Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — Nebraska as She Really Is. [ARTICLE]

Nebraska as She Really Is.

Men who visit Nebraska from Illinois and other states, are astonished at what they see as compared with what they have heard. Iu this year, 1876, JU cbraska has an enormous or«p of wheat, barley, oats and rye, and not more than five p«r cent, of the oom has been lost through the “hoppers,” which pest, the men of science and those posted say, may never again visit the state. The ridiculous and almost laughable stories that are circulated as to the had condition of the state are witauut foundation in foci. being started by parties diroc'ly or indirectly interested. The beet thing for the land-hunter to do, is to refuse to listen to these “yarns,** and examine Nebraska for himself. He will thus be convii.ced, that with energy and a little capita), ho can do twice as well in fisrmi g and stock-raising in Nebraska, as anvwhore east of ft. It is not by ehanco that two-thirds of the population «f America Are found in the latitude of Nebraska. 'Agriculture forms the basis of true wealth, and where agricuttiimis prosperous t..ere will be a people of manifold resource*. 1. It is in this very belt thdl the intelligence, strength and wealth oft the United States are mainly found. It is in this latitude only, that we an fr«e from those extremes of heat and odd, which goto make terming so precarious elsewhere. It is in this latitude that the Gulf Stream of immigration flows, bringing up the value of land mors surely, and more rapidly than an.- where else. Things in Nebraska have reached “bedreek." Those going in now will get the advantage of the lowest figures, with a oOK katy of better times *#4 large adva cee In the taratediam future. M i