Omaha daily bee., 1883-10-26
HEADLIGHT CLEANS.
Immense Freight Traffic Of The Union
Pacific.
The Weather In Western Nebraska.

While many imagine that we are hav.
ing dull times in Omaha, it is learned
that the receipts by rail at this point are
greater than ever before. Yardmaster
Gilmore has all that he and his force can
possibly attend to. lie has seven switch
engines at work all the time by day and
five by night, employing a force of
switchmen and assistants numbering for
ty-five.
Among the important items in this
department may be mentioned that the
Union elevators are receiving about
forty cars of grain per day. This grain
is not being shipped out but stored away
in the elevators. There is also a large
amount of coal coming i'll, about fifty cars
per day from the company's mines and
the same mount from the east, in all
about 1,5O0 tons per day.
The stock season is near over, and it is
learned by inquiry that the run this year
is not so heavy by 1000 cars rs it was
last year, a falling off in shipments OF
10000 head. Ina 1881 there were re-
ceived at this point 160, 600 head; in 1882,
100, 600.
The Union Pacific is really doing a ire.
mendous business both III passenger and
freight traffic, exceeding that of any pre-
vious year at the same season. They
send out each day eight freight trains,
averaging twenty-five car loads each, or
200 cars: 30, 600 tons in all.
The local business alone, outside of
coal, stone and grain, averages fifty cars
per day. The arrival of household goods
alone averages ten cars per day, and the
receipts of potatoes five cars, or l 800
bushels.
The Nail Works, at present is %receiv-
ing about 100 cars of old iron to work up
and the Smelling Works is doing an enor-
nous business. An average of 400 cars
per day, is received, much of which is
taken up from the branches. This does
not look much as if there were hard times
in the country.
II WEATHER.
The train men and passengers on the
trains from the north and west reported
that a severe snow storm was in progress
at Hastings, and at Central City as they
left those places. 1t was reported that a
heavy snow storm continued nearly all
night at Central City, and that the
was SIX inches deep at
that place. 1t was also reported
that the snow was deep at both Kearney
and Hastings. The Journal man sought
the telegraph headquarters at the depot
for reliable information, and found that
the statements of the passengers inter-
viewed had all been marked by a greater
or less degree of e~xuberancy. Reports
of agents to headquarters state thatabout
three inches of snow fell near Hastings
and Kearney, while the fall at Central
City was considerably lighter, and ex-
tended about down to Aurora. There
was no snow reported on the A. ~ N,
nor on the main line from Red Cloud to
Table Rock. State Journal.
There is deep snow along the main
line as far out as Ogallala, and four inches
on the ground at Albion. Such weather
as we are now having has never been
known before in Nebraska. A gentleman
whe has lived i'll Nebraska for the past
twenty-five years, says he has known it
to freeze, snow and blow for days at a
stretch, at this season of the year, but
he has never been obliged to wade
through a sea of mud for SO long a time
before.
The Missouri Pacific o brings in
about thirty loaded cars daily and the
Union Pacific trains sent west are made
up of solid loads for Denver, Salt Lake
and California.