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The Resources and Attractions of Nebraska: Facts on Farming, Stock-raising, and Other Industries, and Notes on Climate (Classic Reprint) Union Pacific Railroad Company

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from The Resources and Attractions of Nebraska: Facts on Farming, Stock-Raising, and Other Industries, and Notes on Climate Within the boundaries of Nebraska are vast areas of the most fertile and productive soil on the Continent. It is nearly all arable, and every acre is available either for pasture or farming. There is almost an entire absence of waste land. The Platte, Republican, Elkhorn, Loup and Niobrara are the principal interior rivers, all moving from west to east, or southeast. Each of these large streams has numberless tributaries. The bottomlands along the rivers are especially fertile, though hilly land is much preferred for general farming. A superior system of public schools, and an inexhaustible State fund from which to maintain them; churches in every village and almost every valley; railroads fairly gridironing the State, and a most invigorating and healthy climate, combine to make Nebraska desirable, in every sense of the term, for a residence. The wonderful fertility of its soil, and its great depth, assure the husbandman satisfactory returns for his labor for a long period. Being adapted to all cereals, orchard and vineyard crops, and producing luxuriant pasturage. Nebraska offers especial inducements to agricultural settlers and stock-growers. The railways afford quick and cheap transportation to excellent local and foreign markets. By the system of freight rates in force on the lines leading to and into Nebraska, the producer on the Nebraska plains is at no disadvantage with his Eastern Iowa neighbors, so far as marketing his products is concerned. Grain brings as much in an interior city in Nebraska as it does in an interior city in Iowa. Besides this, a market is being created in the mining and stock-growing regions to the west. The State is especially fortunate in its location. The population of Nebraska, in round numbers, is over one million, the increase between 1880 and 1885, when census returns were made, being over 60 per cent. Its total area is nearly fifty million acres. Out of this magnificent body of land, nearly all of which is arable, 100,000 farms have been carved, with millions of acres not cultivated, other millions of acres neither cultivated nor entered for settlement. Nebraska is easily capable of supporting not less than three millions of people. She will hove even a larger population some day. It will be seen, therefore, that there is no crowding in the State. Abundance of room and a world of opportunity are offered a million settlers. Lands are no longer to be had at nominal prices on phenomenally favorable terms in the more thickly-settled sections of the State, though prices range 50 per cent lower than in the Central States. In Western Nebraska there are large bodies of good land still on the market at prices which are within the reach of poor people, and, as has been stated, there are millions of acres of Government lands still unoccupied to be had under the United States land laws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.