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this city an unusual attractive place as a distributing center. The city is rapidly increasing in wealth, population and importance. It has three daily papers and four weeklies. The Nevada Milling Company, manufacturers of flour, having a capacity of 400 barrels per day. Three strong towers of finance. These banks having combined deposits of $1,500,000. The largest loan and saving association in the state, having assets amounting to $1,000,000 and having an authorized captial stock of $4,000,000, also one of the largest sheet metal manufacturing plants in this territory. Two ice plants. Three cigar and tobacco factories, foundry, elevator and many smaller factories turning out and shipping products to all parts of the territory adjacent to Nevada.
The mercantile establishments of this city are in keeping with the financial standing of the city and on a par with any city twice its size. Corn, wheat, oats and fruit are raised extensively in this vicinity. Much attention is paid to the raising of blooded stock and feeding cattle. The shipments from this place comprise grain, flour, hogs, live stock, poultry, eggs, and produce. The Western Union and Postal Telegraph Companies operate here. The American and Pacific Express Companies, the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company and the Home Telephone Company, both having local exchanges here and long distance connections. A large number of the streets in this city are paved. The city has electric lights, a well equipped trolley system, fifteen handsome church edifices and a number of smaller places of worship where almost all denominations and doctrines are preached. Nine public schools and three colleges afford excellent educational advantages for this city and vicinity. Diplomas from these colleges admit the student to the higher college and normals in various parts. The high school was recently completed at a cost of $80,000, and a new government building is under course of construction and will be completed in the near future which cost $75,000. The contract has been let to build a handsome opera house and Odd Fellows hall to take the place of the old play house which recently burned. The ground has been broken and work commenced on the building of a handsome and commodious State Armory. Improvements of all kinds are materializing and the general trend of events in Nevada is strongly in the direction of vastly augmented building and commercial operations. Twenty-one years ago the State of Missouri, seeking a suitable location for State Hospital No. 3, selected a site just north of Nevada's corporation line and built a structure four stories high on a mile of foundation, at a cost of nearly one million dollars. The choice was well made for recent statistics show that owing to the pure water, high altitude, dry atmosphere and the many natural resources of the surrounding country, the per cent of cures of this hospital are greater than any similar institution in the world. The government has purchased 400 acres of ground near the city, making a permanent State Encampment grounds and rifle range. The soldiers come here for drill and rifle practice, also indulging in other forms of sport. These exhibitions are always open to the public. Lake Park Springs is the coming health and pleasure resort of the great middle west. It is one of the most beautiful and picturesque spots in this country. The park contains 132 acres of park, lakes, shady groves, walks, flowers, driveways, etc., five great medical springs. Eminent physicians claim that these waters are unsurpassed in the world in their curative |
properties. Thousands of people who use these waters freely are entirely cured or greatly benefited in health. Boating, fishing and bathing at all times. Those in search of health and happiness, come to Nevada-to Lake Park Springs. Board at reasonable prices at all hotels and many boarding houses throughout the city.
The State Asylum, Number 3, is located north of town. The Cottey College, two sanitariums with other public and private institutions affording ample accomodation in their respective branches. The Court House, one of the most beautiful, both architecturally and in interior finish, is appointed and arranged to be in keeping with the advancement of the city. This handsome structure was completed in 1907 at a cost of $85,000. This Souvenir Edition, which has received the support of the leading business interests of the city, is not intended as an individual advertising medium. We will use this space to set forth as concisely as posible the resources of Nevada, Mo., and its unequalled advantages for the manufacturer, investor and homeseeker. A great many people look upon the cities of our country today as they did ten or fifteen years ago, and take no time to investigate the situation. Nevada, Mo., for example, will appear to the average investor as a grand place to make safe and profitable investments, as her excellent shipping facilities will command attention, and to the homeseeker and wage-earner steady employment and ideal surroundings both for themselves and their children. Nevada, Mo., is manifesting a determination to not only hold a position it has already attained among the West's important cities, but with indomitable spirit she is constantly forging ahead. Her growth is not the result of a boom, but the outcome of natural advantages and the homeseeker, if he be an honest, industrious man (and Nevada has no room for village loafers), can find employment in almost any line, with the assurance that he is growing up with one of the best towns in this or any county. The city has a population of about 10,000, handsome residences and private grounds, beautiful parks, fine churches and school buildings, and all else that goes to make up a metropolitan city. Nevada is a city of 10,000 as wide-awake, intelligent, generous, and hospitable people as can be found anywhere; a city without a rival in the vast undeveloped resources of the surrounding country. Factories locating at this point always have command of a sufficient supply of the best labor and the best possible shipping facilities. The raw material is drawn from all parts of the territory surrounding Nevada, and the markets of the world stand ready and waiting to take these manufactured products. We have banking facilities sufficient to meet all reasonable demands, and our bankers are thorough, up to date, and imbued with the spirit of progress and ready to lend legitimate assistance to all worthy enterprises. The rapid growth and progress of Nevada in recent years would not have been possible without an administration of public affairs conducted on broad gauge principles. There has not been a time since first incorporated as a city when our public officials have not stood as a unit for a better and greater Nevada. Politics have been thrown aside when the interests of the city have been at stake, and the result is a city whose municipal departments can show a most enviable record, one that |
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