Gering Area Booms as Rail Prospects Rise and Town Grows
Gering Nebraska April 11 1887 reports strong growth with new stores housing lumber for printing and residences. Prospects for a bank and four large businesses improve as eastern capitalists show interest and railroad hope grows. Readers note arrivals of settlers, bridges planned across Lodge Pole, and local sermons and farming activity shaping a budding frontier town.
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Gentine
New
Charlesworth
Muater
Orthal
Gering
Choenue
Homestead land entries near Col ton and Sidney offered
Listings describe several homesteads within about 6 to 14 miles of Col ton and Sidney. One 160 acre tract near Col ton with good land, well, hose and stable at 609 dollars. A second listing shows 84 male settlers from Sidney on line homestead with a dugout and about 3 acres plowed for 250 dollars. A third entry about a 14 mile distance from Sidney notes a relinquishment with land firmable but a few acres left, asking 175 dollars.
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Jones
Lodge Pole
J Elliott
Chappell
Dangeroun
August Neumann
Toopopadd
Lodge Pole Heh
Heod Wolf
North Potte
Short
Ogalaba
Io Owe
Geo J. Williams
North Platte
Ieves
Fourth Platte
Ustness
Hennett
Betiow 10
Kenry Meyers
the Journal
Potter
Pte Shutz
Lutheran Church
Lou Walker
Hattie Eornsworth
Phos
Jane
Nebraska
Ilinois
Cheyenne County
Sidney
Testate Pate Bargai
Coltonon
Nes
Banites Merth
Sydney
Colton
ActrEs
Sidney On
Grand Prairie
Actius
Lodge Pole Valley
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