Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-24

economy. The Omaha Packing company
has completed It's sanitary paving system
throughout the various floors OF the depart
ments. new pumping system has been
put in operation.
Quite in line with the improvements
among the packers have been the improve
ments Of the year at the Union Stock
yards. A vast area In the cattle yards has
been fully repaved with a smooth cement
floor. New fences and gates have been
erected. The water troughs are also of con-
crete and completely sanitary. The pave
ment Of the principal thoroughfare through
the yards and the pavement Of Thirty
third street is also one Of the accomplish
ments. The foundation is Just completed
for the new bank building which Is to ac-
commodate the great consolidated institu-
ton Of the South Omaha National and the
Union Stock Yards National banks. A
large increase in the office room Of the
Exchange building is being effected by rails
ing the roof Of the dining hall and adding
second story. BY far the most attractive
improvement is the arrangement with the
Omaha g. Council Bluffs Street Railway
company for a rapid street car service
through the yards from the door of the Ex-
change building to the heart OF Omaha All
railroad connections are thereby brought
into easy reach.
An Army mt Work.
This vast aggregation OF buildings and
supplementary construction enc'oses about
10000 workmen clerks and officials in their
daily tasks In the packing houses about
5000 men are required The Union Stock
Yards company has a constant demand on
the services OF 1000 men. The four great
banking houses of the city which depend
Immediately on the daily exchanges for
livelihood add perhaps 200 clerks and other
employees. The South Omaha Live stock
exchange has a membership OF about 900
and the clerks in connection would be fully
twice that many. A city of 10000 which
encloses this nucleus with a population
representing thirty or more nationalities
and half hundred dialects and provinces
of the whole civilized world, draws prac-
tically all its livlhood from the great in
dustry Bleak as the prairie after a scorch-
ing July wind would be the city II by any
chance the live stock industry were re-
moved. One-thlrd of the great city of
Omaha would be crippled by the same blow.
Why would 1t be SOP Because the annual
wages of so great a thruug of men is above
$4,000. The volume of business is easily
SHOWN IN the resources OF the -FOUR banks
which have in combined deposits In South
Omaha over $100O0,OOO.
Scope of the Industry.
In this connection the following summary
will add a concise conception of the pack
ing industry:
Number of cattle slaughtered. $50. $780, 600
Number of hogs slaughtered. .... 2,047, 900
Number of sheep slaughtered. ... Las, 500
Number of calves slaughtered. 49,. 81, 900
Total value OF live stock. ......... 81, 600 900
Expended for labor. ............... 5000 900
Laborers employed ................ 5000
Average wages per man............ $500
Value of packing plants........... IS, 500, 900
Value of output t12l, 000, 900
Good Railroad Facilities.
Thirteen railroads of the west converge
on this market and each brings In many
thousand head of stock in the course of
a year The same roads haul away to the
feeding districts and to other market
cepters about one-fourth Of the cattle,
hogs and sheep, and over three-fourths of
the horses which are brought In.