Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-22

With such rates as could be afforded
by the Benton Packet company, IL 1t was
running a line between Omaha and Cham
berlain, every dollars worth of merchan-
disc sold to the people in thirteen South
Dakota counties, could be shipped in for
less than from any other market. The
trade excursionists are learning this ad-
vantage for the first time.
Messages are being received almost daily
BY the Omaha visitors from some little
town on the inland. urging the business
men to use their utmost endeavor to get a
north and south railroad extended into
the territory west of the river, coming d.
rect from Omaha. The people in this ter
ritory insist that a line extending from
Dallas north and west would be Of inesti-
Unable benefit to them. This is the special
ambition of the grain dealers
s4.s Grain Men Plug for Trade.
Grain men on the Omaha excursion are
among the hardest workers and are GER
tainly doing everything possible to divert
grain to the Omaha market. They are Off
at every station and with from three to
eight elevators to visit they have had a
strenuous time until after the party
pulled out of Oacoma, which is on the
border between the farms and the ranges
which have put in three hard days work
ing for grain shipments to the Omaha mar
ket:
Beal-vincent Grain company. by c. Vim
cent; Merriam & Holmquist by ]. w.
Holnquist; Nebraska-Iowa Grain COM
pany, O. II. Roberts,; Roberts Grain COM
pany, A. Roberts; Transmississippi Grain
company, T.. o. Harris; United Grain
company, ]. w. Swearingen; Updike Grain
company, by c. L. Babcock, George B,
Powell, chief inspector Of the Omaha
Grain exchange, has been collecting sam
pies of South Dakota grain on the entire
trip and declares II would follow the
/. South Dakota steers to the top OF the
D market, II shipped to Omaha.
Another line Of business which is reap
ing big results from the trip is the imple-
ment trade Branch houses at Sioux City
and Sioux Falls have been securing con-
siderable of this business. but the larger
houses located In Omaha are getting IL
their work and promises Of future business
are accepted as meaning a big Increase II
business Among the hard workers on thu
trip are: f. ]. harrington. OF the Johr
Deere Pillow company: e. A. Hatfield OF thu
Klngman Implement company F. L
sturtevant of the Lininger Implemen
company; O. NJ. Durkee OF the Parlin 8
orendorff Plow company, and Roy Coffeen
of the Racine-Sattley company.
o. w. Dunn of tho Dletz Lumber com
pany and w. Boyd Smith of the Bradford
Kennedy Co., are looking up the lumber
men, and the new buildings OF the future
will have more Omaha lumber in them
though this famous material is by no mean
lacking in the hundreds OF new homes be
ing built along the new line OF railroad.
Sheep become so numerous between Ga
coma and Rapid City that they look Xix
out groupings OF limestone along the horde
of the hills. extending for mites along tn
road. Lester King, manager OF the Omah'
Wool and Storage company. is boosting 70
the Omaha wool market. Mr.. King wa
considerably surprised to see that sheel
really had long tails when they come int
the world, and learned for the first tim
that the tail is chopped off in youth ant
sheep go through life with bob-tails. Thou
sands OF homely lambs along the track
would convince a newcomer TO the sheel
<Country that the tail is cut off for artist
reasons and to improve the appearance o
the creature, rather than because II grow
SEQ heavy to carry the wool sprouts.