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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1915)
The Alliance Herald OFFICIAL OIM1AN NKI1HASKA STOCK (SKOWF.KS ASSOCIATION. IlKACIIKH KVKtlY MKMUKH OFFICIAL OKU AN NFJiltASKA VOLl'NTEEIt FIKEMKVS ASSOCIATION. IT UEACIIKS 1 1 K A IV V A HTKUS FOH Ifl.OOO FIKKMKN Section Two 5,000 Copies Special Stockmen's Edition VOLUME XXII ALLIANCE, BOX BUTTE COUNTY, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH It, 1915 NO. 14 Omaha Gate City of the West I THE NEBRASKA METROPOLIS Few FactM ami Figure Which Prove Omaha the Host City of It Size in the World It is a pleasure to give the many readers of this special stockmen's edition of The Herald a glimpse of Omaha, Nebraska's metropolis. A study of the growth of Omaha is dou bly Interesting because it reveals the development of the tributary terri tory, as well as of the city. A considerable portion of the ter ritory tributary to Omaha did not develop as early as did the country farther south, which is tributary to Kansas City, hence the former city fell behind the latter in population; but the great northwest country Is undergoing a development, remark able for permanency if not for rap idity. This means a steady and sub stantial growth of the cities of this territory, at the head of which Oma ha stands. Interesting statistics regarding Omaha can be obtained free by ad dressing the Bureau of Publicity, Commercial Club of Omaha. An ex tract from these statistics for the year 1914 is given below. Omaha, which has the largest per capita manufacturing output of any city its size in the world, maintain ed its remarkable record In 1914. Where most cities showed a loss, Omaha showed a decisive gain of $2,926,866. The total factory out put for 1914 amounted to $196,312, 537. The bank clearings reached the sum of $887,580,782 In 1914. Oma ha is the forty-first city in popula tion of the United States. It Is the SIXTEENTH city In volume of busi ness, based on its bank clearings. Its clearings amounted to $887,580,782 the largest per capita clearings of any city, save three. Omaha main tained its normal business In 1914. Omaha, the gateway to the great middle west. Is the Jobbing center of this remarkable agricultural and stock raising country. Its gigantic business reflects the stability of the section. Wholesaling last year amounted to $159,990,467. From twenty-six states, South Om aha received live stock shipments, which rank it the third live stock center of the world. It is also the second sheep market, the first feeder sheep market, and the first range horse market of the United States. Grain receipts In 1914 were 66. 983.800 bushels. Omaha is the fourth primary grain market of the world and the second primary corn market. Despite the general slack of busi ness, Omaha maintained its record of the preceding year and increased In the number of ' new buildings erected. Permits were issued for 1.295 buildings, costing $4,610,456, an increase over 1913 of 59 build ings and $431,723 in value. Other Interesting Item I Omaha has a commission form of ; government. Omaha owns and operates its wat erworks system value $7,500,000. Omaha has thirty-four ward schools and a central high school, the latter costing $1,250,000. The annual budget of Omaha amounts to $1,300,000. The operating expense of Omaha's public schools Is $835,000. Omaha's population in 1915 is 177,642. The omafJa postothce" serves 218, 413 individuals. The assessed valuation of Omaha property is $181,566,890. The rate of taxation for city is $1.17 per hundred. Omaha has 101 churches of vari ous 'ienominatlons. Omaha has ten parochial schools, seven intermediate parochial schools and two universities. Omaha has thirteen parks 947 acres and twenty-eight miles of boulevard drives. A park can be reached In fifteen minutes' walk from any part of the city. Omaha has four progressive coun try clubs. Omaha has 24.5 square miles within its boundaries. Omaha has no slums or tenements. Omaha has twenty-two distinct lines of railroad to all parts of the world. , Vr SrJ' r I- " -rs -..ViZ. - 1 F n. 1 1 lillll I.' - . ' li-J . i. -. r Pfil I P Jttl '4 'ill 66 II SC; li HJlUlJDllv-: ; . it . m mm t cir irk Woodmen of the World Building COMMENTED ON CLUBREPORT Omaha Trade Fxhiblt and Lincoln Trade Review ilve ind Write ups of Alliance Club HeKrt "The Omaha Trade Exhibit' had the following to say about the annual report of the Alliance Commercial Club: "The Alliance, Nebr., Commercial Club is to be congratulated on tho recent issue of the "Messenger", which is a yearly report of the work of the club, from March '14 to March '15. The Messenger is a 16-page magazine, with many good cuts, that is a piece of real booster literature for this enterprising city. Secretary Fisher is certainly to be commended for the showing he has been able to make for his club." The Lincoln Trade Review com mented as follows: "The annual meeting and banquet of the Alliance Commercial Club wan held Monday evening of this week at the Phelan opera house, nearly 175 members being present. The Alli ance band furnished some good .mu sic and many club songs were sung by the club members. J. W. Guth rie, president of the Alliance club, was toastmaster. He also made a report as president of the club, and Secretary Fisher submitted his re port. The report of Mr. Fisher was a sixteen page printed report, show ing in detail the financial collections and disbursements of the year, a complete report of the club's activi ties along many lines, and a roster of the club membership, the club now having 284 members, as against 74 one year ago. No club in the state has a greater record of things accomplished in a twelve months than has the Alliance club, and Sec retary Fisher has made good for the Alliance club in an emphatic way. North Platte Has Gas Plant North Platte, Nebr.. March 3 Gas from the new plant Just com pleted by the North Platte Electric and Power Company will be ready by Thursday of this week. All the NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASS'N Financial lienefit to Hanchmeii of Membership Many Time the Amount of Annual Due 'As this issue of The Alliance Her aid will go to many ranchmen who are not members of the Nebraska Stock Growers Association, we wish to mention some of the benefits de rived from membership. The offic ers and memebrs of the N. S. G. A. desire to Increase the membership for two reasons: First, because there are some matters in regard to which j all Nebraska stockmen should co-operate, and it is much easier to se cure co-operation thru organization than without . it. In the second place, the cost of running the asso ciation, including brand inspection which is the principal item of ex pense, will be less per member with a large membership than with a small membership. j Every cattle man in Nebraska who needs to use a brand will do two things, when he properly under stands the law of the state relating to brands and the benefits to be de rived from membership in the Nebr aska Stock Growers Association: He' will have bis brand recorded in the office of the secretary of state, as provided for by law, and Join the as sociation, in order to have the pro tection that it is impossible to fully secure otherwise. The brands on all cattle shipped ; to South Omaha and other open mar kets, from Nebraska and some neigh boring states, are carefully inspected by experts employed for that pur pose. Cattle bearing the brand of any member of the association, but found in shipments of persons not owning the brand according to the records In the secretary of slate's of fice, are cut out and sold separately, the proceeds being returned to the rightful owner. Such cattle are call ed "strays," altbo the process of re turning the money to the owner Is the eamt in case the cattle were stol en. In fact, the brand Inspection n m f H I fsti. Kv tha aiariplnllnn ffir connections have been made and thetne benefit of its members has done service will be ready as soon as the much to stop cattle stealing in the weather will permit the workmen toBtate. if an cattle men in the state make a few final arrangements. Wil-.were members of the association, it lis Todd, of Omaha, president of thelwoul,i De practically impossible for company, arrived here this week to;cattie to be-stolen in Nebraska and be here when the new service Ibj dipped to an open market without Btarted. Many stoves have been put nrAcfioHi Holnff returned fn the the association, and which they would not have secured had they not been members. For the year ending 1913, fifty-nine dollars was returned to members for every dollar of ex pense; for 1912, nearly fifteen dol lars; for 1911, eighteen dollars: for 1910, more than eighteen dollars. The average for the five years ending 1914 was twenty-five dollars return ed on strays for every dollar expense. A copy of the last annual report of the brand Inspectors for the Nebras ka Stock Growers Association, print ed in pamphlet form, will be sent free to any one applying to the sec retary of the association, Chas. C. Jameson, Ellsworth, Nebr., or to The Alliance Herald, the official pa per of the association. It contains Information that would require sev eral columns to print in this paper, besides a blank application for membership. Annual Stockholder' Meeting W. E. Spencer, secretary of the Itox Butte County Fair Association, announces that 'he adjourned annu al meeting of the association will be held at the city hall in Alliance Fri day evening, March 12, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. A board of fifteen dir ectors will be elected and other im portant business will be transacted Prof. Taft's advice not to marry a scrub indicates that he is a tubil foe to matrimony. AOTO BUSINESS BIG IN 1915 llevlval of lluNinewN In Nebranka In- dlcated by !nrge Kale of High Clax Automobiles There Is a general expectation among automobile dealers of Omaha and other Nebraska cities that there will be a big business during the year 1915. In fact, the year's bus iness is well under war The sales are not confined to cheap tnui.t.Ca but Include large numbers of the higher class automobiles, as will be seen by reading an article on the subject in the Omaha Bee of last Sunday. In this connection The Herald wishes to call attention to the advertisement of the Jefferjr Chesterfield Six, Inserted by the Jef fery Omaha Co., of which George O. McVlcker, .r.euUQoed n the Dee's article, is manager. Following Is the article referred to: The month of March, which may well be considered to mark the op ening of the spring selling season among automobile manufacturers, sees the Thomas H. Jeffery company with over 50 per cent of Its total pro duction for the 1915 season sold and delivered. Inasmuch as most manu facturers depend upon selling from 60 to 70 per cent of their output be tween March and the latter part of June, the Jeffery organization seems to b in a paricularly nvlabl posllon. According to George G. McVlcker, local manager for the Thomas B. Jeffery company, the cry of business depression has not come from manu facturers, who have been steadily building a reputable product and marketing It along sane business lines. In commenting on the big sales made by his company during the winter months, Mr. McVlcker said: "All through the year we have ex perienced a normal, healthy demand for Jeffery cars, which has at no time fallen below the mark, which we consider to be highly favorable and highly indicative of . prosperity. Our larger models are practically alt subject to orders now and from the present Indication the Chesterfield Six and the Light Four will also be sold out at least a month before the time we normally set as the end of the spring selling campaign. First Alarm in Months The first fire alarm In several months called out the auto truck and the volunteer firemen at 5:35 o'clock. Friday evening, to the home of H. C. Dedmore. in the J. (. Heck residence at 316 East 3rd street. The blaze was put out before the firemen ar rived, with little damage. Will Klert Ofllrern The election of officers "for the coming year for Post M, T. P. A., will be held Saturday afternoon, March 13. at the Burlington Hotel, at 2:30 o'rlock. Delegates to the strte convention will alco be elected. in here both for heating and cook ing, and the gas promises to be pop ular with the people of North Platte. lawful owner. The money returned to members of the association each year from "strays" amounts to many times the cost of brand inspection and other expenses. Here are a few figures: Paving at Norfolk Norfolk, Nebr., March 3 Nearly six miles of new paving will be laid .The total annual expense of the esso in Norfolk streets this summer. Pe- elation is about $5,400. The money tltlons calling for this amount of returned to members of the assocla paving have already been completed tlon thru brand inspection for the and filed with the city council and ' fiscal year ending in the spring of quick action is promised by that bo- 1914, was $84,371.89; for the fiscal dy. lyear ending 1913. it was $319,423.-' This represents one of the biggest 48; for year ending 1912, $80,899.-' single Jobs of paving that has ever , 52; for 1911. $98,398.28; for 1910, been done in a Nebraska city. The $101,375.05. ' Norfolk Commercial Club took boldj In other words, for every dollar! of the big petition at the last mom-of expense in running the associa-, ent and helped push the signatures ' tlon for the fiscal year ending 1914, over the goal. jan average of more than fifteen dol- liars was returned to members of the Col. Roosevelt continues to be In- association from strays, caupht thru tfrestlr.g without bilnrr convincing, the brand inspection provlil 'J fcr by WW'7Y SB is ;m OSBI pill I I ills b a Mpyfg New Hotel Fontenelle r V r