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The Gering Courier Building
A BEAUTIFUL
AND BUSY CITY
He OKlot Town, Now Mostly New,
Id the North Platte Valley,
and Finest Location
HOOTTS 11LUFF COUNTY SEAT
One who has for thirty years
watched the attempts at developing
western Nebraska, at first largely un
successful, cannot help becoming en
thusiastic over the progress made in
the last decade. And of all the plac
es that excite one's admiration and
enthusiasm, none exceeds Gering In
that respect.
Many years ago, a beautiful site
was selected for a town, east of and
ot far from the now famous Scotts
Bluff, a picture of which appears on
the front page. The founders of
the town hoped, as did the founders
at hundreds of other western towns
in those early days, that some time a
railroad would build to the place and
stake of it a commercial center. The
large majority of those who started
tewns and waited for railroads to
oeme were doomed to disappoint
ment. Gering was made the county seat
f the county named after the nearby
bluff. After years of weary waiting
the railroad came three miles dist
ant and started a rival town on the
opposite side of the river. Did those
Oering people give up in despair?
Not many of them. They clung to
their hope with a tenacity worthy of
their good cause. And it came. A
few years ago another railroad built
up the North Platte Valley, on the
aorth side of the river till after it
massed Northport, then it crossed ov
er and struck Gering.
Best of all, there is now being
bailt an Immense sugar factory, so
stodern and up-to-date will it be in I
construction and equipment that it
is spoken of as the "Model" factory, j
There can no longer be any doubt ;
a to the great future for this erst-
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wMe plucky, little city. With a
splendid irrigated country already
tributary, and with work commenced
on the south side government irriga
tion canal that will throw under ir
rigation thousands of acres more of
fertile land in Gering territory; with
the county seat of the most populous
county of this part of the state per
manently located here; with the as
surance that the line of railroad pass
ing thru the city will at no distant
date become a part of the main line
of the Union Pacific, from Omaha to
Ogden, and a strong probability that
Gering will be made a division sta
tion; with these advantages ami oth
ers that could be mentioned, it doe
not require a stretch of the imagina
tion to see that this town is destined
to be the leading city of western Ne
braska.
There will be no long wait, either.
She is having her day now. Besides
the erection of the sugar factory and
business houses, more residences are
now being built in Gering than in any
other town In the west half of the
state. When spring opens, the
amount of building will greatly In-
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crease. It Is now definitely known
that work will be commenced soon
on the construction of more than a
hundred other residences, and the
number is being added to almost
dally.
FED FORM MARKET
Cattle and Sheep Fattened on Alfalfa,
Sugar Beet Tops and Pulp of
Wewtern Nebraska
From Clay, K. & Co. Live Stock Re
port :
February 8th our South St. Joseph
house sold two cars of Mexican lambs
averaging 68 lbs., fed by Norman
Lemley and one car averaging 76 lbs.,
fed by Dr. J. J. Halley, both of Scotts
blufr, Nebr., at 111.10. the top of the
market and a record price for Febru
ary. We have never failed this year to
top the market with the Halley or
Lemley lambs, and this sale cleans
up the feeding of Mr. Lemley. They
sold straight, not a single lamb out.
With 3,500 ewes on sale at South
St. Joseph February 8th our house
succeeded in landing all they had at
$7.50, the extreme top for the day.
Four cars averaging 106 lbs. were
fed by K. F. and Geo. Munroe, Mor
rill. Nebr.
T. C. Halley, one of the largest
sheep operators in the Platte Valley,
paid our So. St. Joseph bouse a visit
February 7th, when he witnessed the
sale of seven cars of his lambs at
$10.90. Mr. Halley Is a very busy
1 man in the sheep feeding season and
while we have sold thirty cars this
winter for him, this was the first
'time he has been on the market himself.
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Gering Mercantile Company
B. F. Hobbick of Minatare, Nebr..
while in our Kansas City house with
a shipment of cattle last wek, re
ported that within a radius of twen
ty-flve miles of his home in the
Scottsbluff district more than 300.
000 sheep and 3,000 cattle are belnn
fed this winter.'
"The establishment of su;ur beet
production a few years ago changed
that district from a waste place
among the sand hills into a garden
spot and a leading stock feeding ter
ritory," Mr. Hobbick said. "With
more than 2.000 acres in beets last
year and a large increase In the acre
age of alfalfa, we find we are long on
feed of the forage class. Alfalfa of
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good quality Is bringing $6 a ton In
the stack. It is all consumed at
home, as well as the by-products of
the large beet sugar factory. A sec
ond beet sugar plant Is being built.
The new plant will have a dally ca
pacity of 600 tons of beets."
DESERVING OF MENTION
Business Men of tiering to Whom
Credit I Due for Featuring
Their City In This Paper
A. B. Wood, editor and publisher
of The Gering Courier.
The Gering National Bank, by A.
N. Mathers, president.
The State Bank of Oering, - by
Chas. F. Lyman, president.
Robert F. Neeley, real estate deal
er and Insurance agent.
J. C. Pedersen, architect, who has
supervision of the construction of
new buildings in Gering and who will
respond to calls from other towns for
his service as an architect.
Gering Mercantile Company, by W.
It. Woolfenden, manager.
Dr. R. C. Knode, physician and
surgeon.
Bradford-Kennedy Lumber Com
pany, by A. S. Hayes, manager.
The Gering Garage, by R. J.
Schwendiman, proprietor.
A. V. Richardson, leading grocer.
Miller Brothers, general merchan
dise. Lainbs Make Good (iaiiiH
Twenty-eight lambs fed for 40 days
by the self-feeder method at the Ag
ricultural Experiment Station at Lin
coln made an average daily gain per
head of over 20 pounds in a test
which closed recently. The net prof-
it inr head was $1.4.r,. The coHt pr
100 pounds gain was 7.34.
Pea sixe oil meal and prairie hay
were kept constantly before the
lambs from the beginning of the
test. Corn was added and gradual
ly increased beginning with the third
day. At the close of the third week,
the lambs were consuming about two
pounds of corn and one-half pound
of oil meal per head dally. At the
end of the experiment, they were con
suming one-half pound more of corn
per day and the same amount of oil
meal. The average daily consump
tion of prairie hay per lamb was
about one-third pound.
t'orn was valued at 60 cents a
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bushel, oil meal at $40 a ton, and
prairie hay at $9 a ton.
Experiments with ten other lots of
lambs of 28 each, being fed for 70
days, will close about the middle of
March.
Management of Irrigated Land
"The Management of Irrigated
Land" Is the title of bulletin No. 162.
recently issued by the Agricultural
Exerlment Station of Nebraska.
Among the topics discussed are:
The proper distances between irri
gation ditches.
The proper sizes of heads of water.
Growing of alfalfa, sugar beets,
potatoes, and other crops under irri
gation. Yield of sugar beets when land is
plowed at different depths.
This bulletin may be had without
oat by any resident of NebraMAii
from the Agricultural Kxperimei::
Nation, Lincoln.
A ProKperous Future
With the advent of the railroad in
the fall of 1911, great developments
began in Gering. The rank and pres
tige lost when the Burlington rail
road built up the north side of the
river was quickly regained. Gering
now had as good train service as any
town in the county. A business Im
petus began, which' In a short time
resulted in the erection of many new
brick business buildings, and the
town soon resumed again the pros
perous appearance of earlier days,
but on a brighter and larger scale.
GeHnf Street Scene
PAST, PRESENT .
ANBRJTURE
A Few FacU Concerning the City mi
Oering, What It Was, What It
Is, What It Will Be
A inSTOIlY-FOilBCAST SKETCH'
We are Indebted to that excellent
newspaper, The Gering Courier, faff
much of the information contained ta
the following. By the way, speak
ing of newspapers, The Courier is ow
of the best In the west, which mean
that It Is one of the best In Nebraska,
Its editor and publisher, who Is as
ex-presldent of the Nebraska PreM
Association, is one of the best knowa
newspaper men in the state. He es
tablished The Gering Courier la
1887, and by Industry and Intelligent
effort has made a great success of it.
His new building,' a cut of which ap
pears in this paper, is probably tha
best newspaper building in the west
half of Nebraska. Altho Mr. Woo
knows what it' is to go thru the hard
times of the pioneer days of wester
Nebraska, he has been doiim h pros
perous business for many years past
ml Im now on "Kany S;re-t" ti'ian-
clally.
Gering, the county Beat of Scott
Bluff county, is on the south side of
the North Platte river In the heart ot
Gering valley. It lies in nearly th
geographic center of the county, and
is on the Union Pacific railroad. For
a number of years It was the only
trading point in a radius of many
miles, dating its Inception to ta
spring of 1SH7, at a time when all
supplies and building materials wer
freighted overland from Sidney, th
then nenieht raliioad point nccessibl
by a drive of seventy-five miles. It
m'adnnily l.-..ue th commercial
center for (lie pioneer homesteader
and the range cattle men of a terri
tory for scores of milt' in both diree-
loiis alo-ir 'iie North Platte.
When the division of old Cut ynna
county was effected, tierint bet-am
li" rtu:,ty seiit of S''ot'S i'.luff eoua
y, and continued to as.-iiini" more and
.;:or" importance commercially. Tbea
ante a period of more or less uncer
Utility as to the railroad facilities
and the advent of numerous compet
itors for the business of the vail
followed the building of the Burling'
ton north of the river, the gravity Of
the situation only ending with tb
completion of the Union Pacific to th
city some few years ago.
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