OPPORTUNITIES
ABOUND NOW IN'
WESTNEBRASKA
XLOYD THOMAS TELLS IRRIGA
TIONISTS ABOUT THEM.
Urges Derelopment of Untitled Lands
by Means of Irrigation Pros ,
pects Better Than Ever.
The eleventh annual convention of
4he Nebraska state irrigation associa
tion met at Bridgeport last week, with
two hundred delegates in attendance.
"There was a strong program of ad
dresses and much interest in the work
of the convention. The session closed
Jrriday afternoon.
Lloyd C Thomas of Alliance spoke
to the convention Thursday on
""Opportunities of Western Nebraska."
Ihe Alliance man told of the develop
irient of the past fifteen years, and
vhat might be accomplished in de
veloping the valuable untitled land in
this section of the state, laying espe
cial emphasis on irrigation. He dis
cussed the effect of a discovery of oil,
-which would mean the rehabilitation
of the potash plants. He predicted the
establishment of factories for the
manufacture of starch and potato
Hour. The value of good roads and of
publicity were impressed upon the
delegates.
Mr. Thomas said, in part:
"When I first came to western Ne
braska, fifteen years ago, little did I
realize the opportunities that existed
liere. But the record of accomplish
ment proves that unknown and almost
unlimited opportunities did exist, and I
want to say to you today that there
are bigger and better opportunities
liere today than there were fifteen
years ago. Doubtless many of our
largest opportunities will be taken ad
vantage of by strangers who come into
our midst, for it is a well known fact
that the stranger sees the opportunity
quicker and clearer than the native.
Develop Natural Resources.
"In my opinion, the greatest oppor
tunity for western Nebraska today is
In the cultivation and development of
valuable, fertile, untilled farm lands,
and in the irrigation of the thousands
of acres of lands for which there is a
supply of water not now being used.
A large amount of water, as you
"know, goes down our streams which
could and should be used for irriga
tion. In addition to this, in many por
tions of western Nebraska, there is
almost unlimited supply of shallow
underground water which could be
raised to the surface with pumps at
low expense.
"The erection of the monster dam at
Guernsey on the North Tlatte will not
only provide additional water for ir
rigation purposes but will provide
electric cower which can be and will
Te distributed throughout western Ne
braska at low cost, providing cheap
power for factories and industrial es
tablishments. I predict that within a
few years this famous North Platte
valley will be one of the most densely
settled nnd most prosperous communi
ties in the United States, - resulting
imply from the development of our
natural resources.
. ; The Search for Oil.
"For several years a half-hearted
search has been carried on in this part
of the state for the great underground
reservoirs of crude oil which are here
without a doubt Within the last year
this search has been taken up in earn
st, with the result that today rigs are
drilling in different localities and other
tests rigs are being arranged for, in
order that the search may continue un
til these reservoirs of natural wealth
are found and brought forth.
"The discovery of oil or gas in the
territory adjacent to the monster pot
ash plants east of Alliance would mean
that these slants, in which there is in
vested over ten million dollars of Ne
braska capital, would be able to re
sume the production of potash from
the many sandhill lakes in which this
much-needed natural resources is stor
ed. The big drawback in the potash
industry is the lack of cheap fuel. Oil
or gas would solve that problem, turn
ing the idle plants into profit-making
Investments. There is millions of dol
lars worth of potash stored in these
lakes, formerly thought to be vaiue
lets.
"Woctom TCehi-Hhku's most urofit
able croDS today are sugar beets and
potatoes. In the irrigated section your
test crop is sugar beets. In the non
irrigated sections our best crop is po
tctoes. You have developed the sugar
industry irreatlv in the last few
years and it is undoubted y to become
greater and more profitable during
coming years. The potato industry
might be called still in its Infancy, in
spite of the fact that about four mil
lion bushels are raised annually in
this part of the state. The potato
growers are just beginning to realize
that there is an unlimited market for
seed potatoes in the southern states.
One buyer from Brownsville, Texas,
purchased over fifty carloads of seed
potatoes in Alliance this fall. With
the proper direction of effort, western
Nebraska can become known as the
Cotato center of the United States,
. olh for table stock and seed stock.
Many Avenues of Profit.
"One of these days some bright
eyed energetic chap will come into
western Nebraska and learn that there
is a big opening for the establishment
of starch and potato flour factarios.
He will hustle back east and rabe the
capital, return and build the ulants,
and then another avenue of prorit will
be opened to our potato growers.
"in order that her development may
not be hindered, western Nebraska
needs more railroad lines and with
cheap electric power will need electric
transportation lines. This will provide
opportunities ior development -which
we undoubtedly do not comprehend
xuiiy now.
"Since the development of good
roads further east and in adjoining
states, particularly in Colorado, we
have begun to realize that there is an
opportunity here that means much to
us, in the construction and mainten
ance of good roads. Good roads bene
fit the farmer, the business man and
the stranger. As soon a3 western Ne
braska is connected up with the east
and the west by good automobile high
ways, you will find with you. during
the "summer seasons at least, a host of
opportunity-seekers from the east,
looking for homes, farms, and a place
to invest their money. The opportun
ity to bring these people within our
rders is here and we must not lag
in the construction of roads over which
they may come. It will not be long
until they will learn that western Ne
braska is a tourist's paradise in the
making, for with our streams and
fresh water lakes properly stocked
with game fish, they will come from
car and wide to find rest and recrea
tion. They will also learn that a short
distance east of us, in the sandhill
country, is located the greatest wild
fowl district in the middle west, where
one may, during the proper season,
hunt ducks, geese and prairie chickens
to his heart's content Our climate is
ideal for the tourist I realized this
last spring when I made a trip by auto
through the south, covering over 6,400
miles. I don't see how a person who
has lived for a few years in western
Nebraska could ever be satisfied or
comfortable in the southern states
chilled to the bones one day by a
norther and blistered the next day by
a wind from the other direction you
might call it a "souther".
The EJvestock Situation.
"Most of our famous cattle ranches
in this part of the state are denuded
or practically denuded of stock, due to
the financial situation which forced
stock giowers to ship their herds in to
market There is now an opportuntiy
to re-stock these ranches by using the
federal money, made available by the
organization formed last week in
Omaha, and we should not . lag in .
promptly seeme that our stockmen re
ceive their share of these funds, giv
ing them the wherewithal to, again
stock their ranches and making them
profit-making and food-producing institutions.
Need for Publicity.
"In connection with my reference to
Dotash and oil I might state that there
are other valuable minerals stored
away in nature's warehouses which
will some day be orougnt to ugm ana
used for our benefit We have today
immense deposits of silica or volcanic
ash which could be profitably develop
ed, and other minerals, not so well
known, are waiting for the hour of
opportunity. One of the best posted
men in the state in uoctor Ki. tu. on-
dra of Lincoln, who spoke to you yes
terday. I believe that he knows of
more opportunities m XMeDrasna Tjian
any other matt and that he might well
be called "the Opportunity Doctor."
He certainly has done a great deal for
us in telling of our opportunities to
those in the east who are interested
and eager to learn.
"In connection with the opportun
ity for profitable publicity I might
say that every town, city and county
in western NeBVaska should take up
the proposition of publicity and con
sider it seriously. If you will pardon
me for referring to my home town -
Alliance, of which I am mighty proua,
I will sav that there is probably no
town in the state today which is better
known than Alliance. This is because
of the fact that our citizens realized
that profitable advertising for a town
could be secured through systematic,
honest, persistent publicity. Our
newspaper men and our newspaper
correspondents have worked very ef
fectively with good results. Why
HI US
EDISON AND ADVERTISING.
When our good friend, Thomas A.
Edison, opens his mouth in public
utterance he usually gives us
message that sticks with us.
For example he had the following
to say in a recent interview:
"1 have been through five depres
sions during my business life. They
act all alike. The latest one acts
exactly like all the rest The men,
who, as business fell oft 60, in
creased their advertising effort
75rr, managed to pull through as if
there were no depression, and ef
forts of such men tend to shorten
the periods of degression."
Wise words, aren't they ?
Does Mr. Ldison give you the
reason for your success or failure T
And when things are at their
worst no man can afford to lay
down his tools and say: "What's the
uaeT" It is then that the progres
sive newspaper man and the pro
gressive merchant get together,
work twice as hardand achieve
results. . .
We will buy your furs
and hides. O'isannon &
Neuswanger. 4-7
members of the Ku Klux Klan. At
that time the organization was at the
height of a lucrative career and money
was forthcoming in a most welcome
fashion. The other day a number of
"ex-goblins" went to Atlanta to clean
house and were ruthlessly "cleaned
lyiUr. Ill UM mn WJ3
vuiuals, however, is not the wholft
cause of the moral bankruptcy. Th
very nature of the organization, wrap
ped in autocratic secrecy and propec
ing to set Itself ud as somethinir bat.
ter than the law of the land provided!
bay what you will, the annoyance out" of office. They report that klans- ' a hotbed for germs of lawlessness aid
that people who don't work can give
peopie wno do is entirely beyond com
putation.
A VANQUISHED GLORY.
(Lincoln Star)
Less than three months ago secret
whisperings told of an "invisible em
pire,' which was sweeping this country
and of thousands of men who were
paying their good money to become
men are leaving the klan "in droves" i
and that the order is actually insol
vent The last few weeks have seen I
unusual proceedings.
There is many an honest man la th
. A A I fe
much hirini and firinir. a deal of col- i.un" wno ow memDerai
lections ana deficits. iJ? i
pompous heraldry. He Is poorer in
But, according to the St Louis Post- cash but his assets in valuable txper
Dispatch, "financial bankruptcy up- ience has been augmented and it U
parently had its beginning in n moral not wholly impossible that the lesson
the un-1 was worth the cost As for that toy
terious and vast "invisible - emnir
Kl eagle Young Clarke and his business with its magic grandeur, it ia vanish
lankruptcy precipitated by
answered charges against Imperial
partner and associate, Mrs. Elizabeth . ing under the bright light of publicity
should not every portion of western
Nebraska profit by the same means?
In other words, I mean to say that we
have before us the opportunity of put
ting western Nebraska "on the map"
and our country that western Ne
braska, "The Land of Opportunity,"
stands with open arms, to welcome the
homeseeker, the investor,-the profes
sional man, the business man, in order
that these God given opportunities,
many of which are now lying dormant
in the breast of Mother Nature, be
brought forth." . 1
When a man grinds his own flour
to get whole wheat bread he can make
as Targe a loaf as he pleases, depend
ing more or less upon how strong he
feels when he turns the milL
As a rule people are sympathetic,
but the man who is carrying a water
melon in his arms knows that some
where in the world there is somebody
who would like to see him drop it
It is easy enough to buy Ihe dem
onstrator car, one discovers, but very
difficult to employ the demonstrating
salesman for a chauffeur.
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