Burwell, Nebraska, January 20. – There have been only seven families left this county the last year.

Eighteen new families have moved in; in the last year.

Art McKinney went to California, and after living at Los Angeles returned this fall, and would not live there.

Enoch Proctor, ex-county judge, went to Oklahoma.  He left cursing Nebraska, but returned cursing Oklahoma, after living there a few months.

George Todd, an intelligent man, went to Colorado, and returned cursing that country.

There is a family in Texas who will return in the spring, one in California will come back as soon as they can get the wherewith.

One in Dakota will be back soon.

New people are coming in, and those that left are coming back and wanting to come back.

Irrigation ditches are being constructed about Burwell, an all that ever lived here know with water on the North Loup Valley soil it will be a royal garden.  Not a vacant house in Burwell, as high as four families in one building, and some living in back of stores does not look like many are leaving or would leave.  Money is scarce and hard to get, as prices are low, but our people know the same exists in other states and believe it no worse here than east, west or south, and those that have gone to see have found out so to their sorrow.

Burwell and the North Loup River Valley will soon be booming.

R. L. Miller

Editor Burwell Eye

Omaha World Herald – January 27, 1896

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