Nebraska Newspapers

    TTIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: ATRIL 7, 1907.
TIMELY REAL ESTATE TALK
Shows How the Architects Are Helping to Make Omaha a Beautiful City
SEW HELD OPEN TO OMAHA
Vt Territorr in Korthwfit Tipped bj
Milwaukee Lias to Coast.
MONTANA LOOKS TOWARD GATE CITY
Helena Taper Sees In Com In a; of Thla
Ilond Onrnlnaj In of ioA
Business for Nebraska
Metropolis.
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Faildin? ti Sixteenth an! Harney Etrests
tbs Important T? of Wesk.
5!X STORIES FCR BUSINESS HOUSE
fop Floors Mar Be Fitted lp foe
Office tses, hut the Ground Floor
la to n Occupied by Kair
Retail Store.
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Negotiations for the choice vacant lot
at tho southeast corner of Sixteenth an.l
Harney street! have boen one of the deals
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"that
if greatest Interest during the last week
real estate circles and much satlsfa3-
haa bean expresHcd over the fact
a new ulx-story store and office
building: Ib practically assured. Local
capitalists have completed pinna for build
ing the new structure at a coat of $10u,
000 or ovor on the south lot. Although
emphatically denied by Mr. Bwanson, it
la reported that the lower floors of the
riew building will be occupied by hla new
clothing store. The building will prob
ably be built of reinforced concrete and
the plans have been prepared by Fisher &
Lnwrlc, whs hne been In consultation
with the local Investors, "fne largo cor
ner lot was bought by a local syndicate
from Guy C. Barton, E. M. Morsman and
C. E. Tost about live years ago for $47,
600 and has been held for sale at $260,
000, which la $2,000 a front foot on the
Sixteenth streot side. Many opttona have
been taken and released on the corner,
which la conceded to be the most choice
of vacant downtown property, and plana
Were once made for the erection of a ten
atory hotel on tho ontlre corner by Phila
delphia capitalists. Tho 'proposed build
ing will be erected by local capital, which
has been Interested In the proposition by
C. C. George of Oeorge & Co.
Speculation haa been rife for five yeara
as to the ultimate disposition of tha cor
ner lot, which has a frontage of 132 feet
on Sixteenth street and 99 feet on Har
ney atreet. Hotels, business blocks and
theaters have been planned for the cor
ner, but It has remained for local capital
to Improve the premises.
A syndicate of Omaha business men are
having plans drawn by a prominent local
architect preparatory to building a three
atory apartment house on the corner re
cently bought by Frank M. Weckes at
Nineteenth and St, Mary's avenue. Tha
lot, which haa a frontage of 185 feot on
St. Mary's avenue and a Aepth of 99 feet
on Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets,
waa bought about six weeks ago from
Mrs. Francis Wilde for $18,000. Tho
proppsed apartment house win cost be
tween $80,000 and $90,000 and will em
body many original Ideas In Interior ar
rangement. The twenty-two feet of vacant frontage
at 191$ Douglas i streot has been bought
from the McCague Investment company
for $8,000 by Charles Oruenlg, who owns
the forty-four feet frontage adjoining on
the east, and will erect a large business
building on the two lots.
Tha formal transfer of the Patrick es
tate west of Dundee to th Happy Hollow
Country club will probably be made dur
ing the next few days, as the directors
and other officers have, been elected and
ea.Ua Issued for a part or the subscriptions.
El A. Benson Is the president and Euclid
Martin vice president of the new club, and
will serve until the next general election,
'-(about October L - It has been definitely Ge
ts tided to buy ttie Patrick grounds and bulld
1 Ings for $30,000, and lease ninety sores ad
Joining tho grounds west of the main build
ing for a Jerm of fifteen yeara, for golf
purposes.
Figuring Is being done by nearly allcon
tractors of Omaha on the plans fsr the new
Cohn building at Sixteenth and Davenport
streets, and the new building for the Young
Women's Christian association, which la to
be irocted on the triangular site recently
. bought at Seventeenth street and St
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The Standard
Life Insurance Policy
ISSUED BY
THE EQUITABLE
Life Assurance society
of the united states
PAUL MORTON. President ,
IV AOCOmOAaTOB WITH Til
New Insurance Law of the State ol New York
This new policy, legalized by statute, has been framed
to insure to each policy holder (a) the fullest protection,
and (b) every benefit which can properly be combined in a
single insurance contract.
FINANCIAL STRENGTH:
TOTAL ASSETS, January 1, 1906 $420,973,757
TOTAL LIABILITIES, including reserve for
fulfillment of all outstanding obligations 352,516,507
SURPLUS, for protection
policy holders
For full particulars apply to the undersigned.
D. D. NEELY, Manager for Nebraska
402-M-5 MerebiBts Natioml Baak Building,
YM. HEXRY BROWN, Cashier
George RL Cooper,
U. Fay Neely,
Ccnertl Agents, Omaii
Joe Klein,
GeoersJ A&U lincdo, Nefe.
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flOMB OP R, L, CARTER. SOUTH THIRTY-EIGHTH STREET.
Mary'a avenue. Three different type of
buildings are being figured for the Colin
proposition, as It haa not been definitely
determined If a Mora and office building,
a store and bachelor apartment building
or a store and hotel building will be erected.
The oontract for the accepted building will
be let about April 11. The plana for the
Yung Women's Christian association
building, which were drawn by Thomas IL
Kimball, proviso for every possible con
venience, and the building will be a model
of construction.
Foundations are beius laid for the new
two-story brick store of the undertaking
firm of Colo & McKay, near the corner of
Seventeenth and Douglas streets. The con
tract was awarded to John Houghton and
will cost nlxnit $8,0GO. The entire front of
the building, which Is to be 2Tx110 feet, will
be of white tiling, and a large chapel for
funeral services will be one of the features.
W. R. Homan Is having pl---e drawn bjr
Architect J. IL Dietrich C i- a two-story
brick flat, to be erected on his lot at Twen
ty-fifth avenue and Dodtro street. The flat
j wlu 3gxl0 feet and wm COBt ,7-00o.
Excavating was begun lost week on the
alte of tho new Haarmann pickle factory,
which Is bounded by Twelfth and Thir
teenth streets and extends between Marcy
street and the Burlington tracks. The grad
ing contract was let to E. L. Whltcomb ot
flremont for about kb.wu, wryj is working
nigra ana any snms, dui me worn win not
be completed until September 1. Sixty
thousand cublo yards of earth will be re
moved by crushing it In a machine and
dumping It In a large sewer to be washed
away, tots at Eleventh and Pierce street
have been rented from the Byron Reed com
pany for the grading camp.
J. Fred Smith, executor of the estate
of the late Henry M. Wllhnell, haa sold
tha old Wlthnell home at 3511 Harney atreet
to a local Investor, whose name was not
made public, for $0,300. The lot has -a
frontage of seventy-five feet and Is occupied
by a tan-room frame residence, which Is
now rented by Dr. Frederick Rustln.
One of the Important transfers of down
town business property during the week
waa the sale of the three-story brick build
ing at 1309-11 Howard atreet, now occu
pied by the printing eatabllshment of F. B,
Festner, to the National Printing company,
509-11 South Twelfth street, for $20,000. The
building la owned by Henry Doll, who will
erect a new building for the Festner com
pany on a site yet to bo secured, and will
and dividends to
t $08,457,190
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be occupied by the National company,
which will vacate Its present building; on
Twelfth street. The Festner building Is
well and expensively constructed, havlnc
a yellow pressed brick front, and has a
frontage of thirty-three feet on Howard
street. It Is especially adnptod for a print
ing establishment and will afford mora
room for the National Printing; company
than is had In the present building;.
One of the striking features of last year
waa the manner In which Are Insurance
companies of the country provided for the
tremendous losses sustained, the appalling
San Francisco disaster presenting one of
the most difficult financial problems that
the companies were ever called upon to
surmount. It Is estimated the Are loss In
this country and Canada In 1906 amounted
to $4&9.7l0,00rt, of which $2SO,000,000 was In
San Francisco. The excess loss of $179,
710,000 in the country at large was over
$4,000,000 greater than during the previous
year and was the heaviest annual loss
In any year except those In which the Chi
cago, Boston and Baltimore fires ocurred.
Beven ncres of sightly ground northwest
of the Nebraska School for the Deaf was
sold last week by George O. Wallace to
M. C. Steele of the Hobbs-Jones Grocery
company, who will build a fine suburban
home on the acreage and develop an ex
perimental forestry farm, with the assist
ance of bis sens. The acreage waa sold
for the estate of Jerome A. Little, who was
once president of the Pioneers' association
and an employe of the Union Paclflo shops
for many years. Mr. Wallace also sold a
tract of five acres at the southwest corner
of Thirty-sixth and Boyd streets for G.
Brandenburg, formerly In the leather busi
ness In Omaha, but now at Los Angeles, to
Miss Marks of San Francisco, who has re
moved to Omaha, and will subdivide the
tract Into residence lots for Investment
purposes.
As an evidence of the remarkable In
crease In home building this spring the
reports of the building Inspector for the
month of March show that 110 building
permits, representing an expenditure of
$344, 7"0, were Issued, as- against only
fifty-two permits during March, 1700.
New homes of varied expense are being
erected uniformly In all parts of Che
city, from magnificent country homes In
Dundee to Inexpensive cottages In the out
lying sections. The increase in home
fiulldlng Is marked over that of last
year, as several new real estate firms
have entered the field In the business and
are building homes for sale on the "ex
citement plan."
The three-story brick building at the
northeast corner of Twelfth street and
Capitol avenue, occupied by the Midway
saloon, was formally transferred last
week to the Storx Brewing company, al
though the saloon haa been under the
nominal ownership of the brewing com
pany for some time.
The two-story brick and frome resi
dence at 8109 Pacific street has been sold
by the W. Farnam Smith Co. to Mm.
Agnes Webb tfor $4,000 and will be used
for a home. The W. Farnam Smith Co.
has also sold two lots near Twenty
fifth and Spencer streets, which will be
Improved. The buyer of one of the lots,
James R. Johnson. Intends to build a
$2,000 home, and the owner of the other
lot, Ferdinand Eyden, is erecting a home
to cost atiout $2,500.
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An investor in Omaha real estate who
has recently attracted considerable at
tention among real estate dealers by rea
son of his many Investments is Dr.M.
M. Loomls, who added to his holdings last
week by buying a choice lot at the cor
ner of Nineteenth and Manderson streets
and another large lot at the southwest
corner of Spencer street and the Bjulo
vard. The Manderson street lot extends
from Nineteenth to Twentieth street, a
frontage of 140 feet, and provides ample
space for six cottages, which will be
built Immediately. The sale was made
through J. H. Dumont & Son for Edgar
H. Scott at the reported price of $1,750.
Hastings & Heyden sold the Boulevard
lot to Dr. Lou m l for $1,700 and a brick
residence will be erected in the near fu
ture. Tha large lot occupied by five frame
houses at the northeast corner of Thir
tieth street and Woolworth avenue, which
is known as the Nichols block, was sold
by Robinson & Wolf for Philip Schlalfer
to Mrs. Anna Buck, proprietress of the
Metropolitan hotel. The price paid was
$7,600, and the Investment returns an
unusually large Income, as the five sot
tages rent for $100 a month.
L. M. GJerde of tha Bmnswlck-Balke.
Collender company and Henry C. Win
quest, formerly of Seattle, Invested In
choice residence corners in Kountxe Place,
the sales being made by Hastings A Hey
den. Mr. GJerde bought the lot at the
southeast corner of Twentieth and Plnk
ney streets for $1,400 and Mr. Wlnquest
bought the corresponding lot on Blnney
street. Modern residences will ba erected
on both lota.
Hastings ac Heyden also sold tha seven
room modern house on Spencer street,
east of Sherman avenue. to William
Urbach for $3,600, and a lot In Kounts
Place, near Twenty-first and Lothrop
streets, to Mrs. Mary Lre, mother ot W.
O. Ure.
Official IMaralltr af Basse.
CHICAGO. April I The Board of Elec
tion Comintssionere toduy srijiounced that
the elhclnl plurality of Krvlei iclc A. Buaae,
who aa elected mayor last Tuesday, la
HOME
WOOL CROP OF UNITED STATES
Statiitioi for 1906 Jmt Compiled b the
National Authority.
CLIP HEAVIER THAN FCR PRECEDING YFAR
Higher Prices and Decreased Shrink
are Brings More Money to the
Floekmnsters Than Was
Realised In 1IHKS.
(Copyright, 1907, by Atlantic News Ser
vice.) BOSTON, April 6. John Bruce Mcl'her
son, secretary of the National Associa
tion of Wool Manufacturers, which haa
Its headquarters In Booton, has Just Is
sued the annual wool review of the United
States and sheep census for 106. This
is the eighteenth consecutive year in
which the association has issued statis
tics on the wool Industry of the country.
These statistics have become the author
ity for everyone connected with tho wool
Industry and are accepted by i.he United
States government as authority, espe
cially the census of sheep.
For the year 1906 the number of sheep
fit for shearing s placed at 3S,D10,798
as compared with 38.621,476 the preced
ing year. Decreases were found in some
of the larger grazing states, owing to
larger shipments than usual the previous
fall, while In some of the middle wcslern
states the number Increased because of
the development of the Industry and be
cause of more accurate Information se
cured. Prices were high for all kinds of
sheep stock and full advantage was taken
of them.
Contracting for the 1906 clip waa not
so general .far ahead as In 19116, experi
ence of that year making growers more
wary of entering into binding obligations.
This was especially true of Montana.
Buyers pursued a waiting policy. Thl.4
deliberate method was not exceptional to
this country; It waa pursued early In
the Australian sales and later at the Lon
don auctions by American buyers. That
higher prices were not paid the grower
was due to the feeling that the danger
point in prices had been, reached and thit
it would be hazardous to accede to the
growers' views of values.
Heavier Clip for the Year.
Owing to the greater weight of the aver
age fleece, the clip, despite the small In
crease in numbers, was heavier In the
grease by 8.426.692 pounds than that of
the year before. The total average In
crease was ono-tenth of a pound per
fleece. The quantity of wool produced
on the basis of 88,540,798 sheep was 256,
915,130 pounds, not Including pulled
wool, as against 253,489,438 pounds the
year before. Its equivalent in scoured
Building Record for March
Building operations for March In thirty
three of tho leading c'.tiea show a decrease
of $ per cent In comparison with the corre
sponding period a year ago. During the
month Just closed permits were taken out
In thirty-three cities, according to official
CITT.
New York, Borough of the Bronx
and Manhattan
Brooklyn
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Detroit
Cleveland
Rochester
Pittsburg ,
Indianapolis
Buffalo
Kansas City
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Denver
Cincinnati
Newark
Salt Lake City
Atlanta
Birmingham
New Orleans
Louisville
Omaha
Harrisburg
Allegheny
Duluth V..
Dallas
Worcester
Orand Rapids
Paterson
Mobile
Topeka :
Davenport
San Antonio
Total.
Of the thirty cities enumerated there were
gains In seventeen and lossea In thirteen.
Tha most significant feature of the month
waa the phenomenal gain In five of the
cltlea of moderate dimensions. ' The most
conspicuous increases were n Bait Lake
City. S16 rr cent; Mobile, 225; Topeka, 153;
Indianapolis, 149; Birmingham, 111: Al
legheny, M; Paterson, N. J., 57; Bt. Louis,
63; Buffalo, 46; Chicago, 18: Brooklyn. $2;
SL Paul. 30. Of tha losses there was a
falling oft In New York of 38 per rent,
PlUladolphla, $1: Pittsburg, (; Kansas City,
18; Denver, IS; Newark, 82; Louisville, ?2;
Omaha, 23 and Duluth, 11 It will b Been
that tha centers of activity are as widely
scat t red as are tha sections In which there
Is less building than there was a year ago.
It la apparent that New York still feels
the affect of over-building and the tight
money market, but there are now indica
tions of an easier condition. Brooklyn,
however, abowa aa lucre, but tha buil4
OF C. D. M'LAUGHLIN, SOUTH THIRTY
wool was 100,010,942 pounds. Pulled
wool was not considered to vary from
the previous year 42.000,000 pounds. The
shrinkage of this was 30 per cent. In.
stead of 33 per cent a year before, mak
ing tha new yield 29,400,000 pounds clean
wool.
Total production for the country, there
fore, during 1906 was 298,915,130 poundu,
equal to 129.410,942 pounds of scourel
wool, 2,883,821 pounds In excess of the
estimate for 1905. Pnrt of this excess
was due to decreased shrinkage. The
average weight of a fleece was 6.68
pounds, against 6.66 pounds In 1905. 6.50
pounds In 1904 and 6.25 pounds In 1903.
In fact the shrinkage has been decreas
ing for some years. Percentage of the
average shrinkage was 61.08, as com
pared with 61.3 in 1903 and 61.6 In 1904.
The total value of th5 clip for tho year
was about the same as tho previous year,
being less than 1 per cent smaller, 1. e.,
$79,721,883, compared with $80,415,514.
The avernpe value per pound of fleece and
pulled wool decreased 2.4 and 6.5 per
pound respectively.
Montana Leads Aoraln.
Montana leads, as heretofore, with tho
larpest flock, 4,940,000. These produced 35,
815.000 pounds of wool, washed and un
washed, valued at $8,523,970. Montana
fleeces averaged 7.25 pounds each, shrink
ing per cent, making the scoured wool
product equal 12.535.260 pounds. The
average price obtained pe' pound was 68
cents, against 69 cents the year before,
and 65 cents two years before.
Wyoming Is second for size of flock and
wool production. She has 4,531,000 sheep,
which produced 32,849,750 pounds of rough
wool, shrinking 68 per cfnt to 10,511.930 of
the scoured. This brought $7,253,225. or 69
cents a pound, against 70 cents the pre
vious year and 55 cents in 1904. Fleeces
averaged 7.25 pounds each.
New Mexico comes third in tRe list of
flocks, with 2,900,000. Their fleeces were
lighter, averaging 6.5 pounds each, the
total clip being 19,960,000 pounds, shrinking
62 per cent to 6,061,000 scoured, which
brought $3,818,430, or 63 cents per pound.
This was 2 nents less than the year be
fore, but 13 cents ' higher than the aver
age price In 1904.
Fburth state is Idaho, with 2.300,000
In her flock, producing for the year 16,
906,000 pounds of raw wool, shrinking 67
per cent to 5,578,660 pounds scoured, valued
at $3 6S1.99, or 66 cents per pound, against
69 and 65 cents in 1906 and 1904 respectively.
Fleeces averaged 7.35 poundB each.
Utah stands next, with l.POfi.OOO In her
flock, their clip totaling 12.350.000 pounds
rough, or 4.3C2.D0O pounds scoured, the
shrinkage of the 6.5 pound fleeces averag
ing 65 per cent. The clip brought $2,896,
075 to the state; or 67 cents per pound, as
compared with 66 cents in 19C4, the price
being the same as In 1P0S.
Ohio stands well up on the list, with
1.850,000 sheep, being 50,010 ahead of Ore
gon. The Ohio product was 11,662.600
reports to Construction News, frr 10,927
buildings, involving a total expenditure of
$44,37,072 against 9,958 bu:idlng, costing
$45,334,722, for the same month a year ago,
an Increase of buildings and a decrease
In coet Of $1,607,650.
No. I No. I I
of estimated I of Estimated Gain Lobs
Bldgs. Cost. 1 Bidgs. Cost.
1907. 1907. 1906. 190C.
292 $,n6TS S70 $16.1i9.'-85 ... 28
m 6.8nt,-.3 67 4.?i,C45 82
1.0x3 5. 6.400 9'J 4.27.f- 38
l.SM 3.636.5.!0 2,034 6,13;,54f ... 31
947 2,.,6S9 . !9 1,933, 33ii 63
619 1,4M,.T6() 135 8:'0,B(0 80
776 1,85.742 6!2 1.K4.620 . 61
198 l.WJ.fm 214 903. !3 81
S67 1,115.193 417 1.13.084 ... 6
431 976.0! 2 S92.234 149
2R4 8n).0i0 278 EM.-fJO 46
407 728,150 297 8S6.3-I5 ... 18
1M 711,364 liti 644.614 SO
3il 697, oa 4S8 705. f3 ... 1
28 668.640 192 818 54 ... 18
476 6f.9.3 8:9 69 5J5 ... 4
179 C08.194 2C4 K).:o7 ... 12
9 6U4.3K) 66 146.170 816
384 6t:0.76 292 6:11. 0i5 5
74 SM.1S9 63 1H4.K6 111
34,SK9 ... 'i!,LfO ... 9
275 St'.3.K.7 2 22 64.4M ... 32
140 $14,720 62 449.310 ... 23
60 8J6.5HH 43 2!i7,5:'5
69 271.S91 61 138.076 96
62 259 790 80 ,m ... 61
173 247.394 169 22.VS 10
80 18vl36 66 1W,215 $
113 169.A 113 1S7.X! ...
62 1 04.848 36 6.f4 87
S3 1H8.4C6 i4 33.3iiO 2.'5
71 KiE.SSfi 41 .4i,625 153
16 RS.5F.0 13 81,23!
fc'9 137.175 186 9l),lbi 62
. 10.927 $44,327,072 9.968 $46,634,722 $
Ings at the latter place are not nearly of
the same magnitude as those in the metrop
olis. For example in P.rooklyn permits
were granted for 688 buildings against 293
buildings in. New York Including tha
borough of The Bronx and Manhattan. In
CUcafo permits were takrn out for the
obstruction of 1.03 bulldlrgs involving a
total Investment of $6,906,400 against 926
buildings aggregating In cost $4.2(77.650 for
the corresponding month a year ao. The
figures In both Instances Illustrate that
this la the era of small building ind dwell
Ing house construction as against huge
structures of the recant past
The situation seems to be thoroughly
healthy in every direction and bulldwe com
plain very greatly of the difficulty In secur
ing p-ompt deliveries. The demand for
material is strong and building news comes
In at about a normal rate la comparison
with preceding period.
- EIGHTH STREET.
pounds of 6.25-pound fleeces, shrinking 50
per cent to 6,781,260 pounds, worth $3,631,
475 to the growers, or 62 cents per pound,
against 63 cents the year before, but 4
cents better than two years before.
' What Nebraska Prodocrd.
Nebraska has 250.0110 sheep, with fleeces
averaging 7.5 pounds each, producing a
total of 1,875.000 pounds of raw wool, shrink
ing 67 per cent to 618,760 pounds. This wns
worth $402,188, or 65 cents per pound. Iowa's
flock numbers 500.0W, having 6.6 pound
fleeces. Their clip was 3,2ri0,000 pounds, with
a shrinkage of 60 per cent, bringing the
scoured product down to l,62o,oiy pounds.
This brought $910,000 In the market.
Oregon's flock of 1.800,000 produced fleeces
averaging heavy, $.6 pounds each, or a total
of 15,300,000 pounds. But the shrinkage was
70 per cent, bringing the scoured net down
to 4,590,000 pounds, at 68 cents per pound,
or $3,121,200, as compared with 69 and 65
cents tho two years preceding.
California's flock of 1,750,000 averaged 7.5
pound fleeces, with an average of 13.125.000
pounds rough wool, shrinking 67 per cent to
4,331.250. This brought $2,901, 9", or 67 cents
per pound, to the Golden State. In 19 the
price was 69 cents and the year before M
cents. Three other states have flocks of
over 1,000,000 each Colorado, Texas and
Michigan. Michigan heads these with 1,500,
000. The clip was 9,4M,0OO of 6.3-pound
fleeces, shrinking 50 per cent to .4,725,000
pounds. Growers realized $2135,000, or 60
cents per pound, against 61 cents the year
before. Texas Is a trifle ahead of Colo
rado. with 1.440,000. The clip totalled 9,360.
000 pounds, or 6.6 fleeces, shrinking 66 per
cent to 3,182,400 and worth $2,132,208 to the
state at 67 cents per pound, 8 cents less
than received the year before. Colorado
has 1,400,000, with fleeces weighing 6.75 last
year or a total of ,4oO,000 pounds In the
rough, shrinking 67 per cent to 8.118,500
pounds. This added $2,027,025 to the wealth
of the state at 65 cents per pound, a cent
per pound less than In 19T6.
Among the curious tacts noted from the
tables Is that Maine, though having but
200,000 sheep, produced 1,200,000 pounds of
wool, while West Virginia, with 480,000
clipped 2,610,000 pounds. Pennsylvania has
850,000 and the clip was 6.100,000 pounds.
Virginia managed to raise 1,750,000 pounds,
with her 350,000 Bheep. Rhode Island and
Delaware cannot seem to get their flock
hove 6,500, the same figure as In previous
be able to carry. If the flock of the entire
years.
Comparative statistics are hard4to gather
owing to varying conditions. But It Is In
teresting to know that If the total wool
clip of the United States were loaded Into
cars all at one time each! icar of averago
capacity of 20,000 pounds,' 1.922 cars would
be required. If steel cars of the 100,000
pounds capacity that E. H. Harrlman says
will be needed on the roads of the future
were to be used, 385 of them would be re
quired. Even this would be a bigger load
than any engine he could Imagine would
United States were to be marshalled In ono
long line, allowing each sheep four feet
of room, they would extend 27,324 miles, or
once around the world and nearly to San
Francisco before they stopped. As to how
many bales the erttlre clip coald be com
pressed into, this is largely a matter of
guesswork, as bales vary In size and den
sity from different parts of the country
though they are supposed to have a stand
ard of average weight.
MANY PERMITS TO ONE FIRM
Seventeen Houses Will Be Erected by
Hastings Heyden With
out Delay. '
Hastings & Heyden broke all records In
the building Inspector's office Saturday
morning, wheu thty were granted- permitj
for seventeen dwellings, the total estlmat-id
cost or. which was placed at $40,0X1. The
locations of these new homes and the cott
of each will be as follow: Seventeenth
and Binney, $2,500; Eighteenth and Emmet,
two $2,500 dwellings; Sixteenth and Spencer,
$4,nO; Fifteenth and Wirt, $2,500; Twenty-
recond, between Sprague and Laird, $2,000;
Twenty-third and Lulrd, $2,010; Twenty
third, between Laird and Manderson., tl.SOO;
Thirty-first, between Meredith and Fowler
tl.600: Meredith, between Thirtieth and
Thirty-first, $2,600; Hamilton, between
Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth, $2,500;
Twenty-third, between M-onderson and
Laird, $2,500; Twenty-third, between Lincoln
boulevard and Myrtle avenue. $2,500;
Twenty-third, between Brown end Earat'igG.,
$2,500; Davenport and Central boulevard,
$2,500; Twenty-second and Clark, $2,000;
Twenty-ninth and Plnkney, $1,8C0.
ejiner permits inuru Biiumity wcib. j
Beda Edlund, 1906 Emmet, $2,500 dwelling;
George Santter, Third and Boulevard
avenue, $1,000 dwelling; Omaha Park Board, ;
$5,00u addition to pavilion in Rivervlew j
park, Peter Relnhardt, 4307 Commercial
avenue, $1,500 dwelling.
During the week the building Inspector
Issued an average of. fifteen permits a day.
PROBLEM FOR THE BREWERS
Will Comply with Gibson Lair With
oat Fleht If It Is Not
Confiscatory.
The Gibson bill prohibiting breweries from
owning buildings In which their saloons
are located, or In any way assisting saloon
keepers In securing their licenses, has been
signed by the governor'and the breweries
are now builly engaged In figuring some
way out of the situation.
J. C. Cowln. representing the breweries,
said Saturday they had not decided upon
I what method to sdopt to comply with tho
law and that the question was still being
considered.
"I will say, however," sdded General
Cowln, "that If a compliance of the law
does not amount to a confiscation and de
struction of our property, we will let tha
law alone, whether constitutional or not,
but If wa find a compliance will be cou-
J flacaujry we will have U couUwL"
When It was announced tho Milwaukee
was to build Its line to tho Pacific coast
via the Dakotas railroad men as well as
the comineiclnl Interests of Omaha united,
in declaring that it would be of little ben
efit to Omaha, while, on tho other hand, it
would tend to divert a large amount of
business to tho northern route which now
passes through this gateway. Merchant
In some of the northern cities which will
be reached by the Milwaukee coast exten
sion look upon the matter In a different
light, as an editorial from the Helena
(Mont.) Dally Heccrd will Indicate.
It Is evident from this editorial that tha
people of Helena look upon the building
of an opposition line to tho Hllf lines Into
Helena ns having a tendency to open up
tho Omaha market to that territory rather
than to discriminate aiilnst It, as waa!
thought at first to be the case.
The town will be prepared for the com
ing of the Commercial club excursion and
when a western town prepares for the com
ing of someone there will ba something
doing.
Kevr Field for Omaha Trade.
Under the caption, "Coining of' the BU
raul," The Record's odltorlul says:
One of the results of the building of tha
extension of the Chicago. Milwaukee & St,
i-uui into Montana will be the opening up
to Montana merchants of Omaha as a
competitive pitnt at which they can do
ttieir liuyinnr. It Is a result of the coming
into Montana of the new road, which haa
not bn generally counted upon, and tha
story printed on another page of the trip
in me summer to mis state ot mnansj
business men Indicates that the active,
progressive men of that city reallzo that in
the great northwest there la a market
w-rln cultivating
The trip of these Omaha representative
will cost many thousands of dollars, and it
Is sure they would not mako It if they did
not know that later, when they are able
to avail themselves of a competitive line,
they will be In a position to contest with
Bt. Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago for tha
trade of Montana ami the remainder of tha
Kocky mountain section.
The control by Mr. Hill of the Northern
Pacific, Great Northern and Ihirllngton has
enabled him to throw the greater part of
this trade to St. Paul and Minneapolis.
But the St. Paul, which reaches Omaha,
will give the merchants of that town the
chance to meet the Minnesota towns on
even terms, ot least. In this market, anil
they will take full advantage of It.
The announcement of the itinerary thu
early will give every town In Montana
which will be visited aniph? time to make
preparations to entertnln the visitors. The
moHt potent factors In the business life of
Nebraska will be comprised In the men
who will make the trip, and wlillo they are
coming purely In the expectation of find
ing a market, nevertheless. If their first
Impressions of Montana and Its people are
favorable, when they return the result will
be beneficial to Montana. With a few nota
ble exceptions, Montana ho not been able
to Interest Omaha capital In Its enterprises.
The establishment of closer business rela
tions will undoubtedly result not only In
Omaha selling more goods In Montana, but
It will also result In Montana getting
Omaha capital, of which there as nn
abundance, to assist In the development
of its mineral and other resources. In
other words, the bankers and financial men
of Omaha will be interested In the advance
ment of the country in which they are
doing business, and they will do what thej;
can to assist that development
BURKLEY BUYSNEW HOUSE
Secures the James Mcintosh Rest
dence en North Thirty-- "
Eighth Avenue.
Frank J. Burkley of the Burkley Printing
company has bought a large lot and eleven
room house at 13$ North Thirty-eighth)
avenue from James Mcintosh through
George & Co. for $8,500. Tho lot Is 165xSS
feet, and the property will be occupied by;
Mr. Burkley for a home.
George & Co. have also sold the eight
room modern home of E. II. James at 1323
South Thirty-fifth street, near the Field
club, for $5,250 to James H. Robertson,
who bought for a home. John McFarlanl
has sold his house and lot at 1912 Corby
street through George & Co. to Andrew P.
Miller at the reported price of $4,260, and
the residence will be occupied by the buyer.
Other recent sales reported by George di
Co. are the house and lot at 1706 South
Twenty-seventh street for Sarah B. Cur
rier to A. G. Miller at the reported price
of $1,900; the six-room house and full lot
at 1806 Corby street for Mrs. Mary Bchura
to W. Foley for $1,800 as an Investmentj
the lot and six-room cottage at 2360 Bristol
street of Adellna J. Brader to Charles S.
Hoxie for $2,200; two lots near Twenty
fourth and Emmet streets for the West
land Realty company for $660 each t
Charles O. Fenwlck and Jean Haverljr,
which will be Improved, and tha lot and
eight-room house at 708 South Thirty-first
street for Olof Llnqulst to Michael J. Mo
Mahon for $2,400.
TENNEY GOES TO SIOUX CITY
Chicago Minister Does Net Aeeept
Call of First Cooaregatlonul
In Omaha.
That Rev. Dr. W. L. Tenney of Chicago,
secretary of the American Missionary as
sociation of the Congregational church,
will not come to Omaha to accept the pas
torate of the First Congregational church
is the positive statement of member of
the congregation who are acquained with
the negotiations which have passed be
tween tha minister and church trustees, In
spite of the dispatch from 8loux City to the
contrary. Dr. Tenney haa accepted tha call
to a Sioux City church and sunt hi de
clination of the Omaha offer.
A
EfJTISTRY
X aupposa the fear of pain keep
more people from giving their
teetU proper attention taaa axy
other cans.
By using the helps which tnodsra
sclsnce has reciutly contributed,
to the relief of daatsl paiu, I aia
able to make almost every opera
tion free from actual pal a, and
absolutely ires from the old time
dental disoomforts.
DR. FICKES, D""
'Phone Doug. 637.
32$ Bee Bldg.