THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1916.
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Jobbing of Omaha for 1915 Omaha Manufactures for
Shows Total of $1 77, 191,675 1915 Total $213, 843, 059
SALES BY PACKERS
GROW$8,500,000
Tremendou$ Gain Over La$t Year
Business of Greater Omaha
Shows Gain for Year 1915
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Manufacturing
Jobbing
Ileal estate transfer. . .
Packing house output . . .
Bank clearings
(Smelter output
Bank deposits
nuildlng permits
Grain receipts (bushels)
Grain shipments (bushels)
1913.
.$1213,843,039
. 17T,lt,75
15,840,908
115,434,850
082,670,880
89,U,M0
63,07a,767
5,885,003
50,516,000
47,702,400
1914.
$106,812,537
159,684,467
8,463,610
113,404,017
887,580,781
27,181,148
51,750,606
4,610,456
66,464,100
67,217,800
LIVE STOCK RECEIPTS.
Cattle (head) .
Hogs (head) . .
Sheen'(head) . .
Horses (head),
. .1,218,342
. .2,642,073
. .3,268,270
.. 41,670
026,604
2,247,884
8,147,434
28,560
i
3
GREATER OMAHA IS
FAST GOING AHEAD
All linei o Industry Show Bemark
able Gains for the Year
Just Closed. '
GENERAL PROSPERITY HERE
(Continued from rags Ope.)
ers of Omaha. The melting business has
steadily Increased in the city until this
yeaf It shows an Increase of about $11,000,
000 over the smelting of last year. This
112,000,000 Increase is included in the
$17,630.5:7 Increase recorded for manu
facture, as smelting Is classified as man
ufacturing. More Batter Made Here.
Another item that helped swell the
manufacturing figures is the increase e
$1,000,000 in the amount of the output of
flutter made in Omaha, umani n
ome years been recognised aa trie greai
st butter producing center In the world.
.Figures compiled by the Omaha
lioltr bureau:
Automobile accessories and sup
plies Automobiles
Agricultural Implements
Adding machines
Advertising novelties
Asbestos and magnesia product..
fakers supplies
Bale ties
Harbers' supplies
Beer
billiard and bar fixtures
boots and shoes
Howling alleys
Urtck ana tile
Building materials
Belting and supplies
Carpets, rugs and draperies
lenient, stone and building ma
terial Cheese
t hlna and . crockery.:
Church goods
Cigars and tobacco
Clothing and wearing apparel....
Coal and coke
Coffees, teas and unices
Confectionery
v rackers and cakes
Creamery machinery and sup
plies Cordsge and twine
(Dairy products
Dental supplies
Pry goods and notions
Drugs end sundries
irwectrical supplies
Knglnas (gas
fruits and Vegetables
iFeed and hay
our (other than wholesale
houses) .
Flax seed nrodunts
vFurs snd fur garments ,
Furnace supplies .
Furnishing goods .
riirniture
in great force with the coming of better
prices. At the ssme tlms. It is to De
remembered thst the corn crop of 1915
being somewhat soft, wss sesrecly fit to
msrket before the first of ths year, whUa
It Is also thrue that on account of the
softness of the corn which made It Iste
In maturing for the crib, farmers got
a late start In husking, with the conse
quence that thousands of bushels are still
In the fields and th farmers in many
parts of fhs stats are still busking every
day.
Postal Heaeipia. .
As an index of general prosperity or
the city, postorcice reoeipi mrm v." ;
looVJd to.rThe postal rPt. for Ah. dNrta.nt equipment ....
. sm. 1 1 vi i . i "
yeir at trie inmxia omcv wc ,- vrmin iwvmcor mippiies
as against $U3n. i y"". ,".,Vr"
, - I.AI ,fl . m.UM int niE.RH. I . . - .t "
a gain oi - i nsrwsrn (heavy
receipts the Omana posionu-o u narware (light
had.
New Industries sprung Into Doing cur
ing the vear and some oia unri ,,i.m--
their capital and expanded to the extent
ht between these two factors, a iouw
f 11.036.8000 more capital Is working man
a year ago, and '419 more Jobs have been
made for employes.
Bank Clearings Gala.
The sain of $35,090,098 in bank clear-
i. hA rinrinii of a year ago. is
l tl f. o -
pub-
4 .028 Of.9
14,2sa.714
12.SM.1W
161 ,5n
14.t0
Jitt.OeO
208.783
3,000
rz.on
390.0HO
3.9W.OOO
33.000
154.0W
l(.63i
,l.i
4O7.0V0
1,$M).1(
lw.nno
4."A'"
oo.ooo
$.743,000
444.0110
S.w:i8
3M),000
t8,00
701,000
326.000
113(1.779
927.483
MX, 850
9.$1,000
3.811.71
4.901.487
810.000
,7S3.M
1.163,963
soft, 000
. 383.000
6.S80
36,600
430.000
22. DIM
128.000
15.W,P92
25,000
0.R4R
(,037,248
Harness and Saddles
Hats, caps and gloves
lliispitsl supplies
Jewelry
Junk
Liquors
ljiiinner
Lithographing
Leatlntr novelties
Loather supplies
Machinery supplies (steam and
miU)
MsKsilnrs. books and news
Malt
Mill work, sash and doors
Millinery .
Musical Instruments
Moving picture equipment ....
Oils (illuminating and lubricat
ing
Opticsl goods
Ovsters, fish and celery
Oil handling devices
Paints and glass.
Wper and notlona
I'lcture frames and moulding..
I'hoto supplies
IMumblng and heating auppliea
Poultry and egss
rumps and windmills
Tlpes (smoking)
Kulvber goods
Kefrlgerators
Hoofing materials
Scales
School supplies
Peed s
Hoap
Ptsrch
Ptock, poultry foods and reme
dies Btoneware and bottles
Ptoves and ranges
tore and office fixtures
Palt -
Poreens
Tents and awnings ..
Tanks ...-
Traatora
tfndeI-taker8 supplies ...
Wsll paper
Wagons, ete,
Weather stripping
Wfctta lead and aHoys
Woodenwara
son.ocn
snD.cuO
KO.0N0
$.0i,0n0
4.TI.0WI
1I.S1S.2H
M.(H)
4.'..i0
M,Xi0
27i.0iX
4i'..lH7
.'rJ.oiiO
i;;t.rio
(?.
Mil. coo
18, 1W
-l,7;U
ino.floo
i.74&,oiio
s.&w.oas
so,
i so, ooo
l,fi0.W0
,IW,7S0
2OS.O00
U.000
$18.(00
fiO.OiXI
171.Si4
28.SM
!(.&
6H0.0IX)
4'10.ono
21,394
77.R2S
127,ai0
1.41
10,000
1R.0H0
12.000
(.041
110,000
130,000
2i ,m
133.000
5.0
Mo.ono
240,000
Figures compiled by Omaha publicity
bureau:
Advertising novelties $ so.flfvi
Alfalfa feed $.7.
Art glass and mirrors ('.''
Artificial llmba .
Asbestos products as.O'i
Automobile bodies and parts.. :!.
Ussa and bag factory pixduc. :,.im'
Bakers' supplies Io.nio
Barbers' supplies 40.UM
Barrels 3iW.m
Ueer !..! 3,.;I74
Blue prints 12.
Boiler compound U.
tollers, smokestacks, etc I.ss.oh)
ioota snd sboes SVu-'i
Boxes (wooden and paper 4M.n6
Bread and bakery products.... I7.(7.I
Breakfast foods 2l(i.i
Brick snd stone tools
Brick snd tile t.i.sn
Brooms 3."
Butcher and bar supplies U,'M
Hutfsr flrramel-vi i.&mt.M
Buttons snd pleating
('ndv in2.l:
Carbonated products ihi.Aio
Cars and rolling stock rebuilt.. MXW.oo
Cement, stone, etc M:l. ,.,..'
rimri 13.
av targets
Total
...$177,191,875
BUILDING PERMITS
GAIN 17 PER CENT
Big Increase in Spite of Fact that
Year Before Recorded the
Fontenelle Permit
ALL SORTS OF STRUCTURES
Omaha's building operations for 1915
k. hi,. vniutna of the butter out
put of its creameries this year baa again one of the big Items indicating the march
.i 4...ttfi.n that reputation. The ,,f business activity of the city. The
total volume of butter output in Omaha clearings this year came close to the
this year approximates $7,800,000, or about blulon dollar mark.
35,600,000 pounds. The receipts oi nva
tm means forty-seven trainioaas oi th.v do. 7.171.273 head ail 101a. rmmi -
twentv-flvo cars each, with a little train hli.er -water mark In the history of the showed an Increase of 17 per cent over
of eight carloads fetching up the rear, ,.ve Bt0ck business in the matro polls. 1914. The total Improvements last year
Just for good measure. These receipts for the year mean 101,7Sb was $5,385,005; previous year, $4,810,456, an
The manufacture or aiiaua crloada increase or 1774.&49.
means the various alfalfa meals that have would make 4,071 trains of twenty- in view of the fact that the year yielded
five cars each; or one train 863 miles no permit approaching the Fontenelle
1..- hotel permit of 1914, the city building de-
In the receipts of sheep tne urnaua mar- panmeni iookb upon mo snowing as
within the laet few years w "
oonular. has shown a steady increase,
a v.- m Mr increase, making a
totai volumo for the year of. soma $4.0Q.0OO,
Tacking house products, tsken as a
whole, show approximately $8,600,000 In
crease over tho lost years product..
This increase, however, does not this
.,.,r on the face of the tables
j vni
aa thev are made up, because the pacav
ket was approximately MOO,000 ahead ot strong Indication of the city's prosperity
Kansas City. The gain u me rui
of horses over last year was approxi
mately 11.000.
The nronortlon of gain In roanuiaciux
Ing, Jobbing, bank ojearings and .build
ing permits, shows a rcaaonaDie similar-
Bank Clearings
in Omaha Show an
Enormous Increase
The Clearing House association gives
the following comparative statement of
bank clearings for the last year:
ft
-f r
Year.
1K
,
18 5 ,
1890 ,
l(ill
18f2 ,
lbW...v..
1K34
1
1
1897......
189
1S
1900
Amount.
.$74.441,0R
. 332.041.008
. 402,500,332
. 490,14,013
. 44J.267.790
. 645, 7. 84
, 632,833,746
. 4K3.472.ltW
. 3,2Hi),477
. 4JO,2x2.fi'!
. J43.338.79S
. 319,461.52$
. 297.432.870
. &15.786.1W
ers have taken to classifying tnoir proa- -Veness of advance that indicates
ucts more minutely ao that tne Paucu unWenlaUty ot prosperity in all
are separatea .mo y llae ltt the city.
py-proaucis in yw uuii,
Thus the actual increase In the pack
tnK house products proper (meaning
naeked meats, etc.). is approximately
$2,000,000; while the by-products (meaning
extract, pharmaceuticals, sosps. etc),
show an Increase of some $6,600,000. This
makes the total Increase of packing
house output $8,600,000 In round numbers,
Less Beer is Brewed.
The figures on the manufacture of beer,
as given out by the breweries, show a
decrease for the year of about wwu,
The manufacturer or macaroni ana
noodles has made the remaraaoie gam
of practically 100 per cent In the year. It
has gained roundly $370,ooo.
The manufacture or hog serum in
Omaha is a rather new factor that must
now be included, having this year shown
a valume of 1164.000.
The Increases in the manufacture of
structural steel and other building ma
terial, follows along In a proportion cor
responding to the general prosperity 01
th citv. The manufacture of struc
tural stetel totals $900,000 approximately
showing a gain of $250,000 over last year.
Gala la Jobblaar.
The Jobbing figures show a gain over
last year of $17,201,208.
The automobile sales ehow about $2,000,-
000 more than laet year.
The sale of automobile accessories
shows even a greater per cent of In
crease.
The sale of agricultural implemente
for the vear was practically normal.
This does not mean there was no m
crease. It means that the increase was
about the normal percentage of Increase
this buslncea shows from year to year,
The Increase was approximately $100,000.
Bin l.ala lu Lumber.
Lumber sales showed a greater increase
when the figures were all compiled, than
most lumber men of the city believed It
would. Practically all of them admitted
hat the business was a little greater in
olume than last year, but few believed
it would show an Increase of practically
30 as It has done. The lumber business
was exceptionally dry and dull the first
half of the year. Then in September it
began to pick up a little. Soon the price
of yellow pine continuedd to advance un
til it was KflUntj for S3 a thousand more
lhan in the summer. Western fir took Its
January ...
February
March ....
April
May
June
July
August
September
October ...
November
I eeember
Year.
1901
1902
1903
194
191
19i
1907
190.
1M09
1910
1911.
1913 "..
1913
1914
U16
BANK CLEA KINGS,
1914.
$79,215,072
67.51 1.016 .
84,907,272
69.946.973
66.M3.766
70,077.864
67.0B1.7M
67.218.702
76.781.824
83,8A9.1)
71..S5 .
, 77.449.810
Amount.
.$329,043,688
. 3iil.511.775
. 392.80,920
. 398,985,212
. 442,28o,85
. 604.S88,7t4
. 5rti",5li.7;
. 602,525.867
. 735.225.568
. M2,71,6il7
. 753.107.353
. 860.881.567
. 908.947.57$
. 582.717.101
. 2,670,SilJ
1915.
$ 78.600.674
66,221.479
8ti.f,79.412
78.446.078
78.957.2S6
80.8S4.437
75.386.421
72,248.f9
84.391.011
98.8o2.313
$0,966,622
01.689.243
7,
place In the markets of the state and in
the demand that came to the Omaha
wholesaler for common stuff. Then wesl
ern fir began to Increase in price until
it went $1-50 a thousand above the sum'
mer prices. At these prices the business
was very brisk through November and
December, bringing the total volume for
the year well above that of Uist.
The ssle of coal and coke showed a
gain of almost $2,000,000.
The wholesale grocery business of the
city Was practically normal totalling
reariy $15,000,000.
Farmers Hold Bark Oral a.
Grain receipts for the year showed a
falling- off of 13.948.100 bushels. In spite
of this apparent showing. Omaha Is grow
ing as a grain market. The showing Is
due to the fact that during the summer
and fall of 1914 farmers rushed their grain
to market and practically emptied theor
frsneries when the war sent the price of
wheat above $1 and tho prices of other
respondlngly high: and again to
thst this summer when the new
harvested prices were compura'
and farmers have been holding
the grain. Thus, what the receipts should
fcsve shown in ltli. they are expected to
shew In exceptional volume this year, as
'sraln la Just now beginning tt move
Totals $883,717,101 $3M,t70,80
Output of Omaha
Smelter Shows a
Great Increase
The Increase In the value of the output
of the Omaha plant of the American
Smelting and Refining company amounted
to nearly $12,000,000, as compared with
the value of the output during 1914. The
value of the output during 1914 was $27,
131.148. Last year It was $39,118,510.09. The
greatest increase wss in lead, it amount'
to more than $5,000,000. The smelter con
tinues to hold its place as the largest
lead refinery In the world and the second
largest silver refinery. The smount of
the output and the value for 1916 was
Amount. Value.
Gold (ounces) X.67i $ 8.046, 788.76
Silver (ounces)
lad (pounds)
during the last twelve months,
The largest permits of the year were
for the Grain Exchange building. Rose
building. Blackstone hotel. Ford Motor
company's plant, World-Herald building
and First ' Presbyterian church.
The increase of the year was spread
over all classes of buildings. There were
799 residences built at a cost of $2,023,550
and sixty-two store and office buildings.
The other large buildings of the year
were: B. u. Danforth. bricK apartments.
Thirty-second and Poppleton avenue.
$40,000,; Horace C. Flunkett, southwest cor-
ner of Sixteenth and Capitol avenue.
Improvement, $32,000; National Building
company; 408 South Twelfth street, con
crete building, $35,000; W. A. Fraser,
brick dwelling at 302 North Flfthy-thlrd.
$16,000; Drake Realty company, brick
apartments at 613 and 623 South Thirty-
first street, $50,000; Pwanson Bros.' com
pany, fireproof warehouse at 308-10-13
South Tenth street, $30,000; Dresher Bros,
brick building at 2217-19 Fa rnam street,
$28,000; Coad Real Estate company, brick
hotel at 608 to 612 South Seventeenth
street. $25,000; Creighton university gym
nasium at Twenty-fifth and Burt streets,
$S5,000; Working Girls' home. 2103 to 3110
Davenport street, K2.000; O. D. Klpllnger,
apartments at $875 Fa ream, $75,000; In
dependent Realty company, hotel at 303
to 313 North Sixteenth street. $70,000; J. L
Brandeis company, subway, comfort sta
tion, garage and power house, $80,000;
Farmers' Co-operative company, fire
proof warehouse at $02-4-4 Harney street.
$3,000; St. Joseph's Catholic church. 1733
South Seventeenth street, $40,000; George
E. Joelyn, fireproof office and warehouse
building at Fifteenth and Jones streets,
$75,000; Skinner Manufacturing company,
fireproof factory, 1315-17 Jackson street,
$70,000; Charles Metz. brick dwelling at
8708 Dewey avenue. $50,000; R. O. tftreh
low, apartments and elb house at 2103
Sherman avenue, $35,000; t?t. Catherine
hospital, $45,000
EMPLOY FOUR HUNDRED MEN
Counting new industries and notsble
expansions In old firms In the city, ex
clusive of retailers, for the year, a total
of fifty-six such new ventures entered
the field.
They represent a capital Invested of
B1.036.80B and give employment to 419
employes.
In 1914 twenty-six new industries and
expansions occurred, giving employment
to 315 additional persons and represent
ing an increased capital investment o
$L796.60O. Following are new industries
for the year:
... 31, 301,41s
..S31.792.4S8
Popper (pounds) 21.824.785
Misc. Metals (lbs.). 1K1.0I4
Vitriol (lbs.) 7.949,928
Total value
10.660.7i9.10
15.760.148.18
3,7ai,8:t7.
47.a6 00
$1,746.6S
$39,113.510 09
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS
FOR THE YEARJUST CLOSED
During the year, under the supervision
of the department of public Improve
ments. 18.3 miles of pavement, 17.33 miles
of sewers and 36.4 miles of walks were
laid. There are now approximately 215
miles of paved streets in Greater Omaha.
The following is an abstract of the
work done by the department for the
year:
Paving-
Omaha
South Omaha ,
Dundee ,
Curbing
Lighting system. ornaments I
Dundee and Field club district.,
Sewers
Omaha
I Dundee ... .... . . ......
sidewalks
Grading
Total work
858,017
19.'lt
8
59,387
23,000
3O2.0MI
37.3-0
C4.73
U,!J1
.$1,019,127
HEW INDUSTRIES
ENTER FIELD HERE
Fifty-Six New Finns, Representing;
Capital of Over Million Dollars,
Locate in Omaha.
Name.
Alfalfa Butter Co $
Ambler A Co. (wholesale dry
goods)
Adams Laundry Co
Affinity Cleaner Oo
Alwlne. O. H. Co. (construc
tion aneciaiues)
Reaver Board Co
Com. Ptug as Faucet Co....
Consumers' Auto Supply Co..
Davis, K. E. (automobiles)..
Dry puttermliK co
Emerald Oil Co
Fain, S. E. (book dealers)..
Fltwell Artificial IJmb Co...
Fox Film Corp
Gerhard, J. M. (wholesale
confectionery
Olobe Auto. Sprinkler Co....
Hamilton Paint Co
Heggblade-Powers Co. (fruit
and produce)
Hlkell Mfg. Co. (wholesale
drugs)
Homan Tea and Coffee Co..
Jepson Produce Co
Jones-Opper Co. (atltomoblles)
King Oarage and nepair uo.
Krogh Alfaira Mills
ltsbaw Belting & Supply Oo.
MoCaakey Register Co
McDonald. A. Y., Co. (plumb
ing, heating apparatus) ....
Mcpherson Pssteuriier Co...
Merchants Brokerage Co....
Midland Ribbon A Carbon Co
National Printing Co
National Tubing Oo
Newman A Hodden (broker
merchandise)
N. W. Ready Roofing Co....
Oldsmoblle Sales Co
Ollne Grain Co
Omaha Speedometer Co
Phillips A Bets (automobile
supplies)
Pitman-Moore Co. (hog
serum)
Protecto Mills (waterproof
fabric)
Pyrene Mfg Co
Rlckea, 8. & Son (bottle Job
bers) Rlnehart Tire Repair
Kan Septlic Disinfecting Co.
Schneider Electrical Works.
Shredded Wheat Biscuit Co
Simplex Tire Co
Skinner Macaroni Mfg Co....
Standard Motor Car Co
Merll Waterproof Fabrlo Co.
Tell & Rlnkley (auto garage).
Western Auto Top Co
Western fliemlcal Oo
Western Newspaper Union..
York-Allen I-e Machine Co.
Zipful Schlfferle Co. (mer
chandise brokers)
Capl- No.
tal. Em.
100.000
25.000
40,000
10.000
10.00$
39,000
6.000
18,000
25,000
10.000
$,080
5.800
20.IO)
10,000
5,000
8,000
1,000
10.000
20,000
12.000
30,000
15
13
10
150,000
15,000
1.601)
6S.O0O
lo.nno
is.ono
25,000
."1,000
5,00)
2,000
10.000
4.000
VM
lift)
1..VW
6,000
iriO.OriO
K.nno
25,00
2.000
3 -ci"0
3000
100,000
25,000
$.000
Clothing 1.343,6.4
Cornice and sheet metal works
Csatumos
Crackers snd cake I.6ti.rtu
Crates (banana) 13..V,
Cut glass . -'1.211
Drugs and sundries l3.0i0
Electric machinery, supplies etc. K3.t
K ectrlo light and power 1.449.W)
niectrotyplng and stereotyping. 144 192
Dnvelores 52
Fencing . &2.i7i
nour sna mm proaucis ,.m.i.
Folding machinery 83, wo
FVitindrV DmdlintS 3X!Om
Furnace supplies 15,000
Fire extinguishers ii,i
Fur garments . 8'i.3fto
Gasea - 1-4H 71,7
(las equipment J-:
llranin' sDedaJtles 3.144. 1 50
Hair goods .J'SS
Harness ana saaaies J7''V;
Hats, cape and gloves .
Hotel supplies .
lee (artificial) "3002
f. r.t-.. m P0.M1
Ice mscblnes
In.Mih.tnrs 21W.01H1
Jewelry
bcls (lltlioKraphedl
sd product s
l.lKbtnlug tods
, tlllOI'S
Macaroni and noodles
Machine shop speiislttes
MBit
Mi'tiilllc packinir
Milk (condensed
Mill work, sash snd doors
Monuments snd mausoleums....
Motor cars and parts
Movtiis picture turns
Office and store fixtures
Optlrnl goods
racKtng House products
laints
I'sato 1
I'hoto er.sravlns;
l'lanos (rebuilt)
I'lcture frsmes and mouldings.,
rillows Hnd bedding
rinting
Printing and publishing
Products of rendering works...
I 'I pes (.smoking)
Putty
Rallwsy signals
Heed furniture
Hosd milking machinery
Knuch powder
Rubber stamps and stencils
Huns
Sanitary dusting materials
Snd Irons
Screens
Soup products
SIkiis
Smelling products ....
Serum
Starch
Stock snd poultry foods, etc....
Stoves snd ranges
Structural steel ,
Surgical supplies
Sweeping compound
Syrups snd preserves
Tags and gummed labels
Tanks ......
Tents and awnings ,
Toilet preparations
Trunks and traveling bags
Trucks
Umbrellas .-
Vinegar and pickles
White lead
Whips
Waterproof products
8H.3O0
8i.iV
117.3116
:w
3.2KMk
744,t
r.(k!
So:-,4Tt)
IMI I0
100.001
M.!,:;oo
IM.um
249,000
li.rt't
61,601
Xt.tXV
11M3I..-"
2.0i
4,,C'0
84 Of)
(v!3.9i7
'.M.5 D
31 Mi it)
3.12I.HW
4 I.C"'
26. 00 )
1'i.ro
.8i)0
:l,sui
512.00'
:i.oi
7.121
I .."
6 ooo
14..V
S.sIO.OOj
17
09.1l.:. -)
1K.O0O
2J.40)
lii.Mifl
17oO
sr.sw
IS. 700
, 39.000
. 1.000
. l.iO.O)
. M8.W1
, 3,Sl
. $30,000
. 4S.7iil
7.IM
. 30,000
279. s6
7H3.1KB
J!l.0OO
27.000
Made by Packing Houses as
Result of War Orders.
BIG BUSINESS IN BY-PRODUCTS
Total $213,813,053
20
MILES OF STREETS
TO BEWARED FOR
Superintendtnt Trexel Finds 624
Miles of Thoroughfares to
Look After.
WORK OF HIS DEPARTMENT
City Commissioner Drexel, head of the
department of street cleaning and main
tenance, states be has 404 miles of un
paved streets and alley and 230 miles of
caved street to clean and otherwise
maintain. Ha adds that It U bard for
him to get over 04 miles of Jurisdiction
many times in on week.
His cleaning department has charge of
176 miles of pavement in Omaha, thirty
two miles in tb South Side and 13.6 miles
In Dundee.
Mr. Drexel offer th following resume
of the year' work:
Miles of pavement In Omaha ..
Miles of pavement in South Side
Miles of pavement in Dundee ..
Blocks of snow eleaned
Loads of snow hauled
Loads of cinders hauled
Sauara yards asphalt laid
Square yards asphalt concrete ......
Square yards brick pavement
Square yards stone pavement
Lineal feet culverts
Lineal feet curb reset
Blocks dirt street rounded up
Blocks dirt street graded complete..
Blocks ditch washout filled
Holes filled, caused by rains.
Blocks cleaned (white wings)
Blocks otherwaya cleaned
Ixads of sweepings hauled ...
Blocks flushed
Blocks weeds cut
Square yards concrete laid
Mr. Drexel expects to do must of the
street cleaning this year with flushers.
He made the following statement regard
ing resurfacing old pavements:
"I would like to recommend the prac
ticability of resurfacing of rough and
partly worn out brick block pavement
which has a good foundation, with old
asphaltum, It can be applied with very
good effect on all street that do not
contain street car tracks and could be
done without disturbing the street, and
a practically good and smooth street
made out of an apparently worn out
pavement at a very nominal cost to abut
ting property owners."
. 176
. 83
. 1$
. t.464
.40.320
. 10
.39.879
4.220
3,7
.W1
483
KM
1,860
8M
1.208
.. 633
..68.8ri5
..1&.18
..13.121
..19.774
.. 6.871
.. 3,la0
OMAHA GRAIN MART
OF CENTRAL WEST
Fifty or More Million Bushels of
Cereals Handled Through Grain
Exchange Last Year.
MARKET FOR VAST TERRITORY
An Increase In total nates of approxi
mately $8,600,000 over the year 114, Is)
the record that hss been estsbliahed by
South Side packing houses during the
year 1916. According to statistics com
piled from original sources by Publicity
Mansger K. V. rarrlslj of the Omaha
Commercial club the total vslue of pro
ducts handled by the four big packing
plants, Armour's, Swifts', Cudshy'a and
Motrls'. and the Independents for th
year Just closing will approximate 1121.-.
005.000. The total record for the year 1014
Is 1113,000,000. About $3,600,000 represents
the business done by the independent
packers,
Kxcept for the big gain In receipts and
the enormous smount of stock hsndled
In tbe South side the yesr ha been less
favorable. Fewer men have been em
ployed by the packers. The four big
packing concerns employed $.432 men dur
ing the year in place of T.37S of last year.
Correspondingly but $5,0l.s wr paid
out In wages while the navmll for ttia.
ear 1914 amounted to $5,670,370.
War Order Brta Baosa.
The big gain in receipt la attributed
principally to th vast business resultant
rom tne great war that is new smlns-
In Europe. Th pros pacts would hav been
iruiy orimant had not American sales
been restricted by warring noun tries and
much of the product lost at sea. War
orders In all kind of meat a well a
by-product wsr numerous.
Only In the hog and calf denartmanta
of the live stock killings hss there been
depression. The fall In th boa recoril
is slight while the packers r becoming
opposed to th killing of calve. Th big
gains recorded In the slaughter of sheep,
and rattle are themselves a mark worthy
of notice. As rapidly as th stock yards
market roe as a live stock center ot th
country the packers kept pao and bought
cattle and sheep with alacrity. Th ree
ords follow:
Cattle. Hors.
..HM.009 618,000
...179.374 48.04R
...187. 8 J) 676.10i)
...116.814 341.703
Of the different kinds of train grown
In the central west more than 60,000,000
bushels psssed through th Omaha ele
vators during the last year, all handled
by the Omaha Grain exchange, and owing
to the strong demand the shipments were
praciicauy tne same. During the year
there came to this market 47,097 carloads
of grain, and adopting the grain dealers'
schedule for figuring, thst of 1,200 bushels
per car, this means receipts of 50,618.000
bushels.
In carload lots the receipts by months
were as follows:
Whest. Com. Oats. Rye. Bar. Tot.
January
iKebruary
March ...
April ....
May
June ....
July
August ..
September. 1.1M
October ... 2,W
Novemh . a.fio
Decemb'r . 3.72
1.000
300
4.14
.12
679
604
21
6,716
1.62ft
MO
1.852
1,181
1,41
1.13S
1.444
1,58..
7t5
V
$,2iS
fif.7
87r.
484
415
840
4
27
474
852
87 i
778
8a
K6
37
2.1
20
19
20
16
49
58
184
S2.1
187
2.1
12
43
48
38
33
IX
27
22
23
64
76
7.41
2.H-.J
1.811
2,761
3,45.1
3.207
1.84
3,915
3, SI 3
4.094
4.39
3.124
Totals $1,R,00 41$
Distributing agency or branch houses
established with only nominal local capl
tal Investment.
Additions to estsbllshed Omaha
houses.
rsaaty Court Matters.
The following comparative statement of
business transacted In county court dur
ing three years has been prepared by
Clerk Clyde gundblatt:
1913.
. 440
. 1K1
, 45
. 448
. 249
Testates probated
Ouardlanahlp proceedings
Adoption proceedings
County court cases
Justice cases
1914.
601
179
8A
419
281
1915.
504
If
f3
41
24
Bonded Debt of
Greater Omaha is
Over $18,000,000
The bonded indebtedness of Greater
Omsha to date is $13,000,688, divided as
follows:
Municipal. $8,305,68$.
Wster district, $7,500,000.
School district. $2,295,000.
In connection with the school bonds It
msy be said that included in the total
are $600,000 bonds sold a few months ago.
There are $600,000 mors chol bonds
authorised, but not sold.
South Omsha brought Into ths greater
city $1,018.18$ city bonds and $300,000 school
bonds: Dundee, $241,000 city and $83,000
school bonds.
The next school bonds to become due
will be $230,000 In 1919. for which obliga
tion a sinking fund la maintained.
During 1916 the city added the following
to Its bonded indebtedness, without mak
ing any retirements: paving and Intersec
tion. $100,000; main sewers. $300,000; parks,
$60,000; Auditorium, $150,000.
Interest due on municipal bonds during
ltli will be $303,240.
Tabulated Statement of Building Operations in Omaha by Months for 1915
grain onrre
the fact tb
crep was hi
r lively low. i
MONTH.
January
February
March . .
April . .
May . . .
Jun . . .
July
August.
September.
October. .
November .
December
Nl'MBER
PEKM1TK.
... 45
STORKS. OF- WAREHOrBESk
BRICK
THEATBRS
DWELLINGS. FICE BLJXM. FACTORIES APARTMENTS AND CL.UBA. MISOEIVOCS NEW BLJ)G.
38
84
157
115
114
164
126
130
114
153
110
No.
28
21
63
94
71
61
99
67
70
67
106
71
Cost.
77.000
48,650
130,350
211,550
161,350
138.100
292.000
160.550
187,060
204,700
258.800
168,650
No. Cost. No. OoU Ho. Coat. No.
. $ $ 1 I 10.000 1
2 1JBOO m ) 1
4 80.500 t 106.000 1
5 76,000 3 4,000 3 42,000 .
8 667,150 3 68,000 I 28,000 .
9 341,600 3 7.200 3 45,600 I
7 87.300 3 84.000 1 25,000 .
1 2.200 2 55,000 1 14,000 .
2 39,600 1 4.000 3 44,600 3
6 19.400 1 30.000 4 65,000 1
3 253.000 1 2.200 2
6 34,000 3 318.000 3 66.690 1
Cost.
62,000
10,000
4.000
7,600
'lV,500
15,000
95.000
5,000
No.
3
7
7
28
14
20
17
29
26
12
11
11
Cost.
375
4.950
1.780
46,870
6,120
7.350
18.495
7.560
9.860
4.760
3,575
2.680
No.
33
31
68
131
99
88
131
102
105
90
131
96
Cost.
139,375
76.100
332.530
380,420
867.120
547,250
612.695
331.310
308.910
338,860
641.576
628,730
ADD S AND
REPAIRS.
No.
13
8
16
26
16
26
38
24
26
24
22
14
Cost.
25.700
11,000
10,380
9,000
33,266
47.340
44.185
19,300
60.145
21,376
14,600
16.100
Totsl Cost
of All
Buildings.
t 165.075
87.100
332.860
389,420
889,385
694.590
656,780
350.610
359.055
360,225
656,075
643.830
Total." 1.351 799 $2.02.566 52 1.503.150 191572.400 21 I433TI0O 11 3208.000 185 8112.666 1.105 $5,034.755 ' 346 $290.240 6.385.0TS
Eight frame and four brick school house were built at a cost of $34,800. One hospital was
Five churches were built at a cost of $154,500.
built at a cost of $45,000.
I0iaiS...U,731 20.219 6,493 980 391 4J.0B7
During the yesr 1914 the receipt were
rar in excess of 1315. they being as fol
Receipts,
18.084.SitO
90,3 .7.1)00
17,010.700
687.a
623.800
lows
Wheat
Corn
Oats
Rye
Hsrley
Totals
(aula of
This falling off
J,OUO,000 bushels la
Armour
Swift .,
udahv
Morris
fen. I
6:.000
874.406
470,871
353,633
3.9
8.2UI
ll.M
1.4O0
(I,464,100
PalllasT Off
In receipts of nesrly
due tO tWA esllBAfl.
A year ago last summer when the Kuro-
pran war had gotten well under wav and
prices went far above $1 per bushel for
wheat, farmers rushed their holdings to
maraet. During the last few months and
arter the crop of the year was harvested
prices on not only wheat, but all other
Kinds of grain, remained low. As a re
suit farmers held their grain. Now. how
ever, with wheat far In excess of $1 per
ousnei ana other grains correspondingly
high, there Is a heavy movement, with
the result that indications are thst this
year receipts will te a record
Another cause for the falling off In re
ceipts. It Is asserted. Is due to the fact
that the corn crop of the year Just closed
was slow In maturing, snd Is now just
stsrtlng to market. In the fall of 1914,
corn matured early and by the firat o
the following year much of It had been
sold. It la estimated tnat at this tlms
fully 90 per cent of the l!l."i corn crop Is
In the hands rf the farmers.
As a Primary Market
As a primary market. Omaha attrar-ta
the attention of the central west and Is
constsntly extending its territory. Dur
ing the last year It has gone farther west
Into Wyoming snd Colorado, farther
north Into the Dakotas and has held Its
territory on (he eaat and south. It prac
tically controls the trade as far east as
central Iowa and on ths south, well down
into Missouri and Kansas.
Of tin- wheat handled here during the
last nine months, a large portion of it
has been tsken for export, going through
gulf ports. On account of ths facilities
for getting It to the seaboard, prices hav
been right along with Minneapolis and
quite In line with Chicago. In fact, they
have been so close to those of Chicago
that a great desl of wheat shipped from
far western elevators has stopped off and
been sold here.
During the last year, for grain coming
to Omaha, members of the Omaha Oraln
exchange paid out close to $50,000,000,
money that has gone back to farmers
ot Nebraska and adjoining stalea
Early llil year ths Omaha Oraln ex
change will move Into Its own building,
an eight-story brick and stone, steel con
struction building, costing In excess of
$250,000, and located at Nineteenth and
Harney streets. With the exception of
the lower floor, practically all of the
building will be occupied by grain deal
ers and men. firms and companies that
handle commodities thst go along with
the grain bust
Totsls ...M.0n 10M84T 11709 Zt.ina
Totals, 1914 478.82s 3 153.737 1.T76.J58 sl.SLil
Jl7 By-Prodaota geld.
In the manufacturing and exportation
of special products local packers hav
excelled. At the Cudahy plant, mor than
$3,500,000 worth of by product. Including
soap, glycerin and Old Dutch Cleanser,
have been manufactured. Extract and.
pharmaceutical supplies amounting to a
million and a half. Th Cudahy figure
are complied to November L At th
Armour plant 4.C4 carloads of. supplies
were received while 13.303 cars of pro
ducts were shipped out of the plant
grounds. At tbe Swift and Company
plant 12,640 cars of products were ship-,
ped out.
With the exception of the Armour plan!
but few improvement hav been made
at tbe Omaha plant. At th Morris and
company plant, th company ha spent
approximately $10,000 in general Improve
ments. Th old Omaha packing plant, th
greater part of which was burned sev
eral years ago, was rebuilt and converted
Into a storage house. This venture con
sumed the greater part of th Improve
ment appropriation at that plant.
New Ballalaaje Coateaanlatesl.
At the Armour plant a new three-story
office building Is contemplated. The pre .
ent office building will be converted Into
an addition to the power house. Among
other extensive Improvement that will
cost mor than $100,000 a new loe making
plant, beef coolers, hide storage, sheen
killing and sheep cooler are included.
Every part of th local packing busl
ness presents a brilliant outlook. Pros
perlty betokens every move. Tb people
have become used to th high price thai
resulted In the $8,000,000 gain la packer
receipts a year ago and are settling down
to the new regime. Whether condition
will materially change is a matter of
speculation.
Yaaka After 4 aapsuaa.
Coinlskey Is not the only American
league magnate who would like to secure
Hay Chapman, the star shortstop of tho
Clavelaud club. The New Yorka are after
liliu, too.
Receipts from City
Licenses Show Gain
Of Fifty Per Cent
During last year th city license de
partment waa transferred from an in
dependent office on th fourth floor ol
the city hall to the city clerk' office,
Anton Hoffman was placed In chart
under the new administration. f
From January 1 to December $3. 1918,
the llcenne department collected $H,03t.30
as sgainst $11,904.70 for 1914, and $13,S33.0
for 1913.
In addition to the mlscellsneous license;
the city clerk' office collected th toU
lowing: Bakers' permits. $336; occupation;
texes for Ice, coal and building material
wagons, $404; fees, $61.1$; Junk dealer
permits. $30.
Including miscellaneous license, th r4
celpts of th city clerk's office for th
year (up to December 38) were $20,640.4$.
Included In the total la an amount ol
$3.69$ for dog licenses. During th yea
3,233 dogs were licensed. The dog catch
ers Impounded 1,300 dogs. During th
first seven months of the year S33 dog
were licensed in Bouth Omaha.
A detailed report of th license depart
ment shows tb following license Issued!
Auctioneers TMtlk waguna and
Auiomooiies w stores
Carnival shows.... 6 Refuse wagons
Circuses Pawnbrokers ...
Dance halls lOPeddlers (wagon.
Employment push eart and
asenctea 42 foot) 14
tenclea 42
Exhibitions 13 Pool
Kx press
Fortune tellers..
Gunpowder de
pots House movers....
Ke wasona
Junk dealera ....
Junk peddlers ..
Messenger ex. ...
hall
n,
1
.: Runners
,.4Sale of fish
KftrnnH hn nA s4sb1
,. 3 ers ei
,. 4 Secondhand fur
,143 ntture S
, .Hnnooiinc gallery
. (oTrsei aaiea
. I Theaters
lajlery .
il
MORTGAGE RECORD FOR
YEARJUST CLOSED.
Chattel mortgages, contracts and lease
filed In the offlca of County Clerk Doweyf
in 1916 amounted to $1$.08J.$4.SS. Detail
are show In the following statement pre
pared In the office:
Record mortgage Indebtedness for tS)
yesr 1915:
No. Ajneow
Ftltd in J.a $ii,sMn44
Satisfied ,11 fcT.(.i.ti