SOUTH

See also:

• OMAHA

OMAHA  , a city of Douglas county, Nebraska, U.S.A., on the high western bluffs of the Missouri, immediately adjoining Omaha on the south . Pop . (1900), 26,001, of whom 5607 were foreign-born; (1910, 'census) 26,259 . It is served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the Chicago Great Western, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Illinois Central, the Missouri Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Chicago & North Western, and the short Omaha Bridge Terminal railways . The principal public buildings are the Federal building (housing the post office and the bureau of animal industry), the public library and the live-stock exchange . Next to Chicago and Kansas City it is the greatest slaughtering and meat-packing centre in the United States . In 1905 it produced 43.5 % ($67,415,177) of the total value of the factory product of the state, and of this output 97'2% represented the slaughtering and packing industry . South Omaha was chartered as a city of the second class in 1887, and in 1901 became a city of the first class . The present city dates from 1884, when the Union stockyards were established here .