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Chief in L-on^eijuoDCC of his expected“falLSiic V ir**I Calouj »f lt;h«* Jw:**on f« tlie ilitr 111»iz ft*n 4k ^liMourft Mtf rrIt;itlrenlt;l l.nnllM*•«From Ihl Bunins Uiiwl;*Cc March !S* Tl*On Thursday morning last, the 15thinstant, the fir-t colony of the presentAlison, b mud to the lands of the B. JI. it. R , l apsed through this city, at an early hour.ill1* hea Quarters an I starting \ oint of this colony at Lynn statCn. on theUOLk I' afiu tl lid 3r_ Lnui*Railroad, a town about thirty miles north I of Monmouth, the junction point of the Iabove railroad and the (A II A Q. It. II.They c jttMated of two full train loadsof dxteen an 1 fifteen ears respectively,and presented a premising appearance tor the future, as they pa^cd through the • uyT runniiig eloely tmrotlter.The thii ly-one curs consisted of fuur large It. A M. coadics. holding passuu-u* r- c |uivalent to two hundred and (* nfull Hues, six cam horses, eight carsOiWif u:*J o ui4 ta'llc, five cars hrm* * hoi 1 goods, and eight cars wagons andagricultural im;l*ii nt*. Th y were destined to the lands laying around and j about Ibd Oak Junction, an 1 the B M bniuch road to Nebraska City.Wi- understand that this U the first « f a mtus of such trains, which will be tun dining the season for the transportation of e*doiiists and settlers hound tothe B JI. lands in Sou them Iowa an i I Nebraska. jThe plan which has been adopted by (he rad: or d cm in pair* has been to ue , evii v me in to induce settler.^ to earna • awith them their si* cfc and agricultural implement*, and all the useful and luxu- * riotts surroundings o\ their old homes, and *o i icier ill *m-elvea as comfortable and independent in the new country to which they go. a* th^y were in thi! which tli y left. Such transportation b rendered practicable, easy and comforta Lie, by the lb JI. iUiiirond Companyfurnishing settlers* with low rates jd i freight and passage from their *torhV; proVif t i dcxtiittitivn. and by tumbbing |ear* and coaches which go #rmylit through, without any change, to dosti- : nation—so that the settlers stinting from Columbus, isi-hinapoli-s IVoria, l)eti.»utr Chicago in a b*v.]y can go ihrmich to ‘any pi,nut in I rr or Nebraska, withouti liuiigo, nt such rales :i.- render itunccessarv to adopt the old an lo:u oftelling off stock and household eoods, md starting in t!ie legendary MCruisieSchooner/The Nebraska lands of the railroadcompany are atUae; mg especial at rant ice .not only from their fertility and general adaptation for farms and h me*f but from the fact that lying In large bodies opportunities are offered f#r location of settlements and colonies.I.nl i II au r». * f «tl %,* 4 11 x- i.-to fA T- iin .!•
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Plattsmouth Nebraska Herald
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, US
Thu, Mar 30, 1871
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