Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1916, Page 17

Newly Remodeled Security Hubua/ 314 ildin :9' 122and O Sts ¥ Supremacy in agricultural lines has never been denied the state but some of the state’s best business men have not doubted that while this de- velopment has been uppermost in the past, manufacturing industries will come into their own as the years go on. The extraordinary prosperity which has greeted all lines during the past two or three years has hastened the day, too, and in Lincoln as well as at Omaha and elsewhere in Nebraska signs of the long-sleep giant awaken- ing have been frequently noted by the shrewd observers, Nebraska has ample railroad facili- ties to serve it and has resources from which the manufacturing busi- ness can be developed. Lincoln is in the heart of a great buying territory, too—as rich as ever sun shone upon—and there is no doubt but that the factories which will yet come will enjoy the same great successes as those which pion- eered the way. Herbert Bushnell, editor of the Trade Review of Lincoln, has made an exhaustive study of present condi- tions. Upon the facts and figures which he gathered he made deduc- Lincoln Shares tells it, is an interesting one. It is calculated to open the eyes of the unbelievers and to give abundant cheer to those who believing need en- | thusiasm to carry them to the end | of the road. Here is what he says among other things in his recital of facts: The same consistent increase in the volume of manufacturing in Lincoln that has been maintained for the last five years, made up the record of growth for 1915. The manufacturers’ output in Lincoln last year exceeded the output of the previous year by $1,580,000. The wide distribution of this increase was a mark of the general prosperity that has been maintained in manufacturing institu- tions in the last year., The growth of the gasoline engine industry is one of the marked individual features in 1915, The increase in the output of flour is anotlier large item going into the increase, while cream products made a good percent in volume of business additional over that of the year previous. Naturally, a tew industries showed a decline in volume of output for the year. Seasonable conditions had to do with some of these. The gradual change from steam to electric power is noticeable in manufacturing lines and especially have small manufact- THE ,lhc water courses of this tate, that | with this improvement, manufacturing in Lincoln would take on greatly in- creased proportions, The following is | the summary of manufacturing in Lin- coln for 1915, by different industries. | Butter, cream and milk products .§ 4,000,000 Flour, feed and mill products .. 1,800,000 Mill products, sh, doors, wood work seas .. . 1,890,000 Printing, publishing and binding 1,770,000 Confectionery, ice cream, cones.. 1,175,900 | Brick, artificial | products ... gines, motors and electri stone, cement 1,185,000 930,000 825,000 €60,000 620,000 | ightning rods, cornic and tin work | | Corsets, tatloring, | | women's gar- ments . Harness, saddlery, leather work G fal ice, refrigeration, wator 480,000 | 370,000 330,000 | boxes ... ators, decorati mattress tory . ven . Clgars, bottled goods, stock rem- | Cotteo, “spices, pickies, “extract | _baked goods . | Monuments, g 326,000 | 320,000 Work ... . 286,000 Fifty-three lines in smaller man- ufactura . 785,000 Total oooe. 819,430,000 | The record for 'the last six years is as | follows: |1910 . $11,025,000 1913 16,110,000 | 19811 11,340,000 1914 17,860,000 1912 | 18,780,000 1915 19,430,000 One important new industry was secured for Lincoln last year in the | removal of the Plattner-Yale com- pany from Denver to Lincoln. This firm manufactures a large line of | farm and well machinery and water supply machinery and the firm ha come to Lincoln for the purpose of | securing the larger distribution in a strictly agricultural territory which Lincoin offers them. The firm on a half block of ground is erecting a new, modern plant of several large buildings and they hope to occupy them and be actively in business | early in the year. The Cushman Motor works has made during the year, extensive im- provements to their big manu(aclur-‘ ing plant that is moving forward rap. idly and extending its territory wide- | ly over the country. The Cushman | Motor company has become one of | the big institutions of Lincoln. As a central point for the manufacture of | butter and cream products, Lincoln holds its former high record. Its three plants did above a normal busi- | ness in 1915, Omaha and Lincoln are two of the largest creamery head- quarters in the entire country and they give to Nebraska first place | among all states in the manufacture of creamery butter. The Beatrice Creamery company | of Lincoln is now making arrange- | ments for a new distributing plant in Chicago that will be one of the larg- est distributing and storage buildings in the creamery line in the country. | The Lincoln Pure Butter company, under reorganization, has regained all | lost grounds and is making an ex- cellent busin-ss record for both the present and the future. The milling industry of Lincoln has had a most prosperous year and one of the big- gest milling plants in the state is lo- cated in this city. It has been an unusually good year for milling busi- ness and local mills have been run practically to full capacity all the] twelve months. urers practically abandoned individ- ual power plants. The feeling is more and more expressed that with The new Curtis-Towle & Paine fac- tory building, completed this year, is one of the largest planing mili plants | new building, 400 fect in length, one of the most substantial improv ments in the business district of the year. An illustration of this improve- ment appears elsewhere in this 1e. As a distributing point for manu tured confectionery and ice cream, Lincoln occupies a front place. But it is not with simply the large manu- facturing institutions that a good measure of prosperity has come in vear with many of the smaller plants and this is one of the promising things for the future, because from the small beginnings, some of the largest insti- tutions in Lincoln have grown, and those now well founded can antici- pate an equally satisfactory future. The Lincoln Box company is a de- veloping industry here ‘he manufacture of washing ma- chines is taking on new and en- larged proportions; in foundry and machine work, there are a number of old established plants, such as the Hedges Iron Works and the R, L. Smith company, that furnish work in their line for a large territory. Automobile repairing, which is a branch of manufacturing, has grown extensively in the last few years; i the manufacture of paints, the U Paint Manufacturing company opened their manufacturing plant early in the year and they have a splendid initial business for 1915. With the begin- ing of the new year, the Martin- Senour company, in their new and enlarged location, will install com- plete paint grinding machinery, so that this house, with its large houses in four other cities, will have a plant in Lincoln both for manufacturing and distribution, that will be an important addition to the paint industry. The Western Glass & Paint Co. added an art glass plant to their job bing house during the last year and this, while commencing in a modest Plattner-Yale Mfg. Company . One of the important manufactur- ing industries of Lincoln, and a new one at that, is the Plattner-Yale Manufacturing company, which last fall erected a new building at Twenty- first and Y streets of substantial and modern architecture. The factory is built of brick and steel, necessary for a business which manufactures water supply goods, barn hay tools and a line of implements, consisting of hay stackers and hay sweeps. The plant was moved last year| from Denver. It takes six traveling salesmen to cover the territory, while wholesale arrangements are main- tained at Omaha, Kansas City, Den- ver, Oklahoma City and Salt Lake City. The business takes care of about 150 employes and at the pres- ent rate of increase will employ 100 more within a year. The company will have an exhibit at the state fair which it will pay fair visitors to look up. The officers are John Plattner president; R. H. Yale, vice president and general manager; George [Platt- ner, treasurer, and David secretary and superintendent. Plattner, | BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1916. way, is rapidly developing to large proportions. Manufacturing is gener- |ally regarded as having extra hazards, especially in the first development of business, but Lincoln industries are {few and far between that have suf- fered any decline in business in 1915 In the Great Growth of the Western Empire average city with a jobbing business even far in excess of Lincoln busi ness. The ease and facility with which territory can be reached from Lin- | coln as a center brings hundreds of| traveling men to this city to live, | who travel for houses in other places The Lee Broom & Duster Co. is|and this in addition to the large army another of Lincoln's large institutions | that made extensive changes in its plant in 1914, increasing its warehouse l.xfio,l\w'l‘?lS; it has been a most successful | capacity, adding many new machines |and increasing the number of em- | ployes 30 or 40 per cent. This large ] business reaches practically, in the distribution of manufactured products into every state in the union. Lincoln more and more is recog | is made in the shortest possible time | and customers over a wide range of hours earlier in the Lincoln market than the same buyers can secure them in competitive i | railroad facilities for distribution con- tinue to be improved. Train service on the part of traffic interests and the commercial club is watched closely and every effort is made to secure rapid transit of freight and de- liveries in the shortest possible tin Some large improvements were made on several lines of road leading from Lincoln in the last year through which cars were loaded and dis- patched to reach territories in much shorter time than heretofore. These facts are a constant stimulus to the jobbing business already established and a constant invitation to other jobbing lines to center here and se- cure the known advantages that this ter and the close attention that the commercial organization of this city gives to the jobbing tradc. The rates question is given especial attention by the traffic department of the com- mercial club and the result is that many more equitable rates are con- stantly being secured and adjust- ments are made that count largely in the building of the profits of job- bing industries in the city. ; One of the features in connection with Lincoln business is the steady expansion of territory that the ‘uld established houses here are covering. During 1915 there were cleven new territories created Ry five of the larg- est houses in the city, and a number of the smaller houses increased their territory occupied. Lincoln is the home of more traveling men than the tions galore. The whole tale, .as he | cheap electrical power coming from |west of the Mississiopi river. 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Can you beat it? 58.60 61.30 64.90 67.00 69.80 71.40 73.50 75.30 76.70 77.70 79.30 79.50 79.30 79.30 78.20 76.40 74.00 71.10 67.60 63.30 58.40 51.80 44.50 36.40 27.50 16.90 5.20 We will write you a policy contract of $1,- 000 or more and guar- antee in the contract that its cash value pay- able to you at maturity in twenty years from date will exceed the total deposits made with the company by the amount shown op- posite your age in the table. Twenty years’ insurance with no net cost to you. Look opposite your age in the table L T LT T LTI nized as the city with the near| market Its railroad facilities are such that distribution from Lincolt territory secure their supplies many | arkets. Lincoln | city possesses as a distributing cen-| of men employed by Lincoln hous makes the city a traveling center. During the last year, thirty-| | five more traveling men were em-| ployed by Lincoln houses than dur- 1 ing the year previous. | new territory is only in process of | ‘«\XH\\'.’{(inll. and the sales do not yet! | increase the total volume of business | |10 the extent that they will when the men in the new fields have i grounds more thoroughly worked. | | Railroad extensions in | promise to play important part in | | the increase of Lincoln traveling | men, because territory is being de- | veloped there through railroads that | | will be like much of the entire terri- tory of Lincoln, more tributary to | this city than to any other | There Wyoming | are some features in the | | made by the jobbing trade. has long been noted as one of the| | greatest cut flower markets in the | west, and its shipments in this line Lincoln | Miller and Paine Buildin /3 and O St5 — GREEN GABL THE DR. BENJ. J. BAILEY SANATORIUM | LINCOLN, NEB. PLLENDIDLY equipped with all modein methods of treatmeat and vsith quiet, cases. ot st it b ket restful surroundings this is an ideal place for the sick. The in building for non-conta- gious, non-mental diseases. Rest Cottages for the exclusive treatment of mild mental Write for illustrated pamplet. their | 1 Lincoln jobbing business, which in the last yvear made an increase of over $5,000,000 in volume of businéss transacted over the year 1914, and made this without the addition of any large house, is the best possible evi- !'dence of the prosperity of wholesale business in this city and what Lin- .| coln does for jobbing houses that lo- men's | cate and become a part of its busi- ness in this line. Mr. Bushnell cites wholesale figures to show the possibilities at Lincoln— Some of the|and these show up in this fashion: Butter, eggs and poultry . $ 5,875,000 Automobiles and accessori . 5,000,000 Qrocerien’ o/ sis e i fe dodh ,100,000 | Threshing, harvesting machinery 3 Ceveeciions. 3,960,000 Lumber, sush, doors, planing mill ProduetrE Ak 3,840,000 Fruits, ,060,000 Flour, f 2,360,000 Bulidin, 2,300,000 Hardw cornice A 2,130,000 Paints, olls, glass an 2,175,000 Plumbing, water supplies, SH0R, fOFNACOR . .uurvveinsss 1,360,000 Contectionery, lce cream, baked Roods cooeee 035,000 Harneas u saddlery, boots, ? 3 . 910,000 bottled goods, | jobbing trade that are sually | o 140,008 | S 1 2 R R o lovam furnlahinga: o £75,000 noticeable. The development of job- | puper, "wall ‘paper, corsats. ... . 810000 hing in automobile lines as mentioned | Furniture, mattresses, hotel and before, the rema e developme: BUHArA £upples ..oo.voeieinss 590,000 ) remarkable development| o BT TUBBRED (oocinicean RNtane of the business of the Cushman|geeds, plants, flowers. fawelty. .. 640,000 Motor company—are only two of | Brooms, hoxes, cleaners . 510,000 | many examples of unusual progress | Other Jobbing lines 15,009 Total business, 1916, ., 943,180,000 The record for the last seven years is as follows: SR 1909 ,040,000/181 .. +$82,200,000 go into all the states between Ne- :::? . ‘:?:33“::: Ay ::‘}:3'32: braska and the Pacific coast. That 1s12 ... .. 32:200.000|