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DAILY NEBRASKA STATE JOURNAL, LINCOLN, SUNDAY 5 JUNE 1887 p29
TABULATED LIST
Of the Towns Reviewed in This Issue of the Journal.
The statistics given below were compiled from data received from the Nebraska towns and cities to be found reviewed in this edition of THE JOURNAL. It has been the design to collect in as available a form as possible the leading facts of commercial interest regarding these towns. There are scores of people who are contemplating making a home in the west and engaging in some mercantile pursuit. To these it will be valuable in indicating by an easy comparison the most favorable openings. There are scores of others who could greatly benefit their condition by coming west, did they but fully realize the advantages and resources here awaiting development. To such it is hoped this statement may prove a source of information and stimulate a serious consideration of the opportunities offered. Again, these statistics will prove of special interest to wholesale dealers and manufacturers, showing something of the extent of the patronage upon which they can calculate, and the most advantageous point from which it can be reached.
Producers notes: We have identified the county for your convenience.
(The following tables do not appear in the original)Railroads: Most of the following appear in tabulated list as abbreviations for railroad names. Apparently the readers were expected to recognize those abbreviations!
A. &. N.
Atchison & Nebraska
B. & M.
Burlington & Missouri
C. B. & Q.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
C. K. & N
Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska
C. & N. W.
C. & R. I.
Chicago & Rock Island
Ch. St. P. M. & O.
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
E.V.
Elkhorn Valley
F.E. & M. V.
Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley
K. C. & O.
Kansas City & Omaha
M. &. O.
M.P.
Missouri Pacific
O. & R.
Omaha & Republican Valley?
O. & W
Omaha & Western
S. C. & P.
Sioux City & Pacific
St. J. & G.I.
St. Joseph & Grand Island
U.P.
Union Pacific
Legend: Town name, population, distance from Lincoln, NE.
Shp: Shipment of grain and livestock (No. of carloads)
Rcpt: Receipts of lumber and Mds'e. (No. of carloads)
Bnk: Banks; DG: Dry Goods; Grc.: Groceries; Hdwr: Hardware Stores
Drug: Drugstores; B/S: Boot & Shoe Stores; Htl: Hotels; Lmb: Lumber Businesses
GM: General Merchandise; Frn: Furniture; Nws: Newspapers;
AI: Agricultural Implements Businesses.(Producers notes: As the table below is NOT arranged in any particular order, we recommend you use the "FIND" of your browser to locate a town. Consult the "Index by County" in order to read the articles submitted for inclusion to this issue of the Lincoln State Journal. The tabulated list includes 137 towns. Other towns appear in the newspaper articles to make a total of 159. Some are now in different counties, OR no longer in existence in 1998.)
County Town Pop. Dist shp. rcpt Bnk DG Grc Hd Dr B/S Htl Lmb GM Fur Nws AI Rail Road G&L L&M wr ug Lines Lincoln North Platte 3500 232 7500 2975 3 4 8 5 4 3 7 4 4 UP, B&M, CNW, SC&D Dundy Benkleman 300 280 225 2 1 2 4 3 1 3 2 4 3 B&M Frontier Moorefield 160 213 21 13 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 4 B&M Sheridan Rushville 450 425 143 27 3 5 5 2 2 2 2 5 1 2 FE&MV Furnas Beaver City 1000 100 3 3 4 4 2 2 2 6 2 2 1 B&M Saunders Ceresco 250 18 975 350 1 2 2 2 3 1 2 FE&MV Nemaha Auburn 2000 71 2275 475 2 1 1 3 5 1 2 2 8 2 5 4 B&M. MP Cheyenne Potter 125 373 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 UP Saunders Weston 325 30 1371 47 1 2 2 3 2 3 O&R Saline Western 450 52 230 45 2 1 1 2 2 2 5 1 1 2 B&M Hamilton Bromfield 250 85 620 95 1 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 B&M Dawes Whitney 300 465 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 1 FE&MV Cass Avoca 250 59 365 1 ? 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 B&M Jefferson Diller 375 78 100 1 2 2 2 1 3 1 B&M York Waco 400 48 885 215 1 4 2 2 2 3 B&M Custer Mason City 300 148 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 B&M York McCool 300 61 KC&O Clay Ong 100 47 302 1 2 1 1 1 2 4 B&M Polk Stromsburg 1300 73 2300 375 3 3 2 2 2 3 4 1 3 3 UP Phelps Holdrege 2300 51 3780 510 3 4 4 3 2 3 3 2 2 3 B&M Gage Cortland 1000 20 2920 300 2 1 3 3 2 2 7 1 1 1 UP Nuckolls Superior 800 121 1473 730 3 2 2 3 2 8 2 B&M Kearney Wilcox 480 53 173 127 1 1 3 2 2 1 3 2 1 2 B&M
County Town Pop. Dist shp. rcpt Bnk DG Grc Hd Dr B/S Htl Lmb GM Fur Nws AI Rail Road G&L L&M wr ug Lines Saline Friend 2000 47 512 240 3 5 9 2 3 1 2 3 2 2 3 B&M Lancaster Roca 325 12 4000 1 1 1 1 2 A&N Sarpy 350 51 765 95 1 3 1 3 2 1 4 1 2 MP Hall Grand Island 8000 92 13704 9618 4 5 23 7 7 3 5 4 3 6 UP, B&M Johnson Sterling 1000 36 963 511 2 7 9 2 3 1 2 2 7 2 2 1 A&N Webster Blue Hill 1000 114 1122 519 3 4 7 3 1 3 5 1 1 3 A&N Howard Saint Paul 2000 114 2000 200 2 3 12 5 4 2 4 2 3 4 UP Richardson Salem 700 85 333 95 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 4 1 1 3 A&N Franklin Naponee 200 202 126 63 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 A&N Merrick Central City 2000 93 4060 450 3 4 10 5 5 2 4 7 1 2 5 B&M Sherman Litchfield 250 139 1 1 2 2 2 1 2 3 1 1 3 B&M Red Willow Indianola 2000 216 136 478 2 1 4 2 1 3 2 2 3 1 2 4 B&M Fillmore Exeter 1000 95 1300 253 2 3 2 2 1 2 5 1 1 2 B&M Richardson Verdon 300 103 409 83 1 2 1 3 1 1 B&M Seward Seward 2500 29 2945 720 4 6 3 1 3 3 6 2 3 3 B&M Dodge Scribner 700 76 367 111 1 FE&MV Butler Ulysses 1000 43 1059 271 2 2 3 2 5 2 2 3 B&M Furnas Cambridge 500 200 534 114 2 2 2 2 5 2 B&M Johnson Tecumseh 2500 48 4230 2450 2 5 13 4 3 5 5 2 3 4 2 B&M Saunders Mead 450 45 1600 1 2 2 2 2 2 4 1 1 2 UP Harlan? Oxford 900 200 1550 875 2 2 3 1 1 2 1 B&M (Junction?) Nemaha Peru 600 71 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 1 B&M Franklin Bloomington 600 166 550 385 2 3 2 2 2 2 3 B&M
County Town Pop. Dist shp. rcpt Bnk DG Grc Hd Dr B/S Htl Lmb GM Fur Nws AI Rail Road G&L L&M wr ug Lines Nuckolls Lawrence 200 75 218 130 1 1 1 2 3 2 3 1 1 B&M Otoe Dunbar 500 47 350 165 1 1 2 1 4 3 B&M Cedar Hartington 700 43 300 170 2 1 5 3 2 C.St.P&M Garden Ogalalla 800 233 1350 965 1 1 2 2 6 3 2 2 2 UP Red Willow Bartley 400 211 175 145 5 2 2 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 B&M Richardson Humboldt 2000 71 268 3 1 1 2 2 2 5 1 2 2 B&M Cuming Wisner 600 95 306 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 5 1 1 4 FE&MV Kearney Minden 800 126 1140 400 3 4 2 1 3 10 2 2 4 B&M Boone Albion 1200 117 391 553 3 2 4 3 2 1 3 5 2 4 UP Cuming West Point 2100 88 2393 960 2 2 3 3 3 1 3 2 9 2 4 FE&MV Fillmore Grafton 900 50 730 485 2 11 8 3 4 3 2 2 5 1 1 3 B&M Gage Beatrice 8000 40 11276 7572 6 10 14 5 3 11 7 4 2 6 1 UP, P&M Clay Fairfield 1587 116 2100 500 2 3 5 2 7 2 2 7 3 2 5 St.J&GI Lancaster Raymond 250 11 910 115 1 13 1 3 1 2 1 UP Cedar Coleridge 400 156 865 127 1 3 1 2 1 2 2 5 1 2 (blank) Nemaha Nemaha City 500 84 250 275 1 2 4 1 1 2 2 3 1 3 B&M Thayer Carleton 700 76 670 193 2 3 2 2 1 4 2 3 1 3 St.J&GI Otoe Syracuse 1700 35 610 300 2 6 2 2 1 4 2 4 1 2 2 B&M Dawson Cozad 500 183 459 247 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 1 1 1 UP Gage Odell 800 72 1075 543 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 4 1 2 B&M Butler Brainard 350 34 588 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 4 1 UP Madsion Newman Grove 250 136 157 1 1 2 2 2 3 1 1 1 FE&MV Seward Staplehurst 350 30 1072 4 1 2 1 1 4 1 1 A&NCounty Town Pop. Dist shp. rcpt Bnk DG Grc Hd Dr B/S Htl Lmb GM Fur Nws AI Rail Road G&L L&M wr ug Lines Seward Beaver Crossing 200 30 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 F&MV (sic) Harlan Alma 1500 184 2150 463 2 1 3 4 3 2 5 2 4 B&M Lancaster Hickman 350 15 720 4 1 1 4 1 3 2 1 AN Cass Weeping Water 1500 30 1670 984 2 1 2 4 1 2 2 5 1 1 1 MP Jefferson Fairbury 2800 128 1256 2512 4 2 3 3 4 4 5 4 7 4 4 St.J&GI Otoe Unadilla 400 30 4 1 4 3 2 2 2 B&M Saunders Wahoo 3000 38 1400 1450 4 6 2 3 1 2 3 3 3 B&M Madison Norfolk 2500 32 4960 1179 3 6 4 3 4 3 3 2 3 FE&MV York York 4500 52 1162 750 4 3 4 5 3 4 7 4 4 1 B&M Adams Juniata 1000 102 1440 535 1 3 1 1 B&M Burt Bertrand 500 166 720 150 2 1 1 2 2 2 3 4 2 4 B&M Cherry Valentine 600 321 473 2 2 2 2 2 2 5 2 3 2 FE&MV Pawnee Pawnee City 2000 70 242 446 3 1 3 4 2 15 3 8 3 5 B&M Adams Hastings 1000 96 14780 7629 4 5 4 5 4 9? 5 2 3 2 B&M Cass Plattsmouth 8000 59 9450 4310 3 7 4 4 4 5 2 2 4 3 3 B&M Webster Red Cloud 3000 136 1000 700 3 15 5 2 2 1 2 6 2 B&M Dakota Dakota City 600 186 468 4 2 2 3 2 2 2 ChStPM&O Clay Harvard 1800 81 1150 620 2 3 13 2 4 4 3 2 1 2 B&M Dawson Plum Creek 2000 171 780 3 2 2 2 4 4 3 3 5 1 1 UP Cass Louisville 1000 36 73 235 2 2 4 2 2 2 1 4 1 2 4 B&M, MP Wayne Wayne 1000 163 547 321 2 2 3 3 3 3 6 2 2 ChStPM&O Fillmore Fairmont 2000 53 1312 975 4 6 2 5 4 B&M Custer Broken Bow 1680 136 500 3 1 2 4 4 4 3 4 2 3 B&MCounty Town Pop. Dist shp. rcpt Bnk DG Grc Hd Dr B/S Htl Lmb GM Fur Nws AI Rail Road G&L L&M wr ug Lines Red Willow McCook 2000 228 1730 1660 2 1 2 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 B&M Butler David City 2150 44 2142 1780 3 2 2 3 8 3 4 3 5 3 3 B&M Dodge Fremont 8000 52 13000 9750 3 4 4 5 6 6 2 5 1 1 4 UP, FE&MV Lancaster Firth 400 21 800 175 1 5 3 2 1 1 4 1 1 1 B&M Hitchcock Culbertson 700 240 375 197 3 1 3 3 2 3 2 4 1 1 1 B&M Cuming De Witt 700 37 500 360 3 22 2 2 3 2 3 1 1 1 B&M Frontier Eustis 200 190 75 2 1 1 1 2 3 2 3 1 1 2 B&M Pawnee Table Rock 800 63 1 2 2 2 3 1 3 1 1 5 AN&UP Saline Dorchester 1000 28 764 147 3 4 1 2 2 4 5 2 4 1 2 1 B&M Burt Tekamah 1800 113 2 10 7 2 3 5 3 3 15 2 2 1 ChStPM&O Furnas Arapahoe 1000 189 324 102 2 5 2 2 2 3 1 2 4 1 1 4 B&M Cass Wabash 100 27 2 17 2 2 1 3 2 2 2 MP Adams Inland 84 80 8060 460 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 B&M Dodge Hooper 500 58 2 2 4 2 4 1 2 2 FE&MV Holt Atkinson 1000 228 173 140 3 1 1 2 2 2 3 6 1 1 2 FE&MV Madison Battle Creek 500 143 400 100 1 3 2 1 3 2 3 3 FE&MV Gage Adams 400 29 200 80 1 3 2 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 A&N Kearney Hartwell 500 118 200 78 1 3 4 1 1 3 2 1 4 1 B&M Seward Tamora 250 32 639 121 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 B&M Hamilton Phillips Station 200 95 2 3 1 1 1 2 1 3 B&M Clay Saronville 130 72 2 1 1 2 3 1 1 8 B&M Cass Elmwood 350 22 1620 420 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 2 2 MP Hitchcock Trenton 400 250 250 110 1 4 1 2 2 2 2 1 3 2 3 B&M County Town Pop. Dist shp. rcpt Bnk DG Grc Hd Dr B/S Htl Lmb GM Fur Nws AI Rail Road G&L L&M wr ug Lines Lancaster Bennet 1000 20 1400 673 2 3 4 2 3 3 1 2 2 1 3 B&M Deuel Chappell 200 327 2 2 2 3 1 3 2 2 2 UP Saunders Ashland 1650 24 2 6 5 4 3 3 1 4 1 1 1 B&M Clay Edgar 1400 95 1230 970 2 9 2 3 2 3 5 1 2 B&M, StJ&GI Johnson Elk Creek 400 55 530 320 1 2 5 1 1 2 2 2 2 A&N Cass Eagle 200 16 458 3 2 1 3 1 3 1 1 1 MP Nance Fullerton 1500 100 1350 1000 2 2 3 2 2 3 1 2 1 UP Nance Genoa 1000 92 440 210 2 6 2 2 1 3 3 5 1 1 UP Fillmore Geneva 1200 60 950 600 2 2 2 3 2 2 3 1 1 B&M Nuckolls Hardy 1000 137 1100 700 2 2 2 1 3 4 1 B&M, MP Custer Merna 400 145 135 245 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 4 B&M Jefferson Reynolds 550 130 243 85 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 3 4 B&M Saline Wilber 200 31 1200 2 10 1 3 4 7 1 2 2 3 B&M Platte Columbus 5000 74 1465 2425 3 4 0 4 4 4 0 2 3 2 3 2 UP, A&N Dawes Chadron 2500 458 4000 7000 4 8 11 4 4 2 13 3 8 2 3 2 FE&MV Hamilton Aurora 2500 74 1000 800 4 4 10 3 4 5 3 3 3 1 1 3 B&M Valley Ord 1500 188 794 2 2 19 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 UP, B&M Saline Tobias 1000 60 914 251 2 2 4 2 1 1 3 3 4 1 1 B&M Richardson Falls City 320 82 3500 1750 2 3 4 5 2 2 2 9 1 MP Dixon Wakefield 800 173 600 300 2 3 2 2 2 1 C,StPM&O Chase Imperial 500 284 4 2 2 1 2 4 1 2 (blank) Webster Bladen 100 125 155 65 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 B&M Greeley Scotia 700 174 273 213 2 2 1 2 2 4 2 UP
It should be remembered that the above list contains by no means all the towns in Nebraska whose trade is naturally tributary to the Capital City. It is safe to say that a complete enumeration would include no less than 300 others. They are no less valuable, however, as a basis of calculation, as they are representative towns found in every part of the state. Lincoln's trade also extends over no inconsiderable territory outside the boundaries of the state. Along the line of the Elkhorn Valley railway no less than twenty towns in Dakota, among which are the important points of Buffalo Gap, Hot Springs, Rapid City, Central City and Deadwood, have direct communications with Lincoln. By state and freight lines as many more are as accessible to Lincoln as any other wholesale point. Along the same line there are at least ten towns in Wyoming; while stage and freight connections include all points in northern Wyoming. The Burlington & Missouri system makes tributary to the Capital city Washington, Cloud, Republic, Phillips, Norton and Decatur counties in Kansas; also into the heart of Colorado and by connecting lines into Utah, New Mexico and Arizona territories. The Missouri Pacific also furnishes direct routes into the heart of the best portion of the state of Kansas, including the counties of Doniphan, Brown, Nemaha, Marshall, Washington, Republic, Cloud, Jewell, Mitchell, Smith, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks and Norton. All points in Wyoming and Colorado on the line of the Union Pacific are in easy communication.
