PLATTSMODTTI WEEKLY IfFJiALI), THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1887.
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Tole Soqtli-Plcittc CoqiUi'y.
iQLATTSMOUTII, situated as it is just South of the mouth
of tho Platte and on the Missouri River, has been proper
ly termed tiie Gate "Way to that region of country lying South
of the Flatte River in Nebraska. In early days it was the great
outfitting point for Pike's Peak and the Mountains. It has
within a few years grown to be a thriving young City of nearly
8,000 inhabitants, and is appirently just now on the verge of
greater prosperity. It is the eastern terminus of the Turling
ton & Missouri Itiver Railroad in Nebraska, and it is here the
company maintain extensive Machine Shops, Round Houses,
Store House and other works incident to railroading. From
six to eight hundred hands ars constantly employed in manu
facturing and repairing for the vast system of road lying west
of the Missouri River. As the demands upon the company are
constantly increasing it continues to enlarge its facilities. The
recent investment of over $25,000 by the company on Second
1 street means the construction ot a new depot and the enlarging
of their system of improvements.
At this point the C. 13. & Q. Railroad company ha3 span
ned the river with a magnificent bridge one of the finest in the
world. The freight trafHc on over 2,000 miles of road is now
conveyed into and through our city from the west, being the
largest amount of this class of business centered in any one
franchise for a Street Railway has been granted by the City
within a few weeks, capital paid in for its construction and the
work to be commenced within ninety days. The Omaha Motor
Railway company, organized to construct a road to Plattsmouth'
a distance of only twenty miles, is rapidly pushing its work
track-laying now going on with the possibility of haying it in
operation before fall, when finished trains will be run between
the two cities every two hours.
Many other important facts might be added, were it nec
essary, to convince the most skeptical of the permanency of
Plattsmouth's growth.
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Having faith in the future growth of Plattsmouth, the
undersigned have purchased the beautiful tract of land adjoin
ing the city on the south between Lincoln and Chicago ave
nues, and have platted the same into town lots. A limited
number of these lots will be offered for the next few weeks at
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point in the etate for distribution eastward. Ten passenger
trains leave Plattsmouth daily, over the C. 11. fc Q., P. & M.
and K. C. St. Joe fc C. B. roads, thus offering admirable facili-
tieH for passenger travel to and from the city. These facta, to
gether with the almost certain construction of the Missouri Pa
cific railway and the Omaha & Southern into our city in tho
near future, are placing Plattsmouth in the front as one of tho
most desirable points in which to locate or invest capital. Man
ufacturing interests aro springing up on every hand. We now
have the Plattsmouth Prick and Terra Cotta Works, capital
$30,000, capacity 10,000 brick per day and employs fifteen
hands; Plattsmouth Canning Factory, capital $30,000, capacity
$1,500,000 cans per year and employs one hundred and twenty
live hands, turning over in the transaction of one year's busi
ness about 100,000; The Nebraska Preserve and Canning Fac
tory, capacity 300,000 cans per year, capital, $13,000, employ,
ing 40 to 50 hands; Schellenbacher's Buggy and Wagon Fac
tory; Plattsmouth Broom Factory; Pepperberg's Cigar manu
factory, employing from fifteen to twenty hands and largely
supplying the trade for surrounding Nebraska, and others em
ploying less capital but of importance to the growth of the city.
In addition to these interests negotiations are now pending for
the location of Nail Works and a Barbed Wire Manufactory.
Plattsmouth is rapidly becoming metropolitan in character,
having within a few years realized the construction of a $50,
000 Opera House, the establishment of Gas Works, and the
more recent construction of one of the finest systems of Water
Works in the State, involving an outlay of $100,00(and a
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prices ranging from $100 to $150 each. The proprietors of
this valuable addition prepose to spare neither pains nor reason
able expense to make it not only pleasant but profitable to all
persons purchasing lots. In the center of this handsome addi
tion a live-acre Park of magnificent forest trees has been reserved
for the use and pleasure of the city. Chicago and Lincoln
avenues are the main thoroughfares, and furnish the only cir
cuitous drive out and into the city which avoids hills, and the
level grade suggests the early construction of our Street 'Hail
way to this locality, and to this end liberal inducements will be
offered.
South Park is less than nine blocks from the business cen
ter ot the city, and but a few rods from the great manufactur
ing interests of the B. & M. railroad, thus making it a desira
ble residence locality.
The proprietors of this addition propose to re-inve6t the
proceeds of the sale of the first 100 lots, in choice residence,
which will be offered for sale on monthly, payments. This will
enhance the value ot the lots purchased.
Now is the time to invest for permanent use or specula
tion. Without exaggeration or fictitious booming Plattsmouth
realty is growing more firm in value each day, advancing on the
basis of a permanent business foundation.
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