, and donot think it would pay to go to Chicago uniess it would be with export cattle. 1 have paid but little atten- tion to fruit, but have all I need for homo use. However, this is an excellent fruit country, Sofar as & change of conditions betweon the present aud carly years are concerned, from & farmer's standpoint, 1 ‘would rather undertake to make a start here now than then, A young man, full of life and hope, can corue here now, go in debt fro eighty or 160 acres of land, and soon pay for it all right without being called unon to uu- dergo the privations of the early settlers,” Started with Nothing, George Gelston of Elk City talked wter- estingly of his early struggles with poverty sud later success as a farmer. Ho came hore fn 1860 with nothing, and bought his first land four years later. He now hasa fine farm of 240 acres, well improved and stocked, d bas all the comforts and couveniences that any one could desire i Mr. Gelston says ho first aud mado wonev out of wheat, but of late ears has turned bis attention to stock, and leeds from sixty to 100 head of catile a yea Bought corn last yoar at 40 cants & bushel, to feed to cattle, axd made it pay. 1 have always noticed that I make more money out of stock when grain is high than the reverse. Last year I went to Omaha sua vaid §.15 por 100 for forly head of sieers, fed them cent corn until they put on & gain of 451 pounds each, and then sold them in Omaba for 50. 1 had 180 a of corn last year that averaged forty-five bushels por sora, Torty ucres of oats that sveraged fty bushels. 1had 300 bushels of applos last fall, but wo farmers all gou beat when ‘Wo bought our trees of traveliug agents who sold us nursery stock not truo to name. T'le Fesult is we have nothicg scarcely Lut sum- mer and fall fruit. 1 have 500 apple trees in all, some of them too young to bear. I think poy wan who will got down 10 business as w8 were forced 10 do in the early days can | 81 acquiro a home and make & good living here farming. Mr. Gelston began with abso- lutely nothing, stopping in Douglas county on his way back from & wild goose chase_to Pike's poak. He lived on his farm when Mr. Rosewater was a telegraph lineman, and re lated an incident in which he assisted the present editor of Tre Bre 1n putting up a fallen wire ncar his place. 0, AW ott, 0. A. Wolcott is also an Elk City farmer who has grown up with the country and made himself quite comfortable by tlling the #oil. Ho came to this country twanty six yoars ago with a few dollars and a team, and now has a well improved farm of 620 acres to show for his industry and eood management. He has accumulated his lands by degrees, paying from $3to §20 an acre. Hbo foeds cattle the yoar around, and gen- crally buys grain. Could have made money out of hogs, but have lost thom all three dif ferent times, My corn Was not very good lust season. Had some that went fifty bush- ols per acre, but it would not averago $o much. Fed'100 head of cattle during the season. I have six acres of orchard, always have fruit, and have sold apples at £2.50 per bushel. Have ten acres of grove now big enough to furnish all the wood I need. Ne- braska cannot bo beat for farming purposes, 0 far as natural advantages o, but I am not entirely satisfied with tho wny markets are manipulated by big operators, trusts and combines, My land 1s now worth at least #35 per acre, Whitmore Bros. W. G. and Frank Whitmore, under the firm name of Whitmore isros,, own and op. erate a model farm of 700 acres, one-huif mile west of Valley, lying between the Platto ana Elkhorn rivers, Thoey bought their first half section fourteen years ago at £12.50 per acre and have added to it at various timoes sinceat pricos varying from $12.5) to §25 an acre. It is ell under fence and is well stocked with horses and cattle. Four huo- dred acres of it is sceaed down to tame grass, timothy, clover and bluczrass, generally mixed. W. G. Woitmore sa) *We have ver pastures that have becn seeded down for twelve years, afd heavily pastured, that is just as good now us ever, und in fact, is as ¢ood as can be grown in any state in the union. We make a business of baling and marketin v, and handle an annual output of about 6,000 tous. We usually have about 3,000 tons of our own raising, made on leased non-resident lands, besides buy- ing about tho same ~ amount from tho farmers avound us. We pay about an average of £ a ton, and sell at an average of about £, tho difference being expense ol baling and placing on track and our prot We have establishod a plant hero which makes a murket for all this hay which form- erly went up in_smoke, Last year we sold bay on track at #10 a ton as fast as we could load it, but of course that was an exception. We are now selling at #.50. We also buy and ship about 100,000 bushels of cori. a year. We feed about 150 head of cattle each year. e sold in December nead of fat cattle and have on hand in all about 160 head, We feed the year around, have our cattle fat on clover in July and finish them on ground foed mixed with oil cake and bran on scien- tific principles, and have topped the Chicago markets for the past two years. Our tamo grass pastures gives a big advautage. We are breeding Percheron horses and now baveon hand forty-three head, including some fine 1,300 to 1,400-pound brood mares, ‘'he coming season, in common with somo of our neighbors, we plant a few acres of sugar beets, 8s a starter, 50 as to be ready when Omaha builds a factory. A number of our farmers have of late yoars raised seeds quite extensively for eastern sced houses, and have made it pay, but thoy are looking forward tothe beetsugar business, which they think will pay better.” The Whitmore brothers have each built fine houses the past season aud their barns, sheds and apiliances for the care of stock ana farm products aro models of conveni- ence. W. G. Whitmore's new residence is perhiaps the best and costliest houso of its size in the county, outside of Omaha. I*isa perfect gem frow cellar to garret and is fur- nished to correspond. The building was planned by an Omala architect aud the grouuds are bemg laid out by an Omaha landscape gardenor. Looking from a second story front window five counties can be seen. But'all this is ouly a Douglas county farm and the proceeds of intelligent labor. Grain, Stock and Frait, W. C. Ainsworth of Elg City is known as a successful fruit raiser as well as farmer. He owns a splendid farm of 375 acres which ho purchased eight years ago at §35 per acre. Mr. Ainsworth says ho fed sixty head of cattle this year and lost money ou them but would have made good money had he sold at the right time. He carries on farm- g extensively but takes special pains with and dolightin propagating fruits of all kinds. He says: *‘Have twenty acres of orchard in fine condition. Proper varietics will do well bero and as for Douglas county, the ridge overlooking the Elkhorn all along here seems to be specially adapted to fruit raising, Small fruits of all kinds thrive well and yield abundantly with anything like proper care. The worst thing we have to contend with is the unscrupulous traveling agents for eastern nurseries, whose catalogues always show all the varieties one might want to order, but when the trees begin to bear we . find that fow, if any, of their trees provo true to name. The consequenco is that many orchards are al- most profitless, Iam in favor of patronizing our home nursories and believe trees from them will do botter und are less apt to black- heart than castern trees. Besides, home- grown trees are not exposed for days and perhaps shriveled up before they ave traus- planted. ‘Thero are only thrée or four varietics of cherries that can_bo vrofitably raised here, The English Morello is the best and early Richmond is good. 1 Lad two tous of grapes last year and am extending my vineyard every year, Blackberries and raspberries I have more than 1 want, and while they require somo attention anybody can have them who will. This section of Douglas county is destined to become a great place for fruit, as it is naturally adapted 1o it. The Farm Pays est. F. I. Reber, a prominent hardware dealer at Elkuorn, was seen and spoke as follows: [ own 320 acres in Dodgo county, which I bought twelve years ago at 81150 to $25 per acro, and have put thousands of dollars in improvements; havo a good house and varn and plenty of fruit of all kinds. 1 made my first and best money farming, and although 1 bave a nice business here, my farm pavs me best, even in the hands of a ronter. Year before last my share of the crop made me over §1,600. 1 think Nebraska farmers have a bonanza, provided always that they work and manage and do not spend their time buntivg up someLbing to complain about.” Never Hada Fallure, Johno Bryant is one of the oldest and best known farmers around Elk City, He bhas a beautiful bome and is surrounded with the rural comforts which city people so much desire but cannot possess, the fruits of vears of patient toil, Mr, Bryant sa 1 ‘came here from England in 1855, where I followed farming, pre-empted my first quarter section thirty-six years ago and now have 200 acres nicely improved, s you see. I have speut lots of money in improvements, and have made it all on the farm, I bhave six acres of orchard and had a fine crop of apples last vear, Some of wy neighbors called me o fool when 1 was plantiug 1wy orchard, but tho sequel proves that I was right. ‘Phis good fruit country, and results will bo still better when fruit raisers can get proper varietles. 1 Liave never fed much stock, but have made a success of farming just the same. There is no trouble about ‘arming in Nobraska, provided one Las the will and uses oraiuary judgment. 1 have raisea thirty-five crops here and never experienced a falure. True, certain kinds of crops huye at llmml been vather light, but slways a fair yield,” Preters Nebrasks, James Gilmore is the owrer of one of the prettiest farms in Douglas county, lying about two miles northwest of Eikhorn, Mr. Gilmore gave his oxperience thus: *I came to Douglas county thirteen years ago with a team aud §10in money. I have 240 acres of land which I bought for §10 to $15 an acre. I have put lots of money in improvements, have good house and barn and as good cattlé sheds as Lhere u i the country, I bave been feeding cattie for the past tive years, hi 100 bead on hand and aw: feeding thir. ty-five. I mada most of what I have by feed- ing stock, but have sold some grain. 1 have @ small orchard, but ave uot given fruit the atteation it aeserves as I consider this an ex- cellent fruit country. Have tried farmiog in Hlinols and Towa aod prefer Nobraska to oitlier. \We are more sure of & crop here and get better yields, besides it Is & healthier country.” Rents His Farm, Andrew Patrick, residing north of Elk- born, says: I bavebeen in Nebraska since 1500, Bought my frst isud ia 1oid, paid 9 por Acre fur It. 1 have 240 acres, highly improved, Iargo honse, barn, sheds, ex tensive groves furnisning all ' the wood I need, large orchard in good boaring, trees all doing well. 1am a carpenter by trade and rent my land for grain rent, which is more profitable than cash, but I stay right with my farm 8o as to s00 1 repairs are kept up and everything taken care of. Last ear the corn on my vlace made forty-five nd year bofore fifty bushels per acre; wheat, fourtoen last year and_vear beforo twenty-two bushels per acro. 1 came here with only £1 in money and have done reason- ably woll. Farming is likeany other business, a siccess if properly handled, but there 18 ove thing certain, a farmer cannot hope to follow the example of labor organizations and undertake to wor but eight hours a day. Takes Grain Rent, Dr. Baldwin has a fine farm of 820 acres adjoining that of Mr. Patrick, which ho rents out for grain ront and makes it pay. He bought his land in 1863 at §7.50 to §12 per acre. Ho has invested a large amount of the money made on the farm in improvements and now has ono of the best improved farms in that section. From Wisconsin to Nebraska. Peter Millor 1s another Valley precinct farmer whe came hore fourteen years ago from Wisconsin, and has made himself rich farming. All he had to start with was a mule team and a big family. Ho rented for a time, but s0on began buying land and now owas a 400-acre farm, highly improved, good buildings and well stocked. Ho has made it all in the last dozon years by farming in the strictest sense of the wor Thrifty Swedes, A. P. Ackerland came to t Sweden about fourteen yes but well educated, and went to work by tho month, Today he owns 400 acres of as fine land as over Iay out of doors, has plenty of money at interost, and 15 worth 25,000 or £0,000. Ho made 1t all by farming, pure and simple; began at the very bottom and never spoculated in any sense of the word. Ho has two brothers here whoso history is sunilar, country from 10, & poor boy, Worth 8100,000, Valley precinct has a largo community of Scacdinavian farmers, Swedes aud Danes, who all settled there about the same time, under similar ciroumstances, without mone; or influential friends, but with that native thrift for which they are noted. They began to climb the ladder the moment they landed on American soll, where no man is better than his neighbor. ' Ten of the above class could be named who are worth in tho aggre- gate move than $100,000, and as muvy more who aro Tomfortably situated and are adding to their possessions year by year. Those men know how to farm, how to make mouey aud how to save it. Bought a Fa W. A. Gray nine years ago bought a farm of 100 acres, two and three-fourths miles northwest of Klkhorn for &5 an acre. Mr. Gray says he still owes some on the place, but is in a fair way to pay it out. He has put considerable money into improvements ana is surrounded with every comfort a farm can produce. He has five acres of grove und hus threo acres of grapes. He has not made o business of feeding cattle, but has made more money out of hogs than anything else. “Last year my corn averaged fifty bushels, onts forty per acre. 1 cams hero from In- diana, where I farmed, but this certainly beats it. Yes, farmug is all right in this country.” J.J. Mil . J. J. Miller has a farm one and a balf miles west of Valley, which1s ong of the bost finproved in thet section. Ho came to Douglas county from Pennsylvania with no means and has succeeded in making a farm of 400 acres,with elegant buildings, orchards, ete,, and in stocking it with cattle and horses. He maae it all on the farm. Heis now proprietor of a lumber yard in Valley. Made it on the Farm. MecCleneghan Bros. are operating a 1,400 acre farm two miles west of Valle father came hero poor and died ay loaving at least §40,000 worth of proverty to the voys, and he made it all on tho farm, Horses Pay Best. George Drexel has owned and operated o small farm of 150 acres at Elk City, for the past four years. He has his hittle place well improved. both s to buildings and cultiva- tion, and has an orchard of 200 trees, with smull fruit_in abundance. “I claim that farming in Nobraska 15 a profitable business if properly carried on. 1 fecd somo cattle, but am giving most of my attention to horscs, which I think more profitable. I consiaer tho Omaba market a great advantage to the farmers of tho state.” John Lemke. Mr. Lemke is one of the pioneers of Doug- las county, settling here in 1866, Like most of the old setlers he came here empty- handed. He formerly hved in Illinois, and came here to get cheap land and soon owned a whole section. Nine years ago he quit farming and twirned his entire attention to handling and shipping stock. He is ono of the best known stock shippers in Nebrasia, aud it is a rare thing whon the name of John Lemke, Millard, does not appear in the South Omaba papers as bemng on the market with stock, Ho bought his lana at different times along as he could pay for it, and made it all by farming. He has sold some of his land, but still owns 320 acres in Chicago precinet and 160 acres in Millard recinet, all of which he reuts out. He hives n a splendid home in the town of Millard, surrounded by all the comforts of modern life, Yes, said Mr. Lemke, I think farming pays 1 Nebraska. I know men who a few years ago worked for wages, ufterward rented land and later still bought the farms they had rented, havo them paid for aua are now in independent circumstances, 1 have if mind one man who rented a farm two miles south of Millard in the edga of Sarpy county, made money every yoar, soon bouzht the farm for §7,000, and is now welloff. The average prico of land around me is about §40 per acre. The Omaha stock market for hogs is good and it will not pay to ship common cattle to Chicago, though it will pay to go to Chicago with heavy export cattle. Speaking of Douglas county farms I will say that in my opinion the land here will stand more rain and more drouth than tnav of any other portion of the state. Paid For it in One Year. John Reid, proprietor of the Reid hotel at Valley, camo to Douglas county in 1576, bought elghty acres at $i2.50, ten yoars ago boueht eighty more at same price and 160 at $0 por ncre. Ho has been offered 860 per nerco for one improved eighty. Last.vear ho raised and marketed 400 tons of hay from his land at §4 per ton, making §1,000, or more than enough to pay for the ground it grew on 1n one year, Started with a Yoke ot Cattle, H. Byars, one of the old _settlers of Doug- las couuty, owns a farm of 400 acres threo miles northwest of Valley. He bought bis land of Governor Saunders years ago, after baviog first pre-empted a quarter section, Ho came from eastern Missouri with uothing but u yoke of oxen. His farm is highly im- proved, big orchard, ten acres of grove and largo vineyard, Mr. Byars used to bhandle cattle, but bias drifted into borses and mules, which he deals in extensively. Witliam Lewon, Mr. Lewon came to Douglas county in 1868 with nothing but his braios and muscle in the way of cavital. He worked by the month ana saved his money until he was able to make a paywment on 160 acres of school laud at§l0an acre, in MeArdle pracinct, which now constitutes bis home. It is paid for and well improved with money dug out of the ground. Mr. Lewou says if & mau comes here now without money, Le can s00n buy & team, rent o furm, ana’ 1o four or five years owu it and be well fixed. Has Rotired, Heury Karsten is oue of the Douglas county pioveers, He came here in 1557 with two yoke of cattle and & big stock of ambition, #ud 1s now liviug at his ease in the town of Millard. His father and himself both worked out by the month at first, and be pre-emptes his first oighty acres in 1850 and in 156 homesteaded 160 more. He now owns acres four miles west of Millard, 160 in county and 160 in Wuyne county. Has made mostof his money out of nogs and corn, tbough bhas fed some cattle, Kach of his furms have good buildings and orchards. Mr, Karstensays he bas never known of o failuro of crops in Douglus county. Speak- ing of the Omaba market he sald it was a great thing for the farmers of Neoraska. He unhesitatingly says that the chauces for BLArLing bere now are as good or better than when be begau. If a now beginner bas no team he can work snd buy oue, and if he b @ team can reut laud and scou buy & farol Thinks beet sugar raisiog will be profitable, and some of bis neighbors will raise some this season. Poter Glandt, % Peler Glandt was socu at bus elegant bome, THE OMAHA DAILY nr#i-! MONDAY, R nursing & lamo log, caused by his horse run- ning Against a wire) fence And almost sawing off the limb. A hospitable welcome was given Tiik Bre miafl, and Mr. Glandt, in an swer 10 questions, said came from Towa to Omaha in the 4ali of 185 and the follow- ing spring pre-emiptad a quarter section of land where 1 now live, paying 50 per cent tor the use of the necessary money. 1 had a yoke of cattle wnen 1 landed ‘on the Ne. braska sido of o fivor and went 1o work hauling logs for Sanlsbury & Smith's saw mill, which stood attne férry landing, a it tlo north of whore the Union Pacific shops now stand. My wife cookea for the mon at tbe mill, 80 wo both worked. In the spring of 1857 T got lumber sawed for a shanty and londed it up, together with & lot of pro visions—for we didn't know us we would get back to town very soon—and traveled here to this spot, whore we have lived ever since. We built the houso in one day. I huve since built two houses here—the first, not counting the shanty, costing §1,500, and the ono I now livein §2500. Tho barns and sheds have cost me in the neighborhood of 3,000, Inow own 1,65 acres of land, which I bought at various times at prices ranging from §3 to £0 per acre, Wao have about 500 apple trees and always have plenty of fruit. ‘This is o good fruit country and 1 know men who are making money out of it. I have made my biggest_mone, 100 to 130 head ovory year. those who think the cattle out of cattle and feed from Iam not one of is market con trolled by a few men, Lastyowr corn was high and I got £.70 for my cattlo. This year | do not expect more than £ 5o you seo there are other causes for tho rise and full of the markets besides tho manipulation of 1arge operators, Tho Liverpool market governs prices hero to o great extent, The South Omaha markot is a great thing for tho state. Wo can now take our fat stock there in any quautity and can always take the money home with us, whilo under the old regimo we often sold to butchers on time and somo of them never paid up. My land is ull under fonce ard | have 160 acres of tame pasture—timothy and clover--and 1t does first rate. Iarms have sold around here lately for £50 to &5 per acre, but well improved farms are worth from 80 to 5. I used to raise wheat to soll at 81 to § per_bushel and stul raise some every year, Yes, I think a man could start here now without money easier than in early days, for the reacon that he can get work at good wagesand not be called upon to sufier the hardships and incon- veniences incident to pioneer Jife, Why, I used 10 go to Calhoun with a little grist of wrain and baul wood for the miller to get him to grind it for me, and he took his toll just the same. 1 have reuters who began in debt for their teams and now own farms. 1 only know of one man who came here with money, but they aro all well off.” Mr. Glandt ‘and_his wife are past the meridian of life, but are both hale and hearty and bid fair to live and enjoy the fruits of their oarly steuggles for many years to come, They certainly have a ro- markatle history, and one that might be a useful lesson to others, ek L Ac all, Mr. J. P. Blaize, an oxtensive real estate dealer in this city, narrowly escaped ono of the severest attacks of poeumonia while in the northern part of the state during the ro- cent blizzard. Mr. Blaize had occasion to arive several miles during the storm and was 80 thoroughly chilled that he was unable to get warm, and insido of an hour after his re- turn he was threatened with a severe case of pneumonia, or long fever. Mr. Blaize seat 10 the nearest arug store and got a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, of which he bad often neard, and took a number of large doses, He says the effect was wonderful and that in a short time he was oreathing quite easily. He kept on taking the medicine and the next day was able to come to Des Moines. Mr. Bluizo regards his cure as sim- ply wonderful, aud says he will never travel again without a bottle of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.—The (Des Moines, lowa) Saturday Review. ' 25 and 50 cont bottles for use Ameri 1 sleeping rst railway to Jeruvsalem will ¢ be opened in the spring of next year, The output of potroleum in this coun- try last year surpasses all previous re ords, and amounted to 50,150,000 barrels. A hundred and twenty-seven years ago England seized the first eight bales of cotton raised in the south and deciared its production sbould cease. The importance of our commerce with Great Britain is shown by the fact that sho takes $172,000,000 out of a total of 275,000,000 of our exports of farm pro- ducts. A recent invention consists of a com- bination of levers in connection with the trucks of a railroad car, so that in case of derailment the brakes will work iv automatically and stop the train. A high authority states that the 305 iron furnaces in operation in this coun- try at the close of February could turn out 13,000 tons more pe. week than the 5 furnuces in operation at the beginn- ing of June, 1890. Aiv plows, V-shaped, are to be placed before the locomotives of the fast ex- press trains of one of the English rail- roads. It is expected that greater speed 11 hie obtained by overcoming much of the resistence of the air in front of the train, The wonderful growth in the beet sugar industry is shown by the following statistics: In 1857 therc was only onc such refinery in this country. 1In 1888 the total output was 3,600,000 pounds, while in 1801 California produced 13,000,~ 000 pounds and Nebraska and Utah 6,000,000 pounds each. A press dispatch reports a scheme for the ercction of dams in the St. Louis river, near 'ond du Lae, Minn., for nower purposes, and it is said ono had already been completed. It is expected that 100,000 horse-power can be realized and itis proposed to furmsh power for varied uses in Duluth. Twenty years ago New England fac- tories produced 80 por cent of the hoots and shoes made in this country. The New England product has largely in- creased, yet it is now but 55 per cent of the total value, the industry having been established in other parts of the country. Since 1880 importations of hides and skins have increased about 45 per cent. During the same period e ports of manufactures of ieather have increased more thun 125 per cent. The New York Central Railroad com- pany is about {0 build extensive shops ata point on tho line about ten mile from Buffalo, A tract of about 1,500 acres has been secured, and the work of construction g to commence ut once. TRepair shops will first be built, but o complete plantfor locomotive building will eventually be added, und employ ment given to,about 1,200 men. This new village is $9 be called Depew, American ideas are entering conserva- tive Europe andinow bid fair to prevail aitogether, The English companies now use baggage cars—or luggnge vans —and some of ¥hem have adopted the checking systery. They are also stead- ily encroaching upon ' the first, second und third class system and approaching a plan of uniform accommodations for all passengers. They have adoptea American methods of lighting with and electricity, Purlor und sleeping cars of American make have been cau- tiously introduced here and there. And now the important Southeastern rail- way, from London to Hastings, puts on a regular American train of American- built cars, and the passengers like it! The report of the United States labor commissioner on the cost of coal pro- duction covers 147 coal mines in this country and several foreign mines, He shows that the average cost of coal per ton—after paying for mining, clerk and official salaries, interest, rent, taxes, in- surance, and wear and tear of buildings and machinery, in short, reckoning all possible expenses—that the average cost of a ton of coal in the United States is 92 cents: in Canada the cost is $1.04; in Great Britain, $1.15; and on the conti- APRIL | the cost 11, 1892. 72 nent conts, The wages of miners rango from $7.25 1o $12 ,’n-r weok in this country. If wo add to the cost of pro- duction, say a profit of 10 cents per ton, ver ton will be still less than the cost in Canada and Greht Britain, but the intervention of railroad com- binations and excessive commissions of wholesalers und the liberal rake-off of the rotailers, makoes the cost to the con- sumer in this country little short of robbery. - DeWitt's Sarsaparilia cleansos thy bload, increasesthe awpetito and tonos up thy sys tem. It has bonefittod macy paopla whd have suffered from blood disordors, It wil heipyou. AF rr Money. *“1've heard of a girl pawning her en- agement ring to buy hev lover o Christ- mas present, but I nover heard anything stranger than a story told me while out wost recently,” said the barber as ho stropped his razor the other day provious to operating on a Boston Herald man, “Ina combination jowelry and pawn shop a_diamond pin was ox- hibited for sale. It caught the fancy of a young Iady. The more sh wed on the pin tho more she wanted it for the man she loved. $he went home and got ail the money she possessed. Coming back to the store she asked the price of the pin and found it a fow dollirs more ol and than she had. ‘“‘Haven't you any old gold that you can wirn into cash?” asked the jewelor, *Wo will buy old gold at any time.” The girl thought a minute, ~ Suddenly she brightened up and took a set of teeth from her mouth, Tho plate was of solid gold. **Can’t you use that?” she asked the pawnbroker. I shall have to weigh it,” he suaid All right.” nd to we it I will have o knock the teeth of “Knock them off, then.” The broker so, weighed the plate, and found that its due made up tho lack and 93 cents. The girl took her 93 cents and tho dia- mond, and went out with a handker- chief over her mouth. -~ Mrs. L. R. Patton, Rocktord, 1L, writos: ‘rom personal experience I can recommend DeWitl's Sarsaparilla, a cara for impuro blood and general debili SHORT AND S Never bo idle. Make few promises. Always speak the truth, ever speuk evil of any one. Act up to your engagements, Keep good company or none. Be just before you are generous. Never borrow if you can possibly avold it. Good character else. Keep your own secrets any. is above all things il you have ever play at any kind of games of chance, Keep yourself innocent if you would be happy. When you speak to a person look him in the fac Save when when you ave ol Always live. misfortune within your income. Avoid temptation through fear you may not withstand it. Good company and good conversation are the very sinews of virtue. Your character cannot be cssentially n jured except by your onw acts. If one speak evil of you let your life be so0 that no one will believe him. u are young tospend excepted, Dewitt's Sarsaparuia cleanses the blood, Placed or the Retired List, with every progressive man or woman in the United States, or at least ought to be placed there — that is the old-time methods, pills, and mercurial and poisonous lotions and potions sold for constipation, indigestion, or stomach discascs of all kinds, and in their place adopt the Carlsbad Sprudel Salts. It is the most efficacious treatment in the world; a never-failing remedy for bad breath. Makes life a pl ure and you can eat as heartily as you please. Try them. Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sole Agents, New York SOUTH OMAHA. Union Stock Yards Compfi&y SOUTH OMAIIA, Best cattle, hog and sheep market In the west COMMISSION HOUSES GEO. BURKE & FRAZIER STOCIK COMMISSION, THE LEADERS— Wood Brothers, Bouth Omuha—Chicago. - Telephon Maurket reports by mail and wi furnished upon uj —THR L1V James H. Campbell Company, Chleago On tSt. Louls, Kunsas City, South Soux City, Fort Worth Ao, Chieago, Crill, Denny & Company, Live Stock Commission. Hoomw Nouth omata. W.F 110g S| sman. cxchange Bld'g, s Boyer & Company, 58 and E: . Correspo Special atl 10D Lo orders for stockers & Teedors. | 1880 2 = Incorporated, I Capital fully patd, $20, 00, Waggoner Birney Company, l'crr)" Brothers & Company, Live Stock Commission, Room 51 Exchange Bulld South Omaha. Telephone Gassman & Dudley, | M. H. Hegarty & O, Roows 60 and 61, Ex-| Room 31 Fxcanze chunze Bullding. Building. uth Omaba, - Neb|South Omaha, - Neb Miller Brothers, South Omahs change Bullding SOUTH OMAHA BANKS. Union Stock Yard ! —BANK.— The unly bank at the yards. Capital and sur plus, $20.000. Col krowlng out of the live stock buxiness should be sent direct Lo this bank Shippers can deposit for credit of thelr Luwe Lok whereyer lucated. tional —-———-q OMAHA : Manufacturers” and dobbers Directory / AWNINGS AND TENTS, OMAHA TENT & AWN-| WOLF BROS. & €O, HARDWARE, RECTOR & WILHELMY | INGUOMORNY, | monts, s, e oo, | LOBEGKA Linw, ———— S BAGS AND TWINES &5 LUMBER. x BISHOP & 00, CHAS. R, LEE, | BEMIS OMANA BAG 0O | " | JOHN A, WAIEHE;D Tmporters and mefs, four kil Hardwood Tumber, wood sucks, burlaps, twine, Lk Ry il carpots and parquot | IMPOrted. Amoriown Por t fon (winestar HoortoR | T waakos S ——————— ey ' | et ) - - oth and Douslas. | Gutney Whits BICYCLES. | BOXES LIQUORS, | H. C. T0DD Skeiciesl - S esaor 10,3, W M e clar, 1y X 110 Do M. 0. DAXON, Bleyd 31 on monthly paymonts. 120 N I~lhn‘\u BOC 3 AND SHOES. MORSE-COE SHOECD, 110) Howard Stro it Faotory 0orner 11th and Dougins strasty Wo are niaking 01040 prices £ oath biyors, wal are selilng & clnsd of goods whioh 15 very salo wolo with morc! KIRKINDALL, JONES & | AMERICAN HAND SEW- ED SHOE CO. rubboe 1204 6 Mt [ sale Mfrs. Agents | Hoots. )i IRubbor Shoeco, | felt 104, 1106 Harney st | o shoes, At BREWERS. 108, SCHLITL BRE- CONFECTITONERY. VOEGELE & DINNING Comfectioners and bors of - forel 1| mestic fruits, 1110 Howard st _— CARRIAGES. W.R.DRUMMOND & CO. | rlage butlders. Hose and patrol wagons speelilty, | 18th, opp Court Touse. | W- T. SEAMAN. Omalin's large t varle wagons and carela P ——— S ToPs. C. ). ANDERSON, Mrfa. buggy tops, backs. cushions, ete. B0 81 CARRIAC E?‘AHA DEEEIAHE TOP | AT Darby, cushion 214 North COAL, COKE, GMAHA GOAL, COKE & | EAGLECORN CE WORKS LIME CO., Hard and soft conl. E. | ecr. 16th ard Douklus st . Tops, Acks, ete. HLh-wt A0k, | CORNICI, Jrnlce, window caps, metatic’ skyll 110, 1112 Dod s, t. ete: ] CLOTHIN BLOTCHKY & COHEN, Clothlug, notion, furnish «. Glve us o trial Samples preput pross. 118 Hars and whole 109 Hnruey Manufrs elotht street. —— DRY GOODs. KILPATRICK - KOC 1 3 M.E EMITH & CO,, DRY 60025 £D,, Dry goods, nottons, nishin ods. Corner 11th and Howard-sts. furnishing goods. Cor 10 and Howard st ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES 1 for BILMORE & RUHL, fur- I‘m Roodanotions, gont's IER& €3, | Liquor merchants, 1112 FRICK & HERIIST, Harne Mirs' Ken nedy's Bast Indla bie-| \Wholesale lguor deaters tors [ 1001 Faenan s _—m MILLINERY “ 1. 0BERFELDER & 00, tmportors and fobbersot milinary, notonsy. Ml OFders prompt | dithst —_— MUSICAL, C. A STONEHILL, Milltners. nottons eloaks ete. HEUS S, 10th st | A HOSPE IR, | Planos organs, matorinls, oo Loug lns st THE MEINBERG €O, 100 N, 10 muste Artiats OILS. “SNOW DRI OIL Sor Torn L OYSTERS. PLATT & 0., A an ¢ it lory. Dasia OVERALLS, SUIRTS, ETC. KING & SIMEAD, {RGBINSIIN-\SYDK({N— Mfrs of ‘K Mfrs celobrated R - | Tehirts ana overails,et skin" ove GIEIS S, Tith st hirts, Omali, PRODUCE COMMISSION, Estublished, 1878, BR WHITNEY & CO. AP Produce, fruts of il Dutter, cges and poultry || Kinds. o i ol lsth st ¢ i Tothost, SR U | SONS,, Butter, eggs an1 poultry 1200 Howard-st. KIRSCHBRAUN JAS. A. CLARK & Cd., Buttor, choos, oxgy poultry and kame. 817 South 13th Strook 1. A RYDER & cO, 0. PEGAU, ~ i Commieston merciant, | Proing rerong Chooso’ and oo 12th and Howard st - MULLIN & MC CLAIN. - | Spectaltios. butte SCHROEDER & 00, | MOORE & FERQUSON, Butter, cigs, choeso. Cash buyers butter and | frults, poslicy, i ks Lother | Agents for ' Nyirs produce ston. | Royal horse and cittly WOLF ELECTRICAL CO.» Illustrated cataloz fr 1514 Capltol a; "FURNITURE OMAHA UPHOLSTER" 16 co. cturers of Up- ed furniture BEEBE & RUNYAN FUR- NITURE €0, Grace and reots. , Ete. GROCERIE; DRUC 0. M. STEELE & CD., Tuirteenth 4255011t St GREELEY & CD., sples. 605 N, dieh J.B. HUSE & CD, [ Dutter, eces, | pouler, foue spoctuiiar: Battay 1 Tiowara Stroot Towardwdear T ke R R S W. E. RIDDELL RIDDELL & 0D Wholsalebutter & eggs | Buttor, cheess, oggs, ble try und g fruits pouls Buys Is for cash. 413 and s 38, 11th-s T PAPER CARPENTER PAPER CO KINR PAPER CO, BLAKE, BRUCE & CD., | carry n full stock of [Wrapplug paper.all kinds Vrinting, Wrapping ana | of " telies et 149 12011205 Jones street, | 10th and Harney streets, | WriLNg paper, card pa- | Hosard streot. ‘Telo~ Orualia. Ouiati, pore Phone, 17 i T @ STOVE REPAIRS. GRAIN, STO . B.; MC WHORTER, B4 of Trade o te. 7S krnin, ¢t wi and st Louls. | W. A L. BIBBON & CO., e Y LTty | kloves, mittens. 120 nud Harney. ilth and Harnoy. 1818 Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. The eminent speclalist in nervour registored graduate in medeine, s dip. eatarrh, spermutorrhocs, 108t mANLOO orrhives, gieet, varicocele, visit me may bo troate | a; eurely packod, no ents OF 3e o6, " Correspondence 'y private. 1800k (Ml jundays 10 8. m. 10 13 m. Send stawp £0F r chromic, pr OPTICAL HOUSE OF THB ALOE & PENFOLD C0., 114 South 15th Street, Next to Postoflice, Omahu. Practical Opticians Ana branch of world renowned optioal estublish- ment of A. 8. Aloe & Co,, St Louls. Our method superior (o all others: our 1e ro auperior; wi Bot weary or Uire the oyes. The frawes properly sd- fusted to the fa Eye=s T:sted Free of Charge. Prices Low for First<class Goods. INDIAN DEPREDATION GLAIMS Persons who haye lost property from Indian raids shonld file their elatms under th an Depro {ation Actof March 4 3.1 The tuois Jiniited, wn | the elaims are taken up by the courtin the order in which they ure received. Taks Notice acts entercd into with atto At are mads null and wod all clialuis pro BEL hatall con ys prior 1o ths id, Tuformation glven ptly atteadod to by the BUREAU OF CLAIMS. XRO Bee Buildin OMAHA, NEBRASIKA S This Bureau Is guarantesl by the Owiha Beg, the Plogewr Vress sud tho Hio Fraucisco Exswluer. OMAHA STOVE REPAIR WORKS, alcs and wator s for any oo mad; 1lay, Stove TOYS. SASH. | M. A. DISBROW & CO,, Manufuctarers of sash G00 19 biinds and | Monlaings. Tranoh of Hee, 120h and Tzard sta " H. HARGY & 0D, Sh e kU0 ringos L ivate, blool, skin and unnary disoascs 4 Show. is suill treating with the gre WNIkhe loas0s, lmpotency. ayplills. strict ent f0r 1043 Of Vitul pow.r, Pi or Instruments st by mnil o 0 raonal interview preforred. Consul Omos bours ¥ . Modiciug or. OnO rias of Life) sent frey THE SHORTEST LINE T0 CHICAGO is via the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y, as represented on this map, [ gioux oIy c"E',:\G "Tam, ) . ACEDAR WID OM A5 BruiDES MOINES Electric Lighted, Steam IHeat- ed Vestibuled trains leave Omaha daily at 6:20 p. m.,, ar- riving at Chicago at 9:30 a. m, City Ticket Office: 1501 Far- nam St., Omaha, F. A. Nasi, Gen'l Agent, = C. C. LincoLn, Pass. Agent, NERVE AND BIGAIN THEAT- Hystorla, Ulczinens, Fits, Nou- ervous L'rustrut on caused by Wakofulness, Metnl Dep: Brain, causing nsanity, uiser DR 1O WEST'S 1, 8 specific ta . Headache, aleohi) or tobieeo, wlon, Softnens of th ducay, death, I'rem of Power In Foun worrhon ¢ Eulf ubuse over Indulgonce onuis i 4.0 £ W i Aran oo slx boxes L0 cure Kich 0rdor for i boxes, with &) wiil send writien wilirant © (0 rofund 1f not enrod. Guarantes 1xsued am SC. Dl by Goodman Drug Co., 1110 Fa r‘? Or, Bailyy, $ 4 Tho Leading Uy TP Dentist ™ Thirl Floor, P ixton Bl g 16th and Farnam Sts, Telepho o TRUOY. EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN Los.all werk warrauted TEETH All Bl X 8t reasonuble u ida