ter." But you'll probably sit up and take
notice when I tell you that if all that but
ter were packed in pound cartons, and
the cartons stacked up end on end, it
would make a column of butter two and
one-half inches square and 2851 miles
high; or if loaded into standard freight
cars it would make a train over thirty
miles long!
In 1910 Nebraska hens produced 102,
000,000 dozen eggs one billion, two hun
dred million eggs. Placed end to end
they would reach once and a half times
around the world, and they were worth
more money than all the gold and silver
dug out of any one state in this Union
during the same year. Imagine, if you
can, all those eggs rolled into one big
egg, aiid then imagine a hen big enough
to be the author thereof. With one
scratch of her foot she could excavate
enough dirt to make a basement for a City
National Bank building, and throw the
dirt across the Missouri river.
Ever hear of "King Cotton?" Texas is
the greatest cotton producing state, yet
her 1910 crop of cotton was not worth as
much as Nebraska's corn and wheat crop
by $30,000,000. The total tobacco produc
tion of the Nation last year wasn't worth
as much as last year's crop of Nebraska
corn, and it wasn't our best corn year,
either. Pennsylvania is the greatest coal
producing state, but her coal output last
year was not worth as much at the mine
mouth as the grain, hay and live stock of
Nebraska on the farmsteads. All the gold
dug from Uncle Sam's soil in 1910
wouldn't pay for Nebraska corn and
wheat in 1910. And mind you, this With
less than one-half her fertile soil under
cultivation, and that less than half not
yet 'intensively farmed so as to produce
the maximum results.
Let us load upon freight cars all the
grain, grasses, live stock, butter, eggs,
poultry, potatoes and sugar beets pro
duced in Nebraska in 1910. Would they
make a train long enough to reach from
Omaha to Sidney? Yes, and then some.
From Omaha to Salt Lake? Yes, and a
bit further. From Omaha to San Fran
cisco? Yes, and a little further. Well,
how long? In order to get a main line
track long enough to hold that train it
would be necessary to bridge the Atlantic
ocean, the English channel and the Baltic
sea. With the caboose of that train in
St. Petersburg, the conductor who carried
orders to the engineer in the cab would
have to walk and walk and walk until lie
reached an engine that projected out into
the Pacific ocean fourteen hundred miles
west of San Francisco, for that train
would be ten thousand and four miles
long.
In 1910 Nebraska, with a population of
less than a million and a half of people,
produced more from her soil than Japan,
with forty million people, produced and
purchased from other nations. The per
capita of agricultural wealth production
of Nebraska in 1910 was greater than that
of any other state. Her two main cereals,
corn and wheat, ' were worth more than
the nation's output of copper; her four
main cereals, corn, wheat, oats and rye,
were worth more than the nation's out
put of iron ore ; her butter, eggs and poul
try were worth practically as much as the
nation's output of crude petroleum; her
hay output was worth more than Alaska's
output of precious metals, and her baby
crop worth more than the baby crop of
all the other states combined.
You think you know Nebraska! I
doubt if there is an editor here who is
familiar with the history, the productiv
ity and the resources of his own county.
Nebraska a desert! What other state has
as many miles of rivers within her bord
ers? Nebraska has over 800 miles of
Platte river wholly within her confines.
And with the Blue, the Nemahas, the
Loups, Pine, Stinking Water, Republi
can, Salt, and creeks too numerous to
mention, she possesses an undeveloped
water power that would rival Niagara.
She ought to be manufacturing from Ne
braska grown raw material every finished
product that humanity eats and wTears,
and pretty near everything that human
ity uses, using Nebraska power and pay
ing wages to Nebraska workers.
I claim that Nebraska, with more to
advertise than any other state, is the least
known state at home or abroad of any
state in the Union. Kansas spends $30,
000 a year in publicity and immigration
work; Missouri spends $40,000 a year;
Colorado spends $30,000 a year ; Montana
spends $15,000 a year; Washington and
Oregon spend $25,000 a year each ; Cali
fornia spends a quarter of a million and
Nebraska doesn't spend a dollar. Any
wonder thousands pass us by to invest in
the higher priced and less productive,
lands of the northwest? Any wonder that
Canada is getting some of Nebraska's
best? Any wonder that the Nebrasan
in New York who undertakes to tell some
of the real facts about Nebraska is
laughed at and set down as a chronic pre
varicator? Time that we made Nebraska known to
all the world! High time that we ac
quaint the world with the marvelous im
provement that has been wrought withi1
her borders in less than a generation!
High time that we let the world know that
right here in the heart of the once "Great.
American Desert" we have builded in less
than a generation a state that stands, at
the front in education, that stands at the
front in wealth production per capita,
that stands at the front in development
of manufacturing, that leads all othei'
states in civic reforms and accomplishes
them without revolution and' wholly by
thoughtful study and intelligent progress.
But before we can adequately tell the
world we must first know Nebraska. So
this is the message I bring you, fellow
newspaper men : Let us study Nebraska,
study her history, her resources and her
possibilities, to the end that we may be
fitted to advertise our beloved state to all
the world for what she is the most pro
ductive, progressive and pushing ; the
most enterprising, energetic and enthusi
astic; the most intelligent, industrious
and inspiring in short, the greatest area
of productivity peopled by the most pro
gressive people in all the world.
This toast I give to you:
"Nebraska, the producer of the best of
all things; of bad things the possessor of
least ; a state without a 'bread line' or a
child sent breakfastless to school; with a
future unlimited and a past to be proud
of; a state of homes and schools and
churches her greater development our
duty, her bounty our sufficient reward."
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
Lincoln has every reason to be proud of
the new building just completed by the
First National bank. And the banking
corporation has equal reason to be proud
of its new home. It is a monument to
the strength of the banking corporation
and an evidence of its fath in the future
of this city. The bank's quarters are
the equal of any in this western country,
and far and away the handsomest in this
immediate section. Lincoln has profited
by the erection of this magnificent build
ing, and it is to be hoped that the bank
will profit by having such a huge adver
tisement always on display before the
public. The First National Bank of Lin
coln is one of the oldest and soundest fin
ancial institutions in the west, with a
record behind it to which its managers
point with pride. It is one of the few
banks of Omaha and Lincoln that weath
ered the financial storm of the early '90's,
and since the cessation of that panic it
has increased its business by leaps and
bounds. Today it takes rank among the
largest financial institutions of the
west.
MAUPIN-ROSA
MAUPIN-ROSA
Married, at the home of the bride's
parents in Lincoln, on June 10, Mr. Louis
B. Maupin and Miss Ruth Rosa. Mr. and
Mrs. Maupin left the following day for
Baggs, Wyo., where Mr. Maupin is en
gaged in the banking business and identi
fied with a number of enterprises in that
rapidly developing country. He is the
oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Will M.
Maupin.
DON'T GET WORRIED
A lot of people have worried themselves
to death over things that never happened.
We make this fact known for the benefit
of those timid and trouble-seeking mor
tals who are having the figets because
they think the wheat crop has gone to
the demnition bow-wows. That portion
of Nebraska that raises four-fifths of the
wheat is all right. The dry weather has
affected only that portion of Nebraska
that raises but little wheat. The dry ter
ritory runs largely to corn and alfalfa,
and the alfalfa crop is great, and corn is
as yet uninjured. Don't worry! Ne
braska is going to have an average wheat
Crop this year.