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Prosperity ."Sun1
Already Up; Time
to Get to Work
Country Still in Morning
Hours of Bui!nri Revival,
But Industry Gaining
Impetus.
By J. M. CILLAN.
(Maaaetr t f . ot C, lndMtrial Barwa.)
Anyone who hat ever been out in
the open, on the western plaint, (or
instance, in the early morning long
before sunrise, where he could see
the marvelous motion picture that
Mother Nature throws uoon her
matchless screen of ethereal blue, will
remember the wonderful introduction
to the birth of a new day.
You will remember the first faint
and almost imperceptible traces of
white light that crept into the east
ern sky,nd the gradual fading away
of the darkness along the rim of the
eastern horizon. You will remem
ber the great semi-circular glow that
came pushing upward frost behind
the hills and rereading wider and
wider until the whole eastern land
scape became lighted up from the
monstrous but hidden source of light
below the rim of the earth. You will
remember distinctly the first "streak
ing! of the morning light" that shot
up from the great orb of day, and
you probably felt like shouting with
one of Shakespeare's characters,
"Awake, arise, for morn, in russet
mantle clad, now stalks o'er yonder
hill."
Dawn of New Day.
We have been hopefully and eag
, erly watching the dawn of a new in
dustrial and commercial day here in
the middle west. We have listened
to the 1 song of the nightingale
through the long, dreary night of
commercial, industrial, agricultural'
depresnon, but now, thank good
ness, ' it is the lark, and . not . the
nightingale, that fills the air with
song. The new day . of prosperity
has dawned. It is here.
Much time must, yet elapse before
we enter upon the full blaze and
glory of broad daylight, for we are
still in the morning hours of this
business revival, but the sun is up
and it is high time that we get the
chores all done and start for the
fields if we expect to get in a full
day's work.
As proof of the fact that these are
i not idle words, I wish to present the
results of about 50 personal inter
views which I have had during the
last three or four days with promi
nent merchant and manufacturers of
Omaha.
- Our Factories Are Busy.
The big packing houses on the
South Side are all enjoying a steady
and satisfactory kill of hogs, cattle
and sheep, and many of these plants
could use more skilled workmen than
they are now getting. Some of them
could use more good common labor.
This is also true at the American
Smelting and Refining works.
The flouring and cereal mills of
Omaha are running on full time. The
Kirkendall Shoe factory, employing
300 workmen, is running overtime
and at full rapacity.
The wooden and paper bos fac
tories have experienced an increase
in business sad are now running on
about 70 rer cent full capacity.
Our three Urge rubber tire and
tubs factories are running on full
time, and two of them, the Nebraska
and the Overlaid, are running night
and day with three shifts. These
three factories arc now producing
about ,m tires and I.SuO tubes
every 24 hours. The combined pay
roll of these three factories it about
$13,000 per week.
Factories Doing Well
Our big candy factories are doing
well, considering the teasqn. MiJ
summer it usually the lightest buy
ing season of the year for candy.
Our structural strel plants are
running at about 70 per cent ca-
oacitv. with sood prospects ahead.
The printing establishments of
Omaha report a very satisfactory
business. Many of them are work
ing at full capacity ajid the prospects
ahead are encouraging. The Bemis
Omaha bag factory is running on
about 70 per cent capacity, with good
business ahead. Most of the chemi
cal and serum factories are running
ttrong.
.The big bakerirt and biscuit com
panies are in the main running full
capacity, with increasing 'demands
troin tne surrounding country, stroua
& Co., manufacturers of farm and
road machinery, report an increasing
business, and the farm implement
houses find that while the orders from
the country are small, they are ex
tremely numerous and in many in
stances much better than had been
anticipated.
Steady Improvement.
Retail trade in most lines does not
show any phenomenal improvement,
but it is steady, and while the volume
of cash does not mount up as it did
two or three years ago, because prices
are lower, the volume of merchandise
handled is very satisfactory. The re
tail hardware business in Omaha is
exceptionally good at the . present
time, owing to the large number of
homes that are being built.
Practically all skilled mechanics
in the city are busy and common la
borers, with the exception of those
following railroad building, have but
little difficulty in finding employment.
If the crops now growing mature
under faorablev weather, conditions
and fair prices prevail for agricul
tural products and live stock, the
coming fall and winter will bring
prosperity to Omaha and all the vast
agricultural region round about.
Existence of "New" Islands
Known Over Century Ago
Washington, July 1. The existence
of the islands in the Pacific reported
to have been discovered by an Amer
ican pleasure craft recently, and
which are said by the navy hydro
graphic office to be Washington and
Palmyra islands, was known more
than a century ago according to the
National Geographic society head
quarters here.
Palmyra island, which has no in
habitants, was discovered 120 years
ago by the American ship Palmyra,
while Washington island, where
slightly more than 100 persons reside,
was found in 1798, the society asserts.
seek the man it may find his wife.
JJetroit Journal.
Everybody This
Year 'Going Away'
on His Vacation
This Fact Taken at Unmis-
takaMe Sign That Financial
and Business, Depres
sion Over.
Everybody is "going away" on hit
vacation this year.
And this fact is taken into con
sideration at just another on of
those unmistakable signs of the timet
that the financial an dbutinest depres
sion of post war days is all over and
that the much-looked for era oi
prosperity has returned.
The "light summer fiction" has
given way to gayly covered and pro
fusely illustrated "Where to Vaca
tion' booklets and these pamphlet!
are being pored over nightly by "tht
great American household" in antici
pation of a glorious trip away from
the scene of daily tasks and hard
labor to the land of sunshine, fresh
air, fishing, riding, hunting, bathing,
canoeing, dancing and carefree relax
ation. Annual Migration.
Passenger agents of all the big
railroad systems which have termi
nals in Omaha, of all the eastern,
northern, southern and western rail
roads which have offices in Omaha,
will testify to the preparations of
Omahans and Ncbraskans for the an
nual migrations to "the different
places."
Colorado calls to many the lure
of the mountains, the seductiveness
of Colorado Springs, the Garden of
the Gods, Manitou, Pike's Peak, the
warm, sunshiny days and the cool,
refreshing nights.
Minnesota and the northland
beckon to others Minnesota, the
"land of the 10,000 lakes," where fish
ing is the chief lure, where canoeing
and dancing offer diversion from the
every-day life.
All Hold Charm.
Lake Okoboji, Spirit Lake, Clear
Lake, Blue Lake all hold charm for
another group of travelers, while the
Black Hills of the Dakotas, in which
nestles Hot Springs and other re
sorts, hold certain attractions.
Many are planning on taking the
long trip to California, the land of
the setting sun, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, San Diego, Santa Barbara
and next door neighbor to Tiajuana
and southern California.
Up in the northwest, Mount Ra
nier rears his white head, norlding
in estatic content toward Lake
Washington and delights of Seattle
and Portland.
Lure of South.
To the east, Atlantic City and
Montreal are points toward which
numerous vacationers cast longing
glances, while toward the south lie
the Ozarks, the home of John Nei
hardt, the poet laureate of Nebraska,
and Rose O'Neill, mother of the
kewpies. There lies the White River
country, the springs, the mountain
fastnesses, not so high nor strenu
ous as the Rockies, but with the same
lure lor those who love the great
outdoor.
Travel hat increased overwhelm
ingly according to these Omaha
PAftirngrr agents, who rejoice at the
return of prosperity along with man
ufacturers, retailers and workers.
Capacity Taxed.
Already the vacation exodus has
placed a strain on the giant railroad
systems, they tay, for reservations
for Pullman accommodations have
revealed need for more Tullman
can, not enough rolling ttork of this
nature being available to handle the
great throng of travelers who arc
hitting the trail.
But every effort is being made by
these captains of transportation to
secure the necessary equipment ana
their roads are bidding lor earnest
deliveries of Pullman cars, observa
tion coachrt, to insure Omahans and
Nebrsikans of the greatett comfort
as they "go away' on their vacations
Nebraska Rich
in Limestone
Deposits Will Be Used as
Fertilizer, Declare Own
ers of Tracts.
Nebraska is rich in deposits of
Bethany limestone.
The natural lime of the soil of
the earth is being gradually leached
out as the world grows older and
the ton gurfaee is washed away.
Progressive farmers, seeing this
condition, are counteracting it by
beginning to use ground limestone
in large quantities as a substitute.
Nebraska limestone will be used
some day to replenish Nebraska soil
in the way of fertilizer, say owners
of the larger deposits of the precious
mineral.
"Give the Nebraska farmer good
roads, built with honest material,
high prices for hogs and ground
limestone to replenish the soil and
he will grow the meal ticket of the
world, someone has said.
In protesting that limestone has
not had a chance in Douglas
county's bifir 1922 program of pav'
inar. leaders in the industry declare
that until Nebraska limestone deal
ers ect toecther and force recogni
tion, the present sand and gravel
interests will have it all their own
wav.
Nebraska Bethany limestone has
demonstrated by the crushing
strength ,and French company em
ciency test its permanence in high
way and municipal paving, accord
ine to one of the industry leaders,
and is more permanet than the fine
gravel now being used in Douglas
county, in the opinion pi contrac
tors.
Blue Sorine. Weeoin Water and
Louisville are the three centers of
limestone production on a commer
cial scale.
Nebraska's largest limestone pro'
ducers are said to be the Updike
and Myers quarries at Weeping
Water, the Murphy company and
the National Stone company at
Louisville, and G. H. Davis at Blue
Springs.
The test will come when the police
try to tune the radio with parts tin
known. Detroit News.
How Good Paving Improves a Location
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This paring was laid in 38 days by the American Paving corporation. It cost 125,000 less than it would have coat a year ago. ft ia
brick block, which the contractor explains means permanent paving in every respect It is pointed out that brick laid on Dodge street west of th
farm 26 Tears ago is stiU standing up. The vitrified brick made now days ia a much superior product to the brick made a quarter of a century ago
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