Description: ÒNebraska Ð Territory organized in 1854; admitted to statehood in 1867. Area, 15,378 square miles, and population 1,067,000. Primarily an agricultural and stock-raising State. It has slaughtering and meat packing industries, and Omaha is now one of the great cattle markets of the world. Lincoln has the largest creamery in the country. Omaha is the headquarters for the printing and publishing trade for the Middle West. The Governor receives a salary of $2,500. &mdash Wark 1904
Source: Henry Wark, ed. , Wark's Modern Educator (New York, NY: Henry Wark, 1904) 876
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