Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-04-09
OMAHA FOR ARMY SUPPLIES
Furnishes All Missouri and Half Colo
RADIO Department Posts.
MEANS BIG THING FOR GATE CITY
Just RecOEnition' of Local CONNER
ciaI Rights at Last Accorded on
the Part of the war
Department.

All supplies for the United states army
in the Department OF the Missouri and for
the posts in half of the Department of
Colorado, will be bought in Omaha in the
future according TO an order just issued
by Quartermaster General J. b. Aleshire
to carry out the plans for decentrallzed
distribution Of supplies.
For several years representatives OF Ne
braska in congress and the Commercial
club OF Omaha, have been insisting that
more supplies should be bought and stored
in Omaha nearer where they are needed.
The War department has finally acted, and
July Omaha will be one of six cities in the
United States where supplies for the army
will be bought and from which they will be
distributed. In the past, the War depart
was only in the Omaha market for
{, odds and ends and the business was
scarcely worth going after by the manu-
facturers and wholesalers
The cities which become large distribu
ting centers for the duartermaster's depart
ment are: Omaha for the Department Of
Missouri and part OF the Department of
Colorado; New York for the Department
OF the East; Jeffersonvile, Ind, for the
Departments of the Lakes and the Gulf;
st. Louis for the Department of Texas and
half OF the Department of Colorado; st.
Paul for the Department of Dakota and
San Francisco for the Departments Of Call
fornia and Columbia.
Posts Omaha will supply.
Military posts which will be furnished
supplies from Omaha are: Fort Omaha.
Jefferson Barracks, Mo-; Fort Crook; the
department headquarters at Omaha; Fort
d. A. Russell, Wyo.; Fort Des Moines, Ia;
Fort Leavenworth, Kan: Fort Mackenzie,
Wyo.; Fort Mead. S. D.; Fort Riley, Kan;
Fort Robinson, Neb.; Fort Washakie, wyo;
Fort Douglas and Fort Duchesne in Utah,
and Fort Logan in Colorado.
Letters are being sent to all manufac-
turers and wholesalers of Omaha by the
Commercial club requesting them to file
list with the quartermaster of every
thing they make or sell that the de-
partment may begin buying in Omaha as
soon as the order becomes effective.
The Commercial club is gratified at the
action taken by the department as It is
final recognition of Omaha as the
central distributing point in the west from
which goods can be delivered to the mill
tary posts.
The new order also will mean in a short
time an increased force for Major Nc
Carthy, quartermaster of the Department
Of the Missouri and larger warehouse
AIeshtre Recommends It.
In August. 1907. Quartermaster General
Aleshire recommended to the secretary
of war a policy of Decentralization I'm
the handling of quartermasters supplies
For years the department had been dis
| trihuting from Jeffersonvillc. Ind. Every
| thing was bought delivered at jefferson
vile and western wholesalers and manu-
facturers had little opportunity to bid for
the furnishing of supplies
When supplies were needed at San
Francisco, after the earthquake, they were
rushed through from the east, where the
government practically had everything.
The department finally saw the practical
| results to be obtained from the plan of
the quartermaster general, and the order
was isued. Everything bought for the
army must be delivered in one Of the six
cities. Other manufacturers and whole
salers besides those OF Omaha have the
opportunity to bid on the supplies, but
they will have to furnish them delivered
| in Omaha, which makes it almost i'm
possible to compete With the Omaha deal
ers.