The Portland daily press., 1897-08-10
BRYAN's STATE THRIVING.

| BRYAN'S SKATE IaNA vANU'
Ia Wave of Prosperity Felt All Over
Nebraska.
| Plenty of Money to Lend, and Import
ant Industries Are Starting Up-Lapor
in Demand-Large Building Enter
prises in Hand.
New York Sun
Omaha, July 31.-There is no longer
any doubt in the mind of the most radio
sllverite in Nebraska as to the prosperity
that has developed itself in this otaee'
Instances are multiplying daily to snow
| this state of affairs. About the only
effort the friends of Mr.. Bryan are now
making to discredit the prevailing con-
| dlt1ons is to attribute the good times TO
Che extraordinary crops. Be the causes
what they may, there is no disputlng tne
statement that conditions are better IN
Eesi1o ollO OlGCO ILL SSAAS~~'
they have been for the last seven years,
II, indeed, commercial prospects are not
better in this section than they have ever
been.
NO one disputes that crop conditions
have contributed in measure to the pre-
vailing conditions. Still, the wave OF
prosperity in this part Of the world has
| not come in q day or a week; but, on
the contrary, has been growing in proper
lions since the first of the year. At pres
ent all over the State money is to be had
in greater quantities and at lower inter-
| est than for years, factories are opening
J that were Icing closed, houses are being
erected that would have been regarded as
unwlse few years ago, spectators are
buying large herds of cattle and sheep
to carry through the winter, farmers are
charging their fields by purchases and
improving the land previously acquired,
and in the cities skilled labor is begin
ming to command a premium. The I'M
skilled labor in the larger cities of the
State cannot be said to be permanently
employed, but it is infinitely better of
than it has been for three years, and in
the agricultural district farmers are pay
ing high wages for labor. In the fields
all the men who are idle in the cities and
villages of the State could readily find
employment if they desired that kind OF
work. It is even said that the recent
| trouble with tramps along Nebraska rail-
roads was caused by appeals made by
| farmers to the railroad officials not to
haul the strong healthy fellows from the
State when there was so much need OF
their help in the harvest fields. Certain
Iy no one had previously heard of rail-
road refusing to haul a train because a
few tramps were aboard. Then, too,
when the tramps were released in Omaha
the railroads at once offered them trans
portation to different parts of Nebraska
where the demand for labor in the grain
| fields was most crying, but refused to
do anything for them in any other direc-
ton. To the credit of the tramps 1t may
be said that two-thirds of their number
accepted the proposition and are now
earning 81 so a day in the harvest fields
of the State
The Improvement in the cities of the
State is most marked in Omaha. This is
partly due to the building going on at
the Exposition grounds, but this is only
small part of the evidence of business
revival in the city. For instance, Ar
mour & Co. have 800 men employed in
erecting 81 roo, COO packing house here.
p. E. Her & Co. are erecting great glu-
| cose factory and beet sugar factory in
Omaha that will cost half million and
give employment to 200 men. The Oma-
ha Union Stock Yards is enlarging it's
| plant by one-th1rd In order to handle its
| Increasing business. A syndicate of Ne.
braska men is erecting here great sheep
| feeding plant, where stock may be fin
| ished for the Eastern market; that Is, be
fed with choice grain for month or two
after being brought in from the range.
The Carter White Lead Works have
opened again with a large force of men
after being idle some time, and the Co
lumbia Distilling Company started up it's
| furnaces this week, after having done
| little for two years. Then the Omaha
and Grant Smelling and Refining Com
pany, the largest plant of the kind in the
world, on July "a purchased and took
possession of the Pilot Bay Smelling
Company of Kootenay Bay, British CO.
lum bia. The big company has at present
$50 men employed in its Omaha plant,
working in shifts of eight hours each.
The Burlington last week closed all con-
tracts for the completion of it's Union
Depot in Omaha, which is to cost 81 200,
600. The foundation of the structure is
| already in. This enterprise has been held
up for three years on account of hard
times. This same company, on July ~,
issued orders that all its shopmen at
Plattsmouth, Lincoln and McCook, Neb,
should be put to work on full time for
the first time in four years. The same is
true of the U MON Pacific shops These
orders were made necessary by the inreas-
ing deman,. for cars to haul grain and
coal. The Trans Mississippi Exposition
Company is at present engaged in spend
ing 81 200, 900 on buildings and grounds
in Omaha and closing contracts with ex-
hibitors that it is estimated will cause
an expenditure of three million on the
part OF individuals from all sections of
the country.
Every bank in Omaha has announced
that it will now pay three per cent. on
time deposits, and through the regular
channels the banks are Offering all the
money their patrons may desire at per
cent. The same communications have