Omaha daily bee., 1884-08-07

The report of the board of trade for 1888,
hows that the Union Pacific employed
3, 005 hands in this city along, last year,
with a monthly pay roll Of S175,5l7 80
Tne 3. q NJ. and other roads, one half
that number; union elevator, 40 hands,
pay roll 81, 700; Boyd's packing house,
200 hands, pay roll 5000; Omaha
Smelling works, $50 hands, pay roll $780,
900; Willow Springs distillery, 100 hands,
pay roll So. 800; White Lead Co., 40
hands, pay roll $500; packing and
canning works, 1915 hands, pay roll 49,.
900. Besides these there are the machine
shops and foundries, the nail works,
and other industries. The new stock
yards and packing house will give EN-.
ployment to a large number of ssmen.
There are fully 1000 men employed in
public works under contract which will
cost in the neighborhood of one million
dollars. Our fve.year five per cent.
paving bonds sell readily at par, while
ten and twenty year bonds command a
premium every time. The three princi-
pal newspapers are doing a largely in
creased business, as shown by the erec-
ton of new Off 70 buildings and increas
ing their machinery plant. Last year
they employed about 300 hands, with a
monthly payroll of $l5, SOL. These alta.
tistics tell their own story. Omaha
takes no steps backward. Her growth is
steady, substantial, eternal. The finest
agricultural country on the continent,
watered by the reservoirs of heaven, and
peopled with the beat Of all states and
nations, furnish a spinal column for the
metropolis of the Missouri valley superior
to the arid plains and mineral wealth oil
Colorado.
The Hastings Democrat charges, with
q showing of evidence, that the B. q M
railroad company and the merchants Of
Omaha and Lincoln have pooled to pre-
won't the establishment of wholesale hou.
SEES in Hastings. The charge of discrim.
~ination is not a new one, but so far as
the merchants are concerned it is with.
out foundation. 1t has always been the
policy of railroads, and will doubtless
continue TO be, to make terminal points
distributing points, g., to concentrate
wholesale house s at such points as will
give better facilities for the transfer of
goods and secure the benefit of long
hauls. The case cited by the Democrat
is as follows:
"Mr 7. s. Notes, of Iowa City, Iowa
was In the city two or three days this week
for tho purpose OF establishing q wholesale
grocery houss at this point. Arrangements
had besn made whereby he could secure two
rooms in the stone block, and it wss his in
tention to fill them with goods. After decid-
ing that there was not another point in the
state that needed a l ~institut on of this kind
more than Hastings, we have all the advan-
tages here for making an enterprise of this
kind a success, Mr. Niece went to the B.. X
M. r.. K. company ut Omaha aud informed
them OF what he intended TO do and asked
them what they could do in the way OF rates.
Much to his surprise they informed him that
they could give him no special rates, and at
the same time advised him to go to Liucolu
if he wished to embark in the wholesale bus
ines-, they assuring him that il he would go
to that place they could easily give hun a
rate. Mr.. MCGEE Informed them Hasting,
was the n ost desirable point and that unless
thev could give him a rata by whi,h he could
compete with other Wholesale houses in the
sta te, he would be compelled to abandon the
enterprise. The railroad gave him no encour-
agement and he returned {, his homs."