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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1907)
3 TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK Omit a Capitalist Mieht Fnrsnder Eoora by Asking Lower Interest Homes That Are Making he West End a Beautiful Residence Section DISCRIMINATION IS T11ERR Plenty of Gam it Grain R.ts for Ltcialatit Ecnteis. GETS OMAHA SHORT END OF DEALS NLBKASKA f AKM LANU IS ATTRACTIVE Mom llfffnl Peals Indicate Willi? ness of OatiHrn to IitmI la This State at Goal Roaad Flaares. St. Joe A tirand Island Helps Kansas Illy ana Oinnha Itoad linos ts Minneapolis Aanlnat This City. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JAOTAKT 13, 190; 'If local capitalists would loosen tip on tl.elr money an4 bo content to m&l.e f per cnit net on It. I bellove there would be iujC activity this year tban Ut la tho erection of warehouses, at lcawt as much. ' said a J'il)bnr t!i other day. "Not only do I be liove many of the Jobbers now here would erect new homes, but other Jobbing house would rnme If they oould net t, laces to do business. There would undoubtedly an other shoe house, another drug house and Another dry goods company here before Ions. "On difficulty In the way of building Is that the men with the money want too fci an interest on their money, fix o 7 per cent net to the builder, which mean. I or I to the Jobber, when taxes and othei fixed expense are taXen Into consideration 1 too much to contract for on a lonjr tlm lease. It la not so bad lust now. but I' tnlfht be exorbitant under condition, f a few years from now. The owners use. to be content with a lesee contract whlc. allowed them 6 per cent on their money Mrs. Nash rets 6 per cent net on the ware houses she Is erectlns; for M. Fi. Smith & Co.. and I am told she would not aaree to put up another building without a larger profit. They went about 7 per cent net now This Is due to the universal demand for money. There is not enough money In the country for all the business that needs It." Nebraska farm lend continues to advance and Douglas county dirt Is right at the top. Joseph Connor, retired elevator man, sold his 400-acre farm six and one-half miles west of town Inst week for 86O.000, or 1125 an acre, and now he Is complaining that he might have had more. Many residents of the city remember the time when that land wii sold at 13 an acre. It la significant that the purchase was made by a capitalist of another state. lie recognised the value of farm property near Omaha and decided to get hold of a good farm before It went even higher than $12. Of course the farm Is well Improved, or It would riot have brought such a good price. A hotel for colored people Is to be estab lished In a four-story building on Nine teenth street between Nicholas and Paul streets, which has just changed handa nr. J. II. Hutton has acquired the prop erty, consisting of two lots and the build ing, from 8. A. Megeath end Harry Maro wlts, and will use It for hotel purposes. The property brought Ifl.OOO. In 1T1 It was sold under mortgage foreclosure for $8,000. The building alone cost $18,000 eighteen years ago, but the financial depression of the '90s made it a losing Investment for the builder. February 1 will see the beginning of the demolition of the buildings on the east Side of Sixteenth street between Capitol avenue and Davenport street, where Her man Cohn will erect a building the whole length of the block as soon as. the site Is cleared. All leases will expire on or bo fore February 1. The buildings are all mall, some of them frame structures, and they can be removed quickly. Specifica tions, which call for the removal of all wreckage by March 1, have been Issued to contractors. Construction on the new building will be started immediately after March 1. Van A. Wirt has bought from F. D. Wead a house and lot at 4158 Cass street. F. W. Chapman has bought from Z. Q. Hood two acres Just south of the Country club and will erect a house on the land. The Waterloo Creamery company ex pects to close a deal In a few days for the erection of a new creamery building on , Jackson street Just west of Sixteenth. The building planned Is one story In height, is Wtxi32 feet, and will cost something over $IO,noO. The creamery company proposes to lease the building for twenty years. William McCune, western representative of the Buffalo Dill show, has made several purchases of Omaha property as Invest- Results Speak Louder Than Words CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY CO. NORFOLK, Neb., Deo. 10, 180C. Mr. William Henry Brown, Cashier, The Equitable Life Assurance Society ot the U. 8 Omaha. Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of our Trnlued fa for of the 7th Inst, inclosing check for $308.52, the same being the amount set aside as surplus to the credit of my 10-year seml-tontine policy No. 836,460, for f 1,000, on which the 20-year period expired on November J 7th. I am satisfied that this settlement Is Just and liberal, considering that I have had the protection for 20 years, and have my original policy In force at no Increase In premiums, and, besides, I will receive annually, after the current year, the dividends which may accrue to my policy. I hare always bad the greatest confidence In the strength and reliability ot the Equitable Life Assurance BocHety, and never have once lost faith in It, I am only sorry that I was unable to take a f 5,000 policy when your agent called on me 20 years ago. Tours truly, n. C. MATRAU. Agent C. N. W. Ry. L D. IIEELY, Mgr. for Nebraska 402-3-4-5 Merchants Nat l Bisk Bldg., Omihi WM. HENRY BROWN, Cashier. Cio. M. Cooper and H. Fay Keely, General A gouts, Omaha. H. H. Loughridge and Joe Klein. General Agents, Lincoln, Neb . - -VVrVv i. - -i--. i . x- it TT03IE OF DR. P. rnenta. Through the agency of the Byron Reed Company he has bought two large houses, which he will, bold as Income bear ers and also as investments. One Is at Thirty-seventh and Jackson streets and another Is in the Hanscom park district. Mr. McCune spends his winters In Omaha, stopping at the Merchants hotel, and says lie sees no city In all his travels which .ooka better for an Investment than Omaha. Among the realty men of the city there is much argument pro and con regarding the opening of Twenty-fuurth street. Some think the street ought to be opened past Crelghton university to Cuming street, with the ultimate Idea of a street car line from Cuming to Leavenworth street down Twenty-fourth. Many declare that such a line would draw a certain amount of retail business, to the detriment of the downtown district and at the sams time would spoil Twenty-fourth street as a resi dence street. The Young Women's Christian associa tion is to make a final effort In the next two weeks to raise the $12.o6o or $15,000 necessary to complete the building fund. Contracts for the erection of the new home will not be let until this amount la se cured, say the women, but as soon as it is raised the specifications will be given to contractors that bids may be secured and contracts awarded in time for build ing operations early in the spring. Roma Miller la having some work done on the Rome hotel not called for In the original contract. It is the addition on a part of the building of another story, which will be used for servants' quar ters. The new structure is about ready for the roof. It has been connected with the Brunswick block section of the old Her Grand, and the front of the Bruns wick has been boarded up In preparation for a remodeling, which will include an entrance and large lobby. The Omaha Real Estate exchange; has put itself on record as demanding of the legislature provision for an Increase In the appropriation for Omaha parka and boulevards, provision for an Increase In the appropriation for streets and paving and a change In the landlord and tenant law, which will make It possible for the landlord to get the tenant eut of a build ing, a thing which seems impossible under existing circumstances. The realty man want a law by which an owner can have a tenant ejected at any time by a quick process of law, the tenant to be protected In his lights by a bond furnished by the landlord, the bond to be forfeited In case of unjust dispossession. The right of Hen on the property of the tenant to compel payment of rent Is not asked, as a clause with auch a provision In the proposed bill might cause the defeat of the whole meas ure. Another wholesale building In prospect, according to C. F. Wellcr, is one propoped by the Richardson Drug company, which r" ; -. - 0:'y " ' " . - : - -. . - -.w.-. --r- ' 1. .T-Y ' liniirM Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. PAUL MORTON, Pr)ald)nL "STRONGEST IH THE WORLD" i J 1 - I:'- T. BAHT5ETI, II DAVrTNTORT STrVnTTT for sixteen years has been doing business In a five-story building at Ninth and Jack son streets, and which has so far outgrown that structure that it Is now compelled to use storage room In another part of the wholesale district. The site has not been announced, and Indeed the negotiations for Its purchase have not been completed. The building proposed la seven stories In height. G6 feet In width and 132 feet In length, and will cost between JW.OOO and $1U0,0 0 to build. The company's lease on Us present quarters-will expire early In 19"8 and Presi dent Weller wants to have the new build ing completed by that time. The buil.IIng now occupied by the ooncern belongs to John H. Green. W. J. Hynes has bougth from Ebenezer I Brownlee a long two-story store and flat building at Sixteenth and Corby streets. Mr. Hynes paid $33,000, trading in some property at Hastings, Neb., where he formerly lived. The lot is SO by 158 feet and Is entirely covered by the building, which contains six stores and six Hats. Mr. Brownlee paid f.'o.OOO for the property about three years ago. CUT IN COUNTY EXPENSES Thirty-Fire Thousand Dollars Iopped Off Running; Costs for tho Year. A cut of $35,000 in the estimate of the running expenses of the county for the coming year Is provided for In a resolution 'y Chairman Ure of the finance commit tee, which will be acted on at a meeting of the county board thla afternoon. The estimate which it is believed will b; adopted by the board provides for an ex penditure of $498,000. Last year the esti mate was $530,000 and the year before that $628,000. This will make a reduction of $130,000 in the estimates for the running expenses of the county in the last two years. The reduction under the estimates of last year comes in the road, bridges and bond sinking funds.' In the first two funds the cut Is $10,000 in the third $15,000. A comparison of the estimate In the resolution with the estimates of previous years Is made in the following table: Funds. General Road Bridge Bond sinking ., Soldiers' relief 1907. $2W,0O0 7B.(iO 75.0(10 45.0) 10,000 19", $390,000 K).0K) R6.0iX 80,f0 10.000 190B. $30.lifln HO.OlXt loo.oon 10,000 Totals $496,000 $530,000 $ti,000 The county commissioners are much gratified at the prospect of being able to make such a substantial cut in the esti mate and at the same time can see their way clear to keep the county on a cash baala as nearly as the provisions of the statute will permit. The commissioners met Saturday morn ing In committee of the whole and were In session until after 12 o'clock. An adjourn ment was taken until 3 o'clock. Overdue Dark HlKhted. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 12.-The bark Big Bonanza, which was cast adrift by the tug Samson during a storm on January 5, while being towed to Portland, and had not since been aeen, la now a few miles off the Golden Gate and will soon enter this port Building Record Building for 1906 shows an Increase of 1 per cent over 1906. Thet small percentage of gain Is due to the hoavy decrease In building In New York City. Were Manhat- tan and the Bronx not taken Into oonsld - - eratlon the Increase would have been 8 per cent. Official reports to the Construction News from thirty-nine leading cities show that permits were taken out for the con struction of 139.457 buildings, involving a total cost of $556,873,721, against 132.418 build ings aggregating In cost $4, 38,390 for 16, an Increase ot 7,039 buildings and $3,486,331, or 1 per rent. This Is unquestionably the high record for building operations In this country. The Increase In 1906 over 1904 was 40 per cent. In twenty-seven cities It will be seen there were Increases for the year ranging as high as 78 per cent, while In ten there were losses. It Is significant that In New York City there was a decrease of 18 per cent, while the other principal cities show gain The decrease Is due undoubtedly to Batldlaar Reeord for Twelve No. Cost No. Cost- Pe-Cent CITY Bldgs. 1SU8. Bldgs. 1j6. Culn. Loss. New York, Manhattan and Bronx 8,610 $133.106,0 4.676 $163,1S0,971 .. 18 New York. Brooklyn... 11.7M 71.4&.U6 U'.l'.7 7v.4:tO 1 Chicago lv.447 4M,L'.330 8.3J7 ti3.4."C.l.'U 1 Phlladephla 17.3b3 40,711.510 16.9-8 34.822.135 16 St. Louis .0i a-.SH.'.!'3 8.234 2! Los Angeles 9.0T2 18.U.H.&J0 .6i3 15. 'c7 18 Pittsburg 8.688 16.kJe.8fi3 S.Hnl 16.uC7.6Jl 6 Detroit 4.707 18.22.350 4.UJ1 l.4;2,Mi) 27 Cleveland 7.616 13.124,778 $.4t i.72.too 35 Washington 6.1v4 1$,43U.10 4.651 H.fi).4Cj .. 14 Kaneis tity 1.61 lu.7oo.4nd 4.147 lu.H17.ui4 .. 1 Milwaukee 3.WJ k.TlS.lM 4.1r; tarni.!; Minneapolis 4.So6 t.to6,350 4.825 6.26 t Buffalo W6 8,6iS7.0 2.S76 7.4vl,iui 17 Newark 2.6s 10, 428.468 2.4K2 ln.277.711 1 St. Paul $.799 T.0i7.6il VM i 1X7, MO 13 Denver 3, 4i.fi 7.u.'!,i 2,443 8.374.037 V Cincinnati 8,468 ..7.76 S.4c 9.7"!.3!) 37 Rochester 1.718 ,v4.844 1 567 6.671.124 t Indianapolis 1.33 6.M6.Ki8 2,if 7.1U.M8 .. 20 New Orleans 6.5.7i9 e.Oxsi.sM 9 Louisville t?7 6.1'.'X1 t.JM 4 ol.!2 13 Atlanta 1,721 6.044, 61 $.417 8, ST. 959 67 Toledo 1.2i8 6 V Kt.8 S!0 8 844.0'Z 60 Omaha 1.1K3 4.273.066 'vi 4.37, 44 $ Pallas l.H 8.1C1.174 1,527 2,(06.613 12 Wort-eater K 8.167..4 672 2.441. irjt Ft Taroma 1,1V-' S.04l.776 I, l,tfiwj M Duluth m I.761.I2S 729 l,in.:66 C6 Bait Lake City 617 2.2V6.7J1 6.9 1.491,810 68 Grand Rapids 1.249 M81.2u6 1.4M t.l46.24 1 Allegheny 61 t.0t.3.7o8 74 2.2Ji.; .. f Seattle 1,t 11,0),418 7,17 6 74 7M 7 Unculn U 1 3216 263 I.iy M la Mobile M 1.121,41 3x6 1. lis 771 .. $ Davenport 153 717.17 2M ,2.54 Topeka. Kan 647 814 64 922 41 ., 11 Pueblo, Colo 2iS 2.lt4 218 4"1.' .. 28 Spokane 1,813 $,8ul.h69 l.J l.9 Total .....039,4u; $6g6,8M,T2i 132,418 X4,38,i 1 ...'V : - nOMB NEW ERA OF CANAL BUILDING .'rojtoti Under Oons.deratitn that Would Cost a tillion of Dollars. SOME REAL ENIthfrtlSES UNDER WAY Waterways to Carry Ure to Pittsburg,, Connect Great Lakes with Unit and Ocean and to Irrl ate Arid West. Another canal building era haa come to the United States and Canada. The Panama canal and the improvement of the Erie canal are two enterprlxes that mark it, and other notable projects are contemplated or under way. The first canal era waa after the Revo lutionary war. It lasted until the railroads came. They practically killed the canals. The great railroad systems are now nearly all built and a new development of the transportation problem Is under way of such a magnitude that few persons ex cept engineers realize what Is going on. The reason that new cana) projects have sprung up Is that it Is asserted that it costs only one-fourth, as a rule, to carry freight In bulk by inland water transpor tation of what it costs by rail. Railroads are better adapted to carrying freight in small parcels, so to speak, than In great bulk, say the advocates of canals. A l,(HA-ton barge. It Is declared, will carry as much freight as a train of 100 cars, and there Is little fuel to be burned to add to I the cost. The belief has arisen In the minds of some capitalists and engineers that the canals, by moving freight of great bulk, will cheapen the cost of manufacture and thus Increase the output of what the railroads can handle profitably in smaller bulk. Ore Carriers Interested. A demonstration of this has come with the carrying of iron ore to the mills In Pittsburg. It costs more to haul the ore by rail from Ashtabula, O., to Pittsburg, less than ISO miles, than It does to carry the same ore nearly VQ0 mllea from the Lake Superior mines to Ashtabula. And curiously enough the greatest canal projects now contemplated, but not yet under way, center about Pittsburg. There are two schemes to connect the Ohio river and Lake Erie, and another scheme to con nect rittsburg with Chesapeake bay. If they go through Pittsburg's place as a manufacturing center will remain abso lutely secure, the engineers says, and the city will be developed as rapidly as New York was through the building of the Erie canal. But aside from the navigable canals pro posed, S large number of which will prob ably be dug In turn and the cost of which will amount to hundreds of millions of dol lars, there Is a great scheme of canal build ing right In the United States that persons In the east know almost nothing of. It Is the great scheme of federal Irrigation In the west by which more than 3,000,000 acres of land will be added to our cultivable domain and which will cost from $200,000,000 to $.100,000,000. Already the expenditure of more than for 1906 Shows the tightening of the money market in the east and the difficulty in securing building loans In wide contrast with the conditions which prevail elsewhere. The increases In the other large oltles were only moderate, but some of the interior cities at remote points show remarkable gains. The Paclflo coast cities show remarkable activity. Chi cago and Brooklyn each gained 1 par cent, while Philadelphia's Increase was 16 per cent. Other gains were Seattle, 70; Duluth, 6u; Taroraa, 60; Atlanta, 67; Salt Lake City, 63; Toledo, CO; Cleveland, S5; Worcester, 23; St. Louis and Detroit, each 27; Los Angeles, 18; Buffalo, 17; Lincoln, 15; St. Paul, 18; Louisville, 12; Dallas, 12; Denver, 13; New Orleans, t. Decreases are to be noted In Clnclnnutl, 57 per cent; Pueblo, 18; Indian apolis, 20; Davenport, 6; Washington, 14; Toptka, 11. As a result of the open winter building continues active in all sections nnd people Baildlnsj Months, 11)8. Hi' iJ- I " , r r.' HI if j. : Iffi M : . iL'"ny-;-- V'f; ldt"-OTewa-"-'-" ' - ."--',"r .,: . , , ,..;;,-T.. . ., '-r-Kr T ---t"" ' ""ZZ"", -i-r,"-rL".v'"-' -:-:."TJt. . .. . -; OF KAHXi ElPLTTraEB, FOKTT-TlllitD $40,000,000 has been authorised for these canals and It will surprise most folks to know that work has been begun on no less than twenty-two separate projects and that already more than 1,300 miles of these canals have been constructed. Canal Across Cape Cod. No one needs to be informed of the mag nitude of the Panama and Erie canal proj ect a. The latest enterprise of this kind to be taken up is the construction of a ship canal twelve miles long across Cape Cod at a cost of about $10,000,000. It will save many miles in the water trip from New York to Boston and It la thought will reduce the Massachusetts coast ship wrecks to a minimum. August Belmont ft Co. have undertaken the work and It Is announced that operations will begin within a year. It will require only three years to finish It after It has been begun. This canal across Cape Cod is only one of a chain of c.inals that are projected along the Atlantic coast for an inland pas sage for small craft. The plan Is to make the Delaware & Rarltan canal across New Jersey navigable, for torpedo boats, and to treat the Delaware & Chesapeake canal In the same way. Vessels would then pass down the Chesa peake bay to Norfolk, where they would enter the Dismal Swamp canal by enlarging the famous Jericho canal. Passing through the North Carolina sounds and around Hattcras the Inland passage would soon strike the North Florida coast A canal across Florida would not be a difficult engineering feat, and thus the United States would secure a passage for small craft from New England to the Oult of Mexico. It would be Invaluable for small naval vessels in time of war. With the construction of the Cape Cod canal the eatabliahment of an Inland waterway becomes feasible and would not he excessive in coat. The distance across New Jersey Is only about forty miles and the distance from the Delaware to the Chesapeake Is less than twenty. The Dismal Swamp canal would be un der fifty miles. The rest Is a mere mat ter of dredging. If the Cape Cod canal Is dug, engineers say It Is only a ques tion of time before the full Inland passage scheme will be adopted by the federal government for the sake of self-protection If for no other reason. Canada's Tidewater Scheme. Aside from , the Cape Cod project the most costly tidewater enterprise In con templation is that of building the Geor gian Bay and Tidewater Ship canal from Lake Huron across the peninsula to the Ottawa river and down that to the St. Lawrence river, Canada has always fought railroads with canals. In that way It has made the St. Lawrence a mighty tributary to its prosperity. This new scheme is to allow boats from the Great Lakes to avoid Lakes Erie and Ontario In their passage to the. sea and thus divert largely the grain trade of the northwest from the United States. The scheme will cost more than $100,000,000 and Us details are under consideration by the Canadian government. The other great canals now In use In this country are the two at Bault Ste. Marie, the St. Clair canal and the Wel land canal, all of which furnish an outlet from Luke Superior to the St. Lawrence. Small Increase who are familiar with the situation In the leading cities predict tnut the results for 1907 will be equally satisfactory. Food for reflection Is found In the table of building operations for December as pre sented below. There are two features espe cially worthy of consideration. It show very clearly the effect of the mild weather and also Indicates pretty definitely the re markable growth of smaller cities of the country While there was a decrease of 18 per cent compared with tho correspond ing month a -year ago, 1 there were some phenomenal gains. The notable Increase in building In Dav enport Is due to the granting of a permit for a new hotsl to cost. $250,0f0. Seattle's big Increase Is accounted for by a permit for a five-story Jail and hospital to cost $32o,000. The figures In detail for the year and for the months as given by the Con struction News are: Record for December, lOOO. No. Cost No. Cost Per Cent CITY bldgs. 19U6. Bldgs. 19U6. Gain. Loss. New York, Manhattan and Bronx 183 $3,406,000 810 $10,271,601) .. 66 New York, Brooklyn... 734 3jj,Ki4 863 6,176. 61 .. 87 t'l.k-ago 608 3.K4.660 448 6.7U0.15O .. 43 fc't. Louis 898 2.163.106 4H9 1.212,029 78 Phlladephla 881 $.026,046 706 l,0b6.440 90 New UrleM.ua l.t&o.trtO ... 1.W4.676 23 Ditrolt 296 1,8H2,7&0 248 1,102,600 S Kansas City 3UT 1,260.776 260 7C1.863 64 I.cjs AngeieJ 6ol 9&V.445 787 1.294.371 - 26 Milwaukee 1) 776.961 178 4V.4.729 67 Washington M . 606,611 296 6,9ti7 .. 1 Ck-veiaud 4"S 6MI.U94 333 ', 666.230 Rochester 98 671, 6-0 100 7SU.713 .. 23 Denver 115 i.S.uJa 13 4J7.0 it Minneapolis ISO 42,710 191 A'CmA 18 Bt. Paul 17 469,846 147 21..91 76 l'.ttsburg 175 4o0.7j8 207 629.937 .. 16 Des .Moines 86 43.6oO 16 ld.luO 171 Huflalo 181 451,000 171 376.020 19 Portland 246 874.4.8 123 821,076 16 Newark 139 J72.0u6 178 720. e&j 48 Atlanta lul 839,219 216 115.761 It) Davenport I 260.160 6 Si. 4-0 678 Toledo 26S.CM) ... 266 J .. . t Omaha 62 219.675 82 829.200 .. S3 Grand Itaplds 64 144.270 87' Iff C6J 22 'Jacoma U4 131'o 81 99.327 81 Allegheny 48 114. i6 31 lul.6u0 13 San Antonio 186 9o.u6u 130 66.270 36 t'UiuUi 43 79.MJ t 46.728 41 l.ll.c .In 28 33,710 26 60.700 .. 33 Louliiville m r UH W Vo l' 175 Cincinnati 2X1 $60,821 324 6-94 68 Dallas 144 191.7m) $ 1K.OI5 74 Worcester 41 69.407 34 1686 .. 65 Bait Lake City 20 48 6.J0 4 6,3jO .. 49 Mobile 28 84 4ot 28 26.810 87 Pueblo, Colo 17 18,7o0 11 13.CM) 42 Spokane 81 127. nM) 83 143 7.6 .. 11 lndiuiiupolts SuO EiC.liJ ir9 67;i.347 ' ., 63 Keattle , 634 t,8Hk.4 610 .4 0 Toptka, Kan 41 63,268 80 27. 600 93 Total .....jl,$3 631,163,719" ;3"jT $37,9U,1 7. V AXO DODCDB 0TBXSml The Georgian bay enterprise wlU shorten that distance by several hundred mllea. Another schema along the sams lines is to build a canal from Georgian bay to Lake Ontario near Toronto. This la a shorter project, but It will probably not be undertaken If the Ottawa river soheme 4s adopted, although It may come later If that canal should prove profitable and there Is room for both. Washington a Canal Booater. Nearly all the other canal projects which are under oonslderatluM in this country have to do with tho Mississippi valley re gion. Washington first originated this scheme. lie wanted to run a canal from the Chesapeake across to Pittsburg and then dig another to Ashtabula. The idea was given up because of the great cost, lie aim wanted to connect the Mississippi with the Great Lakes, a feat which has been accomplished and which Is to be developed probably at great cost. Chicago has already built a great canal of more, than forty miles to discharge the city's sewage into the Mississippi. It Is planned to extend it to St. Louis. Meantime a canal has been constructed seven feet In depth from Hennepin, 111., to the Rock river, running along that stream to the Mississippi at Rock island. It Is the most pretentious bit of canal building that this country has seen In recent years. It solves the problem of navigation from the lakes to the Mississippi. The other plans to connect the lakes with the Mississippi region alV center about Pittsburg. The first Is to build the canal from Ashtabula, a distance of 13) ml!es. Its cost will run well up to $100,000,000. but It Is urged that It will so reduce the co.-t of manufacture of Bteel products in ntts burg a to give new life to the already prosperous Industries there. The second project Is to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio by a canal 348 miles long from Toledo to Cincinnati. That will not benefit Pittsburg as much as the Ash tabula canal, but It will form another link In opening the Great Lakes to navigation to the gulf, and, it Is argued, the entire region will be benefited. In the Mississippi Baaln. All the great navigable streams tributary to the Mississippi are being improved by deepening -the channels, which really amounts to the promotion of canal naviga tion, and when the general srfteme of Im proving these highways of commerce Is finished it Is estimated that more than 4,000 mllea of Inland water transportation for freight in bulk will be added to the coun try's facilities. Another canal In contemplation Is a little one across the end of Michigan's peninsula In Lake Superior, and still another that has been suggested is acrnps eastern Massa chusetts from Narragunsett bay to Boston. The latter, however, Is likely to remain in abeyance until the Cape Cod experiment Is worked out. Altogether, counting In the Panama canal and the Erie canal Improvements, there Is In contemplation an expenditure of nearly a billion dollars In' the proposed canal Improvements In this country and Canada. Rosiest Canals In the World. The busiest canals In the world are thoe which now permit the passage of ships to and from the great lakes. With the open ing of the Panama canal It Is regarded as certain that a demand will be made for ship transportation .from the lakes to tho gulf, through either of the two projects of canals through Ohio and the Improvement of the canal already In existence serosa Illinois. The Cape Cod enterprise Is likely to be the first of this development of Inland and tidewater canals, and the canal from Ash tabula to Pittsburg is likely to be the next. Already there Is a canal along the Potomac up to Cumberland, Md.. and It Is declared to be feasible to cross the watershed to Pittsburg. With two canals direct from Iike Erie to Pittsburg and the present open water to the gulf by way of the Ohio river, and with a ship canal to the Atlantic, It Is de- l irrd Pittsburg would become an lnhind pirt with such advantages as are possessed at present or In prospect by no city In the world. Irrigation. Projeets In West. The Irrigation scheme In the west derives its revenues for construction from the sile of public lands.' There Is scarcely a state in the far west that Is not to have one of these great canals. The water of freshets Is to be Impounded and enormous dams, some of which, in canors, will be more than 300 feet high, will be constructed. Major J. W. Powell, for many years director of the geolrgleal sur rey, was the first advocate of the great Irrigation schemes. It was his dream, and nearly two years ago his dream was first reiillzed. when the waters of the Truckee river In Nevada were turned Into the Carson river and Im pounded to supply Irrigation for more than 54,000 acres of land that was praeMcally useless hitherto because of arid cnnd tlor.s. Work Is going on so fast In the twenty two projects under way that It Is hard t keep up with its results. In CVlornilo more than five miles of tunnels have been made In the mountains near Ounnlwn for exeat water channels. Roads, bridges and side brandies are being made In connection w!th the various main ditches on which dredges sre at work, and already an army of men Is employed In the broadf-st erheme ever known to enrich and reclaim arable lands by the use of water. The Chinese built their great canal frurn Peking to Hangkow In the seventh century. Prance haa the largest development f ci lia! building of any country In the wrrld, the -total lentfth of Its Inland watt r'ays bring 7,4f$ milts as against 6 214 fir Ger many, $.S7 for the Vnltod Kingdom and 1,242 for Belgium. Collections by Treasurer. County and City Treasurer Fink re- rorts that during 1W his office received 19.213.78 Interest from banks on dally de' roslts. The county received the sum of 17j.C0 In surplus fees, such as collection of taavs for city anJ state. "There seems to bo a feeling that th-i Nebraska legislature now In cession wll lo.-k Into the grain rate situation in th stale very carefully," suld a local gr.iln man. It that Is dtnc. the li-Kislators wil Mud, among other tilings. Hint one Ni bracka railroad, tho Bt, Joseph & Grami Island, Is charging 14 cents on corn and oats for a haul of lfiU mllea within this state while hauling to Kansas City, 8." mllc from the same point of origin, for 15 cents that another Nebraska road, the Omaha charges 12H cents on corn and oats wittily the state, and hauls from tho some point to Minneapolis, 346 miles, for 14'i cents "These instances are not Isolated, burl are typical of the Nebraska situation. If the Nebraska legislators wish to do some Equalizing,' the field is ready. Omaha (Tain dealers would not ask for anythinK better than 'equalization' on a mileag. basis with Minneapolis on the north ami Kansas tnty on the south. If that were accomplished, the Omaha market would bo second to Chicago in 1907. "Beside keeping fresh In the minds ofl Omaha shippers the discrimination of the! Rock Island-Frisco system against Omaha, the recent circular of th Commercial clul and the Omaha Grain exchange may alsni be the means of getting some facts befoml Vice President W. II. Blddle of the Rock Island," said a member of the Grain ex change. Saturday, as he glanced over thol circular in question. "In a discussion which was had between the Omaha neoole and Mr. Hlddle. he took the position he had no desire to antagnnltof this market or to promote the Karsns Cltj market. It may be. when he learns thnj position taken by the Kansas City Board of Trade In - openly boasting of the ad vantages Kansas City has secured at the expense of Omaha and St. Louis, Mr. Blddle will raise some objection to having his roads used merely as an Instrument to promote the growth of Kansas City at the expense of Omaha and St. Louis. "The reason of Kansas City's determlna tlon to deprives Omaha of its natural geographical advantage Is evident, when the annual report of the Kansas City Board of Trade Is analysed and It Is found that the receipts of grain at Kansas City decreased nearly 10,000,000 bushels under 1905, while during the same period the re celpts at Omaha Increased about 10,0.10,000 bushels." Now Is the time to make your wants known through The Bee Want Ad Page. A DREADABLE DENTISTRY Toith Talk No. 104 In my office you will find much that is dreadivble In dentistry has been taken away. For Instance, there la no pain in the filling or ( crowning of teeth when my pain- less method is used. Again I in sert porcelain fillings that cannot be seen and one no linger dreads the display of gold in the front teeth. Another thought you'll find my Instruments, ortlce, linen, etc., in perfect harmony with those who desire cleanliness in their dental work. DR. 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