WILL MAUPIN'S WEEKLY
THE WAGEWORKER
WILL M. MAUPIN, Editor
F. L. SHOOP, Business Manager
' Published Weekly at Lincoln, Nebraska, by The
Wageworker Publishing Company.
"Entered & second-class matter February 3, 191 1, at the post
office at Lincoln, Nebraska, under the Act of March 3, 1879."
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A PERSONAL WORD.
This issue of Will Maupin's Weekly is
intended to be a text book on Nebraska
resources and possibilities; also a com
pendium of the most enterprising and
progressive business firms in the two
largest cities of the state, Omaha and
Lincoln. This periodical's chief mission
is to herald forth to the world the truth
about Nebraska; to make her wonderful
resources known of all men, and to shed
cheerfulness and good nature wherever
it may find its way.
There has been no attempt made at
"highfalutin' " writing in this necessar
ily brief presentation of Nebraska. The
plain truth has been told in a plain way,
and figures, usually so dry and uninter
esting, have been compiled with a view
to making them appeal to the average
mind. It is not necessary to exaggerate
when talking about Nebraska. On the
contrary, the great difficulty is to con
vince people of the real facts about this
wonderful state. The truth sounds like
woeful exaggeration, and the Nebraskan
abroad who incidentally tells a few plain
truths about his state is usually looked
at askance and mentally classed with
Mulhatton and Munchansen. And yet the
best informed man in Nebraska about
Nebraska resources, could not, if he tried,
begin to tell all there is to tell about this
modern agricultural empire.
If whatever of the facts herein related
shall induce one honest, industrious
homeseeker to locate in Nebraska, or if it
shall result in bringing to Nebraska a
single legitimate enterprise that will em
ploy labor and help to develop the state,
then this issue of Will Maupin's Weekly
will, in part, have justified its being. This
periodical is intent upon advertising Ne
braska to the world. Its editor and its
business manager are ready at all times
to answer any questions prospective in
vestors or homeseekers may see fit to ask.
Whatever this periodical can do to ad
vance the material interests of Nebraska,
or contribute to the happiness and well
being of her citizens, it stands ready and
willing to do.
If you like the tone and spirit of Will
Maupin's Weekly, a dollar will bring it
to your address fifty-two consecutive
times in one year. They will be fifty-two
consecutive weekly doses of good cheer,
optimism, good-natured comment and
unlimited boosts for everything good.
LITTLE BITS.
Thirty millions dollars worth of gold
and silver were smelted in Omaha in 1910,
to say nothing of a huge amount of lead
and zinc, v
The bluffs overlooking the Missouri
river from the Nebraska side will in a
few short years be the prize vineyards of
the United States.
Nebraska is the only state in the Union
that has furnished a presidential candi
date for one of the two great parties three
times in twelve years.
We'll leave it to Philadelphia if the
greatest man of the century does not hail
from Nebraska. Ask any Philadelphian
about Grover Cleveland Alexander.
We've never figured it out yet, but we
are willing to wager a penny or two that
the counties of Richardson, -Nemaha,
Otoe, Cass and Johnson, Nebraska, raise
more apples to the square mile than any
other similar area of territory in the
United States.
A few months ago a Custer county, Ne
braska, farmer threshed his alfalfa and
hauled the seed to town to sell. One
wagon contained the crop, and one team
of horses pulled the load. It wasn't such
an awfully big load, either, but the farmer
sold it for $1,875, spot cash.
Thirty years ago land in western Ne
braska was deemed worthless save for
grazing purposes. Today there are im
mense tracts of this land under cultiva
tion, and within the past five years thou
sands of acres, have changed hands at
prices ranging from $100 to $350 an acre
farming land with little or no improvements.
Fremont, Grand Island, Kearney,
North Platte and Sidney, on the Union
Pacific, are thriving Nebraska cities
ranging from 2,500 to 15,000 inhabitants,
that are offering superior inducements
for the location of manufacturing and
wholesale enterprises. Hastings, Holdrege
and McCook on the Burlington, equally
thriving and ranging in size from 3,500
to 14,000 in size, offer equally good in
ducements. Beatrice, 12,000; Falls City,
5,000; York, 5,500; Aurora, 3,200; Su
pernor, 4,500; Nebraska City, 10,000 ;
Plattsmouth, 6,500; Havelock, 2,500
these are other progressive Nebraska
municipailtes that offer peculiar advan
tages to the intending investor.
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