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STOCK YARDS

STOCK YARDS AND PACKING INDUSTRY AT OMAHA

(SOUTH SIDE)

The Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha (Limited) was organized in 1883 by William A. Paxton, John A. Creighton, Alex Swan, Thomas Swobe, P. E. Iler, J. A. McShane and other capitalists. The yards were located on the Drexel farm about five miles south of Omaha, and were opened in August, 1884. At first, the plant served chiefly as a feeding stop for stock on the road to the eastern markets.

The stock yards company also established a small slaughtering plant in 1884. This was leased to and later bought by the G. H. Hammond Company who greatly enlarged it. The Anglo-American provision company opened a packing plant in November, 1885. This afterward became the Omaha packing company. Extensive plants of the Cudahy, Swift, Morris and Armour companies have since been erected at the stock yards, and also a number of smaller ones.

Since 1884 the stock yards at Omaha have handled 269,931,610 head of livestock. Omaha is second only to Chicago as a livestock market.

There are five large and eleven smaller packing houses in Omaha. The gross earnings of the Union stock yards company for the year 1925 were $3,626,584.26, and the net earnings, $936,111.92. There is capacity in the stock yards for 50,000 cattle, 100,000 sheep, 50,000 hogs and 1,500 horses and mules. The packing houses and stockyards employ 15,000 people and have an annual payroll of $15,000,000.

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NEBRASKA BLUE BOOK, 1926

TOTAL RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS OF STOCK FOR FORTY-TWO YEARS

Years	Cattle		Calves		Hogs		Sheep		Horses and Mules
	Receipts	Shipments	Receipts	Shipments	Receipts	Shipments	Receipts	Shipments	Receipts	Shipments
1884	88,603	83,459			3,686	752	5,593	2,009	489	419
1885	116,963	82,844			152,524	75,213	19,484	8,318	2,127	1,508
1886	148,515	74,617			447,019	186,999	41,490	19,146	2,999	1,804
1887	239,377	155,275			1,056,524	154,874	79,422	59,468	3,344	1,835
1888	365,923	212,263			1,262,647	319,096	172,138	128,716	5,271	4,094
1889	473,094	226,757			1,224,691	178,218	152,517	98,558	7,550	6,850
1890	615,337	289,567			1,702,723	288,763	153,873	90,681	5,069	4,560
1891	601,002	269,573			1,537,387	238,850	169,865	87,222	8,751	8,181
1892	755,059	287,468			1,613,384	383,887	188,588	83,200	14,113	12,009
1893	852,456	306,889			1,406,451	363,548	252,273	96,279	12,248	9,112
1894	821,512	320,656			1,932,677	401,231	243,945	112,181	8,294	6,111
1895	586,103	274,627			1,186,726	98,672	204,870	112,617	7,077	5,590
1896	586,578	241,224			1,216,370	70,450	358,005	140,244	9,347	4,613
1897	810,949	355,175			1,610,981	83,061	627,160	205,617	6,572	2,453
1898	812,244	322,194			2,101,387	172,024	1,085,136	483,171	10,392	7,646
1899	837,563	288,474			2,216,482	25,999	1,086,319	342,247	34,255	30,191
1900	828,204	274,479			2,200,926	36,996	1,276,775	552,234	59,645	54,845
1901	818,003	239,250			2,414,052	48,501	1,314,841	562,601	36,391	34,269
1902	1,010,815	364,823			2,247,428	169,708	1,742,539	863,250	42,079	39,959
1903	1,071,177	301,351			2,231,067	50,809	1,863,763	892,199	52,829	51,805
1904	944,192	260,770			2,299,627	210,787	1,754,365	818,995	46,845	45,723
1905	1,026,392	314,978			2,203,956	127,235	1,970,502	1,015,754	45,422	43,272
1906	1,079,373	303,342			2,393,551	170,663	2,165,116	1,176,042	42,269	39,962
1907	1,158,716	361,808			2,253,652	118,977	2,038,777	1,022,997	44,020	42,517
1908	1,036,625	329,623			2,424,851	283,576	2,105,949	1,097,620	39,998	37,192
1909	1,124,618	373,908			2,135,493	277,891	2,167,014	959,034	31,711	28,817
1910	1,223,533	424,583			1,894,314	238,068	2,984,870	1,693,611	32,520	26,499
1911	1,174,312	446,116			2,266,684	216,968	2,977,570	1,564,968	31,771	28,741
1912	1,017,195	418,474			2,886,244	406,874	2,950,507	1,343,326	32,520	29,660
1913	962,103	432,462			2,642,709	380,938	3,222,133	1,585,608	31,580	28,132
1914	938,817	394,461			2,268,620	330,666	3,113,889	1,198,311	30,688	26,623
1915	1,218,342	516,283			2,642,973	629,836	3,268,279	1,317,203	41,679	38,755
1916	1,434,304	565,496			3,116,820	721,849	3,170,908	1,223,963	27,486	25,042
1917	1,719,822	702,599			2,796,596	792,866	3,016,631	1,562,341	32,781	30,894
1918	1,993,366	812,116			3,429,533	885,970	3,385,696	1,981,565	22,212	20,139
1919	1,874,996	765,561	100,240	51,085	3,179,116	648,283	3,789,188	2,128,009	25,201	22,600
1920	1,524,121	644,363	78,678	37,201	2,708,482	709,977	2,890,748	1,467,392	18,751	16,619
1921	1,340,492	545,510	94,084	60,056	2,665,276	691,865	2,752,962	1,014,928	6,779	4,851
1922	1,612,143	695,473	132,108	96,051	2,839,382	610,227	2,532,787	921,921	8,871	5,833
1923	1,684,665	690,201	108,267	63,729	3,649,496	863,261	2,969,652	1,142,698	16,809	14,166
1924	1,758,924	675,081	103,622	40,178	3,978,288	855,005	2,844,421	1,101,042	12,435	9,623
1925	1,592,599	559,990	116,221	30,942	3,355,207	929,857	2,419,551	828,475	15,332	12,544
Total	41,869,127	16,204,163	733,220	379,242	89,876,002	14,494,290	71,530,111	33,015,761	963,636	866,058