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Live Stock Center Moves West
Just as Chicago at one-time looked for ward7 to being the first live
stock market, so Omaha is today looking forward to soon being able
to. take the place of Chicago as the world's greatest live stock center."
Men of this territory believe in Omaha as the coming world's greatest
- live stock center because of the fact that the live stock market of
the country is continually moving West as it always has done.
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Packing Industry Basis of
Land Values
The price of grain raised on the farms-of this territory de
pends on the growth of the Omaha Market, so upon the mar
ket depends the price of farm lands, and as out cities are de-
pendent upon the success of the farmers ol this territory, we
are all dependent upon the Omaha market for the success of
any business in this great Missouri Valley territory.
Live Stock on Hoof of No
Value as Food
The Skinner Packing Company is just completing at
Omaha the world's most modern packing plant, this packing
plant is really a gigantic machine built for efficiency. It has
every modem convenience and has taken advantage of every
efficient method for turning all lands of live stock into food
' products. This plant has a modem canning department,
fertilizer department, and every facility for getting all the prof
its there are to be had in the meat packing business. All live
stock that enters this market must be put through such a ma
chine as this before it has any real value a? food.
World's Most Modern and
Efficient Plant
For turning the live stock that arrives at this market into
food, a plant of this'kind receives a certain profit.
The tonnage that runs through a plant in a day is enor
mous, and the more efficient the plant, the less this tonnage
has to be handled, and the less labor used in putting live stock
througn a plant of this kind, the more profitable the business.
Never has a plant been built before that will turn live
stock into food products as economically as will the plant of
the Skinner Packing Company.
The Skinner Packing Company has a capital of $10,
000,000. Most of this capital has been placed with far-see-
ing, conservative investors of this Missouri Valley territory. ,
Such a plant has not been built in Omaha heretofore.
While there are large, successful independent packing
plants at practically every other market of any consequence
in the United States, there has heretofore been no real large
independent packing plant on this market, which means that
the Skinner Packing Company represents a real epoch to
those who are interested in developing and building the mar
ket here at Omaha.
Food Product Business
Staple f
All food product businesses are staple businesses. Each
morning every man, woman and child in the world wakes up
hungry and must be fed.
The packing business is a logical business for Omaha,
because the raw material is here.
At no other point in the world can meat products be
manufactured at a more reasonable price.
Meat Packing Business
Highly Profitable
The history of the meat packing business es one of big
return to the original investors. There has never been a
failure in the business by companies that were properly fi
nanced, but it is a business that requires large capital.
No plant in this country has ever opened up as well
financed and with as large an amount of working capital back
of it as is today true of the Skinner plant. Few, if any, plants
have ever opened up with so strong and experienced packing
house organization as is the organization that will operate the
plant of the Skinner Packing Company.
As an illustration from page 81 1 of part 2, Government
Report, the Federal Trade Commission's investigation of the
Packing Industry brought out the undisputed fact that the
corporation of Swift & Co. started with a capital of $300,000,
which was represented by the assets and good will of the
partnership of Swift & Co.; and the stockholders paid $240,
000 cash as a loan for a year and a half , and that the first
dividend was paid January 21, 1886, 6 per cent, amounting
to $18,000; and that the second dividend was paid October
11, 1886, amounting to $913,074.27, which included the
repayment of the stockholders of the $240,000 loan, and
$673,074.27, or 230 per cent dividends on the capital of
$300,000 within eighteen months of its organization.
Most men interested in the great packing companies of
today were poor men within the lifetime of men now living.
Today practically every man who has been financially inter
ested in any one of the great packing companies for the past
twenty years is a millionaire, and those who had large inter
ests are multi-millionaires. '
Eighteen months ago the entire market value of the stock
of Swift & Co. was $1 1 7,020, 112. Today the market value
of Swift & Co.'s stock, with its subsidiaries, is $327,362,548.
In other words, if you were fortunate enough to have owned
$1 0,000 worth at the market of Swift & Co.'s stock less than
eighteen months ago, your investment today on the market, in
addition to your interest, would show a gain of over 1 50 per
cent. This gain was brought about to Swift & Co.'s stock
holders through stock dividends and the right to subscribe for
additional stock in the original company and subsidiaries at
far below the market value.
Experienced Organization
and Successful Men
The President and Vice President of the Skinner Pack
ing Company are the same men who built up the wonderfully
successful business of the Skinner Manufacturing Company,
the world's largest manufacturers of macaroni products, and .
tjie Skinner Baking Company. " Investors in the securities of
these companies have always received liberal dividends.
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A Fully Participating Company
There is no promotion stock in the Skinner Packing
Company, and the stock is fully participating and preferred
as to assets and is sold direct by the company.
The stock that you can secure at this time, and which
will never again be offered, is an 8 per cent guaranteed, pre
ferred, fully participating stock. The company has no other
class of preferred stock, bonds or mortgages.
This Is Your Opportunity
It is the object of the management of the Skinner Pack
ing Company to distribute the shares of the company as much
as possible. We would like to see every man, woman and
child in this territory at least have some interest in this great
industry. That is the foundation upon which we all must
work, and as there is only a very limited amount of the Skinner Y
Packing Company's securities that can be secured at this writ
ing, in your own interest, we advise you to take advantage
today of the opportunity offered, by mailing us the inquiry
coupon attached.
Do not confuse the securities of this company with those
of any other company being offered in this territory. These
securities stand in a class by themselves. They are fully par
ticipating in the profits of the business and they are the
securities of one of the strongest financially rated corporations
in this whole Missouri Valley territory. It is a home owned
corporation. Any business man can secure a rating on the
Skinner Packing Company from Dun's or Bradstreet's which
will show that this company carries the highest financial rating
and is officered by successful business men of integrity.
If you are thinking of purchasing stock in any corpora
tion, you will find that your banker will recommend the stock
of the Skinner Packing Company above any other security.
Your banker knows that Slnnnpr
pany is a successful, strong financial institution S
with a wonderful future and that the more y
successful the company, the more
successful will be every other S skinner packing company,
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