Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-03
OF THE
JOBBING-TRADE
Continued from Eighth Pase.)

great growth in both manufactures and
iobbing has been wholesome, the figures in
representative lines may be quoted. They
show that no single line has participated
beyond it's due in the melon cutting and
that a liberal share Of the fruit has fallen
to each. In agricultural implements the
thirty-nine houses Of the city have sales
for this year OF 81, rs, 600. In 1905 they had
81, 10000. Dry goods increased from S,7lO,-
900 to 81, 1856, 900, and groceries leaped from
S13,O 900 to SIS, 615. 600. Hardware men
dipped In for their share, going from $3.50
eco In 1906 to S6,625 600 In this year OF grace,
Likewise In manufactures The packing
houses, by far the largest line, have gone
from S1O7, 600. 900 to t14S, $4,000, a neat little
increase of $50. 900, 600. Creamery products
show an increase Of $1,000 600, a figure
which is believed to be too small for the
great growth here in this line Is famous.
Omaha is in fact the first butter market
in the world and the Elgin price is likely
to disappear from the quotations, with
Omaha" on the date line In its place.
Mems clothing has gone up a cool million
and the production of alcoholic liquors has
been boosted s., 100000, or a little better
than a million a year.
Many causes have contributed to this
growth. Omaha's position is strategic It's
command Of raw products is sure, its rail
way service is such that not only is a
firrner grip being made on old territory,
but new is constantly being added.
Then again, there is the enormou agri-
cultural wealth, which is the real basis
of it's commercial and industrial success.
In a state all its own, which raises more
wheat per capita than Kansas, more corn
per acre than any other state in the coun-
try, with it's farmers largely practicing dl-
versified farming, the most certain wealth
producing form of agriculture, its increas-
ing live stock resources-Omaha's certainty
Of being a great primary market is abso-
lutte, so far as things human are absolute
From the viewpoint of the manufacturer
and iobber with but a little imagination,
there is an enormous field CT wealth to
come in the country to the west, the soil
Of which has not even been scratched and
which belongs to Omaha jobbers and manu-
faeturers by a right difficult to ALLEVIATE
the right of geographical position and
Typographical formation. A cateclysm
which would destroy this would destroy
everything.
The full import of the figures OF In
crease is difficult to grasp or to convey
They must be interpreted in various ways
by the Increase in bank clearings' by th'
new buildings going UP of every kind foI
store and office buildings, new theaters
new churches and new homes, are but CO.
ordinate reflexes Of the other movements
To sum up: Omaha's and IN
dustry have grown prodigiously. I'M
growth has been equal, or approximatei
so. in all branches. The growth has no
been forced; is the result Of no BOOM IL
roots tap living waters and find nourish
\ ment in the richest soils. When the gov
eminent census takers Of 1910 begin u
accumulate data with regard to Omaha.
activities and resources they Will tln'
a plenty of material to work upon.