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NOTED FOR ITS APPLES.
Eastern Nebraska has known for a
lu:.s tirr.e that fruit of the finest qual
ity might be produced there. Steps
Lave been taken which will insure
the importation of this knowledge to
the world. The Southeastern Co-operative
Fruit Growers Association
h; s been formed to give the Nebras
ka apple production a commanding
r'-ce in the markets cf the world.
Ti.is association takes charge of the
whole matter of production and mar
keting. There will be a uniform pack.
Hitherto the apples of eastern Ne
braska have been bought by specula
tors in bulk, have been regraded, and
the choice grades have been put upon
markets as Washington and Ore
g. :i fruit.
Soon. Nebraska apples will be
tr.cwn as extensively and as favor
uliy in the markets of tho world as
the apples of any other locality. No
reuion is more favorable for such
production. It is the fruit growers
paradise and the fruit growers are
preparing to take possession of their
ov.ii. The Nebraska apple has quality
and a flavor peculiarly its own. It
:.e. ds no artificial method for pro
duction. Nature's water in the choice
fruit producing soil of the world sup
plies the juice and Nature's sun sup
plies the flavor. A Nebraska Jona
than sets the standard for the world,
brt'i in favor and in quality. Soon
the Nebraska quality will be accepted
as tl staudard la the markets of
th world.
HAS VALUABLE DEPOSITS.
Nebraska can hardly be classed
ar:OT! the states thxt are known as
mineral-producing states, and yet she
ha- beneath h r soil what might be
ra'led geological resources which
ji.ust be noted in making an account
the assets of the state. She has
a practically inexhaustible supply of
material for the manufacture of the
best quality of Portland cement.
The extensive and valuable de-I-nms
of the best qaulity of sharp,
gritty building sand, the ledges of
limestone rock which are being brok
en up and quarried on a very large
scale tor use in the manufacture of
fvierete. place the state among the
leaders in this kind of production.
With materials at hand within her
own borders for concrete work, the
concrete business is sure to develop
in the near future to an amazing
proportion.
Near the western border of the
state, is practically an inexhaustible
supply of partly crystalized limerock,
invaluable for agricultural uses.. It
contains S-" per cent pure carbonate
cf lim . Its half crystalized condi
tion makes it possible to reduce it
for agricultural purposes at the very
1-v.vott possible expense.
PoTasii for agricultural and indus
trial u.-s forms another valuable
i.st-'et. It has been discovered near
the western boundary' of the state.
A company has been organized to de
velop it. Experts are searching for
the bed of potash from which the
vaur leaches into the lakes to form
a s;rng ptash solution, so strong
that it may be profitably evaporated
so as to make a potash of commerce.
it was said at the beginning of this
story that the resources of the state
have not yet been uncovered, that the
surface of them bad been merely
scratched. These last three items are
proof of tin fctatement. No Portland
c :r,rnt is yet manufactured, but one
(t tho largest and most up-to-date
'.tories will be in operation before
ti.ri first of January, 1014. The agri
cultural lime has not been exploited,
is not upon the market. It simply
awaits industrial development. A
fri-.iiilar beginning has been made with
otash, but as yet the manufacture
has not be'-n undertaken on a com
manding scale. Other resources in all
probability are yet to be discovered.
The state Is on the edge of a tre
mendous agricultural, commercial and
industrial development. It has the
n. sources required for this develop
ment. As soon as the people of the
country' become aware of the oppor
tunities that Nebraska offers for the
profitable investment of capital in
the development of its resources, thi3
development will certainly be under
way.
GREAT POSSIBILITIES HERE.
As has already been stated, the
stnte slopes from an altitude of 45f)0
ftfct at its western boundary to an
altitude of ll(i) feet at the Missouri
river. Three groat river systems tra
verse this entire distance. The pos
sibilities for the development of water
jKiwcr in the state for mechanical,
industrial, and domestic uses excites
the envy of ever one, who knows the
facts. There is water power enough
going to waste to furnish all the light
and all the heat and all the mechanic
al energy required by the state.
As yet very. little attempt has been
mad-- to turn to practical uses thi3
immense amount of waste energy. A
rompany has recently been organized
which v. 5 I seek to turn to practical
tiee the water power that may bo de
rived from the Loup rivers near Co-k-mtus.
The Niobrara river in the
northern part of the state for most of
its course cuts through bluffs, and,
furnishes any number of ideal sites
for the construction of water power
plants. The fall of the river is so
rapid that the same water may be
dozen times as it makes its way from
the rise in Wyoming to where it emp
ties into the Missouri. The other
streams in the state furnish almost
equal opportunity. The immense
waste of the water power of the state
awaits only development to make it
available for agricultural, commercial
and industrial uses.
THE NATURAL METROPOLIS.
It is a well known law in commer
cial and industrial operations that,
other things being equal, traffic fol
lows the line of the least resistance.
The operation of this law has inado
Omaha and South Omaha the me
tropolis of the empire and accounts
for their wonderful growth and devel
opment. Omaha and South Omaha bo
come the gateway to a mighty, sub
sidiary, agricultural inland empire.
The products of this empire, of what
ever kind, find their natural outlet
to tho markets of the world through
this gateway. This inland empire
sells its products in the world's mar
kets, and in tho same markets buys
its necessities, and both product
and necessities must according to
the operation of this law, in large
proportion, pass through the gate
city. It is this mighty inland empire
that has made Omaha. A metropolis
cannot be artificially built. It comes
and it grows as the result of the op
eration of certain, indexible, eco
nomic laws.
Omaha understands this fact and
builds upon it. It realizes its debt to
the subsidiary territory. It knows
that its future growth is dependent
entirely upon the development and
growth of the country tributary to it
It will work for the development of
this tributary territory, because it
knows that in no other way can its
successful and permanent growth and
influence be firmly established. Oma
ha is not. and in the very nature of
things, cannot be a city for itself.
Its future is wrapped up with the fu
ture of its great subsidiary, commer
cial empire.
Already this great territory served
by Omaha has made the Omaha grain
market the fifth primary grain mar
ket of the world. During the last
year, it received 31,fisr,lt3 bushels of
cereal grain, of which is shipped to
other markets. 42.4S0.00O bushels. Tha
operation of the law referred to haa
made South Omaha the second pri
mary live stock market of the world.
Last year, Omaha through the stock
yards at South Omaha, received 0,
979,0S head of live stock, and of these
packed 4,0So,272 head. The position
in which it is placed has made Oma
ha the third primary market for corn
in the world. Of this cereal during
the last year, it received 20,530,80(3
bushels.
Omaha has the second largest smel
ter for fine ores in the world, and thi
value of its annual output of these, i
$:i2,27n,f.oo. The gate city is the sec
ond largest distributing point for
agricultural implements in the world,
and the output of this industry dur
ing the last year amounted to $11,
S93.172. Omaha is the greatest creamery
butter producing city in the world,
and its annual output of creamery
butter amounts to more than 20,'mio,.
"' pounds. South Omaha is the
greatest market for range horses, and
for range feeder sheep in the world.
WONDERFUL BUSINESS ACTIVITY.
Omaha is tho forty-first city in
population in the United States, but,
note this remarkable fact, it is tha
sixteenth city in the I'nited States in
bank clearings. P.ank clearings last
year amounted to $SG0,7Sl,o37. Its
per capita clearings make it the
fourth city in the United States, the
bank clearings of the city per capita
being $G.021. yid this remarkable
volume of banking business is done
on deposits of about $45,000,000.
Because of its excellent railroad
facilities, Omaha has risen to a point
in the commercial world, where i(
attracts enviable notice. As a manu
facturing city, she turns out products
to the value of $10.1,250,000 annually,
while as a distributing center, whole
saling and jobbing, the annual out
put aggregates $159,001,813.
Commercially, Omaha is known a?
the best city of its size in the world,
the natural result of being the me
tropolis of tho greatest empire in the
world. Omaha also combines all tha
necessities for a good home city,
which fact is reflected in the happi'
ness and contentment of its people,
as it is in those who live in other
parts of Nebraska,
Omaha is proud of this record. II
exults in it, but it is not selfish
exultation. It is the exultation of the
oommercial capitnl city of an im
mense Inland empire, and these fig
ures denote merely the degree of de
velopment of the empire, and the ex
tent of its growth. Only a small mind
would claim the results for itself
The larger mind gives credit where
credit is due, and that credit belonRs
to the thrift, the energy, and the bus
lness that is making Omaha's sub
sidiaiT empire the most remarkable
territory on the face of the earti.
A stranger traveling about Ne
braska wonders if the people of Ne
braska havo the faintest realization
of the enormous wealth of natural
resources that lies at their very door.
Nebraska, with her 40.0o0.000 acres,
is an integral part of that immense
inland empire lying between the
Mississippi river and the Rockies
between Canada on the north and
Mexico and the gulf on the south.
This immense empire is the most
productive area of its size on the
face of the globe.
Here are grown more than seven
tenths of the food stuffs exported by
the nation; more than three-fifths
of the cotton and truits of tne tem
perate zone raised by the nation;
four-fifths of the moat production, a
large proportion of the coal oil and
other mineral products; nine-tenths
of the beet sugar, and more than one
half of the cane sugar produced by
the nation. No territory in me
world of equal extent has such a
wealth of production.
Of this territory, Nebraska forms
a vital part. The resources of the
state have not yet been uncovered.
The possibilities of development have
hardly been touched. And yet tha
average Nebraskan goes about his
daily life apparently unconscious of
the untold wealth lying at his feet
waiting development.
MOST WONDERFUL SOIL.
The soil of Nebraska is unique
among the soils of the earth. Over
a great portion of the stato extend
the great loess plains, marvels of
productiveness and of easy manipula
tion. This loess soil, whatever its
origin, whether it be wind-blown or
water-deposited, is the most wonder
ful soil in the world. Its depth
sometimes reaches five hundred fe t,
and over a greater portion of the
area, averages from three hundred to
five hundred feet. From top to bot
tom it is packed with the elements
of plant food, furnishing an inex
haustible supply for the agricultura
of the future.
Eastern Nebraska comprises the
rolling land immediately west of the
Missouri river, and is what is called
the glaciated portion of the staue.
Here in tho earlv geological ages, tne
glacier plowed out valleys and heap
ed iid hills, and thoroughly mixed all
different varieties of soil, among
which the loess soil is pre-eminent
The same inexhaustible fertility char
acterizes this region as well as the
trreat looss plains, though the soil
here is not quite so easy of manipu
lation. When one asks the reason why the
average Nebraska farmer does not
make more of the opportunities that
lie at his feet, the answer is not far
to seek. It was said in the early
day that Nature had been so gener
ous with Nebraska soil that if one
wTmld only tickle it with a hoe. it
would laugh with a harvest. The
new settlers in Nebraska found tho
soil so productive with so little la
bor that they saw no need for rais
ing the production to the highest
possible point.
It is said irrigated regirwis of some
parts of the west are settled largely
by people who live under the im
pression that all that is necessary is
to put the seed into the ground and
turn on the water, and that (lod and
Nature will do the rest. The early
Nebraska settler had something of
this feeling. For this reason it is
impossible fairly to judge of what
the soil of this state might produce
from what it has been producing
under the lax methods of agriculture
employed.
SOIL EASILY RESTORED.
No soil in the world is so easily
recuperated and restored to its prim
itive productiveness, after it ap
pears to have been partly exhausted
of its fertility as Nebraska. Rea
sonable application of the laws of
improved agriculture in restoring
worn-out soils succeed better than
in any place in the world. No Ne
Nebraska soil has ever yet been ex
hausted. Lax and improper methods
of cultivation have lessened produc
tion, but as soon as proper methods
are employed on such so-called
worn-out soils, they respond as if by
magic with a bountiful yield.
A few years ago a farm that had
been subjected to this kind of agri-j
culture abuse was taken in eastern
Nebraska by an intelligent farmer.
It was said at tho time to be the
most unpromising ijrospect in jthe
state. He knew his soil. He has
never spent a dollar for commercial
fertilizers. Yet today ho has one
of tho cleanest and most productiva
farms in his section of the country.
CLIMATIC CONDITIONS FINE.
The climate and meteorological
conditions that prevail in Nebraska
are of the best. A person unac
quainted with the agricultural condi
tions might question this statement
in view of a partial failure of the
corn crop this year in the southern
part of the state. But here are tha
facts:
The annual rainfall ranges from
thirty Inches in the eastern part to
fifteen inches la the high table lands
In the extreme western part of the
state. This rainfall if properly con
served is sufficient to mature any
crop adapted to the climate and lat
itude. Under lax methods of agri
culture, a large part of this rainfall
is permitted to run off and is lost.
If the soil were so handled as to en
able the top of the soil to take and
hold this rainfall until such time as
it might percolate into the subsoil,
there would be sufficient moisture for
thrifty crop production to carry any
crop through the most severe season
of drouth that the state has ever ex
perienced. What crops have suffered from
drouth in Nebraska is to be charged
entirely to the methods of agricul
ture employed and not to the natu
ral climatic conditions. Let this fact
remain impressed upon every mind.
There is sufficient rainfall in Ne
braska to mature every crop provid
ed the rainfall is not permitted to
run to waste. It is up to the farmer
exclusively. Failure cannot be charg
ed against natural conditions. Here
is an amazing fact:
This Nebraska soil, hampered as
it has been by lax agricultural meth
ods, has proved itself wonderfully
productive, and production has but
begun. There is no reason what
ever why, with proper agricultural
methods, this amazing production
might not le doubled. During 1013
the state has produced wheat to tho
value of more than $5n,tint,t"Mi.0,
and it is wheat of the very finest
quality. Never before in the history
of tho state has then? been such a
harvest. The state will during the
current year produce hay, alfalfa
tame hay and w ild hay, to a value of
more than $100,00,0ni. During the
year 1912, the state produced 1S2,
OlO.i too buslu Is of corn, w ith a valu'J
of $ 10, 500, Of." t.
The high table land in the north
ern and western part of the state is
peculiarly adapted to the production
of potatoes. During 1012. the state
produced 0, ".20,707 bushels of tha
value of $1.715,0r,0.Utt. The crop for
101.1 is already assured. It is the
greatest potato crop in quality and
quantity that the state has ever pro
duced. If such production can be secured
through agricultural methods at pres
ent employed, what limits shall b5
placed upon the possible production
of tho future when there shall be the
fullest co-cperation between farmer
and soil? Who can estimate the val
ue of the imperial resources that are
latent in this wonderful Nebraska
soil?
Tho activity of this great inland
empire as a producing section is re
flected in the clearings through
Omaha, its natural metropolis. In a
comparatively brief span of eleven
years, Omaha has grown to be the
fifth primary grain market of the
world, chiefly because of the output
of Nebraska soil. Omaha ranks as
the third primary corn market of the
world, all the result of the bountiful
yields of Nebraska and tributary ter
ritory. As production increases, and that ia
yearly, Omaha's importance as a
grain center increases.
GREAT DAIRYING STATE.
No territory could bo better adap
ted to the highest possible develop
ment of the dairy industry than tha
state of Nebraska. The western part
of the state lies at an elevation of
4.500 feet, and the eastern part of
the state, where it borders the Mis
souri, is about 1,100 leet above sea
level.
Three separate river system!
traverse the entire length of the
state from west to east. The Nio
brara river at the north, the Itepub
lican river at tho south, and tha
Platte .river, between, are notable
streams. Threo other river systems
traverse a part of the state; the Elk
horn at the north, the Loup system,
consisting of the middle, the North
and South Loup rivers, in the center,
and the Blue river between the
Platte and tho Republican.
No state is better watered. Tha
valleys of each stream furnish abun
dant and succulent pasture. It is an
ideal dairy country. The sand hill
region of Nebraska which heretofore
has been devoted almost exclusively
to the growing of leef cattle, will in
the future, become the greatest dairy
region of the state. All that is need
ed is development to make the dairy
industry the principal industry of the
state. Nowhere can bo found a coun
try where so much cream can be
produced at so little expense. Th
dairy industry is becoming an eco
nomic necessity.
Its relation to grain growing is in
timate, and each supplements and
promotes tho other. Already Ne
braska takes a leading rank in. the
production of dairy products.
At a conservative estimate, tho
total dairy production of the state,
which includes all butter-fat used by
the farmer for hi3 own use or sold
either as whole milk, sweet cream
or cream for churning purposes, and
which also includes the calves raised
and tha skim milk used for various
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