Indians now left in Nebraska.

     About half male, and half female. The first two live together at the Omaha agency in Burt County and the latter three tribes at the Santee agency in Knox County.

NEBRASKA AS A TERRITORY.

     During the half century that elapsed between the Lewis and Clark expedition and the formal settlement of the white man on the soil of Nebraska, circumstance transpired to send many into this region. The Mormons stopped at Florence, near Omaha, on their westward journey till Salt Lake Valley was selected as their future home. They crossed the State 15,000 strong in 1847. Next after them came the flood of gold hunters bound for California.
     The bill to erect the territory of Nebraska was signed by the president, May 30, 1854. It caused great dispute both in the house and senate on account of the slavery question. The slave party finally were victorious and in the act it was provided that congress had no jurisdiction over a territory in this respect and that the people had the right and privilege of making their own laws thereon. It included a tract of land 351,558 square miles in extent from the fortieth degree of latitude to the British possessions and from the Missouri River to the summit of the Rocky Mountains. The erection of Colorado in 1861, decreased it by 16,000 square miles, Dakota in 1867 took 228,907 square miles and Washington and Utah, 15,378 square miles. The State now contains 76.840 square miles, between fortieth and forty-third degrees of latitude and ninety-five thirty and 104 long.
      Florence, Omaha, Plattsmouth and Nebraska City were contestants for the location of the territorial capital. Omaha was chosen and the first legislature met in January 1855. The population of the territory at this time was 3,782. The territory was divided into eight counties' Burt, Washington, Dodge, Douglas, Cass. Pierce, Forney and Richardson.
     Nebraska was proclaimed a State and admitted into the Union, 1st March, 1687 (sic). The capital was removed to Lincoln the following year, the first legislature meeting there January 7th. 1869.
     In December, 1863 was commenced at Omaha, the building of the great highway to the Pacific; in the spring of 1867 it had crossed Nebraska and reached the mountains. May 10, 1869 connection was made with the Central Pacific and so the line was complete to the Pacific coast from the Missouri River.

Railroad mileage in the State January, 1892:

An interesting sketch of these railroads was given by the Daily Call of Lincoln, and is included in our sketch of that city on page ---.
     Every acre of land in the State is within thirty-five miles of a railroad.
     The per cent of growth in the last decade is

as follows: Nebraska, 185; Kansas, 68; Illinois, 23; New York, 19; Ohio, 18; Minnesota, 80; Missouri, 28; Pennsylvania, 23; Iowa, 18; New England, 10.

POPULATION OF NEBRASKA.

     Nebraska has still an unimproved area as large as Massachusetts and Maryland combined. Ten years ago there were but eight states in the Union smaller than Nebraska; now there are eighteen, and we still have only fourteen persons to the square mile. If Nebraska were as densely populated as England and Wales it would contain thirty-seven millions of people.
     The census reports from New England shows that there were 27,410 less population in the agricultural counties than in 1880; 45,706 less in New York; 14,175 in Pennsylvania. and 4,331 less in New Jersey. All the Southern States show a loss except West Virginia. In strong contrast to this showing is Nebraska, which gained over 200 per cent. in the last ten years.

ASSESSED VALUE OF PROPERTY.

     This is calculated to be about one tenth of the actual value. The tax is 6 1/4 mills. Raw land may be got in Western Nebraska for from four to ten dollars per acre. Well improved farms sell in the older counties at forty and fifty dollars per acre. The soil is very uniform all over the State; its productiveness varies according to the rainfall. Nebraska farm land is probably the best thing to invest in to-day. It is cheap and the advancement in value is steady and sure.
     There are two principal reasons why Nebraska must become the leading agricultural and stock raising state of the Union. One is her, latitude, and the other is the amount and productiveness of her tillable soil. Nearly every crop of the temperate zone she can produce. Dakota is too far north, and Kansas gets the hot winds from the south. The Eastern man who buys and tills a Nebraska farm will feel that he has struck a flowery bed of ease. Here he will find neither stump, stone or bramble to impede the progress of his plow. The potatoes he raises will not have stone dents in their sides, and he will not need to go to a neighboring lot for dirt with which to cover his corn. There are no stone or stump fields in Nebraska.
     Lands in State, 1890: Real estate.--Lands improved. 11,449,000 acres; average value, $3 90 per acre; unimproved, 14,288,781 acres; average value, $2 11. Village and city.--Lots improved, number, 156,501; average value, $194.16, unimproved, number, 339,470; average value, $27.38.
     The growth of Nebraska from year to year may be judged by the following number of acres planted in

     It was in Nebraska that "Arbor Day" was inaugurated as a day of tree planting, a day which has been recognized in sixteen other states. It was a Nebraska man who introduced the timber culture act in Congress, and a Nebraska governor was the first to issue an "Arbor Day" proclamation. No man need come to Nebraska expecting to see large plains barren of trees.

     An interesting fact in regard to these five classes of live stock mentioned is, that while the number of head in the State increased during 1890 in all except sheep, the price of the animals declined in all cases except sheep, in which case it advanced.