Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-01

Clearing house totals of almost SlO,OOO,0oO
q week; manufacturing output of nearly
tLOo0,000 a week; jobbing business of more
than 81. 10000 a week; real estate transfers
amounting to almost S1,OOO,OO) a month;
eostoffice money order business of more
N2n $4,000 a day. stamp sales OF nearly
$40 a day; building operations of more
than $4,000 a week; grain receipts of
100000 bushels and shipments of 80, ,943, 800
and receipts of cattle. hogs and sheep to
the number of 563S,l4O. These are the
salient points OF Omaha's business during
the year 1906. 1t is a record to be proud
of. An increase is shown In every line Of
activity and industry. The commercial life
Of the city was never so vigorous and
healthy as during the last twelve months
and the promise for the next year is
brighter than ever.
Manufacturing ana JObbIng.
Omahas total manufactured output in
1905 was approximately $19j 46O COO. as COM
pared with $l75, $4,000 in 1905, an increase of
S1e,991. 800. or II per cent. These figures rep
I resent the total output of upwards of 24O
f1,so srns, more than 200 of them being COM
alvelx small.
he total jobbing business for the year
iounted to sS3.s9s.OOO as compared with
s. 3017 $50 in 1905, increase of $l5 $751; go, or
a little better than % per cent. These
figures are for the 163 wholesale concerns
doing business in forty-fve different lines
That these splendid gains have been pos
sible has been due, of course, to the pre-
vaillng good times and the good crops In
Omahas territory. The people OF Nebraska
and adjoining states never knew greater
prosperity, and they have been spending
their money freely for every manner Of
article that is made or sold in Omaha
Country merchants have paid off wha
debts they had and in Hundreds of case.
they have acquired theif own buildings
where they formerly rented quarters. They
are keeping better and larger stocks o
merchandise on hand. Setter goods they
must have, for the farmlr has been grow
ing large crops and selling them at goot
prices for several yearS With his pros
perity comes that of an trades and pro
fessions, and people want a better clas!
OF goods than they used to buy. Collec
tions have been very satisfactory all through
the year, except for a short period late
In the summer.
Figures on Manufacturing.
Packing house products make the larges
item in the manufacturing business. While
the actual increase by pounds in the outpu
OF the South Omaha pdckers was only abou
per cent, yet the decrease in value wai
about ID per cent The figures are approx
irnately N3,O60,00O, as compared with Sl07,
100000 the previous yIear. Next comes re
fined metals of which the output was $A.
6SO6S1, as compared with S4O659 400 in 1906
Brewery and disullery products fgur
s4,50oo00, an increase of 20 per cent; soap
S2,000O00, an increasd of 15 per cent; outpu
OF Union Pacific shobs, $2,545,0o0; mems gar
ments s., 400,0 900: bobts and shoes. $500 900
bag factory products 1895 900: dairy prod
ucts. So 200. 600; white lead, s75OOOO a decreas
from 1905 on account OF the factory bein
out of commission lone month for repairs
structural steel and cast iron. $425 600; stoc
foods ss25 600; pa1ing mill products s40O
900. In addition 4 these are 2ls concern
whose products aggregate 100000 an in
crease OF 20 per oe ht
Details of JObbing Trade,
The grocery tI~he. as usual. leads IN tn
amount OF jobbinE business, with a year
total sales OF about Sl5,5OOOOo, gaining fror
t1a15o.OoO the previous year. This is due /
large part TO an increase In the volum
OF goods sold. bht In some measure to IN
fact that goods are higher, also to III
tendency OF people to buy the best. Came
goods trade had not fallen on, despite N
fact that the fruit crop was large an
more sugar was bought for canning pun
poses than In any previous year. Fame
goods and fisN trade has showed heav
increase MorI coffee was roasted in Oma
this year thai in 1906. The Omaha house
have their Il share OF success I'm biddin
for Indian 81 ply contracts. No new house
have entered. the field. but Paxton & Ga
lagher are p inning to enlarge by the ereC
tion OF an eight-story building 1872 fe,
square. ThN firm has been compelled
buy the old Parlin, Orendorfr & Marti
building, anH even with this addition;
SPACE Il car bot find room enough to q
business VIII building. The erection
the new hon has therefore been deferre
for a year.
The dry 81 Hpds business has been comm
10 the from by leaps and bounds. Tot
business doEe in dry goods and milliner
was about 10000 which includes s. 5000
worth OF nj ems garments manufactured
the city. Ih 1906 the manufactured clothlu
reached SAGnOOO. and the entire jobbln
hns,ness. iIHtIuding this, was 100000. or
eompany tbs built an eight-story buildir
and tha kther has two eight-story stru
t,res IN (course OF construction. A thir
concern has come into the field, the swei
son Br9k Dry Goods company with a
fContinA1sA on sixth PaEs.l