Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04

prophet who sleeps to wake no more, until
the trumpet sounds calling the living aud
the dead 10 everlasting Judgment
Returning TO the subject, the "valley TAM
is known no more aud tho article is called
by its'orthodox name and sold at the ortho-
dox price per sample by both Mormon and
GENTLE alike A license for selling the arti.
Gle prevails at the rate OF $1,000 per year.
In consequence there are between twenty
and thirty places in the city where IL IS dis
pensed. This is n more temperate showing
than Omaha when high license took effect,
and like Omaha infer that IT is on account
of large transient population.
n glance at the hotel registers shows these
people come from New York, Philadelphia,
Omaha, San Francisco and other large cities
OF the country. In addition to the old Town.
send house, now the Continental, there are
the Cullen and the Walker rs the principal
hotels, and good deal of talk about the
erection of another to cost S250,00O The
hotels are full OF guests and numbers are
turned away nightly. A well known gen
tleman assured me, to accommodate the
travel, he and others have been asked TO
open their houses to lodge those who cannot
be accommodated at tho hotels.
Main street is daily crowded with people,
and on some corners the crowd is as great as
at Fifteenth aud Farnam. There are few or
no houses to rent IN the city, ana the same
gentleman pleasantly informed me one
rental agency has n loaded cannon ready to
fire at the man who applies for vacant
house. Tho Omaha men make their head
quarters at the Walker IL is q pleasant
place, the rooms aud beds ore scrupulouslv
neat, and tho fare excellent. 1t is home
like and comfortable, and on the day
OF my arrival l was constantly
shaking hands with Omaha friends who are
residing and visiting in the city.
Ono OF these told me he had made $1,000
in real estate, and n relative about $1,000.
Real estate offices are numerous here, and 1t
will take very little to start the biggest kind
Of n hn ,arlE 10 titrn
aud the indications are pointing to au active
trade very soon. The daily transactions av
erage from 500, 900 to $10, 900 aud the weekly
about Si00,0Ob. On inquiry find the price
of the best business property on Main street
will average about Sl2, 0J0 per foot. This is
too high, and will be apt to create new
business center wnere property can be
bought cheaper, as residence lots from four
to five squares distant from the business cen
ter can be bought for $75 TO 800 per front
foot. Property In Omaha ranges much
higher than these hgures one or two miles
from the postoffice. Taxes range about II
mills for city, county and territorial on
80 per cent valuation. This is too low, out
it will be higher when the streets are paved,
although the materials for paving are all
around the city.
1t Is well worth q visit to the chamber of
commerce. II has fine apartment where
everything, mineral or agricultural, pro-
duced in Utah, is on exhibition bale of
cotton is one of the specimens from a
southern county.
There are seven banks In the city with an
aggregate capital of about 81, 900, 0O0 Inter
est rules rom per cent to 10 per cent per
annum and the bank cearauces will average
about $500, ,0(0 per week. This makes a bet
ter showing than Sioux City or Des Moines.
Salt Lake City has no clearing house.
The jobbng trade is large and increasing
at the rate of 20 per cent per annum. Deal
ers tell me, strange to say, Omaha is not sell
ing largely in the city, but TO the surround
ing towns. In consequence there is the
same prejudice existing here, tnat Omaha
has to Chicago for indulging in u similar
practice Omaha should sell in job or car
load lots to Ogden and Salt Lake City and
let the huckstering businesssalone.
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