Twenty-one Cars of Cattle Bring Them Big Money

(Special to the Star) O'Neill, Neb., Aug. 29. --

The Ditch Company, a branch of the David Rankin Farms Company, of Tarkio, Mo., largest farmers in the world.

 

Shipped twenty-one carloads of fat cattle to Chicago the latter part of last week for which they received something like $100,000.

 

The company manager, Everett Brown, says another consignment consisting of 500 head will be transported to the city of breezes within the next sixty days.

The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917

Cold at Stuart

 

Stuart, Neb., March 5 - special

 

The weather the present week has been the coldest of the season.  The thermometer

registered 14 degrees below zero Tuesday morning, 24 Wednesday morning and 2 below

this morning, with a south wind and prospects of moderating.

 

There is a heavy snow on the ground and trains from the west are two to three

days overdue.

 

The farmers are jubilant over the prospects of a good crop this year.

 

Morning World Herald - March 6, 1891

The Best Route To Holt County, Nebraska    

 

The Niobrara Pioneer of the 28^th inst – takes General O’Neil to task for misrepresenting the via Niobrara route to certain sections of Northern Nebraska, and it strikes us the points raised by the Pioneer are well taken.  That paper says:

 

“And here let us say that it is an able and descriptive work, but it does not by any means furnish the immigrants with the shortest and most direct route to O’Neil City in Holt County.

It is at least thirty miles shorter by way of Niobrara, coming to Sioux City or Yankton, then by way of Westpoint or Wisner.  Thence, by teams to the settlement.  By taking steamboat from Sioux City, they can be landed at Niobrara levee, and then have but thirty five miles to travel by wagon, and on a direct route, whereas they are compelled to go over fifty miles farther by wagon, if starting from Wisner. 

If General O’Neil is going to make his colony a success, he should not deceive his countrymen in the scale of miles when there is a railroad route from Chicago direct to Sioux City and Yankton.”

Yankton Press and Dakotan – February 4, 1875 

 "Photographic Views of Holt County"

Is the name of an interesting little volume just received at this office.  As an advertisement of one of Nebraska's largest and best counties it is a winner, the pictures showing beyond question the fertility of the soil, the progressiveness of Holt's citizens and the progress of the fruit and cattle industries.  

We note with regret, however, that one of Holt's best products is left out.  Reference is had to the splendid womanhood of Holt, for this county can boast of more handsome womwn in proportion to popultion than any equal area of country in the west.

Omaha World Herald - March 24, 1899