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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1915)
: TJIK BEE: OMAlfA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1915. Omaha's Balance Sheet of Business for 1914 Shows Splendid Totals Business of Omaha Shows Great Gain for Year 1914 1014. MJumfM-turiug . $I0fl,312,537 Jibing ,.. ICT,6M,47 Um) estato transfers 463,619 racking hooM output. ... ............. . 118,404,017 llanlc clearings .................. 9882,717,101 SmcllW outMit ........ .. 27,181, 14A Iiank. deposit I tu tiding permits ............... ;tain receipts (bashel) Oain shipment (bushels) 81,750,008 4,010,480 00,404,100 07,217,800 1018. 8103380,071 J01,e20,50 0,871,801 103,000,000 8008,047,878 81,414,480 81,184,070 4,110.738 ' 08,574,700 80,020,500 LIVE BTOCK RECEIPTS. AtCl (bxl) .......... m.. . .'.mm, ...... . 0iM,004 Hos (head) ghee? (rtead) ) fc 0 mm 4H ,2,20784 .8,147,484 961,881 2,037,378 8,214,840 Omaha hs experienced another prmpwoni year's business, although cot la all !)& la an Increase shown, a m tha eat last year. Notable talus war mada la tha manufacturing, ontfltit of ttie city, la tha packing house output, grain shipments and bunding nottvitfo. A. gala of nearly 18,000,000 la maafacturad pradnots tg satrwn by an laborata table of figures gathered by the bureau o( publicity. From the tame soarce of statistics cornea a showing of a gala of aoma 1,060,000 In tha packing boate output over that of iaat year la South Omaha. The shipment of grata out of Omaha hirMM4 this ys.r na 7.000,000 buih e! over lat yr. Building actMtiea, as ahowa by tha tctala of btttldlng permits for the year, show a gala of substantially a half million dollars over the building of last rear. ; Tabulated Statement of Building Operations in Omaha by Months for 1914 MONTH. NO PERMITS. No. DWELLINGS. January 79 55 February 5 37 March 147 86 April ........ 154 91 May 165 98 June 169 119 July .. 130 73 August 121 72 September .... 74 39 October ....... 73 36 November .... 71 86 December .... 44 20 Coat. 120,760 113,350 208.850 239.450 228,300 803.550 174,450 206,660 101,120 85,950 , 87.938 45.100 UTORKS, OF- FIC1, BUKJS, ISO. 4 .4 6 4 6 3 6 11 6 3 5 6 Cost. No, 7,100 2 '22.000 22,600 297,250 842,300 4,160 77.500 187,800 24,200 11,600 16.400 24,500 WARttrTOt-flFJ: TmtCJC TTf RATETtR FACTO Kl KB. A P AJITM ENT8 A 1! U.. C IA 7 Brt tout. 2 4) 5 1 2 1 4 2 2 1 0 Cost. I 3,700 46.500 4.066 6.600 4.000 48,000 4,000 63.000 100.000 13.750 10,000 No. 0 0 s 2 3 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 63,000 30,000 30.000 7.000 52.000 7.600 No. 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 Coat. 5,000 4,000 MifKTEk'OUS. NEWBLrxiR Anns AND REPAIRS. Total Cost of AH , 4,500 8.800 8,600 25,000 No.. ' Cost. No. Cost. No. Coat. Buildings 4 $ 690 67 8 172,190 12 $ 8,260 8 180,440 6 1,225 60 186,075 16 35,100 221,175 7 1.020 117 304.435 30 16,730 321,165 11 4.835 122 ' 678,035 32 15.000 693,035 It 4.676 127.1,113,775 38 33.078 '1,146.853 15 6,350 140 369,050 29 34,975 404,025 18 3,205 104 331,955 26 70,650 402,605 14 7.415 103 492,265 20 28,800 521.065 12 9.265 61 306,085 13 6.276 312.360 14 5,375 66 141,575 17 16,100 157,676 12 11.875 64 125.213 18 8,370 133,682 6 4,875 33 174,475 11 42,000 216,475 RAILROADS ARE WITH PROCESSION 4 Steam Lines in Omaha Trade Terri tory Put Millions Into Improve provements During Year. LITTLE NEW TRACK IS LAID Totals ...1.295 772 11,915,308 62 $1,636,200 26 $292,515 15 1194.600 7 $55,800 147 $60,805 1,034 $4,296,128 261 $315,328 $4,610,456 Money RipeadeeT la tor Bettenneata Ipon the Different Systems aad Maintaining- Excellent Standard. For churches were built at a cost of $150,000. Tw0 brick school houses were built at a cost of $90,000. OIJAHA GRAI1I HART RECEIPTS LARGE Shipments Exceed Thoit of Any Pretious Year by Several -i Million Bushels. . CORN C0NTINTJES THE KTNQ Orralt from Nebraska and Nlk- boring States, Coma to Omaha mm Tkra Arm et All ' Over the World. Whlla tha Omaha grain raoelpla during tho year' 1914 were not tip to those of nil tha ahlnmenta established a tie rei-ord the grain aent away from tha lo i al elevator exceeding tha aggregate at any previous year by mora than 7,000 000 bushels. ' y on the fat- ot the figures it appears that during last jeer the Omaha grata iwclpts wre aome t.OOO.COO bushels lrss limn during tha previous year. As a matter of fact they were, but tha rs-L-rUt during 1013 were abnormal, hun dreds of thousands ot bushels of grain turning to thla market that by rlsbts did not belong here. in 1013 tho crop in Kansas, portion t .Missouri and the entire southwsst was practically a failure. Omaha H) the nearest to the etrlrken territory of any ot the great train marhets of tha coun tty. That year the crcpa In Omaha territory, Nebraska, Iowa, floutb liakota and a goodl t portion ef Minnesota, eiere aood. The result of all thla we that ordcia for all kinds of sraln were placed in Omaha for ahlpmenl south and weat Sava Meary by Shipping Here. Omaha beln cloaent to the vaat area here rropa bad tailed tania it poaaiMe Ui aend grain Into a territory that be longed to other market. Omaha got the nrnnt or the mlllina in tranalt rate and was enabled to brlnf wheat, oom and rlffht from the back: door of Cht so. paying even better than Chicago , iris for the aame. Had the grata been first aent ta Chicago H would have paid the frelirht there snd then back, while ,y aendlns- it to Omaha all thla was yave4 and a correnpo.kdlns sum ef money that would have been charged up o at. This year the entire country weat of the MlUnpt river has been smiled upon and the vrvM have ba about the beat in ita history. As a reauil, Omaha hae. like the other primary markets, draan but little gi tin from ouulde ot its normal territory, yet. notwithstand ing that, the Omaha Grata exchange and It a members bave handled .6G00 lushla of erala. while the ahtimienta l.ave readied more than 7 .117,000 bushela. In dollar and cents, thla means that the Omaha Grain exchange baa paid out aomethtng" like .iOC,M to the fartnera f Nebraaka ant the adjoining its tea. Im b Ktame Beea. The Omaha Oraln exchange still occo uli't aomethlns like one-halt of the euveuth floor of the Brandela building. but hef jre anuther crop ready to handle It be in a building ot its own ea Nineteenth and Harney atreeta. There, !ml Buiiiiuer. it hoiurbt lota and baa had l id na preitaied for a aoveo-Btory, tire i roi.f bulldlnx, the erection of which will i An as as aptiug opna The I utKling will coct about 1&O.0OO, and all vxrrpt the lower floor will beSused for tl-.e exchange and by men and firms in the grain buainrM. To give en idea of what Omaha did ia the grain bualneaa, toe folloalng figures, hulng the kinds of grain handled and i; t)uar.Uty ot each, tugetbr wtth re ft't and ahlpnteuta during 1911, ere lata. Ilte!r!a. Shipments Bank Clearings for 1914of This City The Clearing Iloune saeooiation gives the following compearttye etatement of bank cteeringe for peat years: ' Teer. Amount. 1NS7 t3M.44l.0KS )ivvt..,... :c:,04i,ci 1kv,,, 4f fvC) J 12 HOO 4"0,l?4.(!:l W1 .- 442,2,".7,7!l WJ.,.,. 64&7Tt,SH4 lHi:t....... ?2.Rj.14ft 14 41,471, 1 I-b........ 3S!.?h.','7 twni 4.'ie.S 1K? S4.t.3,9i,TW i. ....... ns.4ti.eti 1K". ....... i,4i'i,3iXI i'JOft. U.1H.,.1 January February Maroa , , April May ... June July August September October November Year. Wl... lwvl... iw4... iwa... im... inns.,. !(... 11.10.,. 111 Wi isia., 1914 CLXAIUNag. lBia ....T6..a,S.1 6.llH.Va 7D.UiO.W4 t!.S40,lf 7I,M.I6 71,nfi,S71l 7H.2HS.0Kg " Tri.tW.R.'. S4.e,4l 7i,171,l ..k 7.ai4,ai Amount. .tZ.N.eW.'iKH . Hl,M,77R . gMt.Kwyif'O . E,(,'I2 . ft4.3K,?K4 . tff.tl6,7HS , J:i,it:!fi,OtW . a..71,w7 . 7KU7,3T.1 . tiU.H)il,667 : S-W.M7.j7H SB J,7 17,101 1M4. tTr.,.M5,fl7S 7.HU,01I S4.M7.I7! t,!M'.,S7: 6U.t43,7W 70.O77.SM 7,0l,7r8 e7,2IS.73 7, 7)11, 34 K.',, Writ, lit 71iS,lt 77.44fl.fU0 vl.at ii n .. . I- ... i .j y is i ; . 17.M'0.7'W 47.0 a.MJt) to. 1.1.!V 4! 2.tJ Tctala tain. JW,M7,b!l ISSl.n7.ltll December Totals Omaha Has Largest Lead and is Second in Silver Output Tbe OmaVa plant of the American Smelling and Refining company con ttnuts ss the largest, lead refinery la tbe world end holde second place in the refining ef allrer. The rslue ot the total refined output for JSlt, however, la a brt leae than 113, and although tbe number ot pounde ef lead refined emeeds that ot the latter year, .the .value Is teea. The total ef the refined output during 1914 has a value ef sr7.m.ns.ll. sgalnet 131,- 414,4a0.7 for lftli. The amouat ot the out put and value was: Amount. ' Value. Oold (ounce) ?.li $ sjttii.07T.ts silver tounoesj .... i,w.T.B p..w,.. Lead lxwiiKts ,! 74 .KJl,44l 00 Copper tpoondr) .... I'.V.T'l ,7,o,s.73 Mio, ainlaia (IUS.).. wiii.m Vitriol (pounds) .... I.60S.287 ldl.3el.is) Total tiTAaaa.u GREAT KlSXZZn OF WARRANTS ARE DRAWN. BY BUTLER City Commissioner Den B. Butler ef the Department at Finance and Aooounta reports that epproxlmately . war rants were drawn by Ms department In 1S11 The warrant! drawa te the first ot December were: Polios, !,tS0; fire, J.445; general. WW STOCK RECEffTS DECREASE Sheep Show the Smallest Lost with Lett Than Two Per Cent CATTLE LOSS ALSO SKALL tfnlea Stork ,Vard Company Iya Aalale Iargre Sana t Be. Spea4 tee ImprnTemaate Darlaa the Cermtaar Year. ,i At the Union Stock yards the year eras termed anything but a good one. Sev eral eattees contributed te the general results, but the result was. nevertheless. a ftlsappotntaient te tbe shippers aad the lire stack men as well. Coramfaalo mea lest money heavily and speculators were really off the market entirely several tlmea during the year. That was the general run. although there are men at the yards who seeert tbey made wore money this yesr than ever before. The boof and mouth scare, out ef which the yards came with flying colore, was one of the' causes of Ions at the local market. .The yards and the commission men worked hand In hand with the gov. ernmsnt and as a result Nebraska's feed lets were protected against the rattle plague. Cemparatlv Receipts. Analysis of the live stock receipt a for the iaat year", ending November SO, 1914, show a decrease in the receipts, of all classes ef live stock shipped In. Tbe fol lowing table ebows comparative receipts at South Omsba for this year and a year a so, ending Novmeber 0; Cattle. Itosn. Sheep. Horses. I.IW7.HM l,47,4:t OT.Mil l,D4ft,4 t,m.V4 Sl.Wt . u.0 in io.. Improvements at tbe Yards. Improvements at the stock yards Iaat year will not aggregate more than tltt.ooo and that sum will be spent on the com pletion of the new fireproof hog sheds, which are. now rapidly Hearing comple tion. At the recent meeting of the di rectors of the Union Stock Yards com pany tUS.OOQ was set aside for improve ments during the coming year. This is leas by half than the usual amount spent on Improvements each year. 1W4 W.tt IMS S74.11W Ueo .... .0 Fewer Nickels Are ; Collected by the Street Bailway Co. According to the etatement given out by the officials 1914 was something ef an off year with the Omaha Street Railway company, the receipts being considerable below thoae ot Wl. There la no reason alven for this, aside from the assertion that people did not patronise cars as much ss during the , previous year. However, It reoelpte fell off. the eoni pany continued tOibulld extenalona and keep equipment up te the standard. Two extensions were completed during the yesr. The Leavenworth street line was extended from Forty-eighth street to Vest Xawn cemetery, a distance ot one and one-half miles, and In South Omaha the Li street line was extended from Thirty-fifth te Forty-fourth street. ; Considerable reconstruction waa done, but not so much as during former years, it not having been found te be neces sary., In the Omaha shops twenty-flvs new cars were built at a coet ot 112.000. The plena for the coming year wilt be determined upon at a meeting ot the di rectors te be held tbe second Monday of this month. PACKERS RECEIPTS GAINj.8,000,000 Increase it Attributed to tha High Price Beceired at the Number Shows a Decrease. MORE MEN GIVEN EMPLOYMENT Altheaght SOU More-. Mea Are at Work tbe tVaae Pal Thras Is tas that the Tatal for a Year , Ale la the Menses. South Omaha packing houses took in mere than 18,000,000 over and above the reoelpte of a year ago. In 1913 the total receipts ot the packer a here amounted ta R',000,000. Approximately speaking, the receipts for this year wlU run to tns.000,000. of which amount 13,000, 004 ia apportioned to the independent packers In South Omaha. The packera do not make public thelr-'indlvidual re ceipts, but they are computed aa a total, and the average amount ot business done by each house may be apportioned ac cording to the size of ita force and the purchase of live stork for killing pur poses. i. The Increase in the money receipts ia attributed to the high prices paid for cattle end stock on the hoof. There is a shortage ot cattle and the packera say they pay high prices for their, stuff. Still an 1S.00O.O0O Increase over lost year in the face ot Industrial depression. The figures given put by the four large packing houses show that there are more men working for 1 them hers than were employed a year ago. Iaat year the pay roll contained the names of 7,197 men, and the aggregate amount paid them amounted to tM'0,370. Thla year the total number ef men employed la reported to be 7.S7S, almost SOS more than a year ago, and yet there are more unemployed men In South Omaha than a year ago. The tout turn paid out in wages by the packers this year amounted to 5.01&,240, or leae than waa paid less men a year sgo tor the same work, . , . Total f Live Stork Killed. Of the total number ot live stock killed In the four big packing plants ( within the last twelve months the foUoevlng Is a summary; Cattle. Hors. Armour l?5,wo t.ow) Pwlft l:i2.0iK JO.wo Cudahy lol.ttx) sio.oto Morris ...... W.S41 81S.737 Pteep.Clv'a 635,0(10 4.0OI) 4:.20t 4,K) utA Art an nrn MONEY SPENT ON CHURCHES .SPEND LARGE SUM ON ROADS- Several Building! Ruined by the Tornado Hare Been Rebuilt OTHER NEW ONES ARE PLANNED First Preaeterlaa Haa Flans Com plete for Maaatfleesit Strac tare McCabe Methodist . te to Build. ' The year of 1S14 was not the record breaker In church building that 1913 was, but the few churches which suffered damage in the 1913 tornndo and were not rebuilt that year were completed dur ing 1S14. ' The Plymouth Congregational church in Kountse place ia the largest church to build in 1914. For nineteen months that congregation ha no place of wor ship, but $12,500 was subscribed. 13,000 waa obtained through tbe affiliation with the disbanded Saratoga congregation and the aale of the old property brought Sl.250, making it possible to build the new church at Eighteenth and Emmet streets. ' ' Debt Almost Paid. The St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran church dedicated a new structure laet year. The church, which was erected at a cost of S4O.O0O, is at Twenty-fifth and Evana streets. The hustling Germans in the .congregation alao have practically paid up the small debt necessitated by the building. . ' ' The Jennings Methodist church erected a cement block building to take the place of the old frame building ruined by the tornado. The cost of that church was a little over 13.000. The Zlon Baptist church, colored, has a new 30,000 structure at Twenty-second and Grant streets. 'Considerable work wss done on the magnificent St Cecelia's cathedral, which the Catholics of Nebraska are greeting at Fortieth and Burt streeta. Tentative plans for the building ef a new First Presbyterian church at Thirty fourth and Farnam streets and a new McCabe 'Methodist church at Forty-first and Farnam streeta. The former will cost about $125,000 and tha latter about 140,000. . . , Jobbing of Omaha for 1914 Shows Total of $159,684,476 ( from Bureau ef Publicity.) ' Arinarildtna noveltlea I WC.mu Agricultural Implement ri-y ...4,lt S7.H7.M te i ., ai.iM r i..xV ! l.i .'4 I'D ., 4om M T .! at.fM t rii-t (or r iis on tha On. ha Oraia -, iini$! liwr btia an liwSuc uwni , frritr to Us to this markrt, .ud in li.o iiit f the yr ii.i I ut u ait r; ft t. 4. Aiidttut machlnea etc. AotMt.ua an4 magneeia pivaucts Automobitss Auto eoconee and supplies.. Hakr' euppltee Hale tlta irbrs supplies v... lirr lulltard and bar tUturee Hoots and shoes. ,...,.. Howling alleys HrloW and tile - butchers' supplies , Carpvts and ruse Cement, stone, ouuuinc material ("haeee China sutd crockery.... 4'herch sooda CiKiii ana luearco Clothing aad weartjig apparel..' Coal and coke Cutfeaa and teae... Confecttouerv Cratker and cakes.... Cranry nvacliiowy. supplies.. Cordage Cartxinated products latry iroluls Ixnltl suilie lry eooua and notions Pruge and sundrtas Klorirtcal auppiMe ..... ) nt.MS (sas) '. Kiiciamrs supples led and hay. 4 , V 'las s4 products.......... I lfc,Ur ................. M... to.. Kiuita and vliln r'uia and fur earnienU lurtsaa aupltae l-'u; i.uiiiin nooUe r'tiriiitura - , J trB drirtiienl euuipmeet '.rin o rvs ......... (iriv-ria IpMltlmi )lrJar tliMvy) IWr.loara l!ihl ImmcM and ao1ire ni. cai acJ giovts lt,2SJ.t 167 ,W5 si i ! S.M tft 1 ti.OwO a.w lAi!jt 114,117 !.l0 li.iwo 10, lit 4:iw .9li,k9 W.() 47.U 7,tje a.)(!i ,(. S.S77.4JO MTC.li'i t Lf'.7 ,.oo B IT6.1M) 4.1 M) l,!iO 4t, l.tiu.iw 74.44 17 ao X.swt) Sm.wO M.i.lJ 4 i. Hospital supplies Hotel supilie , Ira (artificial) Jewelry juna Liquor ,. Lumber Luhosraphlng Leather novelties Leather (sole) Machinery supplies (steam, mill) Mausaiues, news and books Mslt Mxtale Mill work, sash and doors....... Millinery Motor cycles Monuments and mausoleums.,.. Musical Instruments Oils (illuminating, lubricating).. Optical gooda Ostrrs. fish and celery.....,.... Faints ana glass Palter Picture frames ana moutainsa... phoia auppliva plumbing and heating supplies..' Poultry and etna I'umiit ai4 wind rums. Rubber suods rVaK-e (Ilsht and heavy),. 6cia (oompuling) m hoot supplies ...... tvMdS Hoap ....... Siarch tiaoa and poultry food, remediae ionerre and botllee , Moves and rens. ........ fcutar 8yrupa aad preserves &alt ... 8rena Tar and petroleum product Tents and awninse M l'nttrtakers' suppilea Wail paper Viaiinns Weathrr stripping V antilng powuvr Wlme lad and alloys .oodVnaare IM5.000 x,uuo sos ens llO.OlO 46.67 K! .44 ss.aa w.oio 45.(100 b44.01 (M,(e i,4i4 t4.e,j t, e 4.1!7 I4rr s.a.tv.i ) e iju,o tl:t.s4 S..('i J,i7,er l.t 17.4 .s,e SnO.oV s.ie lV.al 74 lat4 le.vwA , 24 () itlM) leiee i;.i 34 i '0 40,;o ' Totala.... 47S.K.a J,l3,737 L.775.SS tl,2ai ' ' ' Hoae Shove Oala. As compared with last year there Is 4 falling eft in tbe amount of live stock purchased by the packera, with the .ex ception of hose, of which there were purchased about GO.0H) head over last year's offering. In the Improvement ' line nearly alt the packera have been less than us ually active.' Armour during the last year, remodelled and modernised the hog house, making It a thoroughly fire proof building ot concrete aad steel. As the old floors are removed from the place new sanitary concrete floor are Installed. Tbe walls of the killing floor are tiled. Armour received 3.500 carloads of supplies during the last year, and shipped U,1T carloads of products during the seme period. Cudahy completed some improvements last year, but they were small and little money wss spent en anything except the fitting up ot the cannery and box factory which waa reopened recently. New Batterlae Factory. Swift Installed a buUerlne factory, thla being tbe only oleomargarine plant In operation In Nebraska. Bwlft shipped out about 11,000 cars of, products. , Morris A Co. of South Omaha did not make anjt improvements last year. The house has gradually been changing in personnel and the force Is now no longer the force Inherited from the old National. The year hae brought high prices to the packers and it haa also shown packers getting cattle and live stock at their own price. Foreign trade in the way of army contracts brought more work, but much or the stuff to be shipped waa purchased on the hoof at other markets and shipped In direct to the killing pens. la labor circles pay in lower and fewer men are able to find work. Thla is evi denced by the great number ot men who assemble each moniing at the packing house gates seeking work. The packers are looking forward to a big year In iSVL Public Schools in Omaha Show Gain of .3,000 Pupils a Day Omaha p'ubllo ' school enrollment in creased from 11.306 In 19U to 33.295 In 1U14. The average dally attendance Increased by about S.000, the figure for W14 being 17,337. Enrollment in the achools this year is divided as follows: In high achools, tiK; In grammar grades, T.11S; in primary grades, 4. KG; in the kindergarten depart ment, 3,155; in the night schools, 1,138. The night sohool enrollment shows the largest percentage of increase over the reorrda of 1911 There are SIS teachers In the 'publlo schools, and tbe average number ot pu pile per teacher on attendance is 28.4. The number of teachers this yesr was In creased from V3 to SIS, County Surveyor Tellt of Work Done by Hit Department. . ROADS ARE IN BETTER SHAPE Cob at y Liberal ia Money I'ned In tbe Repair of Bridges, Culverts aad Roads .Season Has Been Bad for Koad. According to the partial report of County Surveyor Louis Adams, Douglas county hse spent during the year 1914 approximately $153,900 on Its roads and bridges. This includes all steel and wood bridges, reinforced concrete arches snd culverts, rebuilding and repairing pavements, grading and maintaining earth roads and the opening of new roads.. There has been 15.1 miles ot maca dam pavement rebuilt with the county's crew at a cost of IX.676.10, or $1,699.40 per mile. Two miles of road were treated with tarvia. Three thousand two hun dred feet of stone pavement wss relaid by contract at a cost o"f $3,025. Following la a summery of other work done: Twenly-elx mllea of new road at a coet of $2,770 for land taken; graded 11 miles of deep grading on county roads, moving 110,693 cubio yards at an average cost of 15 cents per cubic yard; built 13 reinforced concrete culverts at a cost" of $5,D86.1, the culverts taking the place of small wood bridges; 1 reinforced concrete arch, by contract, at a cost of $3,890;. built 16 steel and S wood fcridgee. Total length of steel bridges built is 446 feet and the cost wss $29,431.68. The bridges were built with concrete wings and backing and aome with concrete floor. Total length of wood bridges is 180 feet and the cost wss $1,974.5. All bridges are built under state plans. Re pairs to bridges cost $3,304.50, Painting bridges cost $1,077.60. There was paid thla year on unfinished orders of last year 1 $18,857.85. Two road machines, worked at $17 per ! day, graded 57 miles of road at a .cost of $67 per mile. Forty-three road draga, worked under contract at 76 cents per mile, dragged 4,731 miles of road at a cost of $3,648. The county has 675 miles of road, as follows: Bix hundred and thirty-one miles earth roade. 85.07 miles macadam, 2.30 miles stone block, J.78 miles brick and 2.17 miles concrete pavment. There are at present 620 bridges of all kinds in the county, not Including those ever road ditches into farm entrances. Although the last season was .a hard one, road have been kept In good condi tion, owing to the care and attention given by the road and bridge committee, which have worked In conjunction with the highway commissioner. ... MANY DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE COUNTY CLERK Chattel mortgages, contracts and leasea filed in the office of County Clerk Dewey in 1914 amounted to 018,900. .Details are shown in the following statement pre pared In the office. ' i Number. Amount. Filed MM S2.018.900 Satisfied U7 4l.64 Hunting and fUhlng licenses amounted to $l,to4. Owing' to the war In Europe and the Inability to secure money at reasonable rates, 4he railroads in Omaha trade terri tory did ilttlo in the way of extending their lines lat year and Invading new fields. However, In order to maintain the excellent standards of the past, those same roads spent millions of dollars In betterments, Improving roadbeds and re construction. The Burlington alone expended close to $5,000,000. It completed its new line from Casper to Orin Junction, Wyo., thus opening to Omaha a vaat area of terri tory to the northwest, a territory that heretofore had been aa a sealed book, ao far as tho trade of this city was con cerned. The building of this line. In cluding scjrne tunnel work and ballasting west of Casper, meant an expenditure of $3,700,000. On the line near Guernsey, where a connection Is made with the Col orado & Southern and where work was closed down in September, $400,000 was spent The grading ot the Chalco-Tutan cut-off. giving Omaha another short line into Sioux City and Dakota, was begun and partially , completed when the work closed down in September. Up to that time 1200,000 had been expended. During the year new bridges were buUt at a cost Of $91,000. Protected y Block Slarnal. Block signal work at a cost of $200,000 was done on the main line between Omaha and Denver and $188,000 was spent In laying now ninety-pound steel rails' On fifty-three miles of the system. In dustry and team tracks were put in at a cost of $33,000. New freight houses snd depots were constructed at Superior. York and' Curtis, they costing, together with lesser improvements at other sta tions, $:0,000. New steel water tanks Snd n new coaling station were buUt at a cost of jnj.ooo. . While the Union Pacific does not give out the itemised cost of improvements snd betterments during the year, tt Is known that it has spent more than $10, OQ.000 in Omaha trade territory. During the year it put into service 5,300 new freight cars, 107 steel passenger cars and fifty heavy locomotives of tho. most Im proved . type'. 1 In improving the track. 200 miles of tno lines were ballasted, and thirteen miles of , sidetrack laid. Modern coaling stations were erected at Cnlnmhui ' nd Cheyenoe. A modern interlocking plant was ouut and la In operation at tha crossing w4th the Burlington tracks at Sterling, Colo. j ..' Every thine; Modern. To expedite the handling of locomotivea of large capacity, modern turntables were Installed at Council Bluffs, Orandi Island, Norfolk and Onago, Kan. Mod ern scalea were put in at Norfolk and Beatrice, Neb., and at a number of other points further out. New water stations were Installed at Beatrice and Gnn&. j'Flve jiew depots were built during tha year. Though the Northwestern did not build any new lines west of the river during the last year, it spent more that half a million dollars, as follows: , Industry tracks at stations. $39, 43: tracks to private Industrie, $21,744; new and remodeli-d depot. $o5,2W; bridge betterments, $169,120; track betterments. $118.92l; Improvements to station build ings and grounds, $19,603; steel water tanks, $7.tto; new buildings, $64,500; spe cial assessments. $12,8; equipment. $5.Mo; total, $a28,&l. - The Missouri Pacific, finished rebuild ing its Nebraska lines, as well as com pleting the second track ot the Belt line. Thla work and that of the reconstruc tion ot a number of bridges meant tbe "- '"". v. I'.UIU .(tail 9lV,VW Omaha arid eastern Nebraska. ' Omaha Manufactures for 1914 Total $196,312,537 Grand total. ..U.tH.t Fire Loss During Last Year Shows A Big Deorease rue, Chief Baiter report that toes In the city by fire for tbo year 1914. from Peceroawr 1 to December L, decreased by more tbsa t'.OO.ojo compared with the 19U record. Only 111.73$ waa loot by fire ever and above Imuran oa. The total loss to build ings aad content waa t?l.9ti3, against $.7.(11 for the year preceding. One life was lost by fire and thirteen persons were Injured. The chief causes of tha Sit fires In the etty during tho year were eparks from ilttmneye. burning of rubbish, cigar and tigaratte stubs, sparks front locenvotlves and chiikbrea playing with matchea. A total ef M fire alarms wre turned la. The bitfgeat loss my fire was that of the home of 1 l Naah. 3M7 Burt etreet. ahua aa valued at $2S.tl. (From Bureau ot Publicity.) Alfalfa teed W Art slan and mirror W.uuo Automobile bodies and acces- sortes 306,300 Artificial limbs : ,0 Asbestos products 17. 2i liaas and hag factory product.. .l(m Makers' supplies ' H4.- lt&rltra alLlMlUea l.l0 Marrels , Maer V- i'.ird food 1... lUue prints -. Hollar compound Motion, smoke stacks, etc Moots and shoes Moxea (wooden and paper) Break and bakers products ..... Mreaktast foods Mruk and stune tools Mi li k and tile Mrourna Mruhta, Hun hor and bar supplies Mutter (creamery) Candy Cuns Caj'boualed products Cars and rollina stork (rebuilt) Oment stone and blocka Ctgara (lav target .... Clothing .- Oomlcos and aheet meuu I 3,9!3.4t3 l'l.&oO U750 12.0H0 70.U O 775.01 K79.344 1.0iO r5.4i 3,t 14,iX ,7!Ui T7.SL0 14S l,6i4.;ssl S-a.r.'4 441. 0 tf.ut 1.9MJ.IKIO 1.1S Crackers and cakes 1.1. w Urates tbanaaa) Cut glass , 9.4. Cut stone .., IW.uuO I'rug l!i..M) Ksg caaaa. tillers, at a 4.IMU tiKtrl.nl machinery, supplies and future Sll,0no Reculcity. light and power I,,l'.te4 Klectrot ping and stereotyping.. Mt Knvnlopv i,'"i Fencing 47.&JI Four and mill products f.- Koldlna ntai'-iiina Foundry products .................. Frine work Fruit sprays ,. Kumar supplies Furniture (labinet) Furs and fvur garments .......... Gaaee Oal equipment Grocer erievialtlee Hair good Hard a are plaltiMt liarneaa uui aatMia Ilata. vapa and glove Hotel auppiiea K-o ierurUial) Saewa'aaawsa-e-a U CrSdsfllU ' M4.44e4MMMMM4..4 Itl lllota' iHCLfal . ...... ....... ...a a. 4.0U) 370. ill) ll.feH) 11 ).! 44.tM) l.OM 0 ii oo lUtfO 171..X) eo.i 14 J 4i;i 4uv..sa Jewelry 7'!J3 Labels (lithographed) 75.004 j-eatn.ir bulling 4v.uv Leather good ' 2.".(HX Lead pipe 74.&Z7 1-ad and Hhot 44.61 I.islitniitg rods 4.CM Liquor S."hii.iiO Macaroni and noodles i"ii.') Machine shop specialties.... '.VZ.'M Malt isi.Oti SI eta 11 ic packiiiir I.'i.'tuo Milk (condensed) lS.nuo Mtli woik, aah and door U77,u0 Mimument and Mausoleum work l'-"7.m0 Mutor cars 21J.515 Motor car parts ...... &u,tfl Moving plvtuia Mm..., It. 12" Uftloe" fixtures K7.0H0 Optical goods , lSVKiT Packina house products U3.444.ui7 Paints H,'0 Pate 4,'Krt photo engraving . W.017 rtunos trebullO 5(ili2 in turt franiva and moulding.. 32. K)" ttllow and bedding 2,'.t.iO) 'laiir.g , lsi.W Potato chip V. iMt I'riiitiiig anl publishing... 3j.!v3 froducts of renJvrlng works iM.m rlntvrs' supplies a.. S.1") lutty 15.7:4) Ksllvay signals , 4o.00 Reed furniture Hoad making machinery alo.vn) Hoach poader Ruaa 8, I'M Hull her stamp and stencils...... H ianilary duaung lag 1.3"0 tad irona lo.wO Screeiui 2i-tw) Poap products t.70.0Kj isns s. 130. D Smeller products 27.1 M. 148 tianh is.i ttock and poultry Ctoves and ronsea lw.0) Street oar bodle MVCHO tlnictural sterl 6 J 1 . 7 ' Surgical sdppliee - 13.4.VI f weeping cuunxund .i4 Hvrupe and preeervea 22A.au) Tags and gummed label lii0 Tank 2J4,t Tar and petroleum pioducta...... W.D Tent sad awnliiK 174 t4 Tobacco pliiea too.ifv Imlet preiuiration Trunk aad traveling has ltvftH Truck 7 lTi)ibrellaa 1 'lnKar and pkkle....., fr.tit Wun While, lead Vhtpai jtvjw Wktrr pruuf products. l.k In Greater Omaha is. Among Leaders in ' Use of Telephones There is uow more than one telephone for every five persona or 21.7 telephones for every 1(H) people In Omaha. This means that Omaha ia tbe third city In the United Ftatcs and the fourth city In the world in telephones per population. Comparing Omaha with some ether cities, Washington, D. C. haa 13.7 tele phones per 100 population.; Chicago, 13. U Boston, 11. and New York City t.i. while in Kui-ope Stockholm has 22.S telephones per 100 population; London, S.4; Paris, 3.2; Vienna, 8.7. and Antwerp IX Omaha's Benson exchange now baa 775 telephones; Douglas, 14.063; FloneJice. 443; Harney. o,7ai; Tyler. 1.93; Webster. S.834; Walnut. Z.!?3, and South Omaha 3.981. or a total of 86,840 telephones in Greater Omaha, a growth ef l.fc20 telephones dur ing the last year. The telephone 1 now handling about 60000 call a day through Us eight exehanget Uurlng the Inst year the Walnut ex change haa been built and put in opera tion at Forty-sixth and Izard street. About the middle of next summer the company expecta to complete the in stallation of equipment in tbe Colfax exchange, the building for which already has been erected at Thii-tleth and Fowier avenue. The pay-roll of the Nebraska Tele phone company In Greater Omaha thte year was slightly under $1,000,000. repre senting the salaries of about 1300 era- piuye. Total $1H31 atf POLICE COURT BUSINESS SHOWS BIG FALLING OFF Police court business fell off to a marked degree during 1S14. as compared with figures of the year preceding. The statistics, ss compiled by Clerk of the Court Tom O'Connor, are as follows: 1911 Finrs $ S.yw.oe fot ?,im..ie Forielted bonds ItillnM.i&t ' 1S11 I 4.4J SS 1.1410) UtJaSi Totals l3S.s34.Te l!.l7 U Arrest bound ovar, Jia. gTli liu. 911 Appeals, 1U, lsii, u.