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One Thousand A Week
That Is the Increase of Nebraska’s Population,
and Mainly by Settlement
“Have you realized that Nebraska is and has been
gaining an average of 1,000 in population a week since becoming a
state?” asked Assistant General
Passenger Agent Smith of the Burlington
today.
He was looking over reports of
immigration and these showed that his line alone was bringing in something like
200 carloads of immigrant movable every two or three days for Western Nebraska
and Eastern Colorado.
The owners of these movables come
principally from Illinois, but largely also
are immigrating from Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota.
They are buying lands and propose
to improve and grow up with the country.
A majority have been tenant farmers in the east and north. The low prices of good land, the climate, the
railroad facilities and markets attract them to this country, and the 1,000 a
week increase has increased the population of the state to fully 1,250,000.
The Union Pacific’s largest single
haul of settlers this season has been that of 1,500 families of Russians from New Mexico to Crook, Deuel County,
this state.
The ex subjects of the czar
settled in New Mexico
about a year ago, but found the altitude too great and the climate not what their
fancy had painted it. Besides, they want
to grow sugar beets, so they came to Nebraska. A syndicate with dead bodies of money is said
to be backing this colony.
Omaha World Herald – February 25,
1893
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