Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1903 — West Is Prosperous. [ARTICLE]

West Is Prosperous.

This has been a busy season for the western farmer, stock raiser, merchant tfnd manufacturer. Their products are bringing good prices nnd the great agricultural belt of tbe Upper Mississippi valley is enjoying a degree of prosperity that is probably unequaled in history. The, crops this year have been good, the acreage larger than ever before known, and the beneficent results of the harvest far reaching enough to have a favorable effect on every man, woman and child in the region. A trip 4HU along the line of the Northwestern Railway, particularly through the rich valley of the Elkhorn, or any other part of Nebraska, is filled with surprising revelations of development and growth. Nebraska will produce 200,000,000 bushels of corn and over 40,000,000 bushels of wheat this year. Her total crop acreage is 15,000,000 acres and the value of live stock is over $150,000,000. In western Nebraska heavy immigration is helping the State greatly. The prospect of future growth is bright and promising for Nebraska, as it is for tlie whole great West.