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NEBRASKA'S biggest asset
is the South Omaha Live
Stock Market. It means more
millions to Nebraska than any
other business enterprise. ;
J)URING 1914 nearly seven
million head of live stock,
worth $150,000,000.00, were
handled at the South Omaha
market. The packing estab
lishments at South Omaha
annually manufacture more
than $100,000,000 worth of
meat products and other com
modities. J)URING 1914 the Union
Stock Yards Co. handled
938,817 cattle, 2,258,620 hogs,
3,113,889 sheep, 30,688 horses,
a total of 83,139 cars. During
the year all records for prices
were broken.
'JUE Union Stock Yards Co.
of Omaha has made a
home market for the western
stock raiser. In approxi
mately thirty years it has
grown from nothing to the
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third largest live stock mar
ket in the world, and it has
made stock raising a safe and
profitable business.
THE Union Stock Yards Co.
of Omaha does not buy
or sell live stock of any kind.
It employs no agents to eithr
er buy or sell. Its sole busi
ness is to receive and handle
live stock for the shipper,
pending sale to the buyer,
packing houses or feeders. It
has spent upwards of $1,250,
000 in the past six years en
larging its facilities. Together
with 'its allied industries
more than 10,000 men are
employed.
THE Union Stock Yards Co.
of Omaha has now the
mosr modern plant in the
world. It has made a market
for Nebraska right at Ne
braska's, fr nt door. South
Omaha furnishes the best all-the-year-round
market for
live stock.
71ien You Ship to South Omaha You
oost for Yourself and Nebraska