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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1915)
TIIK OMAHA SUNDAY rKE: OCTOHKU 3. 101 jX Modern Methods of Handling Live Stock Always Prevail Here i ii win rijfc Group of Cattle Buyers Heady for a Summer Morning's Work . -V, 4. - S IX .-a--. jX 1 .... -v- -"3. Kumrou and extensive Improvements are constantly being made t the South Omaha stock yards. - It Is the purpose of the present man agement to make the South Omaha stock yards the most up-to-date of any In the land and provide service which may not be excelled elsewhere. With this end In view, the management his for the last three years expended more than half a million dollars In extensive Improvements suid new coni tructlon. In the cattle department entire divisions have been rebuilt along modern lines, many new pens have been addod and the yardage capacity greatly Increased; con crete water troughs have been placed In all the new pens and In a large part of the older pens; nearly the entire cattle division has been paved with concrete, replacing wooden plank and brick floor ing; new scale houses added; new brand ing and dcnornlng chutes built; three concrete subways constructed to facili tate the movement of cattle about the yards; double alleys built to relieve con gestion during heavy rums; new elevated walks have been erected for the oonven- nce of patrons of the market, and many minor Improvements made In the Interest of better facilities for handling the busi ness of this department. Much new work has been made neces sary In the sheep department because of iho rapid growth of the sheep business of the market. Last season the fac.lltles for handling sheep at South Onuiha. commodious as they were thought to be, with a capacity for 60.0U) head, proved inadequate to handle the great volume of business which came to the market from the western range. The Stock Yards company, true to Its disposition to provide ample faculties to care for the business It enjoys, set about to Increase the facilities of the sheep de partment. At a cost of $100,00) the old barns have been entirely rearranged and two large, up-to-date new barns have been added, thus giving to the South Omaha market the best sheep handling plant In the world, with a capacity for housing and caring for properly 100.000 head of sheep at one time. This Is more than an other market dare boast. In the hog department new pens and sheds are being constructed, all along modern lines. They are paved with con crete and have showering pipes and con crete troughs and sewers. A large sale ring for auction sales of range horses has been built of concrete. Where Many Nations Fuse 1 I S A' Virility, activity, ambition. Industry and genuine progress and progresslveness are characteristic of the people of South Omaha. These are facts that are patent to anybody who visits the bustling com munity in the south part of Greater Omaha. They have a firm foundation and a good and sufficient cause behind them. ' ' ' The cause lfc-l the.' character and antecedents of the cltlaenry. v,,r th South Side Is a great cructbta. a crucible of humanity. A metals and ores are put i Into crucibles of clay or graphite and exposed to teirlfla) heat to purify them and make them fine, so the Inhabitants of the South Side have been put into a crucible ana niaas fine and amalgamated. A large proportion of the Inhabitant were born in foreign lands. There they grew up with more or less freedom j most of them with "less." j But their hearts and souls and mlnda' were above their environments. If they hadn't been these people wojdn't have tolled and saved and hoped. And when tlielr little hoards grew enough so they could buy tickets to America, they left the lands of their nativity and sailed across the seas and traveled In railroad trains to- the "promised land" -of their. dreaming and striving. To many or them this promised land was none other than Omaha's Houth Side. . where the great packing houses throb and smoke and steam with Industry while dally thousands of workmen convert squealing pigs and lowing cattle and bleating sheep Into a great variety of product for the delectation and nourishment of man. j It Is well to remember that the sloth-' ful. the unambitious and the vlcloua for eigners never emigrate. They are satis fled. Thus the emigrants, by an auto matic process, are only those - with In herent energy, ambition and thrift. ' j "Arriving In South Omaha, after their weary Journey, father gets a place In the packing house and the family is astounded to see him earn money equi valent to 4 roubles, to 10 crown, to marks every day. Thrift persists and as the family geU more settled they visit the stores. Then the old-world garments begin to glv way to new-world clothes. They are astonished to find that, not only Is education free to poor people aa it Is to lords In the old country, but they find that if little Ivan or Gregory or Frits or Pony a or Olga or Gretchen doesn't go to school, a man comes around and wants to know why and threatens to send htm to Siberia or somewhere If little Ivan, etc., don't go to school and learn. And Us all free! And Ivan, etc., do go to school and studies and learns. learns, Indeed! For it seems that when people have been oppressed and denied the good things of life, they just ac cumulate a greater amount of desire and abflty for learning, like steam that ia confined In a boiler acquires greater and greater force until it finds an outlet. Or liko land that lies fallow "for many years acquires a great fertility which manifests itself when a crop Is planted ua it ! And so father keeps on bringing In his 4 roubles, his-10 crown his I marks a day and Ivan. etc.. keep going to the school which Is free and the family believes, indeed, that It has reached the promised, land and the old country and its hard ships fade fainter and fainter and the new land becomes more and more dear and the Sars M(j etripea are almost worshipped. j The wm,le family is learning to talk English and finally one of the older girls starts to business college. i nos learned that with six months education she ran get a pDnltion as stcnor :..,h- ad earn more in a month than i,r rather coul.l earn Ly hard..t t..n i, . year In the old country. Hv. yuar, paa and you r t toM th, f..m.ly fr. born Americans except ,hat the parents speak English brokenly. The boys and girls all dress in the American fashion and talk perfect isigllah and the older girls have positions as stenogra phers and wear Just as good clothes and as stylish as anybody. It la a wonderful crucible. The change that life in the South Side works ' in people of foreign birth is aa wonderful or more wonderful than the growth of the "Magic City" Itself which changed cornfields Into paved streets and business bouses and residences In an astonishingly short space of time. Lo, the Rich Indian. Ix regarded as a member. of the Five civilized Uil.es in Oklahoma, Is slipping away from his ancient moorings. TM tribal form of government of the Chero kee nation was abolished on June 30, 1914. The process by which this transi tion was made is a hlshly Interesting one. It involves the disposal of property of a tribal nature, the individualising of a considerable fund, and the general winding up of a collective proprietorship, of which the private property svstein takes its place. The entates of minor Indians have to be looked afteY. Com missioner Bells, in his annual report, savs that "the minor children of the five civilized tribes are perhaps the rich est average children In the United Suites. In alottlng lands and funds the children share equally with their parents." Wall Street Journal. TYPICAL SCTCNB IN ON SI OF TUBS "BTR&BT8" OF THE) STOCK TARDA AT SOUTH OMAHA. year, the second story of which fur nishes the beautiful quarters of the Stock Yards National bank, one of the moat up-to-date banking oflces In the west A beautiful new entrance to the banking offices now graces the building and In It self Is an ornament to the boulevard which It faces. A new shipping division has been built which has greatly facilitated the handling of the feeder business and made really a pleasure what has heretofore been regarded almost a hardship. A brand-new brick and tile chute house has supplanted the old frame shack down alongside the tracks which has sheltered the yardmen n m apologetic sort of way for more than twenty years. The construction of a water plant for the stock yards la now thoroughly under way, which will include a pumping sta tion, a aeries of deep wells and mains and a storage reservoir contiguous to the yards with a capacity of 4,000,000 gallons. with ample aeatlng room and holding pens for horses. . In the general yard much has been done and more contemplated. A new set of loading and unloading chutes was con structed with concrete docks and double chute pens with concrete floors, Increas ing unloading capacity 40 per cent These chutes proved to be a great improvement over anything the company had ever tried and, profiting by Its experience with these, it rebuilt this year another set of chutes. In the same manner, increasing their utility 100 per cent The boulevard through the stock yards was paved last summer and a street car line extended through the premises, the latter proving a great convenience to the patrons of the market A new addition was ballt to the ex change building, providing more office accommodations. The stock yards com pany's general office and bank building has been doubled in alae during the last Stock Yards National Bae ..OF.- SOUTH OMAHA Statement September 15, 1915 Banks of South Omaha An Immense amount of money courses through the channels of Justness and the pockets and purses of the people In the thriving community of the South Side. Numerous national, state and savings bank are required to care for it and all have had careers of prosperity to their present places of affluence and pros perity. ' The Stock Yards National bank, with capital and surplus of 11.126,000, and deposits of 17.000,000 is located right in the stock yards and handles the bulk of the big money transactions of that mam moth Industry. Among its officers and directors are some of the most promi nent men In the packing Industry and other leaders, as follows: H. C. Bostwlck, president; J. C. French, vice president; J. H. Klfcg-, assistant to resident; J. B. 'Owen, cashier; It C. tiller, assistant cashier. LM rectors 1M rectors J. Ogden Armour R. 11. Imnham B. A. Cudahy, Jr J. C. French E. A. Cudahy K. C. Howe James B. Owen Ilarton Millard H. C. Bostwlck K. M. Morsman, Jr. Truman Buck C. R Yost E. Buckingham John 8. King H. C. Miller The Packers National bank is one of the South Side's pioneer financial Insti tutions, located at Twenty-fourth and O streets. It has a capital and surplus of $300,000 and resources of nearly IS.O0O.0U0. J. F. Cbad Is its president; W. J. Coad, vloe president; H. C. Nicholson, cashier, and Charles Schaab, assistant cashier. The LJve Stock National bank has shareholders with over $40,000,000, finan cial responsibility. Its officers and di rectors as as follows: ' Ia M. Lord, president W. A. C. John son, vice president; F. W. Thomas, cashier; C. A. Dunham, assistant caanier. Directors Directors C, M. MacFarlana C. K. MoGrew H. O. Kdwards W. P. Adklns B. A. Head U M. Lord T. U Oledhlll This toank makes a specialty of assist ance in the raising, feeding, handling and marketing of live stock. The South .Omaha Savings bank at Twenty-fourth and M street Is owned by stockholders of the Stock Yards Na tional bank and has a capital of $2S,0iA surplus of $7,000 and resources of $300,000. The Security State bank has a capital of $100,000 and resources of about $000,000. RESOURCES: Loana and Discounts $4,483,601.09 U. S. Bonds to secure circula tion 280,000.00 Bonds to secure U. S. Depos its 1,000X0 Stocks and Bonds for Invest ment ; . 30,900.00 Bonds to secure Postal Sav ing S5.CC0.00 Furniture and Fixtures ..... 18,500.00 Cash and Sight Exchange 3,797,298 43 Redemption Fund 14,O00.CO Stock in Federal Reserve Bank 33,750.00 Federal Reserve Bank. ...... 122.954 76 $8,822,064.23 LIABILITIES: Onpital Stock $ 75J.000.0O Surplus... 375,000.00 Undivided Profits 306,007.32 Reserved for Taxes 25,965.02 Circulation 280,000.00 DPoitt 7,085,03184 $8,822,064.28 Our location within the Union Stock Yards en ables us to give the best possible service in all mat ters pertaining to the Live Stock industry. Your patronage solicited. H. C. B0STWICK, President J. C. FRINCH, Vice President J. & KING, Ass't to President J, B. OWEN, Cashier H. C. MILLER, Ass't Cashier F. J. ENERS0N, Ass't Cashier 3QE3S5S LIVE STOCK NATIONAL BANK The Bank of Service" Assistance in the raising, feeding, handling and marketing of live stock is made" a special study by the officers of this bank -for the benefit of their customers. -:- Resources Three Million Union Stock Yards, "Omaha JUNCTION 24th AND "N" STS, 24th and O Streets SOUTH OMAHA OFFICERS J. F. Coad, President W. J. Coad, ' Vice-President t ii.- ;i. - 'J I . C. Nicholson, Chas. Schaab, ' ' Ass't. Cash, i Established 1891 CAPITAL and SURPLUS r-j $300,000.09 ' U.S. J DEPOSITORY A Serviceable Bank for Country Bankers and Stockmen 4 INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS 4 Interest Paid on Tine Deposits