Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1893, Page 19

BUILDING AND I)IPR(WEMENT] New Structures Have a Frontage of Over Five Miles, COSTING ABOUT FIVE MILLION DOLLARS Extensive Stre Twenty-Two Factories, Thirty-Four Ware t Tmprovements clude rehes, uses Flourishing Enterprises. late of grent in the The ana it was near the before ther activity vecords in the office of J. K. Tilly tendent of buildi how that during the twelve months ju 1 the sum of £3,638, S50 i new buildings in this During this of vepresents the or partinlly completed dur these there wer offices. Thore we < two-story, three fiv story, three four-story, thirtcen thr and the balance were one stor Forty-five of these bl w brick and stone, and the balance were frame. There were erceted twenty-two manufacty \blishime of which were of brick and ind seven frame, The storage and warchouses number thirty-four, twenty-seven of which are frame and brick There were ten fiew jurches ereeted, costing in the ageregate 000, three of which were brick and ven frame. The seven school houses cost in aggregate the sum. of 05000, The hospitals, costing £7,000, were added to the list of new buildings. Allof the other permits yere for the erec tion of dwellings and cottuges, many of which cost from 5,000 to 210,000, One interesting feature about the dwellings erceted last year is that the construction was £1.360. or u; than during any previous y of the cit; Take the buildings thatewere erected last year and place them side by side, leaving out the streets and alleys, und the line would fill one side of a street for a distance of fiveund one-fourth mile According to the ordinances of the city, the builders are only required to furnish the superintendent with figures showing the es timate cost of the buildings for which they desive the permits. This invariably results inan underestimate, us the feeis bised upon the cost of the building. The estimate never exceeds 75 percent of the actual cost,and again there are the plumbing and steam fitti which never are figured inthe permit. This mukes it safe to add 25 per cent or 000,712 1o the estimated cost of the huildings erected during the year, which would run the up to £4,55562, which would represent actual cost of the 13i2 new buildi Tn addition to this there has been £150.000 expended upon the new city hall and $40,000 upon the new postoffice building, making a total of #4,788,562 that was expended upon new buildings during the year 1562, or §2,247,- 701 more than during the year 1801 building season was opening, summer Th superin middle el s been invested in ity poriod 1,872 permits for the buildin This numberof buildings completed the of five and erceetion were issued sevent st ny story eleven two-story blocks ks en ing est £l 1 in the histc the Public Tmprovements. Although it was late in the scason before public work was sturted, the sum of $650.- 061,02 was expended last” year in making in ternal improvements ‘The annual report of City Engin water, which has been submitted mayor, shows the following Asphalt pavement. new. ¢ 94 miles, a total of 1.5 15, costing 391,000, Brick—New pavement, 2 $1-100 mile paving, 13100 total of 3 37-100 miles, or (4,897 square yards, costing $11S.857. * ndstone— New paveuent, 2 12-100 miles, or 56,827 yards, costing 8112518, The U nt luid during’ the year aggregates 787100 miles, or 155,770 square yards, £322,370, This gives Oma 18 15100 mi phalt pavement, 7 15-100 miles of bric 100 of stone 100 of edar bloc 5 85-100 of eypress block. a total of 71 2 mile sting in the aggregate the sum of 1 ‘The curbing w of 11 15100 miles at a cost of a total of 128 79-100 miles in the a total of #46,516 Repairs on aspl and sweeping 4 $17,308.45, Sewers 10 31-100 mil ata cost of $84.400. year gives the city 102 4 which have cost $1,405,7 For sewer r sum of #l1 Rose: to the miles; niles repav the setting 20, maki it streots cost 9 miles of paved streets co length were laid addition of last 100 miles of sewers, intenance the 50 was paid, £,800 being on contract and 50,787.51 for day lubor. The sidewalks laid during the yearcovered 17 75-100 miles and cost #48,777.84. There 16 miles of wooden walk, costing 16,15, and 175-100 miles of permanent walk, costing $10,491.84 Repairs smounting t the Sixteenth street v Grading of streets sum of moncy removed 9 eurth, and added 1154100 miles, making total of 148 14-100 miles of graded the city, which have cost §1,252,81 The amount of tonna used curbing aud in the construction 8 duving the year is something cnormous Figuring 40,000 pounds to the car there would have been 951 cars of sandstone, 604 ars of bric s of ten stone, N ars of con vs of asphalt and 140 cars of sand, a total of 3,726 cars to have hauled the material for the paving and the curbing. To have hauled the wmaterial for the sewers would have requived 209 such i these cars all been made into one train, that train would have been twenty-five miles long. Indications now are that this year th amount of public work will be nearly double what it has been during uny previous season ity Engincer Rosewater states that when e B0 fons are corrected ther will be availabls 00 of sewer and 100, 000 of paving bonds, There will probably | 300,000 0f district puving, $100.000 of district sewer and #100,000 of grading bonds. In ad dition to t1 be added the con struction of viaduots, whicl will by to $925,000. AL th tracts amounting to 5,000 on which work has not yet been commenced, but which must | completed next season, showing that auring the year 1503, public improvements to the amount of £1,000,000 will be made. Mr. Rosewate idea is to have the provement ovdinances pissed date as possible, that work may the opening of sping. #0450 were made on aduct. cost of a in in paving, of sewe the aggregate up time there are 18 im. Subucban nproy one of Omahia's 10sL prosperous lies just north of the city limits and contains 1,200 inhabitants. Heing situated in a bend of the river high plufr, it isa v deturesc is rapidly becoming a favored resort for peo- ple who liave a desire to Just outside of the cit) The town was sottled by the early as 1815, and for a time it wa competitor f0r the position of the west. Railtoads and capital came to Omabha, and for a time Florence ex- perienced @ season of decay, but dur ng the ast few years it ha been growing rapidly until now, when it has a population of fully 18K, The little ety is the home of the American Water Works company’s plant and principal pumping sta tion. 1t has a magnificent school buildin, which \\-nln; \~|'l‘lalmll‘l:nl ) ar at ;\ « . I'he school furnishes employment to { ft‘lnre‘?)tum-lwn and has 175 pupiks enrolled Fhere are a greab wany fine resideuces, thirty of which were erected during the past * year, and at a cost of 40,000, Thio town hus a city of water works, a i partiuent, sey stores and a nuinber of fine churches. The suburbs of ILienson and Haleyon Heights, | nd just out- side of the city limits, have attracted the at- tention of the home builders dur the past year, They are connocted with the ity by the Beuson and Huleyon Heights motor line, which furnishes o ten-minute -service. © The two suburbs huve a population of 1.500, graded school, a town hall, besides ¥ number of stores, shops and busiuess uges. ‘Che improyements during the past have been substantial, consisting of a ,B00 school house, a Methodist church cost- $2,500, & $1,500 town ball and twenty-nine il dwellings and cottages, costing age of #1,800 each. on an aver: Water. The plant of the American Water Works company is located at Flors A prosperous little suburb just north of the city limits. It is one of the most extensive and complete in the United States, Prior to this year the | company had expended $6,845,000 upon the | tne river into large sottlin L or 34,002 | This | the vepairs on the | il at the foot of a | ue pluce and | st of | ument, a system | | mam street to Fortieth | takes in all | cered by Omaha men. | Oman | zens of Ha | addition o | ant tele [ per | highway lines, | oveupies the | does | Moine: system. The engines now in use have a pumping capacity of 45,000,000 gallons per day. The reservoir system is the largest in the United States, having a capacity of 350, 000,000 gallons, The water is pumped from basins and then pumped to the relay stations, which are lo- cated at the foot, of Cass street, Twentieth streetand Poppleton avenue and Fortieth 1 Hamilton streets. The company has 763 consumers in Omaha, South Omaha and Fast Omaha, The water is conveyed through 167 miles of main, five miles of which was laid during the past year. The dail sumptic eregates 14,000,000 gallons. The company has sixty-five men on the regular pay 1l and ) additional during the summer months Lights, The lighting privileges of the the hands of the New Omaha Thompson Houston Electrie Lighting company and the Omaha Gas Manufacturing company, both of which are Omaha institutions and hoth of which have their headquarters in - this city During the past year the electric light company has exvended the sum of £5,000 in improving its plant_and system. At this time it is the fifth largist plant in the United States, Besides adding two new wchines that cost £.,000 cach, the company has put up fifty miles of wire for the incan descent systeim, which extends on Far on Dodge street to Ihirtieth. on Chicago street to Twenty-fifth, n Sher avenie to Corby street, on Cum ing to Fortieth and on Twenticth and Twenty-fourth to the Belt Line tracks Another line has been constructed which the territory in the vicinity of city are m Hanscom P 9 “The company now operates 0,000 incandes cent and 600 arc lights, The men on the pay roll number sixty and their wages amount to 25,000 per mouth, The Omaha Gus Manufacturing company has expended 25,000 during the past year in extending its muins and making improve ments about its plant. The company has laid three miles of new mains and p meters anuary, which m new lamps. o are 100 men on the pa roll. The salavies paid - agwregate £,000 per month. This ar whi year the company expects to 1 At miny new mains, the principal one” of 1 will be into Clifton Hill elephone and Telegraph Systems. of the city is owned Nebraska Telephone orporation, and is offi The management is as follows: President, Caspar B, Yost; vice president, 4. J. Dickey; secretary and 11, Korty; assistant treasurer, man; local manager, Vance The telephone syste and operated by the company, an Omaha ng the last year the company has operated thirty-two exchanges, fifty-nine toll offices and has had 4420 telephones in use. It h miles of pole Jines and 1,18615 miles of toll line wires There are 180 vegular employes on the pay roll, with during the summer months, The sal- ies amount to 38,000 per month Last year the company commenced erection of a three story, fre xel ¢ huilding at the c centh antl Douglas street, which will be com- pleted this seas The work of placing the sires heart of the city underground was also started _and is now well under way, @ nearly all of the conduits and manholes Hav been placed. To do this has required the expenditure of 25320030, ‘W finish this work and complete the exchange building will require the add mal outlay of 205.000. The contract for laying the underground cables has been let. There will be 1,500 miles of hard drawn_copper placed in these Ables, at a cost of 55,000, A switch boar which is to be one of the largest in th United States, and costing #45,000 has been ved for the new building. 1ce the beginning of last year the com- 1y has built the following new lines and cquipped them with metallic cireuits: Fr Omaha to Fremont, by way of Millard, Elk- horn, Waterloo and Valley, a distance of forty miles and at a cost of L000: between a and Ashland the fourth wire has 1atu cost of 7.84. This line ompletes a second motallic circuit be- tween Omaha and Lincoln. The line be tween Lincoln and Nebraska City has been improved by the addition of a mietalle cir- cuit at a cost of 26,000, he line between Plattsmouth and Nebraska City has been rebuilt by the addition of twenty-eight miles of copper wire, completing the " metallie ci cuit. ‘This v at a cost of X0, A proposition has been made to the cit stings and Grand Island to extend the lines from Omaha to those cities and if the same is accepted it me u additional expenditure of 230,000 1 L seinson, Omaha is the headquarters of the third district of the western division of the Wi ern Union Telezraph company. The dist ofticers are follows: J. J. Dicke tendent; Charles B. Horton, assistant supe intendent and W. W. Umsted, manager. In this district, and during the past year, the company has extended its system by the 3,156 miles of wire and 500 miles of new pole lines. This was at a cost of F100,000. The ext ion ew lines and the keeping of old ones in repair furnish steady employment to 300 line and construction men. the in the also increase in the business of the Omaha uring the past year has been more per cent.There are twelve branch the city which, together with the main oftice have handled 6,000,000 messages, making this rank as one of the most import- b centers of the country. The Omaha oftice furnishes employment to 200 ns, whose salaries aggregate $12,000 per month. ines of the railroad enter theso the con Western Union ¢ i the et 1y has o which former; opposition companies. Mo cuits arve werked outside of the city and coy- ered by the Omaha ofiice. A battery of 10, 000 cells furnishes the power, but during th coming year this will be supplanted by an clectrical eneine, The operating department itive fifth floor of the Omahi ank building. Messages are con- ween the business oftice and th operating by meuns of pneumatic tubes, supplied with air prossure by means of the power furnished by a t horse Power motor The American District Telegraph company general messenger business. 1t gives employment to fifty-one persons, the monthly pay roll amounting to #1,600. Last year_the compa JUTEERY er, 7,458 cab and The sum of #2,500 was © i the system. A fow weeks ago i cont wits mide with the National Automutic Alavin con of New York for the use of that company's fire alarm system, A nun ber of buildings have been equipped and sey 4l more are uuder contract, At this time thecompany has 600 call boxes ice, besides 400 shemal boxes, all of which aré located in the wrincipal institu- 15 of the eity, The alarm system compels use of 125 miles of wire, The Postal Telograph-Cable which came into exister ago, has one of its division this city. The business is W. 8. Dimmoclk, who is manager of the di vision. Durin t year the company Las made many improveiments on its system. 500 miles of line, conuecting Des sux, City and Lincoln with Omaha company has built a new line from Denver to Leadyille. {3 Recently the company moved its Omaha Neadquarters fnto the new building at 1320 m strect and equipped the plant with latest and most approved telegraph ap: wees. Outside of the main office, the iy has seven branch offices in this ud six in South Omaha. The company has fifty persons on the city pay roll, which ounts to &,600 per month. During the past yeur the compuny hanaled 1,000,000 messages at the Omahi oftice. Within the moxt six wouths all of the city lines will b rebu or every In addition to large number of ol 50,046 3,164 wagon calls, pended in improy company, SOE ten years headquarters in looked after by e e The Churches. There are now 108 church buildings in the ofty and itis estimated that the veligious denominations, all of which are represented, Lave o membership of 40,000 persous. Last year there were ten new churches erected at an aggregate cost of §66,000. In addition to this there were thirteen missions established and supplied with preachers. 2 350 THE OMAHA DALY ]mox BANDS OF COMMERCE Omaha the Hub of Thirteen Great Railroad Systems, FOCUS FOR SIXTEEN THOUSAND MILES | 1 Iner Five Anot Across ing TrafMe -Army of Electrie Street Rallway ems Rallroad Bridge the As a railro out a peor ountry 1 center among the 1 has buy few equals older eities of the cast and south of the great trunk lines have riers in this city Each day during the year 14 ains arvive and depart from th the combined systems cos ol 15 miles of road operated from the Omaha headquarters A careful estimate shows that during the year the seve ceived 2478,708 and forwarded 1,8 of freight third more ‘than during the corresponding period of 1891, “The increase in the business is principally due to the expansion of wholesale trade, the increased number of manukicturing establishments and the fact that Omaha is rapidly becoming known as the hest market west of the reat lakes The railroads furnish employment to 7,500 persons during the entire year, whose yearly earnings ageregate in ronnd numbers tho sum of 6,500,000, nearly with the business men of the city. During the past year the raiivoads have expended not 1ess thim £1,000,000 within the city limits in the way of improving and en larging their yards, putting in additional trackage and adding to their facilities for handling the increasing busi f the ter minals, * The Missouri s con structed, at a cost of $0,000, stone and iton viaduct over the Belt Line and along Hamilton ~street. The Burlington has placed u vinduct over Fourteenth street, at a cost of X35,000, while nearly five miles of new track has been laid into the manufac- turing suburb of East Omaha The Pullman Car company has its general | western headquarters in Omaha_and fu nishes employment fo 250 men, who are the oftices, engzaged in repaiving the o looking after the supplics, all ¢ 1 used on_the western divisions are purchased in this cit The ha newer stands with the cities of mong Thirteen their head passenger depots and e ‘principal machine shops of the Union Pagific system are located here and consti- tutd the largest manufacturing establish- ment in the city. They cover sixty acres of ground and represeni an investment of 2510000 The average number of men e ployed during the year was 1318, with 1,38 working at the present time. With the ex- ception of a few months during the summer, the shops have been run to thew full capacity. The value of the output will more N which includes the building of locomotives and the repaiving of building ) passc postal cars, wade, used and shipped to the other s the railrond system The furnaces used 12,150 t ing the year. The total w employes amounted to 81, al. J. H. McConuell is the supcrintendent of motive power and machinery, with J. H. Manning division master mechanic. Street Rallways. The street railway system, which property of the Omaha Strect Railwa vegrarded as compleie as any vy and is equipped with all thie improvements. Last year the company made several tensions of its lines, the principal one being the connecting of the Sheely packing house district with the city. The greater portion of the work of the scason, however, was in vounding up and putting the road in the best possible condution for operating. In doing this the company has placed bridge joir under the rails on nearly all the line carry on the improvements, it has the expenditure of something ov “The company oy nearly alt with” clectr were s of is of coal dur- is the coni- n the latest ex- 2 125,000, ates ninety miles of road, which = is furnished equipments and run by electricity. During the past year the company his purchased twenty new cars and the same number of electric motors, The monthly pay roll reaches 25,000 and 500 men ave furnished steady employment. Several important extensior are conten- plated this season, and at the annual meet- ing of the directors of the road it is thought that it will be decided to build a line to Courtland Beach and another to Forest Lawn cemetery, the latter line 1o pass through the town of Florence and from there divcetly west. The Benson & Haleyon Heights Strect Ruilway company has two miles of electric line in operation, extending from the west line of Clifton Hill to Bensou. This roud Ppays out £50 in wages cach month and has | eight men on the pay roll. The East Omaha electric operated by the Interst Bridgeand Term| nal company, extends from Sherman avenue, east on Locust street for a distance of thre miles and reaches the manufacturing center of East Omaha. The line furnishes employ ment to ten men whose wages aggregute 2600 per month. “The Dundec clectric ro; ted by Robert w. from Iorticth of ine, which is 1, ovrued and ope Puatrick, runs Farnam streets to the west of Dundee Place, a distance of two miles. Duving the past year the line, which was previously operated by horse power, was equipped with electric ppliances at a cost of £0,000. The line fur- nishes employment to five men, whose sal- aries amount to 500 per month, “The cars of the Council Bluft Bridge and_ Street railway entor the city over the Douglas strect bridge, running through the heart of the city, The New Bridge One of the most important_improvements in the further deveiopment of this city and 12ast Omaha is the consummation of the plans of the Interstate Bridge and Terminal Rail- way company to span the Missouri river with a_magmificent steel railivay bridge at ast Omaha. This will be a combination vailway and motor bridge, and when com- pleted will be the finest structure of its kind ou the riyer. Some ided of the from the following mensions: The pivot have a diameter of 40 and will have its foundation 125 feet below the surface of the water. In length the bridge will be more thun 1,500 feet, with a width of 50 fect. The draw span’ will be 520, while the main fixed span will be 560 feef long. The cost of the bridge when completedwill be about 51,100,000 As the draw will not have to be opencd but u few times cach year for the passage of boats, an electric cngine will be uscd for the purpose of turning the span “The terminal system, lands and right way. all of which have been secured, are ample for a city of 500,000 inhabitants. On the east side of the river and leyee connections huve been secured to reach the Northwestern system at a point north of the ‘Council Bluffs driving park tions have also been secured Eighteenth street, by which all of the roads running into Council Bluffs can be reached. On the west side of the river, more than 100 acres of land hus been purchased be- tween Locust and Nicholas streets, will be used for freight depots and yard room The haste of the bridge and terininal com- pany to secure these lands is made from the fact that the builders of the by are under contract to have the pivot pier and the draw span completed at an early dat that the company may be o mence hauling cars over the structure by the 15t of next June. This, however, pertaius ouly to the temporary work, but it will be so substantially built that it can be used until the permanent bridge is completed. - Internal K The United States iutern: trict of Nebraska includes thi two Dakota The district in this city. The servic ment to thirty-five persons. For the year ending December 30, 1801, the total collections were #,200,850.62. The re- ('rilrl: of the office for the twelve months, ending December 50, 1502, were §4,781,457.00. The Nebraska district, including the present boundaries, was created in 1586, and since that time the collections have aggregated #21,577,750.00, The Omaba ofi colleci fra wo di; tilleries, twenty-five breweries, 250 cigy manufuctorers, Lwo sugur factories, fifty Omaha structury 1 can be had ts concerning its di- the draw span will revenue dis- state and the oftice located furnishes employ- rs and | HEL the | which s spent | zes paid to the | | while during t1 n | have had on hand required | | Omah | gain in along the | Connec- | along | which | pparent | | bled to com- SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, PAGES, | MANCFACTURING 1N 0MAR 1893—SIXTEEN tobacco manufactirios. factory and 3,000 8peci one_ olepmarg: taxphyers, The transactions of the banksof a city | Figures That Show the Record of the are, without doubty the best indes of its business, as through them all of the mon Past Year. employed in the legitimate trade has to pass The banking Wisiness of Omaba js repre sented by wtional, clght savings and AWith an aggregate capital il AN two state bar, 5,455,500 150,000 10! The Hows Naie O Nt i First Natiopnl Merchants N United States vl 100,000 smmercial Nationid 400,000 braskn N toni 400,00 ) on Natfonal 0,000 crican National 300,000 SAVINGS BANKS << hink wnd TEISE conipany rman Savings hank Nebraska and Ey il Omalia Loan and MeCagun Savings Dime Svings bk INCREASE IN MEN AND MACHINERY 50.000, o &2, 1812 gt &4 s than, on January | Wi sine A Tabulated Stat 1t of the Condition of the Man & Interests of the City Industries That Employ Labor and Create Wealth, hank: < in the city are as factur capital, | 1,000,000 500,000 ol il The year 1y a year of facturing st closed has b xpansion ns v 1 pre-eminen rards the city it 1800, togrether with disturbing the finaneial centers of the a period of contraction that new cropof 1801 wis assure iod the manu forced 1o reduce the manu In werso interests of words, it has boen the e season of 180091 of aily ) T the (NI rop £ influ ountry. i asted until the Duriug that Omat Savings anie 150,000 330000 | 1 50,000 35,600 et of their proportion as all 1imes grew harder st cofpany | were ik busines e other lines of trade. As and the dificulty of sell ini poods inereased, owing to the scarcity of m wd tho prejudice roods of wosiorn manufacture, there uraged STATE BANKS M itk 100,000 Hand bink 100,000 Tlie Omaha cleaving house, w tab! 1884, and which management of Witlinm H. S the story of the husiness transact the banks in this city, 1t tells o that concl Iy that during i Omaha has one of the United make o prowd vecord the financial world, and that s been one that has foreed far ahead of all competi 0 that it has distanced all of it ords and that taday it 18 vecogn { the principal I was es is under the Hughes, tells Lot hemselve 1l The of however, was and with the harvesting ¢ crop of 101 conditions begar the same time the itation inr woods of Nebraska m PrefOrcnee was comumence double influence patronage the have had o most ity has induced 1 ways, and 1802 ] changes and ng civetes the year ends with Sep 'Allat of iber B0, s on that date the annual ves | g aii ports g0 to the comptroller of the United | it ML States treasury and the business of the year | o FE TN is figured as endiog ou that day of that month. On that date the records show that | — . Omaha elearings were & for the preceding twelve months, s against 218, | ||m'.,~'.l'.mrlnu the year ending Septembe 801, The amnual report of the comptroller | ws that at this time the Omaha cleaving | house is making some prodigious gains and | that during the entive year it has stood | fourth in point of i 80, soded | only by Philadelphia, Galveston 0. | i | \ fow touched last the splendid 10 improve, At in favor of wiy nufactu the . and under i botter times and botter manufacturers the city b Prospoer out fu many dinnumerabls | disd i ow poin | the wer States Ive siv months cities in s formor TRY o branch has wiiness aprovements the firms that have lings, owing to the g uld surprise every on A money centers of the couns moved owtl of ¥ reason number of manufacturing Fuana sapumog 14 30 sqmny The percentage o s was double that of Kansas City several times greater than that of St. Paul | Taking the banks of the entirve state, they | show that the deposits aggregate 36165 per capita The money Omatha clearing ingz December i1 Bax factories Hutton factoriey Boller works Box fueto o Rroom factorios thirt Botting works hous Broworien 802; uggreg: It . shops) i £ Boots and o offen and spled ity fctoties rackor factorlos voper smiths ornice works top factorios factories. opper sh passe gh the month i s amount was f214, 147,187 The banks of South Omaha ent of those of this city, not ire in th Their capit Name. ' South Ol Nitkiaful ckers National % Union stock Yard Ritional Tot ), £400,000 | The deposits at the close of the year were South Owala National Packers National .0 Union Stock Yards Nationil « s independ- | ¢ as avesultdo | § clearig house reports, ¢ is as follows: ¢ « ¢ 1 i Capital, $100,000 100000 200000 | ¥ hop yeast istillories . Flags and Foundric Flour miliy Frnt Horso Harno od fictories sseed o1l mills ootall s L. 50005 | X ; Adding the tot15%0f the banks of Omaha | 3 puth - Omabay, the banking capital is 00 and the, ddposits &25.510.035. AN Deposits. The bank deposits for the year show a flattering inereasey indicating ‘that there | has been great adtivity in all financial and | business cireles. | “The following {1} show t1 posits that the fationul ha v the it 1886 December, 1960 s cimber, 1857 cmber, 1855 nber, 1889, cuiter, 1530, cmber, 1501 On ember, 1502 . 2 The per cent of inerease of deposits during the past year h ceeded that of former year and has been far g in any of the other or west. Theso same banks carry a surplus of F1.000,000, or 500,000 1mo than at the cor responding period of fast year ! The savings banks carry savings deposits | follows i W Savings bank. Lo 81,500,000 | an and Trust company HO0,0000 MeCague Savings bunk L ATHO00 Globe Loan and Trust company 105,000 Dime Savings bank, .. .. . 92000 | Gernian Suvings bl 3 Arserican Savings bank, aieene 150,000 Nebriska Suvi TNl bink.. Niult l Manufact Ovorall facto Pickle fnetorics Plating works.. mills, tlead pipe amount of de- s of the city of cach year since and i Oon ou On Oon on On nis and i Vinegar factories Wall plaster...... White lead works. Wite works 783,56 oo | 00 77,460 109=.000 Brick Yards Cigar Factories Flour Mill.... Laifndrics. Prin : PackingTiouses. \th Omaba......| 11 1125 139 1) ms have doubled their floor space within a and many more removals intg Jarger Dhuildings are contemplated in the near future. Another great change s noticed in the way machinery put in during 152 T owth of business has stimulated themanu- urers to inerease their plants by the ad- dition of the very latest and most_improved machinery and apparatus of all kinds, which plices them i a position to compete with the largest and best equipped factories of the older castern states. Not a few of | Omaha’s factories have had their capacity | doubled during the past year by this means | o 100,000 | g Total creverainaie . On December 30, 181, these carried savings deposits aggregating $2.043, 168, while on_December 50, 1500, the deposits | were §2,7 showing o _gain of during the year, During the year 1862 the vings deposits was #03,332 over 70,605 over 1310, The savings banks of the city estimate that 70 per cent of their custome ing carners who reside here, they being men i 1 women, boys and girls, who work in_stores, | shops, factorics and oftices. Their deposits wil ) per capita, or #15.75 more than at the same date o vings banks 1501 and At Auother noticeable fenture In manufactur- cireles is the introduction of miny new sof zoods, The number of new factories started during the year has been small, but there has been a strong tendeney among the older manufacturcrs to extend the lines of goods manufuctured by them, Many times - this has necessitated the putting in of a sup United States Custom House. | plementary plant Prior to the beginning of the fiscal year | The most important feature of the year 1850 the total of dutics collected at' the | has been the success of the home patsonage Omuha custom house, covering a_period of | movement, which has piace Nebraska goods sixtecn years, v 3451, Under the opera- | in almost all the retail stores of the state tion of immediate transportation privileges, | and given the manufacturers a prestage that conforred In 1888, receipts from customs hive | they could ot have: secured inany” othier greatly increased, as will be scen by the fol- ¥ without years of hard work lowing comparative table | "Nere generalities, however, regarding bus- i - inoss matters are of very little avail only as they tend to give o general idea of the situa Stmilar conditions do not alwiays pro the same results in different lines business. Certain influences may s atly benefit one line of b Same time be a great vline, Ioven in the sa differont houses may « diffcrent results, owing to some | feature in the business. 1t is only when cach line of business is taken up by itself that positive assertion can be made without fear of contradiction While 1502 has been year of expansion. there are some lines of business that have refused to expaud. Mo which manu- fucture for the Omaha t only have not expeicneed as much prosperity as those that manufacture for the outsidé trade, owin to the fact that the retail trade « v was very dull during a part of the year. The carriage factovies, for examplc, that work for the home trade only have little reason to rejoice s business. The local demand . especially high priced car- riages, has been light.” On the other hand the manufacturers of express and dray wagons have had i good year, owing to the activity of the jobbing and manufacturin interests which stunulates a demand for that kind of vehicles, The manufacture of cigars is another in- dustry that presents an exception to the general rule of prosperity. The prejudice of smokers against goods of local manu- facture has evidently not been removed, It is snid_thut the laboring classes of the city have stood by the goods made i the city but the business men of the city prefer 10 consume something else. The box factories, owing to the prosperity of other lines of manufacture, have doubled the number of their employes ind more than doubled their business The candy factories have made gr . provements in their facilities for manufac- | turing which have enabled them to lavgely | | Total Value. Dutlablo Year. ¥ree. Duties. $0,140.00§ 3 144500 | 200 arTNiL| 2 189,008 00| 180400 e 45.484.00 s and 1385200 ment Lo line of rience culiar | ot some otl The above figures cover fiscal years, which | business end on the 30th of June. If the lust six months of the lasy fiscal year and the mouths of the present fiscal year be talken together they will make up the calen- dur year of ISW2, in which duties col lected at this ofice amounted to S175.224, remarkable showing, to be accounted for largely by the imiiense tin shipments of the Cudahy Wicking company and our two whologld dealers in plate Tho remarkable Tithease in value of fre goods, in 189001 was attributable to the rlease of over 400,000 pounds of sugar in one day, o circumstance not likely ever to occur again, Leaving that item’ out, the total of free goods for that year would be less than $100,000. 16 will be'seen, therefore, that in the regulartimportations of free me ‘handise the receipts for the last fiscal year | almost doubkrwhat they were in INK- )1, This increase was almost entively due to our greatly enlagged tea trade in- Oniaha, | and to the importation of silver ore from 1t will also be woiiced that while the val- ues of dutiable gouds was less than for the previous year, thegiount of duties collected was considerably greater. ‘This is attributi- ble partly to an iegeascd tariff on certain articles which ayp’ jmported into Omaha quite lar, and Diktly to heavier receipts of merchandise upon which a high rate of duty was imposed by the act of 1883 The warehouse, and examination room, | which were added to the facilities for trans- | acting the customs business at this pory in | 1801, have been greatly appreciated, und | Omaha is well equipped for auy probable in- | ase that may be experienced in the vol- | ume of receipts from abroad. Mr. W. H. | Alexander’s third year as collector will end | on Jun. 4, 1803, leaving one more year of his | ofticial term, unless a change shall be made | by the new udministration sooner. Captain JUN. Phillips, deputy and inspector, is still in oftice, but Mr. H. C. Crumb, clerk and in- spector’ during the last two' vears, has ac- cepted a position in Chicago, his place in the custom oftice being filled by Mr. Henry A, Suow, formerly with the Omaha Gas com- Py, pany You don't want 4 torpid liver; you don't want a bad complexion, you don't want a bud breath; you don't want a headac! Then use De Witt's Little Early Risers, the famous little pills. at im increase their output without increasing their working force to 50 great an extent. The cooperage business has about hl'_hl its own during the year, though it is nothing to what it was & few years ago, owing to the | ruinous competition of penitentiary labor The foundries, planing mills and other factories that supply building materinl have made good progress. , The planing mill busi- | ness hus undergone o decided change during | the past few years in Omaha, Thereare not 45 many mills as there were at oue time, the business being centralized in fewer but | lurger mills, These large mills have put in | all the best wmachinery to be had and are | turning out u wmuch finer class of work than formerly, Besides doing & general milling | OMAHA'S MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES. business they turn out all kindsof office and ’ nk furniture, fixtures, ot \ The furniture and mattress factorios have added largely to the number of their em- | ployes and 1o the size of their plant | The overall factories have had a_phenome nal growth though the number of factor was reduced from four to three A carveful examination of he accompany- | ing table will serve to bring facts vogarding the conditior want | RENARKABLY ~ FREE FROM FAILURES facturing in Omaha. It is not claimed that the table gives all the different lines of man- | ufacture i ity There aremany shops and small factories scattered all over the | city that emplo; n few awch, and although they do not cut much of a in dividually, yet in 110 The numn mplo; va S with the seasons, oras the d nnd for ¢ increases or decren For that reason the average imber of people employed during the year ha been giver s 1s the number for the first of the year naking comparis hands employed b, factories in ind 1802 it must be born in mind thatal rowth of the manufacturing industri is not represented n thos figures. As stated above the factories have added largely to their facilities in the way of ma chinery which has enabled the by 8 to be doubled in many cases without the number of empl Another ver out by the the pre T'ho total amo Under t head of capital en cluded the mathine , butldings oceup the manufact T intl business, he value of was very dificul ufacturers do not the ¢ of th A GREAT YEAR FOR JOBBERS A Heavy Gain in the Volume of Business Transacted, S A Review of the Wholesale Trade of Of ring the Past Yos with the Pr ures to ie Pr ahn Comparad Yig- nen_ ¢ i vious Year ud Of, \¢ ate give support o o W some running factories larget or SMi Omaha's trade was T flourishing a condition thron obbing ver in lent orops s s The exee for the past two years cased the volume of trada but have improved trade stions have excep: sses comparatively slight ared ageney 1801 and in nearly nerease in per cont very nearly hout the state materially it it tionally good and 1 A perusal of t with great care by the of R, G. Dun & Co, for 1882 show o ¢ botivoen th very s, been 1801 the following figures pre mercantile the years vth obbing trade, The sales has been nearly & ines the por I fow loubling ifying g every lino of rgrrefta In some 100 importa that steady empl oy entage is ures is thare has ording to the 1 there is a deficit, 'l In the line of Lk, o improve and in ono are relative ions where a falling off apears, the explanation is found in the wed is fue | fct that the trade and the | sorbed by the dry such ave owned by | lis the case hie where the figures than during fous yenr it ures t of wages | v | line factuver the ma =\ manufacturing has ab- been of 1 pape are unchanged the fact he attributed to the marked decrense in S 18 compared with preceding al lines the quantity of goods Sold has been fully 50 per cont greater than the year precedine but the farge reduction | i prices ofsets @ groat part of this and on | the fy of the rety S is not s | shown, The lines iments, In 1s well as | can tho output 1o arrive of the factories at, 48 most man comple in icin, until year, The tendency among man to overestimate their business, but the aim has been to keep the fizures down S0 much has been said regarding the ¢ of fuel and the consequent disadvant the increase of trade where almost phenomenal — are | implements, boots and shoes baceo, coal, coke and e the growth agricultural rars and to- nent, dry goods, ud shelf hardware, These 1l staples and necessities. In some of the less essential lines sueh as diy on- fectionery, Jewelry and rubber goods o e inercase could also be rated, . The total amount invested in_ the jobbing > in Omabia is $,410,000, Upon this ital our wholesale dealers sold duving £40,710,000 worth of oods, an increase of AT00,000 over 1802 [ During the year the number of ~wholesale establish- ments increased from 152 to 168, Only | three failures occured in the jobbing trade | during the year strangely chough notion line. Onc | out of the business was burned out N - 1803 winding jo enjuy w0y 9Ny 50 10,000 20,000 20,250 3,000 4000 108,500 11500 52,000 000 54100 25000 5000 S50,000 10,000 05,000 100,000 10,000 2000 50 2400 00 5,600 two of thesc other notion were in the house went shell” hardware firm in the year and did not resume business. Two of the shoe house consolidated and two and stationery establishments were united, thus cutting ouy six houses, but their plac taken by I new concerns in other lines, It must be remembered figures are given in these estin | Manager Roberson of R G. o Dun | mercantile agency, under whose direetion the figares were” prepaved, says they ar | conservative, and if wrong in any particular | fall below the actual results and they ar | therefore the more gratify lowing is the comparative table which readers will do well to clipout and fsave for future refer- | ence: 10,000 UM 0000 53080 100000 451,000 50,000 5000 115000 15.00) 1000 4 s were 1,565 5,000 38,000 1850 0.0 2,000 oty 5.0 100.000 105,150 1,000 20,000 2,000 2,400 . 30 27,000 Y 18 50 25,000 120,000 130 10,000 that only round ates, but & Co.! i B0g 20,000 i 7.000 0 Agpre o AgRre pate |17 kato Sulos Capltal Jobblng Lines Iny sted 101,590 27000 9000 0,000 1116 28 1200 il S.000 2000 S0 % o[ G woon| 20,000 W[ 300 2 500000 G000 o100 25,000/ 5,000 LSCOW 250000 W0 120,00 003 n Sl i 00| 12000 00| 400,000 025000 | 100000 300000 3000 207,000 5,000 0,000 Agrienit] tmp ts Barber's supnl's Hollers & en's Books and sta'r'y Hools and shoes uteher s supl's st o 5 & ook Ke'S C'm't #6000.00) 20,000 100,000 W00 170000 5 000 55,000 1,000,000 000 000 000 0 105000 175,000 00 100,000 5,000 ) 1000 160,000 70,000 S30,000 19,500 530 20,000 0) 0 <300 15000 ] 250,000 500,000 S00000 G0, Ao 5,000,000 125,000 150,000 508,40 | §34,104,201 S & sad'ry \ps, 11V 8 AV yshurvare ting oils s Inst tobaceo i Lumber........ | Mitinery Notns &1 | Oysters | Pnts, ot 00 00 i} 00 5,000/ S0 00 | 0 100,000 5400 1500 e 3 200,000 o 00 2000001 000 i 000 o0 425,00 10000 15000 15000 17500 10009 S0 150000 00001« L0 0] 150000 {0000 a0, L) v 100,000 00 iaom 1AW i I RN PHoUE ph sup's. Periodiculs. Produee, oti ot 1 treks Shell hardware 1 Shie I'vr i des S, W Lr & Ky sp. under 0 100,000 20,000 1 00 5000 which placed that fizures cured on the fuel question. Some quite important branches of manufacture do not require any power while others u very little, while still others reduce the cost by burning waste material from the factory. In some cases where only one firm 15 en- gaged in a certain line of business, and where the publication of fig would recognized applying o a eccrtain fivm, & ars have been substituted for the figure The amounts thus left out have been in- cluded in the totals. the same as if inserted in their proper place D rOSTO o manufacturers have heen se: are 0 1700 25,000 | 150000 50,000 w000/ 135,000 0,710,000 85,410,000 150,000 20,0000 1000 0000 15 1000 1 5 120000 7 15 ures as 152.10.010.000. 16 In the ahove table no the jobbing trade of manufacturing estab: | Jishments.” Among these are included some | houses whose wholesals trade aside from | their manufactured goods is very large, and would in all probubility s the figurcs by ap least another million. Yo avoid dupli tion of fizures. however, these are omitted, and the e siles are shown in a table deyvo cially to manufuctorics, The New Postofico Building. Work upon the new postofice and go crnment building on’ the block bounded by Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Dodge streets and Capitol avenne was commenced lust sea- son, and up to this time the sum_of £40,000 hias been expended in laying the: foundation walls for the main structure. Congress has appropriuted the sum 1,200,000 for the constraction of the build AR T ing, $200,000 of which is now available, At Number of carriers at 21,000 per year, 30; | {‘hl“-‘ ‘.H:I\’u: Boasion m_‘.“‘.x-lfl-m ‘u { x:m\l!“.l e spocial mossengers, 2. | priation reach #L600.000. The building will eivarine 4 chrriors make 1 teip dailys | De four stovies high and will be built of 87 cavriers mak wips daily; 6 eavricrs | € m‘m-u;m ’i ndst H:U‘Mn‘m ud;u-'w\ o3 trips daily ; 16 carricrs mike he | call for the Romanesque style of archito ko 3 trips daily; 10 cavviers make 4 wips | G, 26000 i canter of o stractire thero Collections 4« 11 be w tower | in height, carriers make 2 - mauke B trips daily: 5 carriers make 4 trips | The Vi daily; 2 cavriers make b trips daily, Omalia's five departinent consists of twel RECEIPTS AND DISBUISEMENTS. engine houses, eleven of which are owned b 1891 | the eity, three engines, six hose carts, five hose wagons, three hook and ladder trucks, two chemicals, one chemical and hose car vinge combined, 14500 feet of hose, one water tower, forty-five horses and a £15,000 fire alarm system, The value of the equip ment, ineluding the real estate on which the buildings stiand, i © Ui 200,000 The ofiicers are ). Galligan Salter, first assist second assistant chief; ( superin of the fire There are also fourteci mand of cach of the con men, The cntire depi control of the fire and p During the year 1501 turned out at 226 fives, ai which the ager grate loss amounted to #2007 851 During last yenr and prior to of the Continental block there fives, with losses agirogatin - - The Smelling Wo count is tuken of of of 1 business of the seven and wse of 331 per as been kept busy, and aid of th etion wiagons for the prompt and frequent collec: tion of from the street the oftice h wble to give as prompt and sutisfuctory service as that of any city in the countiy he following comparative figures from the various departments will The steady increase in all departments the Omaha postofice is a sure indication the growth in population city. A force of forty sixtv-seven cavriers, an inc cent in two years, with them and th of hoxes. ns of pricrs make 1 trip daily; o fo trips daily: 4 carriers 1802 o sale of cnveloj Box rents Total Inerense over 1891 stamps and $202,418,04 288,723 $200,770.04 20,101.85 EXPENSES 1ding clorks and car- riers for 1501 $ 5,508,006 | Suluries, neluding elerks wnd e A viers, for 1892 101,182.95 Inerease over 1801 12620.00 Number of speetal delivery stamps sold in 1402 3 00440 Number of speciul deliviry Teticrs delivered in 1592 MONEY ORDER DEPARTMENT 1591 sularies, | A, polite \ptains, one in inies, und se 10,120 e commi 1592, the department Money orders and notes puld 5 Money orders aiid notes fssued eonittunces 1es ceived Total Hndlis by ney ord e departnent . $1,836,545.01 82,020,702.58 | The Omaha & Grant Increase over 1891 184]156.67 | concern of its kind in the would MEGISTIRY DEPARTMENT . foot of Dougla i} 1801, 1892, | cove five aeres of ground wether with the reduction works, reprasent fnvestnent of #,000,000. Lmproveme $150,000 wers made st yeur, A lavge share of the ore is consigued from thie of Mexico, South Dakotu, Colos rado, Idaho and Montana Tho smelter furnishes employment to 500 men, who ant to £35,000 per month Last s output was as follows: Lead ore, 45,580 tons ; pure copper, 2 a0 pounds ; silver, 17,019,111 ounces and 1 gold, the whole being valued at §22,000,000, - Draw Your Ows Mr. J. O. Davess 1 Bragg Redwood C this 10 say of Chumb *1 used it for BOVEre ( obtained immediate relief Bragg Redwood Co's store large quantitios of ~Chi cines." For sule oy druggis 571.498.10 & 0H,787.79 4 the burniy had been A7 200,000, 218,108,060 210,804.32 1,046,849.156 1 160,47 K. simcltor, the largest is located buildings und, tp: Number of letters and pack- lsen resistered Number of letters aid piek- Number of letters ind’ packs adled i it 59,400 KOSTER OF THE OFFICE. 1. 8. Clarkson, postmaster i 1 Woodard oK Cramer, supcrintendent of nils Uliarles B, Bubmoster, superintendent woney order division it Phoenis, superintendent vision TV Platz, superintendont of free delivery alyision. W. W- Connoran, chiet elork visio Miss vourd 21,718 2,34 2,120 82,611 1505 hi 780,000 of of registry di- of wailing di- Conelusion, janager of Ll 1t Bragg, Cal, ain's Cough Remedy: 1d and cough and In the Forl we I uin's anedic Male, chief cle Viola Coftin, K distributin sceretary eivil service —— An houest pill is the noblest work of the apothecary. DeWitt's Little Karly Risers cure coustipation, biliousuess and sivk Lead ache.