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GIANT TBADE IN
IRON AND STEEL
Industry ii Moving Forward
Leapt and Bounds in
Omaha.
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STRUCTURAL IRON CONCERNS
Many Firms Confine Attention to This
Industry.
ICE MACHINES ARE BUILT HERE
Omaha Makes Refrigeration Plants
for All Sections of World.
IS HEADQUARTERS FOR BOILERS
Gate Tltr I Distributing; Center for
All Kinds of Heating Appliance,
Including Radiator Many
Dealer In Junk.
Bo marked ha Omaha's supremacy
always been In those line of Industry
which Its happy location In the heart of the
greatest agricultural and stock raising dis
trict of the world, led It. early, to take up
that, until comparatively recent years. Its
citizens have confined their attention
largely to such work and have not pushed
forward to any considerable extent Into
the field of manufacturing until recent
years.
The last few years, however, have seen
Omaha taking mammoth strides forward
in the development If Its manufactures
and. If the output of its factories continues
to Increase at the present rate, it will be
but a few years until Omaha will move
from the comparatively obscure place which
It has oocupled until the recent past and
take Its place, as It has long since done
In other lines of industry, among the lead
ing cities of the world in point of yearly
output of manufactured goods.
In no line of manufacturing Is this growth
tnore noticeable than among those firms
'which make their business the manufacture
of articles from steel and iron. Radiator
and boiler factories, structural iron works.
Manufactories of milling machinery, man
ufactories of Ice making machinery, smelt
ers; Omaha has them all and from every
one of them comes reports of business un
paralleled and prophecies that the output
for 1910 will show a total far In advance
of that of provloua years.
One of the largest Industries which
Omaha boasts along this line is that car
ried on by the American Smelting and Re
fining company at Its mammoth plant at
the corner of Fifth and Dodge streets. This
company, whioh Is alone In its field as far
aa Omaha ia concerned, reported the im
mense output of S30.000.000 for last year. At
the same time It reported that this was a
bit under figures of the year before, and
explained the decrease by the lower price
of lead, which had lowered the total, al
though a larger amount of metal had been
handled. It waa predicted at that time
that during the current year the total
would rise at least to the old mark, and the
business which the company has so far
done has more than made good the proph
ecy. At the present time this looks to be
the banner year for the smelting industry
In Omaha.
Structural Iron Concerns.
Omaha has many concerns which confine
their attention exclusively to the manu
facture of structural and bridge iron and
steel. Of these large companies, probably
the greatest volume of business Is handled
by the Paxtoa & Vlerllng Iron works, which
are located at the Intersection of Seven
teenth street and the Union Pacific rail
way tracks. Air. Vlerllng of the company
I authority for the statement that the
value of last year's output for the city
totaled about S2XO.OO0 worth of structural
Iron and steel and about SdUQ.OOO worth of
foundry products. When asked for a pre
diction as to this year's business, Mr. Vler
llng was loath to guess at the total output
of the ctty's concerns, but stated that, as
far as his own company Is concerned, he
expects an Increase of almost 20 per cent
In the year's product
Conditions locally In the steel and Iron
business are peculiar, however. For some
reason, almost unaccountable, the greater
part of the year's business always comes
in during Argust and September. The
year's results so far have been above that
for the same period of last year, but
whether the volume of business increases
proportionately during the remainder of the
year depends largely upon where several
large local contracts go, and If they be
let to foreign parties the expected increase
may not materialise. The local Iron men
feel that they hardly get an even break
with out-of-town steel concerns on local
work, local contractors Invariably demand
ing a lower rate from local men than from
outside bidders. But, despite this handicap,
they are sanguine of the large growth of
their Industry In Omaha in the next few
years.
The Central Machine works at 604-813
South Tenth street, the Champion Iron and
Wire works at the corner of Sixteenth and
Allen P. Ely & Company
1110 Douglas Ct, Omaha, Neb.
MACHINERY
Smith Concrete Mixers Chicago Concrete Mixers
CORRUGATED RAR FOR REINFORCING CONCRETE
The Only Stock of Reinforcing Steel Carried in Omaha.
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I Dempster Mill MTg Co.
Manufacturers of
Farm and Ranch Water Supplies, Wind Mills, Pumps
Grain Drills, Cultivators,
Feed Grinders, Gasoline Engines, Irrigation Plants.
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Power-ISealey Coal Co.
Cool and Build
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The Magic City Barrel Co.
Dealer In all kind of SECOND HAND BARRELS AXU
BOXES. Also jobber or all standard sizes new slack
barrels. We can furnish you a package suitable for
any purpose you may name.
319-21-23-25 North 25th Street, South Omaha. Neb.
Jackson streets, tha Omaha Safe and Iron
works at 102 Sounth Tenth street, the
American Structural Steel works at 1028
South Nineteenth street and the Western
Iron and Wire works at 1118 Jackson street
are other Iron and steel manufacturers In
the city. In addition the Erie City Iron
works and the Minneapolis Steel and Ma
chin err works, having- shops In other clUa,
maintain offices here. There are also sev
eral bridge contracting firms having offices
here and plants In other cities nearby.
Many Selling Depot.
There are a number of out of town boiler
and radiator manufacturing concerns which
have selling depots In Omaha. Indeed, the
local sales of this product during the last
year waa enormous, totaling over one mil
lion dollars, but unfortunately only a small
part of this money goes to Omaha concerns.
The local concerns which engage In the
manufacture of this line of goods are but
three In number. The Drake-William.
Mount company located at till Hickory
street, the Omaha Boiler works at the cor
ner of Twelfth and Isard streets and the
Wilson Steam Boiler company at the corner
of Nineteenth and Pierce streets. The out
put of these companies forms, however,
but a small part of the amount of that
product used annually In the city. Their
business shows a nice Increase so far over
the amount done In a similar period In
last year, however, and It seems but a
matter of a few years until these smaller
local companies will be handling the
greater part of Omaha's business along
these .lines and reaching out into foreign
fields.
The larger radiator and boiler manufac
turer have consistently passed up the ad
vantagea of Omaha as a location for their
western plants. Manager Willlamacn of
the American Radiator company explains
this aa being largely due to the fact that un
til recent year Omaha ha not held out any
very attractive inducements to such com
panies to locate here and the distance of
Omaha from steel and iron fields. The ex
perience of the company which he repre
sents la typical. Only last year they lo
cated a large manufacturing plant at Kan
sas City, the choice of that city over
Omaha being made In that Instance largely
because of the advantages which Kansas
City offered In the way of railroad facili
ties for reaching the southern Iron fields.
Among the foreign boiler manufacturers
having establishment here are the Ameri
can Radiator company at 413-417 South
Tenth street, the Kenny-Vincent company
at 414 McCague building and the United
State Supply company at the corner of
Ninth and Famam streets. The) concern
all report a healthy Increase la their busi
ness over that of last year.
lee Machine Batlt Here.
In the manufacture of machinery for Ice
making and refrigerating Omaha stands at
the head of the el tie of the west. Indeed,
the Baker Manufacturing company, which
is the only concern In the city engaged in
this line of work. Is acknowledged to have
the largest output of any manufacturing
plant In the world .which confine its at
tention solely to the manufacture of the
smaller sort of machines for ice-making
and refrigerating. This company, which
waa established but three year ago, ha
advanced by leap and bounds until today
H ha an annual output of approximately
$600,000 per year and It large factory at
Twentieth and Isard street 1 kept running
overtime to supply the demand.
The company is placing it product in all
part of the United State and North
America, and there are now only three
state In the union where Baker machine
are not installed. The mechanic which
the eompany employ are all skilled and
highly-paid men, and aa a result about 9
per cent of the vast Income which this
company receives from other state re
mains in Omaha. Mr. Baker of the eom
pany I confident of the future and states
that the usefulness of refrigerating ma
chinery 1 only beginning to be appre
ciated. No Omaha concern manufacture scale.
The business along that line In the city
goea to the larger scale manufacturer of
other cities, who maintain wholesale sell
Ing depots here. Among these are the
Fairbanks Morse company and the Money
weight Scale company, both of which re
port business as moving along at a rapid
rate and predict an Increase over last
year' sales. Nor is Omaha any more
fortunately fixed a regards the manufac
ture of milling machinery. There Is no
factory in the city devoted to that line of
work. The Alsop Process company of St
Louis maintains a selling depot In Omaha.
Omaha, unfortunately, has no steel mills
to handle Its large yearly discard of scrap
Iron, that work falling to the several
wholesale scrap iron dealsrs scattered
about the city, who buy the Iron from the
railroads and other firms which discard
It, aa well as from the city's smaller deal
ers. Omaha's largest dealer in scrap iron
la A. B. Alplrn, Ml Famam street, who
annually ships from the city about 1.500
cars of old steel and Iron, valued at about
ITW.OOfc When It Is remembered that the
firm mentioned Is but on of number of
firms which deal In the same sort of ma
terial. It will be realised that the amount
of money brought Into Omaha yearly from
this sou roe Is something enormous.
OMAHA OWLS LOT TO STATE 'Engineers of high rank
Growth of City is Due to Bounteous
Crops of Nebraska.
ONCE DESERT IS NOW FERTILE
Wealth Given Vp by Soil of State Is
Greater Than that of rreclens
Metals Mined All Over
Country.
While Omaha ha shown marvelous
growth during the last decade, It does not
claim all the eredlt to itself, but gladly
gives credit to the great state of Nebraska,
whose bounteous crops in a large measure
have been responsible for the wonderful in
crease in all sorts of Industries and the
general growth.
The story of the transition of the Oreat
American desert from the home of the
buffalo to the abiding place of beautiful
cities and towns and prosperous farmers
has been coincident with the history of Ne
braska. Where once roamed the buffalo by
tha trillion now grows waving fields of
grain. The transition had been of short
duration, but it has been swift and sure.
What was once thought to be practically
worthlesa desert is now entirely cultivated
and Is producing some of the finest crops
on earth.
Nebraska produce each year crops of a
greater value than all the precious metals
dug out of the ground In the entire coun
try. The great difference in the two ia
that when once precious metals are taken
from the ground they are gone, whereas
when one of tha great crops of Nebraska
Is taken from the soil, the country is not
injured In the least, provided, of course,
that common sens methods are employed
in crop rotation and fertilisation. .
Farmer are yearly turning their atten
tion to better methods of farming and as a
consequence they are able to make more
money. One of the chief revenue now la
to buy gras-fed stuff from the South
Omaha market and produce higher priced
stock and feeding the grain whioh grow In
Nebraska.
Nebraska' Prosperity.
Nebraska enjoyed In 190 what was by
far' the moat prosperous year In its history-Nebraska
farmer produced from the soil
more than $400,000,000 In crop and Uv stock.
There have been years when more wheat,
corn, cattle, hogs and other product were
raised, but never a year In which the
money value of the output waa so large.
The largest Item in the list la corn, wlfh
a total value of t93.01S.40a
Next come hay, with a total value of
$69,S8.S11
Then come wheat, with a total value
of $43,E.174.
The Nebraska dairy cow Is responsible
for t36.745,C00 of the year's total.
The Nebraska hog accounts for 533,179,177
of the grand total.
The Nebraska horse represents a total
value of 124,513.530.
The oat crop la varied at $23,831,391.
The alfalfa crop la next with a total
value of IM, 661.140.
Cattle represent a total of 138.375,811
Hen Was Buy.
The Nebraska hen did her duty to the
tune of Hs.TS3.4M.
Minor crops, such aa sugar beets, fruit.
millet, forage end vegetables represent a
total for the year of flO,5O,O0O.
The potato crop waa worth $5,066, SS4.
Barley, rye and cane make up a total of
$3,794,977,
The grand total value of agricultural pro
duot (or 1KB was I4CO.579.0W. This la an
Increase of $41,128,073 over 1908' s record of
$361,461,012. end an Increase of $130,306,356
over 1907' total of $282,272,729.
Nebraska agricultural production of 1908
waa valued at approximately three times
the value of the gold and silver production
of the United States In that year, the total
of the latter being $122,110,600.
The total deposits In Nebraska banks In
1909 were $192,44,888. This is an increase
of $34,S2M8 ever the total of $16S.017,,00
and an Increase of $14,284,141 over 1907's rec
ord of $178,360,347.
Figures could be still further multiplied
to show Nebraska's prosperity during 1909,
but this ceems unnecessary. Every Ne
braska city and town can show tangible
evidences of prosperity in the form of pub
Uo Improvements of ell kinds, new build
ings, both public and private, and increased
trad with surrounding territory.
Other States, Too.
Other state than Nebraska also helped
upbuild Omaha the market town during
th last year, for Omaha's trad territory
ia not bounded by state lines. The prosper
ity of all these states has been unexempled
and there 1 every reason to expect greater
expansion along all lines In this last year
of the first decade of the twentieth century.
Omaha Ha Consulting Knalneer
Who Are Called All Over for
Special Work.
Omaha consulting engineers, although
perhaps they are few In number compared
with other cities of similar slse In the
United Slates, find that they are called
upon to work out engineering matters for
practically the entire state of Nebraska.
When the town and cities of Nebraska
decide upon the erection of any structure
requiring the services of a consulting en
gineer they do not need to send to th
great cities In the east for their men; they
are to be found right here In Omaha.
The work of the consulting engineer is
becoming more and more important every
year. As civilization advances, as the
growing Industry of the country, and par
ticularly that of Nebraska and this part
of the middle west, Increases, the demands
become greater for more public works,
more huge buildings, more difficult great
engineering tasks. With all this growth
the work of the consulting engineer be
ojmes more complex and he must be a man
of both brain and brawn to meet and over
corn the problems which come before him.
And. with all these things in view, Omaha's
engineers are holding their own and are
keeping abreast of the time.
When a municipality votes to construct
a new water works system, build a drain
age or sanitary sewerage system in which
reliable advice and technical skill I needed
Omaha furnishes. the consulting engineers,
with th possible exception of a contract
being let directly to some construction com
pany which maintains its own engineers.
When a large power plant needs remodel
ling or enlarging It la Omaha whioh pro
duces the consulting engineer.
When a consulting engineer Is called to
a city to inspect a plant he determines
whether or not It can be practically re
built with a larger capacity, or whether
an entirely new system is necessary. The
engineer looks over the ground, submit
his report, and If chosen as consulting en
gineer for the project he becomes respon
sible for th work which Is done In accord
ance with the report he ha mad. At
other time when merely technical advice
la needed h act a a counsel in the same
capacity a would an attorney or phyi-
ui. ini is frequently don In th In-
stance when om publlo work ia being
planned or constructed and the opinion of
a prominent engineer ia deemed advisable.
in umaha directory shows that thu -ir
ha three consulting engineers, A. C.
Koenig, O. J. S. Collin and A. C. Arend.
Mr. Koenig Is known over the state as
one of the moat prominent engineer In th
wet. lie is chief engineer for the Ne
braska Power company, and in his private
wora manes a specialty of designing water
and sewerage systems. He is thoroughly
familiar with Nebraska conditions and la
on of the best authorities procurable on
Nebraska rivers, of which he ha mad a
special study.
Recently Mr. Koenig was honored hv hav.
Ing hi preliminary report accepted for the
proposed $5,000,000 power Plant at Colum
bus, Neb., which it is planned will supply
a great part of Nebraska consumers with
electricity. This report was submitted after
fifteen other engineers, the most prominent
in the United States an Europe, had pre
pared similar reports. Following the ac
ceptance of Mr. Koenlg's report he was
procured by the backera, who are Swiss
bankers, as consulting engineer, and he Is
now working in that capacity. If eon.
structed. this will be th greatest engineer
Ing feat which has been accomplished In
Nebraska since the building of the rail
roads, and dn the end will bear no less
Importance in the business future of th
state.
In spite of the fact that Omaha Is In strictly
sn agricultural state, the engineering talent
found here ia in the first rank. Omaha
engineers have built the city and are build
ing the state.
National Roofing Co.
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Tilo and Gravel
Roofing
Omaha
Nebraska
OHAIIA LUMBER a COAL GO.
Tivnc Oasis, 40tk sad UU Sis. TL Wcbstsr 837.
IAKU Besioa, 715 Ksia SL TsL Bessoa 102.
LUMBER, COAL, BUILDING MATERIAL
DUILDER'G HARDWARE
Lowest price, quality considered. All Coal Automatically Screened
In loading, from Qrarltr Bins.
GIVE US YOUR ORDERS.
R. H. Morehouse Co.
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
Coal and Builder's Supplies
OF ALL KINDS
Main Office-New locution 1111-12 New City National Bank B!dg
After August ist.
YARDS 28th AVKNUK AND TAYLOR STREETS.
Best Grades of Hard and Soft Coal
RETAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED .
radiord-Keniiedy Co,
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MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALERS
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Forest Products
Our Omaha Yard Is the Largest and Finest In the West,
General Offices Suite 418 Brandeis Bldg., Omaha.
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Wilson Steam Boiler Co.
Xaaafaeturer of
BOILERS OF ALL KINDS
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JCLioog 1141. 1st, and riere Bts. OMAHA, K8B.
Wnv the near Fled.
He was only a bulldog, but when he
heard the word "police" he knew It was
time to run. And sums dog owner prob
shly of Canton, O. stands small chances
i of see-In him again soon, while several
i of the officers at police headquarters are
wondering at what they regard as a demon.
! (tratlon of ranlne Intelligence.
I Lck Sergeant Weaver of Indianapolis,
' answered the telephone and listened to the
following report:
"This la Miss Bowman talking, at 12
West Maryland street. I want to report
finding a bulldog that Is evidently very
Vdluuule. lie followed me to work this
mointi.g tvldently adopted me Is sitting
here looking up at me and wagging his tail
now. Yes ya. he has a collar a fins ons
-I'd It has engraved on It K. Hulbert, Can
tou. O. yes, he has a license tag. Will
you send a policeman to get here, doggie,
com here what what do you think of
that" Here the report ended abruptly
for the moment and bergeant Weaver won
dired what had happened until the voice
suddenly came back:
"Hello hello you needn't send that offi
cerhe's gone. He was sitting here Just
as quiet when all at once he bounded to
the door and was two wiuares down the
Ktrect in a Jiffy. He went like a shot when
1 said 'police.' "Chicago Inier-Ocean.
DOUGLAS COUNTY WELL PAVED
Many Uood Reads Lead from Omahn
In All Directions to the
Coantrr.
Douglas county Is becoming splendidly
equipped with roads leading into Omaha
for well paved arteries for traffic Isad In
eveiy direction from th city. The first
start was made many years ago, when
Dodge street was paved with macadam a
distune of eight miles from th city limits,
This pavement has now been extended
pearly to Elkhorn. and besides this ma
cadam roads have been built In every di
rection. Kour years ago the stnte had a law
enacted that gives the county Uit a rvv
enue from Inheritance taxes, and this la
used by Douglas county In road building.
Hubuibs of Omaha are not not all all
backward In the matter of paving. Dundee
Is to do a very large amount of paving and
th question of material to be used was
recently quite a bon of contention In th
little village. It was finally decided by a
vote of th property owner to us as
phalt. Florence ha paved Its main thorough
fare with brick, and South Omaha does a
large amount of paving each year.
BUILDERS' SUPPLIES DIVERSE
Baslness Realties Enormous Pronor-
tlons In Omaha and I Growing
Larger Steadily,
The contractors' supply business In Omaha
Is a large one and is of course, spread ever
many and diverse fields. This fact makes
It almost Impossible to secure any figures
on the business which will even approach
accuracy, or to make any statements which
are not subject to several exceptions,
The extent of the contractors' supply
business In Omaha In a year will Just
about equal the amount cf material which
la put Into the construction of Omaha build
ings, bridges and roads In the same time.
A considerable portion of the supplies for
Omaha building operations are Imported
from other places, but they, In almost every
case, pass through the hands of Omaha re.
tellers and the small amount which does
not Is more than compensated for by the
amount of business which Omaha concerns
do In foreign fields. The extent of such
operations In a city growing as Omaha la,
la immense, and th business will, run well
Into the millions every year.
All the Omaha firms engaged In this busi
ness predict a reasonable Increase In bual
ness for the year and expect Uila Increase
to come mostly from within the city. Th
many additions to Omaha which are being
projected, as well as the amount of building
going on in the business district, are re
sponsible for the present healthy condition
of the business.
A great many materials which ar used
by contractors are manufactured her.
This la true of structural iron and steel,
raphes and doors, brick, grading machinery,
tile and a number of other articles. Th
greater pan of th material which. la re-'
talUd here, however, comes from the manu
facturing or finishing establishments, or
wholesalers of other cities.
Mane Lumber Company
MANUFACTURERS
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Annual Production 150,000,000 Feet
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The only manufacturers of Yellow Pine having gen
eral offices in Omaha.
Vol Kffertlve, However,
On of the briefest and no dnuht on
of ths moot sincere addi eases ever de
livered on th subject of capital pun
ishment waa made In Worcester Coun.
Uv. i, more than two generations
ago.
A notorious character by the name of
Charley James, standing on the gal
lows with the nous properly adjusted,
was asked before the cap waa drawn
over bis face It he would like to say a
few words.
"Ladiea and gantlemen beg pardon,
gwrtlemen." he aniil. "Htanillng where
1 do, I am unalterably opposed to cap
ital punishment." Everybody's Uagaxtne.
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