Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-04-17
MILLS FOLLOW WOOL MARKET
Factories Will Come to Omaha, Now
that Railroads Act.
NO POWER TROUBLE, SAYS NASH
That VIII Not stand I'm the way. He
Asserts, of Any Enterprise
Coming Into This
City.

Wool men say textile mills and factories
will follow the wool market to Omaha IL
they can secure power as cheap in Omaha
as they secure it in the manufacturing
towns and cities of New England
F. A. Nash, of the Omaha Electric Light
and Power company, says: mo factory has
ever been kept out of Omaha because of
the cost of power. and no factory need
hesitate to locate here because of power
cost"
To the Commercial club OF Omaha and
wool growers association. It looks like fac
tories will open here, and make the goods
near the fields supplying the raw material,
and in the very center of the territory
where their products are consumed.
In the face of the water power stuation
and the probability that a power plant
will be built on the Loup river by private
enterprise, II is apparent to Che Commercial
club that Omaha will not only have cheaper
power than at present. but more of it.
Mr.. Nash's statement, however, is taken
to mean that rates will be made to any
factory which will successfully compete
with any rates made I'm the east.
Besides the probability that factories will
be opened in Omaha, the location of Of
fices of a large number of wool commits
sion firms is assured, according to Commits
sioner ]. M. Guild, who with a special com
mittee of the club, secured the adjustment
of rates which has made the wool ware
house possible.
Rates Highly Satisfactory.
The storage-in-transit rates are highly
satisfactory to the wool growers as well
as to the Commercial club" said a mem
Der of the committee
But as the years go on there will be a
demand for local rates on wool to Omaha,
with proportional rates out Of Omaha to
the east. This will make a much more
active market. as such rates have for the
grain dealers, but the time is not ripe to
expect such rates at present. The rail-
roads which bring the wool into Omaha
will take out an equal amount under the
present arrangement, but when the local
rates to Omaha are made all wool will be
consigned to Omaha, sold to whoever pays
the price on the competitive market and
used in factories in Omaha or forwarded
on east
The pirate lines would have ar oppor-
tunity to secure the wool traffic to the
east IL the local rates were made These
lines which are called pirates are the
roads which do not originate wool or grain,
but which come to the Missouri river and
compete for the traffic to the east The
pirates at Omaha are the Great Western,
Milwaukee & St. Paul, Illinois Central and
Wabash. They secure a large amount of
the grain brought to Omaha by the origi-
mating lines, but the lines which originate
grain ard wool may also secure the haul
east as ip the case of the Northwestern
and Burlington especially. 1 understand
the Burlington secures every year more
grain for transportation to the east than
it originates in the territory west of the
Missouri river.
Roads for the Wool.
''The Union Pacific will be the wool line
for Omaha, as far as we can see now.
But the Burlington from the Black Hills
and the Northwestern from the hills coun-
try and Montana, win bring in an immense
amount of wool. OF course, the Union Pa
eific ends at Omaha but it's connecting
lines will secure the wool shipments to the
east"
That the Commercial club is doing ef-
fective work for a greater Omaha is shown
in the fact that this year it has encour-
aged and fostered not only the wool ware
house proposition, but the railroad shops
at Seymour park, or Ralston; the cracker
factory and large cracker and confec-
tionery sales agency. For all of these en-
terprises the Commercial club has been
enabled to do something either In the mat