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Alliance a Good Place to Live
For a place to make as your permanent home, no better little city than Alliance eould
be found. It is the county seat of Box Butte county and is the metropolis of the western
part of the state. The Box Butte county court house, constructed and furnished at a cost of
$90,000, is the finest in the state. Alliance, according to a census taken on June 25, 1915, had
a population of 5,109. The climate is ideal, combining the benefits of an altitude of nearly
4,000 feet with a dry atmosphere which is conducive to good health. The summer days are
warm and the nights cool. The winter weather is delightful and not marred by long, cold,
damp cloudy spells. The sun shines nearly every day in the year. Although the thermome
ter drops low in the winter, the cold is not that damp, uncomfortable kind, but of a crisp, in
vigorating nature. To the east of the city lies the sand hills the rich cattle raising country.
To the north is Pine Ridge. To the south and west the famous irrigated North Platte Valley.
Alliance offers all the benefits of a thriving, modern city to the homeseeker.
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Water and Sewerage
The city water system was installed by the city administration
in 1894. At the present time there are approximately ten and one
half miles of water mains covering practically all parts of the city.
The rates for water are as cheap as anycity in the state where deep
wells arc the source of supply. The water is pumped from a depth
of one hundred and sixty feet by four electric pumps. While the wa
ter department is not a big paying proposition it is self-supporting
and under the same management as the light plant. There are at the
present time six hundred and eighty water customers. Alliance city
water is noted for its purity. There is plenty of water pressure'for
Cres. Storage is provided by a stand-pipe in a high part of the city.
If necessary direct pressure is given from the pumping plant.
The city sewerage system was installed in the year 1910. ; Ap
proximately eleven miles of mains and laterals were laid, coven
practically all the city. The sewage is carried to the septic tan1"
of Alliance, where after going through a process the water is'pu
from the septic tank by two forty-horwe-power pumps out upoi
city farm and used for irrigation purposes. There. are four huiuj
and seventy-five onnectiontt to the sanitary sewer.' Tliv Mriv
Pushed at regular intervals by flush tanks ploced over the city. :
sewerage system has been of great value to the city am', oh fssl uk ii
houses and baildingN are erected they are connected up with t'l t
tem. The management of thV light and - water departments LuihII
the sewerage department. The system was built t eatt i'ri
growth of the city during coming years,' and is ext tided a fast
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Plenty of Gocd Schools
No otluv city in the Mate is bette; euij petl with oo schools. The school euipnietit
and traching force are always up-to-date, ("rodu-'t s of the Alliance lii:h hool are entered
without examination to any collrge or univ r i) y in the ITnitcd Stntes that accepts entrance
credits, by virtu? of th: aceredittiunt of tin- li g'.j school by the University of Nebraska and
its membership in the North Central Assuciat on of Colleges and Seconds rd Schools. The
city has three public school buildings, all buili of brick and modern in every respect. It also
has u Catholic academy which is attended not only by pupils from Alliance but from over this
section c,f the west. An average of thirty teachers are employed in the puhl!: schools, most
of whom hold professional I life) state certificates. The course of stud in the grade schools
h up-to-date and includes work in manual traiuing and domestic art. Cours-.'s in the hijf'i
school are offered in Latin, (lerman, Normal Training. Agriculture (which includes manual
training for boys and domestic science for girls) ami Business.
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F. J. Was, Jerry Rowan, Wm. Davidson,
E. T. Kibblf, Geo. E, Davis; A: J. Velch,
Councilmen.
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