Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1903 — West Is Prosperous. [ARTICLE]

West Is Prosperous.

This has been a busy season for the western farmer, stock raiser, merchant and manufacturer. Tlieir products are bringing good prices' and the great agricultural belt of, the Upper Mississippi valley is enjoying a degree d| prosperity that is probably unequaled in history. The eropa this year have been good, the acreage larger than ever before Wuown, and the beneficent results of the harvest far reaching enough to have a favorable effect on every man, woman and child®ln the region. A trip out along the line of the Northwestern Railway, particularly through the rich valley of the Elldiorn, 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 the whole great West. 1