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AL to be found anywhero. The company | etock-raising and <hipping interests of | underwent reorganization, strangers Russell & Company. | Tenth avenue and Twelfth street, [ nex having the entire confidence of the | ing the hostof trackage for live stock are role proprietors of the Durham sys- | the west. In this regard its clientele | came, saw, and were conquered, and be- The firm of Russel & Company of Mas- | Their main building is a substantial | business public. 1t numbers among its | or manufacturing purpose To faoilie brick structure 40580 feet in dimension, | depositors the most substantial busine tate still further these various operas The jobbing | sillion, Ohio, is repeesented here un- ruct: ( ! ! (. Harris, twostories in height, and their engine | men of the tewn of drainage for this territory. This | extends over more territory, verhaps, | came citizens of the city, ¥ room 18x48 feet. Their entire plant is The bank has a capital of #1 system is being placed in the new Beo | than Any other pani of the dity, Iv 1§ | ana wholasale trads looked up, - Marts | gt tne management ‘of tions a beltline of railroads was buile \ x 0,000 and | connecting with all the other lines of building, a #25,000 contract and also | the only nk at the facturers saw the opportunities, factor- | The company was ostablished in 18 4 4 specificd for the New York Life In- | affording every convenience and ad ies sprung_into existence, real estato | and incorporated in 1988, They are thoroughly equipped with all the latest | a surplus of $30.000. Its officers are: | railroads and affording inlimited track | steadily advanced, a healthy growth | manufacturers of slide valve, throttling and most improved machinery, such as | Edward Blewett, president; 1. H. Bar- | facilities, The company have pat up tage. enjoys the undivided |r.|(mn'\gl‘ of shippers, commission merchantsand | wasstimuiated. pulses qu surance company building. as w v. Marshall Bierbower M. Williams, | large stock yards and alarge packing Lumbard, n«uhu\( house with ned, Coun- | povernor and nutomatic cut-off engines flooring. resawing.surfacing, moulding, | nard, vice-presidon A W ssvevatoLier buildings n this city. | nll whose trade lies with the 3 cil Bluffs bocame an attractive point, | The latter is desig espocially for anda full line of sash and door ma- apacity of 600 hogs per They furnish estimates and make con- | Among its stockholders are the fore- | She threw off the well tattered garb of | electric lighting. mills and elevs itors, | Chinery necessary for their business. ir 'S A day ith all n,,‘ latter and most ape tracts for furnishing buildings in this | most local as w ign capit; the country town and assumed the livery | punning from 25 to 800 horse power in I'heir buildings are heated by steam B. Colson, H. proveda appointments, ty and sucrounding territor Its officers ¢ S of tne metropolis. e arose to digni- | sizo. They muke a gpecial feature of and connected with the main water | L. \In\ vard Blewett, Ray Boesides these there are upon this belt Py dent, Will A. Paxton, vice fied proportions and to-day has a di those engines which are noted as being Pipes of the city Boing located on the | H. Rogers, J. T. Smith, . M. ¥ railrond convenient locations for ¥ vast PUMPS AND ENGINES. dent, and _F Branch, cashier. Its | tory of over eight thousand people, rep- [ marvels of simplicity, durability and | Union Pacific and Northwestern rail- | and E. N. Morse. number of manufacturing enterprises, i number = road tracks, gives them very superior o~ giving them suporior facilities for ships correspondents are among the best | res¢nting a population of nearly thirty- | steadiness of power. = Among ping and receiving freight. The United States Wind Engine and | financial institutions of the countey. Y thousand souls, pormanent, entor- | of eities where their automntic cut-off | facilities for receiving raw materis Pump Company - 016 and 918 Jones | [t hus a capital of $200,000. [ts savings | prising and self-supporting, Her manu- | engines are in nse for electric lighting and ‘]”,"ll'””u their nulmurnuwrm\ ]prn- 3 hed ——— Btsest. department, recently rized, where- | factured products for the year ending De- | purposes may be mentioned: Missouri | duets. They give employment to about [ as a private bank bp Hopkins & Millard T \ ik | nty hands, and their goods are sold | in 1874, In 1898 it was orgnnizod us LINCOLN. e, Nor- | tw K000 1877, aggregated & Blair, Lincoln, Holdre ¥ by interest is paid on deposits, is not | cember H1 Valley, In the fall of 1885 this firm began op- SURUANaeS [l tire {oostite o, i6hs stores joining Tie | the least feature of this excellent insti- [ value, embracing wagonsand carringes, | folk, Council Bluffs, Gibhons L ade in the city and vicin- [ national bank, with a capits #4 " oo SO :{lu:‘m‘um‘n’;x;.‘r ::'“|<I'F:'.':v'||:‘u’.‘|dJ‘:t‘::‘:::t I\l.:xlm tution. knit goods, flour and meal, sash, doors Springs. The Couneil Bluffs branch ity which was increased in ‘ptember, l:‘:' capital city of Nebraska has early the necessity for more room was g and blinds, trunks, pumps and wind- | under the manageme REAL ESTATEH AND LOAN. 1880, to $150.000, its present capiial, | Mde wmoro romarkable growth, pore manifested, and their present location, PACKING INTEREST. mills, tool handles, wrought and cust | has for territory, lowa. Net ¥ It surplus is $10.0%0. The offivers aros | hbs, than iny other western city. Tho where they have the use of five floors ; = iron work, and steam boilers. Her | kota, Colorado and Wyoming ) n“. L. M. Keene, president: H. Fuhirman, | possession of exceptional railroad face and o basernent, is the legitimate result SWIFT & CO. wholesale and Jobbing trade amountod | company have branches at U yie presidents Julius Bockman, cash- Pl A \‘1"“‘”::{[;\.'.I.l.‘.';.“r:: :v‘:lnmn:‘é ir oxtensive business. The suc- . 3 to over $23,000,000. nearly £4,000000 of esotay Portiand, 30 B i cav, | €r, and levin Kennon. assistant s olesale & I cturin LA D 't | Stockyards, South Omaha, Nebraska. | which is to be creditod U6 the BEHEUTE 1 Colnaads L””J.'..'."l \ AP IR o o Bl B bk A (TG N VT D), RINHS and no city west of the Missise ;,L:‘;r'[)uunll]]'rllnt:k i filing orders with | - Fhis branch house of the Chi tural implement business, a business csin the 11“..“|_““‘\;'-‘““”fl‘?l‘;l""1:}]{':'“g“(':‘l_:l"ln‘[-‘l--Ifiuil;"i avis; W D Otho \,‘ enare, | S0P possessos Vottsr advay the best class of_goods at th lowest 1 business in the South On having an invested eapital of about e TG lone Tt sicoues, | L P Lntson AL H. Hindn Fahr- (|i\v\ :\;uo)n in this particular, market prices. Their stock compri November, 1887. Their 0.000. This is the second city in Ty Tally Gan N s ILi I man, A, "Truesdell, \\.n..... 'Pried and _ Lincoln {Au Iunnu‘ people, and the everything in the line of plumbing, i building cover an area of thirteen the United States in the importance of Darde fho) oetate businoss, | Le M. Koene, Theve are sixth-cight | | dity “" h which sho has acquired Sewm-fitting, and_water-works supplics | 1¢1¢ and ..mqm_nr four distinet build- | that line of trade. and ialces £ lending snecitlty of invests | Stockliolders in " the bank, and l'“-* popu :'»'""| is shown by tho fact as well as wind-mills, feed-mills, horse- | INES of the following dimension: One For the year ending December 31st, ":_ Rk St ottt Ll_”.l\‘ AL ”h”:‘ " | the fil ors n the rep- ‘Im-‘ i 1880 |\.-m..‘u_..,.‘ showod that powars, tinks, ]u”m‘ pipe-fitting, belt- [ Duilding 288x250 feet, three stovies; one | 1857, the réal estate transfers amounted o e los o Tarraet Hookege BLoD- | resontative ' business men of the ,‘_"“ bt 14,000 people in the cit T, hose. ote. | They mike. @ specinlty | uilding 350 by 80 foct, four stories: ono | to # To and including the SRR, Wt I Gt R e donerony | city. The manngement of the bank is | This number hud incrensed to 20,000 in of puteing in 6ity - and’ villag building 64x46, three stories, and a | 26th of November, 1888, the transfers WEIR-SHUGART CO., B s it o s for posiditnee and. | safe and conservative and has shown a 158, and in the succecding yoar to al- Works int tonsthucting vatlw boiler room Hix64 feet, They have a | footed $1,55: 57. The figures are nilinn with a1l the easential deratlEor [ lavge increase in their business during | most 50 REEHb showing a population ROppLy sttions; This house capucity of killing 600 cattle’n day ; mathematic correct, the writer tuk- JOBNERS OF LIRS R, the pust year. Mr. Keeno, the president, “’,l.I~ il Tas R v questionably the largest assortment of from 1,000 to 1,500 hogs a day. They | ing them from the records, Nine- R “.“(-\“mw\‘-’w‘;N‘“_ succe Mr. Hopkins on his retive- | i Ui Ll '"U‘"\‘“?* of Lin- supplies in’ th lines to be found in | ¢mploy 850 hands, ho works are [ tenths of the property comprehende ssogy Yl ””“‘n.\ “-f.i-h {I‘ DAV, HE ment s been its vice president [ €Ol are ‘hy:n\ wholesale and manu- the west. Owing to their increased | lizhted throughout with 600 incande fers went to boua fide s AGRICULTURAL ML e m:f.'. s '\n has, 1 gine Nization, succeeding to the | facturing, 'Theve ave about seventy- Tavilitios for storage and shipping, | At lights of the Fort Wayne Jenn be gathered from the fi through his long: experience, fully ac | presidencg on the consolidation of Hop- | five wholosale firms in tho city, embe they ‘are in a better position thap | SYstem. Twoof the Hamilton Corlys dwelling houses were 118 and 115 Main Stecet e by also builds houses. which ave | Xins & Millurd and Richards & Keono, [ ing every article of commeree, besides . 7 engines of 223 horse power each is re- 87, ranging in v \ conih Day also builds housos, which are | they do n_general bauking business, | 0 lavge number of manufacturing en- erprises. The streets of the city are wide, well vid out, and paved with brick or block avements, and the buitdings lining the ‘ets in the business section of the | are not surpassed by any city of ity I 2 in the country, -~ We r w below ever before to fully nd promptly fill all orde Their factory at Batav 11, is, beyond .pu-mumlhn- largest wind-mill ‘and tank factory in the world. IMere they manufacture four dif- nt styles and forty-two various sizes of umfllmll\ ranging from eight to in diameter. Aside from the Y MEnt.on easy terms, | pueand sell state, government and 5, IOWA. to suit the purchaser. inicipa s o axchange: : A leading specialty is made of the real | JECTREL PORR IS S XL estate and loun department of the busi- | hayics in all the leading money centers quired in the runming of their exten- [ 1, (mnm 1yonu at a total cost of & sive works. This firm is_one of the [ 500, while the building permits largest, if nov the largest, dressed beef | houses completed and under construc- company in the world and their busi- | tion to and including November 1th, LA ¢ ) in ness extends throughout the country as | 1888, show a total of 807 of the total ness, and all purtics intending making | ofhe United States. well ns in Europe.. The* busine; (000, improvements. investments ov the pu established in 1877, and the e ase in value is accounted chise or sule of real estate, will do well | pypmers' and_ Merchants' National to place their business in the hands of Banics PRohoRTE N, Cot NCIL B some of its leading banking, wholesale pany with hu establishment they operate | Was incorporated on A pril 1, 1885, wi the fact that laboring men, 3 e, Bl DR LN S S RLABI LRAE VeI : | u ! a5 < i port | the following oftic G. . Swift, and those of small means hav e 5 L3 ¥ s ’ his prominent banking institution | and manufacturing fivms which have L S Mo., Forb |\ Saidents I, O president | been building houses the present ye ERIDGE BUILDERS. interests will receive prompt attention. | s “originally established as a state | built up the eity of Lincolu to its a SRR L g s | Lo . Swift, tre . 1. Hartwell, [ a strong indication and proof of the cor T e . AMr. Day represents the Counecticut | yypkc by George W. 15 Dorsey in 1876, [ sent commanding position. bave agencies in every state in the SRS M e 8 BE ¢ bove made. | MIUWAUKEE BRIDGE AND IRON | Mutual Life Insurance company and the 1 ovganized as tional’ bank { okl union, and in every civilized country in ary. My . Poster is the su- [ rectness of a suggestion above made, WO Lombard Tn vesimont commmn ) ot e | and organized as a national bank in Ty 4 S T . RTWorlas perintendent at the yards at this point. | that the population was permanent, en- RS, R e ’ RV fio 1884, It has a paid up capital of $60,000 =0 ational Ban 4 o —_ terprising and self-supportin Coun- i CARBLOTTOoR (P ACtRE iR R '}‘.jl' L I ansy toloanon | ayd a surplus of $21,000. 1ts officers are This bank wasorganized asa nationul B N & Co. 1213 ana 1215 | The Armour-Cudahy Packing Com- | cil Bluftshias now reached a point in her SRrhiti ety VAL it UGS D uar il bl George W. B, Dorsey, president; C. H. | bank in 1871 with vital stock of bl DR it . pany. growth where, by the law of momentum CERANUGENEFRIATCHE Toncray, cashier, and William 13, | $100,000. In 1885 it was od o M ARG AL This company commenced business | she must continue to grow. Linked [ This comvany, whose office and works | € 9. Colby, Offices-Masonic Temple. | Smails, assistant cashier. The directors [ and the capital increas 0,000 This firm has one of the foremost | November 8, 1687, havin with Omaha by ties firmer than the | are located in' Miiwaukee, was estab- | Mr. Colby has Been in the real estate | ave George W. Dorsey, James W. | Its officers . . Brown, pi b 5 J. Tmhoff, vice president; K. K ness i’ this city for two years. Pre- | Love, Otto nm-mi William . Smails, | dent WfTs | John Hauser, George A. Dodge, John | Ha O. Milligan and C. H. Toncray. M, | sistant cashior. steel of which that grand structure, the | lished in 1860, and their experience, ca- | bus new bridge, is built, it mast grow: she | pacity and ities for the constiue- | vious to his location in Con t develop, her population must in- | tion of this elass of work ranks with the | he occupied a position in depots of machinery and mechunic spplinnecs . in the west. Their | Pnown ion, hier, and C. C. Waite, rea embrace cverything required | cping an B ) the construction of engincering | ground. During the past year thio Dork | Gronso; BeoALRo tho resolibces whiGh at. | Vst 1n thib western countey, The o tment of the U, Dorsey has heen president and Tone The directors are E. I, Brown, M. B. echanismand includes power engines, | Sjaughter house been unurnlv re- | tract population are constantly inercas W. H. Keepers, president: g disposed of 415 its cashier since orgunization. © [ Cheney, Imhoff, . Finney, | . boilers, steam pumps, sawmills, shaft- [ 14il¢and vemodeled and now hasa ea- | ing. She must be enetited by and secrctary, and A, T. Riddell, Prior to this connection withthe | They do a general banking business [ Hayden, H. L. Smith and G. M. Lam- ing and various mechanical devices,the ity for killing 5,000 hogs ver A | share in the favors so lavishly showered | vice president and treasurer. They de- [ U. I R. R.. he represented the C. B, & | and the affairs of the bank are managed | berison. exclussve ageney for which in this ter- | aminoth building of three has | upon Omah: 1 and are manufacturers of all kinds | Q. R. R., at Creston, lo in th in a safe and conservativé manner. Mr. Hayden, the cashicr, came from: Omaha, Naving occupied a position at First National Bank of Omaha for and was also con- Nebraska National for tor B st of the old plant, with And Council Bluffs is notworthy of | of “bridges and iron structural work for | land department thus giving him anin- | The have a 10 per cent dividend since amonyg these latter are the celebrated | glendid track frontage, comprising the | distinction and rapid development. She | all pur) They give employment to | timate and thorough knowledge of real wtion and have a surplus of $21,- Blake, Blakeslce and Valley steam | following departmen is backed and environed by as rich an | about 130 men at their works. and do | estate values. He handles his own real | 000. A pumps, the Pect valves, the wire Ham hou with ten large smoke | agricultural country as everfound place | an average busiu of §1,000,000 per or additions which he controlsex- Its correspondents Hanover Na- | neeted with the vope of the Trenton lron compuny, | houses adjoining, eapreity 600,000 | on the map of any country in the world. | year The company are now building | clusively, he makes a specialty of hand- | tional bank and Kountz Bros., New [ three y. vk Continental Nattonal, Citicugo, | The bank ha vitory this house holds. Prominent | hoen erected w a capital of 150,000 and the Kilmer “*Arrow” and “Adjustable’ | pounds per He upor-nbundant | @ bridge across the Detroit river at | ling funds for non-residents and gener- | Yorl bale ties for hay binding, ete., as well Lard and oil refin four stories, ed- | croy . wheat, hemp | Belle Isle, costing $250,000. ally with profitable results. He al and United States National, of Oma a surplus of W00, and is one of the as other o hed "’l"" 5 ty for making and shipping 1,000 | and potatoes ure Jiwn the husbandman Campbell located in this city in | represents the interests of the Omah = most substantial in the city. t it Smelting works in building | Western Trust and Security Com- tion. Of the Kilmer bale ties ficient perhaps to say t in abundance in retuen for his toil. Th corn crops of 1t in the report of th 1 society, and the r suf- | gierecs of lurd per day, in all s that_they have [ waoden ad tin packages. which such e department, capacity ted and their [y ounas per day. s the western agent of the com- | and G = % i ¢ | houses and selling them to laboring pany, Fremont. OapistiNstionatgianic JrincolniEN o s men on mnnlhlv piyments. They have [ This company is a_development of & This leading banking institution was R v built six” Nouses and expeet to 3 wing business, con- | Originally organized in 1878, and organ- 5 L A national bank in 1884 with a md Las charge of the territo west of the Mississippi rviv civil enginecr and designs s superiority s sully conceded. department, eapacity 40,000 cultural departmentat \vm““.rm... tends the coustruction of ) to 75 more 1 the early Richards & | i ) The same remark well apply res, per di places this s in | this company in his ter 7 ese houses are 5 room cot- h their gen- [ capital of £00,000. to another line of good lusively Tin shop, capacity eq to the re- icain the corn crop of 1888, and | Campbell is a native of Prince Edward's are sold for %50 cash and estate business, and wh he officer: Mosher, presi- § handlediby Brownell {&iC 'vl”"‘ 'l’f'f""‘ quirements of the canning room and [ the crop of this (Pottawattamic) County | isiand and has been inthe United States | $15 per montn for seven years without | while still in the hands of that fiem | dent, H. S, Wals ice-prosident. R, | Wood Split pully of whi -h_L'u- undispu- | pefinery. is equalled to that of 1885, which wus | nineteen years, and in business forhim- | interest. Queen city placcowned jointly | had extended to all parts of north and Outealt, cashier, and J. W. Maxwell, § ted claim is made that it is the lightest, | Wwith beef slaughter and storago nd never equalled before | seli for fourteen years before he asso- nd E. A. Bensou, is lo- | south Nebraska. The company was in- stant enshior. ¢ do a general banking business, a "n(c]\\(l The field potatoes are 90 | cia himself with this company. el to the acre, second to but one of .\mml;_ the |nnminem wor| I\ handled great surplus states of the Union, Minnesota These ave influences which r‘.\nnm be 1d has the most® perfect bal- | oyse. four ance and belt surface of any pully on | eattle per d the market to-day. The firm also has | “'Phe buildings of this immense plant agency for the well known Cooper |y cover an area of fully fifteen acres. wagon and various specialties in shaft- [ During the past year thi ing, belting and iron work. The sta- | |lled and packed 498,0 overcome, added to which is the addi- l"u\n-:-mnlh R S o e tionary engines und boilers of their | meats have been shivped to all parts of | tional one that a ready market for all | Col.: the I straet viaduct at South manufactur made the firm of | the United States; also to Ingland and | productions is found at the door of the | Omiha, the rebuilding of a pied'by them in the spring and give | Gotl, ). I Brownell & Co., known throughout the | Germany. The house is now most | produe bridge on the Missouri riv employment to 150 hands. On the same | J. 13, Itu region. and the fact that they are | fyvorably known all through the coun- 1t has not been possible toobtain com- | enworth, which was partially de. ~l|u\ul addition ure located the Skandia Plow | stockholde A aaat b ety (W) gy t hottc ar | corporated in the fall of 1885 for the ! power house, and : still more suecessfulprosoeation of the | buy wid scll bonds, drafts. forcii for manufa business. Its D. Rich- «!(tnwsm_' exchang T (. Bugay com- | ards, presidents J. Tho dircotors wro among the lending &, butlding a four | dent. and W. 10. tial business men of weasurer. Di and their depositors_embri.ce veady located there which will be oceu- | L. M. Ke ding merchants of the city. nd D, Tichards, ahrman, J. W. . J. Van Deventer, and It ‘includes among its s number of the heaviest York, Boston, and Vitrified Paving and Presse 1 Brick Company, Lincoln, Neb. This company are manufacturers of hoadguar nd classes | ypy and has the strongest connections, | plete statisties of the volume of business | by iire, besides bridges in [ company, Weir - Shugart company italists of N % S 4 of mechar gupolice s especially in the south and west of the | at the present time. Such figures as | Iowa, N ! ! and the Star Unior Lumber company. | other eastern points, and places alarge I‘"‘_".‘%"l_|""““"“‘! and building brick, e JERa G b ary | United States and Europe. are before the writer” indieato largo | Also “in connection their iron | Mr. Colby has opened a branch office at | amount of money on farm loans for peo- | their plant being the largest in tha in ad - construction has given 1887, approximating an | bridge work handled from the oftice, | S0th and Broadway in this city and also | ple in those eastern localities, and has | West, coveriag five ncres of ground, and them o Inrge sharo of the patronage of Omaha Packing Co. per cent in the different | they doa wholesale business i in Omaha. had @ suceessful carcer. Within the | has @ capacity of 100,000 brick per day. the west in this line, The interests of u}u \u;{\n-;\mcncl\a branches of trade. bridge material of all ¢ FRE\‘“ INT past year the manufacturing and gen- xm{ ':;L'('l';\'“‘(’ &:u‘(lhll]"l‘;:‘l"u“”"': t'i'" rest Packing Company h een merge The National Bureau of Health sus- —— { eral interests of Fremout have devel- cut do g ch insures ¢ UNDERTAKERS. into a new organization known as the | tains the records of the city clerk that FURNITURE. 2= e d) an extent as to induce the com- | the \most Li"“"“’ ]"",“' ol U'L‘l““’ - A el I AT et I Qi R T / inars denurtmont to its | market to-day. “Their plant is thor- | Heafey & Heafey, 218 South Four- | Cmaha Packing Company, whose plant | this city has a smaller death rate pe AR : Onololitholmost s s reesivelnnd nros vings department to its S PR b L KD L | T is probably the most expensively and | thousand than any city 1n the United C. A. BEEBE & CO,, BUROLBIG o aTt ol et e s ST oTeL T o1l | Ruu wnd the company are well sat- | QUghly eauipned awith all the latest | S X et terment | thoroughly equipped of its kind in the | States. It is less than ten persons in o = Peaiiont isticd with the move. ppliance: well-known | o fitting and decorous interment | LA0HOH S RS o T ] 205 and 207 Broadwa Nt TR D manufacturers, W. J. Penfield & Sons, S e gapen spot 01 | Nebraska Mortgage and Investmen | of Willoughby, 0. of friends and relatives receive especial Sromines Blnn R gt rnlture There are two l: They have already coutracted for rge brick buildings, | than”one per cent per thousand. W the Platto val attention in Omaha,and 1o one has i D briok | ' © cen We of Couneil BLulls, ‘was. origin: t | better facilities for conducting the busi- | f0ur to five stories in height, oue of | have had no epidemi neyor ST by A AL | from th ComMpANY IS 20,000,000 of paving brick with the city | are yo AL (O A R anized in May, i brick wi ) of Lincoln, of their vitrified paving 250,000, for the them being .nmm. 800 fect square, and | had an epidemic; (humu“h,uh.‘. 300. B 1l of des these build- | unknown. ness than this firm. They have been modest way.. In 1857 the established in this city for the past ten Di the other 175 i s destined soon to bocome S el L conntry. A presont firm was formed, consisting of | COpbUY. L L e | purnose of doing o ge brick. which the br of the future in the west, both several smaller build- | It has been a year of great and good eral loaning busi- rs there al | years, und have always been noted for [ IME5 o el ShER R FeANG We have | C. H. Beehe, W. Runyan and H. Beebe, oy Hia lorderly and decorous conduct of fu-i | N, in the way o ndditious, suchins ice firesulte fur- Council Bluts, We have | ™ s Zetiies Wepr 5 : > | ments of a suce _the advant- " state in the They | ¢ St Ryins e founaon 32 houses, smoke’ houses, ete. The house | prospered. Gandeanus. and to-duy tho flrm oacupy. a lending | BAlI0R, S the very best | deal in municipal | R R was opened on November 10th, 1886, — position, beir Especial eare and attention is devoted 3 3 d 2 3 gareland atansio oted L8 e Which time from 2.000103,000 hogs | AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMFNTS, | s 1ind in the we to the art of embalming, and only the [, 0y ooy slaughtered duily. Several el sule and retail deal Jatest and most approved methods are hupdred thousand doliars have been oxe. Henry H. Van Brunt. nerals submitted to their direction. of the largest in Mhey are whole- in a'general line vy o full and com- dors, bedroom, sompany rsey. president; ice-president and gen- . B. Harrison, secretary nd W. D. Math the material now in use For paving purposes both from a sani- tary point of view and for durability this block is a much superior article facilities for rtation and an | bonds, ete. The oft army of energetie, aggressive business [ re: George W. B men, who are thoroughly alive #o the | €. H. Tonc importance of the city's interests.. cral manuge employed by them, They make a spe- Y v 5 i J i 2 | pended in the plant. 3 ) sentative (lem was origi- NBDyIOHbh s ssod of lavge | aud trezsurer, 3 1 n | }l"‘r of i phngioods iof An interesting feature in the equip- | nally established in 1877 under the firm library, diningroom and ofico furnituro | Mony of thewn are posseesod of large | K hector of Junds and agents, The. ofil- | than the ono now iu use. | feageipiion, Buch no) coflue, ment of this house is the immense 2 name of Van Brunt & Co. In 1852 the | in all g1 The buiding occupicd | C1Pital, and to u gl e Tontod i Ehe Farmors and | . The officorsof the company are W. AR el tic or refrigerator machines wh firm was changed to Van Brunt, Thomy- | DY the firm as oftice and salesroom is [ Ustily i Merchants’ bank building. H, B, Stout, presidentJ. A, Bugksiafd, ers of foreign’ religious books and peri- | ¢ or refriger: hio c 0 situnted at 205 and Brond wnd | whole community. 2 L treasurer and manager, and W. J. | odtenis, religious “articlos, statues and | he condensution of ammonia, keep the | son & Co., and in 1856 Mr. Henry H. | 8 an Fremont is a ity of 8,000 in} ——— Lronsurer. ang J buintings for church orhamentation, | Puilding atan even temperature winter | Van Brunt assumed entire charge of the | i+ .»»l_.nu]l-ngm;»l briclc }uuénm,f TR et iras, [ Richards, Keene & Co., Goneral Real | /075 seeretar = vestments, ete,, a full and varied supply [ 4d summer, ti-y} doing u\\'x;.\"\:"llh l(l’le Dbusiness. Mr. Van Brunt does a whole- :J;:L"LQ:“"(‘I“L hll» £ ‘}m‘m‘l““ ith il 't | telephones, well pay B DR O Estate Agents, k ont, Neb. Wisconsin Furniture & Coflin Come | storing of hundreds of tons of ice. n [ sale and retail business in carringes, A bl £ walls, churches, handsome school This business was established in 1876 pa of which are displayed at their rooms. 8 firm has also a branch office at 26104 North street, South Omaha, where prompt attention witl be given to all orders. Mr. Heafey is also connected with the requirements for the transaction of their extensive business., Their warerooms are located on the Northwestern and Union Pacific rail- roud tracks, giving them superior facil ities for the ving and shipments of ue and loan coneern by L. | This company, one of the leading s establsshed Janu- oflicers of the president; D. t; 15, 1. Bennett, sec- M. H. Tilton, the north side of this house are located | wagons and agriculturai unplmnmm the switch tracks where, almost any Among the spvmullu-s handled are time, a large force of men may be scen [ Hiram W. Davis’ buggies, Moline spring loading cars with pork and lard, the | wagons, Whitewater wagons and sleighs ontput of the house.a train being loaded | St. Paul cutters, Grand Detour plow every day. The prmlm-ts of this com- | and_cultivators, Plano harvesters and houscs, the most_beautiful public park | asu r in the state, a splendid opera bouse just [ D."Richards. Mr. L. M. Keene, con- | fipms in this ¢ comple : number of fine | ducted a separate loan and 1,1886, Th residence: iness str business at the same an YA Eh o (T lined on both sides with large und sub- | with Mr. Richards, form staft, vice pro itial buildings for business purpo- | Richards ‘\ Keene On Bughore atables Ninoteonth birect and pany are Shippod ‘1o all purts of tho | binders, Minnosota horse powor thrasiy- | £0045: " Thelr trade eglands throwh | 3% euuring fuvorably with any iy | 1555 the present. frm_ was formed most stylish carriages ave to be found, mu“‘“‘,“‘?;“‘“ and exporteditoloreign ‘Q"T“:}‘l:l“ ;}‘;:‘L:‘ -‘;]:i“('}""f‘ r"];\_(‘j:_"‘-’ & 1o Kansas, Wyoming and Colonado, lng “the siv 0 'fht'wl'"“ Bt £ m"nf L. D. lm'lm;'dr(. L. M. K 'n.w teiholosals doalone tinktuns which enables this firm to furnish the R By o o7 | which is visited by their traveling salos: Ihe ity has fowr national ban Hanson and.J. W. Goff. M ture, coflins, cuskets and undertak finest equipages upon all occasions, Setp. S lome R 4 Lo mun, a banking capital of £550.000, a .mu for muny years filled place supplies, carrying a full and compl SRS COUNCIL BL[‘ FF Dle "I')L“}‘ T ) 5' !‘.) ‘l" i f}(" o grogate deposits of $500.000, ortance and trusts in railroad line of goods'in all their different SOUTH OMAHA F2i e e O ey ohife) | LUMBER AND PLANING MILLS, Three loan and trast companies does | tion in the west and b in central | partments, - 4 . W " :‘"”l",’]‘ Lt e e A R S Gy o wholosale and jobbing trade of | America. Mr. Keono for a uumber of | Phey occupy o large and substantial e are about entering upon the last | branch of his business consists of the STAR UNION LUMBER CO,, 6,000,000, in groceries, hardw years held official - positions in Dodge [ building 50 x 12 feet 8 stories in height month of what will prove to be the most | storage and transfer of agricultural im- —— goods, liquors, cigars, ete,, and has sev- | county as superintendent of publie in- | surrounded by railrond trackage, g Towa. incorporated in ion Stock Yards. Luunul " est manufacturing en- | structions, county clerk, ete. ing them supe facilities for reseive s in tho state, The business of the fivm is now lim- and shipping their goods. A we located the Lum‘-t e 1= | exclusively to general real e, 1 | special feature is made of quick ship- en- uml of the lar, Ry o prosperous year Council Bluffss h with bl O .t boeuon | ever kenown.” At this season of thunics: | abling_ thes ifact ; in ; conspicuous In livestouk circles, was op- | £1VIE the time is epportune to herald | goods in bulk and distribute the same, ohn R Davis, A ganized in 1854, At thattime tho yards tothe world the glad tidings of the city's mvt‘hu trade may demand, ) 3 president, R. \tu\.uwn,\n president, y in the United Stutes, lu tions extend ov ment thereby enabling dealers to ]l|4)r~pL‘I'll) The building occupied by the firm | and Whidden, seeretary and | [ouses. with @ capaeity of 14,,, Iur s per and western Towa, the firm being | obtain goods ind supply themselves to covered an avea of four acres and were | PGive /5o ainre o situntion unexcelled | consists of a large brick building, four | tre The yards " of the compuny | diy. a §20,000 brick kiln: inrge canning vo agonts und anugo n lorga | much. wroator ndvantage. than' feors uite modest in their pretension The . ' 5x74 feet i imensi y s locs o by 1 A "-l"ve“““‘"l R mm'wmlm TPo-day by no city and equuled by few, the hand | floors, 66x74 feet in dimension, and the | are loc ated in vj_hu rond addition, factory, an immense found list of lands in all the best counties of | most other houses. The company do the yard limits embrace thirty acres of man has been actively at \\_urk and as | warehouses, one 50x50 and one 50x100 ing about six wc of ground, and works, und, in fact, everything pe the cetions and valuable additions [ positively not retail goods and aré ‘ex- 2 | o result we find nature’s outlines broad- | feet, flanked by 500 feet of platform on connections with all [ ¢iiyr 1o alarge and g i and town lots in & number of the VKT RG E ETT roL s YT T Ty competitors of re employ four traveling salesmen and strong and | their trude extends from the Missourd to the const shipping goods wost to — Tacomu, Washington T tory., The Fremont Foundry and Machine Suwon— Company. Dean and Horton, importance | towns ?,21.]. ::.l:(‘;“]|;l::11‘1:n1"(3,‘:{:‘5m\:“:|? "f'«‘ar)h.‘nyil)l‘:t_’ ened and developed to a degree which | the Northwestern railroad. — His trade [ railroads centering in Couneil Blutfs wisions for' sheep, hors m"]' "“:h, gives us position among the commer- | extends through the states of Nebraska, | giving them batter facilitie During tho presont. yenr its capital was | ¢ial, manufacturing and financial cen- | westorn Towa, northwestern Missouri, | ing and shipping than an, doubled, and the capital of the com- | torsof the west. | snd Pukota, y LS e e ur g o f Mg probubly be | 1n 1570, accordfug to the national | Keystone Manufacturing Company, [ to supply Mhe trade I A P census of that year,the population of Factories at Mount Sterling, 111, quantity and at lowest pric A prominent Tactor in the of Fremont as a mercantile excellent Iroad facilities, which unsurpassed by any irland weste mont has t communications by of the ["rvmunl Elikchorn & Mis Valley railrond, the Sioux City & They have of late ye much attention w Fremont r in whose future they have abiding confiacnce, prepure I 28, at wholo- | foii lesired, over $300,000 ) & 3 S Y foe] X %,‘:‘2’,:";,3,‘,“,",”1‘,,‘:,":::; aver BS00DUS { ho city was 10,120, She was then @ originally estab- | sale exclusively. bl Welloy tutrauds dhoRlous Sk T o e ety e struction, building of pens and houses, | SUugEling community, discouraged und v Galt & Tracy and cou- | o ocon e S ek co, | #0d their connections. Al o Soented” oun Y | by H, H. Doun, and upon tho udm i inelined to aceept the ills she had rather | ducted by them until 1870, when it was | € L BL LUMBE g Fromont is the center of the gr f R lchorn & Mis- [ of John B Horton in 1855 was chunged laying of railrond track to accommo: | |} s han fly to others she kuew not of. | incorporated into a stock date the business, and grading form- | RARG IYAY GCE S K RO B Incorporated int ompany with | o 'J‘hi; LompRLY, the leading llm;nhur stock raising and br S o thoks sident; George S, | flvm of this wits incorporated 1n | the country, and no city offers better in- m‘]‘;“‘;fi,‘:“&g'&"‘,{“,"‘,'f", }f:;.\';_;;;;;& tracls | yoars hus become one of hor most marked | racy, sup . Leroy Galt, | 187 Tho oflicors of tho company are | deomenie to horse buyers and dealers ©xtent of twolye miles, To this the fol- | (huracte was wanting. Lethargy | secrctary und treasuver. The western | R W Stevenson, president, M. J. | than Fremont. Al grades of imported lowing roads contribute: Burlington & | 4nd incrtness were prominent. Manu- | branch of the company is located in this | Irons, vico-president. and Honry Stov- | porses and cattle are raised and bred in Missouri, IRock Island, Milwaukee, Wa- factures she had none. Her jobbing | city under the management of J. B, retary and treasurer. They as well as about the larg- t deaiers of Lambor, 1imo, cod est feeding of cattle during the winter Valley vailroud, in the southern | to Dean and Horton. of the eity, and doan extensive I m are wholesal nd _jobbers \ esein their lines, their work be- | 0f iron and wood pumps, iron pipe and ing in demand throughout the state. | fittings, leather and vubber belting, About fiity workmen ave cmployed in | rubber hose, &o. They have two large their establishments. They make a warehouses onc 50x140 feet and the other 50x80 feet located on the railroad Dash. Missouri D'acifie, St. Paul & | trade was small. — The city was in bad | Putterson. of v | ARIR DRI e e B (! 5 T ey condition: the streets were a succession [ The company are manufacturers of the s materials, and carry a | onths of any point in the west. Roo 0! r them Supe s for re- Omaha, Northwestern and Union Pac y large stock of ull kinds oflumber, lime, e B L A T g nps | SlevAtel mag hin. y 1‘ astings | Kiving them sup s for re: and in oIV nad. shippink. Thiey kro. sate its for the Trahern Pump Co., who vea world wide reputation. They carry a full and complute stock of fron and ‘wood pumps, force pumps, ind in L of mud holes; public improvements [ Keystone corn” planters, check rowers, were not talked of. The publie pulse | disc harrows, sulky rakes, hay loaders, was sluggish, there wiis stagnation su- | eider mills, hund shellers, power shell: preme. But let us advance a decade. | ers, and Koystone horsepower. A spe- : The national census of 1880 showed & | cial feature is made of their corn plant- | Manager of the busivess of this com- [ Fisst Nattonal Bank, Fremont, Neb. B ¥ £ population of 18,063 people, There was | ers and hand and power corn shellers, | Puny, und through his prompt attention [~ phig leading finaucial institution of | Frem ont Stock Yards and Land Co hing in that line that may be a momentary awakening from the Rip | The Keystone hand and power shellers | to the business has built up a large and | premont was orgunized us a national | This company was organized in 1887 also a full and complote me— Vun Winklé sleep, but it was simply to | are known throughout the country for [ Prosperous trade, bank in March, 1072, The business had 2w of hundling a portion of the { geocic of iron pipe in black and gaivanis- THE UNION STOCKYARDS BANK. | rub the eyes and relapse into the former [ their superiority” of coustruction and | ‘The company having superior fa a prioe existence as a private enterprise live stock business of the oity. | zad, all sizes from 3 e & inch. stoam condition of torpor. However, this was | for their capacity and superiority of | ties and counections with under the management of E. H. Rogers | It is composed mostly of loeal ecapitil- | and' water fittings, rubber and leathor Exchange Bullding, South Omaba, | 108 0000¢a To st to 1885, - his mu- | the work done. . Mheir goods_ave sold | Union Lumber company, are cnablod & Co. ists, stockmen and others, but a large | helting, rubber hose,sewer and drain Nebraska. nicipality took a now lease of life. | all over the United States, and also to | to supply the local trade with their | "1t s prominently located on the cor- | block of the stock is held by the Hous. | iy e | AN A AL Co-oxistont with' the union stoeyards | Granite and block pavement took the | foreign lflmu Besides the house in | stock at'prices which defy competition. | por of Sixth and Broud stvects, 1 the [ John and Ira Davenport of Bath, No Y. | 4nd their trade extends throughout the st South Omann is the bank whose | place of mother carth. — Eiectricity su- | Council Bluffs they huve houses in Kuu- o hotel block, and its public and pri- | The authorized capitul i 820,000, Pho | statos of Nobraska, Kunsus and Colo- . Richards, who was | yudo: nd for, stucco, hi fle. Thé accommodations now presented to the live stock trade are unexcelled, and at all times the market has been one to invite immediate shipment. r, plaster, wement, and in | cial and manufacturing interests of the fuct, everything pertaining to the line. | gy, Mr. Heffry Stevenson is the general — 58 aame is taken from the former institu- | perceded coul oil for illuminating the [ sas City, St. Louis and Columbus, O., | PLANING MILL. vate officos are elegantly and conven- | vresident is L. ; § tion. As to which is principal and { streets and business houses. Private | besides branch supply houses in - the ——— nged in ey particuiar, | mainly instrumental in- th R g which aide in the case is a question, as | and public improvements were inaugu- | principal cities in the United States. Strock Bros. vault, safes and {reasu tion, George K. Dorsey, vic o T P T T R T 1 the business of the bank, while in 'di- | rated and carried out. Manufacturers | The house here also doos a general job- This enterprising firm was estab- | chesw are furnished with the latest in- L. ) tr sasurer, and J. K. DDiN e 1o e T U S b rect line and suxiliury to the workings [ saw the grand advantuges existing asa | bing business in ull first-cluss farming [ lished here in 1857, and is composed of | vonted time locks and other uppoint- 2 Compi tallin: jhe taading Srabmarchan) 4 ery, buggies, wagons, eto. D. N. Strock and J. H. Strock., They | menws for tion against burglars land immediately ad join- J 1 P of the stockyurd interests, also ramifies | distributing point. Eight trunk lines | mach in various other directions. Its savings | of railooad terminating here attracted Their warchouse is a Iarge and sub- | are manufacturers of sash, door, blimh. and 1 proof vault is a no- | ing the city with large river frontage, departwent is in great favor, its ex- | the attention of the east, A ma, m— stantial brick building 100x90 feet, four | mouldings, interior finish in hard nlul ticeable feature of its interior arrange- ring the | t drainage and an in- ehange and collection facilities are un- | cent system of waterworks had stories in height, always wmpluu.l_v soft woods, stairs, newels, balusi ment. The bank does a general bank- | exhaustable ice supply close at hand in tember 1, 1857, They came 1o this cit; {from lsm‘lnullvl\l Ohio, where they hd been engaged in business for several s, but gnizing that Lincoln wus surpassed, But its main feature is the | shortly before put into operation, v,ha stocked with o full line of goods to meet | door and window frames. They oc u|ly ing husiv and its aff winter. The different lines of r l'l'umln s ¥ that call transuction of business incident. to the | fire department and police dupurum,nt the demunds of the trade, one-half acre of ground located on | aged iu ¢ and couse pass through or skirt the lands, afford- [Continued on FYth Page.)