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OMAHA
ILLUSTRATED.
the Indian Territory and Texas. Another,
the Omaha Northern, a line to run north to Yankton and
beyond into the rich Jim River Valley, is designed as an
extension of Jay Gould's Missouri Pacific system, which now
has a terminus in Omaha. The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
has a
PALACE STABLE, SEVENTEENTH AND
DAVENPORT.
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line surveyed westward from
Omaha, and intends to bridge the Missouri at this
point, and thus extend its line at present
terminating here. The business men of the city are
also considering the construction of a railroad to
the Northwest. On this railroad question it may be
noted that upwards of 120 passenger trains arrive
and depart from Omaha daily, a vast percentage of
these being "local", that is, devoted to rapid
communication with the suburban and outlying towns
which do business with Omaha. In 1870 there were
only 600 miles of railroad in Nebraska; now there
are over 3,000 miles. As further evidence
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the great resources of the
section of which Omaha is the central point, it may
be stated that careful estimates place the
population of the Missouri Valley from Dakota to
St. Louis, as follows:
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POPULATION.
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1887
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1,634,570
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1860
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589,553
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Per cent. of increase,
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177
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States and Territories west of the Missouri River
and Iowa, show:
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POPULATION.
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1887
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10,025,792
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1860
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2,270,038
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Per cent. of increase,
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341
2/3
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In Nebraska the increase has
been:
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POPULATION.
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1887
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1,036,900
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1860
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28,841
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Percent. of
increace,
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3,457
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Omaha leads all western cities in the percentage of
increase of population from 1880 to 1887. The
principal western cities show the following:
Leavenworth, Kan-
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W. T. SEAMAN'S CARRIAGE REPOSITORY.
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sas, 88 per cent.; Council
Bluffs, Iowa, 110 per cent.; Denver, Colorado, 125
per cent. Kansas City, Missouri, 151 per cent.;
Omaha, 228 per cent. No city in the Union offers
such splendid inducements for the investment of
capital. It is in fact the "Young Giant of the
West," a rapidly growing, prosperous, handsome city
-- the future great commercial rival of
Chicago.
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