Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1892, Page 10

GROWTH OF GAGE It Ranks Third in the State in Population and Produots, LABOR'S SURE AND BOUNTIFUL REWARD Gathered Facts from Prosperous People and Public Records, YOU STIR THE SOIL,NATURE DOES THE REST Bustling Beatrios, Wido-Awake Wymore and Other Towns. SHORT INTERVIEWS WITH FARMERS Resources of & Wonderfully Fertlle Region and How Thoy Are Bolng Im- proved—Industries und Products Flourish Alike, Gage belongs to the southern tier of coun- tiea of the state, hence it tios in that dosir- aolo belt, where the climate is mild in win- ter,and there is no excessive heat in summor; that fertilo and prohfic region, whore the hard wheatof the north and the sugar cane and sweot potato of the south grow and thrive in fields sido by side, ‘These favorable conditions admit of diversified farming, which have been im- proved by the sturdy tillers of the soil, with tho result thut (Gage county can never Know what itis to have a falure of a crop on which it is nearly or altogether dependent. Its soll is deop and of absolutely inoxhausti- ble fertility, producing enormous vields ot grain of all kinds, whilo root crops and fruits of every variety known in this clime are of largest s1zo and abundanco, Tho surfaco for the most part is conven- fontly arubie. The hills are not abrupt, and tho low lands, though level in largo roadths, have very fow marshy wastes. In fact, what low lands there are which take on the charac- teristios of marshos aro among the best in the county for producing hay. There is no land within the borders of Gage county which caunot be converted into cultivabie and highly productive fields. There 15 considerable timber, every river and stream being fringed with a luxuri- ant growth of trees, while the early sottlers have thickly aotted ' the face of the country over with @ growth of trees, which have added a great ceal to the beauty and useful- ness of the county. The county is finely watered. The Blue river flows through iv from the northwestern corner 1o the southeastern bouadary, It tias nine tributaries besides othor streams in the northeastern portion. Thero 1s scarcely n quarter section of land in the county which U not blessed with “living water.” Tne rainfall is reliablo and statistics show 1t to bo greater than in avy other county in eastern or southeastern Nobraska. Even in ch n yoor as that of two years ago, it is 8810 to say that Gago county suffered as little or less than any other county in the state. This {5 due not more to its superior advantage in rainfall than to that quality of the soil which admits of holding molsture on tho top of a_clay subsoil which uudorlies the thick, loamy soil. This upper soll absorbs moistura very readily,and within a fow hours after the hardesu rain can be tillod. Thero has never been a failuro of crops 1n Gago county from climatic causes. Abundant Crops. The soil needs no fortilizers. There are numerous instances whero corn has been grown suocessively on the same ground for twenty years with no perceptible decrease in the yield, and never an ounce of fortilizer used. Both soil and climate are favorable to the production of o great variety of cercals, grasses, vegetables and fruits, ~ Among the artlolos raised by tho farmers of Gago county may be mentioned corn, wheat, oats, rye, miller, flax, sugar cane, barley, broorm corn, beans, clover, timothy, potatoss,onions, turn pumpkins, squash, watermelon, cantelopes, and all other varietios of vege- tables, fralts, berries and grapes. In fact, almost any article that grows iu the tomper: ate zone can be found here in abundance. Nearly the entire county is under cultiva- tion, the raro exceptions being so few as not 10 be Important enongh to bo considered. School Statistics. Gage county has 153 school distric.s, the schools of which are conducted with the most approved methods by skillful and thorough teachers. A. A, Reod is the popu- lar and eficient county cuperintendent. Who furnishes for Tk Bir o fow facts as ollows : Districts Total value of school property Total expenses for 1891 to July Bonds Issued 5 Bonds canc nnually in Roatrioe, where the teachers meot and dis- cuss their work, and this year Supsrintond- ent Reed has iutroauced a plan of holding local fnstitutes in different localitios, whore teachers and patrousof thoe schools may meet and histen to discussions and addressos by well kuown cducators, thus ncroasing the 1uterest of our publio school he plan has succeeded admirably, and as it is ontirely a new idea PProf. Iteed is receiving much de- sorved praiso. The district schoolhouse of Gago county is not blot on_the landscaps, with broken or shutterless windows, tumblo- down doorsand defaced outbuildings,but is tho pride of the district, belng tasty,sudstan- tial aud well kept, st Crop Statistion, From rocords, kept by County Clerk A. G. Keim, the following lateresting facts are wathered. Actual valuation of live stock in GGage county : KIND OF STOCK, NUMBER VAL Horsos. Catl any bou- nds of acres devoted to raising broom corn, sugar cora, millet, barley, ote., of which no record was mado, bosides'tho iargo tracts de- voted to tho ruising of Dotatoos avd root crops, and Lo 1tho production of sweet corn and 10matoes for the big cauniug factory at Beatrice. Of course only incomplote and artial record could be mado of the number of fruit and 10rest troes, oF grapa vines and small fruits, but the Ngures so far as ob- foilows : ho couuty contuins S44 square miles or 542,000 acres of the grandest soil wn the world, Tho populstion of Gage county is #6844 In 1850 It bad 15,104 or several” huadred loss thap 1be present population of its county seat alone, Railroads of Gage County, From nine differont directions railroads enter Gago couuty, giving it tho best of op- portunities tor getiiug grain and produce Qquickly to the groat eastorn warkets. Their Wileage 1n the county and valuo is as follows: MILES. VALUK Burlington route . W ! Unlon Pacliie - ANi.060 ook Islund. .. . £ 242,040 ansas Olty & Heatrice. 4 16,916 The Land and the Feople. Tho best idea of tho valus of land in this fayored county of a favored stuta can be ob- talned intérviewing the farmers them- solves. Try to buy them out sud you will ulckly find that it takes capital Lo lovest in &mmnu dirt, fo the larger portion at least. F'rom £ Lo $100 acre 1s the price which xe) uts tho valuo of the average furmer's bolding, avd be is not anxious to dispose of it at that. To appreciate the iu- crease lu values from & dozen or twealy yoars ago to the prosent timo, note the inter- viows which follow in this urticle, The people are mostly of Amerisan nativ- although there are some townships largely sottied with a class of sturdy indus- trious German Americans, who with their descenaants are a credit to any community re they live, Thors 1s quite a settle. mont of Prussian Monnonites west of Boat- rico, who can give the howlers agawmst “the pointers on economy, inaustry and sobrioty. They have fine homes, woll _culty vated fields, a handsome stone church and school and atain oll senses desirable oitizans. T'here are & large numbor of Dankards in the county, Wospeak of thom by thoir name bonause wo kiow it will bo r a as a recommendation for the county so fortu nate as o have tois quiot, paace-loving, in- dustrious veoplo in its midst. So much for Gage county in genoral and now for its citios Beatrice, Boatrice, the capital of (fage county and the most populous city fu this portion of Ne- braska, js located on the banks of the Blue river, 1n the cantar of the county. It is tho third city of the state, as shown by the von- sus of 1500, having a population of 13,536 and has gaived 465 per eent. since 1850, The auvantages which Heatrice possesses asa munufacturing aud distributiog point are well kuown, but may bo briefly summar- ized as follows! Iailroaas leading out in nine different directions—tho Burlington north, south and east; the Union Pacitie north and south; the Rock Island southonst, west and vorth, and_the Kansas City and Beatrice southoast. T'he Biuo river, which has a rapid flow, uffords magnificout water power only partialiy utilized. It is but a short dist ce fro oal fields to the south, ioru is & splondid and increasing trado with tho surrounding country, All thuso things indicate its favoruble location for manufacturing and distributing, Boat- rica has the following industries alrendy and invites others: The Dempster Wind Mill company, employing nearly 100 hands win- ad Just now obligad to run night and day to all ordors; the Beatrico v, running full blast; tho pipe works, emploging about the Beatrice paving and building vks, omploying nearly as many: Oatmeal company, with a_capac of 100 barrels daily, running day and tight tho Beatrico paper mill, temporarily dis- abled by the high waters which carried away a part of the dam; the Beatrice Cau- ning company, with nearly 1,000 acres of sweot corn contracted for thix year aud a large number of acres of tomatoes, which will keop at loast 200 hands busy for voroe months; two cigar factories, employing a score of people; Beatrice Stoam dye works; u shirtand overall factory and new shoo factory, bott buily and s00n to bo in opera- tion; Black Bros.” flouring mill, with o pres- cnt capacity of 200 barrels, which it is pro- posed to double this year by the erection of au addition as large as the ~ present big mill; tho Beatrico cornice works, broom factory, Beatrice iron works, Beatrice Light and Power company, Beatrice Rapid Transit and PPower company, two steam laundrios, sey- oral larwo harness shops, tho exg packing factory, with fifteen to twenty men em- ployed: the Beatrico Blank Book and Bind- company, four biz newspapor offices, om- ploying from's balf o dozen o o scoro of hands oach: the Beatrico novelty works, manufacturing patent wire flowerstands, pateat If weaner, wire fences, ote,; Beatrice pianing mill, ewploy- ing. a dozen mon; Boatrice Tent and Awning company, Beatrice Plat- ing company, Beatrice Llcctrio company, Lou Wolin's carriage factory, Meyer's cal riage and wagon shop, the former empl ine u dozen and the lattor half as many men; Neidhart's marble works, and many smaller institutions, euch helping to swell the large number of wageworkers, who invarably con- tributo the highest prosperity to the town thoy Livo in. The Finest Baildings. The new Gage county court house, just com- pleted, cost, with its furnisnings, over $125,000, and is one of the most beautiful stractures of the west. It is four stories in height, with & frontage of 140 feet and wings 'of 82 feot in depth. A massive tower 120 foet high rises from tho front ceuter, from the top of which a view can be obtained of the rich country surroundiag for twenty miles, Tho matcrial used is Rawlins gray stone, tho roof of slato. The stylo of archi- tecture is bold Romanesaue, and is finished on the interior with tile floors, iron stair- cases, carved ouk balustrades, bandsomo and elaborate woodwork, aud altogether in u manner betitting the capitol building of tue third county of Neoraska. Tho Paddock hotel and opera house of prossed brick, and four stories high, was crected by Senator Paddock at & cost, including ~fornishing, of $120,000. It is as popular & hostelry as con be found wost of Chicago. The Nebraska Na- tional bank buildingis of vrimmod stono four stories in height, and beautiful struc- ture. The First Natioaal bank building of pressed brick of threo stories, tho Masonic temple about 100 feot square and threo stories high, the Howerkert building threo stories, Drako block three storins, govern- ment postoffice burld: soon to be built, rman National bank biock, Nicholls build- ing, Dorsoy and Miiler blocks, Ameri bank block, Penner block, Spencer ana Eimoro blocks, “The Ploasanton' and Beck- ley house are among the many fine busiaoess buildings of whica Beatriciaus aro proud. The public schools are heid in buildings fully in keeping with such a city. The Con- wral High school building of brick is threa stories high and occupios ac entire square near tho center of thecity. The south, west, oast, Fairview, Glenover and Harrington school buildings are all of brick two stories in height, and each four rooms, except the soutn building with six. Among tho improvements in which Beat- rico especially giories are the following: Over five miles of substantial brick paving two completo lizht plants with both the arc ana incandescent systews; a magnificent systom of water works with' pure sparkling water rushing through nearly fourteen miles of mains; tho state institution for feeble- minded youth, situated just outslde the city. with tie buildings, geounds, farm end fix- tures aggrogating $200,00) in valuo. T'wo first class daily papsrs, Boatrico Ex- press and Daily Democrat, which are a credit to any city, tho Republican, Arpor State and Post (German), all of them nbly edited weoklios, seven substantial banks, which recently published s statement of their business as follows : Loaus and discounts.. vordrafts bon s to ks, bonds and mor! Bankiiz housos and fu Redemption funa with Total.... Capital stook Sarplus fund Undividod profiis Qirculation . Deposits .. Re-discounts’ STobal}sss s Aun cloctric motor streot raway, now about two miles in length, buv to be ex- tended this year all over the ocity, About four miles of horse raliway over which the motor car will soon be running and which roaches over nearly half of the city. The great Beatrico Chutauqua with its immenso tubernacle, soating 5,000, its nivety acros of veivet lawn aud cooling shade and its curricu- lum of studies, elogueut professors and teach- ers from Lho groat scats of learning. Some- thing like fifteen milos of sanitary and storm sewerage, oxtondiug Lo all parts of tho city and which is ono reason why Beatrice boasts of s0 low a death rae, belng only about eight to uino to 1,000, A magnificently equipped firo dopartment consisting of four hose com- ponies, a hook and ladder company und a chemical engine (the lattor orderad). 'This volunteer dopartment has a force of 150 men ready 1o respond to an alarm of firo, This report would bo incomplote if the churches were left out. Beatrice is truly a “elly of churohes.”! They are tweuly in number, sll but two baviag cburch eaifices raaging in prico from the modest sum of £2,000 up to tho Curist oburen (Kpiscopal) hich cost with the grounds nearly §5),000 Thus 1t will bo seon that the moral tone of Boatrice is #ood, Muoh more might bo said of the “Queen Uity of the Blue,'" but any anxious secker aftor more l'ght, or any doubter of tho foregoing, is cordlally 1nvited to visit Beatrico whea they will agroo that ““the balf bas not been tola.” Wymore, In the smiling month of May in the year 1881, the Lincoln Land company flled with the couuty clerk the plat of Wymore; it is tuerefore” eloven years old and & sturdy youth it is. The making of tho town was the establisnment of the southeru division of the Burlington route at this point with its big suops sud division ofices. The shops THE OMATIA onaist of n twonty-stall ronndhouse, machine stops and ganeral storage and supply houses ; botweon 500 and 60) men are employed whilo ’mn monthly payroll amounts to nearly §30,- w. Wymoro has handsome, wido strosts with commodious store buildings, tareo flue brick school buildings, & new city hall, o good firo departmont with two hoso and 0o hook and ladder company, & water works plant costing $15,000, an olectric light plant with over thicty arc lights in nse by it and its sistor town, Blue Springs; a horso railway four miles long and connectod Blue Springs, six church buildings, three €o0d wookly nowspapers, two banks (the Buik of Wymore, capital stock 25,000, and First National, capital stock 0,000). gnd a population \n 1800 of 2,420, which it {s safe to ay has incroased by’ fuily 1,000 since that 0, for 0o it lnown that Wymora s gain- Ing in population faster, in proportion to its size, than any town of Gago county. This tatter fact is duo to the steaay and constant incroase in the number of hands employed in the railroad shops, Besidos the car shops, there are the usual small indusirios, while a growing country trade is daily adding to its wealth and rosourcos, ‘Thers is not an empty housa in Wymore today aad yet new ones are constantly being erocted. ‘Wymoro is all right and fuil of the kind of vim that maKes a town prosper. Blooe Springs. This pratty town is only n counle of miles from Wymore, with which 1t 1s connected by a streot rallwav. It has a population of abont 1,000, a bank, a nowspaper, Sponcer windmill factory, Chlver Bros. & Otis’ fac tory for the manufacture of rill n hinery, and othor small industries. Ths Union I’a cific and Burhington roads both pass throu Blue Springs. Tho streets are pretty and a genoral air of corafort psrvades the placa. Other Towns, Filley has a population of about 50, has a good_hotel, tho Burlington railway, a roller flouring mill, grain elovator, nowspaper, bank and eood stove buildings. It 1s the nome of Hon. Blijah Filloy. one of the best known stock raisers of the west, Threo churcnos look aftor the morals of the com- munity and altogethor Killey is a good place 1o live in. Liverty is of about tho samo size and of cqual importar.ce. Odell and Barneston are 1n tho south part of tho county, aro both lively wowas, each with a newspaper, hotels, plonty of stores and a good class of people. Adams is in the northeast part of the county on tuo Burlington road, has about 400 inhubitants, a good school, churches, stores, a newspaper, ete. Cortland is in the northern part of tho couaty on the Union Pacific road, has about 300 peoplo and the usual good stores, schools, churches and the inevitable weokly news- paper. Indeed there ara fow countics that can boast 80 many good, live papers, so well edited, and all of them filling a long felt want. Holmesville, on the Union Pacific,six milos south of Beatrice, has fine stono' quarries which give employment to a number of men, hus a mill, storos, otel, charch, school and is i shipping point for a largs sheop ranch. Holmesville has about 200 peoplo. Hoag 18 northwest of Beatrice on the Bur- lington and 1s a thrifty settiement. Pickrell, seven miles north of Boatrico, s on the Union Pacific road and has the usual complement of stores, ete, Eliis is oight miles west of the ¢ on the Rock Island railroad, school, depot, grain elevator, ote Rockford and Hamilton ara small bu ouly half a muls apart but each onjoying the distinetion of having o railroad all to itself, onothe RRock Island, tho other the Union Pacific. Much more might be said in praise of Gage county and its cities and towns, but doubtioss it will give n better idea of actual results ob- tained, from a residece in Gage county, to quote the farmers themselves. The follow- ing interviows wero obtained from men who havo made what they possess by farming and stock raising, which they have found profita- blo enough to coutinuesud in which they are still engaged : A General ¥armer. T, B. Bssox said: “I came to this county in the tall of 1573 and bought a quarter sec- tion of land in Rockford $13 an acre, which was cor e then.” **What do vou value it st now?” was asked, “Oh, T would say at least $40 au acre, and I don’t mean by that that I would take that price; my farm is not for sale at all.” “Have you any land vesides tho original quarter soction?'! “Oh, yes; I bavo in all 400 acros in Gage county, part of 1t in Logan, the adjoining township. and I have some oighty acros be- sides in Kansas.” ““What were you worth when you struck this county 1 “I had about 4,000 10 money, cattle, farm- ing tools, horses, ote. I am worth about four times as much now. I have always been en- gaged in genoral farming, raising some stock and considerable farm produce. No, I have made no money at all at auything ¢lse than farming, 1 have thirteen head of horses, twenty head of cattle and about 100 hogs and youag pigs. A Well Known Swine Breeder. When approached on the subject H. C. Stoll became cnthusiastic over the resources of Gage couuty. Saidhe: I traveled soven years, in all parts of the Uunited States, be- fore ‘I came here. When I landed in Beatrice 1 had about §,000 in stock, 1mplements, horses and money. I bought an entire soction of land in Riverside township, paying $6.25 an acre, paying part cash and getting timeon tuo balance. It was a raw prairie then, but after digeing at the soil of section 17 for thirteen years I have refused 855 an acre for it. 1am satisfied that if a man cannot make aliviog in Nebraska he can’t anywhere." “What has bson your prinoipal business during this time!” was asked. *‘Breeding the best kinds of hogs in the world. I have four leading breeas—Polana China, Chester White, Small Yorkshire and Black Kssex—and thero is not a breeder ip the country raises so many hogs on the sawe amount of land. I raise 300 to 400 a year and am unable even at that, to supply the de- maud. For three yoars I kad to buy my pork, or kil a thoroughbred, which I would not do. I baveshipped hogs as far east as Dover, Me., and to every territory and many of the states. I have a small indebtedness on my farm, but nothing but what 1 could pay if necessary. I have raisad a family of twelve children, bave provided gzood homes for half of them and expect to do the same by tho others. On my farm I have several groves of mulberry, ash, cottonwood, maple and box elder trées. I have fruft of all kinds, including a pear orchard of Afty trees on which I raised forty bushels of pears last year. We had s0 many cherries, plums, ber- ries, grapos, etc., that we gave away lots of them to people who came out. from the city last year, My wifo made soveral barrels of fine wine last year. Say, you come out and Il give you all you want to arink and a bot- e to take home,” Mr. Scoll bas a beautiful and substantial stone farm house, great rod barns, conven- iont breeding pons and a Lome fiv for a “ing, nty seat has stores, A Sheep Ruiser. Richard Dibble may be recognized by peculiarities. First, his spectacles, which he always wears, and second, ho doesn’t look to be worth much of anything, never putting on any style 1o dress or manner, He is how- ever, one of Gage county’s successful and wtelligent farmors. When lprronchcd on the subject ho said: “Well, came here poor and have hela my own ever since.’’ Askod to give somo dotalls of his early ox- perionces ho smiled broadly uad then began 8s follows: “luamo to Gage county in '05 with two wagons, four horses, one cow, two dogs, one wife and two children. I camped tho first night where the (Gage county court house now stands, and turned my horsos looso on the prairie. 1 wasn't afraid of their running away,” he remarked refiec- tively, “they were 00 poor. Ifound them in tho morning on the lot whera Clancy’s drug store now stands. 1 broke the last $20 bill I had in the world to pay a doctor's bill for medical services. The winter followlng wo ‘roughod 1t;' some of the time it was a conundrum whether wo would starve or Jive tll spring, but we pulled through somehow, and have been living ever since, 1 took up's homestead (section 13, Blakely township) and began turaiug over the virgin w0il.”" Mr. Dibble belog asked as to the present extent of his land said, “I have owued about 500 acres but sold some, and only have 250 acres *mow, It is all well fenoced and has good bulldings on it with trees, fruit, ete. I wasthe first mao in Ne- braska to start uto sheepraising and for ears had a flock of from 1,000 to 1,500 sheep. olaim to have the fluest Merino sheep in the state. 1sold the first §1,000 worth of wool ever sold {n southern Nebraskas. When wo first started five or six pounds of wool from one sbeep was cousidered & good shear- two DAILY BEE: | pounds, companies, | with | THURSDAY, JUNE 9, ing. This spring 1 sheared a shoen that Rgave twenty-six pounds of wool, and its car- s aftor sbearing welghed 105 pounds. eral yearling owes sheared eighteen to v pyunds, &nd one a little over six months old sheared seventoon aund one-half Avothor, a yearling, twenty-two pounds, and one ram, Young Jumbo, ‘sired by Old Jumbo, ono of the famous Merino rams of the west, sheared thirty-two pounds. His faher once sheared thirty-seven pounds. "Thbis ail shows what can be done with sheap in Nebraska. I have fifty shorthorn thor. oughbred cattle, a dozen horses aud a lot of Poland China hogs. At a sulé held on my placo last year my hogs brought from 810 to 10, shorthoras §10 to 8100 aud other stock in proportio Asked us to the present value of his land, Mr. Dibble was roletant to sot a_price, but said he had besn offerad §50 an acre by a man who wished t§ buv part of bis land, Neither would ho,sny how much he was worth, not wishing, as he put 1t, 0 ‘blow about himself,” but 1t 13 believed that Mr, Libble is worth fully $20,000. The First Homestender, Daviel Frooman filed the first homestend entry in the United States. This is histori- cal and authentic.” Mr. Freeman being questionad ns to. his success during his thirty vears rosidenco in Gage county re- sponded as followsl “ALLT had 1 the torld when 1 started in as a Gage county 'pibneer was my soldier clothes and 8% jp,my breeches. 1 have always boen & general farmer. As to the property I now poskess, you may say 1 bave 510 acres of land in ono farm, and quite a few bunches of land scattered around elsewhero 1 couldn’t tell just how h I have got without figuring up, 1 have about $30,000 werth of property in Beatrice, besides con- siderable in Wymore and Fairbury.” “How much live stock?" *‘Weil, I hinve over 100 head of cattle, forty- threo head of horses and a field full of hog I have & good brick farmhouse good outbuildings of all kinds. An orchard! Yes, I have au orckard of apple, peach, plum and chorry trees, plenty of small fruits, grapos, ete., and thoy are ail bearing well.'’ **What do you considor your land worth1" was the next question, “Oh, s o that.” said tho veteran with a laugh, “Inever sot a prico on my land yet or offered it for saje, and nover expect to. A man offered me §30 an acre for all the land Ihave In my home farm, buv Iwouldn's sell.” Asked concerning other supplies on hand Mr. Freeman said: “l've got 1,500 bushels of wheat in tho granary, some corn and (with & twinkle of the eye) enough other stuff to last untl next crop harvest. How much am [ worth altozother? Woell, I cer- tainly wouldn’t take $125,000 for what'I have got. Neoraskaair suits mo protty well and T guess Il stay hore. Mr. Freeman is a member of several orders and socicties, presiaent of the Arbor State Publishing company aud a highly ro- spected citizen, and his testimony may be relied upon as corroct. He has not engaged in any other business than tllling the soil and raising stock in a moderate way. 1 Some Money but Hus More Now, Zimmerman lives near Eilis in Lin- wuship. He camo hero twelve years ago with $4500 in mouey and no stock, bought three quarter sections, paying cash at the rate of # an acre. He now hus 720 acres which is worth at a low esti- mate §0 per acro. Mr. Zimmerman was decidedly modest in what ho is tho possessor of, merely saying thav he “had tho land now with farm- house and buildings, implements, wagons, grain and produce, ete., und §2,000 cash on hand.” As Mr. Zimmeringn has forty head of fino cattle, twelve good work and carriage horses, hogs, ete., may roadily be con- cluded that he is worth from $25,000 to $30,- 000, or & gain of §20,000 and over in twelve years, which 15 not bad pay for general farming, Mr. Zimmermau never having en- gagod in auy other occupation during the time, Worked Hard and § ceded, is is a good coantry to farm in" was the response of Joseph Graff, 1 _answer to the query vut by Tur Bex interviewer, as to his opinion of Gage county's possibilities. Mr. Graff came to Nebraska thirty-two years ago. He ook up a pre-omption a few miles west of Beatrice and chauged it to & homestead when that act went into effect. He went to work with a will and bis good wife helped him, working in the fields and doing & mun’s work. As their chitdren grew large enouzh, work was found for them, and so the family labored together to acquire their present large fortune. When Mr. Graff settled on kis farm his earthly belongings, besides a fow clotnes, was ore cow, $1.40 1n monev and a share in an ox team. Steadily through the years he has added to his land until now ho hos 980 acres, n farmhouse worth 5,000, a huge barn and outbuildings, and his land is worth fully 50 an aere. Ho has 100 head of cattle, twenty-five head of horses, hogs, etc., and is worth over §50,000. A Big Wheat Raiser. John Scheve was_ seon at his beautiful farm home in Blakely township and cheerfully gave b3 testimony to the advan- tage to bo obtained from an acquaiatance witn Nobraske soil. **I camo here in 1896, said Mr. Schevo, “but ald not get miy farm until two years later, when I bought this quarter section. I paid $12 an acro for it.” Replying to further’ questions Mr. said: “‘Yes, 1 havoalways been ong: general farming from the first. I paid con- siderablo attention to wheat growing. 1 in- crcased the amouat of land and now own about 1,700 acraes, %00 hi and the balance about three miles away. I have raisea a good doal of wheat and shall have better than 10,000 bushels this year. Thero is not a scratch against my land—it is entirely clear, Ihave350 head of cattle, twelve teams of horses and kecp five mon at work, Froiti Well, yes; I have, I guess, neariy 1,000 orchard trees bearing all kinds of common fruits, yes,” he added with o swile, *and I'va gou some apples left yet. 1 have a hundrod hogs and_enough of évery thing needful to last some time.” Mr. Scheve admitted ho was worth 830,000, and hio cortainly has & porfect farm howe with a grovo of boautiful maples rising thirty or forty feet high on thrse sides of his buildings, in the center of which stands a largo two-story houso with & barn, probu- oly fifty feet wido by a Lundred faét long, grapo vines, sirubbery and o beautiful lawn in front. Mr. Sheve is a model farmer, as shown by bis surrounglings. Traded n Yoke of Oxen for His Farm, After riding for miles past pretty farm- houses, nestling amia groves of lrees and blossoming orcharas, between flelds of waving green, and passing the time of day with many farm bands who, with their teams, could be se2u {u all direccions cutting out the long ribbons of black soil from the green sward, where this fall the golden eraio and tassoled corn will wave in the bright sualight, Tug BEs correspondent arrived at the home of Thomas Zimmerman on the edge of Holt township. The proprie- tor himself was away, but his good wife fur- mshed the following information: “M. Zimmerman came to Gage county fn 1863 wich littlo means with which to begin life as @ farmer, but with plenty of determination oud pluck. Ho traded a yoke of oxen und @ wagon for a claim on Boear creek. This he s0ld afterwards to a brother who camo wost, Ho then secured his present fluely watered farm, Mr. Zimmerman has beon a genoral farmer and from yoar to year has added to the sizo of his farm, as his maans would ad- mit. Today he has 1,000 acres of land, has plenty of fruitof all kinds on bis place, & tasty and commodious farmhbouse, barn, outbuildings and strong fences, He has 100 head of cattle, twenty horses aud just at rruuzul. is bauliog off his hozs and convert- ng them into crisp baok notes. He has about fifty left, however; enough for pork for his owd use. Mr. Zimmerman would nov sell his possessions for §0,000. After Twelve Yours. A. M. T. Miler owns a farm of @& hall section near Mr. Miller camo to Guge county twelve years ago, driving & small herd of oattlo, aud with no great amount of money. T'he quarter section ho purchased was black from a recent ordirfs fire, aud the prospect was bleak indeed, byt a claim cabin was soou erected, and woris begun on the farm. To day, Mr. Millor's dand 15 worth not less than 0 ' per acre, aud his farm buldings are among th - fluest 1’ the couuty, his barn belug oue of the largost in this part of the country, and a landiark for miles. iis farm- house 13 & good oney but be will soon ercct a DOW 0ne to cost 85000, Mr. Miller hus @ big bord of sleek cattle, horses, hogs, flue orchard, small frufts, ete., in abundance. A More Recent Comer, W. V. Lancaster came 1o the county only eight vears ago. Ho bad some mouney, und wvested it in 240.aeres of laud in Holt towa- ship, He pald $23 un aud now nis land s worth $35 or $4) por acre. My, Lascasier cheve zed in beautiful Pickrell, 1892~ TWELVE PAGES. A GOOD THING . / Is always recognized and the “gooder,” the “recognizeder” Ever since the Administrator’s Closing Sale has been started great crowds have been in daily attendance. who have bought once come again, because they recogni thing when they seeit. The $3.75 SUITS are really $6, $8 and $10 suits put into this lot to sell them out quick. We sold out all we had in this lot last week and now we have putin a whole lot more to go at the same price, $3.75 a suit. $6.50 SUIT Buys a lot of light colored cassimere and worsted suits, in cutaway or sacks, that are worth twice the money, $6.50, $8, $10, $12.50 and $15 Buy square cut sack suits that used to be sold all the way from $10 to $25 In clay worsteds we are showing Prince Alberts, cutaways and sacks in endless variety, and at almost any price. Hot weather coats, in stripes and plaids, 25c. Office coats, in stripes and plaids, 25c. Serge, flannel and flannellette coats and vests reduced to close. 5 We are selling the best black sateen shirts for 50¢ in America. Everybody else gets $1 for it. Hellman’s Administrator’s Closing Sale, Same Old Stand, Corner 13th and Farnam. ‘BAKING e POWDER. 25 ozs.ror 25 . ABSOLUTELY PURE. JUST TRY IT.' PAXTON & GALLAGHER, Omaha,Neb it is Hellman’s Those e a good e DR. J. E. McGREW THE SPECIALIST, Isunsurpassed in the troatment of all forms of PRIVATE DISEASES, and all disordors and dobilities of youth and manhood. 17 yoars' exporienco. His “resources and facilitios nia practically unlimitod. The Doctor 18 recom= i by tho press, and endorsed in tha st torms by the people for fulr trot- ment and honest professional advico. The most powerful remedles known to modern scfonce for tho successful treatment of the following discases GONORRHOEA —Tmmuiedinte reliof. ploto cure rom busin GLIET-Ono of the most comploto and suc cossful troatmonts for gleot and all annoy, dischurges vot known to tho modical profes- sion. The results aro truly wonderful = STRICTURE—Uroatest known rou Foatment o e L ey 7 and VIG- 1 OROUS in all respocts N ns by using SPAWISH nor had stro NERVINE, the great Spanish Remedy. 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A com- ithout the loss of an hour's time dy for ure, without pal A mnose remurkable re ¢ th or boen more dorsements. In th has Temale Weak ness, Catarrh, = Rheumatism, AND ALL Chronic, Nervousand Private Diseases. Drs. Searles and Searles Acknowlodged to bo the most successful spo- clalists fn all PRIVATE, BLOOD, NERVOUS, BKIN AND URINARY DISEASES. Eyes tosted froe by an EXERT OPPICIAN Perfoot adjustment. Superlor ienses. Ner ous headacho curod by using our Spectucies and Eyoglusses. Prices low for first class gouds. THE ALOE & PENFCLD CO,, 15th St., Creighton Block. “MEN WHO NEVER DIRA} DRANK any thing but Sour Mash are now calling for Cream Pure Rye' is the siatement made by a liquor merchant operating threa of the largest bars in the west. This is not strange when you consider that the purest, richest, smoothest and most wholssomo whiskey produced in America is The only logally graduated Ci Eight years' stud;. ‘Ten years prac onen with all known disoases. all chrone cases givon up by other d and soo him or write for Call Do not | — Gonorrhin in from 3 to 6 days. Syphills hout Mercury. Vianta-nat 4 Weals DLern |l practicn ’ no poison. (VITALITY WEAK), Made 80 by too eloxs appil- ss O Atudy: sovero montal atrain K3 1o widdle life, or outh. M8 TO NERVOUS No lnjurl Hatg oustally tr. nd cprod, up by other doctors: Thos. C ? Harnoy natinm 6 Thos. ¢ 2} ) onle rhou WASTING WEAKNESS with EARLY DECAY in O aacacal 3 ae wth and vitality Took medicine for Yoars but kot 1o relief M. L. Anderson, 132 Cuming stroet, eatarrh, _WILEN WE BAY ( astiima and broneliltls of fifieen years standing. dgo of PERMA teated and cured in past twol ILES, FISTULA hout pain or detent Tias for sale the following prepired #1.00 8 bottlo. slx bottles for 85.00, o Asthma, Catareh, Hiok Headaoh Bl00d Potsoning, Wieumatism, Femalo Kiduey and Liver Complsiot No agonts only by Clilneso Modicine Co, Capital, $103,00). Ofie, 160 aod Calibraia 8l Onal, Ne h Streot - == Tutt's Hair Dye Gray hair or whiskers o od Lo 0 floss, black by usingle application of this Dye. imparts o natural color, wots taneous- Iy and contain nor urlous to Bold by druggists of prics, 8LO0, Otlieo, 30 Fark ¥) romedlos at the cure of Indigastion, oaknoss sold PURE RYE. 1d taka o other, For sals drinking places and drug TURE plote., without %, caustic Or I ected st homo by pationt without s aln or nonoyance. Consultation free. € Qdross with stamp Drs. Searles & Seales, Call for it at all first-cl 1l on or stores AAND & CO.. Chicagr 115 South 13 OMAHA. eugaged in stock ralsing and has prospored. He has thirty bead of vattlo and seventeen horses: bas a good house and buildings, so orchiard, aud 15 satisied that, to use his words, “this country is all right.” - ript: Go to the butchers it t debutos Inaplen, sallow &npies 20, aud overy discass resultiug 110 {mpure blocd, o & fallure by (he stomach. Liver or I 16 purforuu thads proger fu (ST et ‘rt Baeked Boston Tran: you would hear jo