Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-23
JSNEss IN SIGHT BEATS THE RECORD
Bankers and Jobbsrs, Manufacturers and
Retailers Are Confident
MARKET TOWN SLOGAN is A WINNER
Trade that Belongs to Gate City is Coming
Here ct Last.
AGENCIES WORKING FOR ADVANCEMENT
Commercial and Industrial Interests
Active and Every body Pulling
fOr the JpDuitding Of
the Gate CIty.

Great as Omaha's growth and CONNER
clai progress mas been IN 1870, 1t Will IN al
prOOaUlnty be exCened IN IyVL
During the lasJ year business has beer
moving dlOng al SUCH RAPID rate Lne peU-
PIE have not had time 10 stop and con-
sluer IT. they nave mace money every
uay, but have not paused to set a tuil
roaIzauon OF the general prosperity and
ueveiupment about tnem. NOW unat busi-
ness mas slacked up tor the majority JuHt
u few Jays before Christmas, tney have n
lew hours 10 SIT down and tnlnK over the
last twelve months emu ana 10 inquire
what men in INES OUTSIDE their own have
Deen DONG.
Tney hua that whatever branch of COM
merCG or industry they investigate, there
has been the most Unparalleled progress in
omaha s history, The pulse Ot trade mas
been beating nigh, laborers have had all
the work they could do, houses ana ware
houses have been erected, ana Omaha Is
moving along toward u 2OOVVO population
at a gratifying rate.
Due TO Western Development.
To place the credit where 1t belongs,
these conditions are due to the prosperity
and developing wealth OF Nebraska, the
Back HllIs, Wyoming ana all the vast tea
rltory TO the west, which is tributary 10
Omaha in q commercial way. This coun-
try sends to the Gate city its wheat,
corn, potatoes, alfalfa, cattle, hogs and
fruit, making this town one Of the market
cities OF the world; in return 1t takes
groceries. dry goods hardware and other
merchandise the joDbers have to sell, as
well as the products of the local manufao-
tories. Great lines OF railroad reach out
from Omaha through this country, and
there is so much tor them to haul that
they cannot hnd the cars to do it.
This country has developed remarkably
in few years. Crops have been large
and the farmers have been getting good
prices for them, They nave plenty OF
money and they keep it in circulation.
They have bluoded stock and the he st Of
implements; in fact, they are equipped
with every facility for getting the best
results from every aero of land they hold.
out in western Nebraska they are rals-
ing grain and vegetables where nothing
was grown before The rainfall Is ex.
tending westward with each succeedihH
year and the Campbell system Of soil Oal-
| ture has come into general use. The SEMI
arid regions are becoming gardens, where
once they were deserts. Irrigation in Ne
! braska, Wyoming, Colorado and South Da-
kota is redeeming thousands of acres Of
land to cultivation Along the North Platte
| in Nebraska and the Belle Fourche river
| in South Dakota the government is digging
huge canals to water land which will make
homes for thousands OF families. Private
enterprise is also working on irrigation
projects in these sections.
! The railroads are growing with every
thing else. Up the North Platte valley is
City, one from Stromsburg to Columbus,
one from Frannie to Worland in wyoming.
and there are others yet to come. They
are increasing the population of the state
by taking people in sparsely settled dis
tricts.
Bankers and JObbers Know IL.
So Omaha benefits. Local bank clear
ances have been greater than ever before
and bank deposits were never so large in
the history of the country. This is, per-
haps, the best index of a city's business
Some idea of conditions in the jobblng
world is obtained from a remark made by
one of the leading jobbers a few days ago
He said: There never was a December
when we had so many spring orders on
the books I have talked with jobbers IN
all lines and find it The same in every
case"
It Is a very evident fact that the re.
tailers IN the territory have a fr!endly
feeling for Omaha as their natural trade
center. They have learned TO know the
slogan Of Omaha, the Market Town" and
are always ready to welcome heartily tn,
Omaha jobbers who visit them Tn,
Omaha Commercial club. by its trade ex
cursions has covered the whole OF Ne
braska in the last two years, and has alsC
gone through the Black Hills and part o
Kansas. These visits are conducive TO tn,
success OF the merchants meetings al
Omaha, for the retailers are inclined to re-
turn the compliment by visit to the Mar
ket Town. Successful meetings were hel(
in the fail and the volume Of trade don,
by the jobbers was 10000 greater thar
during the spring meetings, which them
selves were more than satisfactory. FOL
time II was thought these meeting
would have TO be discontinued, on accoun
Of the Interpretation by the railroads OF
ruling Of the Interstate Commerce com
mission, but all this has been arranged t,
the satisfaction Of the jobbers.
New Plants show Growth.
One large dry goods house has beei
erected IN the last year and another vii
be completed early in the summer Of 1901
mammoth implement warehouse ha
been erected, two large ones have beel
announced, and plans have been made 70
additions TO two. One large grocery hous
wants TO build, but on account OF lack o
surplus warehouse room cannot hnd wa,
to put up a new home this year
The retail business has grown rapidl
and three districts are fighting for tn
mastery. In the South Sixteenth stree
district two large houses have been com
pleted this year and north Of Farnam tn
giant Brandeis building Is climbing up q
the air. North Sixteenth street Is ex
perlencing a rejuvenatiOn. Herman Cob
viii erect a large building there as 500
as spring opens and Judge Neville pro
poses another. The section around Twen
tieth and Farnam IS also coming TO IN
2 front in retail way
But, then, building is going on IN ever
. direction. The Northwestern has made
huge excavation for freight depots mort
- OF Davenport street and between ThiI
teenth and Fourteenth, and the Union Pa