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IN THE HEART OF AN IRRIGATED EMPIRE OP 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 GROWING. READ THE FACTS PRESENTED HEREWITH, THEN COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.
THE TOWN AND
ITS PEOPLE
A Onter of Iluhtue and Boclal Ac
Uvltlea, Fin Location and a
Good Clans of Citizens
GOOD ritOSPEOTtt POIl FUTUItK
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 to Invest in 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 f 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 Pathfinder 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 annual fair of the Agricultur
al and Fair Association of Scotts
piuff county, the most populous and
most rapidly developing county of
western Nebraska.
Its location In the geographical
center of a rich Irrigated counlry,
with other natural advantages, are
elements that are favorable to a
steady and subHtantlMl growth. The
city has four chnrch buildings, has
five organised religious denomina
tions, fine 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
eBt department store in the state out
side of a few of the larger citleB, a
number of lodges and fraternity or
ganizations, one of the best military
bands in Nebraska, and has fifty bus
iness houses and offices whose stocks
and equipments are seldom equaled
In a city of twice Mitchell's present
population. Beyond this, Mitchell's
business men are progressive and
wide awake to the fact that the city
is KrowlnK. Loyalty of the sur
rounding farmers to Mitchell aud it
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
menial, 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 seventy-two tons a day
snd employs fifteen iople. Were it
possible to run at full capacity con-;
tinuously the mill could grind 26,-j'
280 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- I
ses feed at East St. Louis, Kansas x
City and other points. In addition to i
the milling business the company
generates and supplies the city elec
tric lights, maintaining a modern
light plant of DO K. W. generator ca
nacltv. The liuht service is excellent
and the plant has sutticient capacity J
to supply the city for years to come, j
The machinery of the mill and the
electric light dynamo are run by a
Fairbanks-Morse na producinic en
gine, the plant manufacturing its own ket, and grown on the highest lrri-,
gas from coal. A separating boiler , gated land In Nebraska. Officers of
receives the gas and smoke from the the company are: W. D. Linden,
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IN THE HEART OF
N. P. VALLEY
MltchelL a Leading Town That Nev
er Had an Inflated Boom aad
Will Never Dave Setback 4 '
RECLAMATION HEADQUAKTHRS
Scene in Mitchell Ditch, Showing; A bur.dant Water Supply for Irrigation
furnace, and after panning through
water it Is forced from the pumping
tank to the engine. A valuable bi-
product. coal tar, which is produced
by this process, Is run to an outside
vat where it is barrelled for the
trade. Alfalfa meal, as It leaves the
cutting and grinding muchine. i
blown to the top floor of the factory.
from whence it is lowered through
chutes to the Backers at the rate of
three tons an hour. Here it is put
up in 100-pound sacks and loaded on
the cars on the company's private
siding.
The company, which is incorporat
ed with a capital stock of .", immi.
Is a member of the National Alfalfa
Millers' Association and has won a
reputation of supplying the purest
and the cleaneBt product on the mar-
president and manager; A. L. Moon,
secretary, and Jas. T. Whitehead
treasurer. Manager Linden was for
merly of Hastings, operated the mil!
at North Platte, and after it was de
stroyed by fire, he reorganized this
company three years ago and after a
lively struggle put it on a paying bas
is and created a wide-spread demand
for the Mitchell mill's superior pro
duct. The alfalfa mill brings busi
ness to Mitchell from all surround
ing tenltory, and adds substantially
to the wealth and commercial im
portance of the community.
Nebraska west of Grand Island. M.
H. Quivey, who was at one time en
ijairod in the mercantile business in
Alliance and is one of the bst known
men in watr-rn Nebraska, is presi-
being Interested in public enterprises
and doing his part to promote them.
Two enterprising and reliable real
estate firms occupy a necessary and
useful position in helping investors
dent and manager, ably assisted by ito find desirable proierty that may be
Miss Hose C. Trnmble, secretary. I for sale and in finding purchasers for
Mitchell's two banks are Institu
tions of which any city might be
proud. With ample capital, supple
mented wilh the deposits of numer
ous and prosperous customers, they
meet tho banking needs of the town
and community In a very satisfactory
manner. J. T. Whitehead, cashier
of the Mitchell State Bank, is presi
dent of the Water Users' Association
There are other Mitchell enterrls- and well known thruout the Valley.
es that pare deserving of special men
tion, among which we find the mam
moth department store of the Mitch
ell Mercantile Company, having the
largest establishment of the kind in
H. O. Eastman, cashier of the First
National Bank of Mitchell, besides
successfully conducting the affairs of
the Institution of which he has the
management, has iho reputation of
those who have land that wish to sell.
The advertising cards of these firms,
Martin Rristol and Spencer & Mc
C;i7ree, may be found on the oppo
site page.
The Mitchell Index is the name of
the local newspaper, which is edited
and published by H. A. Mark. ' It 1b
one of the leading papers of western
Nebraska. Besides giving its read
ers each week a large quota of local
news of a general nature and con
tributed items from the surrounding
country, it publishes an exceptionally
large amount of information relative
to irri.nntion matters.
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Putting W:t:r or. t'j3 V e Soil of the North Platte Valley
With the fertile. Irrigated fields oa
and near the Nebraska-Wyoming
state line to the west, and reaching
up to the outskirts of the towa;
with practically the same stretch of
country extending east to the Sootts-
bluff sugar factory; with Datch 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 b
said to be in the heart of the heart
of the irrigated country of the North
Platte Valley.
It is the boast of the prosperoas
business men of this live city that tt
has never had a boom and never a
setback. Persons who have seen, the
boom of new towns without a devel
oped country to sustain them, ana
their subsequent collapse, know how
important a matter this is. A glanoa
at the cuts in this paper of rich irri-
j gated fields and irrigation canals,
with their ample flow of water, wlM
! prove to any one familiar with irrl-
gatlon that the permanent prosperity
j of Mitchell is assured,, when tha
amount of land that can be Irrigate
withia the patronizing territory (
the town is taken into consideratioa.
Immediately after the construction
of the Guernsey extension of the Bar-
llngton railway along the North
Platte river in western Nebraska ana-
eastern Wyoming in the year 1901 a
dozen new towns sprung simultane
ously into existence. That was th
year Mitchell waB placed on the may.
a live town that has never stopped
growing, has never hud a boom or a
backset.
Mitchell Valley
Mitchell Valley, the vast sectiaa
of rich land lying across the rlvar
just south of the city, has long beam
recognized as the garden spot of tha
North Platte Valley., for long befora
the lands north of the river were ka
their present state of cultivation
Mitchell Valley had many prosperoas
farms and ranches and a post oCsaa
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 be 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 from
increase of population and traffic.
The diversity of industries and va
riety of crops grown around Mitchell
obviates the possibility of Its erne
being dependent upon the success at
any one crop or a special industry af
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 bringing tho greatest re
turns to farmers, although all ceri
als, potatoes, fruit and garden staf
are successfully produced. Fruit cul
ture and dairy farming will show
greater activity as the country grows
older.
Dutch Flats
Dutch Flats is another remarkable
piece of country tributary to Mitch
ell, lying north and northwest of the
town. It is not bottom land but a
low table, having a fertile, sandy
loam, well adapted to the growing 0
alfalfa, sugar beets and potatoes, as
well as small grain and corn. Taa
extent of this stretch of irrigataa
country, ander the government pro
ject, is the surprise of all who visit
j it for the irst time.
