Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-17

Jackson streets, the Omaha Safe and Iron
works at 1O2 Sounth Tenth street, the
American Structural Steel works at 102S
South Nineteenth street and the Western
Iron and Wire works at Ills Jackson street
are other iron and steel manufacturers In
the city In addition the Erie City Iron
works and the Minneapolis Steel and Ma
chinery works, having shops in other cities,
maintain offices here. There are also sew
eral bridge contracting firms having offices
here and plants in other cities nearby.
Many Selling DepOt@.
There are a number OF out Of town boileE
and radiator manufacturing concerns which
have selling depotS In Omaha Indeed. the
local sales OF this product during the last
year was enormous, totallng over one mil
lion dollars, but unfortunately only a small
part Of this money goes to Omaha concerns
The local concerns which engage in the
manufacture Of this line OF goods are but
three In number. The Drake williams
Mount company located at 22ls Hickory
street, the Omaha Boiler works at the cor
ner of Twelfth and lizard streets and the
Wilson Steam Boiler company at the corner
of Nineteenth and Pierce streets. The out
put OF these companies forms, however
but a small part of the amount Of thai
product used annually In the city. TheiI
business shows a nice increase so far ovel
the amount done in a similar period In
last year, however. and II seems but q
matter of few years until these smaller
local companies will be handling the
greater part of Omahas business along
these lines and reaching out into foreign
fields.
| The larger radiators and boiler manufac-
turers have consistently passed up the ad-
vantages of Omaha as a location for their
western plants. Manager Williamson OF
the American Radiator company explains
, this as being largely due to the fact that un-
til recent years Omaha has not held out any
very attractive inducements to such COM
panies to locate here and the distance OF
Omaha from steel and iron fields The ex-
| periencs of the company which he repre-
sents Is typical. Only last year they 10
Gated large manufacturing plant at Kan
sas City, the choice of that city ovei
Omaha being made in that instance largely
because Of the advantages which Kansas
City offered in the way Of railroad facili
ties for reaching the southern iron fields.
Among the foreign boiler manufacturer
having establishments here are the Amert
can Radiator company at ns-4l7 Soutl
Tenth street, the Kenny-Vinoent company
at Ala McCague building and the Unitet
States Supply company at the corner o.
Ninth and Farnam streets, These concerns
all report a healthy increase in their bust
ness over that of last year.
Ice Machines Built Here.
In the manufacture of machinery for Ice
making and refrigerating Omaha stands a
the head Of the cities Of the west. Indeed
the Baker Manufacturing company. whicl
is the only concern in the city engaged II
this line Of work, is acknowledged to hav
the largest output OF any manufacturing
plant In the world which confines its at
tention solely to the manufacture OF tn
smaller sort OF machines for ice-makinl
and refrigerating, This company, whicl
was established but three years ago, ha
advanced by leaps and bounds until toda,
II has an annual output of approximate!
$4,000 per year and its large factory a
Twentieth and lizard streets is kept running
overtime to supply the demand.
The company is placing It's product in Al
parts Of the United States and Mort
America, and there are now only tire
states in the union where Baker machine
are not installed. The mechanics who
the company employs are all skilled an
highly-paid men. and as a result about
per cent of the vast income which thi
company receives from other states re
mains in Omaha Mr.. Baker Of the com
pany Is confident Of the future and state
that the usefulness of refrigerating ma
ehinery is only beginning to be apprC
ciated.
M nroaha concarr r,anufacturas scala
The business along that line in the cit
goes to the larger scale manufacturers {
other cities, who maintain wholesale sci
ing depotS here, Among these are II
Fairbanks Morse company and the None!
weight Scale company, both of which r.
port business as moving along at rap
rate and predict an increase over la
years sales. Nor is Omaha any mo
fortunately fixed as regards the manufa
ture of milling machinery, There is i
factory in the city devoted to that line
work. The Alsop Process company OF s
Louis maintains a selling depot in Oman
Omaha, unfortunately, has no steel mil
to handle its large yearly discard of serS
iron. that work falling to the sever
wholesale scrap iron dealers seatter'
about the city, who buy the iron from u
railroads and other firms which discal
1t, as we'll as from the cty's smaller des
ers. Omaha's largest dealer in scrap ire
is A. B. Alpirn, sol Farnam street, wi
annually ships from the city about IL
ears OF old steel and iron, valued at abo
$4,000, When Il Is remembered that Il
firm mentioned is but one Of q number
firms which deal in the same sort of m
1 terlal, 1t win be realized that the amour
. Of money brought into Omaha yearly fro