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MINERAL RESOURCES
By G. E. Condra, Director, Conservation and Soil Survey.
Nebraska has higher rank in production from these resources than is generally -npposed. Among the important resources are sand, stone, clay, volcanic ash, and potash. There are small deposits of coal, and prospecting for oil and gas is being done at a number of places.
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SAND RESOURCES
The sand resources have been investigated and published by the State Geological Survey and the State Conservation and Soil Survey. A report of about two hundred pages, now out of print, was prepared by the writer and published by the Geological Survey, and Bulletin 6 of the Conservation and Soil Survey is avail- able for distribution as long as it lasts.
The sand resources of Nebraska are widely distributed. The largest deposits, along the Platte, are worked in open pits and by dredging and pumping. Sand and gravel of good quality are produced from this.
COAL IN NEBRASKA
The greatest drawback in Nebraska is a lack of fuel. Coal occurs plentifully in all bordering states from which it is shipped. There are a number of thin seams of coal in Nebraska in the Pennsylvanian and Cretaceous formations, but none of them are now worked. Several years ago, drifts were opened on thin beds along the Missouri and in the southern parts of Richardson and Pawnee counties to mine coal for local use. Later a small mine was operated for a short time near Peru.
Beds of low-grade lignite have been encountered in artesian wells drilled into the Dakota Formation. A thick carbonaceous shale at the base of the Pierre Formation, exposed near the mouth of the Niobrara, and at places in the Republican Valley, has been mistaken for coal. It is now generally believed that the chance to discover coal of economic importance in Nebraska is small, as shown by a study of the geological formations and by drillings.
OIL AND GAS
The geology of the state is quite well known, except where there is a deep covering of mantle rock. Such knowledge as we have of the structure indicates that there is some chance for the discovery of oil and gas, yet the drillings in several counties have not made discoveries.
The State Conservation and Soil Survey has the duty of gathering and keeping the records of deep wells and is in close touch with prospecting. Wells were sunk the past two or three years at or near Table Rock, Red Cloud, Bassett, Stockville, in Banner County, and in South Dakota near the Sioux and Dawes County lines. Two wells completed at Table Rock extended into granite, and condemned what was thought to be the state's best structure and probable source of oil. The well near Stockville was abandoned at a depth of about two thousand five hundred feet. A string of tools was lost in the Bassett well at 2,000 feet and another location was made. Drilling at Red Cloud continued below 2,000 feet. The Prairie Oil and Gas Company, operating in Banner County with the best equipment ever used in the state, abandoned a test at a depth of 5,697 feet. Two tests were made about twenty-five miles northeast of Chadron. They encountered a small showing of gas. One of these wells was put down a number of years ago and the other was com- pleted last year. A well-defined structure eighteen miles northeast of Chadron, and on the Nebraska side, will be tested within a year. This should contain oil and gas.
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Deep wells have been drilled at Omaha, Rulo, Union, Nebraska City, Beatrice, Lincoln, Arapahoe, MeCook, Lynch, Litchfield, Shelton, and Niobrara. Except those at Lincoln, Nebraska City, and Omaha the depths were not sufficient for oil and gas tests.
The western counties are known to be underlain with formations of the age of those which carry oil in Wyoming. It would seem that they might produee in Nebraska, but three conditions, somewhat unfavorable, are encountered. First, it is not possible to work the geology of the formations because of limited exposure. Second, the sands of the oil-bearing formations of Wyoming appear to thin out in the direction of Nebraska and eastern Colorado. Third, the depth in much of Nebraska will be greater than in Wyoming.
CLAY RESOURCES
There are a number of deposits of clay and silt in Nebraska, some suitable for the manufacture of brick and tile. Unfortunately a great deal of the best elay is thickly covered with mantle rock, making its working comparatively expensive. The silt occurs more favorably.
The clay deposits are in the Pennsylvania, Permian, Cretaceous, Tertiary, and later formations. Clays and shales, interbedded with limestone and exposed in the southeastern counties, are of Pennsylvania and Permian ages. Some of the exposures are worked, as at or near Nebraska City, Auburn, Humboldt, and Table Rock. The elays at Tekamah, Lincoln, Beatrice, Fairbury, and Steele City, are principally of Cretaceous age, occurring in the Dakota Formation. Clays of western Nebraska, belonging to the Tertiary formations, have been used for brick in a limited way. The drift deposits of the eastern counties and the loess deposits distributed so generally over the southeast half of the state are used in brick- making, but to best advantage when mixed with materials of finer texture. Brick plants operating on these deposits as at Hooper, Hastings, York, and Omaha, usually ship some clay from the Dakota Formation or from the clay-shale beds of the Pennsylvanian formations.
Briek Yards-There are thirty-six successful briek plants in Nebraska. The clay resources and strong demand for clay products warrant the expansion of briek and tile mannfacture. The state produced 122,000,000 brick and tile (brick measure) in 1918, and 122,000,000 in 1919.
THE CEMENT INDUSTRY
Though line was made at several places in the state during the early history. the manufacture of Portland cement was delayed until a few years ago, when a eement plant was built at Superior. It operated for a while, was abandoned one year, and rebuilt and enlarged. This plant, owned by the Nebraska Cement Com- pany, is now in successful operation, producing high-grade cement. The capacity is to be enlarged to 2,500 barrels per day.
The eement materials of Nebraska are principally in the Pennsylvanian and ('retaceons formations. They are limestones, shales, and chalkroek. Some of the limestone members of the southeastern counties have been tested and found suitable for cement making. The Niobrara chalk and shales immediately below and above
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it are the state's principal cement resources. The chalk is widely exposed along the Missouri between Knox and C'edar counties and in the Republican Valley, where it is here overlaid by Pierre shale and underlaid by Carlile shale.
Cement Plant at Superior-This large plant is located just west of Superior. The quarry is two and one-half miles south of the mill.
POTASH INDUSTRY
The potash industry of Nebraska grew up with the war. It advanced in three or four years to a point where the state produced about sixty per cent of the potash output in the United States. About ten million dollars was invested in plants and pipe lines. There were 300 miles of pipe lines, nine large plants operating, and eighteen small plants operating or building when the armis- tice was signed. The daily production was about five hundred tons of crude potash.
During the war Nebraska potash was shipped to the eastern and southeastern states and to Porto Rico and Cuba for use in fertilizers. It was without doubt an important factor in increasing agricultural production and thereby a factor in winning the war. Just what may be done at Washington to assist the potash industry cannot be foretold at this time. It will be necessary to protect the industry for a time against foreign production, and it seems that this will be done. A low tariff or subsidy would insure a permanent potash industry for the United States
CHAPTER XV
OUTLINE OF AUTHORITIES
It has been possible, even in a review of the extent herein undertaken, to cover only a fraction of the points of interest in Nebraska history. Also, many points herein are only treated fully enough to arouse the genuine interest of the reader, and cause him or her to desire a further research. To fill this need, it is now purposed to close this review with a short outline of authorities upon Nebraska his- tory to which the reader may go for further reference or more extended treatment of the various points.
There is one man who has devoted many years of his time to a careful, con- seientious research of Nebraska history, who is now historian of the Nebraska State Historical Society. This thorough student. Albert Watkins, a few years ago pre- pared an outline of authorities, which will be taken in part and herein incorporated, with a few more recent authorities added.
ORIGINAL APPLICATION OF THE NAME.
Territory Comprised in "The Nebraska Country." Ilustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1. p. 136 et seq. Morton's 3 Vol. and later revisions by Watkins & Beattie. Executive Documents, 1852-53, v. 1, pt. 1. Doc. 1. p. 380, and v. 1. pt. 2, p. 71. Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 2, p. 241, foot note 6.
Repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Ray.
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE.
Illustrated Ilistory of Nebraska, v. 1, pp. 112-130, foot notes, and authorities cited.
John B. MeMaster in David Nutt's History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, v. 1, p. 7. Territorial Development of the Louisiana Purchase. Albert Watkins. Ms., Library of Nebraska State Historical Society.
Evolution of Nebraska. Albert Watkins. Proceedings Mississippi Valley Historical Association. v. 3.
KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL.
Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, pp. 131-159, foot notes and citations.
TERRITORY ORIGINALLY COMPRISED IN NEBRASKA AND KANSAS.
Ibid. and the bill itself.
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COMPARISON OF KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL WITH OTHER TERRITORIAL ORGANIC AUTS.
Ibid., v. 1, p. 158. Repeal of the Missouri Compromise. Ray.
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NEBRASKA.
a. Geological.
Geology of Nebraska by Erwin H. Barbour, Illustrated Ilistory of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 3.
Nebraska Geological Survey. Erwin H. Barbour. v. 1 and succeeding numbers.
Darton's Geology and Water Resources of Nebraska West of the 103d Meridian. U. S. Geological Survey.
Darton's Geology of the Great Plains. U. S. Geological Survey. No. 1. Stone, Nebraska Conservation Commission.
See also Geological Bibliography of Nebraska by Barbour and Fisher. Report on Honey Creek Coal Mine. Nebraska Geological Survey, v. 2. Coal in Nebraska. Roy V. Pepperberg. Nebraska Geological Survey. v. 3, pt. 10.
Nebraska and the Northwest. Wilber.
b. Physical Geography.
Geography of Nebraska. Condra.
Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, pp. 80-87; also pp. 82, 83, 86 and 89 for illustrations.
Explorations in Nebraska. Lieut. G. K. Warren. Executive Documents, 1858-59, v. 2, pt. 2, Doe. 2, pp. 634, 649.
Article on Nebraska in Cyclopedia Americana .....
Sketches of Physical Geography and Geology of Nebraska. Aughey.
INDIANS IN NEBRASKA.
Illustrated History of Nebraska. v. 1, chap. 2, and v. 2, chap. 6- classi- fication and treaties, foot notes and eitations.
The Pawnee Indians. Rev. John Dunbar. Magazine of American History, v. 4, 5.
Life, Letters and Travels of Father Pierre-Jean DeSmet, S. J. 1801-1873. De Smet, according to index.
Sketch and Diary of Moses Merrill. Transactions Nebraska State His- torical Society, v. 4, pp. 157-191.
Part of the Making of a Great State. John A. MacMurphy.
Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, v. 1, 2d series, p. 11. The Poneas. Jay Amos Barrett. Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, v. 2, 2d series, p. 11.
Thwaites' Western Travels. Supreme Court Law Library.
Nebraska Aborigines in Eighteenth Century. Father Matthas A. Shine, 1913.
Pawnee council 1855 at Fremont village. Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, v. 2, pp. 190-192.
Indian Wars on the Nebraska Plains, 1864-1880. Albert Watkins. Ms. Library of Nebraska State Historical Society.
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Letters and Notes on the North American Indians. Catlin. New Indian Sketches. De Smet.
EXPLORATIONS.
Coronado's Expedition.
Fourteenth Annual Report Bureau of Ethnology. pt. 1.
Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States. F. W. Hodge. Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 45.
The White Man's Foot in Kansas. John B. Dunbar. Kansas Historical Collections, v. 10, p. 69. Mallet Brothers' Expedition.
The Christening of the Platte. James W. Savage. Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, v. 3, p. 67.
Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1. p. 48.
Lewis & Clark.
Journal of Lewis & Clark.
The Trail of Lewis & Clark. Olin D. Wheeler.
Illustrated History of Nebraska. v. 1, chap. 2, and Later Editions. Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi and through the Western Parts of Louisiana, 1806, 1802. Lieut. Zebulon M. Pike. Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 2, chap. 2.
Astorian Expedition.
History of the American Fur Trade. Chittenden. Chap. 10. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America.
Magazine of American History, March, 1885, v. 13, No. 3.
Travels in the Interior of America. Bradbury. Journal of a Voyage up the River Missouri, 1811. Brackenridge. Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 51.
History of Wyoming. Coutant. v. 1, chaps. 7, 8, 10. Fremont's Expedition, 1842.
Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Fremont. Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 61. Yellowstone Expedition (Capt. F. W. Raynolds).
Exploration of the Cheyenne, Yellowstone and Powder River regions. Senate Documents 1859-60. Report of Secretary of War, pp. 541, 549. Ibid., 1860-61, v. 2, Doc. 1, p. 146.
EARLY TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION.
Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains and map. Fremont.
Travels in the Interior of North America. Maximilian. v. 1. Thwaites' edition.
Oregon Trail.
1832 Wyeth's Journals.
1832 Captain Bonneville's Adventures. Irving.
1835 Travels in North America. Murray.
1835 Journal of an Exploring Tour. Parker.
1842. 1813 Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Fremont.
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1843 Recollections and Opinions of an Old Pioneer. Peter H. Burnett. Quarterly of Oregon Historical Society, March, 1904.
1844 Reminiscences of Experiences on the Oregon Trail. John Minto. Quarterly Oregon Historical Society, June and September, 1901; March, 1904.
1845 Journal of Travel over the Rocky Mountains. Joel Palmer.
1846 Oregon Trail. Parkman.
1846 What I saw in California. Bryant.
1846 Oregon and ('alifornia. Thornton.
1849 Stansbury's Expedition, Captain Howard Stansbury.
1849 Across the Rocky Mountains. Kelly.
1849 Report of Major Osborn Cross, Q. M. G., Senate Documents, 2d sess. 31st Cong., 1850-51, v. 1, Doc. 1. p. 128.
1850 Solitary Places Made Glad. Henry T. Davis. Chap. 5.
1850 Journal of John Wood. Wood.
1851
Western Missions and Missionaries. De Smet, pp. 97-98.
1852 Ventures and Adventures of Ezra Meeker. Meeker.
1852 In the Early Days Along the Overland Trail. Cole.
1852-1857 Explorations in Nebraska. Lieut. G. K. Warren. Executive Documents, 1858-59, v. 2, pt. 2, Doc. 2, p. 620.
1858 The Prairie Traveler-Containing Itineraries. Captain Randolph B. Marcy, U. S. Army, and Captain Richard F. Burton.
1859 Beyond the Mississippi. Richardson.
1859 Overland Journey from New York to California. Greeley.
1860 The City of The Saints. Burton.
1865 Bullwhacking Days. George P. Marvin. Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, v. 5, 2d series, p. 226.
1865 Across the Continent. Bowles.
Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, chap. 3.
History of the American Fur Trade. Chittenden.
The Overland Stage to California. Root and Connelley.
The Great Salt Lake Trail. Inman and Cody.
Western Incidents connected with the Union Pacific Railroad. Seymour. On the Road to Oregon. Charles M. Harvey. Atlantic Monthly, May, 1910.
The Story of the Salt Lake Trail, ibid., July, 1910.
The Ox Team. Meeker.
The Oregon Trail. F. G. Young. Quarterly Oregon Historical Society, December, 1900.
Evolution of Nebraska. Albert Watkins. Proceedings Mississippi Valley Historical Association, v. 3.
Articles on Freighting and Staging in Early Days. Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, 2d series, v. 5.
Seventy Years on the Frontier. Alexander Majors.
NAVIGATION OF THE MISSOURI RIVER.
Journals of Lewis & Clark. Astoria. Irving.
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Journal of a Voyage up the River Missouri, 1811. Brackenridge. Travels in the Interior of America. Bradbury.
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburg to the Rocky Mountains, 1819- 20. Long.
American State Papers-Military Affairs-v. 2, pp. 68, 69, 324. Col. Henry Leavenworth's Arikara Expedition,-1st sess. 18th Cong., v. 1, Doc. 2, p. 90. In the Library of Chicago University.
Travels in the Interior of North America. Maximilian. v. 1. Thwaites' edition.
Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River. Chittenden. Thirty Years a Fur Trader. Larpenteur. v. 2, Appendix. Coues' edition.
List of Steamboats on Missouri River, 1860. Nebraska City News, Feb- ruary 23, 1861.
St. Joseph and Omaha Packet. Nebraska City News, February 18, 1860.
Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, pp. 99-107.
Steamboat Disasters. Exeentive Doenments, 1857-58, v. 2, pt. 2. Doc. 2, p. 344.
The Oregon Recruit Expedition. Ms. Library of Nebraska State His- torical Society. Albert Watkins.
Messages and Documents, Report Secretary of Interior 1860-61, p. 306., Alfred J. Vaughan.
NAVIGATION OF THE PLATTE RIVER.
Evolution of Nebraska. Albert Watkins. Proceedings Mississippi Valley Historical Association, v. 3. Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, pp. 104, 105, 108.
ROADS.
Indian Trails.
Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Map. Fremont. 1845 edition.
The Conservative. August 8, September 5, 1901. Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 73.
WAGON ROADS.
Illustrated Ilistory of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 111 and foot notes. Ibid., v. 2. p. 13, foot note. Laws of Nebraska, First Territorial Session, p. 329, et seq. The Prairie Traveler. Marcy. Handbook of Overland Expeditions. Burton, p. 179. Western Incidents Connected with the Union Pacific Railroad. Seymour. Platte River to Running Water River. Report of George L. Sites, Supt .. Executive Documents, 1858-59. v. 9, p. 101. Ft. Kearny, South Pass and Honey Lake. Executive Documents, 1858-59, v. 9. Doc. 108, p. 3.
Ibid. Executive Documents, 1860-61. v. 9. Does. 63, 64.
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MILITARY ROADS.
Ft. Riley to Bridger's Pass. Senate Documents, 1857-58, v. 3, Doe. 11, p. 455; includes table of distances.
Ibid., 1858-59, v. 3, Doc. 1, pp. 1031, 1044, 1097.
Ibid., 1859-60, v. 2, Doe. 2, pp. 692, 760, 796-799.
Omaha to Ft. Kearny. Senate Documents, 1857-58, v. 3, Doc. 1, pp. 293, 525-534.
Ibid., 1858-59, v. 3, Doc. 1, pp. 1031, 1288.
Ibid., 1859-60, v. 2, Doc. 2, pp. 692, 797.
From Mendota, Opposite Ft. Snelling, to Mouth of Big Sioux. Senate Documents, 1857-58, v. 3, Doc. 11, p. 292.
Ibid., 1858-59, v. 3, Doc. 1, p. 1200.
Ft. Benton to Walla Walla. Senate Documents, 1860-61, v. 2, Doc. 1, p. 147.
Ibid., 1861-62, v. 2, Doe. 1, p. 549.
Explorations in Nebraska. Lieut. G. K. Warren. Preliminary report. Executive Documents, 1857-58, v. 2, pt. 2, Doe. 2, p. 39.
Ibid., 1858-59, v. 2, Doc. 2, pp. 585, 620; pp. 649, 658, comparative routes and rates.
Rocky Mountain Gold Region and Emigrants' Guide. Burt and Berthoud. Guide to the New Gold Region of Western Kansas and Nebraska.
EARLY SETTLERS AND SETTLEMENTS.
Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 164, and citations in index. Nebraska in 1857. James M. Woolworth.
Bellevue, Larimer and St. Mary. John Q. Goss.
Nebraska, Its Characteristics and Prospects. James Davie Butler.
Johnson's llistory of Nebraska. Harrison Johnson.
History of Nebraska. Andreas. History of Omaha. Sorenson.
History of the City of Omaha. Savage and Bell.
History of Lincoln. Hayes and Cox. Journey Through Kansas. Chap. 25. Boynton and Mason. Kansas and Nebraska. Edward Everett Hale.
A Frontier Life. Wells.
Life and Labors of Reuben Gaylord. Gaylord. The Trail of the Loup. H. W. Foght.
Pioneers of the West. John Turner.
Addresses at the Astorian Centennial Celebration, Bellevue, Nebraska, June 23, 1910, under auspiees of Nebraska State Historical Society. Chancellor Samuel Avery, University of Nebraska, President, George E. MaeLean, University of Iowa, Albert Watkins, Gurdon W. Wattles, Presi- dent John Lee Webster, Nebraska State Historical Society. Mss. Library of Nebraska State Historical Society.
County Ilistory.
Adams County. History of Adams County. Burton.
Antelope County. History of Antelope County. Leach.
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Boone County. Pioneers of the West. Turner.
Ilistory of Buffalo County. Bassett. History of Clay County. Buck-Stongh. Dakota County. Ilistory of Dakota County. Warner.
IFistory of Custer County. Gaston.
Dixon County. History of Dixon County. Huse.
Hall County. History of Hall County. Stough-Bnechler-Barr.
Ilistory of Hamilton County. Burr-Stough.
Ilistory of Gage County. Dobbs. Nemaha County. Nemaha County. Dundas.
Platte County. History of Platte County.
Douglas County. History of Douglas County. Wakeley.
Lancaster County. History of Lancaster County. Sawyer.
Seward County. History of Seward County. C'ox.
Valley County. The trail of the Loup. Foght.
York County. History of York County. Sedgwick-Stough.
History of Western Nebraska. Shumway et al.
History of Nebraska. Andreas. Johnson's History of Nebraska. Harrison Johnson.
National Atlas of Nebraska. Gray.
Nebraska and the Northwest. Wilber.
Mss. and clippings. Library of Nebraska State Historical Society. Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Adams, Clay. Webster and Nuekolls Counties. Goodspeed Publishing Company.
MAILS, EARLY.
Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1. pp. 93, 112, foot note. Seventy Years on the Frontier. Alexander Majors. Nebraska City to Niobrara.
Communieation of Hadley D. Johnson. Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, 2d series, v. 5, p. 56.
Omaha to Columbus. Cuming City Star, June 19, 1858. Columbus to Ft. Kearny. Omaha Times, June 24, 1858. Nebraska City to Ft. Kearny. Nebraska City News, May 24, 1862. Overland Stage to California. Root and Connelley. History of Wyoming. Coutant. v. 1, pp. 359-390. The Great Salt Lake Trail. Inman and Cody. Pony Express.
Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 96. Overland Stage to California. Root and Connelley. History of Wyoming. Coutant. v. 1, pp. 369-370. The Great Salt Lake Trail. Root and Connelley. Seventy Years on the Frontier. Alexander Majors.
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FERRIES.
Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 93, foot note; 108-109; 112, foot notes; 239-242 and foot notes; 274. Laws of Nebraska First Territorial Session, p. 425. Journey Through Kansas, p, 192. Boynton and Mason.
Steam.
Council Bluffs and Omaha.
The Omaha Arrow, July 28, 1854.
Omaha's Early Days. Alfred D. Jones. Transactions Nebraska State Historieal Society, v. 4, p. 152.
Trader's Point.
History of Mills County, Iowa. Des Moines State Historical Company, p. 515. Annals of Iowa, October, 1908, p. 518.
RAILROADS.
Report Nebraska Railroad Commission, 1885, 1886. Report Nebraska Board of Transportation, v. 1-13.
Illustrated History of Nebraska as Index indieates.
Report of Nebraska Board of Transportation, 1888, p. 125. History of Railroad Control in Nebraska. Albert Watkins. Nebraska State Journal, May 24, 1908,-pamphlet in Library Nebraska State Historical Society.
TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION.
Number of White Inhabitants. Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 165.
Organization Proclamations.
Laws of Nebraska First Territorial Session, pp. 41-53.
Early Times and Pioneers. J. Sterling Morton. Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, v. 3, p. 101. Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 172, et seq.
Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, v. 2, 2d series, pp. 135-161.
Personnel of First Legislature.
Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, v. 2, 2d series, pp. 88-134.
Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1. chap. ? , -- includes portraits. Loeating the Capital. Ibid., chaps. 6-7.
Johnson's History of Nebraska, pp. 285-286. Harrison Johnson. First Territorial Eleetions. Illustrated History of Nebraska, v. 1, p. 182.
Proceedings of First Legislature.
Ibid., p. 194.
Jndieial Organization. Ibid., p. 251.
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('laim Clubs, the First or Provisional Judicial Authority. Ibid., p. 231. First Land Surveys.
Ibid., 19 229, 379-389, foot notes.
Important Events Which Distinguished the Fourth and Fifth Legislatures. Ibid., chaps. 9-10.
Gov. Francis Burt.
The Life of Governor Burt. Transactions Nebraska State Historical Society, v. 1. 2d series, p. 25.
Illustrated llistory of Nebraska. v. 1, p. 160.
First Public Land Sales. Ibid., p. 372.
Attempt to Annex the South Platte Section to Kansas.
Ibid., p. 396, and references.
Nebraska City News, December 25, 1858.
Nebraska Advertiser. March 18. December 2, December 9, December 23. December 30, 1858; January 6. January 13, February 10, 1859. An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco, p. 52. Horace Greeley.
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