Show TJ TIE IF OMAHA BOOSTERS the omaha boosters boasters bo have como come and gone it is conceded by all that they loft left a good impre impression aslon good impression aa as business men good fellows fello L lo 10 W s and all round empire builders they have clean clear cut judgment they realize the great possibilities in a a business way of this vast and immensely wealthy coin commonwealth mon weal th they have thrown wide the gated of omaha and expect ail and not without good reason that a great volume of trade avill flow from this vast territory to the gate city this is primarily the object of their junket the result will be watched with interest this trade trado excursion of the omaha business men recalls tomina to mind some of tho the things which have been said about the great northwest when president thomas thoma jefferson was criticised criticized for his part in tho purchase hage from france of the louisiana territory he lie wrote among other letters one to a friend in th tho the course of which he defended his action saying that ho he was credibly cred ably informed that somewhere in theun the unknown interior ol 01 the region existed a mountain of salt tho the value of which when properly exploited would far exceed the total cost dost of the great empire ceded coded by napoleon what would president Jeffe jefferson rAon say were he permitted to pass through the region now the mountain mounta iii of salt has never been discovered but salt balt almost to the value of the cost of the purchase which was was a little more than has since been furni furnished sheI by the territory the wheat crop of any one of half dozen soverign states carved from this territory exceeds annually in value the figure that was thought ruinous iby the critics of president Jef jefferson ferbon all of france in the time ol 01 napoleon did not produce aa as much wealth annually aa as Is added each year by the states of the northwest north west to the sum of the worlds accumulations development of the country Is scarcely halt a century 0 old I 1 a I 1 I 1 when the matter of government aid for a railroad across the great american desert and the tho rocky mountains was before the senate of the united states the great daniel webster of massachusetts turned the batteries of his wonderful eloquence against the pr project god almighty in hia his wisdom said senator webster had set the rocky mountains as an impassible barrier between the east and the west and that it would be a sacrilegious night into the face of divine providence attempt to to build a railroad across the snowy wastes and granite peaks of that impenetrable region would it not delight the great daniel it if he could board one of the many palatial trains veritable pala palaces cei on wheels that dally daily cross the rocky mountain ranges and luxuriously ensconced in a cushioned seat surrounded by conveniences of which he never dreamed view at ease case the stupendous gran grandeur dour and magnificent vistas of that region he deemed doomed to ibo be beyond mans utmost endeavor east bast and wast leavo been licen united and the corn coin moro meren that daily brosi cross A tho the rocky mountains exceeds that of the nation 1 1 in daniel websters day when lewis and dark clark sot out in 1804 to explore the upper tipper reaches of the great missouri river to determine lne if possible the feasibility of 0 water course 0 o communication for commercial purposes between the tho eastern eastorn and western course of tho the united states their work practically roly began where omaha now stands within a very short distance of omaha the tho great council with the indians wag held that determined the scope oc of the expedition prom from that day till now omaha has hold a most important position in relation to the coun commerce norce of the northwest omaha prestige as an ail outfitting outwitting out fitting point was est established ablis hea early in the history astor of the town and from the late fifties through tho sixties it waa was the headquarters for the big freight outfits and for many smaller ventures argonauts in search of the golden fleece passed through tigh omaha on their way to the diggings of colorado wyoming montana Alon tana idaho utah nevada california washington and oregon they were the I 1 first low wash along the shore where soon shall roll a human sea and the stream of travel then started has never ceased express companies did business there and a constant stream of gold dust flowed through omaha from the auriferous fields of the mountains and the coast it would be interesting te ter to know hilow just ju 8 t how many millions of gold dust were carried through omaha in the freighting days but this will never ever be accor accurately abely figured it is certain that an enormous sum suni was taken out by the returning argonauts and in the ordinary course of business the building of the union pacific Tail railroad road only emphasized this importance omaha has never ceased its close relations with the country that was pl leered by the brave spirit who pushed across the missouri river at its portal and blazed the tho way for civilization through the west even to that continuous wood whore where rolls rolla the oregon and hears no sound save 1119 own dashing with ta the I 1 e de devola p ment mant of the country and the extension ext on of the means of communication the importance of the com commerce morce has grown and the empire of the tile northwest stands today a marvel of production with its resources scarcely known much leeg less developed to their thell utmost ogdon ogden has shared in thia this progress growing from the condit condition iol of a small settlement to one of the foremost cities in the land with a it substantial business and a firm financial support for its many industrial an all I 1 commercial i ings I 1 but in I 1 spite of the cold spring thore thare is a fine line crop of beautiful juno june bridei now no w dont kick rick about the weather being too hot for you remember Rem embe what youve had I 1 I 1 the knox presidential boom is beginning to move around without ta aid of a pro I 1 there Is a fortune in sight just no nony for the man with arith a scheme for prodoc ing artificial sunshine A forthcoming novel by henry james is to be called the Pre tor everybody should read it the original little bo boy y blue bluell eloped with an actress the other day pretty soon he lie will probably be blue again if it mexico exico Nt would turn I 1 in and give guatemala a good spanking the little 0 sawed off republic might bo be good for I 1 a while white n every very year the men inen of this country smoke cigars some of them made partly of tobacco and largely of alfalfa the buffalo may become extinct and the indian get 1 civilized but the wild west show will linger through many generations the president of tho the dancing masters says a man cannot propose a two step and therefore he advocates the waltz A a matchmaker A west virginia editor seems to have seen a fourteen pound mouse it would have been a big enough story if he had called it a rat some chicago loan sharks have been boon sentenced to jail dut But they will probably make enough out of their fellow prisoners to get out A texas editor says bryan has as made two t wo whirlwind campaigns and from the coy way he lie ie Is acting he is ready to take another whirl at it A life prisoner in a belgium prison has married the daughter of his jailor here hero is one wife who knows where her husband is and what he is doing nights I 1 A boston preacher his con edn gro gration that in eight years the religion of the devil will come to an end but what we wa would like to know is when th the c rainy seas season on Is JS coming to an tin end the birmingham age herald asserts that very few people in birmingham get enough sleep this Is the first intimation ilon we have had that birmingham Is getting to be as bad as philadelphia del phiEt one of the brewery workers in san francisco is named julep he should have known better botter than to stray so ss far f from rom the kentuck mint beds th the C philadelphia FAquir cr bays says the man who steals A watch atch hns has an in ai zut I 1 f vantage over the man who steals a railroad but we refuse to believe that he has ha as good a time juno suno Is mighty glum glunt about pome thing or other |