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LUMBER
COMPANY
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Phone 1586
735 0 St., Lincoln, Neb.
Established 1884
Aato Phone 6045
LOUIS JENSEN
General Contractor
419 LITTLE BUILDING
Contractor for the New
Commercial Club Building
209-223 No. 8th St.
Gillen & Boney
GOOD CANDY MAKERS
LINCOLN, NEB.
Our candies are pure, have quality,
and have a delicious flavor
When you buy candies, insist on
having the dealer give you
Gillen & Boney 's
VEDME HEDGE
Abstracts of Title
$10,000 Bond Filed With the
County Judge
OLDEST OFFICE IN THE COUNTY
Richards Block
Both Phones
llth&OSts.
NEBRASKA'S GREAT RECORD
Do you remember the old story of Alladin and his wonderful
lamp? Remember how he rubbed it and summoned a genii who
obeyed his every command?
"Well, it isn't so difficult to believe that old tale told in Arabia
thousands of years ago when one pauses long enough to think what
is being done right here in Nebraska every year. Nebraska farm
ers do not rub lamps to summon genii, they merely "rub the soil"
and summqn the genii of the sun and the rain to do their bidding,
and as a result enough wealth is poured into the lap of Nebraska
every year to make the tales of treasure trove told by the wily wife
of the blase Sultan of Turkey sound like boys' tales of recovered
marbles.
In the period represented by the years 1901 to 1911, inclusive.
Nebraska produced 1,546,065,473 bushels of corn. The human mind
cannot grasp the immensity of those figures. A billion bushels
means absolutely nothing because we cannot comprehend it. But
when we reduce it to smaller terms we may begin to grasp the truth.
For instance, if all the corn raised in Nebraska since 1901 were
shelled and loaded into standard freight cars, it would require 2,
730,095 such cars. There are not enough freight cars in the world
to make up this number. If these cars were made up into trains of
fifty cars each, it would require 54,602 engines to put all the trains
under motion at once. There are not enough freight locomotives
capable of getting up steam to haul that many freight cars. One
hundred and seventeen freight cars, with locomotive and caboose,
will make a train a mile long. The freight cars that would be nec
essary to transport to market at once the corn raised in Nebraska
since 1901 would make a freight train 22,750 miles long. You could
not get them all on a seven-track railroad reaching from New York
to San Francisco. It would reach from San Francisco around the
globe to Boston, with a few miles of cars left over for good measure.
But we raise more than corn in Nebraska. "We raise wheat.
In fact Nebraska is the third largest wheat producing state, pro
ducing more bushels per acre than any other state, and increasing
her annual acreage and output more rapidly than any other state.
Since 1901 Nebraska has produced 402,447,852 bushels of wheat
another inconceivable amount. To transport that amount of wheat
would require 574,954 standard freight cars, making a train of wheat
4,788 miles long a distance equal to that between New York and
San Francisco and back again to the Missiouri river.
But corn and wheat are not the only grains Nebraska pro
duces in profusion. This state is a wonderful oats producer. Since
1901 Nebraska has produced 540,954,537 bushels of oats. To trans
port this production of oats to market by rail would require 772,793
standard freight cars, making a freight train 6,440 miles long more
than twice the distance between New York and San Francisco.
Now. take all three of these grain crops, corn, wheat and oats,
since 1901, load them into standard freight cars, and we would have
a freight train 33,978 miles long one and a half times around the
globe at the equator. A thirty-track railroad between New York
and San Francisco would not hold all the cars. That train would
fill every mile of a railroad .track in Nebraska, including switches,
five times over.
And we raise rye and barley and speltz and sugar beets, to say
nothing of potatoes and onions and cabbage. And then, again, there
is hay and livestock. Try reducing all these products to terms of
car loads if you want to play an interesting game that will be full
of startling information concerning the wonderful productivity of
Nebraska.
"Know Nebraska Better!" That should be the slogan of every
loyal Nebraskan. "Nebraska and Her Resources" should be a com
pulsory study in the public schools of the state. Nebraska school
children should know more about their state than merely to bound
it, name her principal cities and rivers and enumerate her chief pro
ducts. They ought to know her as they know their alphabet. The
more we know about 'Nebraska the prouder we will be that we are
Nebraskans.
And the more we know about this grand young state the more
eager we will be to advertise her glories abroad.
"Wonderful as her development has been during the past forty
years, it is but an earnest of the development that is to be during
the next four decades. No other state has equalled her in develop
ment, just &s no other state can equal her in agricultural produc
tivity. Let us tell all the world about Nebraska. . But in order that
we may be able to tell it intelligently we must first learn about Ne
braska.
WE ARE GETTING IN BAD.
"Will Maupin'a "Weekly is getting in bad with the patriotic gen
tlemen who are working Nebraskans in the interest of the boasted
apple lands of the northwest. This newspaper is accused of ex
aggerating about Nebraska and libelling the northwest. Of course.
the charge is untrue, and for 'two reasons. First, we couldn't ex
aggerate about Nebraska; second, this newspaper would not libel
anything or anybody. "We admit that the northwest is a good apple
country but we claim that Nebraska isT & better one. And wt
are willing to leave it to the proof. And the way to prove It is to
come through with the exhibits. ' ' '
If the land boomers of Oregon will agree to make an exhibit
of their apples in Lincoln, alongside an exhibit of Nebraska apples,
subject to fair rules and regulations, "Will 31aupin's "Weekly will
undertake to provide the exhibition hall and give the exhibits a
pretty fair measure of publicity. "We stipulate that all exhibits
shall be unmarked save by secret signs known only to a commit
tee to be appointed by the exhibitors. The judges are to be selected
from states not entered in the competition, these judges to be ig
norant of the names of the exhibitors and the states from whence
the exhibits come. The exhibition is to be free to the public, and
the daily press of the states entered in the competition to guarantee
full publicity to the awards.
These stipulations are eminently fair. Now will the agents of
the northwest come across t "Well leave the Nebraska exhibit in
the hands of Secretary Marshall of the Nebraska State Horticultural
Society, and suggest early in January as a good time for the com
petition.
SOUNDED VERY FAMILIAR.
Little "Willie (reading from the Good Book) " 'And they came
to the brook of Eschol, and cut down from thence a, branch with
one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between them upon a staff.'
Grandma (looking up from her newspaper) "Why, "Willie, what
Nebraska newspaper are you reading nowj and I never knew there
was a creek called Eschol in this state. "What county is it in t"
E UR E K A
Arkansas Semi-Anthracite, Sootless
and Smokeless
Equal and we think superior
to any Semi-Anthracite mined.
For September delivery, $7.00
We ask you to give it a trial in
your furnace, and ibe convinced.
Whitebreast Co.
Phones) iS43228 107 No. 1 1
Home Made
Harness, Saddles
Horse Clothing of all descriptions
Repairing a Specialty
O. D. BEEMER, Proprietor
145 So, 9th St.,
Lincoln, Neb.
Charley's Place
T HE H O M E OF
C. B. ELLIOTT, Prop.
fiOOn COFFER AND
127 N. 14th St. i i
at the
Merchants Laundry
Rough Dry at Five Cent per Pound
AH Bed and Table Linen ironed Good work guaranteed and
Prompt Delivery. , Lincoln, Nebraska.
SEAPXE & CHAPIN
Lumber Company
Lumber and Building
Material
Phones 29, 2929
737 N . Street
. FORBURGER COMPANY
Cut Stone Contractors
llth and W Streets
Lincoln
Nebraska
