Omaha
a city of Nebraska, the largest in the State, and the county-seat of Douglas co. It is on the Missouri $460,000,000 annually. Meat packing is river, about 500 miles W. of Chicago.
Omaha is located on 9 trunk lines of railroads and 22 branches. These include the Burlington route, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Wabash, the Northwestern, the Illinois Central, the Union Pacific, and the Missouri Pacific.
The city is also on the Missouri river, which is spanned by many great bridges connecting it with Council Bluffs, Iowa.
A belt line of railroads encircles the city, giving railway inter-communication.
The area of the city is 37.78 square miles. There are 800 miles of streets, $350,000,000. The leading lines are auducts, boilers and accessories, agricultomobiles, groceries, oil, commission protural implements, drygoods, lumber, coal, plumbing and heating supplies. The total value of the manufactures is over the chief industry. The annual output is valued at over $300,000,000. Omaha is first in pig lead production. Other important manufactures are flour, butter, food products of all kinds, clothing, boots and shoes, rubber goods, steam engines, boilers, etc. The bank clearings exceed $3,000,000,000 annually. It has branches of the Federal Land Bank and of the Federal Reserve Bank.
Omaha is an Indian name of disputed meaning. The town was laid out in 1854 on a scale which anticipated its future growth. Its commercial importance was assured when it was selected as the east- OMAHA ern terminus of the Union Pacific railroad. Stock yards were established in 1884. In 1898 the trans-Mississippi Exposition was held here. The Grain Exchange was opened in 1904. In 1920 Omaha was selected as the half-way station of the Trans-continental Aerial Mail. Pop. (1910) 124,096; (1920) 191,601.