PLATTSMOUTTI WEEKLY HKIiAl,!), THURSDAY, MAY 2G, 1S87.
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JLATTSMOIJTH, situated a. it is just South of tie mouth
of the Platte and on the Missouri River, has been proper
ly termed the Gate Way to that region of country lying South
of the Platte 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 apparently just now on the verge of
greater prosperity. It is the eastern terminus of the Purling
ton & Missouri River 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 eighthundred hands are constantly employed in manu
facturing and repairing tor the vast system of road lying west
of the Missouri River. As the demands upon the company are
constantly increasing it continues to enlarge ita facilities. The
recent investment of over $25,000 by the company on Stcond
street means the construction ot a new depot and the enlarging
of their system of improvement.
At this point the C. B. fc Q. Railroad company has span
ned the river with a magnificent bridge one of the finest in the
world. The freight traffic 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
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point in the stute for distribution eastward. Ten passenger
trains leave Plattsmouth daily, over the C. P. A: Q., P. A: M.
and K. LVSt. Joe & C. P. ronds, thus ottering admirable facili
ties for passenger travel to and from the city. These facts, to
gether with the almost certain construction of the Missouri Pk
citic railway and the Omaha A: Southern into our city in the
uwar future, are placing Plattsmouth in the trout as one of the
most desirable points in which to locate, or invest capital. Man
ufacturing interests are springing up on eery hand. We now
have the Plattsmouth 1 trick ami Terra Cotta Works, capital
$GO,000, capacity O.0i brick per day and employe lifteen
hands; Plattsmouth Canning Factory, capital 30,0 0, capacity
1.5OO.U0O cans per year und employs one hundred and twenty
live hands, turning over in the transaction of one ) ear'.- busi
ness about !00;O0O; The Nebraska Preserve and Canning Fac
tory, capacity U00,00ij cans per year, capital, $lb00, employ
ing 40 to 50 hands; Schellenbacher's P"ggy and Wagon Fac
tory; Plattsmouth Proom Factory; Pepperberg':; Cigar manu
factory, employing from fifteen to twenty hand- and largely
.upplying the trade tor southwestern Nebraska; and others em
ploying les.i capital but if i in portal ice to the growth of the city.
In addition to these interests negotiations are now pending lor
the location of Nail Worki and a Parbed Wire Manufactory.
Plattsmouth is rapidly becoming metropolitan in character,
living within a tew years realized the construction ot a i'oO,
000 Opera Hoii-:e. the establishmcu: of (Jas Works, and the
more recent construction of one of ' finest systems of Water
Works iu the Stute, involving ... outlay of .$100,000; a
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franchise for a Street Railway has been granted by the City
within a few weeks, capital paid in for its construction, and the
wTork 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 having it iu
operation before fall, when 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.
Having faith in the future growth of Plattsmouth, the
undersigned have purchased the beautiful tract of land adjoin
in 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 lor the next few weeks at
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prices ranging from $100 to $lo0 eah. The proprietors ot
this valuable addition propose to spare neither pains nor reason
able expense to make it not only pleasant but profitablo to all
persons purchasing 1U. In the center of this handsome addi
tion a five-acre Park ot magnificent forest trees has been reserved
for the use and i.leasure 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 Rail
way to this locality, and to this end liberal inducements will be
oflered. "
South Park is les than nine blocks from the business cen
ter ot the city, ami but a few rods fiom the great manufactur
iu" interests of the P. cc M. railroad, thus making it a desira
ble residence locality.
The proprietors of this addition propose to re-invest the
proceeds of the sale of the lirst 100 lots, in choice residences,
which will be offered lor 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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