Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-01
NEW INDUSTRIES FOR CITY
Fifty-Fve Concerns Come to Omaha
During the Year.
EMPLOY ABOUT 1000 PERSON;
They Belong to n Vast Variety Of
Trades and are Drawn Here by
the Superior Id
vantages.

give eWplOy0lenI NJ tne start TO between
500 and 1000 persons. The humble Of
new industries for 1908 was fifty-four.
A large percentage of these were secured
through the fundamentally of the Com
mercial club.
Omaha has many assets of a permanent
nature to offer new concerns, but does
not gild the offer with cash bonuses or
free sites, free lights, free water or free
power. The many new industries have
been lured by the prospects Of a bright
future because Omaha Is a natural dis
%tributing place and also a place where
raw material may easily be secured
Home patronage has been secured and
that is another valuable asset which
Omaha has to offer.
The average number Of employees for
the new concerns seems low because in
a large number of the cases they are
simply branch concerns of large indus-
tries of the east which are making their
first step in the west and will develop
fast. What these new concerns may do
is evidenced by what so many other IN
dustries have lone in Omaha before them.
Omaha is the natural place for the
handling Of everything of I'm agricultural
nature or that has to deal with agricul-
ture. It is surrounded by the greatest
agricultural country in the world, right
in the center Of the corn helt.
One of the big concerns to build in
Omaha during the year is the Loose
Wiles Biscuit company. This firm en-
tered Omaha with a jobbing house over
a year ago and found the field SO profit
able that it decided to manufacture crack
er5 and fancy articles here,
New Implement Concerns.
Two new concerns were added to inn
plement row and if they find the terri
tory as profitable as their predecessors
they will soon nave to increase the size
of their plants. The ]. 1. Case Plow
company and the Independent Harvester
company have both established branch
houses in Omaha to reap some of the
harvest from this agricultural center.
The Crowell Grain and Lumber Co., for.
merly of Blair, decided that Omaha was
the real grain center and has moved
here. The Eureka Fire Hose Manufac-
turing company, with home offices in
Jersey City, has opened a branch in
Omaha as a distributing point for the
territory west Of the Missouri river.
Ar Omaha infant is the Hoeschen
Manufacturing company, with H. P
Ryner as manager. This concern is build
ing the latest electrical signal devices and
is having success in having them adopted
by the railroads. E.O @
A new alfalfa mill built by the Omaha
Alfalfa Milling ompany is an industry
which will help to develop the entire state
This is the second alfalfa mill for Omaha
and will add to the attractivenessi O.
Omaha as a market. The success o.
Omaha in landing such concerns is a bless
ing to the entire state in helping make
market for the products of the state.
The Omaha Church Furniture compan!
is a new concern, with more orders thai
it car fill. The Omaha Fireproof Storag
company has erected a large cement ware
house at Sixteenth and L~eavenworth.
The Omaha Wall Paper company is
arge-established firm, with houses in De
Moines and Kansas City. 1t saw the ad
v~antages Of Omaha and decided to locat
here, making two such concerns.
MOVED from Council Bluffs.
F.. H. circuit, Son company, wholesaler
Of carpets and curtains, moved fror
Council Bluffs in February, 1909, and sine
that time has doubled its business. 1t |
still going after business on a large scale
The Prest-O-Lite Manufacturing com
pany, which has a factory in Omaha
proved a great boon to automobile owners
as for the first time they are now abb
to get the products of this factory whe
needed.
The Raphael-Pred company jobs women
ready-made clothing and the Smith-Ko
company is a new concern which job
mems and boys clothing.
Automobiles are now manufactured i
Omaha for the Rogers Motor Car com
pany of Ralston, a work employing seven
ty-five men.
According to the plans Of L. e. Roberts
announced on his last visit to Omaha, tn
Single Service Package company will b
one of the large concerns of the city be
fore the close Of 1910.
List of New Ones.
Here is a complete list of the new con
Germs with their capital stock
American Druggist Syndicate,
wholesale drugs .,....,....E.,..S 5000
Apperson Sales Agency, automo-
piles i;.';a.,' w."
} mobile tires. 2,OC
} ments Observation-Disclosures. 200
} Capron a. Wright, automobiles. 100
} Corey-McKenzie Printing Co. print
ing 10,G
Crowell Grain and Lumber Co.,
grain and lumber .,....,....,....,. 1000
furniture NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., 2,5OO,O
Machine Co, ]Cbraneh55, .....,.... 10000
Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing