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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 1884 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 over 141,000,000 head of livestock. Omaha is second only to Chicago as a livestock market and twelfth in bank clearances among the cities of the country.
There are five large and six smaller packing houses in Omaha.. The value of the meat products shipped from Omaha during 1919 was $286,000,000 and of the soap and soap products $8,000,000. The packing houses and stock yards industry employ 15,000 people and have an annual payroll of $15,000,000.
Omaha stands as the first market of the world for feeder sheep and lambs. In 1919 the output of sheep and lambs was 1,756,865 head, the value of which was approximately $17,568,650. The total number of cattle, hogs, sheep, horses and mules received during 1919 was 8,968,741 the approximate value being $377,893,000. This was the largest year's business in the history of this market.
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