The Alliance Herald from Alliance, Nebraska • Page 25

4 Ad rH A MOST DESIRA. AND DEVELOP. "I I 1, ii i A I wmmmm ip in The Gering Courier Building A BEAUTIFUL AND BUSY CITY He OKlot Town, Now Mostly New, Id the North Platte Valley, and Finest Location HOOTTS 11LUFF COUNTY SEAT One who has for thirty years watched the attempts at developing western Nebraska, at first largely un successful, cannot help becoming en thusiastic over the progress made in the last decade. And of all the plac es that excite one's admiration and enthusiasm, none exceeds Gering In that respect. Many years ago, a beautiful site was selected for a town, east of and ot far from the now famous Scotts Bluff, a picture of which appears on the front page.

The founders of the town hoped, as did the founders at hundreds of other western towns in those early days, that some time a railroad would build to the place and stake of it a commercial center. The large majority of those who started tewns and waited for railroads to oeme were doomed to disappointment. Gering was made the county seat the county named after the nearby bluff. After years of weary waiting the railroad came three miles distant and started a rival town on the opposite side of the river. Did those Oering people give up in despair? Not many of them.

They clung to their hope with a tenacity worthy of their good cause. And it came. A few years ago another railroad built up the North Platte Valley, on the aorth side of the river till after it massed Northport, then it crossed over and struck Gering. Best of all, there is now being bailt an Immense sugar factory, so stodern and up-to-date will it be in I construction and equipment that it is spoken of as the "Model" factory, There can no longer be any doubt a to the great future for this erst- "'1 inn wMe plucky, little city. With a splendid irrigated country already tributary, and with work commenced on the south side government irrigation canal that will throw under irrigation thousands of acres more of fertile land in Gering territory; with the county seat of the most populous county of this part of the state permanently located here; with the assurance that the line of railroad passing thru the city will at no distant date become a part of the main line of the Union Pacific, from Omaha to Ogden, and a strong probability that Gering will be made a division station; with these advantages ami others that could be mentioned, it doe not require a stretch of the imagination to see that this town is destined to be the leading city of western Ne braska.

There will be no long wait, either. She is having her day now. Besides the erection of the sugar factory and business houses, more residences are now being built in Gering than in any other town In the west half of the state. When spring opens, the amount of building will greatly In- The Oering Garage crease. It Is now definitely known that work will be commenced soon on the construction of more than a hundred other residences, and the number is being added to almost dally.

FED FORM MARKET Cattle and Sheep Fattened on Alfalfa, Sugar Beet Tops and Pulp of Wewtern Nebraska From Clay, K. Co. Live Stock Report February 8th our South St. Joseph house sold two cars of Mexican lambs averaging 68 fed by Norman Lemley and one car averaging 76 fed by Dr. J.

J. Halley, both of Scotts-blufr, at 111.10. the top of the market and a record price for February. We have never failed this year to top the market with the Halley or Lemley lambs, and this sale cleans up the feeding of Mr. Lemley.

They sold straight, not a single lamb out. With 3,500 ewes on sale at South St. Joseph February 8th our house succeeded in landing all they had at $7.50, the extreme top for the day. Four cars averaging 106 lbs. were fed by K.

F. and Geo. Munroe, Morrill. Nebr. T.

C. Halley, one of the largest sheep operators in the Platte Valley, paid our So. St. Joseph bouse a visit February 7th, when he witnessed the sale of seven cars of his lambs at $10.90. Mr.

Halley Is a very busy 1 man in the sheep feeding season and while we have sold thirty cars this winter for him, this was the first 'time he has been on the market himself. I rrTv '--tsrva I -j (I it Gering Mercantile Company B. F. Hobbick of Minatare, while in our Kansas City house with a shipment of cattle last wek, re ported that within a radius of twen ty-flve miles of his home in the Scottsbluff district more than sheep and 3,000 cattle are belnn fed this "The establishment of beet production a few years ago changed that district from a waste place among the sand hills into a garden spot and a leading stock feeding territory," Mr. Hobbick said.

"With more than 2.000 acres in beets last year and a large increase In the acreage of alfalfa, we find we are long on feed of the forage class. Alfalfa of V4 good quality Is bringing $6 a ton In the stack. It is all consumed at home, as well as the by-products of the large beet sugar factory. A second beet sugar plant Is being built. The new plant will have a dally capacity of 600 tons of beets." DESERVING OF MENTION Business Men of tiering to Whom Credit I Due for Featuring Their City In This Paper A.

B. Wood, editor and publisher of The Gering Courier. The Gering National Bank, by A. N. Mathers, president.

The State Bank of Oering, by Chas. F. Lyman, president. Robert F. Neeley, real estate dealer and Insurance agent.

J. C. Pedersen, architect, who has supervision of the construction of new buildings in Gering and who will respond to calls from other towns for his service as an architect. Gering Mercantile Company, by W. It.

Woolfenden, manager. Dr. R. C. Knode, physician and surgeon.

Bradford-Kennedy Lumber Company, by A. S. Hayes, manager. The Gering Garage, by R. J.

Schwendiman, proprietor. A. V. Richardson, leading grocer. Miller Brothers, general merchandise.

Lainbs Make Good (iaiiiH Twenty-eight lambs fed for 40 days by the self-feeder method at the Agricultural Experiment Station at Lincoln made an average daily gain per head of over 20 pounds in a test which closed recently. The net prof- it inr head was The coHt pr 100 pounds gain was 7.34. Pea sixe oil meal and prairie hay were kept constantly before the lambs from the beginning of the test. Corn was added and gradually increased beginning with the third day. At the close of the third week, the lambs were consuming about two pounds of corn and one-half pound of oil meal per head dally.

At the end of the experiment, they were consuming one-half pound more of corn per day and the same amount of oil meal. The average daily consumption of prairie hay per lamb was about one-third pound. t'orn was valued at 60 cents a i 1 fef folk mmw i mm WEI 1 IK It i sMtF Nfe III fc Gering National Bank bushel, oil meal at $40 a ton, and prairie hay at $9 a ton. Experiments with ten other lots of lambs of 28 each, being fed for 70 days, will close about the middle of March. Management of Irrigated Land "The Management of Irrigated Land" Is the title of bulletin No.

162. recently issued by the Agricultural Exerlment Station of Nebraska. Among the topics discussed are: The proper distances between irri gation ditches. The proper sizes of heads of water. Growing of alfalfa, sugar beets, potatoes, and other crops under irrigation.

Yield of sugar beets when land is plowed at different depths. This bulletin may be had without oat by any resident of NebraMAii from the Agricultural Nation, Lincoln. A ProKperous Future With the advent of the railroad in the fall of 1911, great developments began in Gering. The rank and prestige lost when the Burlington railroad built up the north side of the river was quickly regained. Gering now had as good train service as any town in the county.

A business Impetus began, which' In a short time resulted in the erection of many new brick business buildings, and the town soon resumed again the prosperous appearance of earlier days, but on a brighter and larger scale. GeHnf Street Scene PAST, PRESENT ANBRJTURE A Few FacU Concerning the City mi Oering, What It Was, What It Is, What It Will Be A inSTOIlY-FOilBCAST SKETCH' We are Indebted to that excellent newspaper, The Gering Courier, faff much of the information contained ta the following. By the way, speaking of newspapers, The Courier is ow of the best In the west, which mean that It Is one of the best In Nebraska, Its editor and publisher, who Is as ex-presldent of the Nebraska PreM Association, is one of the best knowa newspaper men in the state. He established The Gering Courier la 1887, and by Industry and Intelligent effort has made a great success of it. His new a cut of which ap pears in this paper, is probably tha best newspaper building in the west half of Nebraska.

Altho Mr. Woo knows what it' is to go thru the hard times of the pioneer days of wester Nebraska, he has been doiim prosperous business for many years past ml Im now on "Kany ti'ian- clally. Gering, the county Beat of Scott Bluff county, is on the south side of the North Platte river In the heart ot Gering valley. It lies in nearly th geographic center of the county, and is on the Union Pacific railroad. For a number of years It was the only trading point in a radius of many miles, dating its Inception to ta spring of 1SH7, at a time when all supplies and building materials wer-freighted overland from Sidney, th then nenieht raliioad point nccessibl by a drive of seventy-five miles.

It m'adnnily th commercial center for (lie pioneer homesteader and the range cattle men of a territory for scores of milt' in both diree- loiis alo-ir 'iie North Platte. When the division of old Cut ynna county was effected, tierint bet-am li" seiit of S''ot'S eoua-y, and continued to more and importance commercially. Tbea ante a period of more or less uncer Utility as to the railroad facilities and the advent of numerous competitors for the business of the vail followed the building of the Burling' ton north of the river, the gravity Of the situation only ending with tb completion of the Union Pacific to th city some few years ago. i a. iamnm-j 'Vi'-V J4.