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The York Monitor (York, NE) Jun 6, 1872 pg 2
              YORK COUNTY
   Ed. Monitor-- Thinking that a brief sketch of this
county to your readers, at home and abroad, would
be acceptable, I submit the following for your 
disposal, prefacing my communication with the 
statement that I have been a resident of the county
only a year and a half, and not so fully acquainted
with it as older residents, which will account for
this meager notice.
   York, the County Seat, is situated in the center
of the county, on the waters of Beaver Creek, on
slightly undulating prairie land. Gracefully swelling
bluffs, east, south and north, rise from the plain,
presenting a beautiful and picturesque site.
   The town is supplied with a hotel, boarding house,
dry goods, clothing, grocery, hardware, drug and 
book store and several dealers in agricultural
implements. A land office has been recently located
here, and a school house, Court House, and two
churches (Methodist and Presbyterian) under process
of erection.
   A Congregational church was organized recently,
and will build soon.
   A Colony from Illinois, under the designation of
the "Mayflower," has located in this vicinity and 
made extensive selections of land. They also contemp-
late the erection of an academy on a plat of forty
acres of land, adjoining the town, selected for that
purpose.
   This county was organized about two years since,
and the County Seat located at this point, midway
between Grand Island, on the U. P. road, and Lincoln,
the Capital of the State, fifty miles from each city.
   Within its limits the county embraces some of the
richest and most beautiful land in the Union. I have
traveled over twenty States, and never saw any to
excel, and few to equal in beauty the lands of York
county. Blue river runs through the southern portion
of the county on a course a little north of east;
and Beaver Creek winds its way through the center, 
Lincoln Creek through the northern part, and the
North Blue, passing in a south-easterly course, 
waters the county. All the streams are bordered with
timber. Until within the last year and a half, this
county was sparsely settled; not nineteen-twentieths
of the Government lands have been appropriated by 
actual settlers, who are converting the broad stretches
of prairie into beautiful fields.
   Large or small tracts of land, to suit purchasers, 
can be bought of the B. & M. or U. P. railroad
company, on a credit of ten years, at six per cent
interest per annum, or from the Mayflower colony on
the same terms.
   No better point in the greate West presents itself
to the immigrant seeking a home, than this.
   Hoping that aa more experienced settler, and a more
graphic pen will present the merits of this section 
of Nebraska to the public, I will close.
                              Q.

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