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IN THE HEART OF AN IRRIGATED EMPIRE OF WONDERFUL FERTILITY. NEVER HAD A "BOOM" HENCE PRICES OF CITY PROPERTY AND SURROUNDING FARMS ARE NOT INFLAT
ED. NEVER HAD A SETBACK AND NEVER CAN HAVE, BECAUSE ITS PROSPERITY IS BASED UPON THE SURROUNDING COUNTRY WHICH IS SURE OF MAGNIFICENT CROPS EVERY
YEAR AND WHICH IS DEVELOPING AS RAPIDLY AS THE CITY IS OROWINO. READ THE FACTS PRESENTED HEREWITH, THEN COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.
THE TOWN AND
ITS PEOPLE
A Onter of IluiuoMs and Social Ac
tlvltle. Fine Location and a
Good Clans of Citizen
GOOD NtOHPKCTM FOU FUTURE
As boosters the business men of
Mitchell are not given to making ex
travagant claims to attract people of
speculative turn of mind and get
them Co Invest tn real estate at In
flated prices. Altho they are glad to
let the outside of the world know of
their splendid advantages, their en
terprise tends more toward helping
to construct good roads and other
wise co-operating with the farmers
of the surrounding country; and
making improvements in town that
will be for the comfort of its citizens
and the convenience if those who
trade with them. A community din
ner once each week, at which busi
ness men and farmers meet and dis
cuss matters of Interest to all, Is a
.feature of the business and social
life of the community that older and
Jarger towns might do well to copy.
When the great Tathflnder dam
and government Irrigation project in
Wyoming and Nebraska was started,
Mitchell, Nebraska, was selected as
the headquarters and the offices of
the United States Reclamation Serv
ice were located here, a fact that
speaks well for the splendid location
of this city.
Mitchell is the permanent location
of the annuul fair of the Agricultur
al and Fair Association of Scotts
Bluff county, the most populous and
most rapidly developing county of
western Nebraska.
Its location in the geographical
center of a rich irrigated country,
with other natural advantages, are
elements that ure favorable to a
steady and substantial growth. The
city has four church buildings, has
five organised religious denomina
tions, line graded schools and a new
three-story high school building, a
modern opera house, large alfalfa
meal mill and electric lighting plant,
superior water works plant and vol
unteer fire department, a modern
sewer system, has a large and up-to
date grain elevator, ample stock
yards, fair grounds with half-mile
speedway and new buildings in grove
adjoining the city, has the county
fair, two substantial banks whose
combined deposits reach half a mil
lion, has a first class hotel, the larg
est department store in the state out
side of a few of the larger cities,
number of lodges and fraternity or
ganlzations, one of the best military
bands In Nebraska, and has fifty bus
iness houseB and offices whose stocks
and equipments are seldom equaled
in a city of twice Mitchell's present
population. Beyond this, Mitchell
business men are progressive and
wide awake to the fact that the city
is growing. Loyalty of the sur
rounding farmers to Mitchell aud its
interests Is a strong element In favor
of the city's growth, as all look with
Interest to Mitchell's schools, church
es and society, as well as to its com
mercial, manufacturing and shipping
industries.
The Mitchell mill, which has been
operated under the capable manage
ment of W. D. Linden, has a capacity
of grinding seveuty-two tons a day
and employs fifteen people. Were It.
possible to run at full capacity con-!
tinuously the mill could grind 26,-j'
2S0 tons per year. It furnishes a
home market for a home product j
paying the highest market price for
both material and labor. The output!
is shipped to manufacturers of molas-1
ses feed at East St. Louis, Kansas :
City and other points. In addition to
the milling buslue&s the company j
pent-rates ami suiiut iur nij nm- j
trie lights, maintaining a modern
lipht plant of 10 K. W. generator ca
pacity. The light service is excellent
and the plant has sufficient capacity
to supply the city for years to come. ,
The machinery of the mill and the
: electric light dynamo are run by a
Fairbanks-Morse gas producing en-
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MltchdL a Leadljig Town That Nev
er Had an Inflated Boom and
Will Never Have Setback
RECLAMATION If KADQUAKTHJM
Scene in Mitchell Ditch, Showirg A bundant Water Supply for Irrigation
glne, the plant manufacturing its own ket, and grown on the highest irri-, Nebraska west of Grand Island. M.
gas from coal. A separating boiler gated land in Nebraska. Officers of H. Quivey, who was at one time en
recelves the gas and smoke from the the company are: W. D. Linden, gaged in the mercantile business in
furnace, and after passing through president and manager; A. L. Moon,
water it is forced from the pumping secretary, and Jas. T. Whitehead
tank to the engine. A valuable bl- treasurer. Manager Linden was for-
product, coal tar, which is produced merly of Hastings, operated the mil)
by this process, la run to an outside at North Platte, and after It was de
vat where it is barrelled for the stroyed by fire, he reorganized thb
being Interested In public enterprises
and doing his part to promote them.
Two enterprising and reliable real
estate firms occupy a necessary and
nseful position in helping investors
Alliance and is one of the best known
men in wstrrn Nebraska, is presi
dent and manager, ably assisted by i to find desirable property that may be
Miss Rose C. Trumble, secretary. ! for sale and in finding purchasers for
Mitchell's two bnnks are Inst itu- those who have land that wish to sell.
trade. Alfalfa meal, as It leaves the company three years ago and after n tions of which any city might be The advertising cards of these firms,
cutting and grinding machine, in lively struggle put it on a paying has- proud. With ample capital, supple- Martin BriPtol and Spencer A Mc-
blown to the top floor of the factory. Is and created a wide-spread demand minted with the deposits of numer- Of.ree. may be found on the oppo
frora whence it Is lowered through for the Mitchell mill's superior pro- '! and prosperous customers, they Bite page.
chutes to the Backers at the rate of duct. The alfalfa mill brings bus!-' meet the banking needs of the town The Mitchell Index is the name of
three tonB an hour. Here it Is put ness to Mitchell from all surround- and community In a very satisfactory the local newspaper, which la edited
up in 100-pound sacks and loaded on ing territory, and adds substantially manner. J. T. Whitehead, cashier and published by H. A. Mark. It is
the cars on the company's private to the wealth and commercial Im- of the Mitchell State Bank, is presi- one of the leading papers of western
Minir Dortance of the community. dent of the Water Users' Association Nebraska. Besides giving Its read-
The company, which is iiuoiporat- There are other Mitchell enterrls- and w. ll known thruout the Valley, era each week a large quota of local
ed with a canltal stock of SO.noo. es that pare deserving of special men- H. O. Eastman, cashier of the First news of a general nature and con-
is a member of the National Alfalfa tlon, among which we find the mam- National Bank of Mltcnell, besides trmutea ttems rrom tne surrounding
Millers Association and has won a moth department store of the Mitch- successfully conducting the affairs of country, it publishes an exceptionally
reputation of supplying the purest ell Mercantile Company, having the the Institution of which he has th large amount of information relative
and the cleanest product on the mar- largest establishment of the kind in management, has me reputation or to irrigation maiters.
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Putting- W:.t:r or. taj r.rV e SoU of the North Platte Valley
With the fertile. Irrigated fields om
and near the Nebraska-Wyoming
state line to the west, and reaching
up to the outskirts of the tova;
with practically the same stretch ot
country extending east to the Sootts
bluff sugar factory; with Dmtch Flats,
a broad expanse of irrigated country
under the government ditch, stretch
ing out to the north; and with that
famous garden spot known as Mitch
ell Valley Just across the river to tha
south, MITCHELL, may correctly
said to be in the heart of the heart
of the irrigated country of the North
Platte Valley.
It is the boast of the prosperous
business men of this live city that K
has never had a boom and never a
setback. Tersons who have seen th
boom of new towns without a devel
oped country to sustain them, ana
their subsequent collapse, know how
important a matter this is. A glanaa
at the cuts in this paper of rich irri
gated fields and irrigation canals,
with their ample flow of water, wlM
prove to any one familiar with irri
gation that the permanent prosperity
of Mitchell is assured, when tbm
amount of land that can be Irrigate
within the patronizing territory af
the town is taken into consideration.
Immediately after the construction
of the Guernsey extension of the Bar-
llngton railway along the North
Platte river in western Nebraska an
eastern Wyoming in the year 1909 a
dozen new towns sprung simultane
ously into existence. That was tk
year Mitchell was placed on the maa,
a live town that has never stopped
growing, has never had a boom or a
backset.
Mitchell Valley
Mitchell Valley, the vast sectia
of rich land lying across the rivar
just south of the city, has long beaai
recognized as the garden spot of tta
North Platte Valley,, for long befora
the lands north ot the river were im
their present state of cultivatloa
Mitchell Valley had many prosperous
farms and ranches and a post oQUa
which was subsequently moved to ths
present site of Mitchell, and thus giv
ing the new town its name. Now
that this valley's irrigated territory
Is about to ber extended by the gov
ernment's new irrigation project it
will naturally follow that Mitchell's
favorable location will give to this
city the greatest benefits arising frost
increase of population and traffic.
The diversity of industries and va
riety of crops grown around Mitchell
obviates the possibility of its evitr
beiug dependent upon the success at
any one crop or a special industry at
any sort. Primarily a cattle coun
try, the pasture lands beyond the Ir
rigation belt still produce herds af
cattle aud droves of sheep that at th
close of the grazing season are now
quickly fattened for the world's mar
kets on the thousands of acres of al
falfa, beet tops and pulp, and other
feed produced in the irrigated valley.
At present sugar beets and alfalfa
culture are brinping the greatest re
turns to farmers, although all ceri
als. potatoes, fruit and garden stalf
are successfully produced. Fruit cul
ture and dairy fanning will show
greater activity as the country grows
older.
Duuli Flats
Dutch Flats is another remarkable
piece of country tributary to Mitch
ell, lying north and northwest of th
town. It is not bottom land but a
low table, having a fertile, sandy
loam, well adapted to the growing of
alfalfa, sugar beets and potatoes, as
well as small grain and corn. Ta
extent of this stretch of irrigataa
country, ander the government pro
ject, is the surprise of all who visit
it for the f rst time.